Word: joys
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Haven't done all your Christmas Shopping yet? Fear not! On Friday the 11th Annual Christmas Festival opens at the World Trade Center. Go bask in the joy of the holiday season and find that perfect gift for everyone on your list at the 350 boutiques which line the walls of the World Trade Center. There are many unique gifts handmade by craftsmen as well as many interesting culinary offering such as chocolate covered cranberries. Friday, 12 to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., World Trade Center (South Station T-Stop...
What makes a pop song glisten with perfection? For George Gershwin, it is the simple joy of melody, wittily phrased; think of "S'Wonderful," a song whose lyrics would be silly if its music were not really so wonderful. For the Beatles, it might be mundane working-class life appreciated for all of its unique, fantastical truth--take "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which reshapes ordinary objects into a stunning psychedelic spectacle...
...older choir of supporting tenors and basses who rounded out the four-part treble scale), the Vienna Choir Boys sounded withered and disengaged. They found Haydn's notes, but groped for his meaning. The boys sang the first line, "We praise thee, O God!" ambivalence nearer to pity than joy--and set a lackluster pattern for the remainder of the piece...
...boys were not in want of technical skills; only interpretive ones. Psalm No. 23 is a prayer of peace for someone who has realized that his life is in the hands of God. But an audience member might have known nothing about the meaning of the song--and the joy of love or the anticipation of heaven--if the lyrics had not been printed in the program...
...still here, but now he was hobnobbing with bubbling psychedelic guitars, booming hip-hop tracks and distorted space-age bleeps. Splashed through with enough classic soul samples to put Stax Records back in business, Odelay was a manifesto for eclectic electronica, busting out all over the place with the joy of being retrospective and fresh and whimsical. Odd pieces were all there--funk, jazz, roots rock, old-school rap, nonsense lyrics--but suddenly they sounded compatible, credible and organic. The self-proclaimed loser was suddenly "the enchanting wizard of rhythm," devouring and reinventing 50 years of American pop music...