Word: sung
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...mushed together in a string of undistinguished melodies and choruses. For example, the songs "Close" and "No Time for Waiting" are both extremely reminiscent of Broadway ballads. Although "Close" has a grabbing opening guitar line, it soon is overtaken by whininess and sounds too much like it should be sung on the Great White Way, not at a grunge concert. "No Time for Waiting" also feels like a showtune--it is too cartoonish, with no reality to its emotions. Perhaps these two songs would fare well as inspirational (read: cheesy) Broadway songs, but for listeners expecting depth, they...
...part of the patriarchal church. Mahalia Jackson once said, "Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help." And she also commented, "Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings--spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart." Isn't that the essence of Aretha Franklin even to this day? WAYNE TRUJILLO Lakewood, Colo...
Though the company billed its new Carmen as the next best thing to a rock concert, the results were closer in style to a rip-roaring Broadway show, an impression strengthened by the use of Bizet's original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress...
...plays in Germany. Regis is married to an American, and he got his citizenship papers just before the U.S. team left for France. Regis was tutored for his citizenship test by other players, and soon after becoming an American answered his phone to hear the national anthem being sung by his teammates. It doesn't get cornier than that, but this U.S. team happens to be an amiable bunch in addition to being talented. But at least for the time being, American soccer players aren't famous enough to be arrogant...
...could see the lingering lure of Astaire art in the reaction to Frank Sinatra's death. That wasn't just Rat Pack nostalgia. It was an effusion of fondness and respect for a fine song finely sung, for vocal connoisseurship, for the ability--the first or the thousandth time he sings a song--to mine the meaning of a lyric...