As was common in Hollywood, the music for Unfinished Dance was a sort of stew combining themes from the great clawsics in new, unexpected, and unwelcome ways. Here we have Kreisler, Smetana, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Chopin, and Thomas as viewed by music director Herbert Stothart and orchestrator Albert Sendray.
Actually, it's not as bad as I make it sound, and the M-G-M Studio Orchestra is always a delight to hear.
Also on the disk is the ballet from The Pirate. Lennie Hayton conducts that music as well as the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" adaptation.
I happen to love the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" music. Richard Rodgers wrote it for On Your Toes, and my favorite version is from the 1983 revival of that show, which used the original orchestrations.
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A rather rare example of Stothart (other than WIZARD OF OZ) on LP. (RANDOM HARVEST is now out on CD from FSM).
UNFINISHED DANCE made an incredible impression on me when I was a kid, Margaret O'Brien as a kind of BAD SEED who, in the great tradition of MGM, turns out to be not so bad at The End....
And whatever happened to the attractive Karin Booth?
Buster,
Have you re-uploaded this one or is it imminent?
Many thanks,
Cheers,
Douglas (UK)
Douglas - I don't even remember it! Let me see if I can find the files.
Thanking you for your patience with me.
Cheers,
Douglas (UK)
Remastered version (Apple lossless):
https://mega.nz/#!uM9zHaIL!M1IG6TZQP7U-TyLWSKL8MOWTfcRBlQIpPORZ1cZzrHM
Buster,
Well done - brilliant.
Many thanks.
Cheers,
Douglas (UK)
Thank you, Buster.
Rich
missed this first time! thanks for reup
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