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Goodman's mistakes in Copland?

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2023-04-12 01:42

I know of three recordings of Benny Goodman playing the Copland Clarinet Concerto:

1. Radio Braodcast from 1950 conducted by Fritz Reiner
2. Columbia Strings 1963 recording conducted by Copland
3. This TV recording, also conducted by Copland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1XEYODmy0A

There are times when Goodman deviates from the published score (eg. an octave transposition in bar 371), which I can understand made it easier to play. In the live recordings he makes the occasional small fluff here and ther, which is understandable in a live performance setting. What I cannot understand is that, in all three recordings, Goodman plays written C (sounding B-flat) in bars 413 and 415. In all the Boosey publications (full score and piano score) this is clearly a written C-flat.

Surely Copland, who was so careful in his note choices as a composer, would have heard these C naturals and corrected Goodman if they were wrong?

Does anyone know where the manuscript score is kept? In my search I have only been able to find the first and subsequent Boosey editions.

The most recent Boosey edition also includes the original notes in the bars which were "too difficult for Benny Goodman", and which Copland changed for the first edition. But no mention is made of the deviation of notes in bars 413 and 415.

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