Klarinet Archive - Posting 000687.txt from 1999/09

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Composed for Benny Goodman
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:52:45 -0400

on 9/20/99 8:10 AM, Tony Pay wrote:

>> Since its first performance on the television show, "What Is Jazz?"
>> (1955) by Bernstein and Goodman, it has been unperformed, most
>> probably because of its very special requirements of the "big band"
>> sound, a phenomenon that more or less died out with World War II."
>
>But it's been done a few times since, I imagine. I heard Jorge play it
>in Caracas this year.

I played it three times here in Richmond with our last Music Director,
George Manahan, at the piano.

Tony, I hear ya re: the fees. They were good here - no one knew what an
easy gig it was!

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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