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...It works well, touching on contemporary resonances without pushing them, and driven by Beck’s glowing Maria....
...The otherworldly vibe of Wayne Shorter’s “The Three Marias” gained an orchestral shape alongside sour sustains from Chris Lewis’s soprano sax....
...Hammerstein, with his composer partner Richard Rodgers, brought a new degree of complexity to musical theatre. Sondheim took the process several stages further....
...He has commissioned and installed eight large oil paintings by the artist Maria Kreyn representing Shakespeare plays....
...“Live the questions now,” quotes the CD sleeve from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. “Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live the answer”....
...temper of late: scorching California and causing billions of dollars in damages by aiding and abetting the worst wildfires seen for a century; pummelling the US with a succession of hurricanes — Harvey, Maria...
...Law School and former European Court of Justice judge John Edward Former head of European Parliament Office in Scotland/Former EU policy manager, Scotland Europa Colin Imrie European policy analyst Maria...
...The song came from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show The Sound of Music, where it was first performed in 1959 by Mary Martin and Patricia Neway....
...Of course, now nobody knows who Robert Morris is, and you can’t get a ticket to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to go see Hamilton. What happened?...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final musical divides opinion quicker than you can trill “Do-Re-Mi”....
...Julian Ovenden, though not on the form he displayed then, showed why the Soliloquy from Carousel is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s finest achievement....
...Consider the verbal Rodgers/Astaire tango: “Any company starting out needs an infrastructure, and that’s a lot of what we’ve been providing,” said Mr Weber, standing with Ms Hewson....
...Rodgers and Hammerstein muse Shirley Jones brought her son out to sing half her show at her recent London concert and nobody minded....
...Sicilia, Claudio Parmiggiani, Terry Rodgers)....
...Fräulein Maria might have Rodgers and Hammerstein rotating in their graves but the rest of us found it pretty funny....
...“Maria”, “I Feel Pretty” and “America” added up to more than a juke-box Manhattan opera....
...Maria Kowroski was particularly delicious as the bubblehead who swoons over the piano, frolics with the errant husband and is crestfallen when, after buying her dream hat, she spots it on someone else....
...And, by restoring several Rodgers-and-Hammerstein numbers omitted from the film, it actually weakens the drama – since Maria’s rival in love, Baroness Schraeder, here also gets to sing, unhelpfully showing...
...An extended pas de deux featuring Maria Kowroski and Albert Evans, set to music from Yuri Khanon’s Middle Symphony, it is an intriguing piece – if only in showing how well Ratmansky has developed since choreographing...
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