Virginia MacDonald
Clarinet Solo on
It's Pronounced George

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Taking the 2nd solo, this clarinet improvisation spans three choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium-up 194 BPM. The clarinet's distinctive timbre, with its warm chalumeau register and bright upper range, offers a textural contrast to the other solo voices in the arrangement. The composition by Caity Gyorgy provides a rich harmonic canvas that rewards the soloist's exploration of its melodic and harmonic possibilities. Situated between Christine Jensen's alto sax solo and Caity Gyorgy's turn on voice, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.

Virginia MacDonald was 26 to 27 years old at the time.