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re: Review of new John Latouche biography
Posted by: AlanScott 06:03 pm EST 12/15/17
In reply to: re: Review of new John Latouche biography - Erik_Haagensen 02:34 pm EST 12/15/17

Just to add a bit more to your helpful post, I'd say that, if anything, Pollack is skeptical that a good deal of the Beggar's Holiday music was by Strayhorn. He doesn't seem to buy it. Luther Henderson (the person who probably would have known best after both Ellington and Strayhorn were gone) seems to have said somewhat different things at different times on the question. I don't know about Strayhorn having written all or virtually of the music credited to Ellington generally, but Henderson did say at a talkback for the Mufti Beggar's Holiday that much of the music was by Strayhorn, but he said things that gave a different impression at other times (as well as having apparently said to David Hadju more or less what he said at Mufti).
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re: Review of new John Latouche biography
Posted by: MFeingold 09:07 pm EST 12/15/17
In reply to: re: Review of new John Latouche biography - AlanScott 06:03 pm EST 12/15/17

In another small error that I don't think anyone here has pointed out yet, the reviewer says that Libby Holman appeared in BEGGAR'S HOLIDAY, which was certainly not the case, though she worked with Latouche in other contexts.

Interestingly, Billy Strayhorn's credit on Beggar's Holiday, per IBDB, reads "Orchestrations under the personal supervision of Billy Strayhorn." Which, as Gertrude Stein said in a different context, does not prove anything but on the other hand may tend to indicate something.
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