String of Pearls, 1942.
Ironically the clarinet part was to be played by the great trumpeter Harry James, but he got a lip injury and could not play. A B-flat clarinetist can play any trumpet part without transposition, and Glenn Miller gave the part to clarinetists. Nobody would now think of playing the trumpet part in the original on a trumpet today!
Pennsylvania 6-5000.
Enough said.
Does anyone have any question of the greatness of the pop music of the Big Band Era?
My only comparisons for pop music:
George Gershwin (which we will surely get to fairly soon)
Strauss waltzes (then low-brow)
Mozart at his best
Handel at his best
Mozart and Handel were pop music in their time.
Ironically the clarinet part was to be played by the great trumpeter Harry James, but he got a lip injury and could not play. A B-flat clarinetist can play any trumpet part without transposition, and Glenn Miller gave the part to clarinetists. Nobody would now think of playing the trumpet part in the original on a trumpet today!
Pennsylvania 6-5000.
Enough said.
Does anyone have any question of the greatness of the pop music of the Big Band Era?
My only comparisons for pop music:
George Gershwin (which we will surely get to fairly soon)
Strauss waltzes (then low-brow)
Mozart at his best
Handel at his best
Mozart and Handel were pop music in their time.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.