Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people sitting on the lawn and the sides of the main theater slowly gravitated towards the stage, Perlman and Zukerman spun out dizzyingly fast and perfectly crafted notes in what seemed to be two parallel and inexorably linked sonatas rather than a duet...
Richards' singing starts out as minimalist statements and slowly grows into an over-powering, howling duet with his backup. The track goes on a full two minutes longer than the original, and the juggernaut groove seems as though it could go on forever. When Richards voices over, "Dig these guys," at the end, you're still in shock...
...assertive With One Look and the lilting, wistful New Ways to Dream are engaging paeans to bygone achievements. Her pretty boy's 11 numbers amount to even less. Only his cynical anthem to ambition, Sunset Boulevard, derives added power from being sung. The most conspicuous lack, a satisfying duet, is inherent in the original. This is not so much a love story as a deceitful encounter between two moral failures, a woman absorbed in self-love and a man mired in self-hate...
...songs by such composers as Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Her non-Broadway hits have never been very credible, and they've proved to have the shelf life of sugary foodstuffs on convenience-store shelves. It's hard to listen to You Don't Bring Me Flowers, her 1977 duet with Neil Diamond, without thinking of eight-track tapes and the Carter Administration...
...idea of adventure seems to be the inclusion of two Andrew Lloyd Webber songs from his yet-to-open musical adaptation of the film Sunset Boulevard. There's also a version of Webber's song The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera, $ recast as a duet between Streisand and Michael Crawford. Three Webber songs is four too many...