Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist last year (No. 1: Mario Lanza). Quickly recovering from its surprise, Victor has reached into the treasury for more. In one LP, labeled Caruso In Opera and Song, the great tenor can be heard in ten arias, including familiar ones from Il Trovatore, Tosca and La Boheme. Famous Duets includes Caruso and Alma Gluck in La Traviata, and Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in the soaring first-act duet of Madame Butterfly. The quality of recording varies, since some of the originals were waxed as early...
...blended with very fetching music indeed. In this next-to-last of Rodgers & Hart's triumphs together, Rodgers' tunes were never suaver, wittier, more engaging-whether in such favorites as Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I Could Write a Book or in such a mocking female duet as Take Him. Seldom were Hart's lyrics brisker, brighter, more uninhibited, enabling Elaine Stritch -for one example-to stop the show with Zip, a spoof of a striptease...
Little Gania Borodin had a favor to ask of her famous father: Could she play a duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed-it was news to him that his little girl could play at all. But he listened while she picked out "Chopsticks" with a finger of each hand. Fascinated, he began to improvise a ten-finger accompaniment in the bass while she pecked...
...wrote a funeral march and a mazurka around the tune, which he called the Coteletten Polka* and proudly showed the pieces to his musical friends. Rimsky-Korsakov promptly added several variations; other composer friends chipped in too, and before long there were 16 paraphrases. All were written for piano duet, the lower part for a skilled player, the upper for two fingers. In 1879, when the collection was published, Liszt got a copy, and added a paraphrase...
...into a dance to Verdi's crackling Stride lavampa music, and Page and the dancers were in full command. In the Anvil Chorus, the dancers whirled with so much gusto that the crowd could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended in a flood of blood, with Azucena, Manrico and his sweetheart dying and the wicked Count di Luna going mad. The curtain came down with Azucena triumphant...