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June 13th 2019
Number: 2 | Volume: 44
This issue's articles include:
- Jane Booth
- We meet Jane Booth, the classical clarinettist and early instruments pioneer who remains as active as ever as a performer while also finding time to head up a new mentoring programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
- Chris Walters
- Shadow boxing
- Bill Connor’s new work for bass clarinet, Sciamachy Ohne Schatten, is perhaps unique in that it has not one but two different accompaniments, one for wind orchestra and a completely rewritten piano accompaniment.
- Stephanie Reeve
- On the shop floor
- The Clarinet and Saxophone Department Manager at Howarth of London, shares her experience of working at one of the capital’s busiest specialist music shops.
- Olivia Wild
- Narrow Escape
- The saxophonist Tomasso Starace’s new album features no harmony instruments, meaning that the musical texture is created by two saxes, bass and drums only.
- Chris Walters
- Golden age
- In the second instalment of a two-part article started in the last issue, we examine the intertwined histories of the big band and single-reed instruments, this time focusing on the period of big bands’ greatest prominence: the mid-30s to the mid-60s.
- Kenneth Morris
- Standing out
- What makes a successful music college audition? Saxophonist Kyle Horch (saxophone professor at the Royal College of Music) and clarinettist Michael Harris (former head of woodwind at Birmingham Conservatoire) share their top tips.
- Horch/Harris
- CASSGB Young Saxophone Soloist Competition
- Find out all about the criteria and entry process for CASSGB’s latest competition, designed to shine a light on the next generation of classical saxophone talent.
- CASSGB
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