There is quite a bit of contrabass clarinet and bass clarinet and B-flat clarinet, for that matter.
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I played the clarinet at school, and the fingering of the ewi is pretty similar to the clarinet.
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Anthony McGill, the New York Philharmonic's superb principal clarinet, joins the equally excellent Takacs players for Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.
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As a composer, he embraced technological innovations; his "Duo for Clarinet and Recorded Clarinet" (1960) is cited in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as the earliest example of a work for clarinet and tape.
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Mark still use the same B-flat clarinet, but a few years ago got an A clarinet, so jamming is easier in different keys.
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His approach set up the Adagio's true theme, a wistful, elegiac melody for solo clarinet, played gorgeously by Anthony McGill, the Philharmonic's principal clarinet.
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A summer season begins with three works that might be typical Chamber Music Society fodder: Beethoven's Clarinet Trio, Weber's Clarinet Quintet and Schumann's Piano Quintet.
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There's a New York premiere on the bill, Joseph Hallman's "Short Stories," alongside Beethoven's early Clarinet Trio in B flat and Brahms's late Clarinet Trio in A minor.
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Tip "You don't need special lungs or special techniques," says Giora Feidman, 80, an Argentine-born Israeli clarinet player and klezmer musician who first blew into his father's clarinet as a toddler.
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It was his encounter with Anton Stadler — an instrument maker and virtuoso on both the clarinet and the deeper, more veiled-sounding basset horn — that inspired Mozart to write groundbreaking clarinet parts.
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Chase), contrabass clarinet (Evan Ziporyn) and live electronics (Hans Tutschku).
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Carolyn O'Neill: I grew up playing clarinet and bass guitar.
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One is playing an instrument that looks like a clarinet.
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Plus, who doesn't love a rainbow flag attached to a clarinet?
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Orliński's voice is warm and bright, almost clarinet-like in timbre.
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Or by the orchestra's need for a left-handed clarinet player.
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Her voice doesn't bloom, but it darkly insinuates, like a clarinet.
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However, his natural talents for the clarinet prevailed, and justice was served.
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Zuckerberg also revealed he played clarinet but wasn't very good at it.
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I thought [it] was funny watching Maisie singing along to the clarinet.
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Sol's father bought him his first clarinet, for $8, from a pawnshop.
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William grew up in Oakland and took up the clarinet at 10.
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And maybe one of these broads is married to that clarinet player.
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His daughter, braces-free, passed and is learning to play the clarinet.
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One afternoon, after 20 minutes of rusty clarinet sounds, Lucy receives a call.
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I played the clarinet, but that wasn't really what I wanted to do.
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Her voice is more clarinet than trumpet, but it's agile, even and velvety.
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Although drawn to jazz, Mr. Yaged followed Goodman's path by studying classical clarinet.
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He started playing piano in third grade, then briefly took up the clarinet.
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Her brother in Miami sends her clarinet reeds, but she cannot visit him.
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The difference between that version and Weill's original orchestration is apparent from the opening bars: Mr. Bowen erroneously added a harp and clarinet but lost the double bass, while misinterpreting Weill's abbreviations for "piano," splitting the part between piano and clarinet.
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Here they appear as part of the monthly Soup & Sound House Concert series, joined by a band of intrepid improvisers: Miguel Crozzoli on saxophones, Guillermo Gregorio on clarinet, Jaimie Branch on trumpet, Lee Odom on clarinet and Ken Filiano on bass.soupandsound.
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She plays four instruments, piano, bass, guitar and clarinet and has released six albums.
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He started out on drums at 245 and began studying the clarinet at 217.
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On both songs, Andre plays bass clarinet, and dedicates the songs to his parents.
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Chucho Valdés on piano and Paquito D'Rivera on clarinet formed an eminent Cuban contingent.
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Kahilan picked up her clarinet and music stand and rushed back into the room.
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Arrangements for clarinet, flute, guitar and mandolin of songs from around the world. Aug.
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Acker Bilk was a popular clarinet player, but this didn't translate into chart success.
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Then we would multitrack, with percussion, Korg System 100 synthesizer, clarinet and guitars etc.
