Word: clarinet
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...custody of the "Chamber Music Society of Weston, Mass." It installed itself in the Common Room and toyed with the acoustics for a while, with occasional sojourns to the beer table for lubrication. There were nine, as I recall: Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., coronet; Dr. John Merrill, clarinet; Dr. Charles Palioca (a dentist), trombone; Dr. Thomas Peebles, drums; Richard Wigginton, bass; Raymond Boshco, piano; Guy Garland, banjo; and Bob Johnson and Doug Hayward, guitars. It was like outside the Metropole, only a little warmer...
...wonder, then, that, totting up its scores of 200 national anthems that Navy ships play on official courtesy calls to foreign ports, the Admiralty this year discovered that it lacked an up-to-date version of Muscat's. The only version available was a B-flat clarinet score. The Admiralty asked the Foreign Office to forward the score to its man in Muscat for verification...
...findings: "The Sultanate has not, since 1937, possessed a band. None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware, can read music, which the majority regard as sinful. The manager of the British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who, in the absence of the Sultan, is the recipient of ceremonial honors and who might be presumed to recognize the tune is somewhat deaf. Fortunately, I have been able to obtain, and now enclose, a Gramophone record that has on one side a rendering...
...first part of the tune, which was composed by the bandmaster of a cruiser in 1932, bears a close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the bank manager of the clarinet music enclosed with your lordship's dispatch. The only further testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind...
...accompanists, Mr. Lazar and the Bach Society were perhaps even more impressive. Throughout the performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, the orchestra distinguished itself for its bright string tone, its fluid phrasing and the rapport it enjoyed with the soloist, Andrew Schenck '62. Mr. Schenck, who obviously has complete control of the clarinet, achieved a beautiful, rich tone while effortlessly hurdling the technical obstacles which pepper the piece...