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...As for Purcell’s music, the Pomo d’Oro showed its brilliant variety of mood, rhythm, colour and melody....
...Indeed, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting, the score’s best moments come when female voices soar in melodies that can be ravishing....
...Heggie has a knack of picking eye-catching texts and his latest song-cycle, What I Miss the Most, is a typical example, setting poems on the lockdown feelings of five notable American women: mezzo Joyce...
...The sinuous melody coils around the beat like a python....
...To May 1, joyce.org Photograph: Jamie Kraus...
...The trouble is that a US federal judge recently ruled that Warner/Chappell does not own the lyrics to “Happy Birthday to You” — nor the melody, which was penned in 1893 and has been in the public domain...
...At the barn, as night fell, attendees filtered into a room scented with tea and coffee, chattering over plucked strings and bits of melody as performers warmed up....
...Edwin Heathcote Film Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema, edited by Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson, Supernova Books, RRP£14.99/Aurora Metro Press, RRP$32.95 You may come to this spry slice of film history...
...Saxophonists Tony Kofi – full-toned and fluent – and Ed Jones – warm-toned and airy – are contrasting voices who have melody in mind....
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...Until July 6, www.joyce.org...
...Some estates have trustees strongly opposed to development, such as James Joyce’s grandson Stephen....
...Though occasionally monotonous in its lyricism, neither Chan’s melodies nor the cast’s delivery got much in the way of librettist Yan Yu’s text....
...Until Saturday, www.joyce.org...
...Sams’s chatty libretto imposes fussy, often incomprehensible English phrases on melodies that stubbornly resist the chosen stresses and accents....
...But Rumer, real name Sarah Joyce, doesn’t do triumphalism. Her debut album Seasons of My Soul has a gentle, Norah Jones-style reserve. “Inoffensive,” sceptics sneer....
...() Ends August 8, www.joyce.org...
...The poète maudit James Clarence Mangan, admired by Joyce and Yeats, features large but there is also room for the robust Trinity College atheist James Henry (1798-1876)....
...Messager was one of the most experienced conductor-composers of his day: it shows in his mastery of plot and flowing melody....
...Lush neo-Romantic melodies are seldom far away....
...Joyce DiDonato, lyric mezzo-soprano du jour, seems to have everything. Well, almost everything....
...Prospero’s melodies are perhaps not the opera’s most ingratiating, but Rod Gilfry sings them firmly and fervently....
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