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...songs are timeless Porter but, even so, some of them are as datable as coins. I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight, for example, was first sung in 1940's Panama Hattie, by Ethel Merman...
...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...
...picked the stage settings, including two 40-ft.-high portraits of himself. He selected his own words, "Let us continue . . ." as the convention's motto. He chose Hello, Dolly! sung to the words "Hello, Lyndon!" as the convention's theme song. He dictated the schedule and rejiggered it whenever he felt like it. He directed all the performers, worked to sustain suspense over his choice of a running mate, added excitement with his own Atlantic City appearances...
...plot is little more than a string of vignettes revolving around the characters of Huck, his drunken father, and Jim, the runaway slave. The role of Huck is sung in a reedy voice by towheaded, freckle-faced Franz Elkins, a 14-year-old Austrian TV actor who won the part over several singers from the Vienna Boys Choir partly because of his prowess at tree climbing. Lys Symonette's husband Randolph, an American baritone currently with the Düsseldorf Opera, is Huck's coarsely villainous father. He and Huck dangle their fishing lines in the Danube...
...Jack, a shallow echo of some of Weill's earlier work. "Weill's best melodies are like glue," exclaims Rosenstock. "If you listen to them, they stick." The most adhesive refrain in Huckleberry is called This Time Next Year and expresses Jim's dream of freedom. Sung by Thomas Carey, a Negro baritone from New York City, and lushly embellished by 45 crack musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and Volksoper orchestras, this hauntingly romantic song ranks with the finest of Weill's ballads...