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Songs of Sophistication

Earnest, John David

Product Number
7703*
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Grouped product items
Product Name Qty
Songs of Sophistication - 7703
$12.00
Cuisine d'amour (Downloadable) - file_7703-1E
$6.25
Cuisine d'amour (higher transposition) from Songs of Sophistication (Downloadable) - file_7703-2E
$6.25
The Poet's Choice (Downloadable) - file_7703-3E
$4.50
A Poet to His Muse (Downloadable) - file_7703-4E
$6.25
Love Song (Downloadable) - file_7703-5E
$4.50
Inspiration (Downloadable) - file_7703-6E
$6.25
More Information
Product Number7703*
Composer/ArrangerEarnest, John David
Text AuthorBode, Robert
Voicing & InstrumentsMedium Voice and Piano
DifficultyModerately Difficult
Text LanguageEnglish
Popular Vocal SearchesAnthology/Collections, Vocal Solos
PublisherE. C. Schirmer Music Company
Conceived over lunch at the Oak Room in the famed Algonquin Hotel in New York City, Songs of Sophistication is an homage by poet Robert Bode and composer John David Earnest to the wit and verbal swordplay of the members of the "Algonquin Round Table" of the 1920s. Such literary luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Robert E. Sherwood, Alexander Woollcott, and Harold Ross met for lunch daily at the Algonquin to discuss the affairs of the day and to trade delicious bon mots. The five songs in this set explore such sophisticated topics as travel, food, love, language, and the true nature of genius, subjects that surely would have been discussed, dissected, satirized, and parodied by the brilliant circle of friends at the Round Table.

Contents:
Cuisine d:amour 2:25
The Poet:s Choice (with apologies to Ogden Nash) 2:00
A Poet to His Muse 2:40
Love Song 3:00
Inspiration 2:00