She was a fighter and became more vocal about it every day. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was a bestial, lunatic cry, surely ripping the boy’s vocal cords to shreds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A cord is a string or cable, like the ones found in the human anatomy: spinal cord, umbilical cord, and vocal cords. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, perhaps, was music, both vocal and instrumental; excavating Caral, Shady discovered thirty-two flutes made of pelican wingbones tucked into a recess in the main temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He even does his own backing vocals, which consists of him singing “take a chance” over and over again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Presto’s jowly head bowed and his eyebrows rose in modest recognition of his vocal gifts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Multi-part performance in either the vocal or instrumental milieu is cognitively beneficial, and will increase a child’s musical competence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Keep in mind the child’s vocal range and the range/tessitura of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Taylor is already dressed and in makeup, and she stands in the wings doing some awkward vocal warm-up that she invented herself. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One very vocal opponent of the tide of ethnic imitation was the writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W. E. B. Du Bois. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton helps me get dressed in my angel costume and has me review my vocal techniques. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Amelia is the director and lead vocal talent, Serenity is the screenwriter and side vocals, and I’m the animator. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told the media about the “very vocal group of women” who thought there should be women astronauts and agreed that “a woman astronaut would eventually be put into orbit around the earth.” Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he delighted in ridiculing the policies of the Democratic Party and was a vocal admirer of Ronald Reagan. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico felt as if he was standing on the goddess’s throat - as if the entire length of Long Island resonated with her vocal cords. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The simulation is using her vocal cords, but robs them of the natural fluctuations of human emotion. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, keep in mind that a child’s vocal apparatus is still developing, and imitating adult singing with scoops, chest voice, or belting is affected singing and not natural. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They had lost the ability to enunciate words but could still mimic a range of human vocal sounds, from a child's high-pitched warble to a man's deep tones. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many cultures have their own styles of arrangement, but adding piano chords or vocal harmony particularly for Asian music, is not typical. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Chicago’s small but vocal censorians feared that impoverished parents would turn the building into a depository for unwanted children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His tunes were firmly rooted in an easy-to-grasp, enchanting-to-sing Italian vocal style, so that ordinary folk really could leave the theatre humming. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As children’s voices are very light, they should not be pushed out of their vocal ranges too soon. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Huxley was the most vocal and pugnacious of them all, and earned the nickname of Darwins bulldog. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer hesitant and clumsy, she had become vocal, aggressive, and confident. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your inspiration for a music or integrated lesson plan can be a song, an instrument, timbre, vocal sound, poem, story, rhythm, speech pattern, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m kidding, but pipe down. I’m trying to find something to properly impress you with my vocal stylings.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But our guys had a sort of vocal salute to show Sarge our respect. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The beams may connect notes that are all in the same beat, or, in some vocal music, they may connect notes that are sung on the same text syllable. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At other times the most vocal experts suddenly agree en masse that the old wisdom was wrong and that the new wisdom is, for a little while at least, irrefutably right. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A minority, however vocal, should not be able to frustrate the will of the majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is enough dazzle and mischief here, where partners cling or exchange at the urging of a heartbreaking vocal. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After every two words he gasped and dragged the air over his vocal chords, making a sound like an inverted grunt. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any familiar song can be used to teach two parts, such as taking a simple melody and adding a vocal ostinato. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Bill played trumpet and took vocals on Glenn Miller arrangements of such tunes as In the Mood, String of Pearls, and Don’t Fence Me In. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton is a good music teacher and all, but Pop Pop is really the one who gave me my first vocal lessons. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Director continues in his upbeat vocal swagger. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And he discovered that she had an unusually wide vocal range. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I said, “Maybe your vocal cords actually are broken. You should go to a specialist.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The passing adults politely looked away, but their children were decidedly more vocal. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Harmony made from chords came alive in his four-part vocal music, even if some of his note combinations sound accidental rather than intentional. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The word mustered inside her, air swirled around in her lungs, her vocal cords vibrated, her lips readied. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Many tests are done, and while there’s damage to my vocal cords, it doesn’t account for it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I held each dog as the doctor injected nembutal into its veins to make it unconscious; then I held the dog’s jaws open as the doctor inserted the scalpel and severed the vocal cords. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To change this, he promoted simplified harmonies that made the melody the most prominent aspect of the music, and downgraded the importance of the other vocal parts to support the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“What he said. Not much high school cachet to be had in being a female who has, you know, vocal opinions about anything.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Yeah, Nuria and her vocals were definitely worth a lie and a nightly sprint to the beach. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I nod, because the feel of his heartbeat is doing funny things to my vocal cords. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was before Billy had his head broken in an airplane crash, by the way—before he became so vocal about flying saucers and traveling in time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A register is a distinctive part of a vocal or instrumental range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A recent influx of Hungarian Jews into our neighborhood had swelled their ranks, and they formed a small but highly vocal element of the school’s student population. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Second World War changed the world order: Empire was crumbling, and a vocal Nigerian elite, mostly from the South, had emerged. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m used to saying his name with a sarcastic kind of emphasis, a tiny vocal eye roll. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The segregationists were becoming even more vocal, urging the students to harass us at every opportunity. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using short patterns from the song is a simple way to create vocal or rhythmic ostinati. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I add, because my scientific brain knows that room-temperature water is much better for vocal cords than cold or hot. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

There was something wrong with her vocal cords as well, and she was only able to speak in a kind of raspy whisper. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Governor Wallace was one of the state’s most vocal proponents of segregation, and the way things were going, it seemed that nothing and no one would be able to prevail against him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The vocal cords refused to work, but I could snap my fingers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settling in Berlin, she roomed with an elderly couple who spoke only German, devoted herself to an intensive study of the language, and began vocal studies with Kurt Johnen, one of the city’s best-known teachers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I demanded that the injured man receive medical attention and we initiated a small but vocal demonstration. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Begin with some vocal exploration with speech, just getting them to loosen up and find their high, light head voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But the ranges of many instruments are, like vocal ranges, not so definite. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We should add some background vocals like in the song,” Benny said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m a vocal woman in the public eye. I take precautions.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

However, “Sir Savien” was a ballad, and the vocal part was a counter melody that ran against the timing of the lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was doing my vocal exercises. To be ready for the pageant. I do them all the time. Tane Ngatatatattannnnneeeeetane. Just limbers the tongue right up.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Many animals, including all ape and monkey species, have vocal languages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Edward Maria Wingfield is the most vocal in his complaints. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra, who became a vocal advocate for violence prevention, also returned a couple of times to attend different meetings on the issue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“How do you add vocals?” he asks, slowly getting up and letting me take his place. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I shut my teeth together, vocal cords cut, they hurt so. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its vocal ranges were operatic, its naturalistic acting style more like that of a play, its structure of spoken plot-carrying scenes interspersed with verse-chorus- designed songs akin to those in musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Whatever advantage Einstein had over a parrot, it wasn’t vocal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to keep my tone light, but my vocal cords go all husky and weird. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed completely composed, hidden behind his black-lensed glasses, only his mobile features gesturing his vocal drama. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, with my vocal cords as my instrument, I glide through the verses, wavering slightly at first, but getting stronger as I continue. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were vocal about the petty individual wrongs they suffered, but they possessed no desire for a knowledge of the picture as a whole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using a clear, clean, straight head voice rather than chest voice will help to avoid this, and will strengthen a child’s vocal musculature for a lifetime of excellent singing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And even then we don’t sit in the same vocal sections. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She’s dead like Mom, but unlike Mom, who just breaks things, Grandma’s vocal and often visible. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When the bus arrives, I breathe a sigh of relief ’cause if I swallow one more drop of frozen air, my vocal cords might go into a state of hypothermia. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Until then, Marian had never really thought much about vocal technique. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

On the way he tripped over a form, which became suddenly vocal and indignant. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

String quartets and vocal stylists soared across the skies with a cabin full of contented passengers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Most voices can be assigned one of these four ranges, and this gives the composer four vocal lines to work with, which is usually enough. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking the rest of my sentence would emerge from the air passing through my vocal cords, but nothing happened. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“In his presence, I became more intelligent,” Wilson said, “more vocal, more intense.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My throat hurt constantly, vocal cords taut to snapping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She has been one of the most vocal on the council arguing for action against Kronos’s minions. If she is absent, the gods will decide nothing. We will lose another year of war preparations.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Prominent black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was a vocal critic of the suffragist movement’s racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Verbal and operant responses of young children to vocal versus instrumental song performances. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It took Powell several seconds to recover from his stunned astonishment at Donovan’s vocal gyrations. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy said, “Bud, this here’s Miss Thomas, she’s our vocal stylist.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Older children may have an expanded vocal range, but it is important to remember that the pitches that are most comfortable to sing are in the middle of their range. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My throat began to ache and my voice dropped, roughening into a deep crackle, as if my vocal cords had turned to sandpaper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Vocally, however, children find it quite difficult to sustain their own vocal part against that of another singer or singers before the age of 8. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If the children are not ready to sing the song with a sung vocal ostinato, begin by chanting the song as a speech piece and adding one or more speech ostinato patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

To that end, he became a constant and often vocal critic of the lead industry and its interests. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They have only a few notes, small vocal ranges, no fancy ornaments, and simple words. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But the other two, Chet Douglass and Bobby Zane, were vocal enough, complaining shrilly about school regulations, the danger of stomach cramps, physical disabilities they had never mentioned before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swoops, lines, dots, etc., can represent many vocal sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They almost sound professional, except the vocals are strange and random, like the lower part of a harmony. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My vocal cords feel like dried, crackled rubber bands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dr. Nawaz had told me that would happen, on account of the breath­ing tube they had slid through his vocal cords. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She also worked with the school choir; under her direction, several of Moton’s vocal quartets had come away victorious in statewide music competitions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Charlie had been gassed in the Great War, his vocal cords all but destroyed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Head voice requires placing the sound higher up in the “vocal mask” or the face, as if singing from the eyes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The straw boss had no faith in her, having watched her sweating hard to fill her sack as quickly as the children, but she was highly and suddenly vocal in her determination. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boghetti was short, stocky, and dynamic, a demanding teacher with a vast store of knowledge about vocal technique and a stern manner with his students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Their alternative—there was an alternative, of course, since Milo detested coercion and was a vocal champion of freedom of choice—was to starve. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Pushing air across my vocal cords is hurting more and more, and I know it can’t just be me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Earlier, I might have thought he reflected just white men, because from what I saw, the South’s white women didn’t appear as violent or as vocal as the men. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had been one of Mrs. Gandhi’s most vocal critics. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And they were more vocal about it around me. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The same terms used to identify vocal ranges are also often used to identify particular instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Turtles, alligators, crocodiles, and even snakes make various more or less vocal sounds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the performing range of the tune-carrying top line was extended upwards and higher, a process accelerated by the use of boys with high voices and even - heaven forfend! - women in some vocal groups. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We have already witnessed the early-sixteenth-century shift in the position occupied by the principal melody in a piece of four- or three-part vocal music, moving from the middle of the texture to the top. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Poverty and corruption were everywhere in Haiti, and the doctor had always been vocal about it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Comparison of children’s and adults’ vocal ranges and preferred tessituras in singing familiar songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Like, we could add a harmony line to the lead vocals, or maybe even rework our set list to include some duets. And, obviously, he could play guitar.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

My tongue is a piece of leather in my mouth, my vocal cords brittle paper. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think only in movies is horror vocal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the jeopardy he knew he was placing himself in, he became a vocal supporter of Aristide. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“We should avoid talking at all costs. The vocal transformation component of the spell must’ve gotten messed up somehow,” said Seven sheepishly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The second line of the table below indicates the vocal syllables for this particular 16-beat cycle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Practice describing different timbres of music—play different types of music on Pandora, for example, and try to describe the timbres you hear, including the vocal timbre of the singer or instrumental timbres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There was a particularly vocal older white woman who loudly demanded that I be questioned about items she was missing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Children are able to discern the timbre of a sound from a very young age, including the vocal timbres of peers, relatives, and teachers, as well as the timbres of different instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I’d been mocked and threatened many times now, cut down for being black, female, and vocal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It doesn't take long for a thought to get from your brain to your vocal cords and out of your mouth, but it does take a moment. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Heroes,” by David Bowie, set the standard out of the gate: slow and shimmering, the arrangement gave Mr. Gabriel a starkly dramatic vocal platform. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z

They said a small but vocal portion of older adolescents would become aggressively oppositional, and assert such content was only included as "tokenism" towards a "feminist agenda." We can see the gender bias of all-boys’ schools by the books they study in English 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Security couldn't do anything so the band played this surrounded by fans who then proceeded to sing backing vocals, play extra drum parts and generally dance around. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z

After recording over one of his premade instrumentals, Nasty “looked so over it,” the producer said, and left the vocal booth with a request: “Can you make heavy metal?” Can the Mainstream Catch Up to Rico Nasty? 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

As he delivered the lines, those skeletons did in fact propel jumps -- as well as bounces, finger-points and vocal chanting. Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

The title track of the latter, composed by Sam Dees, is a classic with impassioned vocals, as is her recording of another Dees song, Worn Out Broken Heart. Loleatta Holloway obituary 2011-03-24T18:17:38Z

It’s a funky march that revels in cosmic imagery, cross-rhythms and multifarious vocals: singing, chanting, making percussive sounds, high harmonies, husky low confidences and an occasional “la-la.” Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Smollett, a vocal critic of President Trump, did not perform his most outwardly political song, “F.U.W.,” which includes lyrics like “Who got the popular vote? Was the whole thing just a joke?” Jussie Smollett Gives Defiant Concert Days After Reporting Attack 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

In air after air, Ms. Watson brought vocal bloom, emotional depth and beguiling phrasing to her exemplary performance. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The next song, "Lazuli," features female breathy vocals with more emotive lyrics. Review: Beach House comes into 'Bloom' 2012-05-30T19:19:26Z

