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...statement throughout the show. Bonnets, capes, shawls, top hats, and vests were abundantly on display; all actors were impeccably clad in plain, plaid, and floral patterns.The production’s truly carefree live music was provided by the Mellstock Band and Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble. From oboe beats to clarinet trills, the players are adept at creating a joyful, holiday mood with their modern and old-fashioned musical instruments. One of the main debates over tradition and change in the show emerges from the addition of a new musical instrument to the church’s store of objects: some...
...Movements” was next, continuing the feeling of locomotion that “Flying Machine” had established. Despite shaky intonation at the beginning of the piece, the orchestra played with appropriately dry, exact rhythm, supported by the remarkably pure tone of the French horns. The first clarinet (Billy T. Marks ’11) delivered a nuanced solo, and the orchestra maneuvered quick changes from quick rhythmic jabs to charming, almost sarcastic melodic sections. The second movement began with a sweet, floating melody, with sparkling duets from the flutes and oboes. Later, the mood changed...
...well articulated by the brass section for a clean end. Like his “Lohengrin,” Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” is also a story about love. The muted sound of the overture’s opening in the clarinet melody evoked a prayer-like feeling. However, the performance failed to build on this. At times, Sakir was able to lift the brass line above the lush strokes of two-note slurs in the strings for a regal effect. But the musical lines frequently stopped before...
...nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled twelve-year-old in short pants, union card or no union card. ''Keep away from the instruments, kid!'' they shouted. ''Get off the boat!'' Undaunted, the lad took out his horn and started to play. Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined Bix Beiderbecke's band. From that humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons...
...Modern Jazz Quartet. Later he would denigrate rock, even though, in his ability to inspire mass mania, he had been a prototypical rock star. He always seemed uneasy at being pigeonholed, and made a point of emphasizing his classical bona fides. He performed and recorded Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings with the Budapest String Quartet in the '30s, and commissioned both Bela Bartok's knotty Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano and Aaron Copland's perky Clarinet Concerto, among other works. Ever aloof, Goodman was hard to get to know. ''I remember we'd be talking, you know...