[78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody

[David Lennick]

There are several performances of the Rhapsody with Earl vs Paul Whiteman, not 
just the 78 set. I was involved in the transfer to digital of many of the Earl 
Wild airchecks and live recordings from transcription discs and tapes a few 
years back and got to meet Earl. Funny guy, and he was still performing and 
recording at close to 90.

dl

On 7/7/2013 8:49 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> 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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