Klarinet Archive - Posting 000860.txt from 1999/11

From: klara hall <klahall@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] pitch bending and the Gershwin Blue Cadenza
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:08:34 -0500

Donald,

Thanks for the info. One of the libraries here used to have a recording
of that 1st Whitman performance, which was facinating to compare with
current orchestra version.

klara

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:55:06 -0500 Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
writes:
> Klara Hall:
>
> I recall having seen a print of the original Gershwin cadenza
> as premiered
> by the Paul Whiteman band in 1924. Gershwin's intent was a
> chromatic ascent to
> the top note. But Ross Gorman, the clarinet player,took the
> unbelievable
> liberty of making a prolonged glissando out of it with the net
> result the gliss
> was left in forevermore. I have also heard it played chromatically
> up to the
> break then glissed in the clarion register. For just the glissando
> you might
> try a softer reed on an open tip mp then switch back to your
> customary setup.
>
> Ferde Grofe' (Grand Canyon Suite) was a sideman with Whiteman at the
> time and
> is credited with the arrangement of R in B which Whiteman used for
> years.
> Since Whiteman commissioned the work from Gershwin and rushed him to
> get it
> done, references hold that Gershwin orchestrated the premier
> performance at
> Aeolian Hall in 1924 and played the piano part as well. This
> happened two
> years before I was born and needless to say I wasn't there. I do
> enjoy
> though, these anecdotal incidents in music history. All this may be
> nothing
> new but I thought I'd send it along. Can you imagine the colossal
> nerve of
> that clarinet player? But, I think of that glissando as a banner,
> emblematic
> of the jazz age. Good luck on yours!
>
> Donald Longacre
>
>
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