MUSIC
BY BRETT CAMPBELL
RAQUY DANZIGER
WOMEN’S WORKS
Beautiful just part of music by women
you can hear in coming weeks
C
arole King vaulted to fame by co-writing a slew of
sensational ’60s hits for various bands, most nota-
bly the Shirelles’ “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”
She solidified her position as one of the 20th cen-
tury’s greatest songwriters with a series of 1970s
triumphs, beginning with her landmark Tapestry album
featuring King’s own voice and piano, which sold more than
any single pop album of that time and helped kickstart the
singer-songwriter era.
A strong and kind parent and colleague who gave up the
celebrity lifestyle to get back to nature in Idaho, an ardent
supporter of progressive political and environmental causes
who’s donated years of her life to making the world a bet-
ter place … Carole King is one of the artists I admire most.
Bursting with boomer-bait songs, the 2013 jukebox mu-
sical Beautiful (which Tom Hanks is bringing to the big
screen), alighting next week at the Hult Center, recounts
King’s journey from her mom’s Brooklyn flat through the
artist’s bold auditions with music impresario Don Kirshner
to her college meeting with the fellow student who would
become her husband and songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin.
The show chronicles the pair, along with fellow married
songwriting team Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann (which allows
the show to include some of their classics, such as “You’ve Lost
That Loving Feeling”), over a decade as they crank out hits in
New York’s legendary Brill Building songwriting factory.
King’s most significant story — also the story of much
of her generation — is her subsequent move from the con-
ventionality and artificiality of postwar American culture to
something more personal, more real.
Yet Beautiful spends so much time cramming in the hits
(22 of the 26 here) during her early-to-mid-’60s rise to fame
that it rushes through the really dramatic part of her life in
the last few minutes, after the troubled Goffin leaves, spark-
ing her move to Los Angeles and transformation from pro-
digious pop craftswoman to self-actualizing singer-song-
writer. That makes King (who composed the tunes) a bit
player for much of her own musical.
The show’s belated attempt to make her achievement of
“you-go-girl!” self-confidence its theme rings false. As her
memoir A Natural Woman reveals, King was pretty much
who she was from the get-go: gifted, determined, confident.
“Someone had to write hit songs,” she told herself at age
15, when she showed up at mighty Atlantic Records with a
couple of songs in hand. “Why not me?”
The musical’s soulless, glossy arrangements and the
Broadway singers’ big, brassy voices vitiate the heartfelt
honesty and authenticity King helped bestow upon pop mu-
sic. “I had found the key to success in performing,” King
wrote in her memoir. “It was to be authentically myself.”
While the skin-deep Beautiful brings us the songs that made
Carole King a star, it surely doesn’t bring us Carole King.
More fabulous women’s music — and words! — ar-
rive Saturday afternoon, Oct. 14, when some of Portland’s
finest classical singers team up in a free concert at the UO’s
Beall Hall. Northwest Art Song and The Ensemble
present superb soprano Arwen Myers and mezzo Laura
Beckel Thoreson, accompanied by pianist Susan Mc-
Daniel, in settings of poetry written by women, with mu-
sic by some of today’s finest female composers, including
Libby Larsen, Stacy Garrop, Juliana Hall and Abbie Betinis.
You can hear more contemporary classical music,
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