Ballet Spartacus, music by Aram Khachaturian, presented quite frequently on ABC Classic.
What's the point of the title question?
Well, 3 years ago, me and my wife, been to performance of Spartacus in Melbourne Arts Centre. This melody came and we exchanged shocked looks - but this is Gershwin???
At home I started Google search.
Luckily at some stage I remembered the name - Stormy Weather - bingo...
So not G. Gershwin, but Harold Arlen, the rest is as I remembered.
Written in year 1933.
1933?
Aram Khachaturian was then 30 years old and started his musical career.
He composed music to Spartacus 22 years later, in 1955.
Hmmm....
I am not interested in copyright issues, just... how come nobody noticed this similarity?
Maybe I have no sense of melody???
Dive into Google again.
It was not easy, but I found something:
"..but the celebrated Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia—the ballet’s single “hit”—bears an uncanny similarity to Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You...".
Can't take my eyes...??? - KLIK.
Ooops, so I am rather deaf :(((
Luckily there is a reader comment under this article:
"Not only does Aram Khachaturian’s “Adagio of Spartacus And Phrygia” has a strong resemblance to the Frankie Valli song, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” in terms of certain sections of the melody and chord structure, it also is quite similar in nature (or melodically) to the song, “Stormy Weather”. So many classical themes have become the foundation for many American or modern popular songs..."
Source HERE.
Some consolation.
What amused me immensely was the highlighted part - classical themes used by modern composers.
Aram Khachaturian was then 30 years old and started his musical career.
He composed music to Spartacus 22 years later, in 1955.
Hmmm....
I am not interested in copyright issues, just... how come nobody noticed this similarity?
Maybe I have no sense of melody???
Dive into Google again.
It was not easy, but I found something:
"..but the celebrated Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia—the ballet’s single “hit”—bears an uncanny similarity to Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You...".
Can't take my eyes...??? - KLIK.
Ooops, so I am rather deaf :(((
Luckily there is a reader comment under this article:
"Not only does Aram Khachaturian’s “Adagio of Spartacus And Phrygia” has a strong resemblance to the Frankie Valli song, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” in terms of certain sections of the melody and chord structure, it also is quite similar in nature (or melodically) to the song, “Stormy Weather”. So many classical themes have become the foundation for many American or modern popular songs..."
Source HERE.
Some consolation.
What amused me immensely was the highlighted part - classical themes used by modern composers.
And vice versa, and vice versa :)
Music is stronger that time.
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