I remember a particularly hilarious version of 'Little Miss Muffet' in the
style of Benjamin Britten. He had BB (as sung by PP) down to a T.
Christopher Marshall - composer
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on 29/3/02 1:16 PM, Paul Attinello at pattinello@chariot.net.au wrote:
> At 8:39 PM -0500 3/27/02, Theresa Muir wrote:
>> I'm sad to have heard of the death today of Dudley Moore after a long
>> illness; younger list members may only remember his rather silly
>> Hollywood film career, and not his role in the ground-breaking, immortal
>> British sketch comedy review "Beyond the Fringe" (with Jonathan Miller,
>> Peter Cook, and Alan Bennett), nor his long partnership with the late,
>> brilliant Peter Cook.
>>
>> Moore had originally studied music, and was an excellent pianist; among
>> his contributions to BTF were hysterically funny, stylistically uncanny
>> parodies of German Lieder.
>
> These parodies are available on CD in an (admittedly rather expensive
> and elaborate) boxed set of not only the original commercial
> recording of Beyond the Fringe, but also a number of alternate
> versions and outtakes. I'm sorry I can't be more specific - my copy,
> like the rest of my library, is in transit over the past year, in a
> box that has gone from expensive storage in Hong Kong via a ship over
> the Pacific to slightly less expensive storage in Los Angeles - but
> it's quite a wonderful CD set.
>
> The two famous parodies - from memory, so I may get this wrong - are
> the fabulous Fauré/Debussy parody 'La nuit s'épanouit,' which
> actually includes the words 'La plume de ma tante...' and is terribly
> wispy in a para-Impressionist way; and the Schubertian 'Die
> Flabbergast,' an intense dramatic dialogue that ends in virtuoso
> tremoli across registers.
>
> I think that, on the boxed set, there are even other parodies.
>
> I keep thinking that, someday, there's some sort of discussion or
> research to be done on musical parodies - these, Jonathan & Darlene
> Edwards, etc.... the best of them involve so much brilliance, and
> reflect so many aspects of the materials parodied, that there must be
> some productive way of talking about that...
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
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