Product Description
This arrangement of "Stardust" was inspired by the performance of Liberace. It is written as
he played it in concerts around the world and on his television show. Now you can learn to play this famous song with the same flair and highly ornamental style! Liberace was a legendary pianist and entertainer who dazzled audiences with his musical talent and his extravagant costumes.
"Stardust" is a jazz song composed by American singer, songwriter and musician Hoagy Carmichael. Now considered a standard and part of the Great American Songbook, the song has been recorded over 1,500 times either as an instrumental or vocal track, featuring different performers. Carmichael wrote the song with inspiration from the end of his love
affair with Kathryn Moore, who would later marry Art Baker, the trumpet
player in Carmichael's Collegians.
Stardust" is considered a part of the Great American Songbook. The song has been recorded over 1,500 times, and has been translated into 40 languages. The Encycloedia Britannica has defined it as "one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music".
Carmichael's 1927 version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995. National Public Radio included it on their NPR 100, a 1999 list of the
100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
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