It mingles the sulky baritone vocals of Joy Division and and the layered arrangements of the Cure with elements of chamber music and Minimalism, thickening the music from within. Music Review: The National at Radio City Music Hall 2010-06-17T22:16:00Z

When she met Mr. Abrahamsen before he wrote “let me tell you,” they sat for several hours and discussed the history of vocal music, from Monteverdi to Mahler. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

His writing for a 23-piece instrumental ensemble, gorgeously colored and pulsating with ritualistic percussion, suits the milieu and the vocal complement; Corrado Rovaris, the company’s music director, elicited a fine account from his players. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z

The album’s deluxe packaging, with its handsome photographs, illustrations and text, amplifies its brilliant musical ambitions and serves as a statement of principle for Ms. Schneider, a vocal critic of music streaming services. Review: Maria Schneider Orchestra’s ‘The Thompson Fields,’ Connections to the Natural World 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

He joined the band full time in 2011, thinking he would be doing vocals only. His father was a P-Funk star. It took Garrett Shider years to appreciate what that meant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

The fate of a potential new Soundgarden album, in the works at the time of Cornell’s death, hinges on a lawsuit between the band and Cornell’s wife over the late singer’s vocal recordings. Soundgarden on 30 years of ‘Badmotorfinger,’ the ‘weird science project’ that became a grunge classic 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

For all the variety of the vocal part, which evokes instrumental writing in its virtuosity, it was hard to avoid trying to find some meaning in what Ms. Cooke was singing. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

She's joined by other musicians, but this is largely a solo recording, in which she plays 20 instruments, building up often dramatic, epic layers of sound around her powerful, no-nonsense vocals. Mercedes Pe?n: S?s ? review 2011-01-06T22:33:00Z

Gerlach, the dramaturg, who acted as a liaison between the company and the three creative teams, said that the film was intended as the visual equivalent of “backup vocals.” One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

When the first award of the day was given out, for best pop vocal album, Ms. Swift was not in the room but her producer Jack Antonoff called her from the podium. Kendrick Lamar Sweeps Rap Field at Grammys; Taylor Swift Wins Best Album 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Husband-and-wife team Thompson Square took home the prize for best vocal duo, and Louisiana native Hunter Hayes, 21, was named best new artist. Blake Shelton dominates Country Music awards 2012-11-02T04:15:12Z

The song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and won Aguilera the Grammy for best female pop vocal performance. Outtakes: Linda Perry on Neil Portnow, Adele and ‘Beautiful’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the vocal recital, which is practically criminal for a classically trained singer to say. What Does a Singer Do With Full Freedom? 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

His vocal tone is made by extraordinary resonance between the cheekbones, now buzzing, now humming. Dance Review: In the End, It?s All About the Party 2011-02-25T23:57:05Z

While Savage sings the majority of the tunes, some vocals are handled by the other guitarist, Austin Brown, adding needed variety. Sounds of Parquet Courts echo those of its myriad predecessors, influencers 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

All the while, they move effortlessly from traditional Mexican instruments to electric guitars as their vocals vary from Spanish to English. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

As a whole, this was an unusually well-balanced, well-blended vocal quartet. L.A. Master Chorale delivers a mighty, thrilling Verdi Requiem 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The same New Music Group program featured the premiere of Kate Soper’s “The Ultimate Abstract Poem,” a deeply thoughtful meditation on beauty, communication and humanity, with the composer as haunting vocal soloist. The L.A. Phil's nonstop new music marathon, 'Noon to Midnight' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Levin’s long-running blog, Civil War Memory, is on the front lines in a battle between established historians and a vocal minority who insist that most academics are biased liberals bent on slandering the South. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

Yes, virtuosos can accomplish feats of physical dexterity and vocal purity in real time; occasionally, a solo close-up can be revelatory. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

He could repeat political speeches he had heard months before, mimicking the vocal cadences of the speaker, even in foreign languages unknown to him. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Fleckenstein says one of the more subtle but meaningful changes Rubin made was to let Casablancas’ vocals — often distorted in previous outings — shine more clearly this time around. The Strokes turn to a ‘unicorn figure’ and get Grammy love 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Some sound-level adjustments, for example, prompted an explanation of how, in kathak, the vocal recitation of rhythms is as important as the dancing of them. Review: In ‘Unedited,’ the Revisions Are Part of the Tradition 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wicks was a regular presence in New York jazz clubs in the 1970s, accompanying singers like Anita O’Day, another rhythmic iconoclast whose vocal style she echoes. Music Review: Patti Wicks?s Jazzy Turn at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-15T22:48:00Z

After college and through the 1980s, he sang in some of the prestigious early-music vocal groups that were burgeoning at the time, including the Sixteen, the Tallis Scholars and the Hilliard Ensemble. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z

Backed by a spectacular live band, with lush vocals by the musical director Charles Turner, the dancers often return to a circular formation at the center of the stage. LaTasha Barnes: Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

It demands everything I have: mental and emotional focus, physical and vocal endurance. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z

She is as impressive as any of the vocal wunderkinds on “The Voice.” Music Review: Michael Feinstein Performs at Birdland 2013-12-18T22:22:27Z

For those who still frown on Glimmerglass’s embrace of American musicals, “Candide” is a fine compromise; with its shifting, syncopated score and vocal riches, it’s not out of place on an opera stage. Glimmerglass season shines with vibrant vocal performances 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Certainly the Alston faithful are a cheerfully vocal bunch, secure in the knowledge that their hero is carrying the torch for a fine, unsullied tradition. Richard Alston Dance Company – review 2012-10-06T23:05:55Z

A range of extended techniques, including bow whips, improvised pitches, vocal shouts and careening slides, revealed the ritualistic violence latent in the aristocratic hunt — the savagery underneath the thin veneer of civilization. German composer-clarinetist shows his virtuosity 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

With its use of four vocal soloists, there are echoes of the Ninth in much of the writing across the five movements. Under Gardiner's baton, Beethoven rocks 2012-11-18T18:25:12Z

The chorus — “if you don’t know me by now, you will never, never, never know me” — is left to the men doing her backing vocals, while LaBelle spreads icing all over their cake. The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Some technical hiccups and uneven vocals during Monday’s opening-night performance at times created the sense that this production had bitten off more than it could chew. Review | ‘Spring Awakening’ lights up Round House Theatre with visual flair 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The vocal demands are a workout for almost every performer onstage. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Whichever singer the contestant picks reveals their vocal abilities in a duet performance with the episode’s special musical guest, which could result in either an epic collaboration or a laughable catastrophe. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Promised Land’ and a Janet Jackson Special 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

He made hundreds of cylinder and 78-rpm records, often accompanied by his wife, Hattie, on fiddle and vocals; she was one of the first female country musicians on record. Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ shines a spotlight on an unsung Washingtonian 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Once again, Corin Tucker’s lead vocals make her a banshee with a mission, singing about minimum-wage purgatory, fervent iconoclasm and “dread in our own Gilded Age.” The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The vocal writing had clear antecedents as well. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

Sometimes, though, Santigold disappeared inside them, with vocals that appeared to be dissolving. Music Review: Santigold at Music Hall of Williamsburg - Review 2012-01-18T15:29:25Z

I got in cars I shouldn’t have, had regrettable experiences on futons, copied the vocal inflections of the ringleader. Betty Gilpin: The First Time I Bought a Crumbling 1834 Farmhouse 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Like Dylan, Reed's latterday vocal style exists in the grey area between rephrasing the lyrics to keep old songs fresh and just missing his cues and forgetting the words. Lou Reed ? review 2011-07-06T17:30:02Z

Dvorák's somber Stabat Mater was given a rare performance Wednesday night by the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Philharmonic Choir and four vocal soloists at the Valley Performing Arts Center. Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

In the world of E.D.M., a single oblique phrase is often the only vocal element a track needs. That Zac Efron E.D.M. Movie 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

While they clearly draw on Banks' research into Persian and Indian musical tradition, there are modern touches too: echo effects, bent pitches, ethereal dissonances, punchy vocal accentings. Review: Sculpture park a perfect setting for Esoterics' exploration of ancient myth 2010-05-08T18:39:00Z

If there’s a modern equivalent, it’s the superhumanly perfect vocals featured in so much current pop and rock thanks to Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction processor made by Antares Audio Technologies. The Songs of Now Sound a Lot Like Then 2011-07-17T01:45:26Z

Designed and performed by Moving Star, an a cappella vocal ensemble, “Nooma” derives its title from the ancient Greek word “pneuma,” which means both breath and spirit. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

She doesn't use the microphone, either – which is understandable, in this small room, but adds to the sense of vocal weakness. Sara Pascoe 2010-08-09T21:45:00Z

Summer also wins a Grammy award for female rock vocal for "Hot Stuff." Career highlights of Donna Summer 2012-05-18T02:00:10Z

His death inspired the poignant album closer “Burial,” with a church organ and gospel-choir vocals that heighten the tension between mourning and taking comfort in the idea of a better place after death. How Seinabo Sey Beat Self-Sabotage to Make One of 2015's Best Debuts 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Near its midpoint, the beat settles into a sauntering groove topped by vigorous backing vocals and a scene-setting poem. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Christa Brown is a vocal member of the group, an attorney, and is also the creator of the website Stop Baptist Predators. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Gibson also recorded at Chicago's famed Chess Records, singing vocal on his tune "My Love Is Real" with Buddy Guy on guitar. Chicago blues musician Lacy Gibson dead at 74 2011-04-12T18:07:47Z

“I couldn’t imagine how she could do this to her vocal cords — such power and technique,” the Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry said in an email; Harry promptly started seeing Galás’s vocal coach. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The cast is small, yet no absence is felt because each person plays multiple people simply by swapping out coats, caps and vocal inflections. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

I like the idea of juxtaposing semi-weird production with big pop vocals. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z

Interesting – many Hollywood types were vocal about finding Gervais too cruel when he hosted the Golden Globes. Rogue male 2013-04-07T17:00:01Z

Morrison’s vocals aren’t well captured; he sounds muffled and a bit abrasive — maybe that’s why the song never made it on the original record — but it’s nice to hear his sultry growls all the same. Hear the Doors? New Song ?She Smells So Nice? 2012-01-09T18:00:32Z

Now let’s turn our attention to a vocalist who epitomized — but couldn’t be contained by — jazz: Sarah Vaughan, “The Divine One,” owner of perhaps the most impressive vocal instrument in recorded history. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sarah Vaughan 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

If women hadn’t conducted nurse-ins and been vocal about why breastfeeding shouldn’t be seen as shameful, we wouldn’t be carving out policies that change policies of stores like Target. There’s no such thing as “TMI”: Talking openly about the body is a feminist act 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Best traditional pop vocal album: “Tony Bennett Celebrates 90,” various artists. Alessia Cara wins best new artist at Grammys 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

And I went into the vocal booth and I deliberately pitched my voice low the way she does. Garbage’s Shirley Manson Thrives on Unapologetic Heroines 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

From the opening “O Salutaris,” one of a series of liturgical songs composed for the last days of Advent, it was clear that this is an ensemble of individuals with strong vocal personalities. Review: The Rarely Heard Christmas Music of a Baroque Master 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Bang! podcast, Gardner will bring her impressive vocal work to the show. Meet the 3 New 'Saturday Night Live' Cast Members 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

And then there was the music itself, as immortalized on that infamous record: a fascinatingly dreadful stew of out-of-tune guitars, skittering drums and affectless vocals bleating out naïve, often haunting lyrics. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z

When you know you’re going to scream, you lay your head back, which spreads your vocal cords real wide, and when the scream comes out, it barely nicks your vocal cords. Books of The Times: ‘My Cross to Bear,’ Gregg Allman’s Memoir 2012-05-27T22:45:28Z

Allison: We don't record our vocals together - but every producer wants to try it. The Pierces' photo diary of their fifth album 2014-03-12T08:03:39Z

Some are more compelling than others, and inevitably this leads to discontinuities of vocal and theatrical characterisation. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z

Singer Love, 70, added "It was a thrill to be around a piano again with Brian, Alan and Bruce and experience firsthand the brilliance of Cousin Brian's gift for vocal arrangements." Beach Boys reuniting for new album, tour in 2012 2011-12-16T20:10:48Z

Somebody once wrote that my vocal "was more numbing than Novocaine". Portrait of the artist: Sharleen Spiteri, musician 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z

But a vocal minority abuse him about it nonstop, telling the star that as much as they liked “The Sure Thing,” his grammar and spelling sure stink. On the Twitter Patrol 2010-04-28T16:26:00Z

“When we did hear from Disney management, they were incredibly vocal to us about how much they like our brand, how much they admire the programming we did,” Newman said. Fox TV producers offered assurances ahead of Disney merger 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Featuring a woozy concoction of drunken horns, percussive beats and strange, backwards vocals, it's a disorientating swirl of a song that slowly draws you into its beautiful confusion. New music: BTU – Swordbeerfish 2013-02-28T11:54:00Z

It says — since a cantilena is a smooth, sustained vocal line — that the underlying idea of breath and legato connection carry through into dancing. Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z

A moment of aggressive winds illustrates the fires of Revelation, and the piece is filled out with spacious — if still understated — postludes after the vocal sections. Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Whether it's different vocal treatments or keyboards or even just air. My Morning Jacket get nostalgic on "Circuital" 2011-05-30T14:28:20Z

It’s almost unheard-of for a pop soprano in her 70s to surpass her younger self in stamina, precision of intonation and vocal command. Review: Judy Collins’s Clear, Pure Brook of Song 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Their audiobooks are enhanced by relevant passages of song or vocal mimicry — and as such possess a dimension beyond their printed versions. Review | Should celebrities narrate their audiobooks? Will Smith and Mel Brooks make the case for yes. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

This popular concert is a celebratory event where star singers contribute their services, rising vocal artists are showcased, and the latest winner of the Richard Tucker Award is introduced. Music Review: Richard Tucker Gala and Award at Lincoln Center 2012-11-12T22:56:42Z

