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...SCOTT JOPLIN: THE RED BACK BOOK (Angel). Joyful orchestrations of ten classic rags by Gunther Schuller and his New England Conservatory rag-mops...
...everything from Dorothy Parker in drag to the entire chorus line of beruffled hippos in Fantasia, and she shows traces of a dozen other singers: Streisand's nose and extraordinary head tones, Garland's saturation emotions and devoted homosexual following, Fanny Brice's waifish vulnerability, Joplin's floozy eleganza in attire and her tendency to egg audiences on to hysteria. But Miss M's secret is that she is not really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time and let the audience in on the secret...
...were a musician, it might be a lot harder to get all that feeling out," Joplin told an interviewer. "But I'm really fortunate because my gig is just feeling things." Insecure as she was in her talent, she liked to boast about her spontaneity...
...Producer John Simon remembers that Joplin worked 17 hours a day making the Cheap Thrills album...
...Joplin's affairs were usually brief...