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Waldteufel "Dolores" Waltz in San Francisco Play
By Claudine Jones

Update on Waldteufel's Dolores Waltz Project

 [ Claudine is the sound designer for a theatrical production in
 [ San Francisco.  She wrote in 030211 MMDigest that the playwright
 [ specified that one of the characters must have a small musical
 [ 'mechanism' onstage which plays the Dolores waltz.  She said,
 [ "The darn playwright didn't know what trouble he was getting us
 [ into with his casual yet pivotal suggestion.  Such a romantic!"
 [ -- Robbie

Thank you again to everyone who provided me with various formats of
'Dolores'; she is opening this weekend at our local theater.  After
these months of assembling everything to burn onto a CD, I now know
her as 'doloresLPmix', 'doloresBO' (for band organ), 'doloresLoop'.

I wish you could hear what my son, the engineer, did with the
single-comb Regina version to make her danceable -- it was impossible
to choreograph just one minute.  In 4 minutes 26 seconds she morphs
from a tiny little box on the floor of the stage through a fully
resonant Regina to a complete orchestra filling the room and then
back down again; _and_, I'm glad to say, all in the same key!  Quite
spectacular!  The band organ accompanies the curtain calls.

As always I am saddened that people still only associate the words
'music box' with 'Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago' and plastic ballerinas.

Claudine Jones
San Francisco


(Message sent Wed 26 Mar 2003, 18:01:32 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Dolores, Francisco, Play, San, Waldteufel, Waltz

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