Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2004/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:24:48 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:ormondtoby@-----.net]
>
> Malapropisms and verbal flubs aside, this detour of the original thread
> revolves around the original statement that a piano can't play a
> glissando --- which is a statement that I accepted at first; but now
> that I've read a few dictionaries, it appears that the reverse is true!
>
Well, without wanting to beat an already tired horse to death, when I said
that a piano couldn't play a glissando, I meant it, the more general and
broadly accurate definition notwithstanding, in reference to the clarinet
"smear" that had been under discussion - that the piano couldn't do the
opening of Rhapsody In Blue the way the clarinet has by tradition been
expected to play it ever since Ross Gorman (thanks, Bill Hausmann). I said
it somewhat tongue-in-cheek in response to an earlier complaint that a
European recording "sucked" because the clarinetist played "just a scale."
My point, not very earthshaking, was simply that "just a scale" is the way
the passage had originally been conceived and is, in fact, the way
subsequent statements of the theme that are approached.

Karl

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