Andrew Gilpin, piano, and Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet, teamed up Saturday at the Olean High School auditorium to present a stylistically varied concert as Ebony and Ivory.

From the opening number, "Feast," by Bill Douglas, to the encore, "Summertime," by George Gershwin, the two performers acquitted themselves well in every respect.

The program was the second of five in the Friends of Good Music 2003-04 Concert Series.

The programming itself was nicely done, providing the audience opportunities to hear each artist featured as soloist for a piece as well as providing ensemble works.

In the former category, Mr. Jacobowitz delighted attendees with two Benny Goodman songs so well played as to be breathtaking. His fingers were incredibly fast and each note was produced with an astounding clarity. His style was impeccable and resulted in a rambunctious romp through the '40s which the audience happily soaked up.

Mr. Jacobowitz also performed on the E-flat clarinet as well as the alto saxophone. "Rag" by William Bolcom was especially written for the E-flat clarinet and was exceptionally well done by Mr. Jacobowitz.

It was impossible to tell the sound of the E flat horn from that of the regular, larger, B flat clarinet. Hats off to the artist for producing a beautifully rounded and full sound on an instrument that usually sounds thin and has intonation problems in the upper register.

The Piece with alto sax, "Dreams of You" by Dave McGarry, was performed with Mr. Gilpin playing his Korg keyboard. The sound was smooth and reminiscent of some numbers recorded by Kenny G. Noteworthy also was "Chassidic Dance" by Abraham Ellstein. This Klezmer song was well done by Mr. Jacobowitz.

Mr. Gilpin had his own turns at bat with two sets of solo works for piano alone. On the first half of the program he played three arrangements by Cy Walter, "Moon River," "Clap Yo' Hands" and "Heart and Soul," which showed how endlessly inventive jazz arrangers can be. The three pieces featured sweet roulades up to the top of the piano and really adventurous harmonies that stretched the fabric of the songs without breaking them.

The trio of Scott Joplin rags that Mr. Gilpin played on the second half of the program, "Maple Leaf Rag," "Solace" and "Magnetic Rag," were all played with a sentimentally light touch that Mr. Joplin himself was known to favor.

Maple Leaf Rag is usually pounded through by anyone with technique enough to play it without much regard for the fine compositional features that make the piece so nice to listen to when done in the true Joplin fashion. It was a real pleasure to hear the three so nicely done.

The finest performance of the concert came near the beginning with a truly fine rendition of the Poulenc "Clarinet Sonata." The piece requires the finest coordination between the pianist and the clarinetist in many tricky passages.

It requires precise tonal control from both artists in passages of the softest transcendent beauty. The clarinetist must produce a penetrating pianissimo for much of the second movement while the pianist shifts the chordal structure constantly around him.