Word: songfulness
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...Hargis worked with six members of the cast on using more Baroque performance practices in their interpretations of the music, helping the character of Sicle (Lisa A. Lynch), on using her gestures more effectively. Because Sicle’s piece is a combination of an aria (a more melodic song) and recitative (a sung narrative) it requires more sudden changes in gestures and facial expressions. Hargis also worked with the character of Erisbe (Felicia Plunkett) on her two duets: one with the title character, Ormindo (Jay Smith) and the other featuring Erisbe’s husband, Amida (James B. Onstad...
...warn us of a world full of melting icecaps and approaching apocalypse. (There may also be a love story somewhere in the lyrics.) Though the world may be ending, Beck’s constant inventiveness and bizarreness certainly are not. To go along with the 60s feel of the song, the video sees lots of long, hippie hair, multi-colored sunglasses, and dozens of close-up shots of Beck’s mouth and eyes. As if that weren’t enough (and who could possibly want more than a candid of Beck’s mouth?), there...
...performer, especially in light of his age—he’s in his 60s—and his history of ear injuries, is nothing short of astonishing. Kottke’s playing is like storytelling. Even with the limitations of the six-string guitar, every song, however wordless, has a sort of narrative that unfolds in its own sonic atmosphere. The complexities of both, to the untrained observer, would hardly seem possible coming from one man. His hands seem fixed, while the tips of his fingers rush across the frets and strings, creating a polyphony of rhythm...
...Stranger’s Almanac.” But there are still others that offer sounds entirely new to Adams’ catalog. Take the bouncy pop-rock tracks “Fix It” and “Evergreen.” While these songs still have the folksy, raspy-voiced ballad feel that Adams effortlessly maintains, they tend to focus more on the hook and groove. “Evergreen” is a happy tune with snappy acoustic phrases and a mellow that aren’t a far cry from (I hate...
Twice, residents interrupted other speakers to voice their opinions. Some sang a parody of the song “She’ll be Coming ’Round the Mountain” that accused the meeting’s organizers of deliberately scheduling the meeting at an inconvenient place and time to decrease senior turnout...