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...Bette's pianist and arranger was young Barry Manilow, just a few years short of his own, more comfortable stardom. Their first rehearsals were "nothing special, almost dull," as Manilow recalls them. "I played and she sang. But then we did it in front of an audience. She came downstairs in this turban and an outfit that could have come from my grandmother's closet. She was a tornado of energy and talent. I was six feet away, and this vision was one of the thunderbolts in my life." Another fan-Aaron Russo, signed on as Midler's manager...
MOZART: Don Giovanni. Samuel Ramey, Don Giovanni; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Leporello; Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Donna Anna; Agnes Baltsa, Donna Elvira; Kathleen Battle, Zerlina; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). Salzburg Recital. Soprano Kathleen Battle, Pianist James Levine...
...lived for many years in an ) institution on Staten Island for the mentally retarded. Britt is attending a community college and has had two one-man shows of his paintings. In Connecticut, one 31-year-old man, diagnosed as autistic when a child, has become a gifted pianist. In Baton Rouge, La., Kathy Dial, a child with severe brain damage, has a vocal repertoire of some 300 songs...
Among postwar American entertainers, none provoked that question more often than a kitsch pianist with a scullery maid's idea of a regal wardrobe, who for more than 40 years attracted stalwart Middle Americans to romps that he himself once characterized as "just that far away from drag." As a musician, Liberace was a panderer: he edited classics down to four to six minutes because, he said, his audience would not sit still for anything longer. He sang and tap-danced competently, no more. From the early 1950s, when his syndicated TV show appeared ten times a week...
Occasionally, the earnest musical-comedy style of the singing and dancing threatens to overwhelm the material, and a purist friend tells me that the house pianist was way off throughout. So, purists take note. For the rest of us it's a cast of dreamboats and high-power honeys singin' the kind of songs that heaven sings when its feelin' blue. So to speak...