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Let's Go Back to the Waltz by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia-- October already. Believe it or not, the year is three-quarters over. So wouldn't this be a good time to celebrate songs written in three-quarter time? Or, as Nanette Fabray sang in Mr. President, "Let's Go Back to the Waltz." The musical theater apotheosis of three-quarter time, of course, occurs in A Little Night Music. Stephen Sondheim wrote most songs in part or full in that tempo: the …

SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:31AM on October 2, 2012

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