Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small U. S. audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...
Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String, Op. 115 (Busch Quartet with Reginald Kell; Victor: 8 sides). One of the world's ranking chamber-music groups gives Brahms's famous Clarinet Quintet an up-to-date recording...
Back to Chicago's Hull House, where in 1922 he played in the band, went Swingmaster Benny Goodman to play his clarinet before 1,600 cheering boys & girls, who refrained from shagging in the aisles, but did bounce in their seats...
...music can be engraved directly on the surface of wax discs, preserved as permanently as sculpture. The best swing music is not written down; it is improvised. Before the phonographic era, improvisation was as impermanent as a cloud of smoke. Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands...
BRAHMS: SONATA IN E FLAT MAJOR FOR VIOLA AND PIANO (William Primrose and Gerald Moore; Victor: 6 sides). Brahms wrote this sonata originally for clarinet, then made his own arrangement for viola. NBC Symphony's William Primrose, widely regarded as today's No. 1 violist, gives it an impeccable performance...