Others, and some rather vocal cinematographers, worry that the instant version sacrifices precision and vision on the altar of convenience. Movie Review: ‘Side by Side’ With Keanu Reeves Charts Filmmaking Advances 2012-08-30T22:01:06Z

“It’s as if a person’s entire vocal apparatus has been shattered,” she said of one smothered effect. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital on Aug. 28 after she went into cardiac arrest during a minor surgical procedure on her vocal chords at Yorkville Endoscopy Center in New York City. New York Health Department Investigates Joan Rivers Clinic 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The song seamlessly blends sparse electronic beats with warmly cool vocals and inspired lyrics. Artist To Watch: Lorde 2013-08-23T16:08:30Z

RiTchie, from the group Injury Reserve, layers on multiple vocals, sung and spoken, and sounds completely unfazed by his surroundings: “You just gotta soak it all in,” he advises. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

You think of the years, and then you think of the opening song, how the first few lines of “Save Me” seem to send lang’s lush, languid pipes straight up a steep vocal hill. k.d. lang opens her ‘Ingénue Redux Tour’ in Seattle area 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The two will perform it at the CMAs, where it’s nominated for single and vocal event of the year. Miranda Lambert is a superstar. But can she get a No. 1 on country radio only if she sings with a man? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

And her soaring vocal line as she moves toward victory and then gives voice to doubt imbue her character with a kind of tragic grandeur that words alone could not achieve. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z

Now tied to Marvel as Captain America, Chris Evans has been more than vocal about his intention to dial down acting work following the end of his contract. The evolution of Channing Tatum: from 'dull beefcake dude' to XXL movie star 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

The British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, in superb vocal form, delivered a memorable performance in the role. Aix-en-Provence Festival Presents Mozart and Handel 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Although a vocal advocate for the nonfiction avant-garde, Wilson praised Oppenheimer for matching a creative vision to a subject of geopolitical significance. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

It's there on Sweetness Alive, which features the cute vocals of Guardian favourites Say Lou Lou, even in the ecstatic chorus. Goldroom No (1,512) 2013-05-14T17:27:47Z

He would give singers lyrics typed out on a page with no annotation and walk them through different vocal approaches, sometimes describing emotions or scenarios into the singers' headsets even as they laid down tracks. Pretty Lights gets deep on all-original new album 2013-07-03T15:56:09Z

The doleful vocals over gently epic, lushly orchestrated piano rock that soundtracks Vic's maudlin meditations – you could easily imagine this stuff catching on with that kind of audience. New band of the day – Satellites (No 1,431) 2013-01-15T15:37:00Z

No modesty is to be found in the “Glagolitic Mass,” a weird and wonderful massive work for big orchestra, chorus, four vocal soloists and solo organ. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Campaigners on farming and animal welfare were also vocal in their response to the Guardian’s findings, calling for stricter regulation of the farm use of antibiotics and warning on food safety. MRSA in pork: farming leaders join calls for clampdown on illegal antibiotics use 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Coburn's performance perhaps yielded more in the way of stunning vocal fireworks at the top of the range, but on Sunday, Lindsey's warmer tone achieved thrills that fully compensated at a slightly lower pitch. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z

Mr. King’s suave but impassioned vocals had a lot to do with it. Ben E. King, Soulful Singer, Dies at 76; Had Hit With ‘Stand by Me’ 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Wild Stab” is a very warm-sounding record–the production is deliberately rough, and the guitars and vocals have great tone. An indie rock Johnny and June: Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield team up for vulnerable, truth-telling “Wild Stab” 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

As eccentric as it is accessible, "1000 Forms of Fear" balances booming beats and Top 40-tooled melodies with idiosyncratic textures and vocals that reveal appealing imperfections. Sia promotes '1000 Forms of Fear' without facing the cameras 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Colaneri became part detective, tracking down obscure versions of obscure operas online and in libraries, and part MacGyver, adapting some vocal scores to make them work in their new context. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

And the vocals, let’s face it, they’re about drinking whiskey and chasing women and hot rods and outlaws. Brian Setzer Premieres New Song 'Let's Shake' and Reveals His Favorite Guitar Solo 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It is not that common for a big-voiced dramatic soprano to combine such easy power with such alluring vocal beauty. On the Disc, Not the Stage 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

I think it’s going to help me with the vocals for the album that I’m working on now. Sean Ono Lennon on remixing father’s music: It was therapy 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

It is also the tics, mannerisms and vocal patterns of its subjects. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

It was a style driven by m.c.s, many of whom were also producers, and a handful eventually took their vocal skills and stage charisma to the top of the British charts. Rabit and the Resurgence of Grime 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Grimsley, 54, will close out 2011 doing exactly that, performing as one of four distinguished vocal soloists in Seattle Symphony Orchestra's traditional, year-end program built around Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Beethoven's Ninth closes out 2011 at SSO 2011-12-23T07:47:28Z

He was equipped with three guitar chords, a screaming vocal style and an endless stream of punchy, provocative lyrics aimed at the Establishment in all its forms. David Peel, Downtown Singer and Marijuana Evangelist, Dies at 74 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

His vocals, by turns squalling and brooding, took their cue from the anguished emoting of down-home blues singers like Elmore James, as well as more sophisticated ones like Bobby Bland. Gregg Allman, Influential Force Behind the Allman Brothers Band, Dies at 69 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

The duo released its self-titled debut album earlier this year and is nominated for the vocal duo of the year award at the Country Music Association Awards in November. Steel Magnolia's Joshua Scott Jones enters rehab 2011-09-29T20:38:11Z

Biber composed a large catalog of instrumental and vocal music, but is largely remembered for his violin sonatas. Music Review: Daniel S. Lee Plays ‘The Crucifixion’ for Tenet’s TENEbrae 2014-03-24T22:40:14Z

She’s been vocal in her distaste for — and fear of — pop stardom. With ‘1000 Forms of Fear,’ Sia goes from hired gun to reluctant pop star

She did seek a less partial opinion, from "American Idol" vocal coach Matt Rohde, and no punches pulled. Meet the last women standing on 'American Idol' 2013-05-07T14:54:10Z

Indeed, the impulse to detach a vocal from its song is not always admiring. The Power of the Isolated Vocal Track 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Delivering his vocal lines with unsnarling warmth of tone, he added complexity to the role, pacing back and forth in obsessive straight lines and suggesting a terrible, bottled-up hatred. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z

Mr. Ronson’s song “Uptown Funk,” featuring Bruno Mars on vocals, holds as the No. 1 single for a third week in a row, with 400,000 downloads and 14.9 million streams. Meghan Trainor Opens at No. 1 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

There are backing vocals that sound like a Balkan choir. New band of the day ? No 976: Dark Dark Dark 2011-03-01T16:24:00Z

Here’s clockwork catchiness: layer upon crisp layer, all staccato rhythm including the vocals. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

But with fiercely athletic vocal parts distributed among competing roles, this work sometimes feels like the bel canto version of the Highland Games. Review: ‘La Donna del Lago,’ With Fiercely Athletic Vocals 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The performance ended with a final, clanging “been drinking whiskey like it’s water” and a devastating vocal solo: “That don’t touch—the pain you put—on—me.” Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

This was no ordinary vocal instrument but part of her musicianship as an actor. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The firings followed months of increasingly vocal criticism about the lack of racial diversity in the casts of the network’s most prominent shows. The Reality Behind ‘Below Deck’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Even more than I don’t like hazarding the infectious misery that commenting so often spreads, I don’t like giving power to  that vocal, influential plain old “rude” population. Does reading the comments affect your judgment? 2013-03-04T21:00:00Z

As an elegiac vocal reckoning with the past, it creates its own dramatic category. Perspective | Here are the plays that should have been nominated for a Tony. None were on Broadway. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

In the duet Duo Seraphim, which requires two striking vocal presences colluding and colliding with each other, his partner Baltazar Zuñiga's contribution lacked equivalent spark. La Venexiana/Cavina 2010-05-17T21:30:00Z

Franklin, nurtures his daughter’s vocal dexterity and piano skills is by taking her on the road, exposing her to his own brilliant preaching style and to great gospel singers like Clara Ward. Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Women’s Musical Genius Onscreen? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Rihanna’s star has risen steadily higher — and it’s not due to her modest vocal range. Why the red carpet is bad for fashion 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Many report doing their best work in their second and sometimes third trimesters, after symptoms like nausea and fatigue have abated and other physiological changes enhance their vocal power. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

It sounds simple: take the silky smooth vocals of a British crooner, add one slow-burning love song, mix in a backing gospel choir and — boom! — you have a chart-topping ballad. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

But a high A — a combination of genetic gifts, rigorous training and psychological discipline over two fragile vocal cords — is monumental, and unprecedented at the Met, according to its archivists. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

She layers her vocals with a loop machine, singing underlying motifs before adding the melody and then a harmony line above. Kimbra?s Road From New Zealand Leads to a U.S. Tour 2012-05-21T16:29:26Z

Using the performers' on-set vocals really adds grit and makes this come alive. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-05-11T05:00:14Z

He's come out as a fan of James Blake, last year's nervous breakdown poster boy, one whose tortured vocal 'n' piano-playing came with the added originality of dubstep production. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z

Dijon’s first solo singles in 2017 signaled a growing vocal urgency, putting his voice at the forefront of tender guitars and still-moody beats. At Union Stage, Dijon — once the member of a Maryland R&B duo — puts his soulful voice first 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

Jackman, perhaps encouraged to sell the drama of each song and not worry about the technique, throws a lot of vibrato into his solos, and occasionally translates Valjean’s agony as vocal strain. Les Misérables: The YouTube Version 2012-12-11T13:00:47Z

A Catholic school’s anti-gay snub Remember last month, when the Vatican issued a smackdown to American nuns for their “radical feminist themes,” like not being vocal enough about opposing same-sex marriage? HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z

Levon Helm's vocals are at their most plaintive and resonant on "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," a now controversial song that aches with sadness and loss. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

Together they formed musical groups that mixed percussion, vocals and comedy, and after experimenting with one-off performances using only brooms and garbage bins, they premiered “Stomp” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

It has the CD debut of “Beat City” and “I’m Afraid,” vocal and instrumental, as well as Newborn’s score, including music written for but not used in the film. Secrets of the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” soundtrack: “When you can hear the vocals, you say, ‘Oh my God, this song is about Cameron'” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Howard met her a decade ago, singing background vocals together in Nashville, she said. The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Though Zellweger has proven her capable chops in the musicals Chicago and My Own Love Song, she was never going to be a vocal ringer for the utterly singular, from-the-gut stylings of Judy Garland. High notes: why we should sing about actors who avoid lip-syncing 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

A comparison of the two scores reveals differences in dynamics, piano notation and phrasing, and in the rhythmic structure of the vocal line. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z

Both Ms. Carroll and especially Ms. Horne, however, lit brighter, more crackling vocal fires. Review: Vanessa Williams, Strong and Steady, Without Taking Chances 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Politicians and activists alike have been vocal of the potential danger of this legislation, with President Joe Biden calling it, "Jim Crow in the 21st century." Will Smith pulls slavery drama "Emancipation" from filming in Georgia over voting restrictions 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Yet she is our most obvious problem here: Her way of talking mixes seriousness and comedy in an awkward amalgam and in vocal tones that lack any spontaneity. Review: 10 Glimpses of Twyla Tharp the Minimalist 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The genres appear comfortable in a sonic rut – the raveish synthesisers that added an icy edge to Rihanna's Umbrella, Auto-Tuned vocals, arpeggios of 'rock' guitar – while the rest of pop music has caught up. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z

I love Britten's string quartet repertoire and there's not a lot of it, since he was mostly a vocal composer. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

The bluesy vocal line of the Prologue is underpinned by a score that seesaws between chamber scoring and rock guitar. Music Review: A Flood Of Songs Washing Over a City 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z

Many responded with thumbs-ups and smiley faces, but to others, in a week of vocal support for women, fashion’s mean girls seemed to have gone low. Fashion Week Runway Politics 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

He loops his breath, a sigh, a plosive exclamation and then layers vocals over the top of the track. Reggie Watts and Marie-Caroline Hominal Come to the Public Theater 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sigg was vocal about choosing Hong Kong because he wanted the works to stay on Chinese soil, but he was concerned about censorship at mainland institutions. Museums Special Section: Bringing a Flagship of Contemporary Art to Hong Kong 2014-03-20T15:01:20Z

In her 44 years, Holiday — whose restrained, emotive vocal style left an enduring mark on American popular music — lived a full but famously tumultuous life, one plagued by addiction. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the audible stress on their vocal resources, their delivery also strained at the edge between opera and spoken theater, and between Mr. Wilson’s manicured set and the audience in the hall. ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea,’ a Robert Wilson Production 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

He gained critical and popular success with the 1970 album "Sweet Baby James," which featured vocals from Carole King, a Kennedy Center honoree last year. Kennedy Center Honorees Announced 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

But when the Ryman stage is replaced, officials in some sense are altering an icon that is closely watched by sometimes vocal guardians of its cultural significance. Ryman Auditorium getting new stage after 61 years 2012-01-30T12:56:12Z

After rehab, he joined up with Queens of the Stone Age, handling lead vocals on several tracks from the band’s 2000 album “Rated R” and its 2002 follow-up, “Songs for the Deaf.” Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age Singer, Dies at 57 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Soper’s audaciously eclectic score deftly blends hints of everything from Renaissance vocal music to churchly chorales to sassy show songs to piercing modernism. Opera/Classical Music Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The pair clearly have chemistry, sharing vocals on a couple of songs and performing some deadpan formation dancing. Solange – review 2013-01-17T17:48:30Z

My preferred equalizer shape looks like a curvy “M,” which produces rich vocals and just the right amount of crispness. Review: Equalizer apps work better than Clari-Fi 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

