Word: clarinet
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Felt but Not Heard. Jimmy's trio (Giuffre, sax and clarinet; Jim Hall, guitar; Ralph Pena, bass) strutted their stuff one star-studded night last week in the outdoor Wollman Theater in Manhattan's Central Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet...
...second concert in the Harvard Summer School series will be presented at Paine Hall on Tuesday at 8:30, when Catherine Aspinall, soprano, James Wood, clarinet, and George Zilzer and Robert Middleton, piano, will perform works by Brahms, Hindemith, Berg and Schubert. The concert is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
...most important of these is the Musician, a dancing clarinetist who weaves in and out of scenes, connects scenes or bridges the passing of time. I once saw this part executed by a fellow who danced while actually playing a clarinet; but such a combination is hard to come by. In this production, Tom Hasson (who devised all the choreography as well) is the Musician. Elmer Gordon's perky and carefully articulated music is expertly played offstage by the talented young clarinetist Paul Epstein, who is also called on to play the tambourine. Onstage, Hasson fingers a clarinet silently...
...witty score fully in keeping with the play; and he presides over a small live orchestra (all in period costume) of winds and percussion, and plinks on a harpsichord from time to time himself. (It would be ungratefully pedantic to complain about the anachronistic use of a clarinet, which in Moliere's day had not yet been invented...
...discovered men of first-rate talent, starved for news of the outside musical world. Most of them were eager to try out the American orchestra's glittering instruments. Harpist Alice Chalifoux gave away most of her reserve supply of harp strings; other Clevelanders contributed fiddle strings, mouthpieces and clarinet reeds to the Polish musicians. Cleveland's First Trumpeter Louis Davidson gave one of his $300 trumpets to Trumpeter Francisek Stockfiscz of the Katowice Philharmonia (the Cleveland Orchestra management promised to buy Davidson another). "Thank you," said Stockfiscz at a formal banquet. "You have changed my life...