Name: Copland’s Clarinet
Start: 2023-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Roy Thomson Hall

Organization

Conductor

Trevor Wilson

Instrumentalist

Eric Abramovitz

Clarinet

Orchestra

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Copland’s Clarinet

Toronto

Canada

Roy Thomson Hall

Copland’s Clarinet: Polyphonic Lively Wijeratne (+3 More)

Public

Polyphonic Lively

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

Clarinet Concerto

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36

Approved

RBC Resident Conductor Trevor Wilson leads an entrancing program that showcases the people, places, and things from which composers often draw inspiration. Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne’s Polyphonic Lively opens—a kaleidoscope of orchestral timbres that weaves together elements of jazz, rock, and classical music, drawing inspiration from a painting by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee. Then, Elgar’s popular “Enigma Variations” depict his friends and acquaintances in miniature musical portraits, providing a hint of intrigue as to their identities. Vaughan Williams’s corresponding variations, a collection of folk iterations across time, pays sweeping homage to the English countryside. Finally, Copland’s jazz-influenced Clarinet Concerto channels the legendary Benny Goodman for whom it was commissioned—a showpiece of technical virtuosity performed by Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet Eric Abramovitz.

English

Copland’s Clarinet by Wijeratne, Vaughan Williams, Copland, Elgar, From (2023/2023), Conductor Trevor Wilson, Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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