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...Favorite soloist: Clarinetist Goodman...
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...Goodman made a long-heralded appearance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as clarinet soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Mozart's rippling Concerto in A Major, Debussy's First Rhapsody. No one should have been surprised. Trained in his youth by a Chicago Symphony clarinetist, Franz Schoepp, Benny Goodman can tootle with the two or three best in the world. Critics could find little fault with his playing of Mozart and Debussy-unless it was a slight excess of refinement and dignity...
Mozart: Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra (Reginald Kell. clarinet, with Dr. Malcolm Sargent conducting the London Philharmonic; Victor: 8 sides). Limpid tootling of superb melodies. Clarinetist Goodman (above), slated to play this work with the New York...
...like Bix, and legends will tell of how be drank himself to death and of how he just played because he loved jazz and the hell with the money anyway. Finally, any statements to the effect that Benny might not have been the greatest, most moving, relaxed, sincere, inviolated clarinetist in the world, will automatically become anathema...