Sunday 28 October 2018

INDIAN  SUMMER    A 1930 song by Victor Herbert who was essentially an operetta composer who wrote in a Viennese musical style like Rudolph Friml, Sigmund Romberg and Franz Lehar. According to Alec Wilder, the intrepid analyst of classical American popular song, this is the only song Herbert wrote that was devoid of European influences and most melodic . It was based on a piano piece to which Al Dubin provided the graceful lyrics.
Indian Summer is a purely American song and is sung by singer/guitarist John Pixxafrelli with a wonderful accompaniment by pianist George Shearing. The harmonies could have been written by French impressionist Maurice Ravel or Claude Debussy or even the English composer Frederick Delius. 

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