Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto Pdf

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Realflight G3.5 Torrent more. On the upcoming 100th anniversary of 's birth, Fresh Air remembers one of jazz's greatest clarinetists and big-band leaders with excerpts from a 1985 interview. The legendary jazz bandleader began his career playing with dance bands when he was still a teenager.

Growing contemptuous of the bands' crowd-pleasing antics and trite music, he organized his own big band in 1938. Shaw rejected many of the pop tunes that had become dance-band staples and instead created his repertoire from originals and songs by composers such as, and.

In the 1930s and '40s, the Artie Shaw Orchestra ranked with the, Tommy Dorsey and bands in terms of popularity. In 1938, at its first recording session, the band made one of Shaw's most popular recordings, a song by Cole Porter called 'Begin the Beguine.'

Embed Shaw said that he wasn't quite sure why 'Begin the Beguine,' from Porter's flop musical Jubilee, achieved the lasting popularity that it did. 'I've played it probably thousands of times,' Shaw told Terry Gross in a 1985 interview. 'It got to the point where — it's fine to have a hit record, it pays rent — but it can drive you crazy, like an actor playing the same part. You know, a lot of actors don't mind that, but it can drive you nuts. And I got tired of that. I don't like being stereotyped.

So I made maybe 500 records — why 'Begin the Beguine'? All right, it's a good piece, a good arrangement. But my god, I don't want to be characterized as only 'Begin the Beguine.' You'd think it was all I ever did.' Shaw's early huge success also brought unexpected torments.

He temporarily left music altogether in 1949, frustrated with a performing career that he figured depended on '90 percent business and 10 percent art.' He made one of his returns to music in 1953, to lead a small group called the Gramercy Five, which featured the unusual combination of clarinet, harpsichord, electric guitar, bass and drums. Shaw disbanded the group after a year, began a 30-year retirement from music and permanently gave up playing clarinet. Interview Highlights On Picking 'Begin The Beguine' To Record 'I happened to get to the [Jubilee] theater on Friday and the show closed Saturday. And I heard that tune, and it was done in a kind of Latin beat, and I liked the melody. It was a hell of a good song.