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Opera is a vocally-driven performing art. But this past Tuesday, Ellen Hargis—a “Baroque-music diva?? according to The New Yorker—proved that sleight of hand can improve even the most skilled voices. During a lecture and masterclass hosted by the Office for the Arts (OFA) at the New College Theatre (NCT), soprano Hargis demonstrated the importance of performance gestures.“Ellen Hargis is an extraordinary resource for Baroque vocal music,” said Thomas Lee, Program Manager for the OFA’s Learning From Performers...
...middle of the album. These songs are true to Jackson’s roots, showing that she can consistently produce inoffensive, catchy pop in the style of her earlier years. Janet Jackson fills this niche comfortably, and should probably stay in it: these tracks feature more of the diva??s personal style than the album’s electro-bandwagon bookends...
...website whose tagline reads, “the ultimate hook-up for the fashion obsessed.” I remember thinking, “If only Will were here now.” For the previous two Crimson seasons, I was pegged as the room “diva??—a moniker that I still contest (predicated upon my not being, at the time, a varsity athlete, and my healthy enjoyment of birch trees and practicing yoga in the common room before breakfast). My roommates in Eliot were equally self-important, but on the completely opposite...
...Sony)3/5 Stars“Are you there God? Soy yo, Margaret…er, I mean Shakira.” The Latin diva??s latest album, “Oral Fixation, Volume II,” the English-language follow-up to 2001’s crossover smash, “Dirty Laundry,” addresses all the prepubescent questions of the Judy Blume novel: the Lord, boys, and female self-image. Shakira, however, is a grown woman and should have deeper thoughts than those...
...venues bearing storefront names such as Tickled Pink, Color Me Pink, The Pink Pineapple, Pink on the Green, The Pink Petunia and Pinkalicious. Perhaps troubleshooting a possible East Coast/West Coast elite divide in Lilly’s popularity, this season Pulitzer is marketing a California “surf diva?? look. Boston’s Lilly fans can check out In the Pink, Pulitzer’s shop on Newbury Street...