Dear Sarah,
Sorry if I stepped on your toes! "I'm a
sentimemtal sap, that's all...", and I love
"tearjerkers" as much ( or more ) than anyone!
"A portrait of Jennie" and "7th Heaven" ( Jimmy
Stewart, Simone Simone version ) being my two top
"12 hankie" films. BUT I DO draw the line at
"My Funny Valentine", which
Rodgers and Hart considered an insignificant
"throwaway", and which sounds, for all the world, like
a funeral dirge!
( Gimme "Sweet Lorraine" anyday! )
But Rodgers is my #1 all time favorite American
composer.
Thump
--- "Kevin E. Ramsey" <kevin.e.ramsey@cox.net> wrote:
> Hey, if we didn't have true romantics, we'd be out
> of business in short order anyway.
>
> I just don't want to hear them go into a long medley
> of these tunes, that's all... Yeah, but if they
> insist, I'll listen. Oh well!
>
> Kevin.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sarah Fox
> To: Pianotech
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: NYNY...OT Haha! "The Monstrous Medley
> of Maudlin Melodies"
>
>
> Dunno, Thump...
>
> > and, finally, "My Funny Valentine"
>
> I think the folks who love this piece probably
> also love Moonlight Serenade
> and 'Round Midnight -- and Casa Blanca, African
> Queen, and probably most of
> Frank Capra's movies. They're gushingly
> sentimental sorts of folks, and
> they enjoy romance. IMO, they're not trying to be
> "sophistikated." They're
> quite sincere, knowing that their tastes are kinda
> corny.
>
> Of course I can appreciate how pianists must groan
> at having to play these
> classics hundreds of times for sentimental
> audience members.
>
> Peace,
> Sarah
> ... who is thusly afflicted
>
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