Re: manchurian waltz

[Sofia V. Shneider <soph...>]

"Robert A. Rothstein" wrote:
> 
> jonathan walton wrote:
> 
> > Now, question time...does anybody know any words to the Manchurian Waltz by
> > Schatrow (as it says on my score which has the title in Finnish as
> > Mantsurian Kukkuliolla)? Any language will do, although ideally I'd like to
> > do an arrangement for an English version sooner or later.
> 
>         The waltz "Na sopkakh Man'chzhurii" (In the Hills of Manchuria) was
> written by the Russian military band leader Il'ia Shatrov in 1905 as an
> instrumental piece.  Various Russian texts were later set to the melody.
> 
>                         Bob Rothstein
> 
By the way, Ivan Kozlovsky, a greatest Russian singer, has sung this
walse with a text... Unfortunately, I don't know who wrote a text for
him.

Sophia,
Russia

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