Donkey Serenade

The Donkey Serenade by Rudolf Friml arranged by Adam Bakker
Live Performance by the Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra in St Helen's Church, Lundy on 27th July 2021, nearly one year after Aspidistra's lockdown recording of the same piece.
The song, whose melody enchanted post-war youth, was originally written as an instrumental in 1923. It was then used in the film The Firefly, based on a 1927 Broadway operetta, by Rudolf Friml and Otto A. Harbach. It tells the story of Nina Maria Azara, a beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers into revealing Napolean's intentions toward Spain.

[@theaspidistradrawingroomor7146]

See our lockdown version here… m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5jNf56ihMt0m9U&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

[@borf9717]

Thank you! This is what I hoped to find when searching for Donke Serenade.

[@theaspidistradrawingroomor7146]

Thankyou so much - so grateful for your appreciation.

[@williamdodd5773]

gorgeous! the donkeys outside our house will be enchanted. donkeys so it’s come to this in our new home life is to be measured by the braying of donkeys white ones, modest, amiable, but given to the oddest utterings out there in the night field below our bedroom window it’s as if another kind of electromagnetic pulsation ricochets through their nostrils and arses than the ones that traverse us we had thought hee-haw was all there was to a donkey’s serenade but now we hear rainbows breathy, deliberate, nostalgic, flickering from mind to subtle asinine mind and strangely they help us past the border-posts of sleep so that we wake refreshed earlier than the sun in our creaking country house a little surprised to think what it means to call ourselves primates while the rest of nature in this wooded elbow of hills gets on with its thrilling morning talk in which you can bet we are barely mentioned bill dodd

[@theaspidistradrawingroomor7146]

This is great. Can I paste it onto our Facebook page and credit you please?

[@theaspidistradrawingroomor7146]

Did you watch our lockdown version too? Spoiler- real donkeys at the end!! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5jNf56ihMt0m9U&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

[@williamdodd5773]

@@theaspidistradrawingroomor7146 Sure, would be honoured

[@borf9717]

Bless you, this the way I want to hear this song. Thank you for your hard work.

[@theaspidistradrawingroomor7146]

Thanks so much 😊