Performing John Corigliano’s Iconic Clarinet Concerto

Schultz recently played through the concerto for the composer.
Corigliano commented, it will be "a sensation."

The Chelsea Symphony presents
Rhythm & Colors
June 15, 8pm
Admission: suggested donation $20
DiMenna Center for Classical Music (450 W 37 Street)
chelseasymphony.org/concerts/2023-2024/rhythm-and-colors/

Thank you, BroadwayWorld! Very much looking forward to performing this masterpiece with The Chelsea Symphony in New York this weekend in celebration of pride.

John Corigliano is one of the most celebrated composers alive. Local to New York and faculty at the Juilliard School, his many accolades include a Pulitzer Prize, a Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award. He is best known for his Grammy award-winning First Symphony and his Academy award-winning film score to The Red Violin.

As Corigliano’s first commission from the New York Philharmonic, the Clarinet Concerto launched his career into the stratosphere. Premiered in 1977 under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, the concerto is a notorious crowd-pleaser and still sounds new to this day. “The work starts unexpectedly with this luminous whirlwind of colors from the clarinet alone, standing in front of this massive orchestra. It’s just magical. You really haven’t heard a concerto until you’ve heard this one,” said Eric Schultz, featured soloist. Notably, Corigliano’s father, former 23-year concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, had passed right before writing the work. In stark contrast to the dazzling virtuosity of the outer movements, the desolate second movement is written in his memory. With impossibly long lines passing between the clarinet and violin that seem to never resolve, Schultz remarked, “It’s one of the most profound representations of loss and grief that I have ever encountered in music.”

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