By Paul Goldfinger, M.D., Editor, Blogfinger.net. Photograph caption below:
It’s April in Paris, right now. And it is a fine time to visit that most romantic of cities, but sometimes April there can dip down to the 40’s—sound familiar?
And, despite Yip Harburg’s lyrics for “April in Paris,” chestnuts in blossom don’t happen until May, and nobody is setting “holiday tables under the trees.”
In Luxembourg Gardens, blooms are starting to pop in April, and they have a bandstand there.
However, choose May to visit Paris.
This song, “April in Paris” was written by Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke for a 1932 Broadway show called, Walk a Little Faster.
“I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never knew my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
What have you done to my heart?”
Harburg also wrote the lyrics for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Many have recorded “April in Paris,” but this is Kurt Elling’s version from his album The Messenger.
