My dear friend Bill Lutes turned me onto this incredible book, "Stardust Melodies: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs* by Will Friedwald. One of the twelve songs is "Stormy Weather," and Friedwald discussed this dreamy performance by Elisabeth Welch, from Derek Jarman's *The Tempest* (which I guess I need to see). I'd never heard of her. She's the limit!
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha