Klarinet Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 2003/09

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Artie Shaw donates clarinets to Smithsonian
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:27:33 -0400

Here's an item in Anne Schroeder's "Names and Faces" column, in the
Washington Post Style Section, p. C3, for Friday, August 29, 2003:

>Artie Shaw, the legendary jazz clarinet player, made a
>rare public appearance yesterday to donate two instruments
>to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History,
>reports The Post's Jacqueline Trescott. And they aren't
>just any clarinets. They are the ones Shaw, now 93,
>played on his historic 1938 recording of "Begin the Beguine."
>
>Shaw attended the ceremony near his home outside Los
>Angeles and showed that, even though frustrated by the
>hearing and vision loss that have come with aging, he is
>still feisty. "I'm still alive," he said, when asked about the
>difference between him and Benny Goodman. And he's found
>a way to discourage young musicians from sending him
>material: "I don't send you mine," he said.
>[snip]
>At the ceremony, David M. Fields, a museum board member,
>presented Shaw the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal.

There's a photo of Shaw with the article, and he does have a feisty look on
his face. I should only look that good at 93. The article doesn't mention
what brand these two clarinets are.

Lelia Loban
E-mail: lelialoban@-----.net
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