Monday, December 16, 2002

Another chart topper!
Clinton, Loren make recording:
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton joined actress Sophia Loren this weekend to narrate a recording by a Swiss orchestra, newspapers said today.

The weekly newspaper Dimanche.ch said the recording project of the European company PentaTone was "top secret," but that Clinton and Loren read different passages as Kent Nagano conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

It appears to have been connected with a project announced in October by the Russian National Orchestra, which said Nagano would make a record of Tchaikovsky's Peter and the Wolf for PentaTone with Clinton, Loren and Mikhail Gorbachev as narrators.
"Hey Sophia, how about you, me, and Mr. Cigar make some bootiful music? Oh! Is my mike on?"