Way You Look Tonight, The
Jerome Kern (arr. Lake)
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General Info
Year: 1936 / 1944
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: T.B. Harms
Cost: Score and Parts - Out of print.
For availability information, see Discussion area.
Instrumentation
Full Score
D-flat Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Bass Saxophone
Cornets Solo-I-II-III
E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Way You Look Tonight is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. In 2004 the Astaire version finished at #43 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire in character as John "Lucky" Garnett, while Penny was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and has become a standard. 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."
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- I Told Every Little Star
- Jerome Kern Songs (arr. Leidzén) (1947)
- Make Believe
- Music in the Air (arr. Yoder) (1932/1951)
- Ol' Man River (arr. Vinson) (1927/1991/1995)
- Ol' Man River (arr. Kessler) (1927)
- Old Man River (arr. Buckley) (1927/)
- Show Boat Highlights (arr. Cable) (1927)
- Show Boat Selections (arr. Bennett) (1956)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Way You Look Tonight, The (arr. Lake) (1936/1944)
- Who?
- Whose Baby Are You?
- Peninsula Symphonic Band (Palo Alto, Calif.) (Ted Henderson, conductor; Michele Musson, vocal) – 14 February 2016
Resources
- Kern J.; Lake, M.; Fields, D. (1944). The Way You look Tonight [score]. T.B. Harms Co.: [s.l.]
- The Way You Look Tonight, Wikipedia Accessed 19 February 2016