Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2004/02

From: "Larisa Duffy and David Dow" <duffyl@-----.sympatico.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] BBC Interview about Rhapsodie in Blue
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:34:39 -0500

RE: Gershwin gliss

From David Dow
Symphony NB

The finest recording I ever heard of this was a tape a freind had of
Marcellus playing it...it was done incredibly well and from quite lower from
the normal smear ending.

Sincerely
DD

Original Message -----
From: "Gary Van Cott" <gary@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] BBC Interview about Rhapsodie in Blue

> You can't blame Gershwin for these, at least not directly. He wrote the
> Three Preludes for piano.
>
> The gliss in Rapsody in Blue was created by Ross Gorman as a joke during
> rehearsal and Gershwin liked it so much he asked him to leave it in
> and add as much of a wail to the upper notes as possible. (Cambridge
> Music Handbooks: Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue by David Schiff, quoting Grofe
> in notes on page 102).
>
> Gary
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> At 06:09 AM 2/11/04, you wrote:
>
> >Collins sounds wonderful. The Gallidoro clip is better. I can see why
> >the old guy is a legendary player. What I'm a bit mystified about is why
> >I'm supposed to be surprised that the opening of Rhapsody is difficult.
I
> >didn't need Collins' explanation to at least sense that's involved. I
> >would think that unless you've thoroughly mastered the techniques of
> >maintaining fingering, embouchure, and the resulting tone during an
> >extended slur, you will sound like an idiot trying to play this
> >music. Gershwin must've hated the clarinet about as much as Giuseppe
> >Verdi hated dramatic sopranos: he wrote wonderfully for the clarinet but
> >nothing here is for the faint of heart or technically unsophisticated.
In
> >a moment of gross stupidity I once acquired the sheet music for the Three
> >Preludes. Forget #1 and #3: I don't even know the names of some of the
> >notes he wrote into those things. But even #2 puts demands of rhythm and
> >articulation on a player that make anyone less than fully schooled
> >technically sound they should go back to "Twinkle, twinkle." I don't
hear
> >music you grow into: you'd better have grown there before you pick it up.
> >
> >Ken
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