Frank Loesser News
American songwriter (1910–1969)
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- United States of America
- composer, librettist, lyricist, songwriter, film score composer, actor, screenwriter
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2022-03-10 00:07:31
Performances Friday through Sunday at Macky Auditorium By Peter Alexander March 9 at 5:07 p.m. The Eklund Opera Theater at CU will transport audiences back seven decades this weekend. Their production of Frank Loesser’s Tony Award-winning 1950 Broadway hit Guys and Dolls, certainly one of the greatest of the era’s classic musical shows, runs Friday […]
2022-02-19 16:11:00
As always. one odd blog project (bloject?) breeds another. So it is that only days after thinking about the elegant syncopations in "Why it's good old reliable NAAAthan, NAthan, NAthan, NAthan Detroit," my middle school music class had made it to the "Gary, Indiana" scene in The Music Man. Well, just as Frank Loesser delights in placing "Nathan" on various parts of the meter, Meredith Wilson literally describes his own metrical play as a series of "elegant syncopations" within the lyrics themselves. The idea is the same, though at a gentler pace. Here's how I distorted Nathan, with Nathan starting in four different places within the 2/4 meter: In the middle of "Gary, Indiana," (a part not included here), Harold Hill sings: "If you'd like to have a logical explanation / how I happened on this elegant syncopation." You can see the syncopations below. The first "Gary" is on beat […]
2022-02-15 22:41:00
This is just a little diversion from the ongoing fugue series. I'm music-directing an upcoming school production of Guys and Dolls, which means for the first time I'm playing one of my favorite songs: "The Oldest Established." I've always enjoyed the way Frank Loesser syncopates the name Nathan in this song, hitting almost every possible position in the meter. Though I'm not sure when it began, it has long seemed to me that this pattern could happily repeat ad infinitum: So, as I've done with Stravinsky, Haydn, Satie, and my own blog, I thought the best solution was to create a page in which each re-load creates a surprise number of repetitions. Enjoy! Good Old Reliable
2021-12-27 12:00:08
Frank Loesser was irked by singers who didn’t ‘get’ his 1947 song
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