Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their sound. It should have a misterioso quality, just whisper. Shh, shh." Balancing a chorus of 170 is a tricky business, no less so when it turns to popular music. "This song has got to bounce, it's got to bubble!" she burst out last week during a rehearsal of The Night They Invented Champagne, from Gigi. "Why don't you smile? Your singing is rather heavy here. Just rela...
Married. Tammy Wynette, 34, heart-in-the-throat queen of country-and-western song; and Michael Tomlin, 31, a Nashville real estate executive; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Nashville, Tenn. Wynette postponed her honeymoon last week to appear at a reception for the diplomatic corps at the White House, where she sang several of her old hits, including Stand By Your...
...ought to have their briefcases thrown into the Potomac River." Then Wallace was wheeled away to little applause as Peter Duchin's band fittingly played Alabamy Bound. (Never once during the convention did the band play Dixie. Georgia's Carter and his aides felt that the song stirs divisive rather than unifying emotions...
...recitatives have traditionally been replaced by spoken dialogue. Most productions have entirely eliminated a brief, sensual scene showing the night life of Charleston, with the character Jasbo Brown playing some lowdown blues on a splendidly out-of-tune upright piano. They also usually omit Porgy's superstitious "Buzzard Song" ("Once de buzzard fold his wing an' light over yo' house/ All yo' happiness done dead") as well as several chunks of the last scene. All that restored material does make for a three-hour-long evening (Houston, wisely perhaps, has reconsidered and scrapped...
...that as a child, "I never liked the Yankees because they won all the time." At times he is unbelievably patronizing toward his clinets, to the effect "that the tall towering mountains make it impossible to see the horizon, easy to lose hope," or quoting John Denver's stupid song, "Country Road...