Word: singed
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Choreographer Noémi Lafrance is about to take a big plunge. Her latest work, Agora II, is set in a cavernous empty pool in Brooklyn, N.Y., where more than 70 dancers, ages 8 to 60, will dance, sing, run, frolic, argue, embrace, cycle and hula-hoop. Spectators are expected to take part--they'll get cues during the performance via text messages to their cell phones. Although the show opens in a few days, Lafrance hasn't quite perfected her method of simultaneously transmitting messages to hundreds, possibly thousands, of audience members. But leaping over obstacles is her signature move...
...right? As luck would have it, the Common Casting session I chose to attend was the musicals’ casting. I clearly didn’t get that memo either—everyone was poring over sheet music as I looked around in fear... I don’t sing. I don’t sing my alma mater. I don’t sing the Star-Spangled Banner. I don’t even sing “Happy Birthday.” Fortunately, Harvard’s celebrated soap opera Ivory Tower also held auditions at Agassiz that...
...Wainwright’s strangely poetic and profoundly female way of expressing the myriad dimensions of love, music, and self-expression recalls Mary Chapin Carpenter and Carol King, though the album does has its grating moments. Wainwright is very talented, but I wouldn’t want her to sing me a nightly lullaby, and she can wax whiny. Still, modern music could use some more true artists. At the risk of sounding cliché, it’s easy to lament the dearth of songwriters who can create rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that are beautiful without being over-sampled...
Richard Wright, the Pink Floyd keyboardist who died of cancer at age 65, didn't play many solos or sing lead on anything you're likely to remember. He had just two moments to himself in the songwriting sun: the echo-heavy ballad Us and Them and the wordless The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd's sad epic Dark Side of the Moon. Shy, gentle and very private, Wright was proof that not every rock star feels the need to act like one. "In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick...
Just as Obama's critics question the substance behind the change message, Cameron has come under pressure to provide a clearer picture of what that change might entail. "The public wants a song to sing," says Bogdanor. "They want to know what sort of theme would be the main theme of the Conservative government...