It’s the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Greatest Night in Show Business!
Judy at Carnegie Hall was recorded 50 years ago tonight and they are still trying to put the roof back in its proper place on West 57th Street. It’s never been out of circulation in an 5 decades of changing formats.
Here’s the raucous opener:
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‘Greatest Night in Show Business’ is an interesting question, which involves questions of definition. Taking it very broadly, I’d hold out for December 22, 1808, when Beethoven personally introduced his Fifth and Sixth symphonies, Fourth Piano Concerto, and the Choral Fantasy (and that wasn’t the whole program). No roof blew off, however–the hall was cold, the musicians underrehearsed, and the evening no triumph.
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