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- From: murray@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray)
- Subject: Re: LADY BE GOOD! recording (another review! - and a long one)...
- In-Reply-To: jdooley@maemaster.eng.uci.edu's message of 17 Dec 92 17:27:04 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:18:54 GMT
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- In article <2B30B868.26291@news.service.uci.edu> jdooley@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (John R. Dooley) writes:
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- > To me, these comments seem contradictory. If the playing of the
- > orchestra is a disappointment, how can the conducting be wonderful?
-
- Darn! You caught me. Let's see if I can get myself out of this
- one...
-
- You are absolutely right. These comments do seem contradictory.
-
- I guess I was purposefully trying to remain vague because I wasn't
- sure where to place the blame. Despite efforts to find out about the
- makeup of the orchestra (Jon Conrad can attest to my questions), I was
- unable to determine their show experience (were they show players in
- LA, or just stuido cats?). And though I am also of that camp that
- places alot of responsibility on the shoulders of the conductor, I was
- hesitant to immediately point to Eric Stern due to his successful
- track record in musical theatre, especially since there were many
- indications he lived up to his reputation: the coaching of the voices
- was impeccable; tempos were wonderful; the orchestra played very
- tightly; he followed the singers nicely. So, since the orchestra was
- the bigger unknown to me, I was a little more willing to focus on them
- as potentially being the source of the problem.
-
- I must confess, I would have liked to hear Mauceri conduct this
- recording, just out of curiosity, to see where the problems really
- lay.
-
- Does that help?
-
- -tom murray
-