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DB2 10.5 introduces a new feature called scripted interface for DB2 Advanced Copy Services (DB2 ACS). This makes it possible for customers to implement shell scripts instead of C-libraries. These scripts can use the tools provided by the storage vendors to run the snapshot operations. You can use the scripted interface independent from your storage hardware. Additionally, DB2 supports storage hardware as soon as it is available in the market.
The feature supports all three architectures of DB2: enterprise server, multipartitioned databases using the database partitioning feature (DPF), and databases using pureScale. It is supported on all UNIX and Linux platforms where DB2 is certified on.
This series provides an introduction to this feature and presents some real-life examples in the coming articles. This second article in the series demonstrates the scripted interface with the use of Linux LVM.
LVM is the Logical Volume Manager for the Linux operating system. Among other features, it supports snapshots of logical volumes. This article walks through snapshot backups of DB2 databases with the help of the scripted interface for DB2 ACS.
Introduction to the Linux LVM
The Linux LVM is a Linux kernel extension that introduces an abstraction layer over storage hardware. This increases the flexibility of storage management; for example, it eases the resizing of partitions. Additionally, the LVM allows taking snapshots of partitions in LVM volume groups.
This article uses the layout shown in Figure 1:
Figure 1. Logical volume groups
In Figure 1, you can see the physical volume /dev/sdb. The LVM volume group data takes up the complete physical volume. The volume group data contains the logical volumes joern, data1, data2, and logs. There is still free space in this volume group that will be used to take the snapshots of the logical volumes. The logical volumes are formatted with the ext4 file system.
The logical volumes are mounted as shown in Table 1:
Table 1. Logical volumes that are mounted
|Logical volume
|Mount point
|Used for
|Database directory
|Automatic storage path 1
|Automatic storage path 2
|Database logs
Table 2 provides a short overview of the commands for the LVM utilities that are mentioned in this article, and it indicates what the commands are used for:
Table 2. Commands overview
|Display information on logical volumes. In particular, the option –c is used to get a colon-separated list of information, including size. For an overview of which columns are included, take a look at the man page.
|Create logical volumes in a volume group. This command is also used to create snapshot volumes for the logical volumes containing the storage paths and the log paths.
|Merge the snapshots back into the logical volumes that contain storage and log paths; that is, it can be used for restoring the snapshots.
|Change attributes of a logical volume. In certain cases, it is necessary to deactivate and activate logical volumes to complete merges successfully.
|Remove logical volumes, used during the deletion of images.
|Query information of volume groups. In particular, the option –c is used to get a colon-separated list of information, including size. For an overview of which columns are included, take a look at the man page.
The LVM snapshots are created using the lvcreate command and the option –s. LVM works with copy on write; that is, when a block is first changed on the original volume, an image of the original contents of the block is written to the snapshot. At the end, the snapshot contains only the blocks that were changed in the original volume but with the contents that these blocks had during the point in time the snapshot was taken. This can be a small amount of data. But because we also want to be able to restore dropped databases, we recommend keeping the size of the snapshot logical volume equal to the original volumes. If an LVM snapshot volume runs out of space, Linux stops writing to it, which in turn corrupts the snapshot backup image.
Getting the right privileges
A customer script that is invoked by the scripted interface runs with the privileges of the instance owner. Typically, this user is not allowed to run commands that change the LVM configuration.
In this article, the privileges to run the commands were granted using sudo. The commands were added to the sudo configuration with the use of the command visudo adding lines like the following for each used command:
jklauke ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/lvdisplay
With this, the user no longer needs to enter the root password when the command is used.
For other platforms, there might be other solutions; for example, adding the instance owner to groups that are allowed to run the appropriate commands. We discourage using scripts with the setuid bit set.
Using LVM for snapshot backups using the scripted interface
This section provides a sample implementation of a customer script using the abilities of Linux LVM to create, use, and delete snapshots.
