Word: songfulness
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Eliot’s Students Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) group {SEE CORRECTION BELOW} met last night, focusing on a few infamous words in the song “Fuck Harvard 2006” that was released shortly before Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game: “I will rape you repeatedly and stain your linens crimson...
...track has spread rapidly via a link on IvyGateBlog.com, where the song has been the subject of over 100 user comments...
...tone of pastiche is even more obvious in the songs. Gould's farewell number, "Drift Away," recalls the elegiac mood of "Sail Away," the Noel Coward standard. "Will You?", the pretty ballad that closes the first act, takes its tonic cue from the 1936 Brown and Freed "Would You" that was introduced in San Francisco and reprised in Singin' in the Rain. The first few bars, and the whole mood, of Little Edie's lament "Daddy's Girl," are a direct lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary...
...Worship), is not particularly profound--the title pretty much sums it up--but it's heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft this song in a way that the person who's tone-deaf and can't clap on two and four can sing it?" says the songwriter. "I hope that when someone hears a CD of mine, they pick up their guitar and say, 'O.K., I can do that.'" Which...
...modern life seemed to depend heavily on his choice of narratives. Though his choices for the first and second cantatas were not ideal, he was spot on for the last two pieces. In those cantatas, Spellberg’s selections were matched by a flawless integration of dance, song, and music.Though the performance got off to a shaky start, narrative and performers alike found their ground as the first half of the show progressed. Overall, “Métamorphoses” proved to be accessible and entertaining, an impressive feat for such difficult subject matter...