Good morning, all! I went to bed around 1 am, was awakened by the arrival of my neighbor and his girlfriend around 3:45 am, and when he got out of bed and opened something that thudded on the floor around 6:45, I figured the hell with it and got up. I've been playing Bach's "Magnificat" loudly in retaliation ever since.
My cold has landed, not severely but enough to be an irritant, and I plan to stay indoors all day, dozing, reading, working on taxes. I need to find last year's checkbook to determine if I need to give Joshie a 1099? for the payments for Finale lessons.
I can announce today that it's official: the final missing song from BABES IN TOYLAND has been discovered, and thanks to my friend Loras Schissel, I was the discoverer. Long thought to be an interpolation written by Mabel Barrison who played Jane, "Evaline McCook" was indeed written by Vctor Herbert and Glen MacDonough under the title "She Was A Country Girl." After the June 17, 1903, Chicago opening night, the song was cut for the lousy reviews it got for its performers. It never ended up in the final BABES materials, and the manuscript vocal score, which was in the unidentified section of the Herbert Collection of the Library of Congress, was discovered in the files for Herbert's next show BABETTE. Edward Waters, who catalogued the collection, simply notated it as "found with Babette material." I am very happy.