Word: soundtrack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record industry lavishes on more popular and profitable items, but there are exceptions. Advertisements for the "Three Tenors" concert (with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras) appeared in such unlikely places as subway stations, illustrating the successful use of a formula that was first demonstrated by the soundtrack from Amadeus. It goes like this: In order to guarantee a popular success with a classical recording, bring together popular (and relatively well-known) music, big names and a good pretext, such as a movie or a memorable concert...
...Pavarotti, Kiri te Kanawa and Leo Nucci, with Sir Georg Solti at the helm), and the pretext is a double celebration: the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the 100th recording on CD of Solti with the CSO. But, unlike the "Three Tenors" concert or the Amadeus soundtrack, a new recording of Otello is the kind of project that must stand up to a close critical scrutiny. The field is already crowded with acclaimed readings, and a new comer can't rely on big names and hype to make a successful entry...
...Commitments--sponsored by the Harvard Irish Cultural Society. Dublin band goes Motown. Great soundtrack. Shoulda been sponsored by the Harvard Irish-African American Society. In Science Center...
...literary base. Film should have more confidence in itself; it should rely on other art forms. All these art forms are related. What I would like to do is regard cinema as a visual meeting with the audience. In a way it isn't. It relies too much on soundtrack, dialogue, story. Continuity of painting through and into cinema is important. You need an attitude of composition, color coding, symbols and metaphors. Cinema is going...
Unlike most popular music, which functions best as dance music or as the soundtrack to a video, Sondheim's works reward close listening. The rhymes are breathtaking. Whereas most lyricists are content with two words, Sondheim often rhymes three, four or, in "Two Fairy Tales," 15 words. He also plays with consonance, matching pinch, punch, pauch, pouch and pension...