Word: sung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which popped singers and dancers. Yet as each device in this series of specials progressed, rather than covering any deficiency, it made one even more painfully aware of the repetitious nature of the show, its lack of directionality. Significantly, the largest hand of applause was for a blues number sung without frills in the second act, and yet the biggest laugh was reserved for when another special effect lowered from the roof stuck and had to be raised and lowered three times during black-outs. It was not so much the lack of talent of the singers which was upsetting...
...Influences from Euope, and the Northern Sung Revival--Jakes Cahill, Norton lecturer, Science Center...
...tour a tremendous addition to the group's musical experience, exposure and confidence. "F. John was conducting well, and we could feel ourselves improving with each concert." Gorjance said. "In Seattle we felt we could do no wrong. F. John was never one to tell the group they had sung well. At intermission at the University of Washington, he stood up and said, 'Gentlemen, tonight you are professionals...
...discuss the change. "Singing under F. John Adams was the most rewarding thing I did here," George S. Leone '79, who resigned from the group February 10, said. "He had a talent for bringing out the best in singers. We sang that music as well as it could be sung--and we could always tell when we did by John's response on stage," he added...
...each character comes before us and claims that she has been totalled in some very personal way we come up against the bottom line that the people in this show are not people but classes of people. Their crises are simply too individual (devastatingly so) to work, and when sung, they sound like trite attempts to seem meaningful...