Скачать или смотреть Stephen Williamson plays Benny Goodman's clarinet at the Carnegie Hall Rose Archives

While visiting Carnegie Hall on tour earlier this week, CSO principal clarinet Stephen Williamson had the opportunity to visit the Susan W. Rose Archives and play a very special instrument: a clarinet owned by the “King of Swing,” Benny Goodman. Goodman made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1938, leading one of the first racially integrated groups to perform for a paying audience and marking the first time that swing music was presented in a seated concert hall.

Enjoy this video of Williamson performing an excerpt from Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto — originally composed for Goodman — on the historic instrument.

Interested in learning more? Check out episode six of Carnegie Hall’s podcast, “If This Hall Could Talk,” which explores Goodman’s impact on music history through the lens of this very special instrument – available wherever you get your podcasts.

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