[78-L] Autographs

[Cary Ginell]

Mark Horowitz looked for "Blue Monday" for me at the LOC, but couldn't find anything. We ended up reprinting an out-of-print version of the Bassman edition that we had in our archives.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:12:50 -0500
> From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Autographs
> 
> Cary,
> 
> I have never seen it, but it exists, I thought at the Library of Congress.
> It has been written about and discussed; I'm almost sure in an article by
> the late Mark Tucker on the orchestrator of that version, Will Vodery, and
> also in the latest Gershwin bio by Howard Pollack.
> 
> The Bassman version was prepared for a television performance from the
> mid-50s, I believe on Monitor. I once held a reel of 16MM film which was a
> Kinescope of this performance. Who knows where that Kini is now.
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Jeff,
> >
> >
> >
> > Did you ever find the original orchestration for Gershwin's "Blue Monday"?
> > (1922). I published a piano/vocal songbook of this for Alfred last year, but
> > all we had to work with was the reduction by George Bassman from the early
> > '50s.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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