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...Susan Boyle Phenomenon seemed slightly improbable, Jafargholi’s story approaches science fiction. Seconds into the young boy’s spot-on performance of Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie,” the audience having risen to their feet to clap along, judge Cowell calls for the music to be stopped. “You’ve got this really wrong,” he said, feigning disappointment. “What do you sing apart from that?” In what is surely a bizarre coincidence, the show?...
...good boys and they treat us great. I don’t have any juicy gossip, though. 3. FM: Do you have any performance rituals, before you begin a show? SBB: We have a little game that we play, the band and I. We stand in a circle and clap and yell out random words that come to our minds. It sounds absolutely ridiculous and makes no sense whatsoever, but it always makes us laugh and loosens us up. 4. FM: Who’s next? Anyone you’d like to work with in the future? SBB: Lots...
...despite the event's bleak inspiration, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful. Contestants yell and clap and egg each other on, and no one seems upset when the Payday piñata breaks on the very first try - revealing Payday candybars. With New York easing its way into spring, being outdoors under a blue sky is almost as refreshing as the chance to stab a thumbtack into a fat, balding, caricature of a boss...
...Holoshitz ’10. “Quite frankly, it’s because we’re doing more things this semester.” UC Representative Sonia S. Dara ’12 suggested that perhaps meetings could be shortened if “people kept clapping to a minimum.” Representatives typically clap to celebrate the passage of legislation or to mark major speeches. This week’s grants package proved contentious, with the debate centering on two separate allocations—one for a $2,000 allocation for movable lights for house...
...demonstrate music as “telling a story with no words, just notes,” Kapilow spends the first half of the 1-hour performance explaining the intricate mechanics behind Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.” Asking the audience to clap the rhythm and sing the tune with a series of “bum” and “bo-da-ga-bum,” Kapilow helps the audience become more familiar with the music. After these mini lessons, the grinning conductor poses “quiz?...