Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wednesday, June 20, at the annual evening spread in the houses a mixed program will be presented by the Glee Club. During the intermission, members of the Instrumental Clubs will perform. A clarinet solo will be played by George R. Shaw, 2nd '34; Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Guy S. Hayes '34, and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 will make up a Guitar tried which will render several numbers. Le G. R. Thurber '34, James T. Dennison '34, Francis F. Cary '34, and von Schrader will sing in a quartet...
...that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it. ... The saxophone is a reed instrument with whose habits I am not very well acquainted. I wonder whether it indulges in romantic tenderness like the clarinet...
...years old, living in Grand Rapids where his father worked in the postoffice, when he showed an unusual talent for playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing the saxophone and the clarinet in a regimental band. Even then, at 22, Leo Sowerby was writing ambitious orchestral music. Conductor Frederick Stock invited him to attend the Chicago Symphony's performance of his Set of Four. He got leave to go but when he returned to the regiment the bandmaster reprimanded him roundly, told...
...program is as follows: Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1 Haydn First Movement, Quartet G Minor DeBussy Quintet in B Minor for Clarinet and Strings Brahms The personnel of the quintet is as follows: M. H. Holmes '28 First Violin Harold Schmidt '32 Second Violin James Ulmer Viola A. O. Allen 2G Cello T. F. Parshley '35 Clarinet...
...spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments in ways that had never been done before. He even endorsed the mongrel saxophone which the instrument-maker, Adolphe Sax, had introduced into the clarinet family. An Irish actress. Harriet Smithson, came to Paris and Berlioz was fairly beside himself. After staging a suicide in her presence he persuaded her to marry him but the romance ended there. Marie Recio, a mediocre singer, accompanied him on his tour through Europe. She often spoiled his music...