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...doing so achieves perfection. A mere five songs in length, “Ys” nonetheless stretches to almost an hour. Each song becomes a fairy tale, allowing Newsom to experiment with words in a way her debut album did not. Proving herself a master storyteller, Newsom’s fantastical, erudite vocabulary and haunting imagery are given context in these larger narratives. In what amounts to an experiment with the boundaries of pop music, Newsom’s unparalleled complexity and imagination serve to weed out the casual or unadventurous while rewarding the faithful; a close parallel would...
...through a bizarre, complicated rules that at times outgoing Majority Leader Bill Frist didn't seem to understand. "He's the most effective leader I know," said Arizona's John McCain, who has won Lott's support for his likely presidential bid. Minnesota's Norm Coleman called Lott "the master of the Senate...
...These were not really of a performance genre in origin,” says Spellberg of the cantatas. Clerambault, who is regarded as the master of the “French cantata,” may have written these with a living-room performance among friends in mind...
...much fun, and we got such a good response from the French community last year,” says Billings of last year’s HEMS concert of works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a well-known French baroque master who is, more or less, the musical “father” of Clerambault...
...took North Carolina native Don McCandless 13 months, several work crews and some $600,000 to restore his crumbling two-story colonial home in Granada to its former stately self. McCandless spared no effort or outlay to get the details of his planned retirement home perfect, including the master-bathroom Jacuzzi, the satellite TVs, and the regal 18-seat dinning room with its ornate hand-painted ceiling and decorative tiled floors...