Instrumental Revolutionaries
With Richard Baker.
Crossover was hardly fashionable a century ago, but one of the musicians who made the crossing of musical boundaries respectable was the Chicago-born clarinettist Benny Goodman. Classically trained, he became an outstanding jazz specialist and then a brilliantly effective bandleader. Yet Goodman never lost his love for the classics and pioneered a number of concertos written specially for him. Including clarinet pieces by Mozart, Bartok, Irving Berlin and Morton Gould , and a complete performance of Copland's Clarinet Concerto. FACTSHEET: for a factsheet containing details of the music played this week, send an sae to [address removed]