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...another co-ed a capella group, A Capella Anonymous, will perform, as will the all-male Glee Club Lite. Glee Club Lite’s conductor, Richard C. Lonsdorf ’06, spoke about his group’s expansive repertoire which includes pop, jazz, and doo-wop. “You never quite know what to expect to hear,” he says. Lonsdorf sees the weekend performances as “a good learning tool to see what other people are doing and to improve your own art as well.”After a classical...
...solo. Rather, the monotony seems to be a management decision, made obvious in the plethora of outside influences the Wailers embrace. “Do You Remember,” “Habits,” and “Teenager in Love” are straight Doo-Wop. “Ska Jerk” consciously plagiarizes Junior Walker’s “Shotgun” and (less consciously) The Drifters’ “Stand By Me.” “Can?...
...technical legerdemain and vaulting athleticism, LOTR can't match K?, Cirque's Las Vegas martial-arts extravaganza. The Toronto show's battle scenes are pedestrian, and toward the end, a group of fierce warriors breaks into a heavy two-step, like clumsy backup singers in a doo-wop group. But this isn't an all-singing show, and it certainly isn't all dancing. It is a musical that becomes a spectacular morality play, an adventure with a soft and stricken heart...
DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy-winning singer who performed doo-wop with high school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; of lung and brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man who Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit...
...DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy Award-winning American singer who performed doo-wop with high-school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man whom Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road), and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound," typified on his million-plus selling signature...