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Author: DAVE
Date: 2003-03-17 05:40
I did a search on ML and amongst the endless chatter of reeds, reeds, and more reeds was a post about ML playing in film scores. But the post did not mention which films.
thanks,
DAVE
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Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2003-03-17 10:59
To mention but a few, just from the 60's!:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dr. Zhivago
The Man With the Golden Arm
The Apartment
Irma La Douce
The Fortune Cookie
Mary Poppins
The Jungle Book
The Parent Trap
These are just a few titles from literally hundreds of films, cartoons, jingles, etc. He played for three decades in the most important studios and recording orchestras in town while also carrying on a substantial schedule with the top chamber music series and recordings in and around L.A.
He was simply as distinguished a clarinetist as there was (pupil of Bonade), arriving in his native L.A. in 1949 after having played principal clarinet for Fritz Reiner in Pittsburgh and then in Chicago.
After having left Chicago over 50 years ago (!) for his preferred home of L.A, he has been and still is still spoken of by present and former colleagues with the Chicago Symphony as the creme de la creme of clarinetists.
There's a beautiful tribute to his artistry in the Dec. 2001 issue (Vol. 29, No. 1) of the Clarinet. His picture is on the cover. If you don't have it, you will get to know this wonderful artist and man through Ron Samuels' superbly written article. It also lists several other recordings at the end of the article.
I studied with him while in high school one summer and one summer while in college at California's beautiful Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara (we're both native Californians - I being from nearer San Francisco).
A wonderful teacher and dear friend to me...and to the entire worldwide clarinet community.
Gregory Smith
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Author: Stoops
Date: 2003-03-18 03:14
Greg-
Would he have also recorded some of the Hitchcock soundtracks? Or other Hermann stuff?
I must say that his Brahms quintet is one of my favorite recordings ever.
Meighan
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Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2003-03-18 15:32
It is possible. I will be seeing him in June and perhaps can shed a little more light on some more movie scores...those that may feature him in particular.
He recorded the Brahms/Mozart Quintets while in his 70's as well as the Hindemith Quartet...a sensational piece given a truly spectacular performance.
His recording (now defunct) of the Ingof Dahl Concerto a tre with his fellow studio musicians from 1950 is also a must listen. It was recorded in a small studio in mono but I've had the original LP remastered to on CD for myself through software that improved the prescence, dynamic range, and imaging. The clarinet playing and the ensemble's tightly woven, authentic to the score interpretation is absolutely superb. What a fine piece!
Gregory Smith
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Author: Wes
Date: 2003-03-19 01:47
Yes, he was an inspiring teacher. In the middle 50s when I studied with him, he was on staff to RKO but RKO was not doing much. Thus, he seemed to have time to teach. Thank you for the idea to put his record on CD. Since I have a like new copy of the record, I'll have to copy it. I still play every day the mouthpiece that I bought from his house, an M3.
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