A quintet of reeds! (R to L) Jackie Glazier, Charles Du Preez, Melissa Olegario, Edward Goodman, Sara Fraker 'REFRACTION' - Faculty Recital, Jackie Glazier Fred Fox University of Arizona School of Music 12 September 2019 - Crowder Hall We were tempted by a program of new music -- four compositions from living composers, and a fifth, by Karlheinz Stockhausen -- groundbreaking exploratory composer of the mid-20th Century. As well, each piece had a strong visual element, and the last work, a heavily pop-influence number. A colorful refraction indeed, of Western chamber music for clarinet! Kay He 's 'Heat It Up!' , commissioned this year by Jackie Glazier , was remarkable and memorable. For clarinet and piano, this music was being electronically manipulated with synthesized ring modulator, digital delay, and other filters and distortions, all controlled by pedals fed into a laptop on stage, and executed by the composer, He (pronounced "Hu...
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