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December 11th 2019
Number: 4 | Volume: 44
This issue's articles include:
- Andrew Marriner
- Andrew Marriner took up the position of principal clarinet with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1986. This year he retired from the orchestra after a remarkable 33 years in post.
- Chris Walters
- AKMI Duo
- AKMI Duo are an up-and-coming Swiss pairing of saxophone and piano who recently performed at London’s Wigmore Hall as part of the prize for winning this year’s Swiss Ambassador’s Award.
- Claire Jackson
- Concerto for the Canaries
- Ayssuragan, a symphonic poem for clarinet and orchestra, is part of a cycle of works by the Spanish composer Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, each of which is inspired by one of the Canary Islands.
- Michael Pearce
- The saxophone music of Gordon Jacob
- A brief tour of Jacob’s saxophone catalogue.
- Ton Verhiel
- Freedom Player
- A device, currently at advanced prototype stage, that makes silent practice possible on the clarinet or saxophone.
- Alastair Penman
- West coast jazz saxophony: part one
- Part one of a major two-part essay on the saxophonic history of American west coast jazz
- Kenneth Morris
- Summer saxes
- A report on the Habanera Saxophone Academy in Poitiers, France.
- Alfie Ward
- Starting small
- A survey of a range of beginner clarinet models, a market that has grown rapidly in recent years.
- Michael Pearce
- The Roaring Whirl
- The story of The Roaring Whirl’s conception, a pioneering crosscultural work by Sarah Rodgers.
- Geraldine Allen
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