| | TimesDispatch.com | Working with composer familiar role for clarinetist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Rautavaara's style, which Stoltzman describes as "tonality combined with this octatonic scale that adds a minor second, giving the music a bittersweet quality," fits the tonal and expressive qualities of the clarinet and, not incidentally, strikes a chord with audiences that tend to be wary of new music. |
 | | The 63-year-old clarinetist, who has performed frequently in Richmond and qualifies as at least an honorary Virginian for having married Lucy Shelton of Newport News, is something of an expert on wary audiences. |
 | | To play anything other than the Mozart, over and over, means a solo clarinetist faces an ongoing fight to persuade conductors, orchestra administrators and listeners to accept the modern scores that make up the majority of the clarinet's concert repertory. |
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