Hints and tips:
...Generations of children have grown up to the song “Walking in the Air”, a boy’s voice soaring above an airborne melody as the snowman flies with the boy to the North Pole....
...“For example, he felt peacocks were auspicious because his 1968 NBC Comeback Special was so successful, and the NBC logo was a peacock tail feather....
...“Tavus Havasi” is punctuated by vocalised peacock screeches from the band....
...Cherise Adams-Burnett was superbly authoritative on a risk-taking delivery of her torch song original, “Violet Lights.”...
...“He Lion, Bruh Bear, Bruh Rabbit” came next, a puckish melody built over downward moving bass....
...The lyrics of “Obsession” are overblown and its melody slight and sultry tango rhythms cannot rescue Cole Porter’s “Were Thine That Special Face” from being “lesser known”....
...They finished with “Silver Lining”, another country song with, like so many of theirs, a melody so infectious that it sounds familiar even at first hearing....
...“Americans of all kinds could finally hear one another in all their myriad languages, rhythms and melodies,” Redford intones....
...The first set opened with Marsalis on soprano sax arpeggiating the melody of “Who Needs It”....
...A surprise, then, that for the first section of their set they were upstaged by a peacock....
...Crass musical choices (“Unchained Melody”? Must we?) and bitty scenes prevented the tragedy from gaining momentum....
...It is, for aficionados, the mixture as before at the Peacock Theatre. Five couples. A spiffing quartet of piano, double bass, bandoneon, violin....
...Yes The Snowman, freely adapted from Raymond Briggs’s wordless picture book, was back for its 17th consecutive year at the Peacock Theatre. The children are not really to blame....
...The music comes across better, stately boogie-woogie and gospel melodies (produced by T-Bone Burnett) that look back to Elton’s early years....
...He should look to his company co-founder and creative director Robert Rosenwasser, who designed the peacock-feather tutus and leotards of pure chiffon....
...England in July, bedraggled peacocks squawking indignantly....
...With luck, you play to a lush lawn full of people, relaxing in the shade of trees and half-timbered follies while peacocks and mime artistes strut equally unabashed....
...The opening melody of “Tonight” swirling out of an impressionist mist still lingers, the intensity of the first encore’s “God Bless the Child” stands out, and the final lullaby was a perfect closer....
...On the table in front of him is a selection of miniature works of dial art: a glossy green and blue English garden complete with peacock and a rotunda created out of cloisonné enamel, engraving and diamonds...
...Outside, the orange trees are gravid with winter fruit, and peacocks strut along the tiled terraces....
...having to walk (Chris Burnett’s departure as chairman of Thorntons)....
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