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La Cieca may have pointed this out before, but it’s worth pointing out again. Is this film clip the ultimate Renée Fleming experience, or what?
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Sorry, I got my threads mixed up. I thought La C was suggesting a writer for the screenplay of the movie starring Blithe and Gwynnie as the Wagner gals …
19 — Larry Kramer!
Drat you, Pavel — you beat me to it. Kramer couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood ever thereafter. And I NEED those bonus points.
WOW.. was Larry K. penning this dreck at the very same time the (in)famous “Faggots” was also “hot-off-the -press”…??
“Monty, I firmly believe, to judge from the bios in programs, that each and every composer born in the 20th century studied with Boulanger.”
And some born in the nineteenth century as well.
After all, the woman did live for ever and worked every day of her life. Think of it: when you studied composition with Fauré, organ with Guilmant and Vierne, have a sentimental, um, relationship with the Princesse de Polignac, argue analysis with Saint-Saëns, advised your student Piazzolla to ignore modernism and stick to tango, encouraged Bacharach in his métier, and lived to teach Jeremy Menuhin, you have time to teach a lot of folks.
And the fact that you have attended concerts of so many of them is to her credit, and yours.
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– I saw this when I was a very impressionable age of 12 and was traumatized by the camera crashing into Liv Ullman’s breasts in the middle of this number. I also think this movie activated the gay gene that my parents had thoughtfully installed.
brooklynpunk at #25–No, Faggots was published five years later in 1978. Though novel-writing being what it is, and Faggots being a long novel, he could have been working on it for at least five years….
Speaking of Nadia Boulanger: don’t forget that she was a pupil of Ravel . (Sondheim co wrote a film script – The Last of Sheila )was a pupil of hers and anyone would have to be stupid not to see the generational ‘musical inheritance’ he got handed down, from Ravel.
Nadia’s sister Lili Boulanger was a noted composer. Recordings of her work exist.
Lost Horizon ‘The World is a c’ ring’ -(it goes round & round!) showed that Universal Pictures and others, did not have the ‘feel’ or the ‘know how’ to make musicals. Such debacles and high priced flops!….who remembers ‘Pepi’? They looked like they were musical afterthoughts of their straight big dramatic productions of that 70’s time. Chuck a few of the then current star roster into a flick and just add music. Peter Finch and John Gielgud ready to kick up their heels, anyone!! ?? As ridiculous as if they had made an Airport, or Earthquake as ‘THE MUSICAL’.