New Studies for Clarinet by Louis DeSantis edited by Russell Harlow. ClarinetCentral, 2003, SS, 39 pages. Clarinetist Louis DeSantis (1893-1940) was born and studied in Italy then immigrated to the United States in 1912. He played Chicago Civic Opera and the Saint Louis, Cleveland, Philadelphia and CBS Symphony Orchestra before being killed in a tragic traffic accident in 1940. This book was originally published in the 1920s and has been corrected by the editor based on the author's copy of this book which was in the possession of his family. It is primarily known for the "Paraphrasic Exercises" on Thomas "Mignon" Clarinet Cadenza, the first cadenza of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Tchaikovsky's Scherzo from Symphony No. 4, and Rimsky-Korsakoff's Clarinet Cadenza from "le Coq d'Or". It also includes a Daily Exercise through all major and minor keys, a long trill exercise, and concludes with two Duettinos (one player starts at the beginning and the other at the end and plays the music backwards). (C1286)