Ned Rorem in New York - 19 November, 1986
from Lies: A Diary 1986-1999, page 50:
The high point in our European summer of 1936 was seeing Show Boat six times in Oslo. The recent replay brought back each frame like yesterday. Helen Morgan is as moving as before, Paul Robeson;s mere presence is overwhelming (not least in Ol' Man River, one of the great songs ever, in shape, scope, inspiration, and also in Hammerstein's lyrics), while Irene Dunne remains silly throughout.
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Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 (New York, 2002), p. 50. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436388310977 accessed: 23 April, 2024
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Show Boat
written by Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rogers |
performed by Paul Robeson |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 19 November, 1986 |
| Medium | broadcast |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:45:11 +0100
Approved on Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:01:59 +0000