Pop tunes based on classics

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Folks--

I have learned a not-too-hard piece I found in an antique shop -- Full Moon and Empty Arms.  The sheet music at least gives credit to Rachmaninoff, stating that the piece is based on his 2nd Piano Concerto.  This song, which was popular once, is copyright 1946.

The same arrangers advertise on the back cover that they have composed "Till the End of Time," which I believe -- as memory serves -- to be based on the Rach. 3rd concerto.

Then there is Freddy Martin's take-off on the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto.  "Tonight we dream" ?   My memory is not too sharp these days.

Can anyone else think of any other knock-offs of classical melodies, and name them?

Also, does anyone have some opinions about the legitimacy of this?

I am not a very political person, and am slow to wrath.  So I don't much care.  I have enjoyed playing that antique score of "Full Moon and Empty Arms." 

I would be more "ticked off" at the concept if the arrangers had not prominently acknowledged their debt to Rachmaninoff on the music's cover (repeated inside).

Get back to me, thanks--

Can anyone

[Tash]

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