Alan Jay Lerner - Gigi: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Music Review: Orchestrations presented beauitfully, vocals not so beautifu
Rating: 4 Stars

Oh, well, enough about the technical stuff. In spite of the sound problems, you are sure to enjoy the performances of Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermoine Gingold, Betty Wand dubbing for Leslie Caron, and even Caron herself in the first verse of "The Night They Invented Champagne" and in three piano/vocal recordings of her songs (before it was decided to dub her) included as bonus tracks. They could shine through even the muddiest sound, as could Lerner and Loewe's wonderful score, which may not be politically correct at times but is so irresistably charming you can't help but love it anyway. And as I said, the orchestra sounds superb and Loewe's lovely and witty underscoring is really given its due. Music you can't really pay attention to in the film, like the waltz underscoring the "Ice Skating Sequence," and the urgency, seeming hopelessness and hilarity the underscoring of the "Lessons" scenes conveys, are really compositions that can be enjoyed in their own right, apart from being buried under the decor and dialogue of the film. Unless you are even more tolerant about sound problems that I usually am, you may have some quibbles about this soundtrack, but overall, it's still as great as the film itself.

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