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Over the coming months, Paretzky says she was pleasantly surprised to find that her friends encouraged her singing—they seemed to think she had promise. During her second year in Mizmor Shir, she even won an award for best soloist at the 2001 International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella...
Adams, who played clarinet, performed as a soloist under Yannatos’ direction at several concerts—including a 1967 performance at Carnegie Hall, where Adams is now composer-in-residence. Adams also conducted the Bach Society Orchestra from 1967-68, as well as a Leverett House Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro...
...Believe," excerpted on the recent NBC special "Elvis Lives," proves that his inside the bloated body was the soul of a gospel-tinged Caruso. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of "It's Now or Never," the final detonation of pain and taunt in "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", the choir-soloist power of the hymn "He Touched Me" - his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus - these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas instead of comfortably occupying a niche, as almost every...
...album is divided between soulful a cappella spirituals and energetic gospel songs backed by the talented Kuumband. The choir is irrepressibly exuberant on the opening song, “Psalm 1,” while on “Psalm 121,” the soloist attains a feverish pitch that the choir seems to soothe. Kuumba also shows off its vocal range technical precision in close harmony in the mournful “Nobody’s Fault But Mine...
Kuumba’s greatest strength is the energy, honesty and passion of its performances and this recording amply demonstrate this flare. Songs like “Get Your House” highlight the interplay between soloist and choir, as the soloist leads with an ornamented phrase (“Get your house in order!”) and the choir responds with a potent punch (“Do it today!”) One song opens with W.E.B. Du Bois’ Class of 1890 description of the “sorrow songs,” and builds...