Tag: Raymond Santos (clarinet)

Birkat Haderekh—Hebrew for “Blessing for the Road”—begins its journey as a spacious, gently inflected solo clarinet melody, slowly unfolding as it gathers the other members of this clarinet quartet around itself, carving out a distinctive musical “space.” Looking at this piece in its totality, the opening phrase is, at some level, emblematic of the entire…
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