Richard Rodgers/Louis Andriessen - My Funny Valentine (1937, arr. 1958)

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Louis Andriessen arranged this song under the pseudonym of Elmo Carter in 1958

Carezza Kwartet:
Alexander van den Tol and Dana Mihailescu, violins
Michiel Eekhof, viola
Anneke Janssen, cello
Pauline Post, piano
Sjeng Schupp, double bass

Recorded April 12, 2021
Sheet music can be downloaded here: https://www.muziekschatten.nl/compositie?uri=https://data.muziekschatten.nl/som/102182 (info: muziekschatten@omroepmuziek.nl)

"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. One of them was Chet Baker, for whom it became his signature song. In 2015, it was announced that the Gerry Mulligan quartet featuring Chet Baker's version of the song was inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for the song's "cultural, artistic and/or historical significance to American society and the nation’s audio legacy". Mulligan also recorded the song with his Concert Jazz Band in 1960.

Louis Joseph Andriessen (6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style gradually shifted to a synthesis of American minimalism, jazz and the manner of Stravinsky.

Louis Andriessen was my orchestration teacher at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague.