But two women hold the trump cards: on stage, the Minnie of Susan Bullock, our most successful Wagnerian soprano export as an in-demand Brünnhilde around the world, playing no-nonsense, golden-hearted Minnie of the Polka Saloon, and in the pit Canadian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, who hurls us into Puccini’s whole-tone vortex and takes us by surprise as the lights rapidly dim. It’s mostly a man’s world, the Californian mountain misery of homesick miners, with pre-echoes of Janáček’s From the House of the Dead and even Britten’s Billy Budd. That means accents to match, excellent from our heroine, needing some toning-down from some of the comprimario roles (Leigh Melrose's Sonora, for one, though he sings as well as ever).
#Golden girls of the golden west free
For all the usual pared-down focus of regular Jones collaborator Miriam Buether’s trademark sets and consummate, if this time unobtrusive lighting by Mimi Jordan Sherin, the locale is most helped by Kelly Rourke’s free translation of a rather good libretto by one Zangarini, itself a fairly faithful rendering of David Belasco’s Wild West play. Jones knows better in his maturity than to throw out much of Puccini’s meticulous realistic background to a romantic, even idealistic melodrama unlike his Annie, but very like his Welsh National Opera Mastersingers, coming to ENO in the spring, there's more than usual fidelity to time and place. Girl should certainly go well in Santa Fe, sharing this production with ENO. In 1978, Sonyatone released a collection of their cowboy- and western-oriented material.Richard Jones’s subversive but still very human take on Irving Berlin discombobulated its American support and never made Broadway but there’s little here that would rock the steadily progressive Met (home of La fanciulla del West’s 1910 premiere, with Enrico Caruso as “Dick Johnson” aka quickly repentant bandit Ramerrez). Their discography includes three albums for the Fort Worth Bluebonnet label. The Girls of the Golden West performed and recorded sporadically until Dorothy Good's death in 1967.
What had always been a strong interest of the girls increased as their career went on, until the pop material started to take over more territory during their recording sessions. Then, there was a certain number of traditional cowboy songs from the realm of orally passed-on folk music, and the sessions were filled out with cover versions of pop standards they liked. In the recording studio, the girls created a repertoire that consisted of about half newly composed ditties based on western themes. She did not try to play lead fills in the manner of Maybelle Carter, instead specializing in top-quality harmony parts and catchy yodeling. Dorothy Good took the lead on most of the solo passages and played guitar in a basic manner that worked suitably as an accompanying instrument. The sisters were such a hit on the Vallee program that it led to them being offered their own weekly NBC program, and a recording contract followed posthaste. Regular appearances on the Chicago radio station WLS' National Barn Dance began in 1933 and led to guest spots on Rudy Vallee's syndicated NBC show. Making their home near Chicago, the Girls of the Golden West appeared regularly on a variety of radio shows heard from Northern Canada to south of the Mexican border.
#Golden girls of the golden west professional
When Dolly was only 14, they made their professional debut on radio station WIL in St. And although this audience preferred the girls' versions of cowboy and western material, the sisters themselves personally preferred pop music. The sisters began their duo the way many talented children do - by entertaining family and friends in the comfort of their home. They grew up listening to cowboy songs from the Southwest, and wound up getting the credit for spreading this regional influence into the blend of what developed into country & western music. Louis, Missouri, in 19, respectively (they later claimed Muleshoe, Texas as their hometown to bolster their cowgirl image. Sisters Mildred and Dorothy "Dolly" Good were born in St. The opening round of biographical details in the story of the Girls of the Golden West sets the tone with names that seem properly ironic.
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