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WELCHER: Haleakala / Prairie Light / Clarinet Concerto - Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

WELCHER: Haleakala / Prairie Light / Clarinet Concerto - Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

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Composer-conductor Dan Welcher, whose works range in scale from piano solo to opera, is one of the most-performed American composers of his generation. In 1990, he was named Composer in Residence with the Honolulu Symphony, for whom he wrote the tone poem Haleakala: How Maui Snared the Sun. Using ancient Hawaiian chant-tunes, authentic percussion instruments and Polynesian scales, the work is designed to appeal on many levels. The Clarinet Concerto might be described as a ‘jazz concerto’, but for the fact that it incorporates styles of performance from throughout the clarinet’s history. The Blues and Toccata second movement, inspired by the name ‘Benny Goodman’ breaks into to ‘a rather polite rock-’n’-roll episode’, before being pared down to a jazz quartet.

Welcher, Dan
 Heleakala - How Maui Snared the Sun
1 Heleakala - How Maui Snared the Sun 22:32
 Prairie Light - Three Texas Watercolors of Georgia O'Keeffe
2 I. Light Coming On The Plains 04:44
3 II. Canyon with Crows 04:55
4 III. Starlight Night 04:42
 Clarinet Concerto
5 I. Very Fast - Slowly - Dancing 09:39
6 II. Blues and Toccata (on the name Benny Goodman) 10:33

 

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