Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although most of the humor in Punch and Judy Get Divorced is clean, this musical does have underlying sexual themes. In Part One, the two Pollys (the musical's term for unmarried Judys), played well by Pashalinski and Grate, titter about their sexual exploits in "The Polly Song." Part Two reaches a new level of sexual complexity, as Judy baby's husband runs away from her to be with another man. (Of her husband's male friends who used to come visit, she sings bitterly that they were "envying me and flirting with him" instead of the other way round...
...distant age of sensitive nineteenth-century guys, Franz Schubert joined the bandwagon of paesan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and fellow German Romantics, over-analyzing every passing emotion and fluttering of the heart. Here in the twenty-song cycle of Die Schone Mullerin (The Fair Maiden of the Mill), Schubert indulges his delicate sensibilities with harmonically textured compositions set to the often silly poetry of Wilhelm Muller. Schubert wrote more than 600 of these "lieder" (songs), elevating it to a major musical art form...
...first song, "Das Wandern," in the sturdy key of G major, gave Nomura the opportunity to impressus with his artistry and musicality, as the lyrics describe the unrequired lover's dramatically changing emotional states. Nomura has a tremendous stage presence, quite an expressive face, and a sensitive ear for embellishments, yet his sound was on the wan side. With the strong tonal shift to A minor and major in songs 5 through 10, Nomura missed the opportunity for dramatic foreshadowing of the impending tragedy of the fair maid's rejection. His gentle and under-supported treatment left the audience waiting...
...eleventh song, "Mein!", Nomura again achieved an elegant musical interpretation, belting out a powerful and untamed voice as the D major song crescendoes to the joyful exclamation that the "maid of the mill is mine!" Unfortunately such bravado and courage soon dissipated as Nomura resorted to stroking our ears with a very throaty voix mixte--not fully singing and lapsing into half tone--in the later B and E tonal musings on death and despair of "Die liebe farbe" and "Des Baches Wiegenlied...
Made up of two sisters and two friends, Plumtree might sound more like an after-school club than a band. But Plumtree is actually more successful at crafting a song and putting together an album than the majority of bands pigeonholed as "college rock." Their themes are not especially ambitious--many songs deal with teenage experiences and Hitchcock movies--but they are simple and universal. If the band sounds naive, they use naivete to their advantage; the simplicity of the lyrics accentuates their mastery of the music. The songs are necessarily ephemeral, yet it is their charm remains after...