Georges Grisez

[1] He also played with the New York Chamber Music Society, New York Philharmonic, the Letz Quartet, the Grisez Woodwind Quintet, and the Georges Longy Club (based on a similar Parisian wind ensemble organized by Paul Taffanel).

He performed the Brahms Clarinet Quintet with the Letz Quartet in the 1921 Maverick Concerts.

[1] In the last years of his life, Grisez joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as principal.

He died during a 1946 Baltimore concert, shortly after performing the clarinet glissando at the beginning of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

[3] His successor as principal, Ricardo Morales, noted that the piece is "one of the scariest to play" for the first clarinetist.