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...Verdi’s “Un Di Felice, Eterea” pop up in orchestral forms not too distant from their 19th-century originals, except, of course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic pop. The two singers’ distinctly diverging croons weave in and out of the sounds of Texas’ Tosca Strings, a superb juxtaposition of very different vocal stylings...
...what was required. He logged more than 600 hours of flying time and received glowing evaluations from his superiors. But in 1972, when he moved to Alabama, his points plunged. He earned only 41 points but was awarded the standard 15 "gratuitous" points from Texas Air Guard Major Rufus Martin for being a member in good standing--just enough to meet his obligation...
...Want One, Rufus Wainwright has composed an intricately wrought folly, in the very best sense of the word. It is a folly that towers over listener’s senses, one which both loses itself in its own madness and beauty. Wainwright’s ornate gestures are overtures to himself; courting his past, his influences and his loves—not the least of which is himself. This ode to himself is also a symptom of ecstatic and enviable madness—as he himself has said only half jokingly, “I think...
TEGAN AND SARA. The much-hyped Canadian duo bring their punkish brand of pop to the U.S. The twin sisters have played with the likes of Ryan Adams and Rufus Wainwright, among others. Wednesday, March 5 at 10:45 p.m. Tickets $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...copies the 1950 Ivory Joe Hunter ballad "I Almost Lost My Mind." Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" was, as they say, "inspired by" Gordon Jenkins's "Crescent City Blues"; in the late '60s, the courts ruled that a better word would be "swiped," and Cash had to pay up. Rufus Thomas's "Bear Cat (The Answer to Hound Dog)," whose composition was credited to one Sam Phillips, was so direct a copy of the Leiber-Stoller hit that Sun had two pay Lion Records two cents a copy. (All this and much more itemized in Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins...