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Thursday, September 29, 1988 Mattoon, (II.) Journal Gazette C-3 Symphony's John Briici Yh to perform ifY 1 music festival at Bahnhof Roland-seek, West Germany. The guest artists with them on this tour were Yen's fellow EIU recitalist, Tamara Orlovsky, who is on the piano faculty of Indiana Central University, and her husband Arkady, who is principal cellist of the Indianapolis Symphony OrchestraSince then Yeh has played some chamber music with the Orlovskys in Indianapolis. "The Eastern recital will be the first that only Tamara and I participate In. We've given recitals with three or four players, usually cello, violin, clarinet and piano. But this is the first time we'll be giving a totally duo recital." certs completely of Mozart or completely of the romantic composers like Brahms and maybe some unusual composers like Reger.

Lately, in order to enrich the repertoire, we've been doing unusual compositions by local and younger composers. The most players we've ever used in one given piece was 18, and that's very rare, the average is about six. We play many works that involve just three or four players and a few that involve eight or nine." And unlike, say, Ian Hobson's Sinfonia da Camera, there is no conductor. "That's one of the qualities of our group that makes it true chamber music." The Chicago Pro Musica won the Grammy Award for "Best New Classical Artist" In 1986, and that same year they made their Euro-; pean debut as the ensemble-in-residence at the fifth chamber esiaes eranms, tney'll be playing music by Prokofiev. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $10 for general public and $5 for students.

Call 217581-6116 or 581-5956. 101-2 OCTOBaiTST, ST CHJUtllS ST LOUIS $100.00 ieiiJULUiaii.wiuMn.araisuW 2ss.oo H1S WIFE KGDIS AT 41, COaEBT Dima AT C80DFIEIJ 40 JO ita rx sms at imwxi msi thejth, meal chkkt 21s WIS (NEB) 1022 (SAT) C0VEKI RtDSf FESTIVAL 28-00 imanTUIKK.IOl!DATSTUTIm,lttMIUVni 90 JM StEAK PtEVCW FOR DEC. ANDY WnilAMS UXBAIA MAIIDItEU CONCEITS ALL DEPART MATTOON HUMBOLDT, IL. 61931 CHARTER BUS SERVICE 217-235-2272 Carl Lebovitz Lebovltz Is revlewer-aHarge for the Journal Gazette and TlmeCourier Washington, D.C., he grew up in Los Angeles from the age of two. His parents had trained as musicians in China, his mother playing piano and his father studying voice.

"They encouraged me very strongly. I was six when I started playing clarinet in the second grade. I had already been studying piano for a year. When I went to school, I wanted to play in an ensemble, and an ensemble instrument that easily came to mind was a clarinet." He's been playing the -clarinet ever since. A graduate of the Juilliard School, he was a 1976 Fromm Fellow at Tanglewood, where he studied with Harold Wright and received the Delson Memorial Award as outstanding instrumentalist.

In 1977 he joined the Chicago Symphony as solo bass clarinetist at the age of 19, and two years later, in 1979, was appointed his present position with the orchestra. The stress in the CSO these days very much on youth. Michael Morgan, for example, who was to conduct the orchestra on its downstate tour, is 30. "There's a large turnover in the orchestra," says Yeh, "because many of the older musicians are retiring. When joined, the median age was pretty high.

Now it's considerably lower, and there are probably eight or 10 players that are younger than I am." Any problems with the older players? "No problems. Of course, you respect the older players for their experience, and I think I've learned so much in great part from collaboration with such experienced and great muscicians, and they In turn kind of have the attitude that they offer their experience and nurture the younger players. I think it's a very healthy realtionship." He has words of, high praise for-the orchestra's conductor, Georg Solti. "He's a very1 wide-ranging musician with a lot iSl Chicago Symphony clarinetist John Bruce Yeh THURSDAY SPECIAL Small Lasagna Tl Salad 1020 lakeland Mattoon 258-6066 HOURS Monday Closed Carry Out Orders 25' Extra Beer and Wine Available Under New Ownership COUNTRY WESTERN MUSIC Largest Lounge in Mattoon Featuring Country Western arid SO's 60's Music THIS WEEK'S Friday- 7 MIMTDV FEATURE Saturday, L'L OUUlllllf "Busy" Is the word for John 11 An VaK Ua In 1 Dime emu. tic is asaisLaiiL nrin- 1 1.

