Susan Alcorn (deceased)
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 13 Aug 2014 3:10 pm |
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For those who might enjoy this, here are three videos from a duet performance with Vinny Golia the night before last at iBeam in Brooklyn, NY. As anyone who has ever heard Vinny Golia play can attest, he's quite a virtuoso on a number of reed and wind instruments, so it was an interesting evening.
The first video (chronologically) is in many ways perhaps the most interesting a well as the most demanding, I think, for the listener. This one features Vinny on clarinets. I wonder if anyone notices, toward the end, the reference to a well-known jazz standard that features the clarinet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8PH155T1qc&feature=youtu.be
The second features the baritone sax. This was quite a switch for me after playing with the clarinet, and it was a change for me to fit in with the timbre of the baritone. It's interesting how timbre and perspective changes the sound and feeling of a note and thus one's musical choices. To me it felt more introspective and maybe more focused as a duet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOF0yrNzJ3Q&feature=youtu.be
The third and last of these is the duet with Vinny on a couple of different flutes. I think I enjoyed this one the most; at times it felt (to me at the moment) rather carefree. This video starts off in the middle of something I was playing. It wasn't meant to make fun of country music, There was a rather long pause to change instruments. In my country days, when this happened, someone would go up to the mic and tell a joke. I din't know any jokes, so I played a little something to provide for the audience some relief from the intense nature of some of what we did, and perhaps to poke a little fun at the preconceived notions about the instrument we know and love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUunB9WmVQI&feature=youtu.be
This is music that probably won't appeal to everyone. However, for those of you who take the time to listen, I'm very honored, and I hope you enjoy the music.
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