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September 14th 2020
Number: 3 | Volume: 45
This issue's articles include:
- Anat Cohen
- We hear from the clarinettist Anat Cohen about her passion for Brazilian choro music and a new album of ‘chamber jazz’
- Stephanie Reeve
- Stanley Drucker
- Stanley Drucker retired from the New York Philharmonic in 2009 after a record-breaking 61 years with the orchestra, 49 of them as principal clarinet. Now, at 91, he is still practising and performing regularly.
- Paul Harris
- Concerto for a friend
- As part of his 60th birthday year, Mark-Anthony Turnage has written a new work for clarinet and chamber ensemble for the clarinettist Jon Carnac.
- Michael Pearce
- Shaking it up
- Musician and teacher Guy Passey argues that making your practice more challenging can actually make learning more permanent – a concept known as ‘desirable difficulty’.
- Guy Passey
- Solo
- Writers from the extended CASSGB family discuss their recent reacquaintance with unaccompanied solo repertoire, the result of changing possibilities during lockdown
- Richard Ingham/Janet Hilton
- Summer Saxes online
- When the Summer Saxes course at Benslow Music was cancelled due to Covid-19, the tutors decided to move the course online. They tell us about switching to a digital venture
- Gerard McChrystal /Alastair Penman
- Life choices
- A profile of Jon Rebbeck, a professional sax player who took a 12-year break from music to pursue a parallel career as an airline pilot
- Kenneth Morris
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