Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-10-11 13:43
From the posting cited by John Taylor:
"I also wish I could say I'd heard [the opening run from Rhapsody in Blue] performed by my teacher, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's first-chair clarinetist, Vincent Melidon.... I still have the old B-flat Selmer Mr. Melidon sold my mother, but unfortunately the only thing that rubbed off on me was cork grease. Besides, if he ever played the Gershwin run during his DSO years, it probably wasn't on my instrument, since he would've used an A clarinet for his orchestral work."
Ken Shaw
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