Pianophilia

What is to arrange? You can play the voice part and the piano part at the same time.
Sorry. That sounds supercilious. I will post an arrangement this morning.

This is played by Gerald Moore in one of the best recordings ever made, a hommage to him with Fischer-Dieskau, de Los Angeles and Schwarzkopf

Grazie, Caprotti. Of course the request immediately made me think of the encore on that program. I don't think I ever will hear that song without thinking of that recording.

Conventional wisdom has it that the best opera by Saint-Saëns is, of course,
Samson and Delilah. Trust me to be different - I prefer Henry VIII. Here's a snippet.

Timtin wrote:Conventional wisdom has it that the best opera by Saint-Saëns is, of course,
Samson and Delilah. Trust me to be different - I prefer Henry VIII. Here's a snippet.

Conventional wisdom -these days at least- is that S&D is the only opera of S-S. Yet I seem to recall reading somewhere that Henry VIII is supposed to be the better work. But if so... why is it never staged? Would it be harder to cast ? No big heart-stopping arias? (But maybe Katherine of Aragon is also written for a mezzo?) Any ideas, Tim?

I don't really know, but do I remember reading that SS himself was surprised that H8 didn't get the
success he thought it deserved. Maybe the French weren't that interested in English monarchs, or
the old English, Scottish and Irish tunes woven into it - perhaps the type of music contained in
D&S was more in-keeping with the fashions in French opera at the time.

Can anyone please help with the piece "Havanola" by Hugo Frey
(look here http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=RcTKkHSwp ... re=related)
as played by Gershwin ?

Hugo Frey: August 26, 1973 Chicago- February 13, 1952, New York City.Composer, songwriter, conductor, arranger, violist and pianist, educated at the Chicago Conservatory and a student of Luigi van Kunits. He was a violist with the Listemann Sring Quartet between 1896 and 1898, and then a pianist for the Red Path Grand Concert Company in 1898-1899. He conducted and arranged for dance orchestras and for musical stage productions, and wrote the stage score for the Chicago production of "The Elopers". He conducted and arranged for Victor Phonograph Company recording sessions between 1916 and 1924, and from 1921 he was on the staff of music-publishing companies in New York. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his popular-song compositions include "Havanola", "Rockin' the Boat", "Yodel Dodel Doh", "Sarah from Sahara", "When You Come Back", "American's Creed", and "On the Home Front".


Ilu.

Dear Ilu,

thank you very much for these background information.
But I'm looking for the score !!