If you listen carefully, you should be able to discern the musical connections.īut wait! There’s more: Rachmaninov did a variation on it, in his Variations on a theme of Chopin. I discovered that his big hit “Could it Be Magic” was in fact inspired by the melody and chord progressions of Chopin’s Prelude in C minor op. He also knows how to move a crowd and make people fall in love all over again. He has a warm and friendly personality, no pretense or anything like it. Later we would see each other at the KCRW World Festival shows, a series I helped establish and worked on for ten years. It was very flattering, to say the least Barry once recorded an album in Portuguese and it was to be a follow-up. I once got a call from him asking about a Brazilian project he wanted to do. He is truly an amazing performer, and I appreciate him now more than before (I was too much of a jazz snob, sorry).
Part of the emotional balm was so many people feeling love at the same time. Now, I was never much of a Barry Manilow fan, but I have to say he melted my heart - along with everybody else’s there that night - at the Staples Center in L.A.
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