“Contrasts,” Bartók’s three-part suite for clarinet, violin and piano was commissioned in 1938 by Benny Goodman and violinist ... and Bulgarian folk music and the American jazz that was ...

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews ... One of the regulars who jammed at the club was teenage clarinet prodigy Benny Goodman. Gene teamed up with the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans for a ...

One day last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through ... There were screams after Benny’s first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy’s five choruses in Sing, Sing ...

For this episode, we shine a light on Benny Goodman’s clarinet--the instrument that was single-handedly responsible for the creation of Carnegie Hall’s Rose Museum. To understand its significance to ...

They’re here for Benny Goodman ... it didn’t wear out the clarinet-heavy Schultz songbook. Taking advantage of new technology, such as replacing paper sheet music with tablets.

Gene Autry’s 1949 holiday hit “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Patti Page’s 1950 smash “Tennessee Waltz" and the Benny Goodman Sextet's 1939 recording ... list — Page sold a million copies of sheet ...

Benny Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist, songwriter, musician, and bandleader. His music genre comprised Jazz and swing ... The song has a great sense of longing and nostalgia. The clarinet ...

embracing everything from Bach to Benny Goodman and Telemann to tango with stops along the way to enjoy the music of a vast range of well and unjustly less-renowned composers – dead and alive.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light ... big bands led by Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. During that era, Freeman and ...