Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they rely on existing news footage), since the series does not aim for Hard Copy-esque lambasting. If anything, Biography is uncritical to a fault. An episode on Carl Sagan had movie producer Lynda Obst rhapsodizing about the astronomer's romance with her friend Annie Druyan. The sing-songy-voiced narrator seemed just as enchanted with the story, even though the reality was far from a fairy tale: Sagan was married and a father when he took up with Druyan, who would become his third wife...
...rich, warm sound and stunning musicality. Director Jameson Marvin deserves much acclaim for his skill at directing Renaissance music, and for achieving the delicate blend of voice parts that marks this group. Especially in Psalm 112 (IV), it was delightful to hear how such a large choir could sing with such precision and in such a light and dancing style. The soprano section sounded particularly beautiful as a foil to the ancient instruments. Verse five of the Magnificat featured a marvelous interplay of male and female voice echoing one another. The whole of the Magnificat was a shout of triumph...
...remain in Section 12 of the Bright Center have lost most of their originality already. The Harvard band continues to sing a hopelessly clueless tune far too often. Alumni seemed to be scared away from the arena by the current state of the on-ice product...
...voice changes about every six months," says Wilbur. "By the time you finish one album, she's different again. Now the maturity is coming into it. Where she used to be this kid who could sing real high, now she can cover from the bottom...
...part of the quail's brain that I can transfer into a chicken that makes the chicken move its head like a quail when it's crowing like a chicken," said Evan Balaban, the experimental neurobiologist who performed the study. In another experiment, Balaban made a chicken sing like a quail by implanting into a fetal chicken brain cells which control quail sound patterns. The altered birds, Balaban said, remained chicken-like in most respects and displayed behavioral characteristics which were "well organized." Might it be possible to make humans behave like other animals? Not likely, said Balaban, since...