Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would 15 men in tuxedos add a little spice to your Saturday night? Go see the Krokodilos Fall Concert where you can be serenaded by a bevy of boys. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre, Tickets...
...January of a personal concierge service for its 1,800 employees, says Leah Landro, director of compensation and benefits. By calling a toll-free number, employees could have a special gift picked out and sent to that hard-to-please favorite aunt or have tickets ordered for the hottest concert in town, without doing any of the legwork...
...Nine years ago, you couldn't get more glamorous than going backstage at a Versace show," says Alisa Bellettini, the executive producer of House of Style. "Now you see Amber Valetta at a Beastie Boys concert with no makeup on and her hair back. They're not like goddesses anymore. They're real people, working really hard." So hard, they've formed a union. Maria Di Angelis, a New York model on the board of directors of the Models Guild, local 51, doesn't even know how to be a supermodel. "While I was dating Jim Carrey...
...choir boys performed a concert that was technically rich, but spiritually empty. Those of us with even the most paltry choral experiences remember exhortations from former conductors to "Sing as if you mean it!" and "Look like you're enjoying yourself!" The premise is simple: if a choir is not engaged in what it is singing, an audience won't be either...
...despite their prodigious talent, such conviction was conspicuously absent from the concert. The choir boys opened with Haydn's Te Deum in C Major, a sparkling piece with a quick tempo assured to enliven the audience. While the Chorus Viennensis was robust and energetic (this was the older choir of supporting tenors and basses who rounded out the four-part treble scale), the Vienna Choir Boys sounded withered and disengaged. They found Haydn's notes, but groped for his meaning. The boys sang the first line, "We praise thee, O God!" ambivalence nearer to pity than...