Klarinet Archive - Posting 001188.txt from 1998/07

From: gene keyes <gene@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fiddler on the Roof
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:42:35 -0400

At 08:19 AM 7/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>The original cast recording did not include the Bottle Dance because of
>>space limitations...it had been recorded with the cast album but not
>>released. With the coming of compact discs......the extra space allowed
>>for the addition of several track....one of course was the "Bottle
>>Dance"....the other , I believe was "The Rumor" The original book
>>contained a great deal of Eb..........I understand that this was eliminated
>>inthe rental version...there was also a couple of tunes on
>>flute.........they were all cut from the show during the break-in period
>>and the only flute that remained was about 16 bars in Sunrise
>>Sunset......Eventually, I just transposed those bars to
>>Clarinet.............anyway, I hope this has been some help..........gk
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>>Gene Keyes
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>I just got mt "new" recording of the original cast album in the mail last
>week and never thought to look to see if there were "extras" (my old vinyl
>disk is warped and scratched)! Sure enough, the Wedding Dance and The Rumor
>are on it! "Fiddler" was the first (of two!) shows I ever saw on Broadway
>(I was eight), so I guess I did hear Gene play without realizing it! (Paul
>Whiteman was starring at the time - does this date it for you?!) Can't wait
>to listen to it again!
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>-Scott
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>hi Scott.............I think you mean Paul Lipson....Paul Whiteman was
the band leasder who did the first performance of Rhapsody in Blue with
George Gershwin...........still dates me by a few years......Interesting
sidelight though...........It seems that Gershwin and I were born in the
same house in Brooklyn (actually, I was born in the hospital but my family
lived in the house at the time.............my grandfather apparently bought
the house either from the Gershwins or from the owner of the house (the
gershwins might have rented) after the Gershwin family moved to the lower
east side of Manhattan...............We found out about this in the late
1950s...after our family sold the house and we had moved.....interesting
coincidence that you should come up with Paul Whiteman...................
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"The girl that can't dance says the band can't play"
Yiddish Proverb

Gene Keyes
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