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Post by Cazzette on Aug 11, 2009 6:28:02 GMT -5
sounds great problem is though I'll never see it or anything like this it would cost too much to travel etc.. Sometimes I lived closer to where the big productions where.
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Post by lemur on Aug 11, 2009 19:21:12 GMT -5
Hey guys, I've just edited the title of this thread (formerly 'Pierce set for American Songbook') just to make it a bit more obvious what it's about. Also, here's a another bit about the upcoming show in Chicago next Sunday, 16 August ... CLICK
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Post by lemur on Aug 18, 2009 12:06:49 GMT -5
There's a lukewarm review of the Ravinia concert HERE. But while Pierce and Clark harmonized beautifully, offered some quirky interpretations and easily played off their palpable friendship, the show (with a fine band and exceptional work by Steve Kenyon on clarinet and sax) seemed more scaled to a posh cabaret boite like New York's Oak Room or Cafe Carlyle than a big outdoor venue.
Clark, with her splendid voice (and a perfectly pitched trumpet imitation), dealt deftly with 'The Physician,' a novelty song from Nymph Errant, and brought a real ache to 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye.' And Pierce (who even took a couple of turns at the piano) put just the right rueful edge on 'The Extra Man.'
The two joined in tart social comedy in 'Mister and Missus Fitch' (a song from Gay Divorce about a farm couple who hit oil, join high society and then lose all in a market crash). And they put a bit of voodoo goofiness into 'You Do Something to Me.'
The concert, too, did "something," though something short of enthralling.
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Post by tihocan on Aug 22, 2009 23:19:25 GMT -5
I'm so ticked that I found out about this too late... I live about an hour away from Chicago... and if I knew I so would've been there!!! I didn't hear anything about this till three days too late... *cries*
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