Good morning, all! DR Ben, thanks for the MusicGuy birthday alert.
Tom Murray is flying in from Chicago this morning and we begin editing the new score to THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER. Toyland will always be Toyland, but today it's Cnderella time, and I wish the music were as good as Toyland's.
DR Jose, I ordered the Dvorak gypsy songs on a recording "Folk songs" by Anne Sofie von Otter. I have the Brahms Zigeunerlieder on her album of Brahms' songs. What I did not know was that Brahms originally wrote them, like the Liebeslieder Waltzes, for vocal quartet, and I found a Chandos recording of the original choral version. For all you DRs who know the Liebeslieder terms from Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and don't know the Brahms original, they are quite beautiful, and they've been recorded by full chorus as well as quartet, which is how I prefer them sung. Sondheim's idea for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC came from Balanchine's choreography of the waltzes for City Ballet. where the quartet stands around the piano and sings while the waltzes are danced.
TOD: I must think! (a PETER PAN reference)
