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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Tea for Two in Tahiti



Tahiti Trot is Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans.

Shostakovich wrote it in response to a challenge from conductor Nikolai Malko: after the two listened to the song on record at Malko's house, Malko bet 100 roubles that Shostakovich could not completely re-orchestrate the song from memory in under an hour. Shostakovich took him up and won, completing the orchestration in around 45 minutes."
-wikipedia

2 comments:

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

I think I prefer Doris's version.

Colin Campbell said...

Me too, by a long way.