Carnegie Hall Master Class: Orchestral Woodwinds
Free
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 4 in F minor Op. 36
Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite
Demarre McGill, principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony, hosts a program of video highlights from master classes for wind players, including two alumni of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Flutist Karl-Heinz Schütz and clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra respectively share musical insights about selections from Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and the 1919 version of Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite. Bassoonist Simon Van Holen from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra also coaches a young musician through a passage from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
Want to know more? Throughout the episode, McGill will be responding to questions submitted on Facebook and YouTube.
The broadcast will take place at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific.
Streaming link will be posted shortly. More information here: https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2020/11/11/carnegie-hall-master-class-orchestral-woodwinds-0200pm
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