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Today Handel's 41 operas, once so fashionable, are infrequently performed. This is due to changing tastes and the disappearance of the singers for whom many of his major roles were written: the castrati, the surgically altered male sopranos whose vocal power, awesome breath control and dazzling technique stunned audiences from the Sistine Chapel to Covent Garden. Of his 24 oratorios in English, only the redoubtable Messiah is a concerthall staple, and his best-loved instrumental works are such occasional pieces as the Water Music. Oddly, for one who used to loom so large, Handel awaits popular rediscovery...
...jobs. Both Madonna and Lauper floundered for a time in parochial schools. Lauper eventually dropped out and stumbled around, while Madonna made a beeline for the big time. Lauper did not even know where it was. She walked racehorses; she sang in bar bands and about burned out her vocal cords before getting help from a voice coach. She felt, as she says, "so crumbled." She was vocalist for a band called Blue Angel. They made one album that, as she says, "went lead," and soon Lauper was back, solo, singing in a local Japanese piano...
According to state law, such broad opposition--including vocal criticism from Harvard and MIT. Cambridge's two biggest landowners, respectively--means the proposal requires seven votes to pass the nine-member council, not the usual...
...There were about 25 male fans, they must have been from a frat or something, and they were really obnoxious and vocal," Simmons said. "When they [Colby] scored their second goal, they threw about 20 oranges and tennis balls onto...
...changes next year. Dclancy Smith hopes only that Keffer, a silent leader, becomes a vocal player. "I would like her to he about 400 times moral verbal, and I am not exaggerating," Dclancy Smith says...