Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2004/06

From: "Larisa Duffy and David Dow" <duffyl@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gershwin Glissando
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:36:03 -0400


----- R Howe said...

> > 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... :-)
> >
> >

However, that being said, I think alot of German clarinet players go ahead
and do the scale version anyway...however, I prefer the "smear". as to
Beethoven...I still have alot of trouble with Szell at bar 520 to 524.

David Dow
symphony Nb

The clarinet is a like life...strangely hard to understand at times...

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