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Rainer Böhm and Norbert Scholly, 'Juvenile,' Pirouet Records (REVIEW)
On Record: James Inverne Remembers Jon Vickers (1926-2015)
"Opera," said the Canadian tenor Jon Vickers once in an interview, "is not entertainment." For entertainment, he explained, he would far rather watch My Fair Lady. Opera had to go deeper. It was deeper, or it was nothing. Soundtrack, Various Artists, 'Bessie (Music from the HBO Film)' [REVIEW]
Combine a Prohibition-era daring with today's studio know-how and you've got one of the best soundtracks of the year in "Bessie: Music From The HBO Film," starring Queen Latifah, juxtaposing 1920s recordings with today's sophisticated facsimiles.
