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Vintage Hentoff Liner Notes
Music Tailored to Your Taste …
A CERTIFIED HIGH FIDELITY RECORDING
(EVEREST HI-FI Long Play)
is intended as a “spooky Hallowe’en song for kids. “ It is based on a tune familiar to children. The set of lyrics Anthony remembers from his childhood is:Goblins’ Gavotte is a “romantic waltz that I wrote for my wife when I first met her. Her name isn’t Jane, but that seemed to be the kind of name many listeners could identify with. Waltz for Jane
Fall in, Men. is another march, and the full title could be Fall Inthen they leave the same way- singly.”
is a “round with the instruments following each other into the play until the whole orchestra is working, and Roundelay
is a satirical version of the sailors’ hornpipe.. Naughty Nautical is a pun of sorts. It is a march, but March fourth is also the birthday of Mrs. Tamburello. Tamburello is fond of marches, partly as a legacy from his father, who was a professional musician (he’s now 73). The elder Tamburello played for opera companies in Italy; came to the United States, and played with the troupe of Buffalo Bill, among other engagements, including opera unitsMarch Forth
.”Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue is typical fashion music, the kind of bright texture you’d expect at a fashion show. It can also serve as a background for looking through Lady of Fashion, notes Tamburello, “ Is the picture of a girl on an afternoon run through the smart stores. She’s very busy, running from one charge account to another.” Shopping Spree
is meant to spin a background to the kind of love dramas you’re apt to hear by radio during the day.Love Story is a characteristic Viennese waltz. Imagine a large ballroom; an historical romance; and you’ll have the context intended. Valse Viennese
, is described by the composer as a “kind of sophisticated New York type of melody. “Fifth is Fifth Avenue.”East of Fifth, as the title indicates, is traveling music and aims at connoting the motions- physical and emotional- of a trip. Cross County Tour Tamburello begins a new career with this album as a composer of instrumental music, music that tells stories and underlines moods.
Anthony Tamburello was born in New York, February 4, 1921. He began playing piano at thirteen, and for several years gained professional experience from night clubs to society parties. For the past ten years, Tamburello has specialized as a vocal coach, and among his pupils have been Tony Bennett, Tommy Leonetti and Marilyn Maxwell. He was also associated with Tom Murray in the formation and direction of Horrible Records, a label devoted to broad musical parody.
– by Anthony Tamburello and recorded in London in the 400- year –old Friends Meeting House.Separate TablesThis multi- colored kaleidoscopic series of musical impressions was written- with the exception of
A group of brilliant compositions by Anthony Tamburello performed by the Everest Concert Orchestra under the direction of Derek Boulton
“Go ask your mother for fifty cents
See the elephants jump the fence
He jumped so high
He reached the sky
And never came down
Until the Fourth of July.”
Mama’s Lullaby was written by Anthony’s mother years ago and has been orchestrated by him. He describes it as a “typical Italian mother’s lullaby. She used to play it on the piano between cooking meals.” It’s All Over and Out is what the ringmaster of a circus used to say to signify the end of the show. You’ll notice the final two notes- at least the notes one would expect to complete the piece- are not sounded. “That’s the kind of guy I am,” explains Tamburello. “ I didn’t drop the shoes.”
As an epilogue, the orchestra plays the title song of Separate Tables, the film version of the successful Broadway play by Terence Rattigan.
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Selections: Nat Hentoff's liner notes. Letting the writer speak for himself.
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