Ben goldberg biography

"We awaken in the poem. How did we come there? ...Indeed, we came there because the straight way was lost"

-- Allen Grossman, from Summa Lyrica

I'd like to try to write something about the ongoing story.

 Of course it overlaps with stuff elsewhere on this website (for example, the part about New Klezmer Trio below is taken from my essay New Klezmer Trio and the Origins of Radical Jewish Culture) so if you're curious and have a minute please glance around.

TRAINING AND EARLY EXPERIENCE

My mother played the clarinet through college.

 When I was little it was pretty much kept in a drawer, but I would ask her to take it out and play for me.

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It was an old Noblet.  I liked how it looked in the case, and the smell of old wood and cork grease, and I liked the sound.  In fourth grade when Dr. Willie Hill came around and asked who wanted to play an instrument, the Noblet became mine.