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Culture: Fanfare for the CBSO man; The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra bids farewell to principal clarinettist Colin Parr this Friday after 34 years. Christopher Morley went to meet him.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20030708
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Colin Parr was invited to make his own choice of party pieces with which to bid farewell to the CBSO this Friday. The long-serving principal clarinettist, who joined the orchestra in 1969, has selected a couple of jazz-inspired ones -Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and a real rarity in Morton Gould's Derivations for Solo Clarinet and Dance Band.

The choice reflects Parr's outstanding contribution to jazz-favoured repertoire by Gershwin, Bernstein and Eliington during the Simon Rattle era, some of which is happily preserved on CD. He admits ...

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