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Begin the Beguine (Remastered) Benny Goodman - Topic 19.3K subscribers Subscribe 2.4K Share Clip Save 131,884 views  Jul 8, 2018 Provided to YouTube by Zebralution GmbH Begin the Beguine (Remastered) · Benny Goodman Collection of the Best Big Bands - Benny Goodman, Vol. 2 ℗ 1944 Victor P-146 Released on: 2018-02-04 Composer: C. Porter Lyricist: C. Porter Music  Publisher: Copyright Control Auto-generated by YouTube.

by  Maureen Buja , Interlude    Benny Goodman, 1942 After having made his name in jazz, clarinetist Benny Goodman set out to make his name in classical music, feeling that he was likely to leave a longer impression in classical music than in jazz. To fill that need, he started commissioning works, with the net result being a body of modern music for clarinet that is unmatched. Szigeti, Bartók and Goodman in rehearsal His first commission was undertaken to help a music who was having financial problems. In 1938, at the instigation of the violinist Jozsef Szigeti, Benny Goodman commissioned  Béla Bartók  for a double concerto for clarinet and violin. Bartók, Szigeti, and Goodman made their premiere at Carnegie Hall in January 1939 with a work entitled  Rhapsodies for Clarinet and Violin: Verbunkos and Sebes . The trio recorded the work in 1940 after Bartók had written a new middle movement. It had a new title:  Contrasts , based on Bartók’s feeling that ...

For a kid who liked jazz, Chicago was a great town to grow up in. Musicians had begun working their way north from New Orleans about the turn of the century, and by the early 1920s giants like "Jellyroll" Morton, Sidney Bechet, "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong were playing in Chicago and making history. Kids who paid attention to this development were going to make history themselves in a few more years - Bud Freeman, Davie Tough, Eddie Condon, Milt Mesirow (Mezz Mezzrow), Gene Krupa, "Muggsy" Spanier, Jimmy McPartland, Jess Stacy - and a kid in short pants who played the clarinet. Benny Goodman was only 10 when he first picked up a clarinet. Only a year or so later he was doing Ted Lewis imitations for pocket money. At 14 he was in a band that featured the legendary Bix Beiderbecke. By the time he was 16 he was recognized as a "comer" as far away as the west coast and was asked to join a California-based band led by another Chicago...