Benny Goodman even to use new fingering techniques. He had his old finger calluses removed and started to learn how to play his clarinet again—almost from scratch." Goodman commissioned compositions for clarinet and chamber ensembles or orchestra that have become standard pieces of classical repertoire. He premiered works by composers, such as "Contrasts" by Béla Bartók; "Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 115" by Malcolm Arnold; "Derivations for Clarinet and Band" by Morton Gould; "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" by Francis Poulenc, and "Clarinet Concerto" by Aaron Copland. "Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs" by Leonard Bernstein was commissioned for Woody Herman's big band, but
George Goodman (RAF officer) George Goodman (RAF officer) Flying Officer George Ernest Goodman (8 October 1920 – 14 June 1941), sometimes known as Randy or Benny Goodman, was a Royal Air Force flying ace of the Second World War who flew in the Battle of Britain as one of "The Few". Goodman is credited with 10 individual kills and six shared. Goodman was born in Haifa on 8 October 1920 to a British father, Sidney Charles Goodman, and Bida Lerner, a Turkish national of Jewish descent from Zikhron Ya'akov. He had two sisters, Winifred and Ellen. His parents were married in St Lukes Church