Word: choruses
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...accompanied by a translator and publicist, among others. After a few minutes of tentative English, he warms up to his subject. "I think it's a very important moment," he says of the coming Verdi Requiem - his coronation at the SSO - which unites 70 members of the Rome Opera chorus with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. As a musical marriage of "the eternal city of Rome and the city of the future, it's very symbolic," he adds. "It's very important, this moment." So important, in fact, that his interview is soon cut short, and the maestro is whisked away...
Stairs has written an album with an elegant air of vague melancholy, but it never entirely delivers on its promise. “So Many Ways,” with its wistful chorus of “So many ways, so many ways…to lie about this,” is the emotional high point of an album painted in quiet tones. Monsoon may grow on you, but only if you have the time to wander down into Stairs’ basement...
Campbell’s voice falls squarely within the Mazzy Star-Sundays-Cardigans school of female vocals, endearingly unconfident and off-key as to convincingly portray the naïveté the songs profess. She comes closest to exploding free of that shy facade in the jump to the chorus of the bouncy “Number One Son,” an album standout that keeps with the theme of precious childhood love. This creates a pleasing balance with the weighty “Your Picture,” a dark Leonard Cohen-like dirge, which strikes...
...from Tigermilk-era Belle & Sebastian, blended with the seminal acoustic indie-pop aesthetic identified with NME’s C-86 compilation and the Sarah 100. Informing the 60s sound and its topical fixation on childish love, Camera Obscura sing slyly ironic lyrics that show abounding self-deprecation. The chorus of lilting opener “Suspended From Class” demonstrates this compromise between form and content best: “I should be suspended from my class,” ethereal lead singer Tracy-Anne Campbell sings, “I don’t know my elbow...
...Tribe found himself in a minority of one as Professor of Law Janet Halley and Assistant Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89 joined the chorus criticizing the court’s decision...