Collaboration yields beautiful things. When the Dallas Symphony Orchestra debuts Jon Cziner’s new piece, Clarinet Concerto, Nov. 20 – 22 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the audience will hear the result of a multi-year collaboration between the composer and the orchestra’s Principal Clarinet, Gregory Raden.

Raden initially approached the Dallas-based composer and artistic director of Dallas’ Voices for Change before the pandemic about a project for a clarinet and a quartet. The project stalled during the pandemic. Eventually, Cziner and Raden revisited the project, redeveloping it into a much larger piece.

“It’s a much different piece than it was when it was first composed, but a lot of the ideas in that original piece which is about nine minutes long and for five instruments

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