| re: "After the Ball" | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 11:35 pm EDT 08/06/24 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:31 pm EDT 08/06/24 | |
| In reply to: "After the Ball" - wizrdofoz27 07:03 pm EDT 08/06/24 | |
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| Of course, only a bit of "After The Ball" is in Show Boat. But it's one of a number of similar borrowings of folk songs/hymns/standards: The Music Man - "Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean" and "Goodnight Ladies" Passion - "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" (in Italian) Hello, Dolly - "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" Gypsy and Assassins - "The Stars And Stripes Forever March" (Assassins also quotes the Washington Post March, The El Capitan March, America from West Side Story, and of course Hail To The Chief) Of Thee I Sing - "The Farmer In The Dell," "Hornpipe," "Swanee River" West Side Story - "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" (as whistled by the Sharks) On Your Toes - "Three Blind Mice" (quoted in "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue") Nunsense - the traditional chant melody for "Veni Creator Spiritus" (preceding the opening number), also the Bach Prelude half of the Gounod/Bach Ave Maria makes several appearances in the piano part. The Threepenny Opera - Peachum's Morning Song is a direct borrowing from The Beggar's Opera This in addition to all sorts of shorter quotes, like the little bits of the Star Spangled Banner in 1776 and Hair, or a phrase from Il Trovatore's "Miserere" at the end of the original "We Open In Venice" from Kiss Me Kate. The oddest, IMO, is at the end of "Give A Man Enough Rope" from The Will Rogers Follies, where the lead trumpet in the orchestra starts quoting "Short'nin Bread." You'd never really notice unless you were looking at the trumpet book lol. But it's there. One of my favorites is in "The Germans At The Spa" from Nine, where when "German music" is referred to, Yeston quotes an iconic phrase from Tristan Und Isolde. And although I'm not a big fan of the 1962 rewrite of Anything Goes, it is fun to hear the ensemble using "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as a countermelody during "Blow Gabriel Blow." And of course the marvelous classical quotes in "Simple Little System" from Bells Are Ringing - especially "Hialeah" in place of the Halleluiah Chorus. And kudos to Jonathan Tunick for the bit of real Mahler after "and one for Mahler," and the quote from Der Rosenkavalier near the end of "A Weekend In The Country." (One of the many things that made the last Broadway revival a misfire, IMO, is the cutting of that quote. How could they do that???) And, coming back to Show Boat, the original intro to "Bill" is a quote from Beethoven's Leonore Overture #2. I don't know why, except that it seems to play as a bit of "improv" by the stage pianist. |
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