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With all this to live up to, the players live it up with a will. Howard Keel has never sung better, and Jane Powell is a properly pretty operetta type. But the chorus line is the real star of the show: the six brothers and their six brides...
...ordinary show tunes by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics), but Actress-Singer Booth puts a few of them over with a fine, plaintive twang that helps explain the success of the Broadway production. Best tunes: I'd Rather Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...
...recording completed, the playback started. Toscanini listened intently, poring over the score, at times reconducting the music. In his high-collared rehearsal jacket, he looked like a priest. Then suddenly, the fireworks began. Wrathfully, he turned to Soprano Nelli, scolding and pointing at his score. She had, Toscanini argued, sung a B instead of a B-flat! Nelli pointed at a clear B in her score. She had sung from that score for years, and no other conductor had ever caught the error before. Dutifully, Soprano Nelli restudied the passage, but when she was set to record again...
...hymn written for the forthcoming Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Ill. was judged best of nearly 500 submitted and was sung for the first time in New York City. Its author: Dr. Georgia Harkness, professor of applied theology at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. First stanza (to the tune of Ancient of Days...
...Composer and Conductor Lehman Engel. The story: a determined young thing (Ruth Fleming) wins her psychiatrist by telling him her contrivedly erotic dreams. While she sings prettily of herself ("I've been kissed but not mated") a pair of dancers act out her words and the young doctor (sung by a fine baritone, Warren Galjour) loses all his Freudian detachment over what he sees. The 30-minute score is neatly professional...