Word: melodicism
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The British rock band Radiohead's futuristic new album OK Computer (Capitol) is a bit like the troubled Russian space station Mir--it's a cool place to visit, but if you stay too long, things could start breaking down. The album's sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic...
The recorded Mountain Goats sound like the boyfriend that pushed you to screen your phone calls. The lyrics ooze of home-taped messages to be delivered to your door in the hopes that you would ask him back. With his child-like voice delivering strains in a slightly whiny tenor...
Journeyers will be "house" guests of craftswoman Celita Scarborough-Donaghey, spending nights in decorative teepees (each sleeps 10). They will eat native food like Apache posole (hominy and meat), learn craftmaking and native dances, listen to ancestral tales told by native storytellers and take a medicinal-herb walk. The family...
Trotting onto the stage wearing dark pants and a white, cossack-style shirt with frilly cuffs, Helfgott, who still takes a daily mix of antipsychotic drugs, smiled giddily as applause washed over him, then launched into a formidable program of Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt and Beethoven. He hummed, groaned and jabbered...
Hoffmann's second failure at love is with the delicate, aria-singing, harpsichord-playing Antonia (Sarita Cannon), the damsel with a voice as clear and melodic as that of her dead mother, whose enormous portrait looms in the family's salon. The only problem is that Antonia's gift is...