Music From Movie "Blossom Time" re: Schubert
nell...@webtv.net
Time" which portrayed a period in the life of F. Schubert. Is anyone
out there old enough to remember? VK
Stephen W. Worth
nell...@webtv.net wrote:
> Does anyone know the names of the music played in the movie "Blossom
> Time" which portrayed a period in the life of F. Schubert.
My copy of "Gems From Romberg" lists:
Keep it Dark
Serenade
My Springtime Thou Art
There Is An Old Vienna
Unfinished Symphony
Tell Me Daisy
Song of Love
The music is performed by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Light
Opera Co. (Set C-24 / Record 11792-A & B)
> Is anyone out there old enough to remember?
Not old, just not forgotten!
See ya
Steve
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samir golescu
I seem to be "old enough to remember". The movie, while naive even by that
era's standards, had the incalculable advantage of featuring the
tenor Richard Tauber, with his highly refined musicianship and incredibly
sweet color of voice, in the main part. In the middle of the movie, there
was a quite substantial "mini-Schubert-songs-recital", including, if
memory serves, Heidenroslein, Standchen (the more famous one), and
Ungeduld (from Die Schone Mullerin).
Somewhat I suspect that the song that may interest you is not Schubert's,
but George Clutsam's (1866-1951). Clutsam, in addition to providing the
Schubert arrangements for the movie, composed a truly beautiful
operetta-like tune, "Once there lived a lady fair", which
Tauber-"Schubert" sings in order to mollify the supposedly tough old
princess. That song, in that movie (the almost contemporary "78"-disc
recording is not QUITE that good as the musical soundtrack of the movie
itself), is a genuine Tauberian gem, sung with all the singer's "special
effects" (dreamy head-voice on the acutes, tender mezza-voce in the middle
register etc.).
regards,
SG
REG
"Lilac Time" with S music arranged by Berte and Clutsum, words by Adrian
Ross, singers are June Nromhill, Thomas Round, Jaohn Cameron, The Rita
Williams Singers and Michael Collins and his Orchestra, with everything from
Stanchen to Forelle - it was done furst in Vienna in 1916 and reached
Broadway 5 years later with arrangements by Romberg - it ran for 592
performances (a HUGE number at that time), even without the benefit of a
falling chandelier
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Matthew B. Tepper
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> it was done furst in Vienna in 1916
In a princely manner, perhaps?
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REG
1916.
There is a quite wonderful story about Lord Berners, who was posted for a
year in his twenties as an attache to the British Embassy in Istambul. (For
those who do not know, Lord Berners was a true English eccentric, gifted as
an amateur - in the best sense - writer of a number of novels and much
music, including Ballet scores presented by Diaghelev and now recently
recorded on Marco Polo.) In any case, Berners was truely not of this world,
clueless, wealthy and living in a better world from the day of his birth. He
happened to write to someone that the streets of Istambul were filled with
beggars; I believe it was one of his consular reports. The correspondence,
when it was released, caused a great deal of resentment in Istambul, and
embarrasment to the British legation. Without hesitation, Berners explained
that he had simply miswritten, and that he had meant to say "buggers".
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Matthew B. Tepper
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> Sorry for the typo, Matthew - I meant to say it was wurst done in
> Vienna in 1916.
>
> There is a quite wonderful story about Lord Berners, who was posted for
> a year in his twenties as an attache to the British Embassy in
> Istambul. (For those who do not know, Lord Berners was a true English
> eccentric, gifted as an amateur - in the best sense - writer of a
> number of novels and much music, including Ballet scores presented by
> Diaghelev and now recently recorded on Marco Polo.) In any case,
> Berners was truely not of this world, clueless, wealthy and living in a
> better world from the day of his birth. He happened to write to someone
> that the streets of Istambul were filled with beggars; I believe it was
> one of his consular reports. The correspondence, when it was released,
> caused a great deal of resentment in Istambul, and embarrasment to the
> British legation. Without hesitation, Berners explained that he had
> simply miswritten, and that he had meant to say "buggers".
Great Lord Berners story! Anybody who could or would write a song entitled
"Red Roses and Red Noses" is truly deserving of a place in history.