Kurt Weill’s Broadway musical One Touch of Venus transferred to Hollywood in 1948.
But the delicacy of ‘Speak Low’ was way beyond the capcity of its female lead.
Eileen Wilson did the singing while Ava moved hips and lips.
Why, even the composer could sing it.
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Opera North has advertised places on its less than coveted training programme: Applications are now open for next year’s Female and Non-Binary Conductor Traineeship. Spread the word! This intensive annual 10-week scheme was launched in […]
HarrisonParrott have nailed down Samuel Lee, Korean winner of the Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen. Lee, 34, is Associate Conductor at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The post Malko winner gets signed appeared first on Slippedisc.
I attended the former church last night for a concert by the ‘radical’ Manchester Collective, a string quartet playing works by contemporary British composers. Nothing to frighten the horses, though I was much taken with […]
