Word: vocalisms
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...depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year." Read more at timearchive.com...
...money as an arranger of Italian pop. As he notes in the 1995 documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor who played the Man with No Name. A guy called Clint Eastwood...
Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society Diana L. Eck—long a vocal observer of the review—responded that professors could conceive of “parallel ways” in which students could navigate this curriculum without taking any course in many disciplines...
...good as everyone else on the team,” Fitz said. “The only thing he has less of is experience, and he’s going to get it. I definitely see Gil stepping it up in a leadership position. He already is a vocal presence on the court, and he has the skills to back up what he says.”But it’s not just Weintraub’s voice that calls attention to his presence on the court. His versatility marks him as a force to be reckoned with this...
...monks also played large drums held vertically by red handles, their mallets curved in the manner of bows. The use of instruments, beautiful in its own right, served to highlight the monks’ richly developed vocal ability, while the occasional chanting of mantras quickened the pace from that of the dominant seven-beat liturgical texts...