Shostakovich - Tahiti Trot

[quelbop]

love those chirruping wood-blocks at 2:00 - -so totally distinctive. it reminds me of the percussion writing in the 2nd Cello Concerto,15th Symphony etc.

[JOEdoesThings22]

the piano player and i took so much time getting that sycopated eighth note line down

[muzomanoz]

3 people forgot to turn their speakers on!

[freebeerfordworkers]

I can never tire of listening to this - wonderful!

[johnafielding]

@sarastro1791

What do you expect him to look like? He had Stalin perched on his shoulder!

[werkzeug0]

@johnafielding

Stalin ate Shostakovich kidney.

[bhsisthebest]

What a genius!

[AngelaTheTrombonist]

absolutely gorgeous...but...prefer it by a wind band as opposed to an orchestra :(

[amycamps]

i love this music

[Oistrakhfollower]

So Lovely!!!

[postatility]

And,for more fun.listen to T.Monk's version of "Tea for Two".

[yonicyo]

Great :D

[amithabajan2]

40 minutes to orchestrate. Damn.

[crimsonprankster]

i love this guy!

[AJNorth]

A pure delight! One can almost imagine this accompanying Fred and Ginger...

What an improbable thing to come from a bet between Shostakovich and and his former professor at the Leningrad Conservatory, conductor Nikolai Malko (who made the first commercial stereo recording in 1954 for legendary producer Walter Legge at EMI in London, a marvelous reading of the Prokofiev 7th symphony and Suite from the Love for Three Oranges - just months after the composer's death).

[guitarman63mm]

I really liked this. 45 minutes? The man was a genius.

[Vinnieh1991]

@guitarman63mm I heard about 20 minutes

[Snowflake2217]

In 1925 the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans made its London and Broadway debuts.

Shostakovich wrote this piece in response to a challenge from conductor Nikolai Malko, After the two listened to the song on record at Malko's house, Malko bet 100 roubles that Shostakovich could not completely re-orchestrate the song from memory in under an hour, after having heard it just once. Shostakovich took him up and won, completing the orchestration in around 45 minutes.

[bhsisthebest]

Beautiful... So fresh, easy and full of musical genius. Thank you very much for posting this...

[muzomanoz]

Wonderul orchestration by a great man.

[JHJennings]

Shostakovich never made it to America but I think he's one of the most American composers of all because of his wonderfully free spirit. It's as if he overcame the Stalinists and found his freedom through music.

[schlesmail]

Never made it to America? Then the guy I met at the Northwestern University School of Music convocation in June 1973 was a dead ringer for him!

[linlorienelen1]

I thought for sure it was a Leroy Anderson piece when I first heard it, its got that quaintness and swing to it.

Listening to this, then listening to his Waltz #2 from the Jazz Suite, it facinates me that Shostakovich could be so spot on in such a wide spectrum.

[linlorienelen1]

"Tahiti Trot is Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans.

Shostakovich wrote it in response to a challenge from conductor Nikolai Malko: after the two listened to the song on record at Malko's house, Malko bet 100 roubles that Shostakovich could not completely re-orchestrate the song from memory in under an hour. Shostakovich took him up and won, completing the orchestration in around 45 minutes."

-wikipedia

[TheSaxyBandGeek]

@linlorienelen1 I really love it when people post valuable youtube comments :)Thanks! Interesting story!

[sarastro1791]

I could hear a thousand times, and i would still love it; poor Shostakovitch: this man looks seriously drawn from.

Nevertheless he wrote/arranged such music.

Thank you, Mr.Shostakovitch, for this little masterpiece of instrumentation and all your other beautiful music!

[lookscudkill]

Isn't that "Tea for Two" that I hear? It was based on this piece?

[FreeTheJambon]

Yep it's Tea for Two, not sure why he re-named it though ;(

[EarthaticFan]

loving this piece

[Stravinsky91]

tea for two :D lovely :) he wrote this arrangement in only 40 minutes :P amazing isn´t it amazing?

[EarthaticFan]

40 minutes?!! wow!

[FreeTheJambon]

Wow.

[mudoreality]

thank you for putting this on you tube...

[Amatherasu1789]

Yes, of course this is lovable! and it took so very few time to write the orchestation....

Very pleased to see you put Albéniz´s Tango!

[theartofstew]

your right i do love it!