By Joseph Kosma (1905-1969)
Joe Clark, piano/clarinet
Noah Lauziere @noahklauziere, trombone
Alex Nick, tenor/piano
Joseph Kosma was born at József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He began playing piano at five and wrote his first opera, Christmas in the Trenches, at the age of 11. He studied with Leo Weiner at the Academy of Music in Budapest and Béla Bartók at the Liszt Academy, receiving degrees in composition and conducting. He emigrated with his wife Lilli to Paris in 1933 where he met French poet Jacques Prévert. During WWII, Kosma was placed under house arrest and banned from composing. However, Prévert arranged for Kosma to write film music under the names of other composers.
Kosma set a number of Prévert’s poems to music and had them recorded by popular singers. He set Les Feuilles mortes (“The Dead Leaves”) in 1945 and published it in 1947. The music was derived from ballet music he had previously written for Roland Petit’s Le Rendez-vous. A 1949 recording by Yves Montand sold a million copies with five years. In 1950, Johnny Mercer translated the song into English, entitling it Autumn Leaves. He shortened the original French lyrics to just two verses in English.
Performed on the recital Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat at the NMRHS PAC on July 24, 2024.
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