Klarinet Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 2004/06

From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gershwin Glissando
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:37:17 -0400

Didn't Al Gallodoro (who is still living) work with the Whitman Orchestra-
Perhaps if someone asked him he could tell us more.

Fred

At 11:22 AM 6/5/2004, you 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... :-)
> >
> > Karl Krelove
>
>It is an accepted statement in textbooks that Gershwin worked closely with
>Russ Gorman, the remarkable multi-wind player of the Whiteman Orchestra, on
>this opening. The piano's limitations are exactly that, and should not be
>applied to the clarinet. See the preface to the MS holograph of the
>Rhapsody in Blue, published about 1985 by MCA.
>
>Robert Howe
>
>
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