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Burke, on the other hand, has song with both campus, and Boston rock bands and says that she considers herself a "pop-ballad" singer. In addition, she writes songs, which, she says, are "mostly about love, but not on the idyllic or positive side...
...this version: Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and Tenor Jose Carreras are Maria and Tony, the doomed lovers from rival gangs; Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos is Maria's friend Anita, who feels that life is all right in America; peerless Mezzo Marilyn Horne makes a cameo appearance singing the gentle ballad Somewhere; and, surprisingly, Bernstein conducts his full score for the first time. Far from being a vanity production with a group of slumming opera stars, however, the performance is convincing and vital...
...world chess championship, the show has won raves from European critics for Lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita), Composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA) and the piece's star, Elaine Paige. Chess has spun off two top-of-the-pops singles: the ballad I Know Him So Well resided at No. 1 in Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok is a Top Five smash in half a dozen European countries. Now Chess is readying to blitz America. Two versions of Bangkok have cracked...
...been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...
...Brussels in the Rain" is a jazz ballad that switches to medium-tempo bossa nova toward the end, and Paquito, who couldn't chill out if he tried, swings with case. "Brussels" is a good example of the creators' different personalities; Although the tune is a slow jazz ballad, Paquito is still able to incorporate complicated eighth-note phrasings with an Afro-Latin emphasis, while Thielemans relies on direct but well-embellished lines to get his point across. If Toots is a Valium, then Paquito is aguardiente...