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Robert Merrill & Patrice Munsel for the RCA album Show Boat (1956) [7] Roger Whittaker for the album A Perfect Day: His Greatest Hits and More (1996) [8] Steve Lawrence for the album The Steve Lawrence Sound (1960) [9] Tony Bennett for the album The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (2015) Tony Martin recorded on December 21, 1946 for ...
Composer Kurt Weill "My Ship" is a popular song written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The music is marked "Andante espressivo"; Gershwin describes it as "orchestrated by Kurt to sound sweet and simple at times, mysterious and menacing at other".
"Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Boom Shalock Lock Boom)" is a song written and performed by American hip hop group House of Pain. Released in 1992 through Tommy Boy Records, it was the second single from their debut studio album, Fine Malt Lyrics (1992).
Musical quotation is to be distinguished from variation, where a composer takes a theme (their own or another's) and writes variations on it.In that case, the origin of the theme is usually acknowledged in the title (e.g., Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn).
Portal:Classical music/Quotes/10 Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Show Boat is a 221-minute studio album of Jerome Kern's musical, performed by a cast headed by Karla Burns, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas with the Ambrosian Chorus and the London Sinfonietta under the direction of John McGlinn.
There is many a "dark and cloudy morn brings forth a pleasant day" and "there are fine boats sailing here". In a version of Let No Man Steal Your Thyme , [ 1 ] she wishes she were in her lover’s arms but she tells false men not to give her cause to complain about the grass underfoot being "trodden down" – in time, it will rise again.
"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River.