Gershwin – The Man I Love (String Quartet Parts)

Gershwin - The Man I Love (String Quartet Parts)
Gershwin - The Man I Love (String Quartet Parts)

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Since described as the best popular song ever written, this gem was inexplicably dropped from Lady Be Good, the Gershwins' first complete Broadway score, before it reached New York. However, it had an unlikely champion in the then Lady Mountbatten who brought her autographed copy back to London where soon nearly every band was playing it by ear, and from where its popularity spread to Paris and beyond. In this version, originally marked "not necessarily narcissistically", the arranger Bill Thorp subtly suggests the identity of the eponymous 'man'. **** Not for sale in the USA ****

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Since described as the best popular song ever written, this gem was inexplicably dropped from Lady Be Good, the Gershwins' first complete Broadway score, before it reached New York. However, it had an unlikely champion in the then Lady Mountbatten who brought her autographed copy back to London where soon nearly every band was playing it by ear, and from where its popularity spread to Paris and beyond. In this version, originally marked "not necessarily narcissistically", the arranger Bill Thorp subtly suggests the identity of the eponymous 'man'. **** Not for sale in the USA ****

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Thorp, Bill

Bill Thorp, born in 1952, started arranging music, while still at school, as a member of a folk group in which he played string bass. More experience followed with a college based acoustic folk-rock bank, playing violin, viola and piano, which went on to work professionally for two years. Later, in a varied career which included performing with string quartets at some of London's pizza restaurants, he was prompted to arrange music especially for that grouping and situation. Nowadays his playing career ranges from appearing on Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Violin with most of London's period instrument groups, to odd recording sessions on country and western fiddle.