Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to Mozart. As a stripling, Rubinstein often lived at the mercy of impresarios who wanted him to perform only the crowd pleasers?Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff. "They never listened to me," he growls, "just to the box office." Now, like an aging Romeo, he has "come back to Mozart on my knees." That alone is quite an achievement. "You remember what Schnabel said about Mozart sonatas?" recalls Rubinstein. " 'Too easy for children, too difficult for artists.' " So it is: Mozart demands a fidelity to rhythm that few performers can ever master. It is characteristic of Rubinstein's magic that even...
Anya. Ornithomimm was no theatergoer, but he would have grasped the principle of this musical perfectly-since he was a dinosaur who lived on other dinosaurs' eggs. Anya raids the nests of My Fair Lady, Cinderella, Rachmaninoff, turn-of-the-century operettas, a straight play called Anastasia and a movie called Anastasia. No matter how soon it closes, the show will not die young...
There is no royalty in this for Rachmaninoff, who supplies all the music. If he had only written the lyrics as well, he might have spared himself lines like "Dust the bust of Dostoevsky." And if anyone guessed that there would not be a dance number called Vodka, Vodka! -all knee bends and flying boots-he guessed wrong...
...violinist. Toscanini was always playing the cello when he conducted, Koussevitzky the double bass, Stokowski the organ." Ormandy plays one big lush violin. His music is coated with the satiny sheen of wall-to-wall strings, a sound that readily lends itself to the works of the romantics-Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Debussy, Brahms...
...London last spring and cannily deployed on a pre-Broadway crosscountry tour that has already nearly recouped production costs. Auntie Mame is being put to music as My Best Girl by Jerry (Hello, Dolly!) Herman; and Anya (nee Anastasia) is given voice with a score gleaned from themes by Rachmaninoff. Then there is a pair of transubstantiated movies: Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria will become Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity with Gwen Verdon. The Blue Angel, as Sugar City, relocates to New Orleans, with Walter Slezak and Lilo. The composer: Duke Ellington...