Love this song ! Just heard it in the new movie " Three Billboards". Going to learn/play it on mandolin. Looks fairly easy.
Love this song ! Just heard it in the new movie " Three Billboards". Going to learn/play it on mandolin. Looks fairly easy.
Jesse McReynolds covered it on his Grateful Dead cover album. I think it’s called Jesse McReynolds and Friends.
Living’ in the Mitten
Lots of settings to choose from: check out Wikipedia. There aren't many tunes with settings by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Gounod, Hindemith, Britten, Bing Crosby and Jerry Garcia!
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
In the Cristofaro Mandolin Method I, this song appears as Romance de la Rose (3rd Recreation) from the opera Martha (In the wikipedia link for The Last Rose of Summer: Friedrich von Flotow: aria "Letzte Rose" in the opera Martha (1847)).
This video of a french singer, is exactly Cristofaro version:
I have now recorded the Cristofaro arrangement as a duet on two bowlback mandolins:
1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin (x2)
I have somewhat pruned the double stops in the accompaniment -- I can play them, but the intro sounded a lot smoother without them. No idea why the score says "allegro grazioso". Flotow's original score said "larghetto" and that's how it's normally played.
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