A New York fairy tale between jazz, jokes and rebel notes
by Marialuisa Veneziano
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🎧 MUSIC FOR LETTURE
Press play before you start reading.
The first sound you will hear is already a small revolution: the clarinet starts from the serious register and, instead of getting neatly known after note, fold the ladder in one long glissando.
It is from that gesture that Clarinello Blu was born.
While reading, try to pay attention to how Gershwin continually builds bridges between different worlds: jazz and symphonic writing, urban energy and lyricism, rhythm and song, irony and melancholy.
And above all he listens to something: that famous glissando seems free, almost improvised. In reality it requires a very refined control of breath, mouth, tongue and fingering.
Perhaps this is the little secret hidden inside our fairy tale:
the most convincing freedom is often the one that has studied enough to allow itself to look spontaneous.
To accompany the reading I would use the recording of Andrew Litton at piano and direction with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: it is an energetic and very narrative version, and the attack of the clarinet immediately makes the world of novella recognizable.
One tip: not only listen to the notes. Listen to me how they pass from one to another. That's where Clarinello hid his magic.
New York, February 1924.
Clarinello Blu had a very serious opinion of the stairs.
A ladder, according to him, had to have steps.
That was the reason he was called a ladder.
Do.
King.
Mi.
Fa.
Sol.
And so on.
One note after the other, without shortcuts, without jumps from the balcony, without those deplorable habits that had certain trombones to arrive at destination slipping.
Clarinello hated the trombones.
Not personally.
Musically.
— I don't trust a tool that can be between two notes — He said.
The trombone Arturo Sbrodoloni, when he heard it, he placidly extended the coulisse.
— Between two notes there is a lot of space.
— There is nothing.
— Oh, no?
Arturo then produced a slow, scandalous glissando.
Clarinello shivered from the bell to the mouth.
— Fly.
— Comfortable.
— Ineducated.
— I'll be there first.
— The problem is not coming.
— That's what the stairs always say.
And Arturo slipped.
Clarinello remained at his lemur, outraged and secretly somewhat envious.
It belonged to Ross Gorman, clarinetist of Paul Whiteman's orchestra, and had built all his reputation on precision.
Clean attacks.
Elegant tie.
Brilliant.
Intonation guarded with a rigor that touched the musical police.
He even gave his keys a name.
Not because he was affectionate.
To be able to rebuke them individually.
— Teodora, you're late.
— Ernesto, shut up.
— Juliet, if you keep losing, I'll make you review.
The first violinist, Women's Violating Stradivary, he considered it a reliable tool.
Said by Donna Violante, it was almost like a declaration of love.
She was a thin, flawless lady, with the handle always perfectly combed and an unwavering conviction: all that was really musical had already been done in Europe at least fifty years before.
— Mozart — He said.
That was it.
If someone named a novelty:
— Mozart.
If someone talked about jazz:
— Mozart.
Once Tito Squillo, the trumpet, asked her:
— What if Mozart was alive today?
Donna Violante had thought.
— It would avoid certain companies.
Tito didn't ask you any more philosophical questions.
There was then Basil Brontoloni, the bassoon.
Basil had the rare gift of seemingly pessimistic even when he was very happy.
— Good morning. — He said.
And it seemed a diagnosis.
But he was Clarinello's best friend.
That morning they sat together on the stage of the Aeolian Hall during a test.
On the lever there was a new score.
On top, a name:
GEORGE GERSHWIN
and below:
RHAPSODY IN BLUE.
Basil read the title three times.
— Rapsody in blue.
— Yes.
— Why blue?
— I don't know.
— Let's not start well.
Violante woman, two rows later, turned.
— "Blue" certainly alludes to an American sensibility.
Tito Squillo intervened:
— It could allude to blues.
Donna Violante made that particular face he assumed when someone reminded her that the twentieth century had already begun.
— Exactly. American.
George Gershwin arrived on stage.
He was twenty-five years old, a quantity of black hair that seemed to think on his own and the air of a man who had just had five ideas while others were still formulating the first.
He sat at the piano.
Basil observed it.
— He's young.
— Very much. — Clarinello said.
— That worries me.
— Why?
— Young people still don't know what things are impossible.
Tito Squillo laughed.
— And that's a defect?
Basilio thought about it.
— It depends on who needs to play them.