All eight songs had completed vocals, but were in various stages of production before Timbaland and company fleshed them out. ArtsBeat: Michael Jackson Album to Offer Eight New Songs 2014-03-31T17:37:09Z

His other compositions include a tango for violin and orchestra, the orchestral work “Flyin’ Home” and vocal settings of poems by Pablo Neruda. William Thomas McKinley, Jazz-Loving Composer, Dies at 76 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Unlike the soulful vocal house of days gone by, this iteration of house music uses vocals as casual decoration, a weak counterpoint to its heavy rhythmic punch. Music Review: Swedish House Mafia at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-18T22:49:41Z

The vocals don’t compete with a rocket launch or dub-step drop. Tegan and Sara Bring Pop—and Heart, Of Course—to Heartthrob 2013-02-01T15:00:03Z

Litvinenko, who had been granted British citizenship and become a vocal critic of the Kremlin, died after someone slipped polonium-210, a rare radioactive isotope, into his cup of tea at a London hotel. Between Seth MacFarlane and the Onion, Oscars night was a festival of misogyny 2013-02-26T15:30:58Z

He was interested in vocal pop music from an early age and sang in his high school glee club. Tim Hauser, the Founder of the Manhattan Transfer, Dies at 72 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Futral inhabits this role and sings this demanding work with a mesmerizing combination of vocal elegance and expressive ferocity. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z

Most vocal performers would probably have canceled the show, but not Jones. Sharon Jones Returns from Cancer Treatment with Triumphant New Album 2014-01-15T16:56:19Z

Even the vocal parents protesting excessive homework loads are the exception rather than the norm. Motherlode Blog: The Destructive "Too Much Homework" Myth 2012-03-06T19:00:47Z

It features helium-high vocals, but something about them suggests not facetiousness but its benign cousin, playfulness, as though Frank Zappa's mordant humour had been tempered by Brian Wilson's knack for harmony. New band of the day ? No 895: ANR 2010-10-26T15:39:00Z

We'd do little exercises, body movements, vocal kind of strategies, warm up, things like that. Dianna Agron on embracing indies after "Glee": "When you ask for something, life can give it to you" 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Listen to the music, all low, slow and filled with haunted vocals that dull the otherwise exciting visuals. Is Star Trek Into Darkness Too Dark? 2013-05-17T22:17:31Z

Mr. Vickers was incapable of fudging a text for the sake of vocal effect, a priority he traced to his Christian upbringing, in which hymns and prayers were revered. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

“I like doing vocals on other people’s tracks,” she said. Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

A third disc, of 20 outtakes, includes some alternate versions with more extroverted lead vocals in the spotlight. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

In “Dream Dream Away,” it takes nearly three minutes of contemplative, slowly strummed guitar and abstract reverberation before Mr. McNew muses, in choirlike vocal harmonies, “Why cry? Why try? It’s all the same.” Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Anna is a role of unusual seriousness, with practically no moments for sheer vocal display. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z

They had finished the track and they were playing the track backward without a vocal track. Emmylou Harris returns to 'Wrecking Ball' 2014-04-03T21:36:00Z

Without descending to overt mimicry, Hanks captures Rogers’s body language and vocal intonations, and his own firmly established reputation for niceness adds an important element of credibility. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Bottom line: God didn't give Tim the greatest of vocal cords. "American Idol" recap: Holy war 2010-03-03T13:04:00Z

And when Morris sang the powerhouse hook on Zedd’s “The Middle” last year, her gritty vocals became widely recognized outside the country community. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

As far as the recording, the approach – we recorded… on most of the tracks, with live recordings, live lead vocals. Gordon Gano defends Lou Reed: “He was the exact opposite of everything that he probably deservedly has a reputation for” 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Both actors’ fans have made their stances clear on social media, though Mr. Depp’s are more abundant and vocal. In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

In 1973, while touring Africa, he was mugged, suffering irreparable damage to his vocal cords. Film: Tracing the Arc of a Tragic Folk Singer 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z

‘Mary was a vocal supporter of the strike,’ says film historian Eric Myers, ‘and this is one way they have of getting rid of her.’ Mary and MoMa: The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills 2012-01-11T19:14:15Z

The results were critically acclaimed and collected a Grammy nomination for best pop vocal album. Allen Toussaint launches Lyric Theatre concert series tonight 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, it was a solid, often fervent enough rendering of a piece that notoriously stretches the vocal resources of chorus and vocal soloists alike to almost unreasonable limits.  With a nod to the L.A. protests, Master Chorale rips into Beethoven's search for peace amid chaos 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Newest album “Upside Down the Mountain” was inspired by the ’70s Laurel Canyon folk scene and features vocals from Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, Elton John and more 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her soaring, high-pitched vocal provided a counterpoint to the lead vocals and the harmonized lower-register “wimowehs,” and the record spent three weeks atop the Billboard pop chart. Anita Darian, a Singer With an Eclectic Range, Dies at 87 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Lisa Bielawa uses snippets of overheard conversation in “Breakfast in New York,” a melodic vocal quartet with an inviting, detailed violin accompaniment. Music Review: In ?Five Borough Songbook,? 20 Composers Show N.Y. - Review 2012-01-15T20:56:39Z

But Anastasio tended to shout his vocals, perhaps to fight through a muddy mix that also made the everyman voices of Weir and especially Lesh sound even more ordinary. Grateful Dead pays slack tribute to legacy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Amid them, Ms. Calder’s vocal lines hop around, with gaps that welcome countermelodies and cross-rhythms, while the clarity of her voice lets her layer it into chorales that only grow airier as they thicken. Music: Music by Crooked Fingers, Cave, Kathryn Calder and Jane?s Addiction 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

Watch him singing Go to Hell on YouTube: it's an extraordinary, one-take performance of Ford simultaneously playing acoustic and bass guitar, drums, piano, and backing and lead vocals, thanks to his loop generator. David Ford: not just a singer-songwriter 2010-06-24T21:14:00Z

Taylor also decided to sing lead vocals on the album; on an early version, Gary Stringer from Reef was handling lead duties. Andy Taylor on new solo album: "It's the beginning of something that I didn't think I'd have" 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

Though they won a Grammy for the album Girl You Know It’s True, it later turned out they hadn’t recorded their own vocals, and they ended up returning the prize. Mariah Carey and 5 of the Most Awkward Lip Sync Snafus 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

The British-Irish vocal group, who won favorite music group and favorite song for "Story of My Life," avoided the slime, accepting the awards from London where they are preparing for an upcoming tour. One Direction, Ariana Grande win at Kids' Choice Awards 2014-03-30T02:24:38Z

Its songs, some of which are topical, draw on the rhythms and incantations of voodoo, the trumpeting of rara carnival music and hearty call-and-response vocal harmonies on their way to galloping, exultant dance grooves. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The two voices in the duet grind against one another, throat to throat and tongue to tongue, letting the listener in on the erotic pleasure of vocal intimacy. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

It feels revolutionary to see two actors in their 70s having drowsy, vocal, pleasurably filthy sex together. Glenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’ 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

He just has to keep looking after his vocal cords. The Man Behind Winnie the Pooh Speaks Up, Gently 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Trying something difficult, Dett blended spirituals, elements of folk music, late Romantic richness and stretches of operatically charged writing for four vocal soloists. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

His own interpretations of the part stand out for the singing smoothness that he brings to the high scales that wind in and out of the vocal part. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Whether the miscarriage stemmed from the exertion of those vocals is not clear. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

“I unsubscribe,” Butler sings repeatedly throughout “End of the Empire,” and Chassagne underlines it with her backing vocals until the line’s fleeting cleverness wears thin. Arcade Fire’s Enduring Anxiety 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

That release won Mars widespread fame and earned him a Grammy that year for best male pop vocals. Bruno Mars set to sing at Super Bowl half-time show, manager says 2013-09-07T22:32:10Z

Benjamin Britten fussed over the details of his operas, working hard to get every vocal line, pungent chord and instrumental color exactly as he wanted. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Isango Ensemble’s South African Setting 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“It was like making a music video in front of a gazillion people, except with live vocals, and only one chance to rock it,” he wrote. ArtsBeat: Red Hot Chili Peppers Didn’t Play Instruments at Super Bowl 2014-02-05T04:07:48Z

As a much younger person, I remember being put-off — even slightly frightened — by the song's utter strangeness, especially McCartney's daunting lead vocal. Paul and Linda McCartney's "Ram": Dramatic pop virtuosity that still shines brightly at 50 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

For much of the set he evoked the swooping charisma of Oum Kalthoum’s vocal lines, worrying and finessing his notes in service of the melody. Review: Ibrahim Maalouf Salutes a Great Arabic Performer 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

An artist in the Hindustani, or North Indian, musical tradition, Mr. Joshi was renowned as a master of the khayal, a genre of vocal concert music. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Dies at 88; Indian Classical Singer 2011-02-06T03:15:10Z

Generally, he does so by drawing inspiration from the ecstatic pop of the 1980s, particularly Michael Jackson, a clear vocal influence. The Weeknd’s Gleamy, Seamy Pop Returns 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The Tops track that everyone's raving about, Turn Your Love Around, is funk-lite with a pallid version of soul vocals, melodically malnourished, rhythmically bloodless and sonically anaemic – these are compliments, by the way. New band of the day – Tops (No 1,310) 2012-07-17T16:17:40Z

"Trespassing" is evenly divided between club-ready rhythmic pop tracks and a collection of moody melodic showcases for the vocal acrobatics that made Lambert a front-runner on the eighth season of "Idol." Adam Lambert talks new album, 'Idol' knock-offs 2012-05-14T12:11:14Z

Then the groove kicks in: fast and funky, as an urgently raspy vocal rides a jabbing modal desert-blues guitar line. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

One is always struck by the magical way the Sweet Honey voices meld and ricochet, and by the variety of vocal and rhythmic textures, moods and messages their music conjures. At the Triple Door: Sweet Honey, sweet harmony | Concert review 2012-12-05T20:55:35Z

This is the third time he has performed "Imagine" on the Idol stage, and each time his impressive vocals were showcased as he hits those high notes effortlessly. Archuleta's 'Imagine' performed well, but why must he change the lyric? 2010-04-11T20:31:00Z

They didn't want to know about the duo's music, a languid, lovely, drumless swoon of entwined guitars and vocals. Big Deal interview: 'It's best if there's room to wonder ? ' 2011-08-18T22:00:01Z

It’s Wade, though, whose vocal tone reminds me a little of last year’s winner, Josh Kaufman. 'The Voice' recap: The Knockouts separate the stars from the chaff 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Looking sharp in a blazer and red pants, Fitzpatrick belted out each song with a creamy vocal style reminiscent of Daryl Hall. Fitz and the Tantrums throw down at the Showbox 2012-01-22T02:00:06Z

Other tracks lack the sharp melodic hooks or the disarmingly agonized vocals that define such Blige classics as “Real Love,” “Not Gon’ Cry” and “Be Without You.” Mary J. Blige has a new album out. Has anyone noticed? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

She belts, yelps, mumbles and occasionally breaks — a subtle reminder that her impressive vocal acrobatics need no help from studio magic — across the album’s consistent dozen tracks. REVIEW: Sia Confronts 1000 Forms of Fear on New Album 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Rather, Parks was a practiced fighter on behalf of black women facing sexual violence, and she was vocal about the role white predation had played in her own life. The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of the year's most vital documentaries 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Bigger and bolder than their 2010 debut Crooks & Lovers, Mount Kimbie's forthcoming second album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth not only features vocals from King Krule but also from the duo themselves. New music: Mount Kimbie – Blood and Form 2013-04-09T13:00:00Z

The raw emotion in Van Morrison's vocals and the trance-like nature of the arrangements were very inspiring for this album! Video without commentary: "Grown Ocean" by Fleet Foxes 2011-03-30T17:08:05Z

“The vocal writing has an incredibly wide range, the imitative counterpoint is going back and forth in rapid fire between the two choirs, and Martin is using a 5/8 meter.” Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

All of them inhabit the mind, soul and vocal cords of veteran voice actor Rob Paulsen. "Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a bit of a messy collision — Madonna’s vocals sound as if they’ve been run through sort of a hyperpop vocal filter, and her segments of the song feel more aspirated than his. Pop’s Material Girls, Rich With Influence 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

In light of North Carolina, the GOP would be joining the chorus in a very vocal way if clean and fair elections mattered. Salon’s reader comments of the week: “America has destroyed nuance” 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The three-piece band blends bold beats, haunting vocals and lyrics taken from nineteenth century Icelandic poetry to craft sparse and delicate electronica that’s stunningly beautiful. From Brazil to Iceland to Korea: Go Around the World In 11 Bands 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

However, the rap tunes that Diplo spun — plus all of the prerecorded guest vocals during Fifth Harmony’s set — highlighted something irksome. The queen of this year’s Jingle Ball? Her crown is a beanie. 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Adjuah mixes in the odd SPD-SX drum machine or other synthesized percussion, but the album features almost nothing but acoustic percussion, vocals and the occasional sound of trees rustling or birds cawing. A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

“It is his reactions to her vocal travesties that really make the movie sparkle,” Mr. Genzlinger added. What’s on TV Tuesday: Lin-Manuel Miranda in ‘Drunk History,’ and Dolly Parton on ‘The Voice’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

“I Honestly Love You” also won two of the singer’s four Grammys, for record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female. Olivia Newton-John, Sweet-Voiced Pop Singer and ‘Grease’ Star, Dies at 73 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

His appointment was itself the subject of vocal objections, with prominent African American artists bemoaning that the top job hadn't been awarded to one of their ranks. Martin Luther King memorial: 'Drum major' quote to be removed at $1m cost 2012-12-13T16:53:05Z

It's that bigger, brasher, more commercial form of dubstep, with obvious hooks and guest singers delivering proper, showy vocal performances. New band of the day ? No 966: Engine-Earz Experiment 2011-02-11T13:50:23Z

