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" mailto:peggyh@i...
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