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This is a choral arrangement of Nina Simone’s singing of ‘Little Girl Blue’ from her debut album of the same name, where she combines this jazz standard with the tune of ‘Good King Wenceslas’ to exquisite effect. This is, to my knowledge, the first such choral arrangement of this stunning quodlibet. Mixing the two tunes draws out the similarities of their parallel stories: the little girl counting each raindrop that falls on her; the little boy trudging through the snowdrifts after King Wenceslas. Maybe this is the ‘tender blue boy’ sent to ‘cheer up little girl blue’?
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