Bates is a composer whose instrumental and vocal compositions are widely performed. Steve Jobs, the opera: Coming to Santa Fe in 2017 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Writing in the Guardian in 2011 David MacNamee wrote: It's the vocal register occupying the frequency range above the one a voice naturally speaks or sings in. Readers recommend: songs with falsetto 2013-05-30T21:00:03Z

Limited, unless annoying compression of vocal phrases into chipmunk bleats counts as a positive. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

The subject matter is largely celebratory, and the vocals are heavily processed and virtually post-human. Reviews: Jidenna, Chastity Belt, Sicko Mobb and Mickey Guyton 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

It features collaborations with Chance the Rapper, Daniel Caesar and her daughter Sy’rai, who sings on “High Heels” and performs background vocals on the single “Baby Mama.” New this week: Beyoncé, Alanis Morissette and Emmy noms 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

"It kicks into its groove from the first second, with some delicious riffs along with backing vocals that make the chorus very sing-a-along" – soundblab.com. New band of the day ? No 984: If the Kids 2011-03-11T16:07:06Z

Her vocal cords were damaged years ago in a botched operation, leaving her with an ugly scar and the inability to speak above a whisper. Damsels in Distress — or Causing It 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

She swiftly cultivated her vocal style, now her central weapon: an unmistakable, high-pitched, coy moan that oozes sex and allows her devilish, sensual raps to land with precision. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Amiable pop-punky vocals come carefully wrapped in radiant guitars as warm and comforting as a fleece blanket in November, making their Freakout appearance a well-timed cultural import. Ballard’s Freakout Festival brings psych rockers and hip-hop renegades to 8 venues this weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

A waltz called “Last Leaf” — with Mr. Richards joining on vocals — celebrates the image of a lone leaf clinging to a tree: “The autumn took the rest but they won’t take me,” Mr. Waits sings. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z

It would seem that everyone wants to survive for their own selfish needs because nobody ever likes anyone else, and are quite vocal in expressing themselves. Silver by Chris Wooding - review 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z

She turned to secular music as a teenager, forming a vocal group with two friends. Versatile, powerful R&B singer Etta James dies at 73 2012-01-21T01:20:04Z

Shame they don't have the vocals – one line is: "Why don't you tell me what's going on?" The Americans – TV review 2013-06-02T05:00:00Z

He’s 13 now and has released a Christmas EP that features a passionate and mature vocal performance from the budding superstar. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

In Yakuza, he plays a fierce saxophone and does some bruising lead vocals. Bloodiest – something completely different for Chicago's musical vagabonds 2011-06-23T11:40:09Z

There are more people that are vocal who are interested in change. A principal figure of the Black Lives Matter movement on leadership 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Williams' falsetto swerves through a cushiony choir, the layers of backing vocals becoming another percussion instrument alongside the hand-claps during the bridge. Review: Pharrell Williams keeps it light with 'G I R L' 2014-03-03T16:24:00Z

The music materialized part by part: pinging guitar picking, syncopated bass, stuttering drums and vocal lines that threaded through the instruments as often as they claimed the foreground. Music Review: Pop Second-Guessing Itself, Building Up and Coming Apart 2010-10-03T22:19:00Z

Cornell’s daughters certainly inherited their father’s vocal prowess. Chris Cornell’s ‘last fully completed’ album gets surprise release 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Then as they approached, we heard: vocal harmonies holding, shifting, droning, keening; a shared sound of moving parts, in search of something but in no hurry to find it. Review: Walking in Light on the High Line 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ai became a vocal critic of the Olympics and of the government’s extravagant support of that authoritarian fig-leaf spectacle, meant to project an image of modern China no matter the cost, no matter the truth. Ai Weiwei: A retrospective of his works

You have an engaging stage presence, but very modest vocal capabilities. American Idol, Miley Cyrus Week: Our Eggheads Debate 2010-03-24T13:12:00Z

He is also a vocal environmentalist and has addressed the United Nations on global warming and conservation. Leonardo DiCaprio to donate art installation to LACMA 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

They were church singers, and something about the way they layered the vocals was very powerful. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z

I love the non-fixed notes hanging over sounding like Carter Family vocals where they all sat around a microphone. Steven Tyler brings his country show — and his take on Aerosmith — on the road 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Far from their shimmering blend of shoegaze guitars and doo-wop vocals, the fuzz bass and splashing high-hats of new track Shine Like Stars sound like the rote trappings of just another indie band. Glasvegas ? review 2011-01-19T18:18:22Z

Perhaps they or vocal constituents misunderstood the project? Review: John Grade's 'Circuit' at Seattle's Davidson Galleries enlists nature as a collaborator 2010-09-23T20:24:00Z

Rivers, who was 81, was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan last week after she stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal chords. Joan Rivers Autopsy Leaves Cause of Death Unclear 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The trouble arose when it came time to record Ms. Krauss’s vocals. Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Wilford is a good singer who even strums guitar from time to time, but the acidity of his Judas prods him to roughly roar too many vocal lines. Review | Signature’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ looks hip and sounds vintage 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“I’m lonely, so homely/Can’t you relate?” is the singer’s approach to a “Lonely Girl,” as vocal harmonies surge in. New Albums From Weezer, Sam Amidon and Rich Gang 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Unintelligible vocals convey a feeling of surrendering to cosmic gobbledygook. Friday Favorites: Yuni in Taxco, The Good Sin, Witch Gardens 2010-12-17T18:03:05Z

There are two sides — active, vocal sides — to just about every food-supply issue on the planet. How do you solve a problem like monocrops?

The producer zigs with a dusty funk sample that plucks long-forgotten strings or blows tarnished horns, while the rapper zags with a polysyllabic vocal attack that packs in punchlines and internal rhyme. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

But earlier that same evening, all hell had broken loose during McCartney’s efforts to perfect his vocal. The Beatles’ struggle to finish “The White Album”: How bad did it get?  2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

A chopped-up vocal sample adds some life but never quite coheres into legible language, making the whole track sound like a benevolent transmission from another world. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

He opened with “Sidewinder,” off his latest EP, and its slightly moody, midtempo feel, led by Clay’s raspy vocals, set the tone for much of the performance. GWU alum Cautious Clay returns to town for a mixed show at the 9:30 Club 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

Farrell's yowling vocals, Navarro's overblown riffs, the aimless instrumental detours — they all felt cripplingly old-fashioned, a bloated holdover from the days when chest-beating bad boys ruled the Roxy and the Whisky. Looking forward, looking back at Sunset Strip Music Festival 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

In 2015 the two of them were among the veteran jazz singers who recorded alongside a vocal group called the Royal Bopsters and performed with the group at Birdland in New York. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The catchy dance track, which features vocals by Ssegawa Ssekintu, has the band playing a section of Mozart's String Quartet No 21. The classic pop of Clean Bandit 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

But even then, the infusion of a little more air, or the tiniest hint of vocal fry on a low note, evokes other musical worlds. Nora Fischer Bursts the Classical Music Bubble 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

He showcases his own vocals for the first time on the title track of his orchestral album, “Atmosphere,” released last year. Pop & Rock Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:11:06Z

Part of the problem might be the tepid sound, and – despite Alexis Taylor’s high-pitched vocals -- the group’s overall lack of charisma.  Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

There was London's Cold Specks, which featured the bruised vocals of Al Spx. SXSW 2012: It's a wrap 2012-03-18T19:19:00Z

The songs were recorded live with a rhythm section, and the producer Brian Deck overdubbed only the horn parts and the backup vocals. A Word With: Sam Beam of Iron and Wine 2013-04-19T17:27:31Z

Sampled and warped vocals, echoey synthesizers, turntable scratching and eruptive percussion all ricochet around his promises of hot times after sunset. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

Like most big Sondheim roles, it requires a certain level of vocal ability. Streep sings Sondheim, and finds her voice 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Sung passages are interrupted by vocal sighs; they take the singer’s breath away. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

It's lower than lo-fi, with vocals and sometimes even drums often buried beneath the guitars, but the hooks are golden, cutting through the soupy murk beautifully. Spacin': Deep Thuds – review 2012-12-20T22:30:13Z

King -- with Williams initially on drums and Aguilera killing the vocals in the final moments -- proved that while another season of “The Voice” has reached its end, the thrill is definitely not gone. 'The Voice' recap: 10 highlights from the Season 8 finale 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The play’s star and reason for being remains the expatriate American actress Sandra Dickinson, who amends her own signature vocal squeal to cut a throatily engaging figure as the backgammon-loving Ball. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

She has been a vocal campaigner for women’s rights – in particular, equal pay – ever since starring in the theatrical production of Made In Dagenham, about female factory workers fighting for this cause. Gemma Arterton: ‘​Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

Yet to lay down vocals for his striking new solo album, the 27-year-old made use of a different environment: his car. Blake Mills weighs in with new album 'Heigh Ho' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the biggest job of her career came recently, when she served as the vocal coach for the 2019 Broadway revival of “Oklahoma!” She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

She thought a lot about acting, and did some vocal warm-ups. Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

The album opens not with bouncy rock but with the wordless vocal harmonies and mournful descending chords of a track called “Think About the Days.” New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z

He is the most vocal champion of the designer and his elegant handbags and modernist ready-to-wear. Reed Krakoff takes on the fashion world with help from D.C. fans, including Michelle Obama

“She was vocal about wanting to elevate her brand,” he said. Elon Musk’s Model Mother, Maye, Prepares for Met Gala Debut 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

She specifies “the man you’re required to be” over a briskly ticking beat, vocal harmonies and bursts of strings; she wants honesty, attention and fidelity, which don’t seem that much to ask. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Dunkin’s grabbing of the knife still came as a surprise since the Labrador-Staffordshire Bull Terrier mix typically performs the stunt with a vocal command. Dog reacts to owner's fake choking in an unexpected way: 'Certified dogter' 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Tour the unchanged studio where the band Queen recorded seven of their albums, and Freddie Mercury’s final vocals. A Queen fan’s pilgrimage to a sleepy Swiss town where Freddie Mercury found tranquility 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“Last Jedi” also sparked criticism from a vocal segment of fans who did not like the movie’s tone and parts of the story. Coming to 'Star Wars': Emotional end for Skywalkers, and then what? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

“If I Could Only Remember My Name” is rooted in a folk-rock tradition, but, like many of Crosby’s solo records, it borrows tunings, time signatures, and vocal phrasings from jazz. David Crosby Celebrates His Ornery Self in the Documentary “Remember My Name” 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

In “On,” she stacks up choirlike vocals as she moves on from a romance: “We can’t go forward,” she decides, as a double time club beat ticks quietly behind her. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

He gave the vocal group Three Dog Night their name, and produced Little Feat's "Spanish Moon". Van Dyke Parks: return of a musical maverick 2012-06-15T21:55:10Z

Crow, who has long been vocal in her support of environmental issues and charitable organizations, recorded a public service announcement for the Humane Society that will be played extensively on TV. Sheryl Crow finds new groove as "Memphis" belle 2010-07-24T01:55:00Z

The tune’s arrangements remain sparse, with the same doleful acoustic guitar and Caws’ wistful, sadness-tinted vocals enough to pack an emotional punch. Blizzard of ’17: Nada Surf’s “Blizzard of ’77” is comforting catharsis in the face of snow day melancholy 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Big Hush’s principal affinities with dream-pop were the blurry quality of its vocals and the way its steel-wool guitars scrubbed the other elements. Big Hush moves beyond genre at Black Cat 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Later, the body of Leon sings a final monologue, like a benediction, in music that surrounds ethereal vocal lines with shimmering strings and pungent harmonies spiked dissonance. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Your vocal chords are about the size of a dime. Anne Hathaway on Les Miz, Singing Live and the Power of Hugh Jackman 2012-12-06T13:00:37Z

Perhaps mainstream male country music, with its system of entertainers putting across a vocal persona based on traditional masculine roles, is more inflexible than singer-songwriter pop. New Music: Mindless Behavior and LeAnn Rimes - Review 2011-09-26T22:44:16Z

As he plucked the vocal melody of “Ashes to Ashes” on his acoustic guitar, Bowie’s lyrics scrolled across my consciousness — “I’m happy, hope you’re happy, too” — and I felt like a participant. Perspective | This is what our nightlife sounds like in a pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Buble is canceling upcoming events due to pending vocal cord surgery. Michael Buble cancelling events due to vocal cord surgery 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

"If I'm Not Home: Ron Cooper, A Jazz Life" captures the luster and virtuosity of Cooper's vocals, as well as the quiet desperation of his days and nights. The jazz singer: Telling a tragic tale on film 2011-02-21T14:21:00Z

Blind Faith, a flatly brilliant pop record that sets a mournful, reggae-infused vocal against a vast diva-screamed chorus perfectly captures the euphoria and melancholy of the dancefloor at the end of the night. Chase and Status: No More Idols ? review 2011-01-27T15:30:01Z

Americans of all political beliefs are struggling with these free-speech issues as “fringe groups” become more vocal — empowered by a president elected, in part, by appealing to racism and bigotry. Perspective | To fight bigotry and hate, don’t muzzle it. There’s a better way. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

After a brief nod to "River" with Kristina Train providing a jazzy vocal on "Court and Spark," it was devoted to selections from the new album. Herbie Hancock & friends throw rousing jazz shindig 2010-06-25T22:05:00Z

Many fans best remember the moment when Mr. Paul’s otherwise subtle vocals jump as they reach the title words, stretching out “Me” and “and” into multiple syllables and repeating “Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones.” Billy Paul, singer who found hit with ‘Me and Mrs. Jones,’ dies at 81 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Del Rey excels at a kind of rumbling, oozy stasis — it’s like the ecstasy of being caught in a spider’s web — but Swift’s vocals are a mite too cheery to achieve the same effect. Taylor Swift, Caught Between Yesterday and Tomorrow on ‘Midnights’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Carlile's vocal support for John comes from a place of deep admiration: A long-time fan of his music, she has covered "Madman Across the Water" with rustic, soulful reverence. Elton John at 75 isn't winding down, but buoyed by his musical curiosity and open-mindedness 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Reznor hands lead vocals not to a Robert Plant soundalike, but to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, who is more than up to the task. Trent Reznor's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: More than Just a Soundtrack 2011-12-13T11:58:10Z

