I finally got to hear this piece. Wonderful, Mike! That MKV sure has a sweet sound.
Dan
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
> Cavalleria Rusticana
> (Intermezzo)<http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks%20II/Cavalleria%20Rusticana%20(Intermezzo).mp3>
>
> Another teary Italian tune familiar to many (especially fans of boxing
> films) whose origins are more interesting than most. Believe it or not,
> this tune was part of a prize-winning one-act opera that Pietro Mascagni
> only wrote in 1888 with two months left of the competition time to run. Its
> first performance was something absurd, with the music causing such a
> sensation that the composer took over 40 curtains calls, which makes it
> sound like something from a Bugs Bunny cod-opera cartoon. When it got to
> the USA, producers were climbing over one another to put it on stage, the
> eventual victor (sort of) getting not only the music of Mascagni but the
> directorship of Oscar Hammerstein.
>
> This tune won't actually appear on ∗mellotronworks II∗ - an album which is
> now well down the road to completion, with a projected release of the
> latter part of 2012 - but is instead a taster for what is in store.
>
> Mike
>