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Kuumba’s rendition of Colorado Mass Choir’s “The Real Meaning of Christmas,” included a duet with such sweet harmony that many in the audience closed their eyes to absorb the sound. Following this performance was a pop-style performance of “Mary Did You Know,” delivered by the Brothers of Kuumba (the group’s small all-male offshoot) and arranged by Reid himself. From the first beat of the Kuumba performers’ snapping hands, the crowd was up and down through...
...mind a number of folk and traditional influences. She broke these aery melodies up with heavy breathing sounds and bird-like screeching and scatting. The synthesizer/keyboardist produced old-school laser and space sounds while also beating a rhythm on an electronic drum pad, creating a tightly-controlled and intricate duet with the drummer, whose face was contorted as he wove a precise drum beat throughout the pieces that they played. The guitarist generated the most diverse array of sounds, as his many effects pedals churned out the sounds of tinkling glass and resonating pan pipes, along with more traditional distorted...
This delicious mélange of self-expression and artistic interpretation is at its most titillating during a duet called “The Grass is Always Greener” between Cassis, assuming the role of a glam celebrity, and Sarah E. Stein ’08, posing as a housewife clad in curlers and a bathrobe. Cassis and Stein begin the number with a subtle double entendre involving Cassis’ mink stole, and precisely at this moment the glee and giddiness that bubbled just beneath the surface all evening manifests itself in their uncontrollable giggling. It took...
Elton John sang a duet with Eminem. Oh, wait, that already happened a while...
Case in point is their cover of Johnny and June Carter Cash’s “Jackson.” The original duet was no lyrical masterpiece but instead drew its charm from the interplay of the couple. Here it is effectively gutted by their removal of the male voice, stripping the tune of its original charisma and replacing it with vocalist Sally Ellyson’s somnambulant, though urbane, croon. Here and elsewhere on the album, her voice lacks any of the smoke or hue that lends distinction to good country singing. As a result, the album...