Word: vocalized
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Students on both sides of the issue have been vocal. Former council member John J. Applebaum '97 was one of the votes against the resolution in the Undergraduate Council...
Cabot Houses's deLima said she plans to seek a master in Vocal Performance...
...turned it from a weekly into the nation's largest black daily, with a circulation of roughly 25,000. By using his influence with President Franklin Roosevelt, Sengstacke arranged for the hiring of the first black White House correspondent. After World War II, President Harry Truman appointed Sengstacke, a vocal critic of discrimination in the military, to the committee charged with eradicating race barriers in the armed forces. Sengstacke also pushed the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie Robinson. Sengstacke was considered close to Chicago's Democratic mayors, but refused Mayor Richard J. Daley's entreaties that he help prevent violence...
Although the sheer emotional force of the play makes criticism difficult, some gaping flaws are still evident. The greatest mistake in the entire show is the casting of Jean Valjean himself. Except in the stellar "Bring Him House", Stone cannot muster the vocal richness the part calls for. Most of the time his coarse, grainy singing voice makes one flinch. Considering the role is one of the most coveted of all time in musical theater, how such poor casting could have occurred is difficult to understand. Another disappointment is found in Sheperd, who plays Thenardier's female partner in crime...
Daulne, 32, has a sad, splintery voice and an emotional clock that seems permanently set at midnight. Her background singers, harmonizing, chanting, even bleating, provide her with a vocal backdrop that's by turns naturalistic and a little coy. One song, the jazzy Nostalgie Amoureuse, feels like vocal film noir--shadowy and mysterious until, toward the end, Daulne's voice emerges from the mix with bruised passion. Other songs, like African Sunset, draw deftly on the upbeat music of South Africa's townships. But the best song is Daulne's seductive cover of Phoebe Snow's Poetry Man; that song...