Uses for Harmonica, colleges w/ Harmonic major

[Chuck(G)]

One of the loveliest works for string quartet by George Gershwin was premiered with harmonica. Larry Adler did a masterful job of it:

http://www.fuguemasters.com/gershwin.html

I think the recording is still available.

[LoyalTubist]

I have quite a few recordings of Larry Adler. Most of them are as a guest on variety and comedy shows on radio in the 1940s. If the harmonica is missing notes, you sure couldn't tell it with the way he played it.

My favorite recording of Larry Adler is on a Jack Benny Program from 1944 at the Corona Naval Hospital (it was in what is now Norco, California). He played an arrangement of David Rose's "Holiday for Strings" which was amazing. Although he had the Phil Harris (actually Mahlon Merrick) Orchestra accompanying him, he didn't need them. He was playing all the parts on the harmonica.



The link below is a recording of another Jack Benny Program at the Hollywood Canteen on February 27, 1944. You can hear his amazing arrangement of "Begin the Beguine" about 2/3 of the way through the show.

http://www.otrfan.com/bins/jackbenny/ja ... anteen.mp3

[ken k]

Have him listen to "Toots" Thielman (spelling not correct)

Great harmonica book in the musical shenandoah along with banjo

He can also work on the Albrechtsberger concerto for Jew's Harp and Orchestra.

ken k