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...many audience members, stifled in their attempts to sing along to "Tangled Up," served to demonstrate Dylan's penchant, especially for older songs, to never give the same vocal delivery as in the studio. Part of this, undoubtedly, is the deteriorating quality of Dylan's voice--his already-limited range has only diminished, and his singing, which was never beautiful in the usual sense, has become even more gravelly and ravaged-sounding. Nevertheless, both the new album and this performance showed how Dylan's singing, though sounding worse, is gaining a more powerful effect within the context his songs...
What's more, in this opera all the players can actually sing. The majority of the cast deliver their "patter songs"--the quick-paced, witty recitatives that are the trademark of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta--with careful articulation of the words. This allows viewers who aren't familiar with the play to follow the plot and understand the jokes. Yamakawa and Rupp are more conventionally operatic singers. Yamakawa's solos are lovely, and the music occasionally surprises with its beauty, as in the grief-colored "merry madrigal" near the beginning...
...couple of women lawyers I informally consulted misplaced for the moment their respect for due process; they agreed with Couric, drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing soprano to the A.C.L.U. Such was the ladies' thought...
...scam. "Do you like cats?" Julia asked us. "Nope," I typed back, nudging Zoe and Ella to watch as I tripped up the primitive program. "I like pizza." "Great," replied Julia. "I go crazy for pizza." Doh! Next, Ella, the bawdiest member of her first-grade class (she can sing virtually any Green Day song, four-letter-word for word), pecked out an unprintable suggestion. Julia didn't miss a beat: "You eat with that mouth...
...Maria" in Old English. One of the producers, Linda Feder, writes that Cornell "felt very strongly about wanting to do a traditional song, a classical piece, something that might turn young people onto classical music." Who would have thought the same guy who helped pioneer Seattle grunge could sing so magnificently...