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Died. Jimmy Lytell, 67, Brooklyn-born bandleader who played jazz clarinet professionally by age 14, formed his own Dixieland jazz band during the 1920s and performed as many as 17 radio shows a week during the 1940s; in Kings Point...
MATHER HOUSE DINING ROOM: Hunni Myers, soprano, Myron Press, piano, and William Lipscomb, clarinet present a recital of songs by Schubert, Faure. Falla and Moussorgsky...
...Scott Fitzgerald could have been two alto saxophones rampant on a field of cocktail shakers.) Even so, the sax had to overcome the prejudice of old-line jazz purists. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson once complained that it did not fit into the traditional New Orleans ensemble of trumpet, trombone and clarinet. "It just runs up and downstairs with no place to go," said Bunk...
Mozart: The Wind Concertos (various soloists, the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor; Angel, 3 LPs, $17.98). An exquisitely executed anthology for the Mozartean who has everything-or thinks he does. The selections range from what might be called the camaraderie concertos, the Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b (featuring oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn) and the Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299, to the solo works for bassoon (K. 191), flute (K. 313), oboe (K. 314) and clarinet (K. 622). Von Karajan's soloists, drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, are superb...
Monday evening's program at Burden Hall, the econd concert in the Harvard Summer School Series, consisted entirely of trios by Brahms--two for the standard combination (opp. 87 and 8), separated by the beautiful trio op. 114, in which the violin is replaced by a clarinet. The performances of the former works was atypical in one respect: violinist Roman Totenberg was the most prominent of the soloists. Cellist George Neikrug was, predictably, overpowered more often than not, while Leonard Shure unhappily assumed the role of piano accompanist, doing his best to stay out of the way through most...