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Musicologists like to worry about whether the 1610 Vespers is really a single piece or compendium; about whether Monteverdi envisioned using a chorus rather than a group of solo singers; about whether he had in mind a specific feast of the Virgin Mary. These are all worthy questions, but they shouldn't overshadow the beauty of the music. It is the best musical resum I've ever heard, and if I were the Pope I'd hire him. In fact, though, Monteverdi ultimately got a job that probably really suited his musical talents better: he spent some 30 years...
...choreography was riddled with a sense of humor, from the "Jamaican Me Crazy" number with its infectious enthusiasm to the de rigeur final chorus line...
...senior, I am glad I finally attended a production of the Pudding, if only to catch a glimpse of the culture that exists behind the words "men in drag." Where else can you see a chorus line reminiscent of Radio City Music Hall with men who, in high heels and bustiers, can pass for mildly attractive women? Where but the Pudding can you understand the cultural significance of Howard Stern's promoting his new movie on David Letterman wearing a blond wig and nylons? Where else but the Pudding, a Harvard institution by dint of being an institution...
...fast track to stardom. The song was written for Patsy Cline, who died before she could record it, but it seems made for Rimes. The melody is thick and generous, and even if you're not into country, when Rimes' wild-berry-sweet voice yodels through the hook-filled chorus--"blooOOooOOoo"--you feel like putting on a cowboy hat and line dancing...
...least, Coleman and a chorus of like-minded gurus may well have it right. Since the Dow stood at 3300 four years ago, the tireless trend of the market has reflected an astonishingly resilient and inflation-free U.S. expansion that, like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going. The economy grew at a robust 4.7% rate in the fourth quarter of 1996, for example, and last week the government reported that consumer prices rose a barely perceptible 0.1% in January...