The Fantasticks: Vocal Selections

I ordered these for my voice students to use for a competition and they came in just in time and were in very good condition (even the used one). Thank you!

Learning how to play piano has been made easier through a good tour guide, my piano teacher, using this as a road map. For those of you who are old enough to have seen this show on Sullivan Street before it closed, the waltzes in this score have been my launching pad and, after many years of trying to start learning how to actually play piano, I can truly say that I can play this time in part because I've loved these songs for a very long time. Of course, at this point in my playing, I'm not playing every single note yet, nor am I a fluid player yet, but using a chordal approach with minor simplifications here and there has me playing They Were You, Try to Remember, and Soon It's Gonna Rain. Later on I'll be able to add the extra embellishments.

I adore the musical "The Fantsticks" and since I love singing- I thought I'd give these songs a go. The music is written nicely and isn't that difficult to play either. I love the songs "Try to Remember", Much More", and "They Were You". I would recommend this song book to any "Fantastick" Fan. This vocal selections book contains:1. TRY TO REMEMBER2. I CAN SEE IT3. MUCH MORE4. NEVER SAY NO5. PLANT A RADISH6. SOON IT'S GOING TO RAIN7. THEY WERE YOUThe only thing that it doesn't have is which character sings what song, but if you know the musical you won't have a problem. :)(Review done by a 19 year old's perspective)

The arrangements of the songs are spot on... most likely unchanged from the original. However, the songs in this book are a very small subset of the songs in the musical. I wish, for example, that “The Abduction Ballet” had been included.The Kindle edition, which is what I bought, most irritatingly puts the copyright notice of each song at the top of an otherwise blank page that follows the first page, rather than as a footer at the bottom of the first page. Hence,, if you are “flipping” your Kindle pages while playing, you always have to skip p. 2 of each song. This is careless positioning and alignment of page images, making the footer of page 1 become its own page, page 2.

Not the stage version but still good. :)

Didn't have the duet part for the song we wanted - would have like specifics.

A gift for my granddaughter. LOVE this music....and LOVE this 50th Anniversary copy!!

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