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...Stars If you don’t know who Audra McDonald is, but appreciate vocal music, now’s the time to find out. The angelic lyric soprano has just released her fourth and most accessible solo album, “Build a Bridge,” filling it with covers of songs by mainstream pop songwriters like Bacharach, Costello, Rufus Wainwright, Randy Newman, and John Mayer...
Every song on “Build a Bridge” resonates with the vocal intensity poured into “Dividing Day.” Unfortunately, some of the pop songwriters represented on the album don’t provide McDonald with material as emotionally rich as Guettel does, making her inspired recreations of John Mayer’s facile “My Stupid Mouth” and Neil Young’s boring “My Heart” seem vapid in comparison...
...vocally Beck is more than up to the challenge of flowing from bass and drum grooves into atmospheric vocal melodies and back again...
...Furthermore, acting in a show is not a substitute for a drama course. Acting classes teach students method, scene study, vocal performance, and other skills, while shows are simply an exercise of abilities they already possess. No show teaches skills in the way a course...
...into Harvard, but he was at the pinnacle of his career and, briefly, at the center of American sports attention as well.But Cheek’s greatest moments were yet to come.His actions in Turin were the beginning of a sincere and arduous advocacy, as Cheek has become a vocal spokesperson against the genocide in Darfur. Since returning from Italy, Cheek has been traveling around the country and across the globe, trying to use what fame he has achieved as a means of spreading awareness about the atrocious policies of the Khartoum government.“The three months after...