Macapagal CP, Ranen Darren

MADZ Schola Cantorum - 1st Year

Bass 1

Ten Minutes Ago

The song “Ten Minutes Ago”, was written by Oscar Hammerstein II and brought to life by the music of
Richard Rodgers. It was first seen on television in the year of 1957. The song “Ten Minutes Ago '' is
from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. A musical adaption of the classic fairytale by the same
name, it became a musical sensation when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein transformed it
into a live musical television broadcast in 1957. Starring Julie Andrews, it retold the fairytale of a
young girl living a miserable life under the roof of her evil stepmother and her three equally vicious
stepsisters. With the Prince’s Ball bearing, the four women in her family were planning to go, leaving
Cinderella at home on the night of the ball. When all hope seems lost, Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother
appears, granting her wishes by transforming her from rags to riches, and giving her a pair of glass
slippers. Cinderella was able to go to the ball unrecognized, under the condition to be home by
midnight, when the spell wore off.

At the ball, she meets the prince and there is immediate chemistry, but she rushes to leave before
the clock strikes twelve, in fear of the prince seeing her for who she really was and being disgusted
by her true self. As she escapes the castle, she loses one of her glass shoes on the steps of the castle.
Leaving it behind, she makes it home without being seen by anyone, and resumes her life as a poor
girl being abused by her family. The next day, the prince announces a search for Cinderella, not
knowing her name or remembering her face. He went around town and asked women to try on the
glass shoe, believing that he would.

I believe that this song it’s about two lovers that will do everything to get each other.