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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 -- ____ _ _ / \ _| (_)___ _____ ADRIAN DROVER | () / _ | / _ \_( ___/ INNOVATIVE ORCHESTRAL SERVICES |__/\__\___|_\___/____) http://www.gemscore.demon.co.uk/ Business: adios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Personal: adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Glasgow, Scotland) -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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