Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the playroom comes the chatter of happy voices. Little figures are dancing to rock music, while off in one corner a paddle-ball game goes on. A demure little blonde quietly recites nursery rhymes. Other little ones busily tidy up, sing and pour tea. None of the active figures is human; all are toys. Around them, real children stand silently, watching their dolls perform...
Like Jesus Christ--Superstar, Godspell avoids the Resurrection. "Long live God," the cast sings as they carry off Christ's dead body rather as if he were Hamlet or perhaps Thomas a Becket. Consequently, this musical never has to come to terms with itself. Who or what is this Christ we have before us? Well, let's just say he sure could tell a mean parable. And, when it came to a group sing, he sure could get it together...
...Dory's first album. (Also in that album is a bitter song dedicated to Mia: "Beware of young girls/who come to the door/wistful and pale/of twenty and four . . .") Langan, a frustrated clarinetist, determined early that Dory would be a show-business success. He sent her out to sing in saloons at the age of eleven. Later he sent her to New York, where she dutifully enrolled in drama school...
...about musicianship, vocal technique and music history as well. The tenor said. "In the Bach Motet, John continually points out the musical symbolizations of the text. I had always known that Baroque, music did that, but I tended not to notice it as much as I do now. I sing much more intelligently now." The soprano agreed: "It's difficult to mediate between concentrating on the small, glorious moment and the macrostructure of a piece of music. John points out through his conducting that the small moments are the integral parts of the whole work. I've learned to look...
...member added. "It isn't always that serious either, you know. A while ago, we were singing a Sermisy chanson which begins Au joly boys, en Tombre d'ung soucy,' and John pointed out that the whole phrase moved toward Tombre and its very nasal French vowel. Well, nobody was singing it correctly. So finally he said. 'When you sing Tombre, see nothing but a tremendous nose: Tombre,' which was really a good way of explaining to a vocalist that French vowels should vibrate in the nose and mask of the face when he or she sings...