Klarinet Archive - Posting 000141.txt from 2011/02

From: Jenny Connors <jenny@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Va-va-voom goes the soprano
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:11:03 -0500

I wish they had posted music clips like they did for Nixon in China.
I saw that last weekend through a simulcast, and it was fabulous! If
this is where opera is going, I'm going along! (And Nixon in China
had the most incredible clarinet parts!!!!!!)

Jenny

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> This is not really a klarinet issue but the subject is so musically stran=
ge that it's worth a moment of your time to see what is happening in the wo=
rld of far out opera.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/arts/music/19nicole.html?_r=3D1&scp=3D2=
&sq=3Danna%20nicole&st=3Dcse
>
> This link will take you to a review in the NY Times (by chief critic Anth=
ony Tommasini) of a new opera produced in London just a few days ago. =A0Th=
e title (and the subject) is "ANNA NICOLE," the rather infamous Playboy cen=
terfold who died recently of a drug overdose. =A0Her full name was Anna Nic=
ole Smith and if there is someone on this list who has not seen her naked, =
you must have been asleep for the last 20 years when she exposed everything=
to everyone under all circumstances. She was tall, statuesque, incredibly =
erotic, and bleached.
>
> The review calls the work brilliant, saying, "It proved a weirdly inspire=
d work, an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and, ultimately, deeply mov=
ing new opera. This was an improbable triumph for Covent Garden."
>
> Since I once played in the band of a burlesque theater in Newark, NJ (and=
fell in loved with Candy Barr, of blessed memory), I have had some modest =
experience playing hootchie kootchie music, or, as Tommasini said, "Va-Va-V=
oom Goes the Soprano."
>
> It's a brand new operatic world out there.
>
> Dan Leeson
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