Heroes & Heroines of Clarinettistry by Pamela Weston. Trafford Publishing, 2008, PB, 187 pages. This book contains a representative selection of articles written over a 40-year period by Pamela Weston. Fascinating information is revealed on best-known composer/clarinetist relationships such as Mozart with Anton Stadler, Weber with Heinrich Baermann, Spohr with Simon Hermstedt and Brahms with Richard Mühlfeld. Further subjects include the clarinetists of the French Revolution, Russia's clarinet dynasty, early 19th-century female performers, the great Finnish clarinetist Crussell whose diary tells of French Revolution events and a Napoleonic military parade, Verdi's clarinetist Cavallini who played for and was on familiar terms with the Tsar, the full stories of Stanford's concerto and Ireland's Fantasy-Sonata, and much more. (C1238)