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This evening in Agassiz Theatre at Radcliffe Mr. Elmer Schocttle, pianist, and members of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present an extraordinary program of chamber music. The concert opens with the Duo Concertante for Piano and Clarinet by Weber, the clarinet played by David Glazer. This work is in a traditional three movement form and is notable, from the technical point of view, for the bold use of the upper notes of the clarinet range...
...Rose of the Rio Grande." The sax section is equal if not greater. Harry Carney on baritone sax has such an amazing technique that Duke very often doesn't score parts for him--just lets him ramble at will. Listen to "Azure" for some ramblings what am. Barney Bigard (clarinet) and Johnny Hodges (alto) are two more of jazz's greats. They have done hundreds of swell solos on all sorts of Ellington records...
...swung the Bard himself. Last week at Radio City's huge Center Theatre it swung him high & wide, turning A Midsummer-Night's Dream into a lavish jitterbug extravaganza. Shifting the scene from Athens to New Orleans around 1890 ("At the Birth of Swing"), it displayed clarinet-tooting Benny Goodman, trumpet-blowing Louis Armstrong, soft-voiced Maxine Sullivan, Walt Disneyish scenery, scraps of Mendelssohn's famed Midsummer-Night's Dream music, hit tunes in swingtime, half-a-dozen singing and dancing troupes...
Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (Los Angeles Wind Quintet; Columbia: 4 sides). Kulturbolschewik Hindemith, in one of his earlier and lighter moods, wrote two ironic little suites for small ensembles, called them "Little Chamber Music, No. 1 and 2." No. 2, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, is deftly tootled by a new group of Holly-woodmen...
...when they start at Dunster on the 11th, you'll really hear some good jazz. "Uncle" Bill Whitcraft on piano, Johnny Harlow (trumpet), Hal Jacobs on clarinet, George Olson on drums, and Mike Siegel on tenor sax manage to turn out some solos that are good enough for anybody's wing. Stan does the sweet vocals, and odes a good imitation of the Jack Leonard style of singing. Fem vocalist Dorothy Sinatra, sister of Harry James'vocalist, does even better...