Manhattan

Writer: 
Rodgers and Hart
Year: 
1925
Voices: 
Women's four part
Ranges: 

Tenor: D4 - F5
Lead: G#3 - D flat 5
Bari: A flat 3 - B flat 4
Bass: D3 - F4

This medium-tempo up-tune brims over with goodwill as it celebrates the honeymoon delights of a young couple too poor to travel away from New York, or even to sample anything but its cheaper possibilities, but so much in love that it doesn't matter. It takes Rodgers and Hart to make a staycation seem truly romantic.

Fascinating Rhythm's contest premiere of the arrangement starts at 3:35 in this video: