NEWS
November 5, 2000 | F.N. D'ALESSIO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
They're rehearsing "The Great Gatsby," and Bob Grist is standing in the spotlight, stage center, without any idea which role he is supposed to be playing. He might be Nick Carraway, he might be Tom Buchanan, he might even be Daisy Buchanan. But Grist doesn't ask questions, and he doesn't move unless the disembodied voice from the "God mike" above the stage tells him to. "Take two steps stage left," it says. Grist obeys. "Take one step downstage," it says. Again he obeys.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 18, 2000 | JAN BRESLAUER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
This devil wears a diamond stud in one ear and a brown polka-dot shirt. He is leonine, charismatic and possessed of a voice so deep and mellifluous that it seems capable of seducing any mere mortal within reach, even in a setting as unbefitting the Prince of Darkness as a Dorothy Chandler Pavilion boardroom on a bright winter morning. Still, he doesn't seem like evil incarnate, but that's part of the package, right? Then again, this devil is also Samuel Ramey, distinguished bass.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 30, 1999 | CHRIS PASLES
"NO TENORS ALLOWED: HAMPSON AND RAMEY" Thomas Hampson, baritone; Samuel Ramey, bass; Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Miguel Gomez-Martinez, conductor Teldec *** 1/2 A baritone has to come clean and declare himself when reviewing a CD with a title like this, which he is congenitally predisposed to cheer. Fortunately, Hampson and Ramey are so obviously accomplished that there is little risk of vocal prejudice.