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BSX Records presents THE EDWARD DAVID ZELIFF COLLECTION, VOLUME 8: THE ART OF THE ARRANGER featuring arrangements by Edward David Zeliff for various motion picture themes, Broadway showtune themes and popular songs.
CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS
These two arrangements have been performed both nationally and internationally, including recently in Australia. The well-known theme song from the popular 1957 film An Affair to Remember was written by Harry Warren with lyrics by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson. Waltzing Matilda is very well known and often considered to be a folk song, but it was actually written at the turn of the 20th century and is full of local color from the land "Down Under."
PIANO TROPICS
These arrangements were written for a special dinner-theatre concert I gave at a church where I served as Director of Music for some 20 years. As a matter of fact, the theme and title of that show was "Piano Tropics," and all the songs in this group have something to do with travel to the tropics or crossing the ocean in the days of sailing ships. Adventures in Paradise is the delightful theme music from the TV series of the same name in the late 1950s and was composed by Lionel Newman. By the Sleepy Lagoon, by Eric Coates, I wrote in a hurry for the wedding reception of a friend's daughter and for whom I did the music at the wedding (the happy couple were soon to be off to Hawaii for their honeymoon). On Green Dolphin Street and Follow Me (from the 1962 65mm production of Mutiny on the Bounty) were both theme songs from MGM movies 20 years apart and both dealing with sailing ships and the tropical southern oceans. The composer for both films was Bronislau Kaper and I thought these theme songs would make a nice medley together.
Nightingale is an exotic little number usually done instrumentally though sometimes vocally. The music is by the Latin dance band leader Xavier Cugat and was recorded extensively in the mid-20th century. Quiet Village and Love Dance were two of the marvelous titles on Les Baxter's first ever tropical/exotica album in 1951, The Ritual Of The Savage. Many artists recorded their own arrangements of Quiet Village, and it was a huge hit for Martin Denny. From the Broadway musical The Pajama Game comes Hernando's Hideaway by Jerry Ross, a sultry tango about a nightclub where people can meet for a secret rendezvous.
PIANO GEMS
These little "gems" were arrangements that I wrote and performed in several succeeding dinner/theatre shows and "pops" programs, and they are all well-known songs by equally well-known composers. They are Over The Rainbow by Harold Arlen, Secret Love by Sammy Fain, Send In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim, I Was Born In Love With You (the theme from the 1970 film version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights) by Michel Legrand, and Moon River (from 1961's Breakfast At Tiffany's) by Henry Mancini. While I normally wrote out all these arrangements ahead of time, and have published most of them on Sheet Music Plus, Secret Love was totally improvised from the sheet music in the concert itself, and what you hear in this recording is that performance, the entire arrangement totally "made up" on the spot because I needed it for the show and didn't have time to write it out beforehand. Speaking of live recordings, nearly everything here was recorded live during a performance, with the inevitable result of a "chipped note" or two here and there. It comes with the territory.
MOMENTS FOR FLUTE
I often invited talented students and musician friends to perform in the various "pops" programs I did, and I wrote several arrangements for solo flute and piano. These included Fluter's Ball by Henry Mancini and All I Ask Of You by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
BALLADS FOR CELLO
I also wrote several arrangements for solo cello and piano. Among these are The Music Of The Night by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Blue Moon by Richard Rogers, Unforgettable by Irving Gordon, and The Twelfth Of Never, an English folk ballad adapted by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster and made extremely popular by Johnny Mathis.
THE EDWARD DAVID ZELIFF COLLECTION: VOLUME 8
Edward David Zeliff
$8.95
Downloads include choice of MP3, WAV, or FLAC
BSXDG0130
Includes Digital Booklet
BSX Records presents THE EDWARD DAVID ZELIFF COLLECTION, VOLUME 8: THE ART OF THE ARRANGER featuring arrangements by Edward David Zeliff for various motion picture themes, Broadway showtune themes and popular songs.
CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS
These two arrangements have been performed both nationally and internationally, including recently in Australia. The well-known theme song from the popular 1957 film An Affair to Remember was written by Harry Warren with lyrics by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson. Waltzing Matilda is very well known and often considered to be a folk song, but it was actually written at the turn of the 20th century and is full of local color from the land "Down Under."
PIANO TROPICS
These arrangements were written for a special dinner-theatre concert I gave at a church where I served as Director of Music for some 20 years. As a matter of fact, the theme and title of that show was "Piano Tropics," and all the songs in this group have something to do with travel to the tropics or crossing the ocean in the days of sailing ships. Adventures in Paradise is the delightful theme music from the TV series of the same name in the late 1950s and was composed by Lionel Newman. By the Sleepy Lagoon, by Eric Coates, I wrote in a hurry for the wedding reception of a friend's daughter and for whom I did the music at the wedding (the happy couple were soon to be off to Hawaii for their honeymoon). On Green Dolphin Street and Follow Me (from the 1962 65mm production of Mutiny on the Bounty) were both theme songs from MGM movies 20 years apart and both dealing with sailing ships and the tropical southern oceans. The composer for both films was Bronislau Kaper and I thought these theme songs would make a nice medley together.
Nightingale is an exotic little number usually done instrumentally though sometimes vocally. The music is by the Latin dance band leader Xavier Cugat and was recorded extensively in the mid-20th century. Quiet Village and Love Dance were two of the marvelous titles on Les Baxter's first ever tropical/exotica album in 1951, The Ritual Of The Savage. Many artists recorded their own arrangements of Quiet Village, and it was a huge hit for Martin Denny. From the Broadway musical The Pajama Game comes Hernando's Hideaway by Jerry Ross, a sultry tango about a nightclub where people can meet for a secret rendezvous.
PIANO GEMS
These little "gems" were arrangements that I wrote and performed in several succeeding dinner/theatre shows and "pops" programs, and they are all well-known songs by equally well-known composers. They are Over The Rainbow by Harold Arlen, Secret Love by Sammy Fain, Send In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim, I Was Born In Love With You (the theme from the 1970 film version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights) by Michel Legrand, and Moon River (from 1961's Breakfast At Tiffany's) by Henry Mancini. While I normally wrote out all these arrangements ahead of time, and have published most of them on Sheet Music Plus, Secret Love was totally improvised from the sheet music in the concert itself, and what you hear in this recording is that performance, the entire arrangement totally "made up" on the spot because I needed it for the show and didn't have time to write it out beforehand. Speaking of live recordings, nearly everything here was recorded live during a performance, with the inevitable result of a "chipped note" or two here and there. It comes with the territory.
MOMENTS FOR FLUTE
I often invited talented students and musician friends to perform in the various "pops" programs I did, and I wrote several arrangements for solo flute and piano. These included Fluter's Ball by Henry Mancini and All I Ask Of You by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
BALLADS FOR CELLO
I also wrote several arrangements for solo cello and piano. Among these are The Music Of The Night by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Blue Moon by Richard Rogers, Unforgettable by Irving Gordon, and The Twelfth Of Never, an English folk ballad adapted by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster and made extremely popular by Johnny Mathis.
