Instrument Spotlight: The Clarinet Family (with Kania Mills) | Ep18

This is the first of what will be many episodes in the Instrument Spotlight series for The Musician Toolkit, occurring once every few months.  This series is for anyone wanting to choose the instruments as either a primary or secondary instrument, as well as to inform composers and arrangers about the capabilities, challenges, and limitations of such instruments.  Kania Mills is an active performer in band, orchestra, chamber music, and as a featured soloist in North Carolina.  She teaches woodwinds at Livingstone College and Catawba College.  She will help us navigate the clarinet family, how to get started, the challenges with playing well, maintaining the instruments, and also some repertoire.

Check out teaching and performance clips of Kania from TikTok below:

https://www.tiktok.com/@kaniamills/video/7212036578632404267?_r=1&_t=8bPCRVdlHCc

https://www.tiktok.com/@kaniamills/video/7206732376855022891?_r=1&_t=8bPCU4zojoR

https://www.tiktok.com/@kaniamills/video/7196109017037737262?_r=1&_t=8bPCQcFR8oQ

https://www.tiktok.com/@kaniamills/video/7201345060041002286?_r=1&_t=8bPCbLUJoEQ

 

List of Musical Excerpts Used in this Episode

 

12:00 "Scent of Death" from Interview with a Vampire original soundtrack (Eliot Goldenthal)

12:40 "Desert Music" from Sicario original soundtrack (Jóhann Jóhannsson)

34:42 Symphony No. 4 "Italian", mvt 1 (Felix Mendelssohn) performed by Chicago Symphony,;cond. by Georg Solti

35:18 Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Felix Mendelssohn) - The Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell

52:46 El Salón México (Aaron Copland) - New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein

53:34 Symphony No. 5, movt. 2 (D. Shostakovich)  - Berlin Symphony; Kurt Sanderling

55:54 Clarinet Concerto, mvt 1 (W. A. Mozart) - Mostly Mozart Orchestra; Gerard Schwarz

56:23 Clarinet Concerto No. 2, mvt. 3 (Carl Maria von Weber)

58:09 Clarinet Quintet, mvt 1 (J Brahms)  - Karl Leister; Amadeus Quartet

58:33 Quintet op. 39, mvt 1 (S Prokofiev) - Kammerensemble de Paris

59:29 Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (Bela Bartok) - The Rogue Ensemble

1:01:17 Black Dog (Scott McAllister) - Robert Spring, Clarinet

1:02:56 Clarinet Concerto, mvt. 1 (Gerald Finzi) - Robert Plane; Northern Sinfonia; Howard Griffiths

1:03:31 Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (Aaron Copland); Benny Goodman

1:04:33 Solfeggietto/Metamorphosis (Eddie Daniels)

1:07:22 Rigoletto (Luigi Bassi) - Han Kim, Clarinet

 

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