[78-L] Flowers and Trees ^
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Sep 2 16:23:03 PDT 2009
Thought "PawCity" was a pet supply store.
dl
martha wrote:
> It's slowed-down and almost imitates the "Morning" passage of Peer Gynt, so
> it isn't very obvious or readily identifiable. A clever arrangement,
> covering the paucity of instruments. (hah - I got to write "paucity",
> finally)
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> From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> To: <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 5:56 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Flowers and Trees
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> To Martha
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> THANK YOU! As you can imagine, when I read your e-mail I had a slap to the
> head "of course" moment. I first saw that at Disney World in Florida in 2004
> and, although I know the piece so well, I simply couldn't put a title to it.
> At first I thought it was "Elegie" by Massenet but, of course that wasn't
> it. I was trying to think of a piece of music which had a morning or
> pastoral connection but nothing worked. I know I have a 12 inch version of
> it on Black labeled Victor, but I don't think it's Paul Whiteman conducting.
> I'll take a look when I get home, (I'm at a cottage at the moment trying to
> squeeze some last minute summer out of this hopeless season, at least in
> this part of the world - Southern Ontario).
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> Now I'll sleep tonight.
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> Thanks again!
> Dave b
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> From: martha <MLK402 at verizon.net>
> To: burnhamd at rogers.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:25:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Flowers and Trees
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> Kamennoi-Ostrow , by Anton Rubinstein ... love that one !! Paul Whiteman
> recorded a beautiful version on Victor
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> martha
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>> This has nothing to do with 78s but it's from the 78 era. Does anyone know
>> the name of the first piece of music in Disney's "Silly Symphony" called
>> "Flowers and Trees"? It's one of those pieces which is so familiar, like
>> Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" but I can't put a name on it. There are all
>> sorts of web-sites where you can see the cartoon.
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