Word: melodye
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The billboard outside the Broadway Theatre reads, A R RAHMAN'S BOMBAY DREAMS. That name may mean little to musical-theater devotees, but in the rest of the world it's golden. Like Gershwin or Lennon-McCartney, the name stands for melody, quality, energy, instant hummability--a sound both personal...
Mariachi is the traditional music of Mexico, but it is much, much more than what you hear at a random visit to Border Café. It is a 100 year-old musical and cultural tradition that has spread around Latin America and the world—there are even Mariachis...
As the bass beat of the walk-walk-walk-to-the-rhythm melody slinked throughout the crowd, revolving lights sparred with the continually transforming graphics on the video screen in eclectic tandem. An intoxicating dose of adrenaline and energy pulsed back and forth between the audience and the impossibly gorgeous...
Fans of Indian movies need no introduction to Rahman. Like Gershwin, Puccini or Lennon-McCartney, the name stands for melody, quality, energy, instant hummability?a sound both personal and universal, devouring older forms and transforming them into something gorgeously new.
Rahman's lyrical prodigality was evident from the score for his first film: Mani Ratnam's Roja, the tale of a woman whose lover is kidnapped by terrorists. Through this grim political parable, Rahman laced some spectacular melodies that not only serve the drama, they create their own?as in...