Bruce Adolphe’s Piano Puzzlers (20th Anniversary Edition)

Description

Famous Tunes Disguised in the Styles of Classical Composers

This brand-new edition of Bruce Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers celebrates the 20th anniversary of the show as heard on Public Radio's “Performance Today.” Includes 30 tunes with songs by Gershwin, Kern, Arlen, Porter, Rodgers, Lennon & McCartney, and others disguised in the styles of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Janácek, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bartók, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Scarlatti, and Copland. Introduction included by Fred Child, Host of American Public Media's “Performance Today.”

Contents:

In the style of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
• Yesterday (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)

In the style of Béla Bartók
• A Hard Day's Night (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)

In the style of Ludwig van Beethoven
• S'Wonderful (George & Ira Gershwin)
• Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler)
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Traditional Spiritual)

In the style of Johannes Brahms
• Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
• Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler)
• Nice Work if You Can Get It (George & Ira Gershwin)
• My Man's Gone Now (George Gershwin)

In the style of Frédéric Chopin
• Till There Was You (Meredith Willson)
• I Won't Dance (Jerome Kern)
• Love Is Here to Stay (George & Ira Gershwin)

In the style of Aaron Copland
• Old MacDonald (English Children's Song)

In the style of Claude Debussy
• Stranger in Paradise (Robert Wright & George Forrest)
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Jerome Kern)

In the style of Gabriel Fauré
• Home on the Range (Daniel E. Kelley)

In the style of Franz Joseph Haydn
• It's De-Lovely (Cole Porter)

In the style of Leoš Janácek
• London Bridge is Falling Down (Traditional Children's Song)
• Danny Boy (Traditional Irish Air)

In the style of Felix Mendelssohn
• Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (George & Ira Gershwin)

In the style of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• The Streets of Laredo (American Cowboy Song)

In the style of Sergei Prokofiev
• The Star Spangled Banner (John Stafford Smith)
• They Can't Take That Away from Me (George & Ira Gershwin)

In the style of Maurice Ravel
• If I Loved You (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II)
• Hava Nagila (Jewish Folk Song)

In the style of Dominico Scarlatti
• When the Saints Go Marching In (Traditional Spiritual)

In the style of Robert Schumann
• Deck the Halls (Traditional Christmas Carol)

In the style of Igo Stravinsky
• Jingle Bells (James Lord Pierpont)
• London Bridge is Falling Down (English Children's Song)