Word: songfest
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Judy Garland lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss
...holds an annual Christmas rally and songfest at City Hall, and this year is planning a Millennium March...
...turns out, Larson also left behind a children's mini-musical that he co-wrote with composer Bob Golden. Titled Away We Go!, the half-hour songfest--a youngster's travelogue of Manhattan--originally aired on the Learning Channel and has just been released on video. The host of the musical, which is conceived for two- to eight-year-olds, is a shabby-looking puppet named Newt who takes a young boy and girl for taxi, bus and ferry rides throughout the city...
...production is an attempt to top one of the biggest entertainment coups the music world has seen in decades. Four years ago, on the eve of the World Cup final in Rome, the same three tenors came together for the first time to give a songfest in the Baths of Caracalla. The concept was already grandiose, but its success outstripped the wildest expectations of those involved. About 800 million people worldwide saw the television broadcasts. The record turned into by far the best-selling classical album of all time (total sales: around 10 million, and still going strong); only...
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