Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartok: Contrasts (Robert Mann, violin; Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Leonid Hambro, piano; Bartok). Three short Bartok movements-a fantastic little march, a bluesy interlude and a dazzling dance finale-provide an easy and agreeable introduction to the work of the modern Hungarian master. Performance: excellent...
...Stravinsky Octet is scored for flute, clarinet, bassoons, trumpets and trombone. In its exploration of the sonorous possibilities of an unusual chamber group, its purpose is similar to that of Bach Brandenburg Concerti and of various Mozart Serendates and Divertimenti. Its importance in modern music, however, lies in being one of the first works in the "neo-classic" style. Hearing the Octet today in light of all that has followed it in the past 30 years, its dry metrically incisive, often mocking tone seems no longer revolutionary. Yet it still remains a fresh, thoroughly delightful work...
...everywhere he goes, 61-year-old Ted Lewis will be able to warm up his listeners with reminiscences of the barnstorming days before the going was so good-being booked into store-front vaudeville at $22.50 a week and changing his name every time he got fired, playing his clarinet in bawdyhouses when he was stranded, and periodically turning up in Circleville for another few crestfallen months sweeping out the family store...
...Lewis might have reached the top as a straight musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile...
While the clarinet was put to the services of jazz, the saxophone was played like a symphonic instrument. James Powers, a freshman who has never taken a lesson with a professional saxophonist, gave an excellent example of the serious saxophone style now prevalent in France. Mr. Powers learned this style by listening to records. In addition to a flawless technique, he displayed a rich tone, occasionally enhanced by a discreet vibrato...