September Song
September Song is a song that Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson ( lyrics ) have written for the 1938 musical Knickerbocker Holiday. The song became a evergreens and jazz standards; he is regarded as part of the Great American Songbook.
Genesis
In the work on musical Knickerbocker Holiday asked one of the stars of the show, Walter Huston, whether not also a song shall be written, which could prove to him musically in his role as an aging Peter Stuyvesant. Since Weill Huston was unknown, he asked him in a telegram to his voice; Huston responded very honestly: " I have no voice. " Weill sounded this to provide a radio show, appeared in Huston, then to write in a few hours with Anderson a simple, lyrical song with a range of just over an octave. Huston led the song in the musical, which was on 19 October 1938 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre Premiere on.
The song
The September Song is almost always held in C major and in the song form A1 - A1 - B - A2. The A- parts are characterized by ascending arpeggios and jumps; in the B section melody falls alternately in seconds and thirds. Weill reached for the composition on material from his operetta "The horse-trading " ( 1935) back.
The text idea is based on a classical metaphor, in which the lives of people is mapped in a year. While there is a long way from May to December, who was from September of but quite short. Unlike the beloved (younger ) person of the older singers did not have much time to lose and therefore asks to renounce " the waiting game ".
Effect story
Knickerbocker Holidays was only moderately successful despite good reviews and was canceled after 168 performances. Huston's recording of September Song, however, came in January 1939 in the charts, where it was advancing to number twelve.
Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1943. He was followed by Frank Sinatra, who had a hit with the piece and grossed him several times later. In addition to his release, the following cover versions came into the American charts:
- Frank Sinatra (1946, # 8)
- Dardanelle Trio ( 1946, # 11)
- Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1951, # 17, with vocal group The Four Freshmen )
- Liberace (1952, # 27)
Sarah Vaughan had the September Song since 1946 in their program as Don Byas. Artie Shaw recorded the song 1947, as The Ravens, as well as in Paris Django Reinhardt. Art Tatum, Billy Eckstine and Nat King Cole played the song in the early 1950s. The song was among the more popular jazz musicians in 1954 was followed by a version of Vaughan with Clifford Brown and flutist Herbie Mann, 1959 Chet Baker. Rolf Kühn presented the song mid-1950s at the German Jazz Festival. In 1960, Ella Fitzgerald, then Rosemary Clooney, June Christy, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Peter Fessler and Anirathak. Lotte Lenya has played an exemplary classic interpretation of the song.
Next are instrumental versions ago, for example, Sidney Bechet, Red Norvo, George Shearing, Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner, Harry James, Earl Bostic, Art Pepper, Charles Mingus, Bireli Lagrene and Gary Burton. Tethered Moon ( Masabumi Kikuchi, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian ) developed in 1995 " a wonderful game of hide the sound the garden. "
Lou Reed interpreted the song for Hal Will former tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.Pascal Comelade took up the song with Robert Wyatt; continue to mention are versions of Bryan Ferry ( As Time Goes By, 1994) or Rod McKuen ( Kurt Weill - The Centennial 2001). Jean Sablon has produced a French version J'ai peur de l' automne 2009. Patricia Kaas has also interpreted the song as well as The Young Gods, or Peter, Paul & Mary.
Use in film and television
The September Song was used in 1950 in the feature film September Affair. In 1960, Maurice Chevalier sang in the film Pepe. Woody Allen took the song in his film Radio Days (1987 ) and mentioned that they might be the best song by American pop song in September, which was ever written. In the film Ville Texas (1990 ) Willie Nelson interprets the September Song. Furthermore, the song in the British television series May to December (1989 to 1994) was used on BBC One. Anjelica Huston, the granddaughter of Erstinterpreten, sang the song in an episode of NBC's Smash.