Tschaikowsky (and other Russians) 1941 'Lady In The Dark'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 30 Nov 2002

Without the least excuse
or the slightest provocation
may I fondly introduce,
for your mental delectation
the names that always give me
brain concussion,
the names of those composers
known as Russian.

There's Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky
and Tschaikowsky, Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff,
Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky,

Godowsky, Arteiboucheff,
Moniuszko, Akimenko, Solovieff,
Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.

There's Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky,
Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There's Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff
and Kvoschinsky.

And Sokoloff and Kopyloff,
Dukelsky and Klenofsky,
and Shostakovitsch, Borodine,
Gliere and Nowakofski.

There's Liadoff and Karganoff,
Markievitch, Pantschenko
and Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine,
Vassilenko, Stravinski, RimskyKorsakoff,
Mussorgsky and Gretchaninoff

And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui,
Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky
and Gretchaninoff, Rumshinsky
and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop,
the subject has been dwelt upon enough!
Stravinsky, Gretchaninoff, Kvoschinsky,
Rachmaninoff!
I really have to stop because
you all have undergone enough!

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Tschaikowsky (and other Russians) 1941
from 'Lady In The Dark'
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
copyright 1941 by Ira Gershwin Music
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Saturday 30 November 2002 at 19.35
in association with Doug Grierson
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