Paul Whiteman raised the wand.
The orchestra was silent.
Clarinello heard Ross Gorman settle the stuffing.
He looked at the first line.
It was him.
The beginning of the Rhapsody in Blue belonged to the clarinet.
He loved that.
Before Gershwin even touched the piano, before the orchestra explained what kind of music it was, he had to talk.
A serious trill.
Then the ascent.
Clarinello observed the notes.
A ladder.
Great.
Finally something civil.
They left.
The trill lived in the grave register.
Then the ladder began.
One.
Two.
Three steps.
Everything's perfect.
It was then that Basilio Brontoloni had an idea.
Basilio's ideas were rare.
For this reason they were almost always underestimated.
He just got dirty and whispered:
— Clarinello.
He continued to climb.
— Clarinello.
No answer.
— Donna Violante just made a note wrong.
It was fake.
But it worked.
Clarinello heard a laugh in it.
He kept her.
Fourth step.
Fifth.
Basil continued:
— I think it was a fa diesis.
The laugh went up again.
Sixth step.
— Or maybe a sol.
Clarinello couldn't resist.
And the ladder...
He disbanded.
The notes stopped being steps.
The sound bowed.
He slipped.
He sacked.
He shook in the heights.
He ascended from the grave to the acuto in a single braided curve, as if someone had suddenly removed all the steps and Clarinello had decided, instead of falling, to climb up the railing.
The room was crossed by a long time:
WRAAAAAAAAAAH!
Then silence.
Absolute.
Clarinello wanted to be as small as an octane.
Violante woman stopped breathing.
Tito Squillo opened the bell.
Basil fixed the lemur with the air of those who knew nothing at all.
Paul Whiteman slowly lowered the wand.
Ross Gorman stayed with the clarinet in his hand.
George Gershwin turned from the piano.
Clarinello thought:
End of career.
You already saw yourself hanging on the wall of some restaurant.
«Authentic decorative clarinet.»
Maybe with flowers in the bell.
Gershwin said:
— Again.
Clarinello didn't understand.
Not even Ross Gorman.
— Excuse me?
Gershwin made a gesture with his hand.
— That thing.
Violant woman whispered:
— What?
Basil, without turning:
— I think he means the crime.
Gershwin smiled.
— Make it.
Ross brought Clarinello back to her mouth.
The poor tool was upset.
Teacher, that was not something. It was a disgrace.
She left.
Trillo.
Get in.
Clarinello tried to recreate the same effect.
Wraaaaaaah.
Gershwin shook his head.
— No.
Clarinello is offended.
First it was wrong because he had done it.
Now it was wrong because he didn't do it well enough.
Third attempt.
— Too straight.
Fourth.
— Too clean.
Donna Violante turned to Basilio.
— Did he say "too clean"?
— I heard.
— A clarinet?
— Yes.
Violante woman looked at the ceiling.
Maybe he was looking for Mozart.
Fifth attempt.
Clarinello inspired.
He let Ross just alert the sound control.
The fingers began ascent, but this time they did not seek every step with the same precision. The filling, the breath, the tongue, the cavity of the mouth began to collaborate.
The sound curved.
Up.
No more scale.
I'm not yelling yet.
Something between a lament, a laughter and a New York siren who had studied harmony.
Gershwin beat a hand on the piano.
— That.
Clarinello felt a thrill.
That.
Just what for years would have considered a defect.
Now it had become the beginning.
The news toured the orchestra in eleven minutes.
In twelve, it was already false.
They told the percussion that Clarinello had improvised in protest.
The horns claimed Gershwin was crying.
Donna Violante said she had predicted everything.
Basilius reminded her that ten minutes earlier he had called Mozart.
— Mozart would have understood — She answered.
— Of course.
Clarinello was euphoric.
— Did you see?
told Basilio.
— I heard.
— He liked it.
— Looks.
— He changed the music for me.
Basil looked at him.
— Don't overdo it.
— He said "that."
— My doctor says that too. I don't draw any artistic conclusions.
Clarinello didn't listen.
He kept trying.
The problem was that now the glissando, in order to really succeed, required work.
That was against him.
— What's that?
asked that night Uncle Chalum, the oldest clarinet of the orchestra.
Uncle Chalumò lived in a black velvet case and claimed to be born when the ances still had respect for the elderly.
