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{{Short description|American saxophonist, clarinetist, and teacher}}
{{about|the American saxophonist and clarinetist who taught at the Juilliard School|the French Canadian fiddler|Joseph Allard (fiddler)|the Belgian politician|Joseph Gustave Ernest Allard}}
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'''Joseph Allard''' (December 31, 1910 – May 3, 1991) was a professor of [[saxophone]] and [[clarinet]] at the [[Juilliard School]], the [[New England Conservatory]], and the [[Manhattan School of Music]]. He also held adjunct positions at many other schools. He succeeded [[Vincent J. Abato]] as the saxophone instructor at Juilliard in 1956 and held that position until the end of the 1983–84 school year. Allard was the first saxophonist with the NBC staff orchestra in [[New York City]], and played on "[[The Voice of Firestone|Firestone Hour]]" and "[[The Bell Telephone Hour|Bell Telephone Hour]]" on TV and radio. He played with Red Nichols and the Five Pennies, played for a brief period with Red Norvo's orchestra, was the saxophone section coach for the [[Glenn Miller]] Orchestra and the [[Benny Goodman]] Orchestra, and played bass clarinet in the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] under [[Arturo Toscanini]] from 1949-54. He was a native of Lowell, MA.

Allard studied clarinet under [[Gaston Hamelin]] of the [[Boston Symphony]] and saxophone under Lyle Bowen, and taught many famous students, including [[Michael Brecker]], [[Eddie Daniels]], [[Bob Berg]], [[Dave Tofani]], [[Dave Liebman]], [[Paul Winter]], Jordan Penkower, Victor Morosco, [[Eric Dolphy]], Harvey Pittel, [[Col Loughnan]], [[Paul Cohen (saxophonist)|Paul Cohen]], [[Anders Paulsson]], Harry Carney and [[Kenneth Radnofsky]].

==References==
* [http://www.joeallard.org/ The Joe Allard Project]
* Debra McKim, "Joseph Allard: His Contributions to Saxophone Pedagogy and Performance," (DMA diss., University of Northern Colorado, 2000)
* James Dawson, "In Memoriam, Joseph Allard (1910–1991)," Saxophone Symposium 16, No. 4 (Fall 1991): 14–19.
* David Demsey, “The Saxophone at Juilliard,” Saxophone Journal 24, No. 6 (July 2000): 59–61.
* David Liebman, "Developing a Personal Saxophone Sound," (Medfield, MA: Dorn Publications, 1989).
* Paul Piersall, "Joe Allard," Saxophone Journal 13, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 12–22.

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