| re: My Favorite Overtures | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 05:42 pm EDT 03/29/24 | |
| In reply to: re: My Favorite Overtures - AlanScott 04:33 pm EDT 03/29/24 | |
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| On thing is for sure - the Overture was not "written" per se - it was compiled. I have an old manuscript copy of the piano conductor's score (the score that MTI used to send out in the old days), where the Overture is clearly cobbled together from other pages in the score. (Including a section of the Mambo with the indication "Chita slides" - clearly taken right out of the dance arrangement later in the show.) I MD'd the show in the summer of 1987, and this was the score I received. I had also played piano in the pit for a summer youth production of the show back in 1981, and back then I never saw the Piano Conductor score that was being used - just the pit piano part, but I will assume that it was the same version of the score. I don't have a clear memory that our parts contained an overture back then. One might think if the books did have it, I might have remembered (given the fact that at that point I wasn't aware the show ever had an overture at all), but I don't. I do remember other things - like seeing the cut orchestrations that supposedly Robbins himself circled out in the books (the piano part before and during Somewhere) - there was that part, with circle marks around it - and also an interesting indication that the pit pianist was responsible for giving Maria her pitch for the final a cappella reprise of Somewhere - the first time on the gunshot (so the note would be hidden) and then very quietly just before she sang. That's all gone now in the new MTI books. So I am inclined to believe that the Overture existed from early on, given how those original score pages look. But even then, it's hard to know for sure just when those pages were officially put into the books, and when they were actually played. |
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