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...early 19th century bel canto singers, he adds. Beyond their interpretive freedom, the major link between pop singers and the bel canto tradition is the microphone, which allows vocalists to sing more naturally, without straining to make them selves heard above a thundering opera house orchestra. To stay vital, says Pleasants, opera singers must look backward to bel canto because they have nothing to look forward to. He contends that the torturously difficult vocal writing of modern composers is so contrary to the melodic essence of song that it is beyond salvation. The futility, he says, is reflected in Basso...
...right to be let alone" took a vital new direction in the 1890 Harvard Law Review. In an article that was to become the most famous of all U.S. law-review articles, Boston Attorneys Samuel D. Warren and Louis...
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...series of background courses will be a vital part of ITP, Robert B. Graham Jr., associate director of Public Information at the Business School, said yesterday. Many ITP students seriously lack understanding of the U.S. business administration trends, he said...
...rhetoric, there is the war itself. A conflict of controversial objectives and disputed morality, it inspires no crusading fervor among those who may be called upon to give their lives. Few can think happily of making the ultimate secrifice in a war that seems to involve no clear or vital national interest. And although being drafted is not equivalent to being sent to Vietnam, one is often equated with the other in their minds...