Title | Clorindy, Selection From | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Composer | Cook, Will Marion |
Marshall’s Civic Band Topeka, KS Est’d 1884 |
Number | O-383 |
Type | CB | |||
Date | 1899 | |||
Key | Bb | |||
Arranger | Mackie, William H. | Length | 0.00 | |
Publisher | M. Witmark | Vocal | No | |
Association | Musical: Clorindy | Grade/Difficulty | ?/? | |
Last Performed | Unknown | |||
Manuscript | No | |||
Style |
Novelty, Characteristic Medley, Musical |
Location | Marshall's Band Library | |
Cataloger | Alan Ukena | |||
Date Cataloged | 07/14/1993 | |||
Notes |
Songs included in the medley are: 1) "Darktown Is Out To-Night" 2) "Love In A Cottage Is Best 3) "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" 4) "Jump Back" 5) "Hottest Coon In Dixie" The year, 1898, was notable for the production of an all black musical show (or comedy-revue) that had a big success on Broadway. This was "Clorindy; or Origin Of The Cake-Walk", with music by the highly gifted and well-trained black composer Will Marion Cook (1869-1944) and lyrics by the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Cook had studied violin at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Joseph Joachim at the Berlin Hochschule, and composition with Dvorak at the National Conservatory in New York. But he still kept the popular touch. Reminiscing about the memorable opening of "Clorindy" at New York's fashionable Casino Roof Garden in the summer of 1898, Cook wrote: "When I entered the orchestra pit, there were only about fifty people on the Roof (Garden). When we finished the opening chorus, the house was packed to suffocation...The show downstairs in the Casino Theatre was just letting out. The big audience heard those heavenly Negro voices and took to the elevators... ...My chorus sang like Russians, dancing meanwhile like Negroes, and cakewalking like angels, black angels! When the last note was sounded, the audience stood and cheered for at least ten minutes." |
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