Nadia's Theme

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Barry De Vorzon
Perry Botkin Jr.

Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr (arr. Burden)


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General Info

Year: 1971 / 1977
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Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.


Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

Nadia's Theme is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr. in 1971. It became associated with Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci during and after the 1976 Summer Olympics. The composition has been used as the theme music to the American television soap opera The Young and the Restless intermittently since the serial's inception in 1973.

Nadia's Theme hit #8 on the US Top 40 in 1976, and the album from which it was taken peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200; in 1977, it won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement.

- Program Note from Wikipedia


Media

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State Ratings

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Performances

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  • Atascadero (Calif.) Community Band (Randy Schwalbe, conductor) – 11 July 2017


Works for Winds by This Composer


Resources

  • De Vorzon, B.; Botkin, P.; Burden, J. (1977). Nadia's Theme : [From] The Young and the Restless : A Screen Gems TV Serial [score]. Screen Gems-EMI Music: New York.
  • Nadia's Theme, Wikipedia Accessed 11 August 2017