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What about some professional coaching, then? "After high school," Gil replied, "I had some singing lessons from time to time, but I didn't find anyone I wanted to go to regularly...
...know I've got some talent--but," Gil wisely adds, "I mustn't just coast along. I need to progress. At my age, I know it's easy to abuse or ruin a voice. I've got to have discipline. I want to know exactly how I do every single thing with my voice. And I want to get the training that will let me perform works in the classical repertory along with popular music and folk songs. I'd like to take some lessons in French and German and Italian, as well as learn something about different styles...
...York, he ought to be much in demand. "I don't expect to keep doing Broadway musicals forever, though. There's a chance I may do a movie. What I'd really like to do is get sufficient preparation to do concert singing and maybe opera." So Gil may perhaps wind up having followed the reverse path of stars like Pinza and Traubel...
...Gil come to land the role in Roar? He auditioned like everybody else. Anthony Newley, the British creator and director and star of the show, said, "He's too young for the part and he's too short for the part." Why, then, was he cast? Newley had the right answer: "All he's got is the greatest bloody voice I've ever heard...
...INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS (Verve). Evans, revered arranger for Claude Thornhill and Miles Davis, gathered a platoon of excellent musicians to stir musical colors with him (in The Barbara Song, El Toreador). The orchestration is sensuously full of woodwinds and French horns, and the arrangements so complex that they invite close listening...