Re: OT Blues (was Re: Oldvak - something to figure out

Roger Mills scripsit:

> I remember that!!.  (Will pick out the melody on the piano later......)  His
> point was, of course, that any iambic pentameter couplet could be turned
> into a blues.....
Indeed.  I only read the transcriptions, and when discussing the couplet
with my friend Joe Zitt, who is a composer, he sang it for me, but I don't
know if he was singing his own setting or Bernstein's, or if Bernstein
even made a setting.

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