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Our Name ♫ Rhapsody in Wood ♫ It began
as we thought about using a play on words around the 1924 George Gershwin
orchestral composition titled, “Rhapsody in Blue”. In considering the fitness of the
name for what we wanted to express we consulted Webster’s New World™
Dictionary. It defines the word, rhapsody, this way: rhap′so·dy (rap′sə
dē) n., pl. –dies
[[<Gr rhaptein, stitch together + ōidē, song]] 1 any ecstatic or enthusiastic speech
or writing 2 a musical composition of
free, irregular form, suggesting improvisation. We thought the name especially
appropriate, given our fondness for music and how we stitch together ideas to
solutions and parts to the whole. Our approach is enthusiastic, as we compose
and give form, adding a touch of improvisation in everything We subsequently learned that big
band leader, Woody Herman, composed a piece in the mid forties that he named
“Rhapsody in Wood”. And stop-motion animation
director, George Pal based his last “puppetoon” short film in 1947 on
Herman’s life, also titling it Rhapsody
in Wood.
So it is with regard for these
men and their work that we honor them by operating our business under the
name, Rhapsody in Wood LLC.
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