It wasn’t just that her vocals on Like A Prayer were pitchy. Madonna was excruciating: what we learned from Eurovision 2019 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mariel Sol and Daniel Holodek each sang several tango classics admirably, he with greater vocal caress, but she with crystalline diction and wonderful gradations between loud and soft. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z

She’d been in touch with the show’s vocal arranger, Liam Robinson, while he was in South Korea, she said, and he sent her a voice memo of an Irish folk song for a singalong. ‘1, 2, 3 … Exhale Together’: Broadway Families, Reunited at Last 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Compared to Mix's stripped-down "Posse" — drum machines, vocals, and that's it — Macklemore's music was a new hybrid: soft rock piano ballads reformatted as heavy hip-hop anthems, laced with horns and other live instrumentation. Concert review: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at the Showbox 03/05/11 2011-03-06T22:30:28Z

Providing his own vocals, he led a brief jazz interlude which included a minimalist rendition of Bell Biv DeVoe’s New Jack Swing staple, “Poison.” Yasiin Bey was one of rap’s brightest stars. His farewell concert was a stirring reminder. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

It doesn't require undue subtlety in performance, either, and the COG admirably placed the emphasis on raw emotion and vocal thrills. Alzira – review 2013-06-04T17:20:40Z

The platform was packed to the gunnels, nevertheless, with the 10 vocal soloists doubling as the chorus and an orchestra of 18 players. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z

Towards the end, the band reassemble on a stage behind the mixing desk for four-part vocal harmonies and a little strumming; a campfire moment that is sorely needed after all that barnstorming. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z

He was a little scratchy between songs, but the wreck didn't affect his vocal cords at all. U2 is still a can-do band, as its first Forum show amply proves 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Although the vocal line here is lyrical and direct, stormy orchestral interludes suggest inner turmoil. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

If one were to define a vision of hell, it might be a perpetual Sunday afternoon listening to Cliff Adams's vocal ensemble singing something simple on Radio 2. Sing Something Simple – review 2013-03-11T17:48:24Z

The downside for some might be that this is a largely vocal album, of a downbeat, laconically murmured, American Everyman kind. Wayne Krantz: Howie 61 – review 2012-05-24T21:30:01Z

Working with Mr. Stewart, Mr. Harrell began to refine his talent for producing vocals to the level where he’s now on retainer for his biggest clients, who won’t record without him. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z

By relaxing his vocal cords while engaging in circular breathing, he is now able to play three-part inventions, seeming to accompany himself. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Several hits and one stage gaffe later, they sensed the precariousness of their situation and told Farian to let them do their own vocals on future tracks. 20 epic fails from the history of pop culture 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s a little bit like vocal cartooning when you’re asked to match somebody’s voice,” he said. Robert Rietti, a Familiar Voice, Dies at 92 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

In that lament, and in all the songs she performed, the soprano Jennifer Zetlan abounded in vocal warmth and dramatic fervor. Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

The ballad's piano and acoustic guitar provide the perfect backdrop for Potter's tender vocals. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals release a powerful new album 2012-06-11T21:01:04Z

She gives her guitar a steady, placid strum, with soothing piano and strings and oohing backup vocals, but the city lights she sings about are indifferent. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

His vocals, snarling and aggrieved, are buried under layers of processing. Sturgill Simpson Leaves His Old Sound (and the Spotlight) in the Rear View 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The new track keeps to The Strokes’ signature guitar sound with Julian Casablancas’ tiny, distorted vocals. The Strokes Just Released Their First New Song in Years 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

To a new generation of listeners, Mr. Scott’s peculiarly haunting vocal style was a revelation. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88

Jones would set everything up so Grohl could come in and lay down the drums, then a couple of guitar tracks and a bass part in that order, saving vocals for the last two days. Foo Fighters’ Hall of Fame journey began with 2 friends in a Seattle studio 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

I am Christian and I was very vocal about that at first until people started using it against me. Q&A with Disney Star Selena Gomez 2011-06-28T17:10:00Z

During “Burn,” the bandleader arranged kinetic motifs for strings, percussion and bass clarinet alongside chattering vocal pyrotechnics — all while fostering a paradoxical sense of ease. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

The vocal lines have long passages of chant and the medieval equivalent of pop tunes. ‘The Play of Daniel,’ at Trinity Church 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Along similar lines, “Peaceful Morning” juxtaposes a banjo and acoustic bass with a raft of vocal harmonies evocative of Vampire Weekend. Review: Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Evoke Dreams and Ghosts 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Remember a few years ago when certain culture consumers began an ongoing obsession with “vocal fry”? It’s a guttural quality which, frenzied observers insist, is perpetuated by young women and needs to be stopped. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

A representative for Aguilera said she "has been advised by her doctors not to perform due to a vocal illness she has been trying to shake all week." The Latest: Wonder, Khan wow crowd at Prince tribute show 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

This kind of opera demands vocal and physical gestures that only work at a certain distance. Pagliacci ? review 2011-03-02T19:40:01Z

Some residents, nearing or past retirement age, are less vocal about those violations now than they once were. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

The song is messy and warped—a bright spot in the producer’s vocal début, “The Drum Chord Theory,” where he tries his hand at singing for the first time. Listening Booth: “Baby Girl” by Matt Martians 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

He is vocal about how being an immigrant influences his mind-set. Is Prabal Gurung the most woke man in fashion? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

His recording of Britten vocal works on the Avie label, titled “Still Falls the Rain,” made my list of the best CDs of the year. Music Review: Musica Sacra in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-21T22:47:06Z

A vocal quaver, a guitar trill, some new quick notes in a bass line, a flicker of extra drumming or a burst of ululation from the group’s female singer, Wonou Wallet Sidati, all became events. Music Review | Tinariwen: Hot Breath of Saharan Rock Blows in From Africa 2010-02-19T23:22:00Z

The most vocal opponents include Gloria Steinem and Deborah Glick, the first openly gay member of New York’s legislature, who view paid surrogacy as patriarchal, exploitative and even akin to slavery. The Fight for Fertility Equality 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

She was a frontrunner throughout the competition, largely because of her obvious vocal talents. Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle on her solo debut 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z

His vocals leap among croon, rap and falsetto; his tracks can switch from skeletal beats to swirling electronics to plush phantom choirs delivering pop choruses. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The 73 year old was plagued by vocal ailments over the five years, but has returned in full force for a yearlong worldwide tour that passed through Korea, Israel and California. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scott is on there, too, but there is a cardboard blankness to his vocal texture. Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott Fumble Toward Yesterday’s Prize: A No. 1 Album 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, Blake's music and the vocals are fairly obviously working in tandem towards a common goal. James Blake: James Blake - review 2011-02-03T15:30:00Z

What worked best was the vocal harmonizing between Mr. Greenberg and Ms. Meath; her clarity against his haziness was a good thing, especially over the dream-state pulse of a ballad like “Nam Champ.” Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z

He earned two nominations in the single, vocal event and best album categories each, which honor both producers and artists. Lambert, McGraw each score seven nods at Country Music Awards 2014-01-29T19:09:37Z

If top notes sometimes seemed a little pushed, over all she sent the vocal lines soaring with warm sound. Music Review: Plush and Lyrical Strauss (and That?s Just the Conducting) 2011-05-08T21:53:47Z

She decides to stay with someone until morning; she’s joined by a growing string ensemble and bolstered by a traditional beat and vocal harmonies. A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Runaround, the first single from the band's third studio album The Red Blooded Years, shows off their formula of acoustic rock, distinctive vocals and riffs. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

The nadir arrives in the plaintive “How,” a woe-is-me ballad undercut by Spektor’s wordless vocal interjections that sound as if someone were pinching her arm. Album review: Regina Spektor, 'What We Saw From the Cheap Seats' 2012-05-30T02:12:00Z

Ms. Kisanak’s party also sponsors Kurdish acting and vocal groups across the region. Abroad: For Kurds in Turkey, Autonomy in Music 2011-06-01T13:26:46Z

As conductor, pianist, organist, vocal coach and lecturer, he influenced countless singers, instrumentalists and listeners. George Fiore, former Seattle Opera chorus master, dies at 87 2013-08-30T01:50:48Z

As well as One More Time, his vocal featured another track from the Discovery album, Too Long. Daft Punk collaborator Romanthony dies aged 46 2013-05-20T09:32:03Z

The haze was in much of the music itself: a lavish application of reverb and distortion, of feedback and noise, of watery keyboard sounds and echoey, indecipherable vocals. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z

It's the rhythmic, languid, crooning vocals that are important, and he's still in classic form. Wilson Das Neves: Pra Gente Fazer Mais Um Samba.; The Ipanemas:Que Beleza 2010-07-01T21:46:00Z

It remained an important part of Carter's life: In the 1970s, he wrote a cycle of vocal music based on the writings of poets including Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and Hart Crane. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

Johnny Winter, an American blues rock guitarist, vocalist and band leader known for his virtuoso slide-guitar solos and raspy vocals, was found dead in a hotel room outside Zurich, Swiss police said on Thursday. Blues legend Johnny Winter found dead in Swiss hotel room 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

There are many categories of salad snob—the ingredient minimalists, the chop evangelists, the dressing-goes-in-the-bowl-first brigade—but perhaps the most vocal, and the most misguided, are those dedicated to the denigration of iceberg lettuce. It’s Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

She attended church regularly — along with youth groups and church camp — and sang in the choir, where she learned to love building vocal harmonies. Hannah Jadagu Turns Small Moments Into Big Pop Songs 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Other readers countered Mr. Isherwood’s argument with praise for singers who are keeping Broadway’s vocal standards high. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Where Are the Voices? 2011-04-18T12:00:41Z

It’s hard to listen to the muffled vocals and not be reminded how much singer Julian Casablancas owes to Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus. The Strokes’ energetic return: Play “spot the reference” in this dizzying pastiche video 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

“I never was alone,” Ms. Lindsey said, over the sound of soaring vocals. In New Orleans, Spreading the Gospel Through Song and Community 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

The set concluded with LeMont and the band creating a triumphant vocal drone over drums and trumpet. Rain returns, but can't slow down Pitchfork rockers Atlas Moth and Cloud Nothings 2012-07-14T19:41:00Z

Fallen Empires' title track is a full-scale trance moment, performed with support band Everything Everything on ululating backing vocals. Snow Patrol - review 2012-02-13T17:50:23Z

And as technologically empowered mini-moguls, we take vocal and proprietary interest in how they expand, contract, morph and otherwise transform over time. From ‘Birdman’ to Zellweger: the actor as screen object

One exception is Violent Dreams, where each beat sees a fraction of a second cut from the tape, and Alice Glass's vocals are slashed to ribbons of meaninglessness. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles 2010-05-20T22:29:00Z

Midgette: And here I am the big vocal aficionado who went to “Sweeney” prepared to hate it and I didn’t — at all. Into the woods of musicals’ sounds: Two critics on what sings on stage and screen 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Largely wordless vocals are fractured and spliced amid some things catchy, some things creepy, but all things great. James Blake Is As Crazy As Ever On His New EP 2011-12-20T18:10:45Z

This approach recalled earlier Dischord bands, which often subordinated vocal melodies to guitar lines. At the 9:30 Club, Jawbox’s sound is both bristlingly contemporary and an echo of the past 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

Nicks, a two-time Grammy winner known for her haunting vocal style, was inducted into the Hall 20 years ago as a member of the popular 1970s group Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks, Def Leppard early favorites for Rock Hall of Fame 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

The group was also distinguished by its vocal harmonies and interplay between Mr. White, a tenor, and Philip Bailey, who sang in falsetto. Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at 74 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

A quarter-century ago, Rose would hold up the start of Guns N’ Roses shows for hours because of vocal difficulties. Although revamped, AC/DC remains ready to rock all night long 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Moore said that Streep, who lent vocal support to Arquette from the Academy Awards audience, was pushing hard to convince the three more states required for ratification of an equal rights amendment. Michael Moore: Meryl Streep should run for president 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

At first there was only a single vocal melody, sung either by a soloist or a small group of male clergy. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

A cyst was eventually discovered inside his vocal cords; after a delicate operation in 2009, he couldn’t speak for some time, let alone sing. A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Sepultura take the samba drums, regiment them and deploy them atop volleys of guitar and contrasting vocals that both growl and jabber. Readers recommends songs about South America: The results 2010-06-24T22:00:00Z

We've pulled together a list of nominees and winners in each of the top categories, including record of the year, album of the year, song of the year, best new artist and top vocal performances. Grammys 2012: Nominees and winners in all the key categories 2012-02-13T12:00:00Z

For years, Carlyle was a vocal political animal. Robert Carlyle: 'I took out two teeth and suddenly Begbie came back to life' 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

She sings Mr. Rihm’s vocal lines, all wordless “ah” sounds at first, unfolding in piecemeal phrases. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

From guitar boogies to power ballads, from Mr. Perry’s blatant Rolling Stones lifts to Mr. Tyler’s stacked-up vocal harmonies, Aerosmith exults in familiarity. New Music: Aerosmith and Ne-Yo Don’t Hold Back 2012-11-05T22:41:32Z

Taylor Swift won best country song and best female country vocal performance, both for the track White Horse. 2010-02-01T00:43:00Z

These late-afternoon shows, with recorded music, are separated from midday vocal and instrumental presentations, but when Ms. Srinivasan dances solo on Friday night, the music will be live. Review: Indian Dance Amid a Luxury Store Backdrop 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

