Word: accompanists
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...when a new singer named Lana Cantrell announced kiddingly, "I wrote all the music, and I made the dress myself." The same club is in for the same sort of happy jolt this week when another new comer, Marilyn Maye, breezes in and limits the tributes to her piano-accompanist husband, Sammy Tucker. "Stand up, honey," she usually says, "and let them see your fat little body." Their asides aside, Lana and Marilyn are old-fashioned do-it-yourself singers with an unmistakable message: a first-rate entertainer can do without the fancy trappings of the packaged big sell...
...told, a machine of considerable-and relentlessly moving-parts. Becaud at work stomps his feet to the rhythm of a song, darts to the piano to hammer out a few chords, hangs his chin on an accompanist's shoulder in a quest for greater intensity, even strolls out into the audience to invite a sing-along during some of the merrier numbers. Spotlighted in shameless mauves and chartreuses, caressing the microphone, pushing his husky voice from tenderness to remorse to rage, Becaud makes it seem that singing about love may be the world's oldest profession...
...plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra and Chorus and an excellent harpsichord accompanist...
...when she made her debut recital at the local Baptist church, only six hardy souls turned out to hear her program of sacred songs. The fortunes of Mrs. Miller began to change when she began making recordings at her own expense, "just for the ducks of it." Her accompanist somehow induced a disk jockey to play one of her songs on his program. The reaction was such that Capitol Records signed her up and the Kansas songbird was at last...
JASCHA HEIFETZ grandly and brilliantly plays the third and biggest of Brahms's three romantic sonatas for violin and piano (reissued by RCA Victor). Such virtuosity would overshadow an ordinary pianist but not the late William Kapell, who with equal ease is first sensitive accompanist, then forceful protagonist. It was on his way to California to complete recording the Brahms triptych with Heifetz that the 31-year-old Kapell was killed in a plane crash twelve years...