The following loop is needed frequently in the customer script:
110 for i in `grep "^DATAPATH" $config | \ 111 awk -F= '{print $2}' | \ 112 xargs -I\{\} df \{\} | \ 113 grep '^/dev' | \ 114 awk '{print $1;}' | \ 115 uniq ` 116 do
This gives you the set of logical volumes that need to be backed up during the snapshot. The command performs the following steps:
- Takes the list of the paths from the protocol file. In this example, the data
path that is returned as a result from line 110
- Separates the path names from the option names (take from
DATAPATH=pathonly the part after the equal sign (line 111):
- Translates the path to the logical volume on which the path resides (line
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available
Use% Mounted on/dev/mapper/data-joern 2064208 268980 1690372 14% /db2/joern
- Takes only the lines that contain the logical volume names (line
/dev/mapper/data-joern 2064208 268980 1690372
14% /db2/joern
- Takes only the name of the logical volume (line 114):
- Takes each logical volume only once (line 115):
(In this case, this is trivial because there is only one logical volume.)
The rest of this article explains the operations backup, restore, and delete in detail. The actions of the operations were already introduced in the first part of this series of articles. In the case of backup, the actions are: prepare, snapshot, verify, and, depending on the result of the verify call, storemetadata or rollback.
Again, we recommend sizing the snapshot volumes using the same size as the original volume.
The goal of the prepare action in the LVM script is to determine whether there is enough free space in each volume group, so that every logical volume can be backed up in its volume group. For this purpose, the function doPrepare() was implemented, shown in Listing 1:
Listing 1. doPrepare() function code
65 doPrepare() { 66 # 67 # P R E P A R E 68 # 69 # -------------------------------------- 70 getSetting "OPERATION" 71 operation=$_setting 72 if [ $operation = "SNAPSHOT" ] 73 then 74 for group in `sudo vgdisplay -c | awk -F: '{print $1}'` 75 do 76 freespace=`sudo vgdisplay -c $group | \ 77 awk -F":" '{print $16}'` 78 cmd="egrep '^DATAPATH|^LOGPATH' $config | \ 79 awk -F= '{print \$2}' | \ 80 xargs -I\{\} df \{\} | \ 81 grep '^/dev' | \ 82 awk '{print \$1}' | \ 83 uniq | \ 84 xargs -I\{\} sudo lvdisplay -c \{\} | \ 85 awk -F: -v c=$group '\$2==c { SUM += \$8 } END {print SUM}'" 86 87 echo "# cmd: "$cmd 88 neededspace=`eval $cmd` 89 90 if [ $neededspace -gt $freespace ] 91 then 92 echo "# Goup: " $group 93 echo "# Freespace: " $freespace 94 echo "# Needed Space: " $neededspace 95 RC=$RC_NOT_ENOUGH_SPACE 96 break 97 fi 98 done 99 fi 100 # -------------------------------------- 101 }
The function doPrepare() performs the following steps:
- Determines whether the snapshot operation is currently run. Therefore, the option OPERATION is read from the protocol file, and it is checked whether the current operation is the snapshot operation (lines 70 – 73).
- Checks each volume group; for every volume group in vgdisplay, takes the name of the volume group and separates the name from the given string (line 74).
- Determines the free space for the current volume group: takes the vgdisplay output and parses only the 16th column (line 76 and 77).
- Looks for all paths of the database that reside on this volume group. At first, the logical volumes are determined as shown in the previous section (lines 78 – 83).
- For each of the logical volumes, takes the information of lvdisplay (line 84).
- Sums up the needed space for all logical volumes that reside in the current volume group (line 85).
- Writes the command to the protocol file for debugging purposes and runs the command (lines 87 and 88).
- Checks if the needed space for the snapshot in this volume group is smaller than the free space. If not, returns an error (lines 90 to 97).
