Word: songfest
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GLASS: SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS (CBS). Linda Ronstadt and the Roches combine for a minimalist songfest...
...with a "this is life" complacency that offers no conclusions. It is not even art-for-art's sake, but mundanity for the sake of... who knows? Impressions of community life in the small mining town--a carnival-like communion service where wafers are taken to accordion music, a songfest saluting beer, a fishing picnic where one woman asks June "have you ever seen a sucker?"--take on, for all their sociological insights, a grotesquely pointless irreality. Why suddenly does a marching band parade down Main Street? The impersonal curiosity with which these studies in "naturalism" are offered conveys...
...including me--learn "Ten Thousand Men" in time for tomorrow's Dartmouth game, and write our Undergraduate Council representative to advocate for a new songfest at the swim test...
Shedding Vatican rhetoric, he spoke to the people in folksy Polish, just as he sang folk songs and ballads and made bad jokes. One night in Gniezno, after an open-air Mass for 100,000 young people, he began to lead them in a songfest of popular tunes, starting the huge crowd into favorite after favorite. The youngsters pressed him into encore after encore, and would not let him go until finally he picked up the microphone and half sang to them: "Your buses
They are making a joyful noise unto the Lord at Broadway's Lyceum Theater. But the revivalist songfest is only half the show. The other half is a bacchanalia, a swinging, stomping dance orgy...