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...Sung stands out front, brandishing different herbs and specimens, directing us to look, smell, feel....
...Blanchard’s score deftly integrates jazz and gospel into an operatic framework, alternating lyrical, soaring arias with recitatives sung over a 12-bar blues....
...Last was Kaija Saariaho’s late song for soprano and violin, “Changing Light”, sung with poise by Jennifer Gliere, accompanied by violinist Leah Asher....
...Lyrics about beginning again are sung in an ethereal high voice. If hell is near, this is an unexpectedly welcoming approach to it. Subsequent songs also take pleasure in extreme states of mind....
...Other highlights include the Chansons de Bilitis, elegantly sung by Mantashyan, and En blanc et noir for two pianos, in which Gerstein is joined by none other than composer Thomas Adès....
...Sung, a former Ford engineer based in the US, said expectations of an explosive take-up of electric vehicles in the country last year had been “too high”....
...Apparently artless, which is to say that the art is well-disguised, her vocals are the sung equivalent of a voice memo....
...The Weeknd, a fellow Canadian, appears to make sweetly sung jibes at an unnamed Drake on “All to Myself”. A$AP Rocky raps coded slights on “Show of Hands”....
...But this is met with clarinet, guitar and a countervailing sung refrain: “When the lonely bird is singing down the river . . . I start to see that my sorrows disappear”....
...Dating from the same period as “18 & Over” (which isn’t included), the song combines reggae refrains sung by Nia with samples of sound-system toasting and dialogue from detective TV show Columbo....
...The score is co-composed and sung by Nicki Wells, whose slightly gloopy, vox-humana vocals are beefed up by Ashish Gangani, Faraz Ahmed and Hiren Chate....
...Lasting more than six minutes, the music settles into an unchanging soft-rock groove with softly sung repetitions of the title....
...The one vocal, introduced as a “special surprise”, was the Grateful Dead’s “Black Muddy River”, sung by drummer Dion in a high-pitched tenor as he laid down a basic rock beat; Scofield restricted himself...
...Cue “Beat It”, sung by Frost in accurate mimicry of the singer’s high voice and danced with lots of gliding feet, spins and crotch-clutching....
...Piotr Beczała has not been seen at the Royal Opera for a decade and his strongly sung Don José is a reminder of what we have been missing....
...Sung words were part of the musical texture, like scatting, not the central text around which all else was subordinate....
...This one does, led by the Jenůfa of Jennifer Davis, tirelessly sung and living the role at every moment....
...Parton excels at it — which is why royalties from her songs, such as “I Will Always Love You” sung by Whitney Houston, have helped make her a very rich woman. Art is not meant to be static....
...The first, Red Moon in Venus, was mainly sung in English. Its successor switches to the LA-based singer’s other language, Spanish. Born in the US to Colombian parents, Uchis grew up in both countries....
...In Andrei Bondarenko’s well-sung Don Giovanni, the drama has a compelling central force, at once alluring and dangerous, drawing all towards him as he increasingly spins out of control....
...Recently, part of a song sung by the famous pre-revolution artist Hayedeh blared out in a Tehran street during Nowruz jubilations, which included teenage girls performing acrobatics....
...Murdo MacFarlane’s song of homesickness for the Isle of Lewis, “’s Fhada Leam an Oidhche Gheamhraidh”, as sung here by Newton, has the yearning melody of a dead-slow waulking song....
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