ETHEL MERMAN [At Carnegie Hall] FACTORY SEALED

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1982 FRIENDS OF THE THEATRE and MUSIC Records  [Collection of the Museum of the City of New York]
*** STILL SEALED ORIGINAL DEMONSTRATION ONLY RECORDING ***
Her last major public appearance

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...Carnegie Hall in front of the 75 members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eric Knight. The program was staged by Anna Sosenko as a benefit for the Theater Collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

She had the help of a body microphone, but there is a quality in the Merman voice that defies all amplification subtleties. Time has not withered it. It still cuts like an ax, and she flaunts its bravura excesses with relish. As she sang in her opening song, ''You wouldn't want to see me as Mimi in Bohem-ie!''

That introduced a 45-minute retrospective of songs she has sung during her long career, every word, syllable and consonant punched out with an emphasis that turned a relatively simple word such as ''cocaine'' in ''I Get a Kick Out of You'' into a triply exclamatory mixture of a roundhouse swing and a crisp uppercut as ''Co-caa-a-a-NUH!''

Everything about Miss Merman's performance was, as it always has been, larger than life. The broad gestures may seem awkward, her phrasing may twist a tune to wind it up for the delivery of a wallop, and she may suddenly dance into little tripping fairy steps that nobody else could get away with. But with Miss Merman, this is all part of her blatant mystique.

Hearing her review the hits that have sparkled through her career, it became strikingly evident that, despite the excellent service she got from Cole Porter in supplying her with songs for her characters who were ''brassy and classy and tough as a nail,'' the song that has given Miss Merman the greatest opportunity to draw on the entire range of her unique talent is ''Everything's Coming Up Roses.'' It still does, and she can still do it, and it all came up roses again for her Monday.

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