Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their strength lies in generating sounds that are New Age and hip while at the same time slightly Stan Getz-y, especially in the playing of the tenor saxophone. This is apparent in the most beautiful piece on their album, "Sunset Bay." The softest and most tranquil by far, "Sunset Bay" takes you to the Bay Area where the artists grew up. Ultra simple drum programming with understated saxophone notes will make you think you are walking down the Embarcadero with your special someone. The same can be said about "Eventide;" yet this time, the brothers add flute and something...
...production of The Misanthrope uses both of these devices, in this case, the added twists enhance the play's charm and the end result is both cosmetically and intellectually refreshing. Of course, Moliere's tale of the struggle between honesty and courtesy would be poignant in any age. Setting Moliere in the Roaring Twenties, though, works particularly well, since the excesses of 17th century Parisian society translate rather easily to the freewheeling atmosphere of the Jazz Age...
...choir boys sing the sacred prayer with everything on target--their key, their inflections, even their infusion of reverence--but the choir introduced a soloist who sent a shiver down the spine of every patron in Symphony Hall. Terence Wey, a boy of no more than 14 years of age, sang the prayer with a passion and penitence that could have touched the most phlegmatic atheist. Wey's shrill reverberations outshone the rest of the choir and were responsible for evoking an applause more thunderous than any of the tepid clapping earlier in the program...
...downs, it was difficult to depart feeling disheartened. Although they did not achieve the standard of an adult choir, it might have been unreasonable to have expected them to. The Vienna Choir Boys were consummate professionals, but as they exited the stage, large boyish grins betrayed their young age. The Vienna Choir Boys might not have been perfect, but there was something about them that, indeed, was angelic...
...consequence of Rice's turn of phrase here is a remarkably artful handling of sexual scenes. It appears that sleeping with nameless people of both genders is as essential to Armand's becoming a vampire as drinking blood. Armand's coming-of-age becomes a veritable Debbie Does Dallas as he screws his way across Europe. As subtle as Rice is in her sexual descriptions and as cheerfully dirty-minded as I am, however, I'm convinced that it was the baths between Marius and Armand, the sadomasochistic romps and the vampire-mortal orgy that made me put this book...