Word: singes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whitney Houston can sing, and not just too. Beneath the Tiffany wrapping lie the supplest pipes in pop music. Her precocity and virtuosity, her three-octave range and lyrical authority, are, at 23, scary. She can switch moods without stripping emotional gears, segueing from a raunchy growl to an angelic trill in a single line -- no sweat. She coaxes the back-street torch song Saving All My Love for You until the song's Other Woman sounds like a little girl lost in faded rapture. She stands up to the string section in that anthem of enlightened egotism, Greatest Love...
...came by such feelings practically from the cradle. When Andres was a child, his uncle would strum an imaginary guitar and sing: "To play the guitar/ You need no 'science'/ Only a strong arm/ And perseverance." Segovia took this instruction to heart; aside from a few lessons from a strolling flamenco player, he was self-taught. His tastes, though, were sophisticated: Spanish music by Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, baroque music by Bach and Purcell and works by such contemporaries as Benjamin Britten and Heitor Villa- Lobos, many of which were written especially...
...confused, especially about why the doctor was fired. But after long rehersals with the director, McCrady could act the part without really understanding it. A few months later his school was set to perform the Mikado. But McCrady sat that one out: "It sounded Japanese, and I couldn't sing and didn't want...
...audience and decided I never wanted to miss another." McCrady has hardly missed a beat since then. Ironically, despite his reluctance to sing in seventh grade, the Adams House senior has become best known for his singing roles in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
...decade makes: last September, his towering presence energized a Figaro in San Francisco; next season he is tapped for Faust and Figaro in Chicago. Even the Met has come around. This season audiences hailed his performances as Giorgio in Bellini's I Puritani and Escamillo in Carmen; he will sing both the Don and Leporello...