parterre box

30 comments

• MontyNostry says:

  I don’t think it’s a bad tune at all — some interesting chromatic twists and turns and a suitable suggestion of continuous circling. But those vapid lyrics … Did they really come from the man who penned the brilliantly simple “Walk on by”, or who captured LA as “a great big freeway”.

  on July 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM
• Will says:

  Monty, I firmly believe, to judge from the bios in programs, that each and every composer born in the 20th century studied with Boulanger. How large was her atelier anyway?

  There’s also a shot of Ullman leading a line of kids down a mountain–perhaps it’s part of this same song sequence, all doing synchronized arm waves in the air and kind of dancing on the rocks. I saw a quick clip of it on TV once and thought it the triumph of kitsch.

  on July 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
• MontyNostry says:

  Ah, Will … Madame Boulanger, she turned out students like — how you say in English? — ze hot cakes, even if, some of them, they emerge a little half-baked. After all, she needed to earn her dough!

  on July 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM
• jatm2063 says:

  WTF?

  I guess I am not OLD enough to have ever seen this before.

  NYCO should stage it. Right away.

  on July 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM
• Sanford says:

  I didn’t think Liv had been dubbed, but when I checked on the internet, sure enough, it was Diana Lee who did the honors. Which makes Liv’s casting in Richard Rodgers’ and Martin Charnin’s I Remember Momma even more inexplicable.

  on July 26, 2009 at 3:13 PM
• MontyNostry says:

  Just thought — Renaaay is curiously ageless. Maybe she **has** discovered Shangri-la …

  on July 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM
• mrmyster says:

  #13 Monty, she turn them out like
  flapjacks!!!!
  (and a lot of them were/are!)

  on July 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM
• isepo says:

  “student of Boulanger” could mean he was one of many who sat around the piano and listened to her lecture about chromatic sequences, much less ask a question or play his counterpoint homework for her.

  on July 26, 2009 at 3:38 PM
• La Cieca says:

  And, for bonus points, everyone: the author of the screenplay?

  on July 26, 2009 at 5:34 PM
• MontyNostry says:

  Richard and Esther Shapiro — the scribes of that 80s classic Dynasty, of course.

  on July 26, 2009 at 5:35 PM