GERSHWIN Rhapsody in blue clarinet glissando

George GERSHWIN Rhapsody in blue for clarinet and piano (glissando) Frédéric CELLIER clarinet and Fernando ROSSANO piano © Rhapsody in blue for clarinet and piano (full text) Gershwin/Cellier - Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris, 2013. On February 12, 1924, we hear for the first time the trill and glissando of the clarinet that opens Rhapsody in blue. The composer is at the piano, Paul Whiteman leads his jazz band and among the public of the Aeolian Hall in New York we can see the composers Ernest Bloch, Sergei Rachmaninoff, John Philip Sousa, conductors Walter Damrosh, Willem Mengelberg, Leopold Stokovski, singers Amelita Galli-Curci, Mary Garden, Alma Gluck, violonists Misha Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Efrem Zimbalist, pianist Leopold Godowsky. According to the story, the work had been written in a few days (in fact between December and January), shortly after Ira Gershwin had disturbed his brother in the middle of a game of pool, brandishing under his nose the New York...