Word: balladic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Track 7: If The World Pretty good for a metal ballad. I can almost picture the hot, big-haired, leather-pants girls I went to high school with having sex to this. With me. Because I have Chinese Democracy. Grade...
...WALL?E's special ache is his nostalgia for a life he never lived, for the intimate connection only humans enjoy. On his home VCR (a Betamax!), he plays and replays two numbers from the 1969 movie musical Hello, Dolly!: the brassy Put on Your Sunday Clothes and the ballad It Only Takes a Moment, which moves him with a closeup of a boy's hand holding a girl...
...keep Sondheim’s increasingly weighty narrative snowballing along, in spite of a few lengthy scene changes which throw off the show’s momentum. The chorus also gets to sink its teeth into the show’s many variations on “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” a jittering, melodic, gothic theme that drives what is surely one of the best opening scenes of any musical.One of these variations, in particular, sticks in my mind. Three tenors, in spot-on close harmony, stretch the theme’s muscular second half into...
...Harvard community through Latin-American music’s universal appeal. “I think that’s what is amazing about the Latin-American music—you can go around the world and see someone playing salsa—there can be a Mexican ballad being played in India,” he says.Performers in the show include students of all races and backgrounds, and the board members are proud of the amount of diversity in the show. Participants range from Asian dance groups to singers who are also in Kuumba. “Not everyone...
...small minority" he says, dismissively. Wang, who says he has been in Khotan for five years, adds that residents should be grateful for the economic development of recent years. "When I came out here it was nothing. Now it's a big city." He turns to belt out a ballad in his native Fujian dialect. A fellow reveler, a 21-year-old who says he has only been in town a year, asks a visitor if he is frightened by the rising racial tension. "No," comes the reply. "What's to be scared of?" "They hate us," the 21-year...