{"id":8156,"date":"2017-02-08T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2017-02-08T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:45:07","slug":"let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/02\/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Snow-2014-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Snow-2014-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Snow-2014.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I came in not long ago from shoveling four inches of new snow off the front sidewalk and the driveway. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re expecting up to seven inches more tonight. Naturally, I thought of the most appropriate piece of music by which to recover from the shoveling and prepare for the next onslaught. What else but Woody Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1945 recording of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with one of Herman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dregardless of his disclaimer below\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmost popular vocals. Correspondingly, the arrangement is one of Neal Hefti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most brilliant. Quoted in the notes for the Columbia album <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2k5oOcK\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Thundering Herds<\/em><\/a>, Herman said,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Woody-Herman-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Woody-Herman-head-shot.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Woody-Herman-head-shot-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Woody-Herman-head-shot-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neal did a wonderful arrangement of this. It was so good that it ruined our chances of getting a hit record. One reason is that the introduction must run about 198 bars and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too much for a pop record. But it was just so good that I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bear to leave it out. It was a case of letting our musical honesty carry us away. So Vaughan Monroe wound up with the hit record of the song.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woody is the vocalist. Maybe you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mistake him for Vaughan Monroe.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6t_qIV4cUKQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The instrumental soloists were Sonny Berman, trumpet, and Bill Harris, trombone. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem like that any more\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsoloists or arrangements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came in not long ago from shoveling four inches of new snow off the front sidewalk and the driveway. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re expecting up to seven inches more tonight. Naturally, I thought of the most appropriate piece of music by which to recover from the shoveling and prepare for the next onslaught. What else but Woody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}