Word: duets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three remarkably flexible jazz singers create an exciting vocal equivalent of Basic's big band (accompanied by a real Basie rhythm section). Together, the trio sounds the brasses or the reeds, then Annie Ross sings a bright trumpet solo (in Blues Backstage) or with Hendricks a mellow saxophone duet (Two for the Blues...
...records, Alpert plays both parts of the trumpet duet, achieves a two-dimensional effect by slightly altering the synchronization and recording one trumpet line a shade sharp or flat by a process he keeps secret in order to discourage the many imitators that have cropped up in the wake of the Tijuana Brass's success. And aficionados of pure mariachi, who once scorned Ameriachi, are now buying it. One of the ten best-selling records in Mexico City last week was the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream...
...thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was needed. Rorem, a conservative composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer's Eve-were charmingly melodic, but the overall impact was blandly uncompelling. The sets, which Rorem confesses he "hates," were gingerbread concoctions totally antithetical to the spirit of the opera, and Soprano Marguerite Willauer in the title role sang...
...busy searching for love, sex and other gratifications to devote much time to easy platitudes about German guilt. Werner, as a man dying of heart disease, conceives a wasting fondness for la Condesa (Simone Signoret), an exiled Spanish noblewoman who trades her favors for narcotics. Their scenes together, a duet of eye-to-eye messages that make dialogue seem beside the point, are showstoppers of stunning subtlety...
Kettleson, too, did a fine job with the music, though I wish his voice had been stronger. Weber sung less brilliantly, but played with more convincing gusto. Randolph Lindel (Sveglioto) and Martin Wishnatsky (Giovinetto) performed their sneeze-yawn duet with suitable enthusiasm...