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Re: Rhapsody in Blue, Does it have Klezmer Origins?

As I show in my forthcoming book "Klezmer! A History of Yiddish Music in
America" The famous opening of "Rhapsody in Blue" with its characteristic
"klezmer" glissando, was not of Gershwin's making. The original Gershwin idea
(and the music on the stands played by the Whiteman orchestra) had not, the
famous "cry"

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