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...song “My Kindly Friends/Happy Young Heart.” Selowsky shines as Lady Sangazure, combining vocal agility with dramatic sensitivity. Her rich timbre and mature legato stand out particularly in her aria “My Child, I Join in These Congratulations” and her duet with Sir Marmaduke, “Welcome...
Perhaps attempting to capitalize on this gaiety, the production incorporates the choreography of Antonia M. Pugliese ’12, with varying success. In particular, during Sir Marmaduke and Lady Sangazure’s duet “Welcome, Joy!” the busy movements distract from the comic interaction between the two self-important aristocrats. But the chorus dances well in a number of scenes, adding to the production’s festive feel...
Many of the tracks are more blues than they are country. “All Gone, All Gone,” is about as dismal as the title would suggest. It features a duet between Johnson and Texas songsmith Sarah Jaffe over a plodding guitar line that sounds as if it’s plucked from an early Robert Johnson recording. Featuring a singing saw—an instrument whose existence is easy to forget, but whose presence is impossible to ignore—the song feels like a slow drive down a pitch-black southern road in the heart...
Jackson also plays well with others. There's a splendid duet with Judith Hill on "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" that's both a call-and-response act of communion and a little contest over who can show more soul. He urges his lead guitarist, the petite, blond Orianthi Panagaris, to release all the wildness her fingers can express. He's determined to get the best from everyone, and to think the best of them. Near the end, just before a powerful rendition of "Man in the Mirror," he thanks members of his family: "Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Tito...
...found this fairy tale called “The Woodcutter’s Daughter,” which I decided I liked the best, because it has an ethereal quality. I knew that I wanted to do a duet about relationships—the questions of, “‘How does someone approach someone else in any situation?” “What are the boundaries?” “How do people let each other in?” With the ethereal quality, there is a built-in boundary—there...