Klarinet Archive - Posting 001170.txt from 1997/09

From: sue <ssipos@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Re: More questions
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:17:44 -0400

The CD you are talking about is all the pieces that Benny Goodman
commisioned. If my memory serves me write, Woody Herman did commission
the stravinsky at first, but did not have the funds to pay the full price,
so Benny Goodman took up the project.

Sue

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 Labadorf@-----.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 9/25/97 10:01:41 PM, you wrote:
>
> <<>I'm trying to find out all of the works that B. Goodman commissioned. Off
> >the top of my head, I have the Poulenc Sonata, Bartok Contrasts, and
> >Concertos by Copland, Hindemith and Milhaud. Any others?
> >>>
>
> I have a CD with Benny Goodman performing and composers conducting concertos.
> This recording was formerly release on vinal disk called "Meeting at the
> Summit" The CD adds the famous recording of Bartok Contrasts with Bartok at
> the piano and Joseph Zigetti playing violin.
>
> The other works on the recording are: Bernstein Prelude Fugue and Riffs,
> Stravinsky Ebony Concerto, Copland Concerto, Morton Gould Derivations for
> Band. This is not to say that they were all commissioned by Benny. I know
> the Stravinsky was commissioned by Woody Herman.
>
> I didn't know that Benny commissioned the Poulenc Sonata.
>
> Tom Labadorf
> Clarinetist, U. S. Coast Guard Band
> Adjunct Instructor, Connecticut College, New London CT
> Labadorf@-----.com
>