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Re: Chopin's Music In Popular Culture
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 May 2001 09:55:53 -0700
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Bernard Chasan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>ANd while reading this, I remember a song with the words," I'm forever
>chasing rain bows (or raindrops?)" based on a Chopin piece.

IIRC "I'm always chasing rainbows" was based on the central section of the
Fantaisie Impromptu.

Quite a lot of Chopin and other Romantic composers was adapted for popular
songs in the frist half of the 20th century.

Deryk Barker
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