Word: duet
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...enough to make you think the era of pay-to-play music downloading has finally dawned. Spurred on by the MusicNet deal, Sony and Vivendi Universal hastily announced that their licensing service, known as Duet, had found its first customer in the shape of Yahoo. MTV.com said it had done its own deal with all five major labels. And Microsoft hopped on the bandwagon with the radio-style site MSN Music. Result: in just one week "the landscape changed 100%," says Eric Scheirer, digital-music analyst at Forrester Research...
...Waterhouse and Yamaguchi invigorated the paus-duex by straining to appear aloof but constantly remaining interconnected. The pair was visually linked through their reciprocal blue and black tops and bottoms, but battled to balance this connection with the aloof music of Mozart. The resulting tension reinterpreted the traditional love duet, making it contemporary and exciting...
This is not to say that the performance was unflawed. Conductor Sebastian Weigle’s brisk tempi proved a mixed blessing. While the overture exuded an almost electric energy, other numbers seemed slightly rushed. Tamino and Pamina’s Act II duet could have luxuriated longer in its loving lyricism, and Weigle’s charge into part two of the Queen of the Night’s big first act aria was a bit too fast for soprano Mary Dunleavy, resulting in an awkward adjustment as her coloratura fireworks begin. Nor was Dunleavy vocally perfect...
...Berkeley, Calif., last year), was the exuberant centerpiece of the Mark Morris Dance Group's 20th-anniversary season. Sixteen of the choreographer's 100-odd dances--from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, a full-evening extravaganza for 24 dancers, four singers, chorus and orchestra, to Peccadillos, a duet for Morris and a toy piano--were presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Meanwhile, across the street, the company is moving into the brand-new Mark Morris Dance Center, its first permanent home in the dance capital of the world. The $6 million building's top floor contains...
...last, America's most notorious hip-hopper and many of the parents who hate him have something in common. Pills. Specifically, prescription painkillers like Vicodin. Eminem, who sports a Vicodin tattoo on his left arm, is the pill's unofficial spokesperson. Last month, in his duet with Elton John at the Grammys, he rapped, "I'm on a thousand downers now/ I'm drowsy." It's easy to imagine that, as they glared at the TV, boomers around the country alleviated their annoyance at Eminem's notoriety by swallowing the very drug their nemesis was naming...