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Half shouting above a clarinet solo, she tells me about her daughter's meth problems.
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She wrote pieces for a solo instrument and piano, like "Ritual" (1989), for clarinet.
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The dance was driven by a warbling clarinet melody, inspired by Scottish folk music.
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Coffee was a clarinet player and she says Megan was a talented trumpet player.
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He plays bass clarinet on the track "Within Everything," not only on other tracks.
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Fernando, a clarinet player, had visited Houston in 2010, with a Colombian youth orchestra.
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Michael's Pub, where Woody Allen used to play clarinet, was on East 8003th Street.
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Mr. Goines plays both tenor saxophone and clarinet with robust warmth and gentlemanly humor.
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Michael's Pub, where Woody Allen used to play clarinet, was on East 55th Street.
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And it rests cozily within the ensemble textures, a clarinet rather than a trumpet.
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On "It's a Shame," the clarinet during the song's intro must have been your idea.
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The piece begins pensively, with the clarinet playing what becomes a slow, steady, chantlike theme.
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Even a well-meaning clarinet player's life is now "derailed" by some high-level scamming.
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A clarinet on a stand stood on the floor next to an electronic drum pad.
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Something that sounds like synths is probably a contrabass clarinet or some number of them.
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"Harlequin" is performed by a bright and flitting quartet of flute, clarinet, bassoon, and viola.
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I remember Jean-Michel came out of this wooden box on stage playing the clarinet.
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Allison needs her CLARINET TODAY OK just WAIT A MINUTE OK TRYING to use THE THING.
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Did you expect to wake up today and listen to Andre 3000 play the bass clarinet?
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"My clarinet teacher once said to me, 'I cannot teach you, you must learn,' " Feidman says.
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In the beguiling second movement, a kind of intermezzo, a wistful clarinet plays over swaying strings.
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It was performed in a 1994 orchestration by Sid Ramin, scored for clarinet, strings and percussion.
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There are hints of neo-Classical Stravinsky, stretches of Baroque-like dance, a red-hot clarinet.
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It will take him back home to Canada, to play clarinet for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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Just one second, let me pull out my clarinet and help my sons with his score.
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He plays in the United States premiere of his Clarinet Quintet, as well as in Mozart's.
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Those included the Clarinet Quintet as well as the concerto, written a few months before his death in December 1791, as well as obbligato solos in operas like "The Abduction From the Seraglio" and "Idomeneo" in which the clarinet entered an equal relationship with the human voice.
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The musician auditioned hoping to study under Yehuda Gilad, a renowned professor of clarinet at the school.
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After a short pause, Ms. Meredith picked up the clarinet, grimaced and glanced across at her bandmates.
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The somber opening violin and clarinet lines unfolded to haunting effect before eventually reaching a fervent climax.
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He dabbled with the clarinet and the saxophone when he was growing up on the Jersey Shore.
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But Ms. Hsing said she hadn't really played music since she dropped the clarinet after middle school.
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He fled, carrying about three hundred dollars in cash, clothes, his passport, his phone, and his clarinet.
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Hanging off his belt, in a burlap case, is a clarimella, a type of Catalan folk clarinet.
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GANZ One of the only improvisers to make the quiet, papery-voiced bass clarinet his primary instrument.
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Mr. Marcus rushes forth, wrangling a proclamation of vision and conviction from the gusty bass clarinet. G.R.
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He also played flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon, and employed an array of percussion and toy instruments.
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He employs a chamber orchestra of flute, oboe, clarinet, trombones, and strings, which creates a dusky, autumnal atmosphere.
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Anthony McGill, the Philharmonic's extraordinary principal clarinetist, was the soloist in an elegant account of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
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The program featured the charismatic Swedish clarinetist Martin Frost in a fleet, brilliant account of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
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"The cost of the instrument and the clarinet lessons were deductible as a medical expense," said Greene-Lewis.
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Johnny is just your "unconventionally handsome" boy who hates playing clarinet and fights against bedtimes and blanket monsters.
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Jim sang in his school glee club and church choir and played the clarinet in the school band.
