Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album, Little Plastic Castle, starts off with a jolt. We've come to expect shocks from DiFranco--she's a rock maverick, a singer who owns her own label (Righteous Babe Records of Buffalo, New York), who refuses to sign to a major record company and who performs often raucous punk-folk songs about music-industry greed, abortion and her own bisexuality. DiFranco is so fiercely protective of her work that she was miffed when a recent cover of one of her songs, 32 Flavors, by newcomer Alana Davis added a few lyrics (Davis' rendition, by the way, is terrific...
With nearly, 2,500 raucous fans in attendance,Yale began the game at a torrid pace, torching thenets and holding a struggling Crimson squad at baythroughout the first half. When the dust settled,the Crimson found themselves in anall-too-familiar position, down 20-34 at half,looking to regroup...
Writing mostly for large ensemble, Roberts has an almost cinematic gift for juxtaposition. To those familiar with similar works by Marsalis, passages of New Orleans polyphony and Ellingtonian coloration will not be unexpected; surprises include raucous group improvisations that flirt with free jazz cacophony. But where Marsalis' music sometimes suffers from overthinking--forced passes from an all-pro quarterback--Blues rarely falters in its grooves. Thanks are due to irresistible rhythm sections, some compelling young soloists, and Roberts' compositional wit as he muscles his group through changes in rhythm and genre. This is a heady album, but it doesn...
...Associate Conductor John Finney leads H&H's marvelous chorus and period orchestra. Despite the press of weekend afternoons during the holiday season, Sunday's matinee performance was packed, with not an empty seat visible. The audience was richly rewarded for their time and responded with a thunderous, almost raucous standing ovation after the final "Amen" at the end of Part III, summoning the soloists and conductor back not once but thrice to express their appreciation...
...without wearing thin: expectations grow higher and higher, we're the rats at the cocaine drop bottle with the tap key, etc. Scream 2 can't go much beyond its first virtuoso scene, in which a woman is stabbed by a movie's fan(atic) in a movie theater raucous over the violence on the screen. We ourselves in the theater feel real fear that the same could happen...