Now that we are sure that we have enough space, we take a snapshot using the function doSnapshot(), shown in Listing 2:
Listing 2. doSnapshot() function code
103 doSnapshot() { 104 # 105 # S N A P S H O T 106 # 107 # -------------------------------------- 108 getSetting "TIMESTAMP" 109 timestamp=$_setting 110 for i in `grep "^DATAPATH" $config | \ 111 awk -F= '{print $2}' | \ 112 xargs -I\{\} df \{\} | \ 113 grep '^/dev' | \ 114 awk '{print $1;}' | \ 115 uniq ` 116 do 117 vol=`sudo lvdisplay -c $i | awk -F: '{print $1;}'| tr -d ' '` 118 echo "USER_VOLUME_DATA="$vol 119 snapName=`basename $vol`"_snap_"$timestamp 120 sudo lvcreate -s -n $snapName -l100%ORIGIN $vol 121 done 122 getSetting "DB2BACKUP_LOGS" 123 includeLogs=$_setting 124 if [ $includeLogs = "INCLUDE" -a $RC -eq 0 ] 125 then 126 for i in `grep "^LOGPATH" $config | \ 127 awk -F= '{print $2}' | \ 128 xargs -I\{\} df \{\} | \ 129 grep '^/dev' | \ 130 awk '{print $1;}' | \ 131 uniq ` 132 do 133 vol=`sudo lvdisplay -c $i | awk -F: '{print $1;}'| tr -d ' '` 134 echo "USER_VOLUME_LOG="$vol 135 snapName=`basename $vol`"_snap_"$timestamp 136 sudo lvcreate -s -n $snapName -l100%ORIGIN $vol 137 done 138 fi 139 # -------------------------------------- 140 }
- Takes every logical volume that stores data in the first loop that follows the standard command (lines 110 to 116), after having determined the timestamp of the image (lines 108 and 109).
- Translates the device mapper to the real name of the logical volume (line 117).
- For an easier restore, writes the logical volume that will be the snapshot to the protocol file (line 118).
- Generates the name of the new snapshot by appending the timestamp to the name of the original logical volume (line 119).
- Runs the snapshot (line 120).
The options of this command are the following:
- -s: makes a snapshot of the logical volume $vol
- -n: provides the name of the new logical volume
- -l100%ORIGIN: sizes the new logical volume with the same size as the original volume.
In the previous steps, the snapshots of the data logical volumes were taken. Now we need to take the snapshots of the log volumes. First determine whether this is necessary (lines 122 to 125).
The following lines do the same for log volumes as was done for the data volumes: determines the logical volumes, stores the logical volumes with the prefix USER_VOLUME_LOG for restore purposes, and runs the snapshot (lines 126 to 137).
Listing 3. doVerify() function code
238 doVerify() { 239 # 240 # V E R I F Y 241 # 242 # -------------------------------------- 243 mkdir /tmp/verify 244 getSetting "TIMESTAMP" "" $oldConfig 245 timestamp=$_setting 246 for i in `grep "^USER_VOLUME_DATA" $config | \ 247 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 248 do 249 vol=$i"_snap_"$timestamp 250 sudo mount $vol /tmp/verify 251 $RC=$? 252 sudo umount /tmp/verify 253 if [ $RC -neq 0 ] 254 then 255 echo "# Mounting of $vol failed" 256 break 257 fi 258 echo "# Volume $i checked" 259 done 260 getSetting "DB2BACKUP_LOGS" 261 includeLogs=$_setting 262 if [ $includeLogs = "INCLUDE" -a $RC -eq 0 ] 263 then 264 for i in `grep "^USER_VOLUME_LOG" $config | \ 265 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 266 do 267 vol=$i"_snap_"$timestamp 268 sudo mount $vol /tmp/verify 269 $RC=$? 270 sudo umount /tmp/verify 271 if [ $RC -neq 0 ] 272 then 273 echo "# Mounting of $vol failed" 274 break 275 fi 276 echo "# Volume $i checked" 277 done 278 fi 279 rmdir /tmp/verify 280 # -------------------------------------- 281 }
To find out whether the snapshot was taken successfully, the script tries to mount the logical volume of every snapshot, checks if this was successful, and unmounts it again. In detail, the script runs the following steps:
- Creates a temporary directory that works as the mount point in the directory structure of the system (line 243).
- Reads the timestamp needed to generate the snapshot name from the protocol file (lines 244 and 254).
- For every data volume in the protocol file (lines 246 to 248), generates the name of the snapshot volume (line 249) and tries to mount it to the temporary directory (line 250).
