Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2004/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:23:28 -0400

>
> I know of a number of professional colleagues who cannot play a gliss to
> save there souls...there was an old Leizig Gewandhaus record of
> the Gershwin
> and there was no gliss..just a scale. Man did that one suck!
>
I've read more than once that this (just a scale) is the way Gershwin
intended it - that the first actual glissando treatment of the Rhapsody
opening originated half tongue-in-cheek (not literally) as the principal
clarinetist in the Whiteman orchestra (I forget his name at the moment) was
fooling with it at a rehearsal for the premier. After all, the pianist can't
do it that way... :-)

Karl Krelove

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