Marsha Bartenetti: I Believe in Love

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Marsha Bartenetti

I Believe in Love

March 4, 2020

Reviewed by Mary Bogue

Marsha Bartenetti melds the strength that comes with the polish of a well-honed instrument and the gentleness of an angel’s whisper; in fact, one must “lean in” to fully appreciate the silky quality of her voice.

On her newly released CD, I Believe in Love, Bartenetti surprises on the exquisite opening cut of “Fragile” (Sting); it’s fully orchestrated and refreshingly upbeat, and it draws the listener into a sexy embrace, before relaxing into the rest of the CD.

She then delivers a seasoned collection of American Songbook standards, such as easy-breezy renditions of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” (Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman), “Our Day Will Come” (Mort Garson and Bob Hilliard), and “Nature Boy” (Eden Ahbez).

Happily, Bartenetti easily moves through her material and ends the CD with “Throw it Away” (Abbey Lincoln) does anything but that and delivers the significant lyric with heart-felt honesty and emotion. Give it a listen at the usual places online or through www.MarshaBartenetti.com and you too will believe in love.

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Mary Bogue

Born to upstate New York parents Nelson Binner and Gladys Witt, Mary Bogue was the fourth of five children. Her love of acting was apparent early in her life, when she acted out imagined scenes in the second story hallway of their home on Division Street. Moving to California in 1959 only fueled the fire and soon she tried out and got the part in Beauty and the Beast, a children's production at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The bug followed her into junior and high school productions, but when she struck out on her own in the early 70s, she found it wasn't as easy as sitting at the world famous Schwab's on Sunset. Her first audition stopped her dead in her tracks for years when the "casting director" expected nudity. It was only in 1990 that she returned to her first love, albeit slowly as she was a caregiver to 16 foster daughters. Only when she was cast in Antonio Bandera's directorial debut, Crazy in Alabama (1999)(which she was cut from) did she pursue this dream.