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Words and music by Dennis Livingston Length
of song: 5:25 Song
style/genre: Midtempo ballad Key(s): B flat major to C major Note
range
(Low/High): B natural below middle C to D an octave above middle C About
the song:
The genesis of this deeply evocative ballad begins with preparing for a trip to Istanbul by reading Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, a memoir of growing up in that ancient city redolent with the passing of empires and nostalgia for a glorious history long gone — what Pamuk calls in Turkish, "huzum". While Istanbul is also a modern, cosmopolitan city, I drew on the mist-drenched sense of this aspect of the place as the background for a story of the end of an affair, itself now just another shard of history. Poetic license department: the lyrics state that the Hippodrome of Constantine is "gone without a trace" — not quite, but almost so. Gender
point of
view:
Irrelevant. Press: "BACA's first annual Songwriters Showcase features, among other composers, songs by Dennis Livingston — including the bittersweet, highly visual, almost filmic "A Misty Day In Istanbul" gorgeously sung by Brian De Lorenzo."— Beverly Creasey's review at Theater Mirror 5/25/08 (www.theatermirror.com/bevtonya.htm)
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PLAY
THE ORIGINAL DEMO RECORDING 
