Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.845472
By Joan Sutherland. By Jerome Kern. Arranged by Musikeo. Contemporary. Score. 4 pages. Musikeo #6399747. Published by Musikeo (A0.845472).
Music in the Air is a musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book) and Jerome Kern (music). It introduced songs such as The Song Is You, In Egern on the Tegern See and I've Told Ev'ry Little Star. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1932, and followed the team's success with the musical Show Boat from 1927.
Principal characters
- Cornelius, a bird-seller
- Frieda Hatzfeld, an operetta star
- Bruno Mahler, a composer
- Sieglinde Lessing, a young singer in love with Karl
- Dr Walther Lessing, Sieglinde's father, a composer and music teacher
Synopsis
The musical takes place in Bavaria during the 1930s but some contemporary productions have modified it to present day.
In the simple mountain town of Edendorff in Bavaria, music teacher Dr. Walther Lessing has a beautiful daughter Sieglinde. She is in love with Karl Reder, the local schoolmaster. Karl and Sieglinde travel to the sophisticated city of Munich and try to get a song written by Walther and Karl published. Karl becomes enamored of glamorous operetta diva Frieda Hatzfeld while Sieglinde is smitten by Bruno Mahler, an operetta librettist with whom Frieda lives. Mahler wants Sieglinde to appear in his new work Tingle-Tangle. Frieda moves out of Mahler's apartment and moves to an hotel where she can see Karl on a regular basis.
And love was born is a musical number sung by Cornelius in ACT 1.
Piano accompaniment, melody and lyrics are provided. Enjoy this beautiful arrangement of a Broadway classic.
