Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost always something missing, a glaring or a tiny imperfection. Songs like "Roulette" and "Dollhouse" ring with energy, but are not thick enough to conceal infantile lyrics ("Roulette, that's the name/Roulette, that's the game now"); "I Want to Be with You" hooks the listener on the chorus, but repeats itself endlessly. As on the first disk, Springsteen teaches the listener something by revealing his musical influences more clearly than ever before. But while on disk one's "Santa Ana" Springsteen did a passable Dylan impersonation, here the listener is confronted with the ugly truth about the Springsteen...
Opera ultimately belongs to the singers, however, and La Traviata was no exception. All the performers, leads and chorus alike, showed remarkable vocal prowess and passion, and among the minor characters mezzo-soprano Gale Fuller's charming and coquettish Flora Bervoix (a courtesan whose wardrobe is far more scandalous than that of Violetta) was especially memorable and a well-needed break from the heavy tragedy of the rest of the opera...
Although he's made some fine pop albums in the past, notably Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), Mellencamp says he's been moving beyond arena-filling pop. "Scarecrow is a square record," he says. "There's no countermelodies. Just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus. Square songs can be the most beautiful songs in the world. [But] around '88 and '89 I got tired of making square records...
...event and now lives in Maine. "I met my husband here," she says. "Now we schedule our business trips around Wednesdays so that we can be here. I've been away from the community for 11 years, and I return as much as I can," she says to a chorus of "That's right!" from the other dancers gathered around...
...sing outside of my house until I was in ninth grade. By that time, I'd been singing opera around the house for a few years and my parents thought that I had some sort of voice [a worthy voice], so they had me go sing for the school chorus teacher. He had good things to say and I started taking lessons with his father, who was a well-known local voice teacher. I started doing opera productions with the local [Long Island] company, Island Lyric Opera. The first opera I ever did was Bruno's Faust, where...