Musical portmanteaux, etc.
by Nathan Fletcher
A selection of musical parodies, commentaries and curiosities that I've created over the years. No copyright infringement is intended.
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B. Bacharach/Roman Missal
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Stanford/Arlen/Harburg/Stothart. This audio clip (featuring the Stanford Magnificat in C, conducted by Herbert Stothart) is extracted from a newly discovered acetate recording of a service of choral evensong held in 1938 at MGM Studios (Stage 27) in Culver City, California. [n.b., original Stanford source audio courtesy of https://recordedchurchmusic.org/historic-recordings/firstsolo.]
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Howells/Bacharach/David
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Sondheim/Tunick
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Stravinsky/J. Raposo (based on a suggestion by P. Fennig)
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Bruckner/Sagisu
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Bernstein/Lerner & Loewe
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R. Strauss/R. Shephard
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Mozart/Korngold
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Britten/Schifrin/Giacchino
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J. S. Bach
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C. V. Stanford. A newly discovered version of Stanford’s Mag & Nunc in C reveals that he had quite an experimental side...
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Puccini/A. Franklin
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Herrmann/R. Strauss
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Finzi/Dean
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Sir E. C. Bairstow/Hauptwerk console
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Beethoven/Korngold
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John Williams/Holst
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Korngold/Enescu
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Howells/Sondheim
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Korngold
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Parry/R. Carpenter/Bettis
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Bob Chilcott
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Rutter/Bacharach
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R. Strauss/Korngold
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John Williams. A de-chromatized, abbreviated arrangement of John Williams’s iconic news theme--"The Mission" part IV aka "The Pulse of Events," best known as the theme for NBC's “Meet the Press”--for electric piano, harp, erhu and snare drum.