Word: solosings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Kuumba Singers, opening for the Opportunes, decided to forego musical accompaniment and performed a dazzling array of gospel songs, jubilees and other numbers in the African-American tradition. Although the male vocals lacked strength, the female members provided some of the most stirring solos of the night. Most notable...
For a song which lasts only a few minutes, the sentiments Sondheim expresses through words and melody can be quite subtle. But with careful modulation and precise diction, the cabaret cast makes almost every song accessible. In many Harvard musicals the leads sing considerably better than the supporting cast. However...
Director Jennifer Giering has pleasingly combined disparate elements of Sondheim's works. Solos are balanced by ensembles, slow pieces by quick ones. Some songs are utterly disheartening; in "The Miller's Son," Doctoroff earthily proclaims her intent to sample as many men as possible before she's "stuck with just...
Leppard's lively performance of the "Haffner," with a scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by...
THE COMPLETE DEAN BENEDETTI RECORDINGS OF CHARLIE PARKER (Mosaic). Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker almost single-handedly changed the course of jazz history with his lightning-fingered improvisations, rhythmic subtleties and harmonic genius -- not to mention the fast-living, drug-shooting life-style that led to his death at 34 and...