Friday, April 23, 2010

Clintonville Community Band (3/21)

I couldn't make it to this program until intermission due to a conflict with work. I was told that Holst's First Suite went well. The second half of the program featured Flourishes and Variants by Barry Kopetz and an arrangement of a Mozart opera overture. They both went pretty well. The Kopetz work was very difficult, with lots of busy writing. The horn part looked like a woodwind part and there wasn't much space to breathe. The main concern for me was to get the solo right. It wasn't perfect, but it was good technically which sufficed.