- Checks if the mounting was successful (line 251).
- Unmounts the volume (line 252).
- If mounting the volume failed, returns an error message (lines 253 to 257).
If log files had to be included, the script has to check whether the snapshot of these volumes was successful as follows:
- Reads the option for including logs from the protocol file (lines 260 and 261).
- Checks if logs had to be included and if the mounting of the data volumes was successful (line 262).
- For every log volume in the protocol file (lines 264 and 265), generates the name of the snapshot volume (line 267)
- Tries to mount the volume (line 268)
- Tracks the success of mounting the volume (line 269) and unmounts it (line 270).
- Checks the result of mounting and returns an error message if it failed (lines 271 to 275).
At the end, the temporary directory is removed (line 280).
If an error occurred during the verify action, that is, if at least one of the snapshot volumes could not be mounted, the next action to be called is rollback. This is implemented as shown in Listing 4:
Listing 4. doRollback() function code
295 doRollback() { 296 # 297 # R O L L B A C K 298 # 299 # -------------------------------------- 300 getSetting "OPERATION" 301 operation=$_setting 302 if [ $operation = "SNAPSHOT" ] 303 then 304 for i in `grep "^VOLUME_DATA" $config | \ 305 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 306 do 307 sudo lvremove $i_snap_$timestamp 308 done 309 getSetting "DB2BACKUP_LOGS" 310 includeLogs=$_setting 311 if [ $includeLogs = "INCLUDE" -a $RC -eq 0 ] 312 then 313 for i in `grep "^VOLUME_LOG" $config | \ 314 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 315 do 316 sudo lvremove $i_snap_$timestamp 317 done 318 fi 319 fi 320 # -------------------------------------- 321 }
Essentially, the rollback deletes all snapshot volumes that should exist by running the following steps:
- Checks whether this is a rollback of a snapshot operation (lines 300 to 303).
- Loops across all data volumes given in the protocol file (lines 304 to 306).
- Removes the logical volume (line 307) with lvremove. This lvremove command takes only the volume name as a parameter.
- Checks whether there are snapshot volumes of the logs (lines 309 to 312).
- Loops across the log volumes and removes them (line 316).
Storemetadata does not run any commands. Storemetadata could save the protocol file to any backup infrastructure. As already stated in the first article, the protocol file is essential to be able to restore the image. At the point when storemetadata is called, no further required information is added to the protocol file anymore; that is, it can be used in this state.
The purpose of the restore is obvious: It merges the snapshot volumes back to the original volumes; in other words, in the original volume, it replaces every changed block with the original block from the snapshot. Listing 5 shows the implementation:
Listing 5. doRestore() function code
142 doRestore() { 143 # 144 # R E S T O R E 145 # 146 # -------------------------------------- 147 148 getSetting "OBJ_ID" 149 id=$_setting 150 # Construct key to search for in currenct protocol file 151 key="RESULT_"$id"_FILE" 152 getSetting $key 153 oldConfig=$_setting 154 155 getSetting "TIMESTAMP" "" $oldConfig 156 timestamp=$_setting 157 for i in `grep "^USER_VOLUME_DATA" $oldConfig | \ 158 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 159 do 160 vol=$i"_snap_"$timestamp 161 echo "# Unmounting volume $vol" 162 sudo umount -f $i 163 echo "# Merging volume $vol" 164 sudo lvconvert --merge --background $vol 165 if [ $? -neq 0 ] 166 then 167 echo "# Deactivating volume $vol" 168 sudo lvchange -an $i 169 echo "# Activating volume $vol" 170 sudo lvchange -ay $i 171 fi 172 echo "# Mounting volume $vol" 173 sudo mount $i 174 echo "# Take the backup of volume $vol again" 175 sudo lvcreate -s -n $vol -l100%ORIGIN $i 176 done 177 # if logs included 178 getSetting "ACTION" 179 readAction=$_setting 180 if [ $readAction = "DB2ACS_ACTION_READ_BY_OBJECT" ] 181 then 182 for i in `grep "^USER_VOLUME_LOG" $oldConfig | \ 183 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 184 do 185 vol=$i"_snap_"${timestamp} 186 echo "# Umounting volume $vol" 187 sudo umount -f $i 188 echo "# Merging volume $vol" 189 sudo lvconvert --merge --background $vol 190 if [ $? -neq 0 ] 191 then 192 echo "# Deactivating volume $vol" 193 sudo lvchange -an $i 194 echo "# Activating volume $vol" 195 sudo lvchange -ay $i 196 fi 197 echo "# Mounting volume $vol" 198 sudo mount $i 199 echo "# Take the backup of volume $vol again" 200 sudo lvcreate -s -n $vol -l100%ORIGIN $i 201 done 202 fi 203 # -------------------------------------- 204 }
During the restore, there are two protocol files open: the protocol file of the current restore operation that is still changed and the protocol file of the snapshot backup operation, opened read-only. The second protocol file must be opened first. To do this, the object ID is read from the restore protocol file (lines 148 and 149), the option name is generated (line 151), and the name of the backup protocol file is read (lines 152 and 153). Now, the restore from this protocol file and the corresponding image is performed as follows:
- Reads the timestamp needed to generate logical volume names from the protocol file (lines 155 and 156).
- Loops across every data volume that can be found in the protocol file (lines 157 to 176).
- Generates the snapshot volume name (line 160).
- Unmounts the original logical volume (line 162).
- Merges the snapshot volume (line 164).
- If this was not successful, deactivates and activates the volume again (lines 165 to 171).
- Mounts the merged original volume (line 173).
- Because merging removes the snapshot volume, it is necessary to recreate the snapshot volume immediately (line 175).
The log volumes are handled as follows:
- Reads the action option from the restore protocol file (line 178 and 179). Depending on this option, the log volumes may have to be restored. If its value is DB2ACS_ACTION_READ_BY_OBJECT, the restore is needed. If its value is DB2ACS_ACTION_READ_BY_GROUP, it is not needed.
- In the following steps, the log volumes are restored using the same steps as for restoring the data volumes (lines 182 to 201).
The action delete, shown in Listing 6, removes the snapshot volumes from the corresponding volume groups by running the following steps:
Listing 6. doDelete() function code
206 doDelete() { 207 # 208 # D E L E T E 209 # 210 # -------------------------------------- 211 getSetting "RESULT_"${objectId}"_FILE" 212 oldConfig=$_setting 213 getSetting "TIMESTAMP" "" $oldConfig 214 timestamp=$_setting 215 for i in `grep "^USER_VOLUME_DATA" $oldConfig | \ 216 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 217 do 218 vol=$i"_snap_"${timestamp} 219 echo "# Volume $vol" 220 echo "# "`sudo lvremove -f $vol` 221 done 222 getSetting "DB2BACKUP_LOGS" "" $oldConfig 223 includeLogs=$_setting 224 if [ $includeLogs = "INCLUDE" ] 225 then 226 for i in `grep "^USER_VOLUME_LOG" $oldConfig | \ 227 awk -F= '{print $2}'` 228 do 229 vol=$i"_snap_"${timestamp} 230 echo "# Volume $vol" 231 echo "# "`sudo lvremove -f $vol` 232 done 233 fi 235 # -------------------------------------- 236 }
- Retrieves the object ID from the command given by –o.
- Generates the name of the option with this object ID and retrieves the name of the backup protocol file (line 211).
- Reads this file (line 212).
- Now, the timestamp can be read that is needed to generate the names of the logical volumes of the snapshots (lines 213 and 214).
- Loops over all data volumes (lines 215 to 221), generates the name of the snapshot volume (line 218), and removes the volume (line 220).
- Checks if the backup image contains log files; that is, checks if the value of DB2BACKUP_LOGS is set to INCLUDE in the backup protocol file.
- If so, removes these snapshot volumes by generating their names (line 229) and by removing them (line 231) in the loop (lines 226 to 232).
