When I visited his festival in Mora, Sweden a few years ago, I found myself at a clarinet recital in a car garage, of all places.
Mr. SEGELL: The simple explanation technologically was that he placed a clarinet mouthpiece on the body of an offaclyde(ph) which was the forerunner of the tuba, a great big instrument.
Instead he trained as a clarinettist and spent 10 years as a clarinet player (part of that time in the band of the Household Cavalry) and as a struggling freelance conductor.
So the vocalist is Manhattan Transfer's Laurel Masse, whose luscious chops are complemented by a jaunty clarinet and mellow, slightly melancholy bass line, all part of an arrangement that Mansfield himself cooked up.
It sounds like a stretch for a band that specializes in klezmer, the clarinet based dance music of Eastern European Jews to record a whole album of Woody Guthrie songs.
At 11, thanks to the generosity of a relative, he was sent to Christ's Hospital school, where he learned to play the clarinet, and it was there, after hearing a recording of a Beethoven symphony, that he decided he wanted to become a conductor.
"The Whole Love" seems like a celebration of that freedom, with songs that roam happily all over the place: "Capitol City" is a country waltz with bits of Dixieland clarinet, "Sunloathe" sounds like the Beatles if they were still together in 1974, and the vaguely psychedelic folk-pop title track takes Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge down to the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park for a summer-breezin' picnic.
Barry keeps a journal about the results of teaching Mano clarinet, and he's posted suggested lesson plans for children with autism on his website.
Composer Paul Moravec has been awarded the Pulitzer for Tempest Fantasy, a chamber work written for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.
They're planning to write a book or manual about their method, and they presented a paper, titled "Autism Spectrum: Emotional Regulation through Clarinet Lessons, " at last year's Virginia Counselors Association convention.
In a pair of concerts at the Stone, the members of the JACK Quartet, who specialize in new music, raised a few eyebrows by venturing back in time to Brahms, presenting his Clarinet Quintet in collaboration with the composer-clarinettist Derek Bermel.
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