Clarinet new york5/2/2023 ![]() There was my eclectic mix of music by Schubert and Alban Berg performed exquisitely by Peter Serkin, Bill Douglas' Improvisation Three and Vajra, and Frank's G Song. He wrote G song for me and I first performed it at Cal Arts where I recorded it on my first (and, at the time, I figured, my only) record. He married a gifted musician/vocalist, Gita, and became immersed in the expressive lines of Indian ragas. Frank was a multi-talented percussionist/composer who was also a serious student of one of India's great masters of drumming. ![]() ![]() We were both members of a small ensemble of doubling musicians (I played flute, bassoon, and oboe as well as clarinet) put together to perform interludes and other appropriately atmospheric music for the Shakespearean evenings. The composer of G song is not Tony Bennett but rather FRANK Bennett!įrank and I were classmates at Yale and I got to know him pretty well when we shared the composer Donald Martino's home one summer while we drove back and forth to the Shakespeare Festival (which I seem to remember was in Stamford, Connecticut). Most embarrassing is the mistake printed for track seven. ![]() Although the actual story of working with Steve Reich for the recording (CD#13) I have already talked about in the booklet accompanying the box set, I have a few more comments I'd like to share with you.
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