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Cabot House. Soprano Ellen Archer andPianist Michael Strauss perform cabaret songs byWeill, Gershwin, Piaf, Coward and Porter. CabotHouse Living Room...
...Secada, for example, tries to replicate his partner's range and intensity on The Best Is Yet to Come, but he doesn't come close. Luis Miguel attempts Come Fly with Me with a swinginess that is contrived and tentative. And Chrissie Hynde succumbs to an offputting Edith Piaf impression during Luck Be a Lady...
...series of exhausting concerts that friends feared she could not survive, Piaf enraptured anew her greatest love: the French audience. Thirty years after her death on Oct. 10, 1963, at the age of 47, France has revived the romance. Record companies have rereleased her hits, and six of her nine films are on videotape. Observing the flood of visitors who have made the pilgrimage this year to Paris' modest Edith Piaf Museum, curator Bernard Marchois says that "it is as if she never went away." And in one sense, she has never left...
...with actors, musicians and athletes -- added to the legend. But her legacy is the voice. Penetrating, with a wide, natural vibrato, it had an urgency of emotion that touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers. Jean Cocteau, who died within hours of Piaf, called her a genius: "There has never been another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed a more fitting name: Piaf, which...
...sparrow soared to grandeur. She was an international star and the last in the line of French singers famous for chansons realistes, gritty songs about real people. They are stories of love lost, of city streets at twilight and tears at midnight. Suffering and ardor suffuse her music because Piaf performed the same way she lived, holding back nothing. "Je suis entiere," she once said, I am totally committed. Heard again, the husky, impassioned voice revives a fading dream of Paris. And for that, the French again clasp her to their hearts and will never...