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...high: aside from a $3 or $4 cover, depending on the day of the week, you'll be required to buy a drink (the beer, for example, costs $1--only Schlitz is available). Somehow, whether it's the atmosphere or not, the songs come off better than the a cappella routines. The music is fun and even if the lyrics have even less political depth than the skits, well, it's some compensation...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Clumsy Cabaret | 11/8/1974 | See Source »

...Paul's Mall through Sunday, are a four-man singing group famous for having spurned any backup instrumentation for years and years. Word has it, however, that they've used a band from time to time in the last year, but that they still mostly stick to a cappella. As you'd expect, they have fine, smooth, well-harmonized voices and like to sing softish, intricately scored stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

This kind of a cappella writing is a very chancy business. Paley usually succeeds because she is a poised, naturally gifted writer who trusts her own quirky, ironic imagination. The stories-whether two pages or 20-run their courses as cleanly and surely as arrows flying in air. · Martha Duffy

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Straight Arrow | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Music Notes. Melissa Manchester sings at the Performance Center through Saturday, April 20, 8 and 10:30 p.m. The Jazz Coalition performs the same nights in Performance Center II...Peter Bellamy, an a cappella singer of traditional English folk songs, will perform Friday, April 19 at the Joy of Movement Center...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rock and Folk | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

KRESGE AUDITORIUM (MIT). MIT schola Cantorum. Monteverdi: Messa a 4 Voca da Cappella; Lasso: Prophetiae Sybyllarum. Tickets: $2. Sunday, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical | 11/29/1973 | See Source »

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