Metropolitan Nocturne

In a tenement flat, a young man sits at his piano working on a composition, despite the neighbors' objections to the noise. He daydreams of a beautiful blonde girl, and of conducting it in tuxedo at Carnegie Hall. When he's finished, he writes it on music paper and goes to a neighbor's window and slips it into the empty apartment, with a note that the struggle is over, then goes back to sit outside his apartment, to doze and dream.

It's all performed silently, just motion and images to the title composition. That composition sounds like an orchestral piece by George Gershwin, whose influence was growing at the time; in fact, it quotes from Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me", played moderato. Originally the song was sung scherzando; it would be later in the decade when the tempo would be slowed even further to a ballad. Pace.