Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2010/05

From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Celebrity Clarinetists
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:58:53 -0400

A bit of interesting information on Steve Allen in the Benny Goodman story.
Sol Yaged taught him how to fake the fingerings for the movie. If any of you
don't remember Sol Yaged he was a jazz clarinet giant that never got enough
credit. It is worth searching down his records from the 60's/

Mike Vaccaro
www.MikeVaccaro.Com

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From: "Glenn Kantor" <klarinet@-----.net>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 2:50 PM
To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Celebrity Clarinetists

> Steve Allen's long radio and television career is legendary and his many
> innovations are still being felt in today's programming.
>
> As a composer he wrote well over 10,000 (yes 10,000) songs and earned a
> Grammy award for best jazz composition in 1963. He has two stars on the
> Hollywood Walk of Fame. He also wrote more than 50 books.
>
> A genius? I can't imagine one accomplishing a whole lot more in their
> life...
>
> BTW - He DID do the beginning clarinet sounds in The Benny Goodman Story,
> because Benny couldn't do it convincingly.
>
> ...Glenn B Kantor (GBK)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Celebrity Clarinetists
>
>
>> As I remember that awful movie, Steven Allen had no notion of what his
>> fingers were supposed to be doing when he played a carved up version of
>> the
>> last movement of K. 622. He just moved his fingers in an irrational way.
>>
>> Steve Allen a genius of the first division??? He was a talented piano
>> player maybe but there are damn few geniuses of the first division and he
>> was never anywhere near that class.
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>> dnleeson@-----.net
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
>> To: <klarinet@-----.com>
>> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 2:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Celebrity Clarinetists
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 7 May 2010 11:30:27 -0400, "Ray S Whitmore" <ray@-----.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I disagree that he actually played clarinet. He took enough lessons so
>>>> that
>>>> he would look like he was actually playing in the movie.
>>>
>>> Is that just an opinion, or do you have a reference? Steve Allen was a
>>> genius of the first division, and an incredibly talented musician. It
>>> would not surprise me at all to learn that he actually played those
>>> parts.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
>>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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