Word: songfulness
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...control freaks, and hordes of minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra leader, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to follow us down and take a "class photo" in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The deputy minister of culture, Song Sok Hwan, stepped forward to greet Maazel - Monday's money shot for the cameramen among us - so as one they surged forward to surround the two men, leaving the spot where we all had been instructed to wait. We'd been on North Korean soil for all of 20 minutes...
...orchestra's last piece was, for the audience, the most poignant. It played Arirang, a traditional Korean folk anthem loved in both North and South. Koreans have sung versions of the song for 600 years, and it speaks to a longing in both countries to become a whole nation again. As the orchestra began to leave the stage, several members turned and waved goodbye, and many in the audience reciprocated. Bassist Jon Deak later said he was near tears. So too was a young Korean-American assistant concertmaster, Michelle Kim, a descendant of a North Korean family who lived...
...Glen Hansard, 37, lead singer of the Irish rock band The Frames, and Marketa Irglova, 19, a Czech singer and pianist, play struggling artists in director John Carney's romantic musical, which won the best song category for the ballad "Falling Slowly." The Oscar was the capstone of a long journey that started with a tiny movie that was made for $150,000 on the streets of Dublin and propelled by clever, slow-build marketing that relied on Hansard and Irglova's strengths as live performers...
When Third Eye Blind took the stage at Yardfest last spring, the rain-drenched hoard of Harvard students crooned along with the band’s hit, “Semi-Charmed Life.” “I want something else,” the song goes—and students chanted along with the band. But for some, these lyrics carry genuine sentiment: When it comes to the artists that the College Events Board (CEB) chooses to perform at Harvard each spring, many of us wish that we were watching something—or someone?...
...same thing, you may have just found yourself in the middle of a silent dance party. The Banditos Misteriosos, a group of Boston locals that organizes flash mob events, hosted Boston’s First Silent Dance Experiment in front of Faneuil Hall. The group wrote and recorded a song that directs the listener to perform certain motions—such as “Squat down, pose like ‘The Thinker,’ and freeze”—and rock out together. Following the style of a similar event in New York City last...