Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilbur's production mixes merriment and zaniness with some fine acting. It opens with lively caroling (as befits the title). Yuletide favorites pepper the performance, accompanied by a (loud) solo organ. Immediately a few narrators quote Dickens's text verbatim; adapter/director Larry Carpenter has no intention of inflating this into anything but a story...
...opened the way for Bartoli, her reputation has grown worldwide because of her five solo CDs -- mostly of Rossini and Mozart but also including Vivaldi and Scarlatti. Her just-released CD, If You Love Me, a group of giddy 18th century Italian songs, now tops the classical charts. Not until 1994 and after will her opera career come to full fruition, given the enormous lead time that productions now require...
...draw shoppers in, Wali has Star Trek and Star War collectibles showcased in the outside display window. These figures are investments as well as playthings--one large model of Han Solo sells...
...revelations of Morton's book and the Dianagate tape have done nothing to diminish her enormous public appeal. Some recent polls rank her as the family's most popular member. No wonder then that she is not at all daunted by a solo life if that is to be her fate. "After all," says broadcaster and veteran royal biographer Penny Junor, "she's been orchestrating events." Her confidence is such that on her Paris trip, though she has only patchy, schoolgirl French, she did not hesitate to use it -- no mean attainment, since the French have a way of intimidating...
...most visionary of the new wave is Sealhenry Samuel, a.k.a. Seal. The London native, whose parents are Brazilian and Nigerian, took a year-long solo spiritual journey through Nepal, India and Thailand before returning to London on a tail wind of inspiration. Last year Seal, 29, released a namesake album intermingling soul, rock and blues hooks into a strikingly fresh hybrid. He also introduced a novel instrument in soul circles: a solo acoustic guitar, which vividly sets off his yearning, crackling voice. With its shifting rhythms and varied sonic textures, Seal shows that soul can accommodate unorthodox structures...