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Kelly finishes off his album by getting “Trapped in the Closet.” All six roles are sung by Kelly, with slight variations for each character. It’s totally unlike anything in contemporary hip-hop or R&B. It isn’t even singing, really...
...month. Weird August. Hallucinatory August. The month that the world escapes from. Not coming in like a lion. Not known for its showers. Not known for its flowers. Not busting out all over. Not. There is no August Song, and if there were one, it would be sung by Yma Sumac in an altitudinous register no one could hear but a dozing dog, who would cock not an ear, stir not a bone. Not. These are dog days, after all, in which the mind, suddenly deserted, goes nuts and nowhere...
...best-known songs of the 1950s and 1960s were not sung by Elvis Presley, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. In fact few even made it to vinyl. Classic cuts such as The Jetsons, Leave It to Beaver and Gilligan's Island were heard over and over again as theme songs for television shows. Now, however, a two-record set called Television's Greatest Hits has put the hottest tunes in TV history on Billboard's pop albums chart. According to Executive Producer Steven Gottlieb, the record recognizes TV music as a piece of Americana. Says he: "People like...
...score is the work of a master. The irresistible Doretta's Dream, the opera's most famous aria, is sung first by the poet Prunier, a sadder, wiser Rodolfo, whose prominence at the opera's beginning sets the tone for what is to come. The gradual transformation of the lovers' duet into a full-blown chorus in the second act is a magical lyric moment. There is even wit: a sly quote from Richard Strauss's Salome when Prunier describes his ideal woman, and a love duet that deliberately recalls the end of the first act of La Boh?...
...tactics. Kim's regime shrugs off the suffering of its citizens and the government has proved surprisingly resilient. China, the North's ally and biggest trading partner, keeps the regime supplied with aid and trade. If geopolitics once again gets in the way of feeding the hungry, says Nam Sung Wook, a North Korea expert at Korea University, "it's average North Koreans who are going to get squeezed...