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From:  Margaret Harrison <peggyh@i...>
Margaret Harrison <peggyh@i...>
Date:  Sat Jan 27, 2001  12:15 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Duet


DanaMulder2001@a... wrote:
>
> Hi,
> A friend and I are going to sing a duet for our choir's banquet and would
> like to do a Broadway piece. What are your suggestions for an alto and tenor?
> Thanks you!
> -Heather

How about "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better!", from Annie Get Your Gun
(Irving
Berlin).
Another good one is the Berlin duet from Call Me Madam that starts "I Hear
Music and
there's no one there" I think the title is "You're Just in Love". (See, Ethel
Merman's
the brassy alto on the second & fast part, and Donald O'Connor's the tenor in
the slow and
sweet part.)

If you want something in the love-song arena, check out Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Carousel
"If I loved You." John Raitt was the original Billy Bigelow, so the male part
should work
easily for a tenor, at least in the original key.

Speaking of Annie Get Your Gun - if anyone on this list has a little spare time
in NY City
and wants to be blown away by fantastic Broadway singing, go to the Museum of
Television
and Radio, book some time in the library, and watch the tape of "Annie Get Your
Gun" with
Mary Martin and John Raitt (yes, Bonnie's father - you can see the family
resemblance).
Now those guys can SING. We'll never hear their like again, since microphones
have done
away with that type of singing on Broadway forever, it appears. Their diction
is
incredible, and their sense of style and phrasing are wonderful. Nice
chemistry between
them, too. And it's fun and instructive to see Mary Martin's very sweet take
on the
character created for and by brassy belter Ethel Merman.

Peggy

--
Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
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