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re: The movie Foul Play
Posted by: Chromolume 09:45 pm EDT 08/31/20
In reply to: re: The movie Foul Play - AlanScott 07:22 pm EDT 08/31/20

I am so grateful in particular for the Oklahoma! broadcast, which I love (despite some uneven casting). Actually, of all the broadcast musicals they did, I think Oklahoma was the weakest. As I've said before, it feels like it was conducted by a metronome. Musically very disappointing to me in general - not so much with the cast, but with the lack of nuance in the music.
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re: The movie Foul Play
Posted by: AlanScott 09:59 pm EDT 08/31/20
In reply to: re: The movie Foul Play - Chromolume 09:45 pm EDT 08/31/20

Maybe I need to listen again, but I had not noticed the conducting being metronomic. In fact, I remember loving the conducting because I felt that for the first time I was really hearing those orchestrations, hearing so many details that I had not heard before, although that could have had to do more with the miking than the conducting. And it's nice to get more of the score than we have on any recording. I was not nearly as happy with Carousel or The King and I, but I recall thinking Sound of Music was rather good. Have not heard the Show Boat.
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