The Mirage Ensemble – May 17, 2013

The program features Gentle Creatures by Molly Joyce (West Coast Premiere), I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Oboe Lee, Wings by Joan Tower, Sonata for clarinet and piano by Leonard Bernstein, and a medley of favorite Gershwin melodies arranged for soprano and clarinet by Mirage Ensemble.Virtuosity combines with innate theatricality in the beautiful musical renderings […]

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Clarinet Thing – May 10, 2013

Original pieces by members and arrangements of unusual jazz tunes by Jimmie Giuffre, Carla Bley, Thelonius Monk, Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Michael Moore, and others all performed on the clarinet family.Clarinet Thing is Sheldon Brown, Ben Goldberg, Harvey Wainapel, and founder Beth Custer. The 2009 Down Beat Critics Poll listed Goldberg as one […]

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