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The Brand New You are able to Festival of Song, now in the third season, has ranged freely with the art-song literature, referring to from the key events of 19th-century German lieder to contemporary American works and barely heard corners from the repertory.

From time to time the festival has broadened into theater tunes, but on Thursday evening in the Greenwich House School of Music, 46 Barrow Street, it inched toward rock-and-roll with "Ticket to Ride, " a course of 29 tunes by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, in plans by Steven Blier, a pianist and among the festival's company directors.

Classical music artists dabbling in Beatles tunes is certainly not new. The avant-garde composer Luciano Berio arranged a few of the group's tunes in 1966, along with other composers - John Cage, Toru Takemitsu and Leo Brouwer included in this - have adopted suit more lately. Within the 1960's, Leonard Bernstein recommended the Beatles were our age's Schubert. As well as in what's stated to become his final interview, released in the present Moving Stone, he referred to them as "the very best songwriters since Gershwin."

Thursday's performance leaned nearer to the Gershwin comparison. Marsha Hunter, a soprano, and John Kent, a lyric baritone - two strong, colorful performers - started with duet versions of "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Would you like to Know a Secret" that seemed as though they were lifted from 50's vintage Broadway musicals.

Miss Hunter, in her own solo tunes, required the theatrical conceit to extremes. In "Norwegian Wood, " she jettisoned the subtle understatement of Lennon's original vocal and undercut the lyrics by worrying the saying being. And throughout her crazy, overacted reading through of Lennon's "You Cannot Do This, " you could not help thinking how greatly at odds her conception was using the Beatles' spirit. Lennon, particularly, loathed the musical theater.

Nevertheless, it had been astonishing how good the majority of the tunes modified to some style so foreign for them, and when there is one factor the program demonstrated, it had been how resilient and witty this music is. For that program incorporated the melodic perennials - "Yesterday, " "I'll, " "Eleanor Rigby" and "Within My Existence" included in this. But there have been also oddities like "Drive My Vehicle, " the aphoristic "Her Majesty" and Mr. Harrison's "Piggies" and "Inland revenue, " that have been offered as prophetic compares the 1980's and 90's.

Aside from the couple of that drifted right into a theater style, Mr. Blier's plans were exquisite. His piano accompaniments were frequently freely adorned, they also embodied the harmonies and counterpoint one listens to around the Beatles' disks. And also at their finest they can recommended the group's instrumental textures.