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Re: Rhapsody in Blue Opening

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Subject: Re: Rhapsody in Blue Opening
From: Adrian Drover <saxhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 21:11:46 +0100
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On 11 May, Cameron Mabon <cmabon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The original clarinet part was written as a scale, not a glissando, if I 
> remember correctly. The clarinet player with the Paul Whiteman orchestra 
> added the gliss on the top few notes at the first performance (much of 
> which, Gershwin improvised at the piano, incidentally).

If I remember correctly, the clarinet played a fingered gliss (diatonic or
chromatic, I'm not sure which) through the low chalumeau register as far
as the break, then a half holed and lipped gliss through the last octave
on the 2nd harmonics (clarino register).

Adrian

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