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08-31-2023, 04:04 AM
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This performance by Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker is magical to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mzz5jxfPn4
His opening monologue in that film is also a sight to behold.
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08-31-2023, 09:14 AM
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Linda Ronstadt does a great job with this song, but Bonnie Raitt does even better.
And though I'm not an opera buff, this by Placido Domingo is pretty amazing.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 08-31-2023 at 09:18 AM.
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08-31-2023, 07:30 PM
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Damian, I liked the scene. It's quintessential technicolor over-acting, which I find theatrically pleasing. Burt Lancaster was a very good man.
It's nice to see this thread take a tangent into operatic theatre. Here's one that is a real jewel in the crown that opera wears. Great stage set, great costuming, exquisite singing. It appears to be the opera Turandot set within a movie with a love story that comes to a head in this performance of Nessun Dorma by Pavarotti.
https://youtu.be/Q_hLh4qCqpg?si=0V4biLwz1cQGIP2F
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09-01-2023, 09:30 AM
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09-01-2023, 10:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Sorry, Jim. Stardust is the most beautiful song ever written, musically and lyrically.
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Well, I did say "perhaps"... But I still think the musical genius of Leonard Berstein and the lyric genius of Stephen Sondheim are a hard to beat. (Berstein said that he had carried around the tune for "Somewhere" for years before he finally found a place to use it.)
Anyway, here is another song that belongs in the discussion, for it's existential, haunting lyrics and dreamy melody.
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09-01-2023, 10:29 AM
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Julie's link to Adele appears not to work in UK.
But while we're searching for an alternative address, here is Sheila Atim singing Dylan's " Tight connection to my heart" in the stage musical built on a bunch of Dylan things "Girl from the North Country".
Well it brings a lump to my throat
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09-01-2023, 01:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Crocker
Julie's link to Adele appears not to work in UK.
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Sorry. Better luck with this one, from the BBC instead of BBC America this time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXj...ab_channel=BBC
(The subtitles are absolute crap. Not that anyone can really tell what Adele is saying sometimes (hilarious misheard lyrics video here), but come on....)
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 09-01-2023 at 01:14 PM.
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09-01-2023, 01:20 PM
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