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16. On Monday, Oct. 3, he'll be joined by pianist Tamara Orlovsky for the second annual Friends of WEIU benefit recital in Eastern Illinois University's Dvorak Concert Hall in Charleston. When the Chicago Symphony isn't touring, a normal work week includes three or four concerts and three or four rehearsals to prepare for them. He also teaches, being on the faculty of DePaul University.

And in his spare time he does commercials. "I play the soundtrack for TV commercials," he explained in a recent telephone interview. "McDonald's is one big one. Most of the ones I've been involved in for them are children's commercials, because they require a so-called legit, sym- pnomc-siyie tecnnique. usually a small instrumental ensemble.

Today I did one for the Indiana Farm Bureau and yesterday One-A-Day Vitamins- and in the morning United Airlines. Seven-Up wasanotnerone." Another sideline used to be clar inet competitions. He was a prize winner at the 1982 Munich International Competition, and in 1985 he won the Buffet-Crampon Prize of the Naumburg Clarinet Competition In. New York. "After 1982 I kind of decided to stop entering clarinet competitions, but then the Naumburg came up and it was a real unique opportunity, for it was the first time they had offered a clarinet; competition.

They never had any other wind instrument except for flute about 10 years ago, and since then they've done only strings, piano and voice." Besides all this, Yeh is raising a family. His wife Jo is taking guitar lessons, and their 2 -year-old daughter Jenna all already plays the piano. "I'm encouraging her. She goes to lots of concerts and we have lots of rehearsals at my house, so she hears lots of music. She's indicted ftocli-A in nlav vinlin nnrl thlnlr we'll start her on a little Suzuki violin in January." kn tit nil 1 Tl rtnln UUVT 1KJ lib It all 111 i IV gdO to be challenging he admits.

Yeh himself started young. Born New Yorker BOSTON AP) Nancy Hale, a novelist who also wrote short stories for popular magazines such as The New Yorker, died Saturday of a stroke at the age of 80. Hale sold her first story, The Horoscope Editor's note: The following astrological forecasts should be read for entertainment value only. Such predictions have no reliable basis in scientific fact. If your birthday is today: You could be very lucky in the year ahead.

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There has been some speculation recently about his successor: The two main candidates, according to Yeh, apparently are the Argentina-born Israeli Daniel Barenboin and Claudio Abbado. Yeh thinks it will be Barenboin, but adds, "It hasn't been announced, so I don't even know if I should say it." Here goes anyway. SCOOP! Is there much of a clarinet literature? "There's a lot of literature that involves clarinet. In fact, some of the finest music ever written is specifically with the clarinet in mind, like the Mozart A-major Concerto, for example. It's simply one of the best, most inspired pieces of music ever written.

And Brahms wrote some of his finest music with the clarinet. The two sonatas which we're playing at EIU, the F-minor and the E-flat Hale worked for Vogue magazine and later as an editor for Vanity Fair and as a reporter for The New York Times. Her seven novels included The Prodigal Woman, a best-seller in smoothly. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The larger, the group you mix with today the better it is for you.

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By that time he was not only accomplished, of course, but extremely mature as a musician, so was able to produce such incredibly fine music." Is he into jazz? "No, I don't have the background to perform jazz, but I love listening to it." For Yeh, 1979 was the year that was. Not only did he become the CSO's assistant principal clarinetist at the age of 21, but he also organized the Chicago Pro Musica. "When I came to the orchestra, I had had a lot of experience playing ensemble chamber music and also contemporary music. In fact, I was one of the founding members of the New York New Music Ensemble. So when I came to Chicago, I naturally wanted to continue playing that kind of repertoire.

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