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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
"Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Thu Mar 29, 2001  12:13 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] The Greatest Generation was: South Pacific


>Isn't that the film about the women who arranged the great symphonic
>classics for women's chorus, sans text? If so, I saw that several years
>ago and thought it was terrific. If I remember correctly, besides Glenn
>Close, it featured Vanessa Redgrave and Frances McDormand. Highly
>recommended. For a great evening, rent it with "The Harmonists", another
>great WWII music-oriented film.
>
>Mark Montgomery
>

A few years ago, I attended a concert of the Peninsula Women's Chorus which
featured some of these arrangements for "vocal orchestra." (One of the
survivors of the internment camp donated the arrangements to Stanford
University.) Most of them were *quite* lovely re-imaginings of the
symphonic classics.

Elizabeth Finkler
Sunnyvale, California
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