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Article: Clarinet concerto screams one minute, whispers the next.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2004
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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard
The first time world renown American clarinetist David Shifrin played Carl Nielsen's devilish Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 57, he was in high school.
"I think I drove everyone out of the house practicing that piece," Shifrin recalls by phone from his office in New Haven, Conn., where he is a professor of music at Yale University.
"For me, it was a defining moment," he recalls. "I took the summer off between the junior and senior years of high school and did only two things: I learned how to drive, and I learned the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto."
For him, the days sped by.
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