This article demonstrates the use of LVM to create snapshot images of DB2 databases. It explains all actions of all operations in detail. It should be clear that the implementation of customer scripts using the scripted interface is easy to handle.
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- Find more detailed information on the options that can be found in the protocol files in the DB2 Information Center.
- The RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 – Logical Volume Manager Administration Guide contains more information on installing, configuring, and maintaining the Linux Logical Volume Manager.
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Gettysburg National Military Park is a huge place, and you can easily spend a whole day here. The park preserves the site of the most famous battle in the Civil War, and surrounds the town. Unlike many battlefields, you'll be fighting huge crowds, school tours, tour buses, etc. The monuments line the streets of the park, and there are plenty of impressive ones.
There's a designated auto tour that's two-three hours long, and it will take that long to get through it. Note there are several streets and sites NOT on the auto tour that you can wander to, as well as a few trails through the park.
For a sampling of the many memorials in the park - please check out my travelogues.
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Great overview of what must be an profoundly emotional place to visit. Its on my list of civil war sites to tour. Thanks for visiting my DP page. Wish I spent more time there too. :)
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Despite the one-two punch of powerhouse hiring events in July, a seasonal summer spike in unemployment could not be smacked down.
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The I-75 Relief Task Force wrapped up its work Friday with a recommendation that the state upgrade the freeway and current road networks before it thinks of extending the Suncoast Parkway.
The group, represented by officials and others from six counties appointed by Transportation Secretary Jim Boxold, was charged with finding a long-term solution to Interstate 75 congestion issues between Gainesville and Wildwood.
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The Foreign Office has said it was a mistake to invite three West Bank settlers to an official birthday reception in honour of the Queen - and has implied that behind the scenes, the British ambassador to Israel has been rapped over the knuckles for inviting the men.
Three members of the Yesha Council of settlers attended the party at Ambassador Tom Phillips' Ramat Gan residence in June.
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Eric Moonman, president of the Zionist Federation, said the Foreign Office had shown "no guts" in withdrawing support for the decision to invite the settlers.
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"I have talked dozens of times to other diplomats and I do not think my presence at an official event should be considered as recognising the settlements as not being illegal.
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Mr Moonman added: "It's a most unfortunate action by the MP [Mr Blunt]. If the settlers were recommended by the ambassador, then that should be good enough. It is a case of an MP busy-bodying himself."
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The men's hockey team is coming off a road series with the University of North Dakota where the Huskies stole 3 of 4 points that catapulted them into the top spot in the WCHA.
Two Huskies were honored this week by the WCHA for their play in the series. Freshman Jonny Brodzinski and Senior Ben Hanowski. Brodzinski scored two goals and notched one assist to earn him the Rookie of the Week honor. He is currently riding an 11 game point streak and is tied with teammate Kalle Kossila for the lead in goals among WCHA freshmen. Hanowski notched 3 goals on 10 shots over the weekend to earn the title of Offensive Player of the week. He has scored in the past three games and leads the team with 88 shots on the season. Hanowski is also one of three Huskies that appear on the first phase of fan voting for the Hobey Baker Award, along with Drew LeBlanc and Nic Dowd.
The team currently sits in first place in the WCHA and is ranked 12th in the USCHO polls. This weekend the team will travel to Bemidji to take on the BSU Beavers in another WCHA matchup. Follow the action with KVSC Sports Directors Gina Carlson and Scott Gross as they make the call live from the Sanford Center in Bemidji. Pregame show starts at 7:15 on friday and 6:45 on Saturday. For the most up to date SCSU hockey news follow us on Twitter.
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THE ''RHAPSODY IN BLUE'' of George Gershwin is the most familiar, most performed and, as they say in the entertainment world, highest-grossing piece of 20th-century music. It is also the most protean. Since its premiere, in 1924, it has taken ever-changing forms, from multiple concert versions of varied lengths and orchestrations to 15-second commercial sound bites.
So when the Boston Pops recently announced the premiere of an ''authentic'' version, restoring 50 measures of Gershwin's music to the score, critics and orchestra managers rushed to hear it. In a burst of irrational exuberance one writer claimed that the new version added four minutes to the piece and that the restored passages were ''rich with jazzy blues interpolations.''
