Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2005/01

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Rhapsody in Blue Gliss
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:56:28 -0500

Bryan Crumpler wrote:

> But my current teacher claims glissing the entire opening passage of
> the Rhapsody is wrong - european classical thinking perhaps.

What justification does he give for this?

I seem to remember someone mentioning to me that Jack Brymer played the
passage completely smeared, but I might be wrong.

Of course, there can be something nice about the transition from
diatonic to glissando---an accelerating diatonic that "melts" into a
smear... It might be more musically interesting than a full slide. But
I would try it full-smear, and see how it comes off.

-- Joe

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