Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baritone Olaf Baer joined the orchestra to sing seven Schubert songs. This is the 200th anniversary of Schubert's death, and everyone is programming his music. Cleveland tried to pick seven crowd-pleasers, but the lied, an intimate genre for solo voice and piano, does not always survive orchestration. The two songs that Brahms transcribed, "Memnon" and "An Schwager Kronos," not surprisingly, were very successful. But Kurt Gillman's "Du Bist Die Ruh" and Felix Mottl's "Standchen" invited exuberance and high volume where restraint and calm would have better served the lilting melodies...
...other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification he wishes to avoid: "a sing-along article out of selections from the Reader's Digest...
...record, as vocalists, the girls are harder to tell apart. Only Mel B., whose voice has a bit of grit, stands out; the rest have bright, slight voices, more light than heat, more Wilson Phillips than En Vogue. It's also disconcerting that the Girls' accents disappear when they sing, only to reappear during spoken-word segments, like Eliza Doolittle forgetting her manners. It's as if they are so closely copying American pop music that their own distinctive qualities are erased. In fact, most of the songs on Spice sound like '90s hip-hop updates of funk songs from...
...people rushed the stage and grabbed microphones to sing along, the staff of the Middle East couldn't restrain the youthful onslaught. An inexplicable intensity in Goldfinger's music triggered the young audience in a way it could not have done for any other age group. The uncontrollable sight was amazing. Goldfinger's greatest talent must have been their unbelievable method of manipulating the audience into a frenzy. Soon the crowd replaced the music as entertainment, but quickly turned as uninteresting as the band's songs...
Zimmerman never played a sport while an undergraduate, choosing instead to sing with the Harvard Glee Club and study German. But Zimmerman's grandson, Gary E. Zimmerman '99, said his grandfather was still an avid...