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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-07-09 19:09
Glad to see he didn't need a piano to lean against and keep his "drink" on while he played as he did when he performed with us several years later. As a kid, he was my hero, I took up the clarinet because I wanted to play like him but turned out I couldn't play jazz at all so I guess I had to settle for becoming a classical musician, worked out pretty well though. ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2011-07-10 02:38
Have to disagree with the Harold Wright crack. Firstly, I don't see anyone who even looks like Wright. Secondly, Wright never played with the Pops (that I know of). And Thirdly, this rendering of the Concertino is miles ahead of the recording Goodman did with the CSO and would not have caused any clarinet player to take issues with the performance.
Goodman is STILL my hero.
........................Paul Aviles
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2011-07-10 12:48
This is definitely Pasquale Cardillo, who played second in the BSO (initially he was asst. principal/E-flat) and was principal in the Pops.
It is not Wright.
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2011-07-10 15:39
I like his playing here. Right from the start...there is nuance and control. He is very solid rhythmically during the performance but also takes some liberties to free things up. He has big full sound but also plays delicately. Benny did a great job here.
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2011-07-10 15:53
How old is Benny in this video? I'm going right to the practice room now!
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-07-10 17:19
>>There was a guy who didn't need early retirement!>>
Interesting how many clarinet players don't need early retirement. I wonder whether playing clarinet helps keep people healthy or whether only people born with good cardiovascular equipment can learn to play pro-level clarinet in the first place. Maybe the answer is: both.
Thanks for the links, S.H.J. and GBK!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017
Date: 2011-07-10 17:49
In the late 60's, when I was playing second clarinet in the Tulsa Philharmonic, it was announced at the beginning of one of the seasons that Goodman would be a guest soloist that year and that he would play the Nielsen. We in the clarinet section were looking forward to it but were not really surprised at the program
change, very close to the first rehearsal for that concert, which replaced the Nielsen by the second Weber concerto.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2011-07-10 18:33
May not need early retirement, but the hearing does get worse, and worse in the older years. So a bad tone might not be heard well. Those sentiments (not in those words, but the meaning is the same) were told to me by Gigliotti, and he gave examples.
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2011-07-10 19:29
You might not hear the upper partials as strongly so as a result you compensate to bring these out. I don't hear this in Benny's playing.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2011-07-10 20:46
I stand by my identification of Harold Wright in this video (at 6:05). I realize that he was not the regular Pops principal, but compared with my own photos of (my old colleague) "Buddy"-- especially the hairline and "Bob Hope" proboscis -- I am dead certain that this was not Patsy Cardillo. I'm not able to identify the second clarinetist -- definitely not Manny Valerio who would normally have played in the Pops. Bass clarinet is Felix "Phil" Viscuglia.
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2011-07-10 21:21
The second clarinetist is Peter Hadcock.
I also stand by my ID of Patsy, so we need a tie-breaker!
Somewhere on Youtube there is a clip of Tchaik 5 with both of them playing. I think this will positively ID both players.
You *are* correct about Viscuglia.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2011-07-12 14:42
Jimmy Noone--died of a heart attack, age 48
Johnny Dodds--died of heart attack, age 48
Irving Fazola--died of heart attack, age 36
Definitely possible to become a top level clarinetist bad heart health, though it makes life and gigging miserable.
I've often wondered about Johnny Dodds in particular who was hampered by bad health for a decade or so before his death--I'll bet his heart was troubling him for quite a long time, but I haven't really looked into it that deeply.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: JEG ★2017
Date: 2011-07-12 23:24
The clarinets were Cardillo, Hadcock and Viscuglia. I started studying with Cardillo in 1974 and saw him and Wright on TV many times. It's definitely Cardillo on this clip.
Cardillo mentioned to me that once while on tour he became ill and Wright had to sub for him in a Pops concert, but Cardillo was the regular principal in the Pops for many years.
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Author: graham
Date: 2011-07-22 15:54
It's a slow account but a nice whimsical one. Good sound too
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