With his sizzling guitar work and vocals to boot, Crenshaw brings the song to life in innovative fashion. A Todd Rundgren tribute: "Someone/Anyone?" compilation lovingly covers "Something/Anything?" 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The audience knew exactly when to expect favorite moments, like Mr. Tamborello’s vocal cameo on the chorus of “Sleeping In.” Music Review: The Postal Service Delivers at the Barclays Center 2013-06-16T21:03:16Z

Lady Gaga has two nods: “Million Reasons,” for pop solo performance; and “Joanne,” for pop vocal album. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

He toys with guitar tones and production strategies; he takes more liberties with his vocals; he leaves things less glossy. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Every essential is there: vocal and physical beauty, superior technical resources, a wide range and a deep musicality that allows her to communicate words and music without affectation. Mezzo Joyce DiDonato dazzles in sold-out song recital at U. of C. 2011-02-19T21:07:00Z

The formidable vocal challenges of the title role surely contribute to the infrequency of staged productions. Review: In ‘Daphne,’ the Cleveland Orchestra Takes on a Difficult Strauss Opera 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

It starts with a tinny music-hall bounce that swells into a rich, chunky rhythm, accented with a chirping, distorted vocal that sounds trippy and modern. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Judge Steven Tyler said it's not unusual for steroids to be used for a vocal cord injury. `American Idol' to crown winner in country contest 2011-05-25T14:57:08Z

Museums worldwide have been increasingly vocal about promoting racial and gender diversity when acquiring and exhibiting artworks. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

But in 2004, her vocal chords were damaged by Lyme disease, which also afflicts people with lethargy and joint pains. Shania Twain bounces back with "Now" 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Their collection soon stretched much further back, with a wealth of Gilbert and Sullivan material, as well as Noel Coward's own vocal score of Bitter Sweet, signed by him and the entire cast. UK's largest collection of memorabilia from musicals left to the V&A 2010-12-15T19:31:57Z

There's a beauty in the melody that conjures up a cinematic romanticism with the soft-spoken, whispered, gentle vocals to amplify this emotion. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z

Shaped anew each year by the tastes of its artists, the Resonant Bodies Festival, an immersion in contemporary vocal music organized by the intrepid Lucy Dhegrae, has swiftly become an annual delight. Resonant Bodies Festival Showcases Contemporary Vocal Music 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

With vocal backing from the Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun, who had played a brief opening set, and Melanie Gabriel, his daughter, Mr. Gabriel allowed himself some friskiness, no longer so weighty or dire. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z

Listening to the confidently deeper vocal tones of his 39-year-old self, he yelps and screams, entering into a dialogue with the younger Krapp, mocking his artistic ambitions. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z

Her subsequent courage is all the more remarkable and cause for a gradual deepening of vocal resources that leads to a gorgeous rendition of “Vissi d’arte.” Opera Review: ‘Tosca’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-12-12T23:23:47Z

So is the abrasive challenge of Downs: Hitchcock's careening vocal, Mills bouncing a basketball for percussion, steel drums, queasy horns and slide guitar combine to brilliantly unsettling effect. Big Star Third – review 2012-05-29T12:42:27Z

She's shoved into the spotlight when her talent for vocal mimicry is discovered. Bold characters in 'Little Voice' need a little nuance 2012-03-23T20:43:04Z

The program’s narration, given an extra jolt via the vocal talents of F. Murray Abraham, keeps referring to “the python army.” Television Review: They?re Big and Ready to Eat Florida 2010-02-19T23:03:00Z

Their concerts never lived up to the record’s soaring sounds, with Brown’s vocal quality constantly called into question. They Wanna Be Adored: The Stone Roses to Reunite for Tour 2011-10-18T15:55:37Z

Susan Bullock was the evening's vocal lynchpin, characteristically sympathetic and intelligent as both Isolde and Brünnhilde. Wagner 200 in London – review 2013-05-23T17:23:07Z

It moves through the many phases that Wolf Alice is capable of inhabiting: chanting guitar cords, anthemic vocal effects, and rapping, as well as pure, attractive melodies. Down the Rabbit Hole with Wolf Alice 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Everything one can learn about recording bass, drums, vocals and strings is perfected in this record. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z

Like, I’m violated on a twin bed and it’s hard to think of vocal technique because I have an actor on top of me. ‘I Deserve to Be Here’: Riding His First Professional Gig to Broadway 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

He cut short a concert on Friday at the Oya Festival in Norway after just four songs, complaining about vocal problems, according to the Hollywood Reporter. ArtsBeat: Frank Ocean Cancels European Performances 2012-08-14T15:17:37Z

Workshops will be given in vocal percussion, hip-hop dancing and golf, and anyone can take part in Little Club Heads, a dance party for children 1 to 10 and their families. Spare Times for Children for July 27-Aug. 2 2012-07-26T22:37:49Z

Mechanical Songs is weird city with its phased vocals. New band of the day ? No 834: The Smiles and Frowns 2010-07-27T16:32:00Z

Great composers wrote vocal lines that hewed to the sounds and flow of the words in the libretto, and that bond is hard to mimic even in the best translations. Review: Gifted Singers and an English Translation Enhance a Janacek Opera 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

They're not as energetic as they once were, their vocals aren't as powerful, but an obvious camaraderie still exists as well as a touch of rebellion. Review: Veteran actors elevate `Stand Up Guys' 2013-01-29T21:46:05Z

At the time, Scorsese was a vocal critic of the move and wrote an open letter to museum director Michael Govan saying he was "deeply disturbed" at the decision. Scorsese and Hockney honoured in LA 2013-11-04T11:28:10Z

But Mr. Shepherd added it appears the vocal that the audience heard was the live version. ArtsBeat: Beyoncé's Anthem Performance Prompts a Flurry of Analysis 2013-01-23T21:13:06Z

"He met me off the train and took me straight to Trident studios to record backing vocals on his cover of Love Me Tender." Mick Ronson: sideman and Starman 2013-04-25T11:24:51Z

The 37-year-old pop star recently resumed his tour after canceling several dates because of bruised vocal chords. Timberlake pops in on patients at Texas children’s hospital 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

So then we came up with a guitar riff and I sang it in a higher key, and I did the whole thing myself, without the answering vocals from the backing singers. What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The song features gang vocals and funky guitar stabs that ape The Clash at times, but with an overall animation that puts it right up there with anything from Franz Ferdinand’s lauded past. A Right Dance-Worthy Album from Franz Ferdinand 2013-08-30T09:45:31Z

Marcos visits a breeding center where we learn of severing vocal cords to make the livestock more docile — “meat doesn’t talk,” the owner quips. What if the Meat We Ate Was Human? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Rogers loved singing vocal harmonies, something he learned from his older sister in the church pews when they were kids. Perspective | Kenny Rogers made life’s rough edges feel smooth 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

There are vocal recordings, too, of both of Solange’s parents, who speak of their experiences with racism, segregation, and black pride. Solange Knowles’s Album of Black Life in America 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Within an hour of entering the house after his release, Gucci laid down the vocal for “1st Day Out tha Feds” to a skeletal beat. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Sia doubles down on her vocal eccentricities, slurring the lyrics and reveling in the rough spots. Review: In ‘This Is Acting,’ Sia Adheres to Her Victim-to-Victory Formula 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Her last performance in “Spider-Man” was on Dec. 20; the production has said that she has been on vocal rest since then, under doctors’ orders. Spider-Woman Is Leaving Troubled ?Spider-Man? 2010-12-28T23:20:32Z

Ringo, 77, real name Richard Starkey, joined the Beatles as a replacement drummer for Pete Best in 1962 and occasionally sang lead vocals, notably in “Yellow Submarine” and “With a Little Help from my Friends.” Arise Sir Ringo: Beatles drummer knighted in UK honors list 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Magnificat, a British a cappella vocal group founded in 1991, gave a splendid noontime performance at the Church of the Epiphany downtown Tuesday, the pews and rafters vibrating sympathetically to the quintet’s exquisite intonation. A cappella group Magnificat breathes life into sacred music from 16th century Britain

Creed The absolute worst purveyors of a certain post-Vedder brand of earnest baritone wheezing masquerading as vocals in a very long line of bands subsequently featuring earnest baritone wheezing masquerading as vocals. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

One student who shares a class with Maynard told me, a bit snidely, that she sometimes seems more vocal in the classroom than the professor himself. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

But she dominated the room from the start, showing a vocal power that is never evident from the album, and an easy, charming stagecraft. Tulipa ? review 2011-04-01T21:30:01Z

Wallen’s victory comes as a vocal cord injury benches him from touring until June 22. Morgan Wallen, a Chart Powerhouse, Hits 10 Weeks at No. 1 (Again) 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Business pressures like pending multimillion-dollar deals can pit those identities against each other, placing Murphy at odds with his vocal support of social justice and inclusion. The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

But Goldstein clearly knew the vocal when he wrote his review, which makes him wonder whether the speaker on his system wasn’t completely blown, just damaged. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The transition is slightly abrupt — Drake arrives like an interjection, but it’s clear that the melting quality of Fetty Wap’s vocals feel like a familiar, soft landing for him. Fetty Wap’s Tweaked Sound Yields Hit in ‘Trap Queen’ 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

As her husband’s reelection effort entered the homestretch, she became more vocal in her support of the administration and its talking points. Vegas may be betting on a post-presidential divorce, but Melania Trump seems all in for her husband. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Sound designers like Gates have a stable of vocal performers to “loop” audio, the term for taping sounds or lines, and even creating background dialogue. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The 25-year-old vocal instructor from Pine Hill, N.J., tweeted Tuesday night that he no longer would be on the Fox singing contest. 'American Idol' finalist tweets that he's gone 2012-03-14T12:40:11Z

So there’s very few overdubs, and the vocals were pretty much all done with the music. 2010-01-29T04:18:00Z

Feral, animal-like programming effects and creaks cloak her lively piano and a sinewy vocal performance. The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The part that is A.I. is taking the harmonics and the timbre of the vocal and moving them to be consistent with my voice, as opposed to the person’s original voice. Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

The pop icon supported Hillary Clinton for president and was a vocal critic of Trump during his campaign. Madonna on Donald Trump's Inauguration: 'We Can Only Go Up From Here' 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

DiCaprio is widely viewed—especially by his vocal fan base—as the most overdue and overlooked actor in Hollywood, someone who is continually snubbed for his work. Leo’s Oscar isn’t overdue: He hasn’t won before because he didn’t earn it 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Fred Cash remembers the day he joined the Impressions in 1958, a mere teenager starting what would be a five-decade ride in one of the great vocal groups of all time. The Impressions keep on pushing 2012-06-28T15:58:00Z

Despite the rare sign of progress between the two sides, the crux of the dispute — control of Chris Cornell vocal recordings that the band contends were for an in-the-works Soundgarden album — remain unsettled. Soundgarden to regain control of social media accounts in deal with Vicky Cornell 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Rivers, who was 81, suffered cardiac arrest during an examination of her throat and vocal cords at the Yorkville Endoscopy center on Manhattan's Upper East Side and subsequently died in a New York hospital. New York clinic that treated comic Joan Rivers sued over her death 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

He studied vocal performance and opera in college and was a self-confessed a cappella nerd growing up — he was part of the group Midnight Voices that would serenade friends, mostly of the female variety. He won fame on TV but found a home on Broadway 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Her juxtapositions — of vocal approach, of genre, of era, of tempo — feel sui generis. Will Lizzo Rule the Grammys Like She Owned 2019? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lennon, for his part, encouraged and promoted her vocal work. Review: In ‘Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,’ Text Messages From the Edge 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

In any case, retro rock fans hoping for another ecstatic night of screaming guitars, screeching vocals and scorching wit will find only the first two of those ingredients on display here. | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

A relentless hard disco loop with an incessant, maddening vocal refrain: “I’ve got to find the answer to the question.” The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Its plangent slow movements and its bright, assertive and often rhythmically quirky fast ones seem almost to cry out for a vocal line. Music Review: Baroque Style?s Evolution Is Traced Across Europe 2010-10-12T21:45:00Z

Over the brisk four-song set, airy beats give her resonant vocals plenty of breathing room, like a decanted fine wine. 15 of the best Seattle albums of 2021 (so far) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

But he incorporated hip-hop posturing into his vocals, and his blend of cocksureness and haunted melancholy became a genre staple. Nate Dogg, Hip-Hop Collaborator, Dies at 41 2011-03-17T04:31:55Z

Forget sleek modernism: this is where shouty vocals collide with stomping beats and great big dollops of rave keyboards. New band of the day – IROK (No 1,387) 2012-11-05T17:54:00Z

I did half the vocals of my new album by 5 a.m. in my nightgown. Debbie Gibson Is Not Going to Get Stuck in the Past 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The apparent double standard highlights divisions between Indonesia’s largely tolerant majority and a vocal minority of Islamic hard-liners. Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z

And the vocal performances were in general excellent. Music Review: Opera Omnia Takes ‘The Return of Ulysses’ on a New Route 2013-09-11T21:05:22Z

But the strongest vocal performances of the weekend came on Friday evening from the bass-baritone Eric Owens and the soprano Melody Moore in “Macbeth.” At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

All the vocal lines skirt rhythmically square recitative and tender arioso, sung over a subdued disco track. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Away from the backing band’s high-decibel impact, the harmonic details of Little Big Town’s four-part vocal arrangements were in sharpest relief. Review | Little Big Town mixes searing and saccharine at the Anthem 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

But the characters and settings are attractively designed, and the vocal performances have real color and a sense of fun that gently undercuts the treacle sincerity of certain obligatory kid-pandering moments. Review: 'Guardians' a lively 3-D storybook spree 2012-11-19T22:31:05Z

Jagger may have been miffed that his vocals are sometimes swallowed up in the soupy mix but he sings with real passion throughout and seems galvanised by the raw rock'n'roll the group are making. Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z

