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...such as John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, in which she made her 1999 debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, playing Myrtle Wilson. Audiences were enthralled by Hunt Lieberson's deeply passionate portrayals, but she once said they left her "crispy fried in every way." She last sang professionally in March in Neruda Songs, which was created for her by her husband, composer Peter Lieberson...
...retooled Gordon Lightfoot song and the climax of the album. The lyrics describe how one might imagine a lover as beyond perfect, “just like an old-time movie ‘bout a ghost from a wishing well.” Where Lightfoot sang the lyrics with patent sarcasm, Cash treats them as an honest declaration: “you know that ghost is me,” he admits over a warm piano accompaniment, “and I will never be set free as long as there’s a ghost that you can?...
...terrific trio with the Nicholas Brothers in The Pirate), but Kelly's real aspiration was to create a fully American form of dance: ballet with machismo. Compared with the slim, elegant Astaire, Kelly was Everyman, all man. And for a wonderful while, he did it all: sang, danced, acted, choreographed and directed. Singin' in the Rain is his masterpiece, but there's lots more to savor in Robert Trachtenberg's excellent...
...years. When Baldassari was invited to catalogue the contents of Maar's Paris apartment after her death in 1997, she found it full of souvenirs of Picasso: paintings, drawings, notes, sculptures?even a scrap of paper bearing a brown stain, under which was written, in Maar's hand, "Sang de Picasso" (Picasso's blood). They were all, in Baldassari's words, "religiously preserved...
...rubber bands, then went on to deeply influence Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; after a stroke; in Macon, Ga. As a gofer for the Pinetoppers, Jenkins' college-circuit ensemble, Redding drove the band to Memphis, Tenn., in 1962 to make a record for Stax Records, and during a lull sang These Arms of Mine. When the song became Redding's breakthrough hit, Jenkins, who feared flying, opted not to tour with the rising star. The flamboyant Jenkins impressed fellow lefty Hendrix, who incorporated some of Jenkins' antics into his repertoire after seeing him play in Macon. A few years after...