SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
") ANKEE DOODLE" is a burlesque song to a very gay little tune, and it was used by the British troops in derision of the revolutionary colonial soldiers of North America. Then it was adopted by the revolutionists for their own purposes. Its history is vague, both as to words and melody. Rubinstein wrote variat.ons on the tune which he inscribed to the American pianist William Mason — and himself played them at his farewell concert in New York. Paderewski, unaware of this, was also in the middle of writing variations on it, and with the kindly intention of attaching the same_ dedication when he heard from Mason that "Yankee Doodle" was written by an Englishman "in derision of us" and tactfully dropped the project. en
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 25
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128SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 25
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