Word: singings
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...secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with LPs, then cassettes and now CDs. The formats change; the songs and feelings don't. Some time in the next few days, you'll hear Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas," and shed a tear or grit your teeth...
...title suggests the London Underground and, surely, its 2005 terror bombings) throbs with anxiety, foreboding and half-suppressed violence. Heaney's language is a symphony of sounds, surprises and look-'em-up words, like his barber's "cold smooth creeping steel and snicking scissors." You'll want to sing his lines out loud - until you realize how deadly serious the post-9/11 Heaney can be. "Anything can happen," he warns, "the tallest towers/ Be overturned, those in high places daunted,/ Those overlooked regarded." The world has changed, he is saying, and those cold, smooth, snicking scissors are creeping toward...
...have never been stronger. The instrumentation on their fourth album keeps a toe in country, yet the songs are the best kind of pop--smart, instantly memorable and fussed over until they sound effortless. Not Ready to Make Nice broadcasts their grievances, but Bitter End and So Hard (a sing-along about infertility) prove that complicated songwriting for the masses still flourishes...
...Cradle Hymn” by Daniel R. Pinkham ’44. “It is a gentle and lilting setting, featuring Pinkham’s signature harmonic language, that builds to a rousing climax,” says Jones. The services are fully participatory, with audience members singing all of the hymns, and the choir also hopes to include the congregation in its tradition of giving to charity. After services, choir members will accept donations for Casa Nueva Vida in Jamaica Plain. “This year the choir voted on children, domestic violence, and education...
...America” by The Hold Steady—Being only 16, I have never set foot in an establishment that serves alcohol and don’t really understand this concept of “bar rock.” The lead singer doesn’t even sing in this band, he just speaks the lyrics. : / 3. “The Life Pursuit” by Belle and Sebastian—I just thought they were a fortuitously named singer-songwriter duo. Whatevs. 4. “Silent Shout” by The Knife—They?...