His real name was Chalumeau, but Basil had mistreated him once and the nickname had remained.
— What's what?
— I did it this morning without thinking about it.
— Yes.
— Now, when I try to do it again, it's hard.
— Yes.
— Shouldn't it be the opposite?
Uncle Chalumò dismissed.
— Welcome to art.
— I don't understand.
— The first time you tripped.
— I'm not tripped.
— Shot.
— Sounds better.
— Very. Now you have to learn to fall on purpose without breaking your neck.
Clarinello looked at his keys.
— But it's a glissando.
— Precisely.
— Just run your fingers.
Uncle Chalumò fixed him.
Then he burst out laughing.
It was a dry, woody, ancient laugh.
— What is it?
— Nothing. Go ahead.
— Why are you laughing?
— Because you're discovering that a clarinet is not a trombone.
From the housing next to Arturo Sbrodoloni, the coulisse was laid.
— Finally.
— Nobody asked you. — Clarinello said.
Uncle Chalumò explained.
On the clarinet there is no coulisse capable of mechanically connecting all heights. To produce an extended and continuous glissando it was not enough to open the keys in succession.
They needed fingers.
But not just.
It needed breath.
It needed the filling.
It was necessary to change the pressure and, above all, the way the musician modeled the air column within himself.
Language.
The throat.
The oral cavity.
Clarinello was scandalized.
— All this to seem like I'm doing what I want?
— Exactly.
— It's a scam.
— It's technical.
— Worse.
Uncle Chalumò smiled.
— The things that seem free, my boy, very often are the ones that have worked longer so as not to show the effort.
Clarinello remained silent.
That phrase bothered him.
It was usually a good sign.
In the next few days he became very good.
Glissando.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Gershwin asked for more breadth.
Ross modified the filling.
Clarinello learned not to break the line.
The sound began with that almost suspicious serious trill and then opened towards the acute with a freedom that seemed improvised and instead required an increasingly subtle control.
The orchestra was only waiting for that.
Tito Squillo imitated him badly during breaks.
Arturo Sbrodoloni claimed that the trombones had done so for centuries and demanded payment of the arrears.
Basil had composed a small march called Clarinet triumph that finally discovered the trombone.
Violant woman said she couldn't find her funny.
It was the first laugh.
Clarinello began to mount the bell.
Very little.
Then enough.
Finally very much.
An afternoon, in a lyrical point of Rapsodia, added a small slip.
Gershwin raised his head.
— No.
Clarinello was sick.
Two pages later he tried again.
— No.
At the third, Gershwin stopped playing.
Ross Gorman lowered the clarinet.
— Not there.
Clarinello was outraged.
During the break from Zio Chalumò.
— I don't understand that man.
— Great.
— He likes glissando.
— Yes.
— It became my sound.
— No.
— How not?
— It's a sound you make.
— It's the same thing.
Uncle Chalumò sat down.
— Ah. We're already at this point.
— What point?
— The one in which a musician discovers something beautiful and begins to shove it everywhere until it becomes unbearable.
— That's not true.
— Of course.
— Even Donna Violante says "certainly" like that.
— I'm getting old.
Clarinello drank.
— Why at first yes and after no?
Uncle Chalumò stopped joking.
— Because there opens something.
— What?
— Rapsody.
— Even elsewhere it could open.
— And how many doors do you want in a room?
Clarinello died.
— That gesture works because it comes right there — The old man continued. — Before the audience realized what it is about to listen. Before the piano comes in. Before the orchestra can behave like a well-kept orchestra.
— So?
— So in a few seconds you say, "Look out. Here the notes may not walk as you thought."
Clarinello looked at the floor.
— But it's mine.
— That's the problem.
— What?
— You started wondering what music can do. Now you wonder what can make you remember.
It was a hit.
Not violent.
Worse.
Precisely.
Clarinello no longer spoke with Zio Chalumò for two days.
But he had a very long conversation in his head.
He lost her.
Three days before the concert, a misfortune happened.
The glissando became perfect.
Clarinello once did.
Impeccable.
He'll do it again.
Same.
A third.
Equal.
Attack.
Curve.
Grow up.
I'm coming.
No drooling.
Basil listened to him.
— Very nice.
Clarinello looked at him.
— No.
— For once, I'll give you a compliment and offend you?
— It's not good.
