Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around the U.S. with their big bands, collecting frenzied worship. In 15 years the band business has settled down, and chunky Les Brown, who played his first dance date with a clarinet at 16, is one who saw the change coming...
...Sextet for String Quartet, Clarinet, and Piano is a more accessible work than the Piano Quartet because of its greater rhythmic vitality and harmonic familiarity. Masculine, direct, and always moving, it is more in the old Copland tradition. The Juilliard Quartet and pianist Lconid Hambro played excellently, but David Oppenheim wasn't up to the technical demands of the clarinet part. LAWRENCE R. CASLER
Others in the competition were Jean W. Lunn '55, soprano; Anthony W. Morss '53, piano; James D. Wood, Sp., clarinet; Nurhan A. Adrian '54 and Shahan A. Adrian '54, piano duo; Jaroslav F. Hulka '52, French horn; Earl C. Ravenal '52 and Sandor S. Shapiro '54, violin duo; Rosemary MacKown '54, piano, and Vernon Head, viola...
More & more dancers edged onstage and fell under the spell of the tootling clarinet. Miming to the music, tiny, red-haired Janet Reed led her cohorts through a lithe trance that almost stopped the show. By the time Jerome Robbins himself danced on with Tanaquil LeClercq to join in some hilarious, supine calisthenics, the audience was having trouble deciding whether to hold its sides or pound its palms. It wound up at the curtain alternately doing both. Brilliant Choreographer Robbins had clearly brought the New York City Ballet a smashing...
...early '20s, and went back to Paris jumping with jazz. In this score for a Ballet Négre (1923), he proves that he caught the inflection better than many a serious U.S. composer has yet. The performance (with Benny Goodman taking the solo clarinet part) is in the groove. Recording: good...