Idyllwild Arts Foundation benefit concert, 1948-04-24

Idyllwild Arts Foundation benefit concert, Bovard Auditorium, University Avenue [later 3551 Trousdale Parkway], University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1948 April 24, 8:30 p.m. Benny Goodman, clarinet; Ingolf Dahl, piano; American Art Quartet (Eudice Shapiro, 1st violin; Marvin Limonick, 2nd violin; Virginia Majewski, viola; Victor Gottlieb, violoncello); Max T. Krone, commentary. Broadcast by KUSC. ❧ CONTENTS: String quartet, K. 195, E-flat minor [sic, i.e. major] (2 violins, viola, violoncello) / Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf -- Concertino [Concerto a tre] (clarinet, violin, violoncello) (1947) (first performance) / Ingolf Dahl -- String quartet, op. 10, G minor / Claude Debussy -- Concert piece [Concertstück] (clarinet, piano) (1946) / Raymond Gallois-Montbrun -- Clarinet quintet, K. 581, A major / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- First recital of songs for the night (partial program from a different concert: [a sea shanty sung by a male vocalist with piano] (fragment) -- [a slow song sung by a male vocalist with piano] (fragment) -- [piano music] (fragment)). ❧ Announced in "Benny Goodman, clarinetist, will play benefit" Los Angeles Times (1948 April 18): p. III:6 [also announced but not on the program performed was a Stamitz Quartet for clarinet and strings; instead the Dittersdorf was performed]. ❧ Announced in "King of swing will premiere music by Dahl" Daily Trojan (1948 April 23): p. 1. See http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll104/id/64790 ❧ Reviewed in Albert Goldberg "Goodman's clarinet heard with quartet" Los Angeles Times (1948 April 26): p. I:18.