Word: melodye
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Now the big genre challenge: musicals. The very form is antique. Young filmgoers often have to be told why the people in these movies are suddenly singing instead of speaking. And nothing dates faster than musical styles. The great American songbook of Gershwin and Porter and Rodgers standards can sound...
We'll say this once, then run for cover: Abba was not just the top-selling group of the '70s; Andersson and Ulvaeus created the smartest, most buoyant body of work from any pop group since the Beatles. Their gaudy gear, with the spangles and spandex, made them easy to...
And the actor, who died in January at 28 of an accidental prescription-drug overdose, is magnificent. Echoing the sly psychopathy and scary singsong voice of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Ledger!), Ledger carries in him the deranged threat of a punk star like Sid Vicious...
One thing I have come to love about New York is the incredible diversity you can witness in a relatively small space. Take, for example Bryant Park, the site of my lunch break last Friday. I was sitting at a green metal table with two of my fellow interns, Rachel...
In 1836, the Reverend Samuel Gilman class of 1811 had written his most famous hymn in honor of his alma mater’s 200th birthday. “Fair Harvard” would eventually become the melody sung at commencement and the centerpiece of a large and impressive collection...