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They perform on street corners in Amsterdam, subways in the south of France, Puerto Rican nightclubs, restaurants in Bermuda, and Harvard's Sanders Theater. With solo-quality voices, they sing swing tunes, jazz, blues Motown, spirituals...
From madrigals to Mozart to Motown to modern, the freshman coed singing group--which has already had 60 people try out for the 16 sports--is going head-to-head with the four other Harvard a cappella singing groups...
...cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises in concretist hysteria. Byrne cooked up a homicidal maniac who talked to himself in French. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est" was the refrain...
Detroit has the image it does precisely because of cheap shots found in articles such as Andy Doctoroff's "Joy in Motown" (9/20). The author labels residents of the metropolitan area "gruff, gritty and wholly without class." As a member of that community, I am insulted that Doctoroff chose those words to describe a socially, culturally and economically diverse population...
...Gaye's musical legacy was primarily stylistic; the Holland-Dozier-Holland team wrote many of the songs that were recorded at Motown, but each left their particular imprint on the songs. The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones would all acknowledge a debt to Gaye's subtle crooning style. And, of course. Gaye became a painstaking musician, playing most of the instruments on his later albums and earning a reputation as a studio perfectionist...