Word: soloed
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Former Bach Society Orchestra musical director, Aram Demirjian ’08, conducted the performance with John D. Kapusta ’09 singing the baritone solo...
...same beautiful woman, Erisbe (who is, of course, unavailable, having married an ancient, wealthy and powerful monarch). The young queen and her two suitors are backed by a cast that includes three Egyptian fortune-tellers, a page, a lady-in-waiting, and a king, all of whom sing lengthy solo arias and pose and mime animatedly. This is meant to be very much in tune with the Baroque style, which suggests the way deep emotion arises out of formal gesture. Performance in the very idiosyncratic vein of “Baroque” was in fact the subject...
...Jingling, jangling, paced by drumstick clacks, it manages to seem almost upbeat despite its pessimistic lyrics. Apparently, J. Smith looks forward to the next world: Healy breaks off about singing “of the last words” to cede the spotlight to an unusual Andy Dunlop guitar solo. In “J. Smith”—the most experimental cut on the album—the protagonist tries to off himself. Beginning with 20 seconds of warring barebone guitar riffs, the song seems to settle into the traditional Travis formula of Healy?...
...self-titled route isn’t so bad.Frontman Benjamin M. Kultgen ’08 describes The Ben Kultgen Band as “halfway in between Coldplay and John Mayer.” For Kultgen, the highlight of Friday’s show was playing a solo with his guitar behind his head while wearing eighties clothing. And then there was the winning part, which Kultgen said he hopes will give his band more exposure.Kultgen said after the band’s formation last year that he had to weigh his divided devotion to academics and the band...
...sharper and sharper.” “She sells out Passim pretty easily,” he said, describing Pauley as a folk-based act with a rock sensibility. “She can pull it off with or without a band. When she’s solo, it’s just as powerful...