Word: singeing
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...faults--Schnackenberg tends to run on in a poetic stream of consciousness, sometimes at the expense of coherence. It's easy to get lost in the flow of language. The attractive thing about this book is that getting lost is not such a bad thing--Schnackenberg's words sing with a lyric beauty independent of underlying meaning...
Another listener was the late Herbert von Karajan, who asked her to sing some Bach at the Salzburg Easter Festival. The conductor died before the performances, but she treasures the experience of rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...
...insists. "The test is after the concert: Is the voice still fresh so that you could go on and on?" She certainly passed the test with Levine. When she auditioned for him, he let the session run on and on. He was having that much fun listening to her sing...
...really informal meeting and we said that we liked to form our own group," said Eric H. Liu '96. "One of our aims was to sing for us--the Garden Street people...
...make Little Shop such a success. In their dynamic "Skid Row" number in the first act the trio perfectly evokes the ambience of the downtown slum where Little Shop takes place. "Downtown, that's your home address, downtown, where your life's a mess, down on skid row..." they sing while leading a group of bums in a dance number straight out of the Apollo...