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Mr. Rodriguez plays with an unreserved flexibly on the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones; flute; and bass clarinet.
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I played the clarinet in the school band, but I was too lazy to march at football games.
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Among the other featured performers, on clarinet and saxophone, are Ken Peplowski and the Anderson twins, Peter and Will.
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If your child is committed to the clarinet, trombone or flute, consider browsing Amazon or Craigslist for affordable instruments.
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There are only two things James Freeman has ever really wanted to do: play the clarinet and make coffee.
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I started playing clarinet and oboe in middle school in concert band and got really into playing classical music.
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Children 4 and older are invited to try out musical instruments, including violin, flute, clarinet, saxophone, piano and trumpet.
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The piece moves in heaving spurts, with wailing flute and clarinet lines, pounding rhythms and skittish pointillist piano bursts.
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The odd bowed cymbal or greedily gurgling contrabass clarinet prevented things from getting too fun in jazzed-up numbers.
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You would almost have though Mr. Frost was improvising the clarinet part from the impetuous freshness of his playing.
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Then each section began to bow out, until all that remained was the humble squeal of a broken clarinet.
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They make their way onto a small stage near the back and start playing Mood Indigo on piano and clarinet.
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"Forgiveness" for bass clarinet and loop pedal, by Jessica Meyer, who is married to Mr. Fingland, made the strongest impact.
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Though director Elizabeth Njoroge says her organization wants to do more than give kids a second-hand flute or clarinet.
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It didn't take money; it took hours of driving my mom and sister crazy practicing clarinet in a tiny apartment.
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I don't hear algebra professors having to justify their existence because learning math helps a musician play the clarinet better.
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On the album, Ms. Fort draws elliptical harmonies around the clarinet sound of Gianluigi Trovesi, a distant and ephemeral player.
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Shawn Pfautsch, assuming the lead role of Frederic for the first time, took it upon himself to play the clarinet.
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His attack stays relatively clean and unburdened on both alto saxophone and clarinet; he makes time for slow, focused development.
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Even when he's playing the tenor saxophone, his main instrument, Mr. Speed's muted warble bears the delicateness of a clarinet.
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When the first notes of a clarinet threaded their way into my consciousness, they seemed to come from inside me.
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Hell, even Woody Allen probably needed to be told where to go to buy the best turtlenecks and clarinet reeds.
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He was a veteran of the Navy and a skilled clarinet player, having had years of daily instruction as a child.
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The suggestion is confirmed when we see an old photograph of her in her youth, holding a clarinet, among other players.
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The second track, "Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)" has a jazzy feel as well and features Andre 3K on clarinet.
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The instrumental quintet — violin, cello, clarinet, quanun (similar to a zither) and percussion — is a mixture of West and Middle East.
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"Golden Sings That Have Been Sung" was produced by Mr. Bach, who also plays piano, organ and clarinet on the album.
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Ms. Fearon groped the air in a dramatic ballet as she followed the sound of Mr. McGinnis's clarinet through the room.
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The story says that a student was playing her clarinet, suffered a heart attack and died — because her reed was poisoned.
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This one, from 1970, features a performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Stanley Drucker (talk about Philharmonic legends) as soloist.
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She studied music when she was younger and knows how to play the organ, piano, clarinet and trumpet, according to Schudel.
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She sang Janacek's "Nursery Rhymes" for voice, piano and clarinet, which had a hint of wailing klezmer in this feisty performance.
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"Longitude" was written for a six-piece ensemble (violin, viola, cello, clarinet, piano and vibraphone) and two-channel one-bit noise.
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I do — I play the clarinet in an orchestra and we take to the streets and take part in those rallies.
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As a teenager, she took clarinet lessons and played in a youth orchestra, but had little sense that music was her thing.
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I was in band class playing clarinet and sitting next to girls playing cello and violin, while we played Beethoven and Bach.
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The Little Mermaid would have you believe the ocean floor is a nonstop party, where crabs sing and fish play the clarinet.