— I just said—
— He's dead.
Basil blew.
Clarinello refracts him.
Impeccable technique.
No surprise.
— Listen?
Basil did not answer immediately.
— Yes.
— What?
— You already know everything that will happen.
— Sure. I studied it.
— Maybe that's it.
Clarinello started again.
More precise.
Even more dead.
Donna Violante arrived.
He listened.
— Great control.
Clarinello almost wept.
It was the worst thing he could tell him.
— I was laughing first.
Donna Violante observed it.
— Now run.
— I don't want to run.
— It is a curious phrase to hear in an orchestra.
— You know what I mean.
Yes.
He knew.
Violant woman looked at the score.
Then he.
— Maybe you're trying to be identical to the time you were spontaneous.
Clarinello fixed her.
Basil opened his eyes.
Violant woman stiffened.
— Why are you looking at me?
Basil took a leg to his heart.
— You just said something modern.
— Please.
— I'm excited.
— Basilio.
— I have to sit down.
— You're already sitting.
— Worse.
But Clarinello didn't laugh.
She was scared.
In three days it would open Rhapsody in Blue in front of a full room.
And the thing that was born of a joke now seemed like an exercise.
He learned perfectly How to make it.
He forgot. why.
That night he went out of custody.
Don't ask me how a clarinet can open a housing, get off a stage and walk through Manhattan.
If this is the problem you have with history, please consider that a phagoct named Basilio Brontoloni spoke for several pages without anyone protesting.
New York was awake.
New York in 1924 seemed to possess an amount of energy incompatible with sleep.
Cars.
elevated trains.
Steps.
Voices.
Doors.
Brakes.
Engines.
Music coming out of the premises.
Clarinello walked.
For the first time he tried not to look for notes.
He only listened.
The elevated train passed:
ta-ta, ta-ta.
A wheel had a small defect and produced an accent where it should not have been.
Clarinello smiled.
Later, a salesman lowered a blind.
A metallic rhythm.
A taxi sounded the horn.
Another answered.
— Very badly plastered — Clarinello commented.
Then he stopped.
— I'm becoming a Violating Woman.
He continued.
From a basement room came music.
He came in.
A pianist played with three men.
Clarinello ended up.
He listened to a theme.
Simple.
The pianist exposed it.
Then he shoots it.
But not the same way.
A note came first.
Another seemed to linger.
The third was almost stroked from the bottom.
The rhythm was recognizable yet it seemed to breathe differently.
The theme came back again.
New.
And still recognizable.
Clarinello approached.
— She's wrong.
A voice beside him said,
— Hopefully.
It was Uncle Chalumò.
Clarinello suffered.
— You followed me?
— I don't follow anyone at my age.
— How did you get here?
— Same narrative clause worth you.
They sat down.
— Play every time different — Clarinello said.
— Yes.
— But it doesn't seem random.
— No.
— He knows exactly where he is.
— Yes.
— Yet it changes.
— I see the hearing works.
Clarinello ignored him.
The pianist finished a sentence.
The drummer took it.
The bass moved the weight.
The theme came back.
— I thought freedom meant not knowing what to do in advance.
Uncle Chalumò smiled.
— That would be convenient.
— What about?
— What are you feeling?
Clarinello listened.
Then he said,
— He seems free because he knows where he can go.
The old man did not answer.
— Not because he doesn't know the way.
Still quiet.
— You know her so well that she can afford to go out and find her.
Uncle Chalumò just announced.
Clarinello turned.
— Why don't you say anything?
— Because you finally don't need it.
On February 12, 1924 he arrived with the cold.
At the Aeolian Hall the concert had an ambitious title:
An Experiment in Modern Music.
Violant woman read it.
— Experiment.
Basilio:
— Yes.
— I don't love being part of an experiment.
— Not even rats.
— Basilio.
— I was trying to comfort you.
The room filled.
Musicians.
Critics.
Curiosis.
People agree that jazz should stay where it was.
People convinced that the orchestra should do the same.
People who still didn't know what to think and who, without knowing, were probably the luckiest.
Gershwin sat at the piano.
Paul Whiteman was ready.
Ross Gorman took Clarinello.
The clarinet felt his heart.
He didn't have one.
She had at least three that night.
The wand rose.
Quiet.
Basil whispered to him:
— Clarinello.
