Richard Dyer, music critic of the Boston Globe said of him,
“Although Harold Wright is a consummate virtuoso of the clarinet, you don’t so much listen to him as overhear him as he steals sound from silence; drawing us into a volatile private world of thought, feeling and dream.”
I agree – he was the utimate player, perhaps the best of the 20th century.
“Steals sound from silence” : I think a clarinet is more capable of doing that than any other instrument … maybe a cello could compete, but not many.