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Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 06:26:28 AM
No, not South American...

I insist: "I love the city where my ballet was performed"

All I think and post is otomh: Gerswhin?
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on February 23, 2019, 06:31:46 AM
All I think and post is otomh: Gerswhin?
Warm, very warm....but not quite there yet.

"I love [the city]..."

ritter

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 06:32:34 AM
Philadelphia?
No, remember the city is not in my home country...

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 06:33:43 AM
Warm, very warm....but not quite there yet.

"I love [the city]..."

Con todo mi amor,
Sevilla, Sevilla te quiero.


(Heard by me in Madrid, on a radio station, AD 1993)
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 06:33:43 AM
"I love [the city]..."
...every moment of the year...

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter


ritter

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 06:40:18 AM
...every moment of the year...
....because my love....

ritter


Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 06:33:43 AM
Warm, very warm....but not quite there yet.

The only ballet by a very famous North American composer, orchestrated by another famous composer.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

#430
Quote from: Florestan on February 23, 2019, 06:55:29 AM
The only ballet by a very famous North American composer, orchestrated by another famous composer.
That's it...and the other clues should IMHO have given away the identity of the composer (not the orchestrator) by now...

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 06:58:12 AM
That's it...and the other clues should IMHO have given away the identity of the composer by now...

I love that effing city... Ella Fitzgerald... yeah, it's about as clear as the darkest midnight ever --- but then again I'm not American.  :D
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

You don't have to be American to have heard of this, sung by Ella, or by Frank, or by Maurice... in the springtime, in the summer....

Florestan

#433
Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 07:04:37 AM
You don't have to be American to have heard of this, sung by Ella, or by Frank, or by Maurice... in the springtime, in the summer....

I vividly remember your's not ever hearing Waves of the Danube...  ;D

I love Paris! So what? (or rather, so who?)
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on February 23, 2019, 07:12:55 AM

I love Paris! So what? (or rather, so who?)
Sizzling! You're there..

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

#436
Quote from: Florestan on February 23, 2019, 07:21:00 AM
Cole Porter?

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 07:27:33 AM
Are you looking for Within the Quota by Cole Porter?


Finally!

Cole Porter, who wrote the song I Love Paris for the musical Can-Can, wrote the ballet Within the Quota (choreography by Jean Borlin) for Rolf de Maré's Ballets Suedois. The work was orchestrated by Charles Koechlin, and first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on October 25, 1923. On that same evening, Darius Milhaud's jazz-infused La création du monde received its world premiere.

Florestan, don't tell me you had never heard I Love Paris???

So ex aequo Florestan and San Antone, I'd say.  :)

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 23, 2019, 07:28:38 AM
Florestan, don't tell me you had never heard I Love Paris???

I have heard it alright, Ella and Maurice included, but I have never known the story behind it.  Thanks for sharing. :)

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So ex aequo Florestan and San Antone, I'd say.  :)

While I'm thinking about mine, I'll gladly let San Antone post his.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Florestan

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 07:30:43 AM
Give it to Florestan since he came up with the composer before I did.

Thanks. Here's an easy one.


My ancestry was threefold, my father was an alcoholic and my stepfather died while I was in my teens. I have never taken any conducting classes yet I was barely 18 when I conducted a famous contemporary work alongside one of my own compositions. I am famous more for my recordings than for my compositions and I died in exile. My name is...?
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Ken B

Quote from: Florestan on February 23, 2019, 07:58:46 AM
Thanks. Here's an easy one.


My ancestry was threefold, my father was an alcoholic and my stepfather died while I was in my teens. I have never taken any conducting classes yet I was barely 18 when I conducted a famous contemporary work alongside one of my own compositions. I am famous more for my recordings than for my compositions and I died in exile. My name is...?

Wild guess: Enescu
Wild guess: Futwangler
Wild guess: Bruno Walter