Music for Performance
MY GEISHA
1961
Movements
Short Suite 2:30
Goodbye Love: Finale
Suite 5:32
l. Prelude
2. Work Montage & Wedding
3. Goodbye Love (Finale) 2:30
You Are Sympathy to Me 3:24
Program Notes
Franz Waxman returned to Paramount Pictures in 1962 to compose the score for Steve Parker’s production of My Geisha, a Norman Krasna comedy directed by Jack Cardiff. The plot of the movie concerns a director (Yves Montand) who makes a film of Madama Butterfly in Japan. His wife (Shirley MacLaine) disguises herself as a geisha and gets the leading role without his knowledge with the help of Edward G, Robertson, and more attention than she needs from Robert Cummings. Waxman’s theme “You Are Sympathy to Me” was a popular recording at the time of the release of the film.
Instr.
Short Suite
2.picc.2.EH.2.bcl.2 – 4.3.3.1 – timp.perc(1): vib – 2 harps – pft – str
Complete Suite
3(I,II=afl,III=picc).
2.EH.2.bcl.2
4.3.3.1
timp.perc(5):SD,BD,
cyms,vib,2 marsm mar,bs mar,glsp,xyl,tgl,tambo
2 harps
pft(cel) str
Prelude
3(I,II=afl,III=picc).2.
EH.2.bcl.2
4.3.3.1
timp.perc(5): SD,BD,cyms,2 vib,2 mar,bs mar,glsp
2 harps
pft(cel)
str
Work Montage & Wedding
2(I,II=picc).picc.2.
EH.2.bcl.2
4.3.3.1
timp.perc(5): xyl,mar,sm mar,bs mar(opt),2 glsp,vib,tgl,tambo
2 harps
pft(cel)
hpscd
str
Goodbye Love (Finale)
2.picc.2.EH.2.bcl.2
4.3.3.1
timp.perc(1): vib
2 harps
pft
str
“You are Sympathy to Me”
2(II=afl).1.3(III=bcl).bcl.0
3.0.0.0
perc: drumset,vib,glsp
harp
pft
str