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The vocal line unfolded over the jagged, spare and haunting textures of viola (Miranda Cuckson), clarinet (Gleb Kanasevich) and horn (Jamie Hersch).
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"I wanted to play the oboe or the clarinet so I could have a little case to go to rehearsals," she said.
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Lain across the top, switching between saxophones, trumpet, flute and clarinet, is Mr. Carter, a picture of patience and warm power. G.R.
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On "A Separatist Party," Jason Stein's bass clarinet dances in a coy, misfit step with the Greg Ward and Tim Haldeman's saxophones.
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" But Dr. King acknowledged, Mr. Gleick added, that "at least one of the calluses seemed a consequence of overly steadfast clarinet playing.
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And sometimes, though it unnerves him, Willy hears the wandering melody of the flute his father played (rendered here as a clarinet).
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In one of her more personal photos, he practices clarinet on the edge of the bathtub in their 400-square-foot squat.
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" Another described how "recently while being fingered, I pictured a band of soft shapes that slightly mimicked a tuba, a clarinet, etc.
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D.A. MESSIAEN: 'Quartet for the End of Time' Martin Frost, clarinet; Lucas Debargue, piano; Janine Jansen, violin; Torleif Thedeen, cello (Sony Classical).
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For the next half-hour, as a piano joined the clarinet, music wound its way through me as sound turned pure sensation.
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PARELES A New Orleans jazz band — clarinet, trombone, her own banjo — backs Leyla McCalla in the title song of her new album.
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His father was Mickey Katz, a talented clarinet player who gained national renown for his Yiddish parodies of popular songs of the 1940s.
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Ms. Lash composed "Music for Eight Lungs" (inspired by Purcell's "Dido's Lament") for Loadbang, a quartet featuring baritone, trumpet, trombone and bass clarinet.
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His approximately 10-minute homage to the 1992 film "Basic Instinct" includes a mambo-like dance and skulking bass clarinet part for Ernst.
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In the concerto's slow movement, meanwhile, the clarinet and orchestra trade scales that gently drift downward, creating a sense of spaciousness and peace.
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Today, at the top of his profession, he is playing a role similar to Stadler's in driving clarinet music in new expressive directions.
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The start of the "Turangalîla I" section placed clarinet, ondes, double bass and bells pristinely atop one another, as if with silver tweezers.
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At one point, when a flute-and-clarinet trio finishes meditating on a gently flowing passage, ICE flutist Alice Teyssier gives a nod.
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"I'm obsessed with harmony," she said beforehand, and it showed in this piece for bass flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, piano and percussion.
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"The kids have been the most fun aspect," Elly Owidi, a clarinet teacher who helps coordinate the Juja program, said in an email.
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In a bucolic moment such as the one in the Clarinet Quintet, which the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs on Nov.
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The slow movement, a theme and variations form, began with a solo clarinet playing a melancholic melody against a mellow choir of strings.
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On the second, the group will be joined by several guests, performing a new work for clarinet, strings, flute, percussion and jazz ensemble.
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This soloist got a chance to display the full range of his technique during a sudden storm scene, driven by slashing clarinet runs.
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In her hands, bass, clarinet, saxophone, slide guitar, mellotron, synth, and percussion hold new power, as though they are very precious building blocks.
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Gilles Vonsattel (piano), Paul Huang (violin), Ani Kavafian (violin), Matthew Lipman (viola), Nicholas Canellakis (cello) and David Shifrin (clarinet) are the team involved.
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DANIEL WAKIN: I took up the clarinet in around fourth grade, studied privately and have played in chamber groups and orchestras ever since.
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Although best known for playing saxophones of all sizes, his arsenal also included clarinet, trumpet, violin, harmonica, panpipes, keyboards, trombone, ukulele and banjo.
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David showed an early interest in music; he began playing piano, clarinet and trombone in elementary school and was writing songs at 14.
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Sometimes you'll hear a smoldering kernel of Albert Ayler; when he picks up the clarinet, the tonal gamesmanship of Jimmy Giuffre looms in.
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This German ensemble offers works by Mozart for its next visit to New York, including the Clarinet Concerto in A and the "Linz" Symphony.
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Another clarinet work, the tighter "Domaines," was a highlight of the program, played by Carlos Cordeiro with sensitivity to nuances of dynamics and texture.
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Arundo donax, or giant cane, was deliberately brought to the United States as roofing material and to make reeds for instruments like the clarinet.
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He closes out the run with Anat Cohen on clarinet (Friday), Kate McGarry on vocals (Saturday) and Yosvany Terry on saxophone and percussion (Sunday).
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Friday's concert blends Brahms's viola sonatas — transcribed from the clarinet versions — with Schumann and Joel Friedman; Andrew Gonzalez is the violist, Ji the pianist.
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He began playing the clarinet in the fourth grade, he recalled, but picked up drums in junior high, because the drummers all had girlfriends.
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One night, I told her my memory is extremely selective: I'll remember she played the clarinet until sixth grade, yet consistently forget her birthday.
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It opens with a lonesome prelude for clarinet and acoustic guitar, before tumbling fully into gear, with Mr. Walker's vocals and fingerpicking up front.
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Born and raised in Hawthorne, N.J., he dropped out of Hawthorne High School at 16 to pursue playing the clarinet, sax, flute and piano.
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This concert will feature Mr. Etkin's quintet and two of his favorite musical characters: Clara Net (his clarinet) and her mother, Big Mama Tuba.
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Mr. Abramovitz, who had studied clarinet since he was 7, dreamed of studying with the famous professor at a school that he could afford.
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In both, the strings play with mutes, creating a sound like a summer-morning haze, over which the clarinet drifts in unhurried legato lines.
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Jessica Phillips, a clarinet player, said that even musicians who were not performing the "Rigoletto" aria crowded into the pit to pay their respects.
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She happens to be very talkative, even though she's not, strictly speaking, a person: She's his clarinet or, as he calls her, Clara Net.
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Miley was also joined by sister Noah and mom Tish Cyrus for the jam session, as well as a teen musician on the clarinet.
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A talented clarinet player, Jay was "wise beyond his years" and the family joked that he was an adult trapped in a child's body.
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On Wednesday the American Composer's Orchestra presents Angélica Negrón's song cycle "El Colapso" and on Thursday Lori Freedman performs solo bass and contrabass clarinet music.
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In 28, Freeman was making just enough money to pay his bills playing the clarinet at part-time gigs with regional orchestras throughout Northern California.
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And ensembles consisting exclusively of instruments in the clarinet family have gained in popularity on both sides of the Atlantic since the mid-20th century.
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It concluded with one of those: "The Single Petal of a Rose," played by Mr. Temperley on bass clarinet with a tender and unhurried solemnity.
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Their instruments included electric guitar, piano, clarinet and synthesizer, as well as sample loops, and traditional eastern Mediterranean instruments like the oud and the kanonaki.
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The way he treated the clarinet had to do with hope: Whenever he added them in his operas, it had something to do with hope.
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Clarinet duets are the focus of attention at this free pop-up concert in Morningside Heights, including the premiere of a work by Camila Agosto.
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The band appears here with Matt Moran on vibraphone, Red Wierenga on accordion, Chris Speed on clarinet and tenor saxophone, and Drew Gress on bass.
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Mr. Abramovitz hoped to study under Yehuda Gilad, a distinguished clarinet professor who accepts just one or two students a year, according to the lawsuit.
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In recent years, 80 percent of the clarinet positions in North American orchestras were filled by Mr. Gilad's students, the professor testified in court documents.
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J.P. Anat Cohen can easily get by on the sanguine grace of her clarinet playing, and the way her succinct and joyful compositions elevate it.
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A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm.
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During "Burn," the bandleader arranged kinetic motifs for strings, percussion and bass clarinet alongside chattering vocal pyrotechnics — all while fostering a paradoxical sense of ease.
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The members of a barbershop quartet adjusted their boater hats and a six-piece band featuring a clarinet and an upright bass prepared to play.
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His father, Percy, was a mechanic and laborer who played clarinet in the local Elks Club band; his mother, Arlethia, sang in their church's choir.
