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...indeed the world's sole superpower. In the wake of Fox's American Idol (which not only dominates the ratings but also put last week's No. 1 single and album on the charts), more than a dozen current or upcoming talent shows offer Americans the chance to sing, dance, joke or pose their way to stardom. We have USA network's Nashville Star (country music), CBS's Star Search (singing, comedy, dancing), ABC's All-American Girl (beauty, brains and athletics), even Animal Planet's Pet Star (self-explanatory). This week VH1 launches Born to Diva...
...book has as little point as they do. You feel kept at an arm's length either by its accuracy or its incompetence (depending on how cynical you are). Completely opposite to this, "Summer Job" pulls you in to sit around its campfire of humane values and sing songs with its delightful, full characters. Paul describes a "camp spirit" which also applies to the experience of reading the book: "There you are, in the middle of nowhere, with a group of people you like, and suddenly you lift off. Without noticing it, you're in a bubble. You become...
This weekend, the Fellows will sing a number of madrigals in both English and Italian, taken from the Fellows’s usual repertoire. The canticles of Ned Rorem, a composer who has set much poetry and literature to music, will round out the performance...
...late May and early June, the Choral Fellows will sing at the Spoleto festival in Charleston for their annual tour. Their program then will include these pieces by Rorem...
...bright rehearsal room somewhere in the backstage labyrinth of London's Royal National Theatre, more than 30 men and women - soaring sopranos, firm baritones - are singing what sounds like a solemn Mass - Bach, perhaps. Except the words don't fit. They abruptly launch into an eyebrow-raising staccato fugue - melodically intertwining the phrases "Chick with a dick," "My Mom used to be my Dad, snip, snip," and "I used to be a lap-dancing pre-operative transsexual" - and it becomes evident that possibly this is not Bach. Instead, it is British theater's most talked-about new project: Jerry Springer...