[78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody

[David Lennick]

Don't get me started on that thief already. Listen to "Fancy Free" and "On the 
Town" where he's stolen the theme from the first movement of Dohnanyi's 
Serenade in C, as well as a nice chunk of Hindemith's Weber Variations (which 
the PSONY premiered at a time when he was probably backstage scribbling 
furiously).
dl

On 7/7/2013 12:06 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
> Alway thought Bernstein was/is highly over-rated  --  especially by himself.  And what's a Nice Jewish Boychikl doing writing a
> Mass, anyway???  [Please not to cite lutheran Bach as a precedent -- there's no comparison!  Bernstein is a boil on Bach's bum....]
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> Mike in Plovdiv
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>   From: DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 6:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody
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> The reasoning for the tempi, of course, was that they were set by Gershwin himself when he recorded the piano roll.  The controversy arose from those who concluded that the piano roll was being played at the wrong speed, but it seems to me that if that were the case, the whole piece would be very fast which, of course, it's not.
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> db
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>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 4:45:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody
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>> Ridiculously fast tempi, and also the record had some phasing problems (early
>> quad). I brought it in to play on a CBC program, Mostly Music, and there were
>> parts that just vanished in mono (the show ran on both AM and FM networks).
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>> dl
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>> On 7/6/2013 4:30 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>> I like the Tilson Thomas recording, although after it was released there was all sorts of controversy over how accurate the tempi were.
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>>> db
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>>>> From: Don Cox<doncox at enterprise.net>
>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 3:46:20 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody
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>>>> On 06/07/2013, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
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>>>>> Lennie always touted himself as a bit of a jazz expert. This recording
>>>>> should have disappeared years ago. Agreed it is horrible.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've always like the performances of Oscar Levant myself.
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>>>> Yes.
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>>>> Eugene List (on Mercury) is also very good.
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>>>> Tilson Thomas recorded it with the Gershwin piano roll.
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>>>> Regards
>>>> --
>>>> Don Cox
>>>> doncox at enterprise.net
>>>>