Klarinet Archive - Posting 000914.txt from 2000/08

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: Bernstein recording of West Side Story
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:59:11 -0400

Someone wrote:

>And these artists aren't stupid. How could they have produced such a
>travesty? Bernstein himself, caught up in a stunt that he probably
>wished he'd never begun, showed understandable irritation during the
>film of the recording.

He was irritated, but it wasn't because the singers were too "operatic." In
one instance, it was because Carerras, who has a great voice but can't count
his way out of a wet paper bag, couldn't figure out where to enter and
essentially wanted a rehearsal in the recording studio.

Also, I have a feeling that part of the display by Bernstein was because he
knew he was being videotaped, and his histrionics were part of a display of
his gigantic ego.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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