Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 1997/04

From: Adam Calabrese <adam.calabrese@-----.GOV>
Subj: Re: Still more on Gershwin and glissando -Reply
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:48:30 -0500

At 08:31 AM 4/1/97 -0600, Ed Lacy wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, TRACY ANN MOORE wrote:
>
>> Like you, I am totally obsessed with this song ever since I first heard it
>> when I was a senior in high school.
>
>But......it isn't a _song_, is it? I have played it many times, and I
>don't ever remember hearing anyone singing????
>

Of course, Ed's right about Rhapsody in Blue. It isn't really a song. But
there is some Brahms piece marked sotto voce, and there is a "Song Without
Words" by that Mendelssohn fellow. So, singing isn't what necessarily makes
a "song." It's the style.

-Adam Calabrese
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899