Morning Sing: May 9, 2020

This morning, I’m singing “Evergreen,” the love theme from A Star is Born (the original version). I spent a lot of time on this song in high school, after we sang it in choir, I think, especially, because the piano part is not the easiest and has a lot of chromatic notes. That makes me always pay a bit more attention to what I’m doing.

Also, I love this physical piece of sheet music, because my grandfather wrote “End” 6 bars before the actual end of the piece. Most often, he played organ/piano without a singer, so the long playout with chord changes would have been boring for his audience. It’s just a great reminder of how often I heard him play and what he did to make things work.

Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star is Born")

Words by Paul Williams

Music by Barbra Streisand

(c) 1976 First Artists Music Co., Emanuel Music Corp., and 20th Century Music Corp.