Word: piaf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another DeLay student, the sloe-eyed, Roman-born Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, has had a rapid ascent since her 1981 victory in the Naumburg International Violin Competition. Salerno-Sonnenberg, 27, is a mediagenic performer hailed by some for her intensity ("the Edith Piaf of the violin," a colleague has called her) and scorned by others for the eccentric collection of tics, twitches and transports that form her onstage persona. But there is no gainsaying her vivid stage presence, or the enthusiasm with which she imbues her performances. Other noteworthy women violinists include the Kavafian sisters, Ani, 39, and Ida, 35, both...
Cyndi Lauper is the manic outsider in every high school class - brassy and sensitive, dippy and shrewd - whose hair seems to have been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...
...would-be sophisticates there is Casablanca (40 Brattle St), in the same complex as the Brattle Theater. Casa B comes complete with Bogey and Catherine posters, recessed lighting, slow ceiling fans, a jukebox with "As Time Goes By" and Edith Piaf along with the usual pop. Drinks are more expensive--a must for social climbers--but the wai9ters are very friendly and the atmosphere homey and comfortable...
...Outfitted in punk khaki - checker-rimmed dark glasses, red sneakers, ornamental bruise on her arm - Wren crashes the Peppermint Lounge and puts the make on new wave musicians, who pay about as much attention to her as they would to the framed landscape on a motel-room wall. This Piaf-size waif has big, gaudy dreams; what she gives and gets is 24-hours-a-day pain, as stark and grating as a dentist's drill...
Indeed, Montand, with his sad, weary, Bogart eyes, is best when he sings of love and melancholy, which seem, as he describes them, to be one and the same. Most audiences, moreover, will almost certainly know a bit of his history: his early romance with Edith Piaf, his brief affair with Marilyn Monroe and his long and enduring marriage to Actress Simone Signoret. Montand does not stand alone. He is surrounded by ghosts, memories and the soft, dusky glow of nostalgia...