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To support himself while he studied with the acting coach Stella Adler in New York, he played clarinet with the Metropolitan Opera, his family said.
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Listen: A New Orleans jazz band — clarinet, trombone, her own banjo — backs Leyla McCalla in "The Capitalist Blues," the title song of her new album.
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It was while in an Army band, stationed in Germany, that he picked up alto saxophone and clarinet and began listening seriously to jazz records.
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But its finale fosters a more delirious swirl, as percussive writing for strings slams against quickly snaking figures for bass clarinet, bass flute and piano.
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The first speaker was Bennie Maupin, who played bass clarinet on Davis's ''Bitches Brew'' and a variety of reed instruments in Herbie Hancock's fusion band Headhunters.
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The arrangements utilize the clunking, heavy-breathing focal points of a contrabass clarinet, rigged up with his signature contact microphones instead of the original's drifting strings.
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"When Daniel plays important clarinet solos such as in Puccini's 'Tosca,' you can see that it is very deep in his soul and body," he said.
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Itching to study with a renowned clarinet teacher, Abramovitz spent many late nights in practice rooms to prepare for his audition, which he thought went well.
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In the meantime, you can hear his soloist turn in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, part of a radio broadcast preserved on the orchestra's SoundCloud page.
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Before that, Van Zweden leads the "Elegy" from Steven Stucky's "August 4, 1964," a piece he debuted with the Dallas Symphony, and Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto.
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The lineup features over a dozen acts performing all afternoon and evening, including Evan Christopher's Clarinet Road, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks and the Hot Sardines.nyhotjazzfest.
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The program includes music by Ingrid Laubrock, Lea Bertucci, Darius Jones and Charmaine Lee, as well as Peter Ablinger's "Black Series," for clarinet and rock trio.wetink.org
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The tracks build from piano and earnest percussion toward sometimes lavish instrumentation; the saxophonist Kamasi Washington did arrangements for French horn, tuba, flute and bass clarinet.
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In the clarinet section, I rose to my feet along with the rest of the orchestra, and we played the Cuban national anthem to stunned attendees.
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Now, Mahler often evoked everyday music in his symphonies — dance tunes, or the sound of some Austrian villager playing a folk song on a wheezing clarinet.
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Schlosberg has edited and arranged "Lucia" as a one-act, ninety-minute piece, employing six soloists and a quintet of clarinet, cello, piano, guitar, and percussion.
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He performs this weekend at Smoke with Bruce Harris on trumpet, Greg Tardy on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Gregg August on bass and Dion Parson on drums.
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Mr. Fingland's deep breaths and sighs became a backdrop for long, sustained notes, the plaintive clarinet utterances unfolding over what sounded like a chorus of gentle sobs.
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"Tomatoes are violin, carrots are trumpet, cabbages are oboe, mini radishes are flute, sweet potatoes are piano, eggplants are harp, pumpkins are clarinet," says the project's website.
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Mr. Temperley, who played soprano saxophone and bass clarinet in addition to baritone, made a handful of suavely authoritative albums, including "Nightingale" (1991) and "A Portrait" (2006).
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"Pachyderm Shout" opened in a lumbering rut, with bowed bass and bass clarinet, before the action shifted to the trombones, in a testifying chorus of elephantine harrumphs.
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The second week of concerts begins on Tuesday with a stride showcase featuring Mr. Charlap, Rossano Sportiello and Ted Rosenthal on pianos, and Anat Cohen on clarinet.
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When I visited the couple, Skaf played his guitar, belting out Arabic lyrics with a Syrian girl as Germans accompanied them with a clarinet, drums, and xylophone.
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Greenspan's stint as a clarinet and saxophone player in a second-tier swing band started when he was 18; his Rand infatuation began in his late 20s.
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He still plays clarinet, and the combination of that and tap seems intended to make the assertion of his song, "I'm Not a Loser," sound comic-pathetic.
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Mr. Smith's pieces for other bandleaders, like Red Norvo ("Divertimento," 1957) and Shelly Manne ("Concerto for Clarinet and Combo," 1957), also showed his affinity for the style.
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