This book comments episodically on six different artistic manifestations, with heed to how form guides, and is invested by, content, and by the significance and meaningful essence of that content. The six exemplars chosen are Joseph Haydn, with particular attention to his early symphonies; Dante of the Divine Comedy, with concentration on the transitional cantos […]
Notes for an Unfinished Future
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and the Fate of the Basset Clarinet
‘You have euphonium lips,’ said my grade 9 high school music teacher. But after a few brassy sessions I developed visions of submersion in Sousa, and, guided by my father’s devotion to Benny Goodman, switched to the clarinet. Which is how I came to Mozart’s and Weber’s clarinet concerti, which, in due course, I learned […]