Artie Shaw – Concerto For Clarinet (with Piano Accompaniment)

Description

Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet for solo clarinet with piano accompaniment, published by Consolidated Music Publishers.

Featured in the AMEB Clarinet Syllabus – A.Mus.A

About this Composition

Concerto for Clarinet is a composition for clarinet and jazz orchestra by Artie Shaw. The piece ends with a legendary altissimo C. The piece is a “pastiche” thrown together out of some boogie-woogie blues, clarinet-over-tomtom interludes, a commonplace riff build-up towards the end, all encased in opening and closing virtuoso cadenzas for the leader’s clarinet.

Shaw and his orchestra performed the piece in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus (1940), in which Shaw played himself.