Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no secret to the band's success: DHC brandishes essential elements of an enjoyable concert--a charged symbiosis with the listeners, perfect synchronicity among band members and a grab-bag array of songs highlighting the best parts of their music catalog. But what makes the band's live spectacle shine is the dynamic interaction of vocalists Elyse Rogers and Karina Denike. Although few bands could pull off a lead female singing duo, Rogers and Denike stregthen each other to create a brightly bold melodic complement, serving to gloss over the girls' disenchanted lyrical matter in a joyful purge...
...negative thoughts do arise like this one during the concert, they are quickly dispersed as the girls continuously bop around the stage, leaving no time for criticism if keeping up with the performance is a priority. At times, Rogers and Denike regroup at center stage to sing, smile and shout in each others' faces, only to split again and head straight for the throbbing audience. Working their way around the leading ladies, guitarist Jason Hammon and bassist Mikey Weiss pump out DHC's musical foundation along with the stationary but flailing drummer Gavin Hammon. Despite the necessity of the male...
...recordings bottle their energy in a neat package with the edges smoothed out. But the real DHC experience is an interaction of the band with the audience, a mutual infusion and reflection of energy and emotion. After seeing the band once, one looks forward to their return because in concert they iron out life's daily stress by pumping melodic hooks and cathartic chants reaching out to every listener...
Given the general indifference to new music, and the unlikely case that anyone might be familiar with the repertoire of solo marimba works, the circumstances of such a concert are daunting. Public appeal for such an occasion would seem at best very small. What was it then that brought almost 100 people into a crowded Adams House LCR last Friday evening? What was it that made new music what it should be: vital, ecstatic...
...package would be offered in concert with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and individual countries, including the U.S. government, which is committing about $3 billion in aid. The money, designed to help curtail the wild spread of currency crisis around the region, will be tightly controlled...