Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SYNCHRONIZED The solo and duet events, held since 1984, have been dropped in favor of a team event for women. Canadians or Americans finished one-two in all previous competitions, and that won't change...
Judge Frollo, spoken and sung by Tony Jay--a classically-trained stage actor--steals the show as Disney's greatest villain since Snow White's wicked Queen herself. Frollo's solo "Hellfire" combines the best of the score of Alan Menken (music man for all five of Disney's last animated features) with riveting, spooky animation...
This Esmeralda is less a medieval Gypsy than a willful California teen with Joan of Arc aspirations; imagine a Loire Valley Girl, a Militia Silverstone. Hurling invective at Frollo, flirting with the hunky, John Smith-like Captain Phoebus (Kevin Kline) and singing the film's most poignant solo, about a Gypsy holocaust ("God help the outcasts, or nobody will"), she emerges as the latest in Disney's line of feminist freedom fighters--a Pocahontas with Romany eyes...
...patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with so many growl tones, glissandos, squeaking harmonics and feathery flutter-tonguings that it begins to seem his tenor sax can do everything but fetch the morning paper...
...days I was reading about the after-math of the symphony's demise, I was also listening to a CD I had just bought: Bach's six solo cello suites. A friend had recommended them, and as I listened I thought that there was little better than this on earth. I have had similar feelings about many of the pieces I was exposed to in Robert Levin's Core course, Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel." From Schubert's light Trout Quintet to Beethoven's brooding late string quartets, all nine pieces I was required...