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This beautiful song was one of Gershwin’s last, featuring in the 1938 film the Goldwyn Follies. It has been marked to be played entrancingly, apparently prompted by lines from Ira Gershwin’s lyric “there came a knock-knock-knocking at the door – Love walked right in” which seemingly caused the arranger Bill Thorp’s mind to make an imaginative leap to a mid-19th century Parisian garret, a celebrated knock at an operatic door, and the entrance of Puccini’s Mimi. Ideal for weddings. **** Not for sale in the USA ****
Piece Description
This beautiful song was one of Gershwin’s last, featuring in the 1938 film the Goldwyn Follies. It has been marked to be played entrancingly, apparently prompted by lines from Ira Gershwin’s lyric “there came a knock-knock-knocking at the door – Love walked right in” which seemingly caused the arranger Bill Thorp’s mind to make an imaginative leap to a mid-19th century Parisian garret, a celebrated knock at an operatic door, and the entrance of Puccini’s Mimi. Ideal for weddings. **** Not for sale in the USA ****
Review: “Witty, lively, and full of appealing musical allusions.” – Fanfare March/April 1993
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Biography
Biography
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.
