Moon River (arr. Powers)

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (arr. R. Powers)


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General Info

Year: 1961 / 1969
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra and voice
Publisher: Hansen House
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.


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Program Notes

Moon River is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its performance by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). It also won Mancini the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and won Mancini and Mercer the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

The song's success was responsible for relaunching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll had replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. Comments about the lyrics have noted that they are particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the southern United States and his longing to expand his horizons. Robert Wright wrote in The Atlantic Monthly, "This is a love sung to wanderlust. Or a romantic song in which the romantic partner is the idea of romance." An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song.

- Program Note from Wikipedia


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  • Oakland (Calif.) Municipal Band (Catherine De Vos, conductor) - 31 July 2022


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