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"It was really an intimidating process," Bumby says of his audition. "We had to perform solos, and there were several callbacks, and a lot of mixing and matching." At one point the Kroks "even put their ears right up to our mouths to check for tone," he says. "It's...
The show opened with the Harvard Jazz Band playing some laid-back blues, followed by an uninspiring arrangement of the Duke Ellington standard "Perdido." Their rousing rendition of Oscar Peterson's "Hallelujah Time" elicited delighted applause from the audience. Excellent solos were performed by Chris Carter, Anton Schwartz, Mark Kaufmann...
TO appreciate the innovation involved, it is important to understand that Collins was not technically a tap dancer, but a hoofer. Whereas a tap dancer concentrates on the effect of movement, a hoofer expresses himself through percussion, creating melodies with his feet. As Dizzy Gillespie explains during the film, "Leon...
If what seemed groundbreaking in 1971 has become mainstream, even slightly dated, the reason is that Follies profoundly influenced much of what followed. The show remains at once a brilliant pastiche and a prescient farewell to a style of musical that became the most popular form of theater in history...
Not bad for someone who never even saw an opera until he was in one. Ramey's first exposure to music was at home and in church. "By the time I was nine or ten, I knew my voice was different from everyone else's," the erstwhile boy soprano recalls...