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J-M – JAZZ PIECE based on ‘Be My Love’ – FOUR CELLOS

Other Identification:
“Be My Love” is a song written by Sammy Cahn and music by Nicholas Brodszky. Published in 1950, it was written for Mario Lanza, who sang it with Kathryn Grayson in the 1950 movie ‘The Toast of New Orleans’. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950; and Lanza recorded it in June, 1950, with Ray Sinatra’s orchestra.
Lanza’s 1950 RCA Victor recording of the song was his first gold record, eventually selling over two million copies. The song reached number one on the Billboard chart, where it spent a total of 34 weeks. “Be My Love” was the theme song for Lanza’s NBC radio programme, The Mario Lanza Show (1951–52). He later grew very tired of the song!

Movements or sections:
marked ‘Moderately’

Instrumentation:
QUARTET OF FOUR CELLOS
Arranged by David Johnstone

2 PDFs:
1] – General Score
2] – All individual parts

Approximate difficulty:
Medium to difficult
This piece is a cello transcription based on the real-life interpretation of the jazz pianist George Shearing in the 1940s. I think it is ideal for cello ensembles but should be attempted by fairly competent cellists …
Why, you’ll ask, these parts don’t seem that hard?!
Well, the rich and close part writing means that the piece really does need a high quality and ‘adaptable’ intonation together with a rounded medium size vibrato that is fairly regular and fairly constant in all parts. Therefore, this makes for great practice by a cello ensemble but rewarding results, and the chance to stamp a personal interpretation!

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