Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEAFENING CHORUS HAS BEGUN: REGISTER AND Vote. It's the essence of our ! freedom. It's your civic duty. If you don't vote, you're lazy, ignorant, apathetic, damn near a traitor. This message, shrieked every four years, has not been persuasive. The percentage of eligible voters who go to the polls keeps dropping toward the 50% mark. But the result is greater hysteria...
...first released single, Digging in the Dirt, with its power guitar riffs, Gabriel explores his "dark" side, as he menacingly barks orders to a lover in the chorus. Moments after his anger subsides, he exposes his vulnerability, pleading, "Stay with me, I need support." Perhaps nowhere else does he so eagerly long for an end to pain and for the remedy of a lasting relationship than on Love to be Loved and Washing of the Water. In the former, Gabriel confesses his fears of loneliness over a moody, mid-tempo track, singing, "When my self-esteem is sinking, I like...
Webber plucks the emotional string of the audience throughout his musical. The audience mourns Evita's death by way of the nauseatingly high-pitched chorus of "Requiem Evita" (which sounds amazingly like Webber's own Requiem). We empathize with Evita's triumphs as she passes through the turbulent trials of her life. In a strange sense, we even admire Evita's fortitude despite our disgust at her betrayals of Argentina. This duality of feeling toward Evita is precisely what Webber wants us to experience...
...this: A male student, acting on the same principle, clams the right to join the Radcliffe Pitches. Of course, he cannot sing the A above middle C, so he says he will feel oppressed unless they lower the songs a few octaves or else only sing pieces for mixed chorus...
...Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite," for example, is a happy upbeat piece about virtually, is happy upbeat piece about virtually nothing that has Stipe singing faster and higher than he's used to. He blazes through the chorus ("I won't even try to wake her up"), sings of "black-eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice," and chuckles through "reading from Dr. Seuss." Strings and Buck's guitar adorn the song nicely...