Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberta Peters of the Mctropolitan Opera plays Elsa Valdine and sings the duet from Madame Butterfly with the voice of Jan Peerce, superimposed on Byron Palmer. Her rendition of Sempre Liber from Verdi's La Traviata is as sensitive as it is perfect. Violinist Isaac Stern is Eugene Ysaye, who gave Hurok his first big break...
Sunday's debate, however, was a less formal affair than the Oxford match. Janner and Lloyd have not debated together as a team before, while the prison combination was an experienced duet. Further-more, the Law students were hampered in their support of the welfare state by the fact that Lloyd is by private conviction a firm Conservative...
...Came, was sparse, austere, reminded some in spirit of Italian primitive painting of an even earlier era than Stravinsky's models. The tenor solo, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, was a singer's nightmare of half tones and difficult intervals. Most everybody was relieved when the duet, Westron Winde, came breezing in with a cheerfully dissonant allegro...
...performances after the Manhattan opening of South Pacific, Actress Mary Martin stepped out of her role of Nurse Nellie Forbush and turned it over to Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson. The next night Mary was doing a nightclub stint herself. She agreed to do a cabaret skit, including singing a duet (Baby, It's Cold Outside), with Friend Noel Coward. Occasion: a benefit performance for the London Actors Orphanage...
Tonight We're Setting the Woods on Fire (Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine; Columbia). Songstress Stafford throws her bestselling voice behind two trends: 1) a duet with another popular singer, and 2) a hillbilly song. This one is a razzmatazz spoof on a pair of country folk on their way to a Saturday night spree. It is fast and loud, and its whipcracking arrangement gives it a fine juke-box flavor...