Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2004/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 06:35:05 -0400

At 09:22 PM 6/3/2004 -0400, Karl Krelove wrote:
>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... :-)

The original clarinetist was Ross Gorman. My sources disagree on whether
it was deliberately worked out between Gershwin and Gorman or the result of
an accident. What PROBABLY happened was that Gorman did some version of it
for kicks, Gershwin heard it, and they then spent quite a bit of time
working out the details from there. The original score does NOT say "gliss."

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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