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lost her rossini

by La Cieca | 9:20 pm | Jul 25, 2009

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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  • 11
    MontyNostry says:
    July 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    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”.

  • 12
    Will says:
    July 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    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.

  • 13
    MontyNostry says:
    July 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    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!

  • 14
    jatm2063 says:
    July 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM

    WTF?

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

    NYCO should stage it. Right away.

  • 15
    Sanford says:
    July 26, 2009 at 3:13 PM

    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.

  • 16
    MontyNostry says:
    July 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM

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

  • 17
    mrmyster says:
    July 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM

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

  • 18
    isepo says:
    July 26, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    “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.

  • 19
    La Cieca says:
    July 26, 2009 at 5:34 PM

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

  • 20
    MontyNostry says:
    July 26, 2009 at 5:35 PM

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

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