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...best thing to a rock concert, the results were closer in style to a rip-roaring Broadway show, an impression strengthened by the use of Bizet's original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress who played straight to the video cameras, giving a devastatingly...
Since making his first recording at the age of 22, Ma has released more than 50 albums, winning 12 Grammys in the process and enjoying a number of crossover hits, including Hush with vocalist Bobby McFerrin and Appalachia Waltz with bassist Edgar Meyer and violinist-fiddler Mark O'Connor (the latter CD has been a fixture on the classical charts for 76 weeks). But life as an elite musician has its dreary side. Ma has a grueling concert schedule that keeps him on the road roughly half the year. Ax's comments notwithstanding, Ma practices where he can--in hotels...
...While he was majority leader in 1978, Senator Robert Byrd (who started his political career by playing fiddle on West Virginia street corners) recorded Mountain Fiddler, an album of "classic fiddle tunes of the old frontier, frolic tunes and gospel...
...Broadway albums. The Brooklyn teenager listened over and over again to musicals like The King and I and Kismet, and since he couldn't afford a Broadway ticket, he dreamed up his own narratives to go with the songs. Says Manilow: "I think my story was better than the Fiddler on the Roof I eventually...
...rehearsal, his relationship with his orchestra seems more that of a primus inter pares than a Prussian autocrat from the old school. He talks frequently, calling up vivid images to illustrate his interpretative intention. "This is an old fiddler who can hardly pick up his instrument," he says during the rehearsal of a plaintive string passage in Mahler. "And then he gets stronger and stronger, and suddenly it all comes back!" When he's happy with the ways things are going, he lets the band know. "You make the music," he shouts. "I listen to it and adjust...