JC and Feynman in music
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:18 pm
A current profile in the New Yorker magazine claims that Collier found a key that doesn't exist:
“Moon River” might have startled Henry Mancini: “Thousands of voices singing together,” and bracingly so; in the final verse, the song “goes into a key that doesn’t exist.” Collier can sound like a Richard Feynman of pop composition. “You can unlock other keys by using physics,” he said. “I cracked open a half key for the final verse of ‘Moon River,’ which is something I’ve been wanting to do for such a long time.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021 ... esnt-exist