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Most of the actors do credible work amidst the uneven material. O’Hara makes an appealing, if bland, Susan; Jack Noseworthy sings almost well enough as Dallas to offset his acting deficiencies; and James has enough range to hold down the center of a big Broadway musical, though one wishes he’d allow his voice more free reign...
...companion piece to Psalm 23, Psalm 90, performed in 1988 and now published by Broude. The texts of both psalms deal with the theme of life after death. Elkies chose to write these pieces after being asked to perform the perfect poetry of Psalm 90 to a rather bland early American musical setting, which he found did not do justice to the verse. While Elkies stresses that for him creating music is more like composing poetry than making quantitative discoveries in mathematics, he admits that his type of composing has “a mathematical flavor” and supposes...
Many are the wonders of modern tourism--economical packages, efficient tours, reliably standardized accommodations, every detail adjusted to make the traveler feel at home while abroad. The drawback, of course, is that it's so bland and formulaic (museum, monument, gift shop, beverage! Repeat!). Hence there are vagabond travelers who remain determined to avoid all that--to seek out destinations that offer interest and beauty but don't seem geared for the masses. While living in Scotland a few years ago, I was one of those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from...
Moreover, why does any political group that strays from bland centrist ideology—including the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)—immediately meet with the student body’s disdain...
...call Bobby McFerrin a critically acclaimed recording artist is a bland, established fact. To call him a creative, engaging performer is better. To call the vocalist a singularly talented virtuoso still cannot completely capture the music that swirls once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could...