[Magdalen] Irish Eyes.

[Scott Knitter]

Also there was the puzzling casting of Jose Carreras as Tony in a West Side Story recording led by Lenny Bernstein himself. There are rehearsal films showing an exasperated Bernstein trying to get Carreras to sound more American...not "I chust met a gull named Marrria" 

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> On Aug 29, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 29/08/2015 20:57, Jay Weigel wrote:
>> It's been said that accents disappear when singing, which is pretty much
>> not true, except with classically trained singers.
> 
> Not always for them, either.  Just listen to a recording of Pavarotti even when he was singing in English - there was still a very marked Italian accent.
> 
> Roger