Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jazz Christmas: Windham Hill has the removal of soul down cold. A Jazz Christmas is essentially a bunch of Christmas carols played on jazz instruments by instrumentalists whose creativity is maxed out by the slightest deviation from 4/4. Don't buy it for your dad unless you wish to inspire an epileptic seizure by conjuring up piped-in office music from the pre-holiday rush. Better Jazz picks include Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas and Wynton Marsalis in A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert...
...Harvard Stage"), and the spicy Havana dance scene both awes the audience members and heats up their blood. On the other end of the spectrum, the missionary leader Sarah Brown, played by Jaclyn Huberman, brings tears to the audience's eyes with her sincere devotion to the "Save a Soul" Mission as well as with her absolutely angelic voice. She is one of the few non-comical characters in the show yet her open-hearted sweetness, determination and love for the gambling Sky help her triumph over a mass of clumsy criminals and silly showgirls...
...with the cast was marvelous as well. The orchestra seemed a little too soft during the overture but was soon found to blend in perfectly with the singers' voices, accompanying them well without overshadowing them. The lighting, from the brilliantly-lit Broadway to the dim "Save A Soul" Mission to the smoky Cuban restaurant, created a myriad of moods that matched each scene perfectly. The sets, the backdrops and especially the costumes also added immensely to the feel of the production--the guys' tastefully tacky plaid jackets and mismatched outfits and the dolls' semi-trashy stage costumes and swirly dresses...
...next presentation, by Byllye Avery of the National Black Women's Health Project, infused the discussion with "soul," in the words of fellow panelist Swanne Hunt, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Weld has lots of friends in the Clinton administration," Steele said. "I think the fundamental reason he testified is that there is a battle for the soul of the Republican Party going on here...