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...Evening with Yves Montand flows as naturally and attractively through the singer's Paris as the Seine. Montand has a bedroom voice, but he can also mimic, clown, and act with a barometric sensitivity of mood...
...Evening with Yves Montand flows as naturally and attractively through the singer's Paris as the Seine. Montand has a bedroom voice, but he can also mimic, clown, and act with a barometric sensitivity of mood...
...Evening with Yves Montand flows as naturally and attractively through the singer's Paris as the Seine. Montand has a bedroom voice, but he can also mimic, clown, and act with a barometric sensitivity of mood...
...chansons are about ordinary people who come to sad ends rather than bad ends. In Un Carbon Dansait, a slum-bred youngster dreams of being another Fred Astaire; Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares...
Since his 1959 Manhattan visit, Montand has annexed, but not really acquired, some English. His two English numbers are close to ho-hum. But for the rest of the evening, this Gallic son of Aphrodite is mmmmm-nnnnnn...