Word: choiring
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...with a singer in Boston, he was spotted by the former leader of the Kuumband who asked him to play on their spring break tour. This year he has become the leader of the band and he describes emphatically that his experience with the Kuumband and the choir has been “the single most amazing thing that has helped me grow as a musician.” For him, Kuumba epitomizes the key connection between performance, emotion and musicianship, “playing and performing with Kuumba brings an emotional and spiritual depth to the music that...
Gail Marshall, whose grown son had turned their house into "boy central," enjoyed having two "daughters" last year, from Iceland and France: the three women loved cooking, trading intimacies and getting done up at the salon together. Another year, Richard Marshall, a singer in his church choir, finally found a musical soul mate in a German "daughter." He taught her the tune for Itsy Bitsy Spider, which they sang in the car, making up their own lyrics...
...track opened with him asking, "Can I get a goddamn timpani roll?"). Here he picks his sounds carefully to offset the intensity of his voice and material. On the rousing opener, At the Bottom of Everything, a mandolin clips jauntily away while he crows, "We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole/ We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul." These are smart lines, however grim, and with Jesse Harris (Norah Jones' songwriting shoulder) adding wonderfully warm guitar, the song is even hummable. On other tracks, Oberst imports pedal steel and Emmylou Harris...
...this time - ?Bush?s Brain? is more relevant than before. Moore has been planning a documentary on health care, which should be ever more timely as the Administration pushes its privatization angle on Social Security. Of course Moore and his fellow Savonarolas will once again be preaching to the choir. But as ?Fahrenheit 9/11? indicated, and ?The Passion of the Christ? proved, a choir can be in the tens of millions. And watch out, rest-of-America. Neither choir is likely to shut...
...presentation, which took place at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School in front of over 200 parents and students, preceded a performance of the school’s musical arts groups, including its Gospel Choir and Jazz Band...