Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puccini: La Bohème (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; London; 2 LPs; $11.96). The LP era has had three recordings of Bohème good enough to be called great. The first two were the Toscanini (with Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce as Mimi and Rodolfo) and the Beecham (Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Bjoerling), both still available in low-priced reissues. Here is the third, with the unpredictable Karajan sculpting the orchestral part with an irresistible flow befitting the Toscanini approach and a touching songfulness that Beecham might have applauded. The bella...
...that has made him a favorite of many musicians (among those who have happily accompanied him are Count Basic, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington). On a ballad like It Was You, he has a knack of letting the song rise lazily above him like cigar smoke. On standards like Mimi and End of a Love Affair, he is in the jazzy, hold-your-hat tradition. No less an authority than Frank Sinatra once called him the best singer in the business-and now that Sinatra has retired, he may well be. "He's the singer who gets across what...
...Krause (Escamillo) moves more like a waiter than a bullfighter; yet both contribute to the spirit of the show. The biggest surprise in the cast is the Micaela of Soprano Adriana Maliponte - vocally ravishing, physically beguiling - who, it is to be hoped, will be heard soon as Manon or Mimi...
...Mimi, 18, a June graduate of Tenafly (N.J.) High School...
THEY could hardly be more unlike, Mimi and Amanda.*Yet both are representative of American teen-agers in 1972. Though Amandas predominate among the nation's boys and girls between 13 and 19, there are enough Mimis so that many parents are alarmed. Even some of the teen-agers themselves, especially those in college, are uneasy about their almost unlimited new sexual license. Along with a heady sense of freedom, it causes, they find, a sometimes unwelcome sense of pressure to take advantage of it. 'I'm starting to feel the same way about getting laid as I did about...