Word: pagliaccios
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...Jenny Johnson is Wolfson's star pupil, the first with a quality fit for critics. After showing documents to prove that she has no structural abnormality in her voice mechanism, she sings the high notes of a coloratura selection, then switches to her male tenor voice for Ridi, Pagliaccio without apparent strain. Says Wolfson: "The famous larynx of gold of great singers is just a legend. Everyone possesses one." In Wolfson's dream Jenny and her co-pupils will be the first with a new kind of voice; it may have to be called an omnitone...
Bravo pour le Clown (Edith Piaf; Angel LP). Eight over-orchestrated songs of the sadder aspects of life and love, one of them (the title song) a rowdier than usual pagliaccio-type item that fits Piaf as closely as a putty nose. Perhaps more timely in France, where La Piaf is now touring with a circus...
Tell Me You Love Me. A heartbreaking attempt to restyle Pagliacci's old heartbreaker, Vesti la giubba, as a ballad-foxtrot. The most popular version: Mercury's, featuring Vic Damone as the pop Pagliaccio...
...Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" David Belasco, occult archimage of the theatre, has muttered incantations over an ancient artifice and whisked away the curtain cloth to disclose it as a new play of absorbing intensity. Fausto Martini's "Ridi, Pagliaccio" (Italian) is the source; the story is that of Punchinello...