Word: clarinetist
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...Woody Allen, 37, the bespectacled funnyman who has schlemieled his way through a series of hit movies including Play It Again, Sam, is in dead earnest about playing Dixieland jazz. Allen has just begun his second year as a regular Monday-night combo clarinetist at Michael's Pub, a Manhattan swingles' waterhole. It happens that Woody's next movie Sleeper is about a clarinet player, but Director Woody decided not to give himself the part...
Norris Blake is a flamboyant turn-of-the-century newspaper correspondent in the Herbert Bayard Swope tradition. Sidney Benson is a modest mid-century schoolteacher clarinetist, separated husband and blocked novelist of the 1960s who floats on nostalgia rather than tradition. Blake is a character in Benson's novel-in-progress. Both are characters in Irvin Faust's fourth novel, Foreign Devils, a typically Faustian fiction that generates considerable warmth by rubbing heroic fantasies against drab realities...
BROWN HALL. (New England Conserv). Victor Sawa, clarinetist, in recital...
Only two bands made up of New Qrleans old-timers still remain. They're both based at Preservation Hall, on St. Peter Street just off Bourbon, and so many of their members have died in recent years that the two bands have to share their trombonist, clarinetist, and drummer. These ancient jazzmen play with the vigor they must have had in the barrelhouse saloons and honky-tonks where they played in the twenties. But nowadays they go on tour and play at Lincoln Center and at Symphony Hall, where they were March...
...pleasing contrast to all of this was the lucid, sensitive playing of clarinetist Harold Wright in the best of the three compositions performed. Here was a performer who cared enough not only to master the technical problems for his own instrument, but also to bring forth some sense of the compositional beauty of the music at hand: Brahm's 'honorable mention' for the evening. Dynamic markings were tastefully observed; phrases were si un out to their intended length, and, quite often in dialogue with the cello, passed gracefully to Neikrug, who, taking the opportunity to be heard, broke the continuity...