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"That's What Friends Are For" is an album by American singers Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams that was released in 1978 by Columbia Records. The project was a continuation of the pairing of the artists that began on his previous LP, "You Light Up My Life", which included "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late", the duet that was on its way to #1 on three different charts in Billboard magazine as the recording sessions for this album got underway. On July 20 1978, "That's What Friends Are For" received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States, and it debuted on Billboard's list of America's Top LP's & Tapes shortly thereafter, in the issue dated July 29, for the start of a 16-week chart run that took the album to #19. That same issue also marked its debut on the magazine's Black Albums chart, where it remained for 11 weeks and peaked at #14.

Mathis der Maler is the central composition of Paul Hindemith’s output for music theater. The reception began with its successful premiere of a symphony of three orchestral parts from the opera, in March of 1934 in Berlin. That was still before the composer was attacked in the National-Socialist press which prompted a defense of Furtwängler’s in a newspaper article titled “The Hindemith Case”. The opera wasn’t premiered until May 1938, in Zurich, where the Hindemith’s had emigrated to, before moving on to the United States. Much as Mathis, who found his political engagement in the Peasant’s War and his calling to paint solely for the glory of God to collide with the expectation to positions himself on religious matters during the Reformation, Hindemith found himself torn between his refusal to propagate for the Nazis, his urge to follow his inner voice, and the demand that he position himself against the regime. These highly acclaimed performances from 2012 at Theater an der Wien with Opera Star Roland Koch in the title role is finally now available here.

Edith Mathis, who celebrated her 80th birthday last year, is one of Lucerne’s most famous “daughters”. The 1960s saw her firmly establish herself on the international opera stage. She enthused audiences in New York and London, in Munich, Vienna and Paris, at Glyndebourne and Salzburg, working alongside all major conductors of her time, from Karl Böhm to Herbert von Karajan. The grace and natural charm of her iridescent, silvery soprano voice was inescapable. Mozartian roles in particular, such as Cherubino, Susanna and Pamina, found their ideal representation in Edith Mathis: she shaped the Mozart sound of her time. But her performances of the Bach passions, Haydn oratorios, as Ännchen in Weber’s Der Freischütz or as Sophie in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier were met with equal enthusiasm. She also set the benchmark as a song recitalist, including in the summer of 1975 in her home city of Lucerne.

Johnny Mathis Le crooner américain Johnny Mathis connaît le succès dans les années 1950 et 1960 avec les titres « Wonderful, Wonderful », « Chances Are », « A Certain Smile » et quelques autres, devenant l'un des plus gros vendeurs de disques de cette période. Dépassé par les générations suivantes, il tente de se maintenir avec « When a Child Is Born » (1976), « Too Much, To Little , Too Late » avec Deniece Williams (n°1 en 1978), et d'autres duos, sans jamais retrouver l'aura d'antan.

During the first lockdown, violist Mathis Rochat rediscovered the music of Rachmaninoff for himself. He was so taken with the works of the Russian late romantic that he decided to put together a complete programme with his own arrangements for viola and piano. The aim was to give the Russian-inspired melodies completely new colours through the choice of instruments.

Johnny Mathis Le crooner américain Johnny Mathis connaît le succès dans les années 1950 et 1960 avec les titres « Wonderful, Wonderful », « Chances Are », « A Certain Smile » et quelques autres, devenant l'un des plus gros vendeurs de disques de cette période. Dépassé par les générations suivantes, il tente de se maintenir avec « When a Child Is Born » (1976), « Too Much, To Little , Too Late » avec Deniece Williams (n°1 en 1978), et d'autres duos, sans jamais retrouver l'aura d'antan.

Crimson Gold presents Johnny Mathis ‘Gold’, the only Johnny Mathis compilation you’ll ever need.Johnny Mathis is the popular singer-songwriter who began his career with a string of hit singles before going on to achieve further success as an album artist, with dozens of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and an impressive 73 making the US Billboard charts. Decades after his initial success, Mathis remains a much admired figure and continues to be a popular concert attraction today.This definitive 3CD set features 49 tracks from across Mathis’s career including all of the hits and fan favourites.

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music and jazz. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Johnny Mathis has sold well over 350 million records worldwide, according to Guinness Book of World Records writer and charts music historian Paul Gambaccini and other sources. This makes Mathis the third biggest selling artist of the 20th century. This definitive four disc anthology have released to celebrate the 80th birthday of legendary crooner!

Though Johnny Mathis has recorded many individual songs from Broadway musicals over the years, the last time he devoted an entire album to them was 1960's The Rhythms and Ballads of Broadway, and the geography of the street has changed a lot since then. The Broadway of 2000 is a tourist attraction boasting a variety of kinds of musicals that were not available 40 years ago: oversized European operettas like Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera and American copycats like Jekyll & Hyde; Disney extravaganzas like The Lion King; retrospective anthology shows like Fosse; and rock musicals like Rent, along with revues of old rock & roll songs like Smokey Joe's Café.