— Please don't say Donna Violante made a note wrong.
— I wouldn't dare.
Break.
— I wanted to tell you that if it goes wrong, we can always blame Gershwin.
Clarinello laughed.
Easy.
Enough.
Then the time came.
Trillo.
Grave.
Vibrant.
The sound began to rise.
For a moment Clarinello saw in front of him all the steps.
Your fingers.
The filling.
Language.
The throat.
The breath.
The technique.
The perfect version.
She could do it.
He knew exactly how.
Then he thought of the city.
On the train.
To the lock.
The basement pianist.
First test.
And he understood that he had made a wrong question for weeks.
Not:
How do I play that glissando?
But:
What must happen to the public while I do it?
And the answer was there.
He had to lose the floor.
Just for a few seconds.
He had to wait for a ladder and suddenly find himself in front of a curve.
He had to understand, even before Gershwin played a piano note, that music would cross territories where the old doors would not always be closed.
Clarinello let the sound go.
The ladder dissolved.
The grave stretched.
The stamp bowed.
The ascent took body, irony, sensuality, insolence.
It wasn't exactly the same as the evidence.
Luckily.
He got up.
An instant suspension.
Then Gershwin's piano entered.
And Rapsodia really started.
Clarinello heard George smiling.
He didn't look.
That time he didn't need approval.
He figured out why that sound was there.
12 FEBRUARY 1924 – That evening really happened (click on the arrow)
After the concert, Tito Squillo claimed he always knew it would be a success.
Basilio:
— Yesterday you said that ascent looked like a cat trampled.
— It was a timbre analysis.
Arturo Sbrodoloni still claimed copyright on the principle of slipping.
Donna Violante approached Clarinello.
— Good.
He waited.
— That's it?
— Very well.
Clarinello opened the keys.
— Violating woman!
— Don't get used to it.
He left.
Then he turned.
— One thing.
Clarinello sighed.
— Of course.
— What you did tonight...
— Yes?
— Never do that in Mozart's Concert.
Clarinello burst into a laugh that even Arturo Sbrodoloni admitted to be impressed.
Years passed.
That glissando became inseparable Rhapsody in Blue.
Clarinets of different cities began to study it.
Masters discussed it.
Allievi suffered.
Ance was wrongly accused.
Someone was looking for a more lousy sound.
Someone else brighter.
Some started slowly and accelerated.
Others built a more continuous curve.
Clarinello, a senior, listened.
And, as often happens to those who fought against the rules, he gradually began to create their own.
— Too short.
— Too fast.
— I used to make it bigger.
— The wrapping!
— Not like that!
— But what do they teach today?
Uncle Chalumò, who was so old that he was probably prior to the invention of wood, endured for a long time.
Then one day he said,
— Violant.
Clarinello turned.
— What?
— Nothing, Donna Violante.
— Retreat immediately.
— Too late.
— I'm not like her.
— Of course.
Clarinello immobilized himself.
That word.
That's right.
It was bad.
The next day he listened to a boy trying the Rapsodia attack.
First attempt.
Terrible.
Second.
Worse.
Third.
Too studied.
Clarinello was already about to intervene.
At the fourth, however, something happened.
The boy let the sound go.
The curve was different from Ross Gorman's.
Unlike what Clarinello remembered.
Darker.
Maybe less ironic.
Almost melancholic.
Clarinello heard the old objection rise:
It wasn't like that.
He opened the bell to speak.
Then he stopped.
The boy continued.
The piano entered.
And that particular curve had prepared perfectly That's the one Rapsodia, played by That's it. musician, in That's it. Now.
Clarinello closed the bell.
Uncle Chalumò observed it.
— Anything?
— Nothing.
— Are you sick?
Clarinello smiled.
— It wasn't like mine.
— No.
— It wasn't even like the first time.
— No.
Quiet.
Then Clarinello said,
— Good.
Uncle Chalumò did not answer.
Clarinello watched the young musician resume the clarinet.
He finally realized that a tradition dies in two ways.
He dies when he's forgotten.
But he can die even when he comes preserved so perfectly not to allow it more to breathe.
Ross Gorman's first laugh had become history because someone had the courage not to correct it.
It would have been curious to turn it a century later into something that no one had the right to change.
The boy tried again.
This time he was wrong.
Clarinello smiled.
— Bad.
