IC Chamber Orchestra
Sometimes IC is the most exciting place to be! At a mid-term concert in the Great Hall, with a relatively small audience and an orchestra with very late, flu-driven replacements, the promise of a merely pleasant evening turned into the reality of a breath-taking one.
Bracketed by two unjustly neglected works for wind instruments, Mozart’s last instrumental work, the Clarinet Concerto, was given an unforgettable performance. The conductor, Richard Dickins, and the orchestra quickly latched onto the artistry of James Marchese and together they produced an astonishing occasion.
The pleasure Mozart must have been given in such confident and all-encompassing writing showed through. The soloist (in his final year of the "Physics with Music" course), with matching confidence, took all the opportunities which the piece offers to display the contrasting registers of the clarinet. It was apparently effortless playing of a very high order.
Some of you missed it. Tough
