Larry Adler
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Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player.
Known for playing major works, he played compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.
During his later career he collaborated with Sting, Elton John, Kate Bush and Cerys Matthews.
Early life
Adler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Sadie Hack and Louis Adler. They were a Jewish family. He graduated from Baltimore City College high school. He taught himself harmonica, which he called a mouth organ. He played professionally at 14. In 1927, he won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun, playing a Beethoven minuet, and a year later he ran away from home to New York. After being referred by Rudy Vallée, Adler got his first theatre work, and caught the attention of orchestra leader Paul Ash, who placed Adler in a vaudeville act as "a ragged urchin, playing for pennies".
Personal life
Adler married Eileen Walser in 1938; they had two daughters and one son. They divorced in 1961. He married Sally Cline in 1969; they had one daughter. They divorced in 1977. At the time of his death, in addition to his children he also had two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
His son, Peter Adler, fronted the band Action and others in Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1960s. Adler was an atheist. His brother, Jerry Adler (1918–2010), was also a harmonica player.
Adler was a close friend of Peter Stringfellow, who hosted his birthday parties at his central London club for at least the last ten years of his life.
He was an outspoken critic of Ronald Reagan, primarily because of Reagan's McCarthyist activities when president of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s and '50s.
He died of cancer in St Thomas' Hospital, London, aged 87, on 6 August 2001. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, London, where his ashes remain.
Career
He was first hired by Florenz Ziegfeld and then Lew Leslie as an urchin. In the 1934 Paramount film Many Happy Returns, he broke the typecasting and appeared in a dinner jacket, and was hired by theatrical producer C. B. Cochran to appear in London. He played Rhapsody in Blue for Gershwin's first year, claiming, "the Goddam thing sounds as if I wrote it for you." He made a name for himself in the United Kingdom and Empire, where harmonica sales increased by 20 percent and 300,000 people joined fan clubs.
Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument, often in terms of Jean Berger's "Caribbean" (1941), Cyril Scott's Serenade (Paris, May 28, 1947), and Malcolm Arnold's Harmonica Concerto (Oct. The Proms' 46 (1954) (written for The Proms). Except the Scott Serenade, he's recorded all except one, which happened more than once. Adler had performed transcriptions of works for other instruments, such as violin concertos by Bach and Vivaldi, in A minor with the Sydney Symphony. Bartók, Beethoven (Minuet in G), Debussy, Falla, Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue), and Mozart (Bolenc, K. 470), Poulenc, Ravel (Boléro), Stravinsky, and Walton were among the harmonica arrangements he performed in harmonica combinations.
Adler and the dancer Paul Draper formed an act and toured nationally and internationally during the 1940s, performing individually then together in each performance. "I Got Rhythm" by Gershwin was one of many popular songs. He was accused of being a communist during McCarthy's time and refused to collaborate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). After being blacklisted and unsuccessful in a litigation suit in 1950, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1951 and settled in London, where he remained the remainder of his life. According to another source, he lived in London from 1949 to 1949.
Genevieve, a 1953 film, earned him an Academy Award for his work on the soundtrack as well as a substantial wealth. Due to blacklisting, his name was first barred from the accounts in the United States. A Cry from the Streets (1958), The Hellions (1961), The Hook (1964), King & Country (1964), and A High Wind in Jamaica (1965). He also scored a hit with Jean Gabin's theme song Touchez pas au grisbi, which was written by Jean Wiener.
After watching his twice-nightly performances at the Village Gate in 1959, a Village Voice writer dubbed Adler "a great artist."
Adler and George Martin released The Glory of Gershwin, an album of George Gershwin songs on which they performed "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1994, for his 80th birthday. In 1994, the Glory of Gershwin debuted at number 2 in the UK albums chart. Adler was both a guitarist and showman. He was a good pianist, according to concerts to promote The Glory of Gershwin. He began each performance with Gershwin's "Summertime" by playing piano and harmonica simultaneously. Peter Gabriel, Oleta Adams, John, Sting, Jon Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora, Robert Palmer, Margaret O'Connor, Robert Palmer, Mcken, Blake, Kerry Bush, Elvis Costello, Courtney Pine, Issy Van Randwyck, and Carly Simon, all of whom performed Gershwin tunes with an orchestra with an orchestra and Adler performing harmonica solos.
