Word: songfulness
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...real celebrity here today.” A band of tubas—dubbed “Udderly Tuba” for the occasion—played The Beatles’ “When I’m 64” and the children’s song “Old McDonald” while leading Cox, the cow, and followers to the Divinity School, where Eck and William Martin, a Rice University religion professor, both gave speeches. The evening milking followed. The celebration, said Eck, was “in keeping with the inventive and delightful...
According to Harvard researcher Antoniu L. Fantana, who taught Barth last year in his tutorial on bird song, only a few animal species have the ability to listen to sounds and replicate them, including songbirds, whales, bats, and humans...
...guitar perfectly, as the electric guitar pronounces the off-beats. A piano nonchalantly doodles a jazz riff. On top of all this is a string quartet that serves to double the melody and also support it with fugal harmonies. All of these elements come together and create a balanced song, at once energetic and easy on the ears. The choice of “Heartbeat Radio” as the title track seems an appropriate one. The satisfyingly intricate sound of this first single is one that pervades the album. Even low-key songs like “I Guess...
...turn in our study cards on time today, can we request a song...
...even got a funny, pudgy friend who won’t stop coming over (James McNew, faithful bassist of 17 years). Entering the swells of middle age, Hoboken, N.J.’s finest trio finds itself being pulled in disparate directions. “Popular Songs,” like Yo La Tengo’s last album—the colorful, horn-filled 2006 pastiche “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass”—touches on an array of different genres and styles. The middling songs...