Word: vocalisms
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...such an influential position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, California, who headed the diocese in Portland, Oregon, before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known for his diplomatic skills, which temper his conservative positions on most doctrinal issues. For example, though a vocal opponent of Mayor Gavin Newsom's flurry of gay weddings last year, Levada had earlier worked out a Solomonic solution that resulted in health benefits for gay partners. He has been criticized for his slow and secretive response to priest sexual-abuse scandals in San Francisco, where at least...
...five years and three well-received albums to make it to this, the second date on their first-ever U.S. tour—for good reason. Their releases are meticulous, alien, and almost impossible to imagine taking form on stage: spare collisions of folk and studio where left-field vocal samples interrupt twilight plucks and crescendos are spliced and diced...
...business. There was Zammuto, a Williams College alum, half-closing his eyes to commune with an acoustic guitar. To his right sat de Jong, accented and eccentric, tearing mean riffs with his bow. At far left, frequent Book collaborator Ann Doerner offered tense keys and ethereal vocal harmonies (including a haunting Creole folk solo...
Drummer Mark Rice was consistent and tasteful, occasionally punctuating a particularly heartfelt vocal embellishment or solo break with a concise, tight drum fill. Pete Schreiner’s bass complements Rice’s drum kit and his big, round bass tones help keep the band from floating into the jam netherworld...
...unfettered expression, no one can beat these guys. In every guitar solo, chord change, lap steel fill, drum break, bass riff or vocal line, you’ll find something captivating, some kind of enchanting musical moment...