Sentence examples for principal clarinet from inspiring English sources

That happened last year with the Philharmonic's principal clarinet job.

Ricardo Morales, principal clarinet for the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, is her teacher.

I would give a special prize to the principal clarinet, Leslie Craven, whose voluptuous, ascending scales were things of joy.

The central work was the Symphony No 1, with that haunting opening beautifully played by the LPO's principal clarinet.

"He was the elder statesman of the clarinet," said Stanley Drucker, a longtime principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic until his retirement last year.

He was also principal clarinet for Ballet Theater (later renamed American Ballet Theater) and for the American tour of the Ballet de Paris.

When he went on to the Royal College of Music, however, he was barred from the conducting class — he did not have the required keyboard skills — and so made clarinet his principal study.

Vibraphone and xylophone (Matt Moran), accordion (Ted Reichman) and clarinet (Chris Speed) play principal roles, and the parts of the band shift around like tectonic plates.

Performing with no soloist to distract attention from the main business at hand -- themselves -- the players made strong sound, sound that was sometimes sweet (especially from the clarinet and oboe principals) but more often a touch gritty, sound that spoke and shook, the way Mr. Masur likes it.

The program began with the clarinetist Stephen Williamson in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A. Formerly a principal at the Met, Mr. Williamson became principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony last year, one of Riccardo Muti's first appointments as music director.

In particular the RPO became celebrated for its regular team of woodwind principals, in which Jackson was joined by Jack Brymer (clarinet), Gwydion Brooke (bassoon) and Terence MacDonagh (oboe).