Re: Dudley Moore piano performance -score available?

[David Samuel Barr]

dave wrote:
> I have somewhere a video of Dudley Moore playing a piano piece which
> is a skit on the theme
>
> dada - da da da dit-dit daaaaaaaaa.
>
> and plays in the style of the great composers Beethoven Mozart etc.
>
> It is really challenging to play. I was wondering though if the score
> to this piece is available somewhere?
>
> If there's any demand I'll post the actual sound recording.
> Thanks

This is Moore's "And the Same to You" from "Beyond the Fringe",
which riffs on the main theme of Kenneth J. Alford's "Colonel
Bogey March" in the manner described. I don't think that it's
ever been published for sale, but in college back in 1974 I saw a
fellow student play it from accordion-folded sheet music which,
when he later showed it to me, seemed to be in a professional
copyist hand, so I presume it was illegally photocopied from
"Fringe" performance materials for hire from one of the usual
theatrical rental houses, although none of the usual suspects
seems to have the show currently and ASCAP lists the work but
has no publisher information for it. In fact, it's rather
surprising that it was committed to paper at all, since these
types of self-performed shticks usually never leave the heads
of the arrangers (one exception being "Happy Birthday, Dear
Ludwig" by Leonid Hambro, a similar piece created for the
Beethoven bicentennial, recorded for Columbia and published by
Summy-Birchard).

[halib...@googlemail.com]

hi there. The complete score IS available in a book entitles "The
Complete Beyond the Fringe", ISBN 0-413-14670-7

i have it, and am trying to learn it. It's quite challenging but great
fun!