Word: singeing
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...what of Gorecki's other music? Is he just a one-tune wonder, or does he have more songs to sing? Two new CDs provide the answer. Koch Schwann has issued Symphony No. 1, "1959"; Choros I, a major work for string orchestra from 1964; and the brief Three Pieces in the Old Style (1963) for strings. From Elektra Nonesuch come two recent string quartets, Already It Is Dusk (No. 1) and Quasi una Fantasia (No. 2). The result is a fuller, rounder picture of an uncompromising modernist who just may be the Bruckner...
...kids over at the house, and they're always welcome. They energize me -- just being around them." When he welcomed handicapped kids to the ranch, he was no condescending Lord Bountiful looking for a tax write-off; he was their peer, and they were friends he could play with, sing to -- in the purest sense of the word, love...
...lovely hardware: platinum albums and a shelfful of Grammys. He has a model wife (Christie Brinkley) and a daughter (Alexa, 7) worth crooning to sleep. Joel also has his share of bitter lawsuits, including one against his former father-in-law. So maybe he's got a right to sing some blues. He surely had the itch to write a song cycle; he is, after all, the last, finest heir to the songwriter tradition of soulful...
Joel's gem is the sleepytime title tune. Its consonant-poppin' lyric charts a land where pop merges with gospel, black embraces white, dread is absolved by belief -- in God, in dreams, in the rolling sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...
Soon, he starts to sing the constant refrain of the song, "Eileen, won't you lean on me." As usual, his throatiness is inexplicably high-pitched and evokes visions of a man cringing in pain. But Richards articulates clearly (it works, really) and his sentimental lyrics become surprisingly charming...