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...next performed the world premiere of conductor James Yannatos' Prieres dans L'Arche, a setting of four poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, scored for a small orchestra and soprano. In each poem an animal characterizes himself in a prayer ending with "Ainsi soit-il." Yannatos does not portray the animals, but the attitudes they represent. The animals' feelings are summarized by their way of saying amen, and the score provides the interpretation which the printed page leaves to the reader. For instance, the cat, aided by a marvellously meowing orchestra, says amen in smug anticipation of God's curse...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED simmers with campy humor, and the bewitchers who stir the broth include a loony (Elmarie Wendel), a lovely (Carmen Alvarez), and a larky clown (Kaye Ballard). The little-known Porter songs are basted...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED simmers with campy humor, and the bewitchers who stir the broth include a loony (Elmarie Wendel), a lovely (Carmen Alvarez), and a larky clown (Kaye Ballard). The little-known Porter songs are basted...
Three Fairs in One. Smith confesses to have been stage-struck ever since he saw Carmen at age ten in Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show...
...tending to his duties as town assessor of Bradford, Pa. When the family moved to Long Beach, Calif., Marilyn joined the Roger Wagner Chorale, later won a voice scholarship to the University of Southern California where she flunked, among other things, opera workshop for refusing to sing Carmen (she did not feel ready for the role). She spent her time instead singing avant-garde music at the Hollywood Bowl under the direction of Igor Stravinsky, dubbed in the singing voice for Dorothy Dandridge in the movie Carmen Jones, was a disembodied voice in Hollywood's Flower Drum Song...