Word: duet
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...peasant couple of Zerlina and Masetto, Jessica G. Peritz ’05 and Oussama Zahr ’04-’05, display just as much confidence and charisma as their older, professional counterparts. Peritz skillfully shifts her operatic tone from girlishly naïve (in one duet with Don Giovanni) to seductive and pleading, as she tries to win back Masetto’s love...
...Floating Objects for Flute and Tape.” This cutting-edge piece, written in 2001, features a live flutist playing a duet with a recorded tape. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) will produce this work, along with other original, equally eclectic compositions, on March...
...steady stream of tributes to elder generations and a short list of inoffensive “approved” artists that sound like they’re from an elder generation. Ray Charles! The Pepsi guy, before he died this past summer, dropped Genius Loves Company, a compilation of duets with a broad selection of some contemporary artists and some contemporaries of the artist. It’s not an uncommon thing for aging artists to cut a CD of duets, but this is the kind of thing we expect more from pseudo-lounge singers like Rod Stewart. They pair...
...let’s pause here for a moment. So you’re right about the Grammys being a blowhard event nowadays (well, always, but even more so nowadays), but let’s look at Mr. Charles’s wins a little more fairly. The duet with Norah Jones? Contrived, yes, but worse duets of its nature have been conceived—touching or not, I still think Natalie Cole and Father was a dumb idea. At least Jones and Charles are interesting as a pairing, since they’re both pianists, they both straddle...
...let’s pause here for a moment. So you’re right about the Grammys being a blowhard event nowadays (well, always, but even more so nowadays), but let’s look at Mr. Charles’s wins a little more fairly. The duet with Norah Jones? Contrived, yes, but worse duets of its nature have been conceived—touching or not, I still think Natalie Cole and Father was a dumb idea. At least Jones and Charles are interesting as a pairing, since they’re both pianists, they both straddle...