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...Star Wars into hyperspace. Unlike movie music, Uematsu's supple, heartfelt tunes loop endlessly - until the user moves to a new scene. To stand up to repeated scrutiny, his work is suitably complex (he uses drums, oboes, strings and synthesizers), but the melodic core is strong (he has released solo piano versions of some songs). He doesn't find his field limiting: "If I had been composing only popular music in Japan, I would not have had the opportunity to hear from fans worldwide." Who needs music videos when you've got video games...
...Best? Harry Lillis Crosby (his nickname came from a newspaper comic, "The Bingville Bugle") took a while to go solo. He was half, then a third, of a Whiteman vocal group called The Rhythm Boys; the other two were Bing's Spokane, Wash., buddy Al Rinker and singer-songwriter Harry Barris ("Mississippi Mud," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"). A novelty act, mixing smooth and hot vocals, jaunty and racy lyrics (the chipper miscegenation song "When the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Get Together"), the Boys leavened the stately syncopation of Whiteman's repertoire. When Pops went to Hollywood...
...Crimson's one-run lead lasted shortly. Varde, the team's offensive leader, put the Big Red on the board with a solo blast to center field...
...functional, but truly great (or even involving) are absent. The characters don’t appear to have relationships with one another. And while fairy-tale characters don’t have to be too deeply etched, their actions need to be believable given their personalities, and their bittersweet solo numbers need to register with the provocativeness with which their lyrics are imbued...
...artist arrived in the city in 1940, just four years before his death. Upon his arrival he was offered his first solo exhibition at the famed Valentine Gallery in New York city...