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Celebrating the King Of Swing at Yale

Author: TomD
Date: 2009-09-24 16:16

There is a week long celebration of Benny Goodman who would have been 100 this year going on at Yale. On Tuesday, I saw "The Classical Legacy Of Benny Goodman" at Sprague Hall. David Shifrin was the artistic director for this event which featured different classical works that Benny had recorded over the years. Each work featured a different guest clarinetist, most of whom studied under Shifrin at one point. All of the clarinetists were amazingly good. The evening ended with Shifrin doing the Copland Clarinet Concerto with a "Mini" orchestra of about 24 musicians. David sounded great and the amazing thing is that there was no conductor and they stayed together perfectly. I looked like David was playing a Buffet Tosca. The last I knew, he was playing a Yamaha CSG.

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