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...long hiatus and new appreciation for the work. Take “The Bed,” where Reed narrates Jim’s thoughts as he recollects Caroline’s suicide and their old life together. The accompaniment of discordant voices provided by the Brooklyn Youth Choir floods the final minute with so much pathos that it becomes almost unbearable. Their overlapping chants of “So Cold” are more than enough to hammer home discomfort in even a stalwart listener. After all this time, revisiting “Berlin” seems almost...
...Most of the 11 new songs are only serviceable. Nothing quite matches We're All in This Together, the anthem from the first HSM, which is repeated here in a more liturgical version, as if the young Phil Spector had remixed the You-Know-Which Tabernacle Choir. But the title number, sung at the end by the company, locates some of the separation anxiety of the mid-teen years. The music is perky, the undertone poignant: "I just hope the rest of my life / Will feel as good as my / High school musical, who says we have...
...Most of the 11 new songs are only serviceable. Nothing quite matches We're All in This Together, the anthem from the first HSM, which is repeated here in a more liturgical version, as if the young Phil Spector had remixed the You-Know-Which Tabernacle Choir. But the title number, sung at the end by the company, locates some of the separation anxiety of the mid-teen years. The music is perky, the undertone poignant: "I just hope the rest of my life / Will feel as good as my / High school musical, who says we have...
...garden recital in Milwaukee, Wis., where his father was an ordained minister who welded auto frames for a living. As a boy, "young Alwin" (his parents addressed him by his given name) used to sit beside his mother as she played piano in church, and later sang in the choir. Jarreau was bright, and after high school opted to study psychology, earning a masters degree and landing work in San Francisco as a vocational rehabilitation counselor. One problem: "I was a horrible bureaucrat and organizer," says Jarreau, who quit his job and began eking out a living in the rich...
...minister. Behind My Eyes is steeped in Lee's religious upbringing. "I doodled in the church bulletin on Sundays/ while my father offered the twenty-minute Pastor's Prayer," he recalls in "Cuckoo on the Witness Stand." Elsewhere in the poem, he recounts that "I sang in a church choir during one war/ American TV made famous." Lee also likens his own poetry to "a mission," but he's no firebrand proselytizer. His tone throughout this collection is that of the soft-spoken, ecumenical humanist. A mini-aubade in "Become Becoming" likens dawn ("the air's first gold") to "that...