Abstract
A new work by Béla Bartók for violin, clarinet and piano has been announced. During his visit to London a few weeks ago we had the opportunity of learning from Szigeti, who will take part in the first performance, some details of this work and the unusual circumstances of its origin. It was commissioned by Benny Goodman, a virtuoso clarinetist long recognised in America as a “King of Swing.” Benny Goodman's recordings of “hot” music sell by the thousand, and if he has not yet achieved the distinction accorded to Shirley Temple and Freddie Bartholomew of having a League formed in his honour, at least his “fans” are legion. Some of us, perhaps, have not yet fathomed the mysterious depths of “swing,” but that other branch of the art which swingers dub “classical” at least holds no terrors for Benny Goodman, who recently made a recording of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet—which, we hope, will also sell by the thousand.
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