Word: songfulness
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...past year. It’s amazing that the things Gilbert and Sullivan were making fun of 100 years ago are still relevant today.”To enhance this darker political message, Morris and music director David H. Miller ’11 decided to include a deleted song, “Fold Your Flapping Wings.” Infrequently performed, the song was cut early in the show’s initial run because reviewers found it too bleak for a light comic operetta. “In today’s cultural climate, a song being...
...Nominees for Record of the Year - which actually honors the best song - are Adele's "Chasing Pavements," Coldplay's "Viva La Vida," Leona Lewis' agonizing "Bleeding Love," M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" and Plant and Krauss's "Please Read the Letter." Nominees for Song of the Year - which actually honors songwriters - are "Viva La Vida," "Chasing Pavements," "American Boy" by Estelle, featuring Kanye West, "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz and "Love Songs" by Sara Bareilles...
...death on Dec. 2 in New York City at 77 from heart failure, coupled with that of South African singer Miriam Makeba three weeks ago, writes finis and fulfillment to 50 years of pursuing self-determination through song, of spreading the word through music. For a handful of black singers, their discography is an aural history, centuries deep, of abduction, enslavement, social and sexual abuse by the whites in power - and of the determination first to outlive the ignominy branded on the race, then to overcome it. In her commanding presence, charismatic delivery and determination to sing black truth...
...During the folk boom, each Odetta gig, in coffeehouse or concert hall, was a master class of work songs, folk songs, church songs, and an eloquent tutorial in raw American history. Identifiable from the first syllable, her voice fused the thrill of gospel, the techniques of art song - the wisdom that subtlety sometimes trumps volume - and the desperate wail of blues. If a line could be drawn from Bessie Smith to Janis Joplin, from Mahalia Jackson to Maria Callas, it would have to go through Odetta...
...restrained myself, remembering that a true Harvardian shows his elitist snobbery by pretending to hide it, and I quietly hummed the fight song to myself as I walked out into the brisk New York night...