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The Interlochen Collection: Lorin Levee

Clarinetist Lorin Levee
Clarinetist Lorin Levee

Clarinetist Lorin Levee spent 35 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, joining the orchestra as a bass clarinetist in 1976.

In 1981, he won the principal clarinet role and held it until his death in 2012.

As a teen, Levee spent eight summers at Interlochen's National Music Camp.

This program features archival recordings of Levee's student performances at Interlochen as well as later professional recordings made with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

1965 World Youth Symphony Orchestra clarinet section with faculty Sydney Forrest. Lorin Levee stands in the back row on the left, behind David Shifrin

Episode playlist 

Alexander Borodin, Polovtsian Dances 
Interlochen Youth Symphony Orchestra
Thor Johnson, conductor 
1965 
 
Carl Nielsen, Clarinet Concerto, mvts I-II 
National High School Broadcast Orchestra
George C. Wilson, conductor
August 1963

Niccolo Paganini, Moto Perpetuo
Nicholas Falcone, arranger
High School Symphonic Band 
George C. Wilson, conductor
July 1965

Claude Debussy, Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
High School Broadcast Orchestra
A. Clyde Roller, conductor
August 1965

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, Mvt. III
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, conductor 
1984

The archival recordings heard on this program are available thanks in part to The Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Classical Music Preservation Grant, generous support from our listeners, and the Hamer D. and Phyllis C. Shafer Foundation.

Thanks to David Levee for additional support for this episode.

Monica Yost provided production assistance.  
 

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