[78-L] Larry Adler anecdote

[Stephen Davies]

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To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
From: Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC
Date: 12/05/2008 11:09PM
Subject: Larry Adler anecdote


In a Time magazine review (1941-may-26), we learn these anecdotes

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765648,00.html

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Larry Adler buys standard $4.50 harmonicas by the hundreds, blows their
brass "reeds" out of tune in no time. He broke a tooth in tootling Maurice
Ravel's Bolero for a Columbia record which became a best seller in Europe
and the U.S.

Composer Ravel, who objected violently to the way some conductors (notably
Maestro Toscanini) played his piece, took Larry Adler's drastic treatment
of it meekly, asked him simply: "Why don't you play it all?"
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Stephen D
Calgary
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