Many years ago, I wrote this "Drinking Song" for the
play "The Bourgeois Gentleman" of Molière. In Act
IV-Scène 1 the count Dorante asks if everybody can be
silent when the musiciens are playing: "What they will
play, is much more interesting than we ever could say."
The refrain is an incentive to drink altogheter a glass
of wine: "Buvons chers amis, buvons!" or "Let us drink,
dear friends, let us drink!". The melody is very simple
in the style of a Folk Song and the piano is composed
in a mor...(+)
Many years ago, I wrote this "Drinking Song" for the
play "The Bourgeois Gentleman" of Molière. In Act
IV-Scène 1 the count Dorante asks if everybody can be
silent when the musiciens are playing: "What they will
play, is much more interesting than we ever could say."
The refrain is an incentive to drink altogheter a glass
of wine: "Buvons chers amis, buvons!" or "Let us drink,
dear friends, let us drink!". The melody is very simple
in the style of a Folk Song and the piano is composed
in a more jazzy direction with a walking bass. It's
possible to listen to an MP3 file with Rachel Fabry,
mezzo.