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
Course of Empire (band) The band released their first single/EP, "Infested", ahead of the "Initiation" album in 1993. The single featured two new songs, "Joy" and "Let's Have A War" (a cover of a song by Fear), as well as a "Darwin Goodman" remix of "Infested" – Darwin from naturalist/evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin and Goodman from legendary big band clarinetist Benny Goodman. The remix sampled Goodman's performance of swinger Louis Prima's big band standard "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" and featured a different, swing-inspired drumbeat. In 1995, producer John Fryer (Nine Inch Nails, Gravity Kills) was tapped to produce their third record, "Telepathic