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...parts of a machine. A symphony orchestra in good running order has from 28 to 34 violinists, from twelve to 14 viola players, from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony orchestra without a kettledrummer, for instance, is about as helpless...
...summer of 1922 a dark, brush-headed trap drummer named Gene Bertram Krupa, not long out of a Catholic college, heard Drummer Ben Pollack's band play in a Chicago hotspot. What struck him most about Ben Pollack's outfit was the playing of Pollack's clarinetist, a sober, scholarly-looking chap named Benny Goodman. Twelve years later Drummer Krupa joined Clarinetist Goodman's own orchestra and rode to fame with that rising organization...
...Second Clarinetist...
...Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra, of which I was second clarinetist and bass clarinetist for several seasons, presented Dark Dancers in concert Feb. 5, 1935, Mr. Cadman at the piano. The music was of course played from manuscript. On each sheet, the title was written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night...
...inquisitive Second Clarinetist Muenchow, a mild rebuke for steaming off Composer Cadman's title. Julia Mood Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize Scarlet Sister Mary, a somewhat less scandalous book than the title led the Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra to believe, inspired Composer Cadman to write Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. After he had watched a New Orleans Mardi Gras he rewrote it, keeping the theme but less than half of the actual music of the original...