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Article: From Brahms to Big Band; Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman & the Thundering Herd
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- The Washington Post
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- February 10, 1988
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Friday night at the Kennedy Center, classical clarinetist Richard
Stoltzman will perform with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd, thus
continuing a relationship that began four years ago when Herman
auditioned an unsuspecting Stoltzman at a New York jazz club.
"Frankly, I was quite nervous playing in a little jazz club,"
says Stoltzman, a 45-year-old Grammy Award winner who's more
accustomed to playing something by Brahms or Mozart before thousands
of people in a concert hall.
The atmosphere in the club was decidedly different, he recalls.
It was as if he were "stepping on hallowed ground," what with
pictures of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and other jazz greats
adorning the walls. ...