tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post1636612218996366439..comments2024-03-16T06:23:29.917-07:00Comments on The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal: Poem of the Week 2013/8Patrick J. Vazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-54139341631396857252013-02-22T19:00:56.202-08:002013-02-22T19:00:56.202-08:00My pleasure! "Makes us all just a small famil...My pleasure! "Makes us all just a small family!"Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-67370794950970960642013-02-22T18:35:19.704-08:002013-02-22T18:35:19.704-08:00Those lyrics are so great. My young and innocent c...Those lyrics are so great. My young and innocent children and I have you to thank for our love of Candide. So, thank you.<br />VUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10438895567795968644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-86700383921697508252013-02-20T07:52:26.882-08:002013-02-20T07:52:26.882-08:00Thanks for the John info, but to give credit where...Thanks for the John info, but to give credit where it's due, I'm pretty sure these lyrics are the work of Richard Wilbur, and the booklet's joint attribution is only because they were embedded in another scene. I haven't been able yet to find where I read this, though.<br /><br />I actually have a CD of The Golden Apple and the booklet writer laments that the show was not more successful and isn't better known. And I think, as with the original Candide cast album, the recording is not complete.<br /><br />I almost referenced Schnitzler as a contrast but he's fairly acerbic himself, just in a different way.<br /><br />I didn't find the sound on that recording overbright, I found it underloud -- it sounds very distant except for the loud parts. I haven't listened to it in a while, but my recollection is that it did sound better over earphones as long as you remembered to turn it down on the climaxes so you didn't burst your eardrum. But I'm not crazy about some of the singers anyway. I often have mixed feelings about Hadley, for one thing.Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-15951185000110941922013-02-19T22:36:47.691-08:002013-02-19T22:36:47.691-08:00John La Touche and John Van Druten are two obscure...John La Touche and John Van Druten are two obscure 20th century theatrical names who both had a touch of genius about them, and they are both overdue for a major biography because they seemed to know everyone in gay New York of the 1930s-1950s. If you ever get a chance to see or hear "The Golden Apple," John La Touche's sung-through musical, jump at the chance because it's great.<br /><br />And thanks for the syphilis rhymes. They are a much less turgid treatment of the subject than Schnitzler and La Ronde, etc.<br /><br />And I think that recording of "Candide" with Bernstein conducting is one of his most successful efforts, even with the overbright sound.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.com