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...comeback trail as a jazz diva, she combines the emotions of Billie Holiday with a personal delivery rooted in her own poetic lyrics. Never has her talent been better displayed than on these 10 songs, five of them from her own pen, featuring outstanding backup work by the late tenor-sax great Stan Getz...
...Hooker. It's a daft and reckless mix, but Morrison makes it work through sheer force of spirit, what he once called, in a memorable song, the "inarticulate speech of the heart." His rhythms are irresistible, his lyrics like an amalgam of Yeats, Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh, critic Greil Marcus points out, is "a mythic incantation . . . To Morrison ((it is)) the gift of the muse and the muse itself...
...that the production is a striking success. The stylized motion and lighting intensify the visceral excitement in the score and heighten the stark contest between the hero and the villainess Ortrud. And the singers, especially Gosta Winbergh in the title role, are first rate. Blessed with a sizable lyric tenor, Winbergh sings Lohengrin's famous farewell softly -- as it is almost never done -- and makes it heartbreaking...
...Paul Madore Chorale--presents Haydn's The Seasons with soprano Susanne Dimmock, tenor Martin Kelly and baritone Donald Wilkinson. For tickets and information call (508) 774-7981 or 595-6535. At ste. Anne's Church in Salem. Sunday...
...Boston Cecilia Chorus and Period Instrument Orchestra--begins its 116th season with Handel's Israel in Egypt and Organ Concerto in F. With soprano Nancy Armstrong, soprano and alto Laurie Monahan, tenor Paul Kirby and basses Robert Honeysucker and David Ripley. Tickets are $25, $16 and $8. Call 232-4540. In the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall Saturday...