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...Following current fashion, Julia Adolphe’s Makeshift Castle was strong on atmospheric orchestral textures, but short on melody and rhythm, less memorable than some others of its type....
...“He is often one of the first major artists in the country to embrace sounds and artists on the fringe,” says the music and culture writer Nelson CJ....
...That is until she began to tease a distant melody, a few chords creeping through the mud of percussion....
...Like a lot of music being written now, it puts orchestral texture ahead of melody or rhythm....
...Nelson, a concept album about Nazism, and a reggae album....
...If there is a central cultural document animating the French compilation, it is Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson....
...Its mournful minor-key melody was written by the French-Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma for the ballet Le Rendez-vous, performed in Paris at the end of the second world war....
...Serge wrote a couple of songs about him and he’s on the cover of [Gainsbourg’s 1971 album] Histoire de Melody Nelson. What is the greatest challenge of our time? Curing diseases: cancer, Alzheimer’s....
...McCartney sang the words on top of the melody, improvising for the next line: “Oh baby, how I love your legs.”...
...Others saying “Grace” include Elvis Presley (in 1971), Willie Nelson (1976), and even alt-rock band The Lemonheads (1987)....
...Born in 1958 as Prince Rogers Nelson, he played a key role collapsing boundaries between disparate audiences and genres....
...“It was just a beautiful, romantic melody.”...
...On Wednesday there will be a spoken introduction, and on Sunday Andris Nelsons also conducts rare wartime Elgar....
...Sometimes a jab of the baton triggered a surge, sometimes he dispensed with the baton and freed his right hand to mould a flowing melody, as in the luscious third movement....
...Saxophonists Tony Kofi – full-toned and fluent – and Ed Jones – warm-toned and airy – are contrasting voices who have melody in mind....
...“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was dedicated to Nelson Mandela – McPhee on sax savoured each phrase – and, as a finale, the melody of Thelonious Monk’s “Blue Monk” swirled out of a mist of abstraction....
...The flowing melodies of “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” and “You Can Call Me Al” have outlasted the controversy. Yet Simon’s masterpiece remains a flawed work....
...style and drive – all wind sections in superlative form – and a symphony that is often dismissed as a poor relation of its better known successors comes across as a masterpiece, bursting with atmosphere, melody...
...Betrothal suits student voices: it has plenty of small parts, keeps a large chorus busy and is full of naïve melody....
...Also good are Jassy Husk’s Drusilla, Adam Kowalczyk’s Arnalta and Liberto and Martin Nelson’s Seneca, while the small ensemble accompanies with aplomb. King’s Head Theatre...
...One of those pieces was the austerely beautiful 1998 workwithinwork, set to the atonal melodies and spiky asperities of Berio’s Duetti For Two Violins....
..., because the melodies and rhythms are modelled on what I used to hear as a child when I went into the village.”...
...On genuinely powerful versions of Leonard Cohen’s I’m Your Man and Willie Nelson’s Always On My Mind an unexpectedly thoughtful and emotionally charged Buble tentatively peeps out from Foster’s controlling...
...Although Clegg wrote election anthems for the ANC and performed “Asimbonanga”, a roll-call of the missing and murdered of the apartheid years (also covered by Joan Baez), at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration...
...Folk-derived melodies andfree-form stridency on bass clarinet, ruminating bass and textured drums captured a mood of rural melancholy....
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