The Bowdoin Orient

February 16, 2001
Volume CXXXII, Number 16

Reed All About It

   World-renowned saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky will kick off the Bowdoin College "Reed all about it!" music festival, a mini-series of 20th century music for reeds. The festival, sponsored by the O.P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation, will consist of three concerts spread out through March. Radnofsky will be performing on Friday, Feubruary 17, at 10:00 a.m.in Gibson Hall, Room 101. His program will consist mainly of works composed for him by Pulitzer Prize winners Gunther Schuller and John Harbison. Radnosky will also teach a master class and lead a discussion the morning after the concert.
   Radnofsky made his New York Philharmonic debut in 1996 and his Carnegie Hall debut several years earlier. He has played solo saxophone with lead orchestras and ensembles all over the world, including concerts in Rome, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Montreal, and Beijing. Radnofsky's latest solo CD includes Debussy's Rhapsody and Donald Martino's Saxophone Concerto. He is currently professor of saxophone at Boston's three major conservatories: New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, and the Longy School of Music.
   Radnofsky's performance will be excellent and should not be missed. The concert is free and open to the public.

Kenneth Radnofsky.
(Photo courtesy of Susan Wilson)