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...without consulting pyrotechnic experts and an army of stylists. When WHITNEY HOUSTON kicks off her tour June 22, she'll bring trunk loads of costumes created for her by Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana. For each song, there is a fashion: gowns for ballads and edgy sportswear for up-tempo numbers. Alas, Whitney sings no zydeco...
Much of Martin's international success is due to his ability to depart from typical Latin-rock or salsa music and to blend popular rock sounds with Latin jazz. His music incorporates lyrics in both Spanish and English. This exotic new hybrid of music captures festive rhythms and tempos similar to Brazilian samba in familiar beats that can be danced to. Martin also demonstrates an uncanny versatility when he sings slower-tempo Latin ballads in the "danceable" rumba and bolero rhythms. GUILLERMO SAMUEL YOUNG San Jose, Calif...
...came together as a team and started to play for each other," Millar said. "Individually every member picked up their level of play. Even practices were much more up tempo...
...improvised, and play the cadenza with a near seamless bravura that is more suited to the concertos of the Romantic composers, thereby losing its sense of extemporaneous drama--and obscuring many of Beethoven's boldest, and funniest, inspirations. Not Brendel, whose subtle emphases, infinitesimal pauses and canny modulations of tempo, color and dynamics create an air of spontaneous adventure. He reclaims the cadenza's magnificent audacity and evokes Beethoven's imagination at its least inhibited...
...support, as it turns out. Although he starts the show a little stiffly, sitting behind a keyboard he only pretends to play and, on occasion, seeming to drop out of the vocal mix altogether, he soon warms to the adoring crowd, tearing into his vocals on the up-tempo numbers, connecting to both the music and the audience. As the evening progresses, he grows comfortable enough to begin joking and ad-libbing between songs, revealing a sweet, almost childlike directness. Introducing his first encore, one of the great ballads from Pet Sounds, he says, "Back in the early...