— Ah! — said Uncle Chalumò. — There you are.
— I said it could be different. I didn't say everything was okay.
The old man burst out laughing.
— Finally a sensible musical philosophy.
And for some reason, Clarinello seemed the best compliment he received all his life.
Clarinello had spent a lot of time confusing different things.
Before he believed that be correct It meant never leaving the road.
Then, when a joke had become an extraordinary musical find, he thought that be free It meant getting out of the street every time he wanted it.
Finally he had discovered a third possibility.
The most difficult: know where the road is, know what the rule protects, possess the necessary tools.
And only then decide whether, at that moment, it is worth crossing the border.
It's not a detail.
Because today we often tell the originality as if it were a sufficient virtue.
«Be different.»
«Break the patterns.»
«Don't follow the rules.»
Nice phrases.
But even a three-year-old can break a pattern.
Ithe artistic problem — and perhaps human — I understand what to build after having broken.
Ross Gorman did not make Rhapsody’s start memorable in Blue simply because he did something different from what was written. That deviation made sense because Gershwin recognized that he had the right character to open that musical world: a world where the symphonic language met jazz, blues, urban energy, lyricism, rhythm and theatricality without asking for permission to a single category.
And then there is another even more beautiful paradox.
That gesture that seems like an improvised deafness requires technical.
On the clarinet, getting a continuous climb of that extension does not simply mean "to slip your fingers". The musician must coordinate progressively fingering, stuffing, air flow, language and vocal tract configuration so that the height can bend and cross what we normally perceive as distinct steps.
In other words:
to make it look like the scale doesn't have steps you have to know very well every step.
And this is perhaps one of the most beautiful paradoxes of art. Discipline is not necessarily the opposite of freedom. It can be the condition.
A great improvisation is not someone «He doesn't know what».
It is someone who has a language so deeply that they can take a path not foreseen without losing the ability to return.
And even in life there is something like that. There are rules that we have the right to challenge. Traditions that deserve to be transformed. Definitions from which it is necessary to exit.
But not everything that limits us is automatically enemy.
Sometimes a limit holds a reason that we have not yet understood.
And not everything that distinguishes us must be continually shown.
Clarinello discovered it when he started putting his own glissando everywhere.
Even an authentic feature can become a way. Even a quality can become vanity.
Freedom can also turn into pose when we stop asking ourselves why We do something and start doing it only because by now others expect us to be "those who do that."
Maybe maturing also means this: do not spend the whole life demonstrating to be different. And not even to prove to be impeccable.
But to get to possess quite deeply what we are not to have to exhibit at every joke.
There is finally the subtlest lesson left by that first glissando.
Gershwin could have corrected it. He was the composer. He had the score. He had authority.
On the other hand listened.
Perhaps true creative intelligence is not just knowing what we want.
It also consists in recognizing something better when it comes from where we did not expect it.
It's hard.
Because it means accepting that our work, our project, even an idea to which we hold can become richer through someone else’s intervention.
It means giving up for a moment the satisfaction of saying: «I thought so.» to say: «This works. Let's keep it.»
And it is a form of greatness much less noisy than originality.
It's called listening.
So, maybe, Blue Clarinello had only been right in half.
Between one note and the other there were really steps.
But there were no only Those.
There was also space.
And it took a laugh at the wrong time because someone finally had the courage to cross it.
🎬 FUTURE CLARINEL
After meeting Clarinello Blu, it's time to get out for a few minutes from the fairy tale.
Because behind his enchanted staircase I am a true clarinetist, a very difficult effect and a Rapsodia that, more than a hundred years later, continues not to stand in one definition.
🎙️ ASCOLTA IL VERO "CLARINELLO" DEL 1924
Il glissando by Ross Gorman in the first Rhapsody recording in Blue
On 10 June 1924, a few months after the first performance at the Aeolian Hall, George Gershwin recorded Rhapsody in Blue piano with the Paul Whiteman Concert Orchestra. At first you feel right Ross Gorman, the clarinetist tied to the birth of the famous glissando.
What to listen to: do not expect the smooth sound of a modern symphonic orchestra. It is an acoustic recording of 1924. That's why it has a huge charm: you're listening to that music when it was still practically new.
Our Blue Clarinello is imaginary. But this clarinet has more than a hundred years. (click on the black arrow to access content)
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