Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After 19 years, Lehrer is slightly leery of going solo: "There's always been one of us to protect the other one from dumb ideas." While there may be wisdom in this Solomonic separation, in TV news one less face to trust is an enormous loss...
...best song on the CD is 25, a track that seems like the nursery-rhyme version of a troubled young woman's diary. "When I was five/ I took a dive," Gordon sings. "When I was 10/ I walked again." The song closes with a thunderous guitar solo that evokes the frustration and jubilation of being in one's 20s -- sort of like MTV's The Real World packed into a couple dozen screeching notes. It's moments like the one at the end of 25 that separate Veruca Salt from bands that deserve the squirrel treatment. The members allow...
...suite's Sarabande brought forth the orchestra's best feature: identically and tastefully fashioned articulations in shared phrases. Only a few times could one discern differences between bow attacks in the sections; these could well have been residual from the players' solo careers...
...staid and screne qualities reminiscent of Corelli's Concerti Grossi. Unfortunately, the viola section began to lose their intonation as they brought forth the Air's long lines. The quickly paced Rigaudon brought the group back into synch, though, and allowed Yoo to show off his own virtuosity as solo violinist...
...which were discussed by Yoo in another short talk. The first movement accomplishes constant building and ebbing by gradually increasing the interaction of the two orchestras. Here, Yoo's leadership became a little more refined. This change was especially appropriate for the second movement, in which the three solo instruments trade off as accompanists to each other. The strings' playing was fluid and measured, but the solo instruments appeared to miss a few entrances...