{"id":7168,"date":"2015-12-17T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2015-12-17T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T02:02:04","slug":"herman-and-hefti-let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/herman-and-hefti-let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman And Hefti, &#8220;Let It Snow&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The birdbath looks like a coconut cake,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my wife said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Birdbath-in-snow-1.jpg\" alt=\"Birdbath in snow # 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"157\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Birdbath-in-snow-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Birdbath-in-snow-1-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to beauty, the sight offered two benefits. <\/p>\n<p>1. It was a reliable indicator of how much snow we had last night on the cusp of a winter that the forecasters said not long ago was likely to be mild and possibly snowless.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Birdbath-in-snow-2.jpg\" alt=\"Birdbath in snow # 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Birdbath-in-snow-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Birdbath-in-snow-2-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. It provided an excuse&#8212;as if one was needed&#8212;to listen to Woody Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let it Snow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (1945) with Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vocal, solos by trumpeter Sonny Berman and trombonist Bill Harris, and a Neil Hefti arrangement. Hefti crafted an audacious introduction, and a coda referring to it, that make the arrangement a masterpiece among the many gems that he provided Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Herd.        <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6t_qIV4cUKQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hefti-ca.-1994.jpg\" alt=\"Hefti, ca. 1994\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hefti (1922-2008) wrote the theme music for the enormously popular <em>Batman<\/em> television series in the 1960s. In his later years, it amused him to tell people that he also wrote the lyric.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Wsz2TYxwwk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The birdbath looks like a coconut cake,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my wife said. In addition to beauty, the sight offered two benefits. 1. It was a reliable indicator of how much snow we had last night on the cusp of a winter that the forecasters said not long ago was likely to be mild and possibly snowless. 2. 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