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...A Stanford university spinout, it was created by Lemley with George Gregory and Joshua Walker in 2006....
...Alfred Walker sings potently as the flighty, morally challenged monarch, though a metallic edge sometimes detracts from his imposing bass....
...Roisin-red maples are the strings, melodies of vermilion and scarlet....
...The gulf between stereotypes old and new was apparent when we met in King’s Cross, for a chat curtailed when she was chauffeured off to inspect a Johnny Walker-branded organ....
...At another, he re-creates the bass line from Junior Walker’s soul classic “Shotgun”....
...The enchanting melodies speak for themselves....
...The Trombone Concerto of 1957 by George Walker is a forgotten gem, light and fizzing, with short motifs being passed nimbly from hand to hand around the orchestra, as if in an agile ball game, the trombonist...
...Haunted by snatches of melody from the miners, he starts to write, conjuring the play up before us on an empty stage....
...For a decade, Josienne Clarke was half of a duo with Ben Walker. The pairing brought them a dedicated following and awards. It brought her, increasingly, misery....
...“Grave Walker”, written by Eubanks, is a sonic journey of funky strums, twirly unison lines and warm phrase-ending chords....
...Greep doesn’t possess a velvety voice: his croon resembles a plain version of Scott Walker....
...Dog-walkers pause and smile and little children among the audience start to dance....
...Scott Walker is among the inspirations cited for her new songs....
...Law firm Ashurst has added Melody He-Chen as a partner in Hong Kong. She joins from DLA Piper....
...Meeting Ben Walker, a gifted guitarist and arranger, gave Clarke the boost she needed to project her voice and songs....
...Later Garland states the melody clearly on tenor sax surrounded by the shimmers, sweeps and changing moods of “The Snows”; and on “Gaia’s Clock”, the tune returns as modal jazz supported by spiky tick-tocking...
...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....
...MacRae’s salty script and Jonathan Butterell’s dynamic staging catch the wit and vulnerability of teenagers, while Gillespie Sells’ sassy, poppy melodies and Kate Prince’s exhilarating choreography channel...
...Ryley Walker’s between-songs stage patter was at odds with his music. (He was wearing a faux-tie-dye T-shirt from an Iowa hot-rod rally, hacked-off denim shorts and a red trucker’s cap.)...
...They giggle on the nursery carpet as the simple, jaunty melody explains that the “knee-bone’s connected to the thigh-bone, the thigh-bone’s connected to the hip-bone” and so on....
...The End of the World Running Club, by Adrian J Walker, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 After an asteroid strike destroys most of Britain, Ed finds himself separated from his wife and children....
...So the 12 maidens become enchanted zombies, but as the melting melodies of their dances progress, their movements cannot compete, and the joke wears decidedly thin....
...The singer, who specialises in dramatic orchestral pop, a Westphalian Scott Walker, is hoping to change this sorry state of affairs with his new English-language album I Walk....
...She is matched by Jessica Walker, a Nero of swaggering charisma....
...I guessed at the key, and we settled into a comfortable zone of swapped melodies, ad-libbed harmonies and long-held notes....
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