| Arkady Shilkloper (Horn) and Vladimir Tolkachev Big Band plays "Wupper". Live in Novosibirsk at 16.03.2011. The Wupper is a right tributary to the Rhine river in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Rising near Marienheide in western Sauerland it runs through the mountainous area of the Bergisches Land Berg County and enters the Rhine at Leverkussen, south of Düsseldorf. Its upper course is called "Wipper". On its course of about 113 km the Wupper traverses the city of Wuppertal where the Schwebebahn or floating tramway for 10 kilometers runs over the river. According to a popular local story, on 21 July 1950 a young elephant named Tuffi jumped into the Wupper from the Schwebebahn. It is crossed by the highest railroad bridge in Germany near Müngsten, between Remscheid and Solingen. A few miles further down, Schloss Burg is located on a hill overlooking the river. The Wupper is cited in two German sayings: "Über die Wupper gehen" - "To go over the Wupper" meaning going bankrupt, going into jail or going to die, and "Wir wuppen das" -"We'll whoop that" meaning We'll get that done. [3] Else Lasker-Schüler wrote the drama Die Wupper. It's possible that the 1928 American musical Whoopee and the famous title song Makin' whoopee!, is inspired by the German saying "Wir wuppen das". Texter of the song was Gus Kahn who was born in Koblenz, about 100 kilometers from Wupper Valley. He must have known this saying. Аркадий Шилклопер (валторна) и Биг Бэнд Владимира Толкачёва ... |
