Comments on: lost her rossini

Harry commented

Harry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:59:47 +0000

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’.

Harry commented

Harry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:30:32 +0000

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.

Indiana Loiterer III commented

Indiana Loiterer III — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:47:38 +0000

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….

dawnfatale commented

dawnfatale — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:35:39 +0000

@Hans Lick (# – 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.

Alto commented

Alto — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:04:31 +0000

“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.

brooklynpunk commented

brooklynpunk — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:33:56 +0000

WOW.. was Larry K. penning this dreck at the very same time the (in)famous “Faggots” was also “hot-off-the -press”…??

Hans Lick commented

Hans Lick — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:20:20 +0000

Drat you, Pavel — you beat me to it. Kramer couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood ever thereafter. And I NEED those bonus points.

La Cieca commented

La Cieca — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:17:31 +0000

pavel commented

pavel — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:08:14 +0000

19 — Larry Kramer!

MontyNostry commented

MontyNostry — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:51:47 +0000

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 …

MontyNostry commented

MontyNostry — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:35:46 +0000

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

La Cieca commented

La Cieca — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:34:19 +0000

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

isepo commented

isepo — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:38:01 +0000

“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.

mrmyster commented

mrmyster — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:35:09 +0000

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

MontyNostry commented

MontyNostry — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:33:03 +0000

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

Sanford commented

Sanford — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:13:17 +0000

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.

jatm2063 commented

jatm2063 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:44:04 +0000

WTF?

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

NYCO should stage it. Right away.

MontyNostry commented

MontyNostry — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:07:07 +0000

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!

Will commented

Will — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:51:43 +0000

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.

MontyNostry commented

MontyNostry — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:13:14 +0000

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”.