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...music world - New York City Center's Lincoln Kirstein, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, Clarinetist Benny Goodman - also commission music for their own use. Among the increasing number of people who commission music for private purposes: a Philadelphia lady who commissioned a piece in memory of her dog. Standard fees: about $1,000 for a symphony, $2,500 for an opera...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Clarinetist Benny Goodman...
...dingy old open-air Casino for the first-night concert. There was a clear moon overhead as Oldtimer Eddie Condon, a little ill at ease in all the fresh air, stamped his foot four times and swung into Muskrat Ramble, sweeping along his bang-up Dixieland outfit, including Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, Pianist Ralph Sutton. The music was hot, and the crowd warmed to it with shouts...
...shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer. "Now how can one say who is best among different categories? Can you compare an orange and a bicycle? Can one say which is better? They were all good young artists." Piatigorsky insisted that each contestant get a prize. The outcome...
...little band began to perk up. Vibraphonist Joe Roland bent over his instrument like a chef over a hot stove. Guitarist Tal Farlow, who had gazed vaguely into space as he played, began to take an interest in the way his fingers rambled up & down the fingerboard. Clarinetist Shaw began to interpolate light-hearted musical comments on his own flights-the raised eyebrow of a grace note, the shrugging arpeggio, the delayed take, the impudent echo. His glum face relaxed into smiles, and the crowd began to hear the new Artie Shaw...