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Jim
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Arizona | posted: 9/3/2002 at 8:42:00 PM ET
Well the concert tour stop in Phoenix (10/5) is coming up quickly and I have a couple of questions. First of all though, thanks for the nice review from Dallas.
One of my questions is how do you get down the song list? I am always too wrapped up in the show to try to get that together and memory just doesn't serve.
Also the Dallas concert seemed kinda short. The San Francisco concert last Thanksgiving ran a generous 2 plus hours. Did Bernadette have a symphony backing her in Dallas? That might explain the brevity, in that it is harder to get the arrangements and practice for a full orchestra. It would be nice if a few more numbers are on the song list in October. I am pretty sure she will use the stage band out here since she will be back again in February with the symphony. Lucky me 
I hope she does 'If I Loved You' out here. It would be wonderful to hear that high F in person.
I am really looking forward to a R&H concert. I listen to the album errr CD every day on the way to work and have become convinced that she has put everything she has ever learned about her vocal capabilities into this body of work. It is really quite remarkable and flawless in my opinion.
And as a final closing comment from myself and Jean, I want relate a line to you youngsters' on the board from a 60s Byrds tune that: 'we were so much older then.......we're younger then that now'. Right Jean.
Life's Short....Have Fun!!!!!!! Many, many thanks to Bernadette for continuing to enrich our lives.
I'll let ya'll know how it goes out here in October.
Jim.
| Brian
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6/20/2002 | posted: 9/3/2002 at 10:30:53 PM ET
Jim,
I was very wrapped up in the concert, but I didn't want to forget a second. It flowed very nicely and that helped me remember the set.
The symphony played the first act (about 45 minutes). Bernadette was the second act and she played about 1 hr. 15 min. I have seen her without a symphony and she played about 90 minutes. This was my seventh concert with Bernadette Peters. It was wonderful as usual. I was happy to see her do this version of the new show. The previous concerts had all been versions of the Sondheim, etc. show. I know you will have a great time. I look forward to YOUR review!!!
Brian
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152.163.189.x | posted: 9/3/2002 at 11:55:30 PM ET
Another thanks for the detailed Dallas review. I have a couple of questions too. Did she not sing "It's a grand night for singing" on Sunday? The review mentions that and did you notice any difference in the arrangements compared with the CD as noted in the review? I'm glad to see that she is including some of the songs she did at Radio City that aren't on the CD. I really liked This Nearly was Mine and Hello Young Lovers. The 100mil Miracles and Edelweis combo was also great. Do you remember if she sang part of another song maybe "A Fella Needs a Girl" before going into Hello Young Lovers? Thanks again for the write-up.
TPM
| jeanmd
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6/4/2001 | posted: 9/4/2002 at 11:33:23 AM ET
Aww...right, Jim
By the way, when you tell us about the concert, would you explain to the musically impaired (me) what a "stage band" is? I can pretty well figure out that a symphony orchestra would be mainly strings with some horns and such. So, do the arrangements have to be re-done for the stage band? And would she not have the lush sound that the strings give? Am I a complete musical idiot?
Jean (who will be thinking of Jim at the concert while eating Hungarian goulosh)
| Brian
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6/20/2002 | posted: 9/4/2002 at 10:28:59 PM ET
She didn't sing "A Grand Night For Singing" as the opening. I suppose because the concert was in the afternoon! She walked on the stage amid applause from the sold out crowd and opened the show with "So Far". She DID begin singing "Hello, Young Lovers" with the song you mentioned, though.
| Brian
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6/20/2002 | posted: 9/4/2002 at 10:30:57 PM ET
One more thing, I did not notice a big difference in the arrangements as the review had mentioned. THey were a little different, and her take was fresh as always. That gave it a new feeling!
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152.163.189.x | posted: 9/5/2002 at 12:09:41 AM ET
Thanks for responding. A few years ago I went to the first and last concerts of a three night gig she did near me and noticed that she dropped a number that she sang at the opening and changed the encore. I think when she does a pops concert presented by a symphony who performs the first half, she usually only does 60-80 mins. depending on how long the symphony asks for. If she performs with a "stage band/orchestra" brought together for her performance, she's freer time wise maybe?
TPM
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