[78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody

[Jeff Sultanof]

Since Don mentioned the Wild/Toscanini with the Goodman cadenza, that
performance has a notorious squeak right in the middle when Benny was
changing registers. That performance made the rounds among clarinetists for
years. It is actually a good performance that has been on CD at least once.

Wild is highly underrated as a pianist and an arranger. I saw him late in
his career at a small auditorium in North NJ, and he was magnificent.

Jeff Sultanof


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:34 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 7/7/2013 8:56 AM, Don Cox wrote:
> > On 07/07/2013, David Lennick wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> > If Hindemith can steal from Weber, why can't Bernstein steal from
> > Hindemith ?
> >
> > Regards
>
> Ah, but Lenny didn't call his ballet "Three Dances from Fancy Free, one of
> them
> based on a motif from Hindemith's Variations on a theme by Carl Maria von
> Weber". the Jermiah Symphony is equally derivative (lots of Strauss and
> Shostakovich).
>
> dl
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