Beno, the ninth of 12 children born to Russian-immigrant parents, would of course become Benny Goodman, and would perform some of the greatest music of the big-band or any other era. The clarinet's other notable high notes include 1771, when Mozart composed the first of his clarinet works, a divertimento, and 1920, when 11-year-old Beno Goodman first picked up the instrument in a Chicago tenement. (The fact that cold weather forced the musicians to finger-sync to their own recording hardly diminished the clarinet's star turn.) But the inauguration of Barack Obama raised the instrument's profile when Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, performed with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Gabriela Montero before a global television audience estimated at a billion viewers. In the hierarchy of musical instruments, the clarinet tends to get short shrift-at least compared with the violin, cello or piano. Goodman played the clarinet even "during the commercial breaks of the World Series," according to one of his daughters.
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