Perhaps the Pops was giving free beer to the critics. On sober inspection, the expanded version, edited by Alicia Zizzo, a concert pianist and composer, is neither new nor improved. Although Ms. Zizzo claims that she has restored the score to its original form on the basis of her own ''labor-intensive musicological 'dig,' '' beginning in 1989, most of her purported discoveries have been in print for 10 years. The ''restored'' passages appear in the facsimile edition of Ferde Grofe's original score published by Warner Brothers in 1987, and all but one of them can be heard in a superb Musicmasters recording from that year, with Ivan Davis as soloist and Maurice Peress conducting. The restorations -- which add perhaps a minute to the piece, not four -- consist of pedestrian extensions of piano solos that link the main sections of the piece.
These additions are not jazzier or bluesier than the rest of the rhapsody; they sound more like Liszt than Jelly Rolly Morton. The editors at the work's original publisher, Ms. Zizzo suggests, were ''classically trained in the 19th-century European tradition of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff,'' and did not understand Gershwin's ''unique American style.'' They made damaging cuts, she contends, which deprived the world of the authentic rhapsody. But this account may be a convenient fiction designed to lend authority to a new edition of a work that will lose its copyright protection and enter the public domain in two years.
Composers often revise and cut their music after premieres. Second thoughts are a normal part of the compositional process and do not require a conspiracy theory as an explanation. ''Rhapsody in Blue'' was Gershwin's first large instrumental work, and he wrote it in three weeks. Much evidence suggests that he may have chosen to delete those passages himself. They do not appear in either of his recordings with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra or in his 1925 performance on piano roll. Nor did Gershwin, who lived for another 13 years and could easily have paid for a ''restored'' edition of his own, ever reinstate those measures to print.
Over the years, critics of the rhapsody, notably Leonard Bernstein, have cited its rambling connective passages as compositional flaws. Blaming the work's defects on malicious editorial cuts has a certain paranoid appeal; you can just picture those stuffy Europeanizing professors sniggering at Gershwin's infantile Americanisms as they wielded their editorial scissors. But the charge is not borne out by Ms. Zizzo's own recording of the rhapsody on a 1996 Carlton CD, however attractive the performance.
The reinstated passages contain no new thematic ideas, and they certainly are not more difficult technically than familiar passages. They merely make the music, which many critics and musicians have always found flabby, a bit flabbier. The claim by Jeffrey Biegel, the pianist who gave the recent concert premiere of the Zizzo edition with the Boston Pops, that the familiar rhapsody was just a ''Reader's Digest condensed version'' of the newly revealed real thing, surrounds the flab with hot air.
Why, in any case, should the notes in Gershwin's manuscript carry more weight than the notes he actually recorded? And why are cuts and changes automatically labeled ''tampering'' when they may be improvements? After years of browbeating by the early-music movement, we tend to assume that the most authentic text of a piece is the earliest and that authentic performance-practice means a return to the style of the premiere. ''Rhapsody in Blue,'' with its enduring popularity, resists both ideas.
The proliferation of versions, arrangements and approaches over the last seven decades have been signs not of disrespect or misunderstanding but of love. The public immediately took the piece to its heart and has refashioned it over the years in its own image, just as it has done with Gershwin's irresistible songs. Few today would care to hear Gershwin's songs bleated and Betty-Booped the way they were on Broadway in the 1920's.
At its inception, ''Rhapsody in Blue'' epitomized the cultural synthesis the historian Ann Douglas has termed ''mongrel Manhattan.'' It brought together the idioms of jazz, popular song and concert music in a spirit of modern urban sophistication. The work itself was a collaboration. Grofe (of ''Grand Canyon Suite'' fame) arranged Gershwin's two-piano score for the Whiteman Orchestra, the most famous jazz band in the country. In a series of ingenious orchestrations for Whiteman, Grofe had invented the band's sonority, and he gave Gershwin's music its pungent jazz coloring by exploiting the distinctive styles, colors and technical tricks of the group's individual members.


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