Clarinetist Garrick Zoeter performs with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Wagner - Armstrong Hall Winchester VA September 24, 2011
This work is a clarinet and string orchestra version made by Bill Douglas of the instrumental ballad Goodbye written for Benny Goodman by Gordon Jenkins. Goodman used this work as his broadcast sign off tune. This version was made for clarinetist Richard Stoltzman to play with string quartet as a memorial to Benny Goodman upon Goodman's sudden death in 1986.
I have always been a huge fan of Richard Stoltzman, thus I have "borrowed" many of the jazz inflections/additions he plays on his own recording of the work.
I performed this work as an encore preceded by the Copland Clarinet Concerto to be posted soon!
Very neat piece of work on the clarinet. Bravo
kimmr100 1 month ago