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SKU: A0.899865
Composed by Jerome Kern. Arranged by Alexander L Burden. Musical/Show. 20 pages. Alexander Burden #3030989. Published by Alexander Burden (A0.899865).Genre: Jazz
Length: 3:06
Instrumentation: Saxophone Quartet (SATB)
The Way You Look Tonight was originally composed for the motion picture Swing Time in 1936. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and In 2004, the Astaire version finished at #43 in "AFI's 100 Years, 100 Songs survey" of top tunes in American cinema.
The Composer:
The Way You Look Tonight was composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. As one of the most important American theater composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs to be used in over 100 stage works. These included such classics as Ol' Man River, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, All the Things You Are, Long Ago (and Far Away) and Who. In an interview regarding their collaboration on The Way You Look Tonight, Ms. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."
The Arranger:
Email: alburden9012@eagle.fgcu.edu
Alexander Burden is a Florida born, professional musician and music educator residing in Southwest Florida. There, he is the music teacher at Westside Elementary in Clewiston. Concurrent with his duties at Westside, he also teaches private and group instrumental music lessons and preforms regularly with various professional ensembles throughout Southwest Florida. Burden holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree with an instrumental concentration from the Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. There he studied under world renowned saxophonist Mario Bernardo. He also holds an Associate of Arts degree with a Music Education and Saxophone Performance concentration from Eastern Florida State College where he was a student of James Bishop. During his time at the Bower School of music, he served as principle saxophonist in the FGCU Wind Orchestra, lead alto in the Jazz Band Flight: Jazz at FGCU, and played soprano saxophone in the Bower Saxophone Quartet. Alexander was selected to play tenor saxophone in the 2017 National Intercollegiate Band as well as principle alto saxophone in the 2017 Florida All-State Intercollegiate Band and tenor saxophone in the 2016 Florida All-State Intercollegiate Band. In November of 2015, Alexander participated in a critically acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City with the FGCU Wind Orchestra.
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