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clot in a coronary artery.
Still, the Lanza legacy
thrives, with brisk-selling
CDs and countless Web
sites devoted to him.
Lanza buffs will do
somersaults over this new
release, featuring original,
previously unreleased per-
formances from five MG-
M films: That Midnight
Kiss (1949); The Toast of
New Orleans (1950); The
Great Caruso (1951);
Because Youre Mine (1952)
and The Student Prince
(1954).
To celebrate, Turner
Classic Movies channel will
present a festival of Lanza's
films beginning 8 p.m.
Friday, April 10.
Although Lanza recorded
many of these same selec-
tions in the studio, the
Mario Lanza: A crossover artist before there was a
soundtrack cuts are espe-
word for it.
cially vivid, with Lanza in
superlative voice. One of
SUPER MARIO
the treasures is an outtake of Jerome
"Be My Love: Mario Lanza's Greatest
Kern's "All the Things You Are,"
Performances at M-G-M'; Mario
which was inexplicably dropped from
Lanza, tenor; Turner Classic Movies
Because You're Mine. The song
Music/Rhino Movie Music
demands a voice of operatic propor-
Today, we have the Three Tenors,
tions, but Lanza invests it with aching,
but back in the '50s, Mario Lanza was
fragile tenderness.
the only tenor. Sure, there was Jan
He pours out his heart in "Vesti la
Peerce and Giuseppe di Stefano, but
Giubba" from Pagliacci, brings
Mario Lanza appealed to a much
romantic yearning to Sigmund
broader audience. He entranced film-
Romberg's "Serenade" and performs
goers, pop aficionados and opera-
the finale from Cavalleria Rusticana
lovers alike.
with fervent drama. And, naturally,
Lanza was a crossover artist before
there's a stirring rendition of "Be My
there was a word for it. His recording
Love" (with Kathryn Grayson).
of "Be My Love," written by Nicholas Bravissimo!
Brodszky and Sammy Cahn, sold mil-
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lions, while he introduced opera to a
new audience through the film The
Turner Classic Movies presents a
Great Caruso.
film festival of Mario Lanza's films
Born in Philadelphia in 1921,
beginning 8 p.m. Friday, April 10.
Lanza had a brief but stellar career.
Check your local listings.
His voice, alternately virile and vul-
nerable, was one of the most beautiful
and robust in recorded history. His
top notes had a heroic, silvery ring,
BERN, BABY,- BERN
and his middle and lower registers had
"Dog Boy Van'; Dan Bern; Work
a creamy smoothness. He died in
Dan Bern is a punk, and I mean
1959 at the age of 38 from a blood
that in the best and worst senses of

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