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Young says that members of the senior chorus are in their 50s and 60s so it is important to teach young people the songs of the Armenian Church. The children sing classic European music as well...
...case you were wondering, here's as vivid a definition of saloon songs as you're likely to find: "[They're] the ones the fellows sing in a dimly lighted club at about 2 o'clock in the morning, when everybody's gassed. Numbsville...
...everyone is interested in the blisters and bruises that we athletes love so dearly. So why not use Radcliffe's other resources, such as the Bunting Institute, Schlesinger Library and externships, to develop as scholars and individuals? Use the physical space of Radcliffe. Do cartwheels in the Yard. Sing and dance in Agassiz theater...
...adjust their voices, change their clothes and put on masks to convey the wide variety of personalities and places featured in the musical. All of this frantic shifting of attitude and environment makes the show's final number, in which the cast members face the audience as themselves and sing about finding a new song, all the more powerful. Its sweet, hopeful simplicity is an eloquent conclusion that suggest the humanity lying beneath all of the show's hectic modern concerns...
Imported sects like the Unification Church have seen an opening there. Homegrown groups have also sprung up. One surrounds a would-be messiah named Vissarion. With his flowing dark hair, wispy beard and a sing-song voice full of aphorisms, he has managed to attract about 5,000 followers to his City of the Sun. Naturally it's in Siberia, near the isolated town of Minusinsk. According to reports in the Russian press, Vissarion is a former traffic cop who was fired for drinking. In his public appearances, he speaks of "the coming end" and instructs believers that suicide...