Word: choir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radio we are visited by the Chipmunks and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Bing Crosby's dreams of a white Christmas...
...people throw babies in the air." Tunes for the old show, which he closed with a teary farewell broadcast in June 1987 (tearier second and third farewells followed, and a fourth is plotted for next June), tended to be guitar-based bluegrass and country, not counting the occasional trombone choir playing Lapland milking songs...
There is, of course, plenty of strangeness here: Gould rehearsing a children's choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most...
...pillars of American civic righteousness are here: the YWCA choir, the Boy Scouts, the 4-H club, the church-sponsored floats, even the pom-pom girls strutting their stuff to the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again. It could, really, be any All-American small town putting on an Independence Day parade on any village green. Except that this truly is, in the strict anthropological sense, a village, and the green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled...
...applause began with Richard Nixon's famous visit to the People's Republic, it has been intensified by the growing Chinese presence on campuses, in business and the arts. When Kingston published her first account, The Woman Warrior (1976), she was a soloist. Today she is part of a choir of writers concerned with the Chinese experience. On Broadway, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution...