Topic: MEATLESS NOTES (Read 4046 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #30 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:02:43 AM »

Kiri Te Kanawa is on the West Side Story recording.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:21:51 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 15, 2020, 08:02:43 AM

Kiri Te Kanawa is on the West Side Story recording.

And what a pain she is!

Ginny · « **Reply #32 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:40:39 AM »

Wednesday morning greetings! Our governor is to address the state at 5:30pm - something tells me his news won't be good...

John G. · « **Reply #33 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:52:03 AM »

I’ll buy 60, Elmore. I have a bootleg of the last performance. Rags was definitely a case of having a dreadful second act, despite some beautiful songs.

John G. · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:52:32 AM »

All Walmarts now require masks.

John G. · « **Reply #35 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:53:45 AM »

Teresa Stratas was on TV in The Ghosts of Versailles and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

John G. · « **Reply #36 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:54:05 AM »

The painters have begun.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:16:43 AM »

Ah - that was Tatiana Troyanos.....thanks.....she was terrific.....I did enjoy Miss Kiri struggling with the Soliloquy and Mr Carreras telling Mr Bernstein how his music should be sung.....LOL....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:17:33 AM »

DR GINNY our governor is talking at 2:30 p.m. as usual......I don't expect good news either.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #39 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:18:35 AM »

The cheeseburgers have been broiled.....the corn on the cob has been broiled.....now I am cooking a tin of biscuits since the oven is on.....and I love tin biscuits......even reheated in the mike-ro-wave.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:19:09 AM »

Painting vibes for DR JOHN G....are any of them nice looking? We need photographic evidence.

bk · « **Reply #41 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:19:39 AM »

I'm up at the moment and have been so since seven-fifteen - the noisy neighbors are back from wherever they were and they will not shut up. Maybe I'll go back to bed for a couple of hours.

bk · « **Reply #42 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:22:19 AM »

I got the new Rags but listening to the download version the orchestrations are not great (they're trying for exact same sound we used for Levi), and while everyone raves about how great it sounds, I think cast album producing today is at its nadir - it sounds dead because today's producers/engineers don't give any space to the instruments or vocals - so the new cast album "sound" is dry, small, and makes even an orchestra of thirty sound like ten. Goddard Lieberson would be turning in his grave if he heard this stuff.

KevinH · « **Reply #43 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:30:57 AM »

Good afternoon!

KevinH · « **Reply #44 on:** July 15, 2020, 09:31:47 AM »

I really enjoyed the Kaye Ballard documentary. I never realized she had such a great singing voice.

Laura · « **Reply #45 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:15:37 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #46 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:16:28 AM »

Alas, our improved covid numbers was a fluke. A lab missed the deadline for reporting, so the number was lower. It's back to our usual 3000+ per day.

Laura · « **Reply #47 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:19:18 AM »

I saw Kaye Ballard at Jason Graae's concert. Kerry recognized her and said hello to her.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #48 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:49:19 AM »

Quote from: Laura on July 15, 2020, 10:19:18 AM

I saw Kaye Ballard at Jason Graae's concert. Kerry recognized her and said hello to her.

She loved Jason. I first worked with her in 1985 for a Jerome Kern Centennial concert at Town Hall. I orchestrated "Long Ago and Far Away" for her. When I went to her apartment, I met her then girlfriend, and Arthur Siegel, whom I knew through Ben Bagley, was there. It was a wonderful visit, and Arthur for years later, whenever I saw him, always raved about "Long Ago and Far Away." The last time I saw Kaye, after a rehearsal with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, I walked her and actress Myfanwy Jenn, who was on Broadway in Oh, What A Lovely War! and Richard Rodgers' I Remember Mama, their apartment off Sheridan Square. Kaye was planning on moving permanently to Palm Springs, I think.

George · « **Reply #49 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:54:10 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 15, 2020, 04:07:58 AM

DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.

It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.

Interesting. I never knew any of this.

George · « **Reply #50 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:55:03 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 15, 2020, 04:11:42 AM

Last night Ann's partner Jen brought me the most wonderful strawberry shortcake that her brother had made. It was so delicious.

Nice!

George · « **Reply #51 on:** July 15, 2020, 10:55:35 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on July 15, 2020, 04:59:18 AM

I am please to announce that the AUDIO edition of my play, BUD ABBOTT ALONE, featuring Victor Warren as "Bud Abbott," is now available to download on audible.com. Amazon and iTunes. The production is enhanced with music and sound effects.

https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Abbott-Alone-One-Person-Play/dp/B08CVTQ9HW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590116758&sr=1-1

Congrats, Druxy!

George · « **Reply #52 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:00:29 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on July 15, 2020, 07:21:37 AM

I only know Teresa Stratas from the West Side Story recording tv documentary, but she was great and she was so funny....

I may have seen her in a production of CANDIDE on PBS.....

Renata Scotti or whatever her name is sets my teeth on edge when she "sings".....but I may be talking about someone different than is being mentioned here.

Teresa Stratas was also on the complete studio recording of Show Boat, conducted by John McGlinn. I love that recording!

George · « **Reply #53 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:01:59 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on July 15, 2020, 07:23:31 AM

I hope DR ELMORE doesn't get hurt when he gets stuck.

My uncle is having a new pacemaker put in this morning....he is 79, but in reasonably good health.....hoping he doesn't have a bad time.

He said he would be home tonight about 6 o'clock, so I asked him if he wanted to come over to play volleyball and he said: "I'll be there."

So I guess I have to go out and put up the net - after I go buy one.

~~~Quick and Easy Procedure Vibes for Jrand's Uncle!!~~~

George · « **Reply #54 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:03:46 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 15, 2020, 08:01:16 AM

And I am home. Injections in right hip and both knees were quite painless. I really like Dr. Re.

Whew! Good news, Larry!

George · « **Reply #55 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:04:33 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on July 15, 2020, 08:40:39 AM

Wednesday morning greetings! Our governor is to address the state at 5:30pm - something tells me his news won't be good...

~~~Vibes for Ginny and Everyone in Her State!!~~~

George · « **Reply #56 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:05:44 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on July 15, 2020, 09:17:33 AM

DR GINNY our governor is talking at 2:30 p.m. as usual......I don't expect good news either.

~~~Ditto Vibes for Jrand!!~~~

George · « **Reply #57 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:07:05 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 15, 2020, 09:22:19 AM

I got the new Rags but listening to the download version the orchestrations are not great (they're trying for exact same sound we used for Levi), and while everyone raves about how great it sounds, I think cast album producing today is at its nadir - it sounds dead because today's producers/engineers don't give any space to the instruments or vocals - so the new cast album "sound" is dry, small, and makes even an orchestra of thirty sound like ten. Goddard Lieberson would be turning in his grave if he heard this stuff.

I thought that I had read that it was a small production, so I assumed (not having a booklet to look at) that it was just a small orchestra. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #58 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:07:35 AM »

Quote from: Laura on July 15, 2020, 10:16:28 AM

Alas, our improved covid numbers was a fluke. A lab missed the deadline for reporting, so the number was lower. It's back to our usual 3000+ per day.

That's too bad.

John G. · « **Reply #59 on:** July 15, 2020, 11:58:43 AM »

Moving on ...

News:

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