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Apr 25, 2009 - 4:29 PM
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Bond1965
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As if there wasn't enough going on that weekend, I just found this information about an upcoming tribute to Alan & Marilyn Bergman at the Motion Picture Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Friay, May 29th at 8 PM:
A Tribute to Alan and Marilyn Bergman
HOSTED BY QUINCY JONES
SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE ALAN AND MARILYN BERGMAN, DAVE GRUSIN, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD AND MICHEL LEGRAND
More than 50 years ago, Marilyn Keith met another up-and-coming young songwriter named Alan Bergman, marking the start of a personal and professional partnership that has resulted in sixteen Oscar® nominations and three statuettes, for “The Windmills of Your Mind” (“The Thomas Crown Affair,” 1968), “The Way We Were” (“The Way We Were,” 1973), and the song score for “Yentl” (1983).
As a songwriting team, Alan and Marilyn Bergman have written the lyrics for hundreds of songs for film, television, theater, recordings and concert performances. Their musical collaborators include a “who’s who” of composers: Cy Coleman, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, James Newton Howard, Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mandel and John Williams, to name a few. Their songs have been interpreted on film by such musical legends as Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles and Luciano Pavarotti.
In 1982, the Bergmans became the first lyricists to be nominated for three of the year’s five Academy Award®-nominated songs: “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” (“Best Friends”), “If We Were in Love” (“Yes, Giorgio”) and “It Might Be You” (“Tootsie”).
The following year they again received three nominations (two for songs and one for the song score of “Yentl”).
Highlighting their illustrious work for feature films, Alan and Marilyn will be celebrated through film clips, personal remembrances from their colleagues and friends, and live performances of several Oscar-nominated songs.
http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2009/bergmans.html
Tickets go on sale 4/27/09 and are only $5.00.
James
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I'm so going and laugh as you want, I will bring a few covers hidden and a sharpie, just in case I get an autograph chance! It does sound incredible, all those famous music peopple, but to be able to see Jones, Howard, Grusin plus the Bergmans!! WOWWWWWWW
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Jun 14, 2011 - 9:13 PM
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Bond1965
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At this tribute 2 years ago, Barbra Streisand said she was going to record an album of songs by the Bergmans and this August it will finally be released. I got the information from here:
http://barbra-archives.com/news/index.html
...there are ten songs on What Matters Most.
The following songs were named by PBS as being on the album:
"The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)," "Solitary Moon," "Windmills of Your Mind," "The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye," "Alone in the World," and "What Matters Most."
Barbra Archives can reveal that Bill Ross was arranging/conducting for Streisand on this album, and that Randy Waldman played piano on some of the tracks.
Barbra Archives has also heard that “So Many Stars” was recorded for the album.
"The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)" was written with David Shire.
"Windmills of Your Mind" is from THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and written with Michel Legrand of course.
"Alone in the World" is the song unused from THE RUSSIA HOUSE by Jerry Goldsmith that Patti Austin recorded on the soundtrack.
"What Matters Most" is based on the theme for THE CHAMP by Dave Grusin and has been recorded by Kenny Rankin among others.
I am not familiar with "The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye" or "So Many Stars" but the latter was a collaboration with Sergio Mendes & Kathleen Battle.
I was kind of wishing she'd done "I Was Born In Love With You" from WUTHERING HEIGHTS. We'll have to wait & see what the remaining tracks reveal.
James
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I don't suppose Babs will sing, although she really ought to -- she owes them.
Owes them? I find that an odd phrase for three very good, longtime friends. And though I'm a big fan of both Barbra and the Bergmans, Barbra's career was in full swing for maaaany years prior to recording Bergman songs. Let's take "The Way We Were" and Yentl out of the equation (not to mention several other Bergman collaborations) and great as those songs and projects are, Barbra's career would still have been fine. This is not to denegrate the Bergmans in any way, but I think it's going over the deep end to suggest Barbra owes the Bergmans, who by the way have made and continue to make a lot of money from the royalties of songs Barbra recorded. I don't think anyone in the troika is complaining and I think each would say they owe the other, but in reality?
(Thanks, Bond, for the info on the album tracks. I hadn't yet seen the announcement.)
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Imagine what woul've happened if Marilyn and Alan Bergman had worked with John Barry.
The Music of Goodbye
Music John Barry, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
A vocal version of Karen's Theme from Out of Africa. Vocal by Al Jarreau and Melissa Manchester. It was not used in the movie but was on the original UK album. Not a Barry arrangement however.
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Jun 17, 2011 - 8:16 AM
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mrchriswell
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I don't suppose Babs will sing, although she really ought to -- she owes them.
Owes them? I find that an odd phrase for three very good, longtime friends. And though I'm a big fan of both Barbra and the Bergmans, Barbra's career was in full swing for maaaany years prior to recording Bergman songs. Let's take "The Way We Were" and Yentl out of the equation (not to mention several other Bergman collaborations) and great as those songs and projects are, Barbra's career would still have been fine. This is not to denegrate the Bergmans in any way, but I think it's going over the deep end to suggest Barbra owes the Bergmans, who by the way have made and continue to make a lot of money from the royalties of songs Barbra recorded. I don't think anyone in the troika is complaining and I think each would say they owe the other, but in reality?
(Thanks, Bond, for the info on the album tracks. I hadn't yet seen the announcement.)
Babs doesn't owe her CAREER to the Bergman's, of course. But they certainly left their mark on it. And you can't take Yentl out the equation. That was an insanely risky project that Striesand poured her soul and rep into and it could very easily have been the fiasco her detracters wanted it to be. The Bergmans (and Legrand) delivered for and yes, she'll owe them for as long as she breathes life. There are some projects where any talented person can fill a role just as well as another, and others where an artist's unique gifts are simply irreplacable. For the Bergmans, Yentl was one of the latter.
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Jul 15, 2011 - 12:01 AM
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Bond1965
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At this tribute 2 years ago, Barbra Streisand said she was going to record an album of songs by the Bergmans and this August it will finally be released. I got the information from here:
http://barbra-archives.com/news/index.html
...there are ten songs on What Matters Most.
The following songs were named by PBS as being on the album:
"The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)," "Solitary Moon," "Windmills of Your Mind," "The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye," "Alone in the World," and "What Matters Most."
Barbra Archives can reveal that Bill Ross was arranging/conducting for Streisand on this album, and that Randy Waldman played piano on some of the tracks.
Barbra Archives has also heard that “So Many Stars” was recorded for the album.
"The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)" was written with David Shire.
"Windmills of Your Mind" is from THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and written with Michel Legrand of course.
"Alone in the World" is the song unused from THE RUSSIA HOUSE by Jerry Goldsmith that Patti Austin recorded on the soundtrack.
"What Matters Most" is based on the theme for THE CHAMP by Dave Grusin and has been recorded by Kenny Rankin among others.
I am not familiar with "The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye" or "So Many Stars" but the latter was a collaboration with Sergio Mendes & Kathleen Battle.
I was kind of wishing she'd done "I Was Born In Love With You" from WUTHERING HEIGHTS. We'll have to wait & see what the remaining tracks reveal.
James
Just an update. "The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye" was written with John Williams as a song for Frank Sinatra. He never recorded it but Michael Feinstein did for a Sinatra tribute album called "The Sinatra Project."
You can read more about the song here: http://mahawa.jw-music.net/songs/same_hello.htm
James
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"The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)" was written with David Shire.
"Alone in the World" is the song unused from THE RUSSIA HOUSE by Jerry Goldsmith that Patti Austin recorded on the soundtrack.
James
These are two awesome songs that deserve more recordings. Maybe the fact that she's doing them will get others to record them.
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