Word: vocalisms
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...gets the biggest kick out of being the mayor,” says friend and former councillor Edward Cyr. “And that’s an enormous asset, because the mayor in Cambridge doesn’t have that much authority.” VOCAL AT HARVARDAt Harvard, Reeves was a founder of the Kuumba Singers and also sang in the Glee Club. In 1972, when students protested the University’s investments in the Gulf Oil Company, Reeves joined them in taking over Mass. Hall. He wrote his thesis on W.E.B. DuBois, whom he today calls...
...Theatre Trust decided to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth by staging four of his best-known works, including The Magic Flute, and a company was born. Fifty years later, they have repatriated one of their finest exports, director David Freeman, to launch a new version combining vocal firepower (Amelia Ferrugia, Jaewoo Kim, Emma Matthews) with the aerial acrobatics of Legs on the Wall. Did someone mention crossover appeal? "You can't stay 19th century," says the production's designer, Dan Potra, who shares with his director the belief that opera will "die a slow, agonizing death" unless...
...vocal performances were also outstanding. Kassab and Agha sang in a clear, incantatory style similar to that used in tajwid (Qur’anic recitation). During several songs, they launched into melismatic solos that exhibited their incredible range and respiratory stamina. Their performances were frequently interrupted by ecstatic applause from the Sanders audience...
...friends and without allies,” Lawrence H. Summers told the Chicago Economic Club in October 2003.Could the same be said of a University president?At the most vulnerable juncture of his half-decade at Harvard’s helm, Summers now faces a fuming Faculty with few vocal supporters by his side.And many of his longtime allies are expressing disaffection with what they see as the president’s ineffective leadership.“If he’s going to be like every other college president—just a caretaker, fundraiser, and a mouther...
...Pittman & Co. keep their focus squarely on the fundamentals--the melodies, the harmonies, the dynamics--and that focus, ultimately, is what makes Panic such a successful and thoroughly enjoyable album. The vocal harmonies of Pittman and Lucy Brain--the two trade off as lead singers--are striking. Brain's voice in particular has a beautiful stand-out quality, shown off on the melancholy Without Your Love." Clean, melodious guitars carry the album, while piano, trumpet, and the use of unconventional time signatures (including, yes, 5/4,) create a sophisticated feel. (Pittman cites British folk rockers Fairport Convention as the single biggest...