Klarinet Archive - Posting 000325.txt from 1999/10

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Orchestral karaoke (was: [kl] Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:38:19 -0400

Actually, I have this recording of Rhapsody In Blue, and it is fascinating!
It is NOT (as some of you have wondered) as gruesome as chopping up an old
recording and remastering it; it is a case of isolating the "piano" part in
the orchestration from the piano solo player piano roll. They have also used
the original orchestration (Gershwin's), which called for a jazz ensemble
instead of a standard orchestra.

Don't knock it 'til you've heard it!

-Scott

>Subject: [kl] Orchestral karaoke (was: [kl] Vienna Philharmonic at
>Carnegie
> Hall)
>Message-ID: <0.7bfc87fe.2530c910@-----.com>
>
>At 09:52 AM 10/8/1999 -0700, Kevin Fay wrote:
> >There is more than one "modern" recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
> >with the composer playing the solo part. It's actually an orchestra
> >following a player piano, whose roll was "punched" by the composer. (Or
>in
> >this case, de-composer!)
> >
> >Does this strike anyone else as really, really weird?
>
>Yeah, but this type of thing bothers me less than a fully modern "karaoke"
>performance, because it's a way of learning something from an historically
>important performance not otherwise available. When the performer is long
>dead and high-quality recordings don't exist, the piano roll actually isn't
>a
>bad substitute, as long as it's possible to determine the correct playing
>speed -- sometimes a tricky proposition, I gather! On the whole, however,
>I'd rather have a re-mastered piano roll recording of solo music, not
>something pasted together with a modern orchestra. That really is pretty
>weird.

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