The briefest card my dear we are leaving [ ... ]
A History of the Thé Dansant
Song Cycle by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012)
1. Foxtrot  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by M. R. Peacocke (b. 1930), appears in Selves, copyright ©
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , "Foxtrott", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. Slow Foxtrot  [sung text checked 1 time]
Lacquer bows to bleu marine [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by M. R. Peacocke (b. 1930), appears in Selves, copyright ©
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , "Langsamer Foxtrott", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
3. Tango  [sung text checked 1 time]
Let us invent marble and five o’clock [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by M. R. Peacocke (b. 1930), appears in Selves, copyright ©
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , "Tango", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission