Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture this: A male student, acting on the same principle, clams the right to join the Radcliffe Pitches. Of course, he cannot sing the A above middle C, so he says he will feel oppressed unless they lower the songs a few octaves or else only sing pieces for mixed chorus...
...first song on the four-track disc, "Do You Love Me Now," propels itself with a simple throbbing bass line, weird guitars and sweet vocals. It resembles Pod's catchy "Hellbound" and "Fortunately Gone," but adds more rough stuff to the sing-song melodies and snappy beats...
This is all very colorful. And quite beside the point. Mozart has returned. This age is quite consumed with Wolfgang Amadeus' table manners and toilet practices. But the point is the music. Can he still compose? Do the gods still sing...
There are, of course, other ways of coming back. The crew of the starship Enterprise came back to make millions at the box office, but at the price of self-parody. Crosby, Stills and Nash came back, but at the price of cacophony. They could no longer sing harmony...
...untainted by nostalgia, but from the opening song, Time After Time, through the last, I'll Be Seeing You, there is a continual undercurrent of melancholy, a gentle mood of loss and time remembered. Not better times, necessarily, and not better music, but a time when a singer could sing from a certain elegance of the heart. That may be what whole generations heard in Sinatra and what so many singers learned from him. And that's what Tony Bennett has done here: said thanks, brilliantly...