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Trot and Rag Intermezzo

Composer:Jentes  (1887-1958)   Suppliers: Ditty Box Enterprises
Editor:Geoff Grainger  Sextet:Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:Ditty Box Enterprises  Publication:DBE 1016
Audio:Listen. Sequencer: James Pitt-PayneListen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble Audio file information  

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Look and ListenLength: approx. 3 mins. Sounds best with the bass doubled.
California Sunshine is a bright and cheerful composition clearly intended to be danced to and which Jentes dedicated to a certain Miss Georgia B. Chadd. According to the cover it was featured by "Leon Van Dell and Miss Margret (sic( Mudge - Late of the London Opera House, London and The Cecil, Paris". The dance pair is shown in a dramatic pose against the backdrop of a setting Californian sun. The composition's form is ABBACC written entirely in Eb-major with an 8-bar introduction which doubles as an interlude between the BB- and A-strains. It is rounded-off with an unexpected oriental-like 4-bar coda. In this adaptation for recorder sextet, the melodies are shared by the descant and treble voices.
A tempo of 80 crotchets/min. is suggested.
California Sunshine was published by Theron C. Bennett Co., New York, USA.