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The White Hat Guide to the Clarinet

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Some orchestral highlights for clarinet

  • Puccini Tosca - E lucevan le stelle - the important clarinet solo in this famous tenor aria

Some forthcoming Australian performances featuring the clarinet:

Mostly Mozart: Drama!

Orchestra Victoria and the Australian National Academy of Music with Alexander Morris (clarinet) perform:

The urgent opening gesture of Mozart's Symphony No.40 ushers us into a dark and dramatic world of turbulent operatic emotion, in the words of one critic it is "a work of passion, violence and grief". This most famous of Mozart's symphonies is instantly recognisable and gripping. Equally powerful is Carl Weber's First Clarinet Concerto, a glittering star turn for an instrument with a mercurial temperament and a gift for virtuoso 'vocal' acrobatics. Clearly talent ran in the family: Weber was Mozart's cousin-in-law. In the spotlight is ANAM clarinettist Alexander Morris and Orchestra Victoria (no strangers to opera) directed from the violin by Concertmaster Adam Choulabi. Join us for tea and a morning of danger, drama and dazzling playing. Morning tea available from 10:45am.

11.30am, Wednesday 15th February 2012

Melbourne Recital Centre -

Bookings: (03) 9699 3333

Australian String Quartet - Sunrise

When ABC listeners voted on their top 100 chamber works, Bartók's 3rd and 4th string quartets didn't get a guernsey. However In White Hat's list of top 100 chamber works both came within the top 20. Why not go along to this concert by the Australian String Quartet with Paul Dean (clarinet) and judge whether you think the ABC listeners are right or whether White Hat is right. Mores seriously, why not go along and experience some seriously good music performed by some seriously good performers.

7pm, Wednesday 12th September 2012, Adelaide Town Hall
7pm, Monday 17th September 2012, Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank, Brisbane
7pm, Friday 14th September 2012, Perth Concert Hall
7pm, Wednesday 19th September 2012, Melbourne Recital Centre
7pm, Tuesday 11th September 2012, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney

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Tickets available from Australian String Quartet

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Beautiful Minds

Australian Brandenburg OrchestraIn an age when "awesome" has come to mean fleetingly interesting rather than inspiring awe, you could be forgiven for ignoring the publicist's attachment of the word "beautiful minds" to this concert. However in this case White Hat believes the hype is well founded. To have written magical works by your mid teens and by your death in your mid thirties to have left the world with some of its most glorious music does require a beautiful mind and both Mozart and Mendelssohn possessed one.

Mozart's clarinet concerto was written for the basset clarinet of the period but is most often heard today on the modern orchestral clarinet involving the minor rewriting of some of the passages featuring the lower notes. Only a few notes you may say, but with Mozart every note is important. Here is a rare opportunity to hear Mozart's clarinet concerto featuring the instruments for which he wrote it.Craig Hill (bassett clarinet) and  Madeleine Easton (period violin) perform with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Artistic Director Paul Dyer)

7pm, Wed 24th, Fri 26th, Wed 31st Oct, Fri 2nd & Sat 3rd Nov 2012; 2pm Sat 3rd Nov, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
7pm, Sat 27th Oct & 5pm Sun 28th Oct 2012, Melbourne Recital Centre

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Enquiries & bookings: 1300 782 856

Selected sheet music for clarinet

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   Volume 1 - How To Play Jazz & Improvise  By Jamey Aebersold. For singers, vocalists, drums, bass, guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, piano, keyboard, organ, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, harmonica. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. The culmination of Jamey's 35 years as the world's leading jazz exponents. Play-Along Categories: Improvisation. Level: beginner, intermediate. Book with CD. Published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz.
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   Disney Solos - Bb Clarinet Or Tenor Sax  Instrumental solo book and accompaniment CD for Bb clarinet (or tenor saxophone). 12 Disney favorites with a CD that lets you play along with a full band. 24 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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   50 Years of Movie Music - Clarinet  Clarinet solo songbook (no accompaniment) for solo Bb clarinet. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto For Clarinet, K. 622  Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), edited by Eric Simon. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out clarinet part) for Bb clarinet and piano accompaniment. Schirmer Library, volume 1792. With solo part, piano reduction and performance notes. Bb Major. 48 pages. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.
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   Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Phantom of the Opera (Clarinet)  Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Clarinet solo book for clarinet solo. With standard notation. 16 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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   C. Rose: 32 Etudes For Clarinet  Composed by C. Rose. Instructional book for clarinet. 32 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.
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   Contemporary Praise - Instrumental Solos With Piano Accompaniment  Arranged by Joey Culpepper. Instrumental solo songbook and accompaniment CD for C treble instrument solo (flute, oboe, or violin), Bb treble instrument solo (clarinet or tenor saxophone), Eb treble instrument solo (alto saxophone), C bass clef instrument solo (cello) and piano accompaniment. With solo part, piano accompaniment and chord names. 64 pages. Published by Word Music.
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   Howard Shore: The Lord of the Rings - Instrumental Solos (Clarinet)  Composed by Howard Shore, edited by Bill Gallifor, Jeannette DeLisa. Instrumental solo book and accompaniment CD for clarinet solo. Level 2-3. With standard notation. 28 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.
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   Contemporary Gospel Favorites - Trumpet or Clarinet (and other Bb Instruments)  Arranged by Douglas Schoen. Instrumental solo book for Bb trumpet solo and Bb clarinet solo. Piano Accompaniment available separately (850236). With standard notation. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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   The Definitive Jazz Collection  Instrumental solo songbook for Bb clarinet. With leadsheet notation (chords and melody). 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.
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