Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays a cello. Young William Edgar Danforth, his assistant, plays a cello too. Both are mainstays of the Swarthmore (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer organization of about 40 men and women who play good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck...
...changes the resistance. This alters the frequency, thereby the pitch. As now constructed the oscillion has a range of five octaves which can easily be increased to eight. Inventors Danforth & Swann deplore the oscillion's higher ranges, expect it will be most useful pinch-hitting for bass clarinet, bassoon, tuba and string bass...
Other works which will be heard are: Berg's four pieces for clarinet and piano, three songs by Berlioz and Stravinsky's new tow piano concerts...
...players are Grosvenor W. Cooper 2G, Arnold Hartman, Jr. '38, and Leonard Bernstein '39, pianists; Raphael H. Silverman 1G, violin; A. Jan Pieters LaRue '39, clarinet; William P. Lester '38, viola; Chester W. Williams 1G, oboe; and Fred Rogosin '39, baritone...
Among the compositions are: "Trio for 'Clarinet, 'Viola and Pianoforte, and "Four Songs from Les Nuits...