The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Much more about this I cannot tell, but Burt fans in Western Europe should be stoked... really stoked. The Low countries, Norway, Italy, Spain... I wish the Brits would get their act together and have Burt in a few intimate performances...

David

I feel that fans in Italy this year will really love the month of July... look carefully in the news.
David

Those of you who are interested may go to http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... Id=2367180 and view a few pictures of Burts shows at Atlanta and Newport News and Italy...

David

and his Birthday party is in Atlanta this weekend....

I suppose fans in Georgia might keep their eyes open for their favorite composer..

david

I discussed this with my daughter and it raised a few interesting points: Burt tries to get a feel for his audience and to understand where he wants to go with the feel of the performance, and he is brave enough and sensitive enough and trusts his instincts (which have been developed and fine-tuned ...

And of course, it took the entire BBC symphony orchestra to replace the gracious miss Eliza James... I spoke to her in LA as she was on her way to the airport to get to Milan.... it's going to be great, really great... wish I were going. anyone at Heathrow about 2-5pm looking at a gorgeous (but tire...

merci bien mon ami.

David

So where are THE PICTURES Vincent?.... inquiring minds need to know....
I will be sharing a light Italian lunch to-morrow with the ever-gracious miss Eliza James... on the occasion of her mother's birthday.
David

The Montreal Show, yesterday, was by all accounts that I have another superb performance. It will be broadcast on CBC in about two weeks, so you can listen to it in Canada (eh?) or via the internet . The QVC show ( If I had checked the home page first I would have known it was common knowledge... ne...

I would be watching the QVC channel in the near future... no kidding.

Regards, David

This explains why the ever-gracious miss Eliza James is not playing that gig.... takes a whole orchestra to replace her...

David
(but it does mean she gets to stay at home and have some family time )

My usually reliable source states that Burt will be using a full orchestra in the UK and therefore will not need the services of an exquisitely talented violinist.

David

John Updike, the author, has a quote about writing novels: "It's easy to write, you just stare at a blank sheet of paper and concentrate until you begin to sweat blood". It may be easy to write a song, but to write a good song, not so and to write a good song that doesn't plagiarize, consc...

As a matter of interest I looked up Darius Milhaud's entry in Wikipedia. Until then it proclaimed Dave Brubeck as Monsieur Milhaud's most famous protege. But I changed that pdq. Darius Milhaud wrote music that changed key and time signature. I must get some to see if there is an audible influenceon ...

Since Hal David and Burt have appeared on stage recently, what do you think the odds are they'll start writing together. Do you think that they coulod possibly meet our collective expectations. On the other hand, for the general public there are probably not many people with high expectations. Just ...