Gloucester Times, July 5, 2015 — “A rare opportunity presents itself when a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and a two-time Grammy Award-winning musician perform Friday night at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival.
Even more rare are when the two are teacher and student, as is the case with Yehudi Wyner, a pianist, who was a professor at Yale University in 1965 when Richard Stoltzman, a clarinetist, was his student. ...
[O]n the program is a piece by Wyner, who taught at Yale from 1963 to 1977,written for Stoltzman in 2003 titled ‘Commedia for clarinet and piano.’
‘It’s electrifying and so satisfying to perform with him. He plays music as a composer. He’s not just reading the notes, he’s engrossing himself in the composition,’ said Stoltzman. ‘We have been playing together close to 20 years. I don’t think people realize this but composers keep changing their mind about things. (Wyner) wrote this about 12 years ago but every time we play it, he changes things, actual notes. He adds layers of meaning and difficulty so you are always challenged.’”
Even more rare are when the two are teacher and student, as is the case with Yehudi Wyner, a pianist, who was a professor at Yale University in 1965 when Richard Stoltzman, a clarinetist, was his student. ...
[O]n the program is a piece by Wyner, who taught at Yale from 1963 to 1977,written for Stoltzman in 2003 titled ‘Commedia for clarinet and piano.’
‘It’s electrifying and so satisfying to perform with him. He plays music as a composer. He’s not just reading the notes, he’s engrossing himself in the composition,’ said Stoltzman. ‘We have been playing together close to 20 years. I don’t think people realize this but composers keep changing their mind about things. (Wyner) wrote this about 12 years ago but every time we play it, he changes things, actual notes. He adds layers of meaning and difficulty so you are always challenged.’”
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