On May 25, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
What I meant to say, though, it is that "My Time of Day" is inordinately hard to pitch. Leaps to chromatically altered notes, some of which resolve and some don't, and constant modulation make it one of the hardest to pitch pieces in the Broadway repertoire.
Actually, it's twelve-tone, at least at the beginning. I seem to recall that Loesser was very proud of that number, not least because he succeeded so well at fitting that intellectual idiom into the Broadway style. The gradual move away from that up to the climax at "fills the gutter with gold" is very powerful.
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