Klarinet Archive - Posting 000481.txt from 2002/01

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Taking Up Clarinet Again--Wondering If Anyone Here
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:41:57 -0500

At 08:10 PM 1/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>In the '50's he played live every morning w/a small band on the Jack Sterling
>Show (CBS radio).

I cannot say I remember your father by name or by music, but I DO remember
the Sterling show from when I was a kid. I think it was on WCBS-AM and
went on the air at 5:30 every weekday morning. It strikes me as absolutely
unique now because it had a live band. For whatever reason, I remember the
trombone player was Tyree Glenn. Did Sterling himself play an
instrument? I can't remember that either. I DO recall I used to get up
occasionally at 5:30 during the summer of 1958 when I was a volunteer clerk
at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York just to listen to that show
every morning.

Ken

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unchanging essence, when they're gone from us, when we take into ourselves
their portions of them still available to us, to acknowledge them more
perfectly, more purely, and do homage to the fugitive, protean forms of
love of, and love from."--C.K. Williams, "Misgivings"

Kenneth
Wolman
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