Far Away Places

Alex Kramer
Canadian-American songwriter
(30 May, 1803 - 10 February, 1998)

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The Three Suns (1956)
- Far Away Places (Kramer)

The Bridal Chorus ala Jazzbo

Richard Wagner
German composer primarily known for his operas
(22 May, 1813 - 13 February, 1883)

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Al "Jazzbo" Collins (1960)
- The Bridal Chorus (after Wagner)

Satie's Birthday Anniversary

Erik Satie
French neo-classical composer and pianist
(17 May 1866 - 1 July 1925)
Emile Pandolfi, piano (2005)
Gymnopédie No.1 (Satie)
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Is that Little Brook Still Leaping There?

Johnny Gray
English-born tenor saxophonist and clarinetist
15 May, 1920 -

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- How Are Things in Glocca Morra? (Lane)

Thaïs in Deep Thought

Jules Massenet
French-born neo-classical and opera composer
(12 May, 1842 - 13 August, 1912)
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- Méditation from 'Thaïs' (Messenet)
Le vrai est trop simple , il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué
-- George Sand

A Max Steiner's Place

Was Tara still standing?
Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?
- Margaret Mitchell, 'Gone with the Wind', Chapter 24

Max Steiner
(10 May, 1888 - 28 December, 1971)
Austrian-born American movie scores composer
best known music includes
Tara's Theme from Gone with the Wind (1939)
and
Theme from A Summer Place (1959).

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Ron Goodwin and his orchestra (1996)
- Tara's Theme
from 'Gone with the Wind' (Steiner)

Will It Always Live On?

Note: Besides Tchaikovsky, tomorrow, 7 May, is also Johannes Brahms birthday anniversary (7 May, 1833 - 3 April, 1897). He was the very last of the Romantic Era composer. Only a Tchaikovsky piece is posted this time.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian-born Romantic Era composer
(7 May, 1840 - 6 November, 1893)
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Tony Martin (1941)
- Tonight We Love
(after Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 B Flat Minor)
Tonight We Love
Freddy Martin, vocals (1941)
Words: Bobby Worth
Music Adaptation: Ray Austin and Freddy Martin
- from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23

Tonight we love
While the moon beams down in dream light
Tonight we touch the stars
Love is ours

Night winds that sigh embrace the sky
Tonight we love in the glow
That gleams so softly

I know this wasn't meant to borrow
But tomorrow will it be gone
Or will it always live on
Tonight we love

[Interlude]

Tonight we love in the glow
That gleams so softly

I know this wasn't meant to borrow
But tomorrow will it be gone
Or will it always live on
Tonight we love

Poet of the Piano Birthday Anniversary

Carmen Cavallaro
pianist, and orchestra conductor
"Poet of the Piano"
(6 May, 1913 - 12 October, 1989)

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Carmen Cavallaro, piano (1996 compilation)
- Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (Fain)

Can't Take My Eyes Off You, My Gentle Joy

Titania, having had her eyes anointed with Oberon's love potion, fell in love with Bottom the weaver, whose head had been converted into that of an ass by the playful Puck.

"Come, sit thee down upon this flow'ry bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy."
-- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 4 Scene 1

Frankie Valli
American-born pop vocalist
3 May, 1934 -

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Frankie Valli (1967)
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
(Crewe and Gaudio)

Who Knows Where or When

Lorenz Hart
American-born lyricist
(2 May, 1895 - 22 November, 1943)

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Maragaret Whiting (1995 compilation)
- Where or When (Rodgers and Hart)

Her Spring Longing in May

Spring Longing
Emma Lazarus
(22 July, 1849 – 19 November, 1887)


What art thou doing here, O Imagination? Go
away I entreat thee by the gods, as thou didst
come, for I want thee not. But thou art come
according to thy old fashion. I am not angry
with thee--only go away.
--Marcus Antoninus

Lilac hazes veil the skies.
Languid sighs
Breathes the mild, caressing air.
Pink as coral's branching sprays,
Orchard ways
With the blossomed peach are fair.

Sunshine, cordial as a kiss,
Poureth bliss
In this craving soul of mine,
And my heart her flower-cup
Lifteth up,
Thirsting for the draught divine.

Swift the liquid golden flame
Through my frame
Sets my throbbing veins afire.
Bright, alluring dreams arise,
Brim mine eyes
With the tears of strong desire.

All familiar scenes anear
Disappear--
Homestead, orchard, field, and wold.
Moorish spires and turrets fair
Cleave the air,
Arabesqued on skies of gold.

Low, my spirit, this May morn,
Outward borne,
Over seas hath taken wing:
Where the mediaeval town,
Like a crown,
Wears the garland of the Spring.

Light and sound and odors sweet
Fill the street;
Gypsy girls are selling flowers.
Lean hidalgos turn aside,
Amorous-eyed,
'Neath the grim cathedral towers.

Oh, to be in Spain to-day,
Where the May
Recks no whit of good or evil,
Love and only love breathes she!
Oh, to be
Midst the olive-rows of Seville!

Or on such a day to glide
With the tide
Of the berylline lagoon,
Through the streets that mirror heaven,
Crystal paven,
In the warm Venetian noon.

At the prow the gondolier
May not hear,
May not see our furtive kiss;
But he lends with cadenced strain
The refrain
To our ripe and silent bliss.

Golden shadows, silver light,
Burnish bright
Air and water, domes and skies;
As in some ambrosial dream,
On the stream
Floats our bark in magic wise.

Oh, to float day long just so!
Naught to know
Of the trouble, toil, and fret!
This is love, and this is May:
Yesterday
And to-morrow to forget!

Whither hast thou, Fancy free,
Guided me,
Wild Bohemian sister dear?
All thy gypsy soul is stirred
Since yon bird
Warbled that the Spring was here.

Tempt no more! I may not follow,
Like the swallow,
Gayly on the track of Spring.
Bounden by an iron fate,
I must wait,
Dream and wonder, yearn and sing.

A Nice May Beginning

It is a beautiful first day of May.
Sunny and clear
77 °F/25 °C.
Breeze 2.0 m/hr; 3.2 km/hr.