Word: duetting
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...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...
...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...
...with a jam alongside their longtime male counterparts, the Harvard Krokodiloes, who as the story goes, supported the infantile Pitches 30 years back with scandalous poster artistry advertising their tryouts. In an act of thanks to the Kroks for their years of support, the Pitches will be debuting a duet between the two groups, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” arranged by Alexis Tumolo ’06, the group’s current president. Tumolo notes that beyond the debuted material, “a 30th Anniversary isn't a particularly momentous...
...addition to the duet, two Pitches making their final appearances with the group, Tumolo and Katie Monticchio ’06 will be premiering original arrangements of “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” and “Always True to You In My Fashion,” respectively. Another debut at the well-attended annual concert will be a new compact disc of Pitches’ a cappella from the past year. Tumolo describes the CD as “a 30th anniversary tribute, featuring Pitch classics as well as new arrangements.” Songs...