a cadence (Latin cadentia, "a falling") is "a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of resolution, finality or pause.
Will music finally bring them back together for good? Or will music give them their rightful resolution or finalit...
It's the most famous clarinet moment in modern repertoire but how do you even start to think about playing the famous opening glissando from Gershwin's 'Rhapsody In Blue'?
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Trill, a shake between two notes, done rapidly.
Glissando, to "glide", a rapid and continuous slide upward or downward between 2 or more notes.
All it is is a trill, a scale and then a glissando, but clarinetists all over the world have always had a space in their hearts for the opening solo from George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. And so with mine.
Bin turns to me and says, "You better do this glissando better than Nam-gil!" As he prepares the Rhapsody in Blue piano score on his stand. A piano accompaniment in place of a full orchestra. I came prepared, I wasn't gonna screw up this glissando. Unlike that fateful day years back.
This glissando takes me way back college. Thinking of that particular rehearsal years ago.
I've heard Bin play this piano solo with orchestra once during the University concert years back. I remember hearing it for the first time, that opening clarinet solo, which was done beautifully by Bin's batchmate and former Clarinet section leader. Back then, I was only 2nd clarinet and was primarily back up to the section leader or principal. Back then, I focused primarily on classical pieces, technical exercises and etudes.
But not jazz, not this genre. This was my one weakness. This unpredictable, unstable genre. I just felt like it wasn't for me. Like, I could do classical all my life, Spohr, Poulenc, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Weber, but not anything improvisatory.
And that time, I didn't know how to do that Glissando, one of the trickiest techniques you can do as a Clarinetist.
I clearly remember that rehearsal. That day at band practice years ago when Nam-gil did not attend the scheduled band rehearsal and I was forced to do the glissando myself. And while I was primarily an orchestra member, I didn't regularly attend the wind band practice. But because I had a crush on the band conductor, I started to attend band practices as well.
That conductor of course was Hyun Bin. It was one of our first few months together as a couple.
That was a time when I wasn't Son Ye Jin the virtuoso clarinetist. I was just Son Ye Jin, 2nd Clarinet in the symphony orchestra and wind band, used to being in the shadows, doesn't like doing those solos, incredibly and painfully shy. But since the section leader wasn't present, the conductor at that time gave the solo to me.
And even if we were already a couple, during every rehearsal, it would always be the music first, nothing personal. No personal feelings or relationships should get in the way. He was our conductor, if he calls me out on a mistake then that would be fine. And to his eyes, during the rehearsal, I am just a member. We actually preferred it that way.
