Ebony Concerto
Igor Stravinsky wrote the Ebony Concerto in 1945 (finishing the score on December 1) for the Woody Herman band known as the First Herd. It is one in a series of compositions commissioned by the bandleader/clarinetist featuring solo clarinet, and the score is dedicated to him.
Nov 10, 2010 · Ebony Concerto opens with a lively Allegro moderato, where the themes are rhythmic and quite jerky in their unpredictability. Everything sounds Stravinskyan, though, the jazz elements fusing
Jan 13, 2017 · Ebony Concerto opens with a lively Allegro moderato, where the themes are rhythmic and quite jerky in their unpredictability. Everything sounds Stravinskyan, though, the jazz elements fusing
Composed for Woody Herman and his band, whose recordings of Bijou, Goosey Gander, and Caledonia Stravinsky especially admired, the vividly characterful Ebony Concerto – by turns bluesy and rambunctious — is in Eric Walter White’s opinion "the most ambitious and most successful of [Stravinsky’s] various flirtations with jazz." Alexandre Tansman, upon observing Stravinsky simultaneously at
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The Ebony Concerto by Igor Stravinsky, commissioned and first played by Woody Herman’s jazz orchestra, has had many interpreters, but John Bruce Yeh is one of the best. He uses the clarinet, being a rather nasal sounding instrument, as if it were a voice.
Igor Stravinsky wrote the Ebony Concerto in 1945 (finishing the score on December 1) for the Woody Herman band known as the First Herd. It is one in a series of compositions commissioned by the bandleader/clarinetist featuring solo clarinet, and the score is dedicated to him.
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Ebony Concerto was written by Igor Stravinsky for Woody Herman and his Orchestra. It was introduced by that orchestra in a memorable concerto at Carnegie Hall, New York, on March 25, 1946, to the acclaim of public and critics alike.
College of Music, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom Mahidol, Thailand Mahidol Wind Orchestra Thanapol Setabrahmana, conductor
