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...Gill has sung the role of Almaviva in Le Nozze at Leverett House twice in recent years, and met with great success. He also sang the bass part in this spring's production of the Bach Saint Matthew Passion in Sanders Theatre...
...that evokes and depends upon the mood and textural qualities which are operating on stage at the time it is being performed. In this way it differs totally from the music of a composer such as Burt Bacharach ( Promises, Promises ), who wrote pop songs that sometimes end up getting sung on Broadway instead of in night clubs. It is a problem to record theatre music successfully, because the music and lyrics are only part of what comprises the stage moment; whatever the other parts are, they are absent from a recording. Because Follies concerns past musicals, and therefore...
...missing. In any event Follies is available on a single record (Capitol SO 761) and of the eighteen songs which were recorded (four have been cut) Capital admits in fine print to having "abridged" seven of them. I guess this means that all of the lyrics are not sung, because the album has musically abridged at least twelve of the numbers. Some have survived rather well, others are completely gutted and totally fragmentary. The effect is like a buckshot spray of genius-very tantalizing, but equally unsatisfying...
...dreams. It is at once nostalgic, disappointed and good natured. It is also perhaps the best orchestrated song in the history of musicals. Jonathan Tunick has done a spectacular job of orchestration throughout, but "The Girlds Upstairs" tops everything. This song and "Too Many Mornings," a love duct sung by John McMartin and Dorothy Collins, are the best things on the record. Sondheim's lyrics are really magnificent, tender and clever at the same time, and the songs always belong to the characters who sing them. Time called him "Broadway's supreme lyricist" and it is beginning to seem like...
Jaunty Note. Not surprisingly for a composer who lived to such a ripe age, Stravinsky wrote his own requiem. This week his body was to be flown to Venice for burial in the Russian corner of the cemetery of San Michele. His Requiem Canticles (1966) were to be sung at a final service in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. All this is in accordance with the composer's own devout wishes. Still, even Stravinsky himself might have liked the additional jaunty note of the epitaph he tossed off nine years ago, before leaving for an African conducting...