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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/3 (June 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.    Book Reviews Mitchell Estrin. Stanley Drucker: Clarinet Master. Carl Fischer, 2018. $32.99 Every aspiring clarinetist knows the name Stanley Drucker. His 61 years of service to the New York Philharmonic, countless premieres, solo performances and pedagogical insight are career highlights. These accomplishments only scratch the surface. Mitchell Estrin’s biography allows us to dive into Drucker’s life from the very beginning. The foreword by composer John Corigliano aptly provides the framework for the book. Corigliano’s violinist father was in the New York Philharmonic at the start of Drucker’s career and wasRead More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/3 (June 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.        Audio Reviews: June 2019 Music of Fauré, Buide, Zemlinsky. Trio Séléné: Mingzhe Wang, clarinet; Eli Lara, cello; Ilya Poletaev, piano. G. Fauré: Trio in D Minor for clarinet (originally violin), cello and piano; F. Buide: Two Fragments for bass clarinet, cello and piano; A. von Zemlinsky: Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano. Summit DCD 723. Total time 63:23. Clarinetist Mingzhe Wang, a native of Wuhan, China, is a co-founder of Trio Séléné and associate professor of clarinet at Michigan State University. Previously, Wang received his graduate degrees fromRead More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/3 (June 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.  Music Reviews STUDIES AND WORKS FOR SOLO CLARINET Carl Baermann. Complete Method for Clarinet, Part 3, Op. 63. Arranged by Andrew Sprung. Alea Publishing, 2018 $20.00 Carl Baermann’s Complete Method for Clarinet, Part 3, Op. 63, is a nearly indispensable study for all clarinetists. This edition by Andrew Sprung is a reorganization and expansion of Baermann’s classic method to fit the bass clarinet with extended range to low C. Sprung is not the first to release such an adaptation. His edition draws parallels to an earlier release by Jack Snavely, formerRead More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/2 (March 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members. Book and Music Reviews: March 2019 BOOKS Bret Pimentel. Woodwind Basics. Meaty Fresh Press, 2017. 152 pp. PDF E-book $12.99, hard copy $19.99 Bret Pimentel is associate professor of music at Delta State University, where he teaches applied oboe, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone. He has extensive experience teaching woodwind methods, and this volume, the succinctly titled Woodwind Basics, is a small but thorough excursion into the fundamentals of woodwind playing. The book is separated into 15 short chapters including embouchure, finger technique, articulation, tuning, and posture and playing position, among others.Read More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/2 (March 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.   Audio Reviews: March 2019 RECORDINGS Clarinet4. Clarinet4: Anni Tolvanen, clarinet; Anni Björk, clarinet; Sirke Tynskä, clarinet; Esko Lång, bass clarinet. P. Hiketick: Charanga di Xiomara Reyes and Dansa Latino di Maria del Real; J. Van der Roost: Arghulesques; J. Pisto: AD 2017 – Three Pictures of the Time; H. Hödl: el vaivén. Artist produced CL4001. Total time 36:48. Amazon and CDBaby Clarinet4 is a Finnish clarinet quartet made up of clarinetists Anni Tolvanen, Anni Björk and Sirke Tynska with bass clarinetist Esko Lång. The group was initially formed in 2008Read More →