Budries said good vocal coaching is critical to maximize comprehension while maintaining the show’s artistic vision. ‘Matilda’ complaints reflect Kennedy Center’s acoustic issues 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Most of the tempos approach the stateliness of arena anthems; the arrangements are filled out by strummed guitars and vocal chorales. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z

The control and detail of the musicianship, the intricacy of the guitar lines, the complexity of the vocals, the impulsiveness and delicacy and force of Brian McOmber's drumming, are breathtaking. Dirty Projectors ? review 2010-12-12T22:30:00Z

The National is surprisingly polarizing, with naysayers writing off Berninger's vocals as monotonous. Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Several vocal takes, including the elegantly groovy single “It Must Change,” were recorded only once. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

These users were primarily vocal women, who make up 75% of those targeted online and are 25 times more likely to be harassed with malice then men are. The future isn’t unisex: Reform’s big gender blind spot 2013-12-19T19:38:00Z

Though she was vocal about Black art and artists, Dr. Lewis said that, especially in her teaching, she tried to draw on her expertise in Asian art and other areas to make connections. Samella Lewis, Artist and Activist for Art World Diversity, Dies at 99 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

The song, which featured vocals by Shawn Christopher, reached number two in the UK singles chart. DJ faces 'career-ending' ear injury 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Combs says the early instrumental demos sounded like Krautrock, but with vocals added, sounded like pop. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

On her first two albums, released within the past few years, she whipped up a fast froth of electric guitar and yelping vocals, turning strenuousness into a life force. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

As a vocal sound, in Morrison's music, it describes itself, onomatopoetically: that's what you hear when, as a singer, he makes a rip in his own song, in his own sound. Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

An eclectic mix of choice cuts from the electronic and hip-hop scenes – analogue, digital and vocal goodness. Blog jam: Friedmylittlebrain 2012-12-18T10:53:00Z

She looked uncertain only once, when it appeared that her in-ear monitors were malfunctioning, and her vocals ebbed in strength as she grappled with the problem. Music Review: Rihanna at Prudential Center 2013-04-29T18:04:08Z

I was a little concerned about my vocal stamina, but that seems to be there. Music: James Taylor and Carole King?s ?Troubadour Reunion? Tour 2010-06-03T15:39:00Z

And often, behind the sleek electronics and the tidy vocals, a certain desperation comes through. In ‘Glory,’ Britney Spears Promises Pleasure, but Offers Nothing Personal 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Domingo brought vocal charisma, dramatic dignity and a lifetime of experience to his portrayal. 2010-01-20T05:02:00Z

Throughout, Ms. Castle sang with conviction and vividly conveyed the character of each poem, compensating for occasional moments of vocal inelegance. Music Review: Surrendering to Muses, Poetry and Song Unite 2010-10-22T21:18:00Z

You won’t hear a better singer and vocal dramatist all weekend. A$AP Rocky, Japandroids, Willis Earl Beal highlight early acts at Pitchfork 2012-07-14T00:45:00Z

In vocal terms Ms. Smith is adequate and occasionally almost convincing. Theater Review: ‘Forever Dusty’ at New World Stages 2012-11-21T21:57:24Z

She said she was particularly interested in the wide melodic leaps and in a certain shrill and nasal vocal tone she encountered in the speech and songs she studied. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Their impressive vocal blend, purity of tone and distinctive individual voices, which have helped them sell almost two million copies of their albums on the Harmonia Mundi label, were beautifully highlighted here. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-10-25T22:00:50Z

Adam Lambert has also been vocal about his willingness to be a judge on "Idol." Former 'Idol' Kimberley Locke wants judge's chair 2012-07-31T12:39:07Z

Skinner does the odd vocal, but Harvey is the revelation, delivering emotional poetry with real soul. Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot 2013-05-15T17:30:01Z

She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen. Pop-music queen Whitney Houston dies at 48 2012-02-12T04:19:04Z

No matter his chosen backdrop, it's Ellis' vocals – subtle, refined, yet bleeding with hurt – that take centre stage. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … modern country music 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

Newman was one of the biggest stars on earth at his peak, and bucked the playboy image of a Hollywood icon by remaining not merely loyal to his Oscar-winning wife but vocal about it. These Celebrity Couples Provide Your New Relationship Goals 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

“He knows how to keep the vocal energy going to the end of the thought. He lands the idea. He uses pitch. He uses inflection.” ‘The Originalist,’ a New Play About Justice Antonin Scalia by John Strand 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Tiring of chemistry, he left Amherst for New York, where he worked at Schrafft’s alongside Kirk Douglas and began vocal studies in earnest. Andrij Dobriansky Dies at 81; Sang More Than 900 Met Roles 2012-03-08T01:00:59Z

But the person on the other end of the line doesn't sound like Russell: it's more of a shrill whine, the vocal equivalent of nails on a blackboard. Groundhog Day: the perfect comedy, for ever 2013-02-07T20:00:03Z

Across the table from each other in a jail’s visiting room, the brothers are scatting, their vocal jam making sweet jazz in a cold, hard space where instruments are not allowed. ‘Bars and Measures’ Review: Notes From Jail 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

His songs are built on synthetic and manipulated sounds, programmed rhythms and, especially, countless tracks of his own voice, providing backup vocals and often run through effects. Dirty Projectors Confronts a Breakup, Emerging With a New Sound 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

“Nooma” is intended for babies and toddlers, who won’t be listening to arias and watching drama but hearing what Carnegie Hall describes as a “vocal circus” and romping in a world of colorful parachutes. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

And even the biggest, best innovations will be difficult to sell in an environment that lacks concerted vocal leadership from those in power. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

That said, the entire evening proved a winner, the singers sustaining vocal energy, unfailing technique and expressive nuances throughout three vastly different works. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

His remake of “Massachusetts,” a song on Ra Ra Riot’s 2010 album, “The Orchard,” sets a template: high vocals, repeating catchphrases, motoric patterns and a goofy noise or two. Playlist: Psychedelia of Many Colors, Doo-Wop in Bluesy Shades 2011-08-06T20:30:28Z

Although the history of vocal groups from the golden age of doo-wop is strewn with one-hit wonders, Little Anthony and the Imperials are not among them. Music Review: Still Tapping Into the Teenage Soul 2011-04-11T20:33:58Z

The Town Hall is home to three festival bookings: Ms. Cole, on June 28; the flamenco star Buika, on June 18; and the Manhattan Transfer with another well-traveled vocal group, Take 6, on June 11. Blue Note Jazz Festival to Mark Fifth Anniversary With a Wide-Ranging Lineup 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

A major feature of Timbuktu's cultural life involves vocal competitions between neighborhoods. Malian singer Khaira Arby makes Seattle debut 2011-03-11T00:52:56Z

Throughout the album, the robot vocal tracks sound more expressive than the human voices. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z

Among the independent theaters that will screen the film on Dec. 25 is the Alamo Drafthouse in Texas, one of the most vocal supporters of the movie's release. Sony Pictures puts 'The Interview' back in theaters 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

With little more than ghostly vocal harmonies and a few notes from a distant piano, it’s both crystalline and eloquent. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Then there’s Jamey Johnson, one of the album’s main producers, who delivers a properly stiff-backed vocal performance on the hymn “Have Thine Own Way, Lord.” Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

How well the role’s vocal fancywork will suit her voice in the big house remains to be seen, but one way or the other, she instantly becomes a part of Met history. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

If there are Republicans and others who actually feel such a way they should in fact be the most vocal critics of Donald Trump because the betrayal would feel intensely personal. Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is one of those albums without filler, where every song counts, where you come to learn each and every drum fill, guitar note, lyric and vocal inflection. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

Plus those distinctive lead vocals: rich in character, quirky, alternately exuberant and tormented. Seattle's Nearly Dan is way more than a Steely Dan tribute band 2010-10-04T23:08:00Z

I talked to voice teachers and doctors, and heard about “vocal folds” and “breath support” and “agility,” and the likelihood that she has a strict exercise and warm-up regimen. The Unsinkable Marilyn Maye 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Scotto’s triumphant turn in all three lead soprano parts of “Il Trittico,” taped 18 months later, shows signs of vocal strain, she still is to the idiomatic manner born. A Maestro?s Four-Decade Evolution 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

Few stations among the embattled handful that still broadcast classical music 24/7 devote any time to opera recordings, much less scratchy old 78-rpm vocal discs by singers many listeners have never even heard of. WFMT's Andrew Karzas dies after cancer battle 2011-04-12T03:45:00Z

Fortunately, my two dining companions were TV commentators with indomitable vocal cords. A Four-Day Feast in Philadelphia 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The pure essence of Hanks is distilled for his inspired vocal role as Woody in Pixar’s glorious animated Toy Story movies. The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Be vocal about what does feel good – sometimes the conversation need go no further than ‘that felt really, really, good – let’s do that again’. 'Start low, and go slow': how to talk to your partner about sex 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

For instance, in recitative-like passages of arias where vocal lines are punctuated by simple chords, he encouraged conversational delivery by the singers by relaxing the beat. Opera Review: No Beauty Goes Unexplored in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ 2014-02-17T16:05:54Z

They are part of a body of recorded vocal work she left behind that some, like Mr. Allen, believe is overlooked and underestimated. Channeling a Bombshell, One Jazzy Note at a Time 2011-08-06T20:43:02Z

MOODY: This marks the first year that the men and women are duking it out for vocal performance, and judging by the list of nominees, Grammy voters aren't too impressed with male vocals this year. Will Adele be the belle of the Grammy ball? 2012-02-10T03:01:04Z

That album's founding principles were narrower and thoroughly bewitching – tribal drumming, vocal harmonies, Beatles-y psychedelia and a rich sense of promise. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

“Saturn” featured the guest vocals of India Arie, who made charismatic and infrequent cameos throughout the night, dressed in different but dependably showy outfits. Stevie Wonder brings new life to ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ at Verizon Center concert

In a video released by the producers on Thursday, Ms. Mazzie hinted at some of her vocal inflections for the production as she described Helen. ArtsBeat: Marin Mazzie to Star in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2013-12-05T19:54:57Z

Kanye West shares the production credits on “Illuminati” and leaves his imprint with distorted vocal effects, a hard kick drum and a rubbery bass line. 6 Songs Offer Preview of ‘Rebel Heart’ Album 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

That might not be a proper term, but no proper term suits the ensuing gestural weirdness, instrumental weirdness, vocal weirdness, electronic weirdness and poetic weirdness. Monday Evening Concerts is back with a bang, whimper, whistle, click and clang in 'Sideshow' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

The album's title track is aptly named with a mesmerizing blend of funky bass line, electric guitar, strings and layered vocals. Review: Miguel propels R&B on 'Kaleidoscope Dream' 2012-10-01T16:00:13Z

The arrangement galloped in start-stop bursts hinting at African music, lingered in a sustained shimmer, slowed down to hint at reggae and tossed around some 1950s doo-wop vocal harmonies before it was done. Landlady Previews Its First Album at Rough Trade NYC 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

A month later, the trio performed “Moved by the Motion,” a vocal and dance performance with a live soundtrack provided by Mr. Belaga, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Patrick Belaga Is a Cellist Who Moonlights as a Model 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Adele announced she would not be performing the last two shows of her tour due to issues with her vocal cords. Adele Cancels Last 2 Shows of Tour 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

In addition to her performing career, Ms. Conrad was a vocal teacher. Barbara Smith Conrad, singer who overcame discrimination in celebrated operatic career, dies at 79 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

By all indications, the majority of the crowd had forked over $20 to hear Leithauser perform his particular brand of vocal acrobatics, and he didn’t let them down. Hamilton Leithauser might just be getting started 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ocean says he spent weeks working on just the vocal tone of the four "ohs" that open the track. Best albums of 2012, No 1: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

As in any opera, these vocal effects and so many others are precisely lodged in, and emerge from, the music — here a vibrating, volatile drone, executed by Ashley’s longtime collaborator, Tom Hamilton. Review: ‘Quicksand,’ Robert Ashley’s Enigmatic Spy-Thriller Opera 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Somewhat ironically, though, this follow-up to Crooks & Lovers, their much-lauded 2010 debut, features songs with vocals , even more organic sounds, and a palpable push towards centre ground. Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review 2013-05-25T23:05:08Z

With the tuning of the folk guitars, the thrilling “Old Friend” brings to mind the music of Nick Drake, though Drake never featured such lush vocal harmonies. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

It’s flush with jazz swing, irresistible syncopation and a call-and-response between a repetitive vocal chorus, the horn section and percussion. 10 Tito Puente Essentials for the Mambo King’s Centennial 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

“We are repeating this in our own time, when a small group of people can gain control because they’re the most vocal, outrageous and well-funded. With that you can shut down a government.” A Fascist-era ‘Rigoletto’ returning to Seattle Opera 2013-12-31T23:10:37Z

At 15 she began vocal studies at the Zurich Conservatory under Margarete Haeser, her only teacher, who instructed her in a mixture of bel canto and Strauss. Lisa Della Casa, Opera Singer, Dies at 93 2012-12-13T00:28:21Z

His well-worn vocals added sepia tone to peppy folk-pop moments, such as the song “What a Little Bit of Love Can Do.” Pop & Rock Music Listings for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Powerful percussion and electronic manipulations will be thrown into the mix of marimba and whispery vocals. Marimba weirdness slated for On the Boards 2012-01-24T22:17:03Z

Usually, we would re-record the vocals on a better microphone and obviously with a room with better acoustics. Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes on "Medazzaland" turning 25: "I love the sonic architecture" 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

Grungy new local rock band Snuff saluted the temperate weather with jangling guitars and a declamatory vocal on its sweet ballad “Disintegrate the Days” over in the cozy lobby of KEXP. Weather’s mixed, but Bumbershoot crowds don’t seem to mind 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

With the added vocal heft and authority that will almost surely come with age, he should make a real mark in this role in the next decade or two. Music Review: Juilliard415 Performs ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-04-07T20:57:41Z

The production, the management, the vocal training, the choreography, the swagger coaching — all that effort to create one teen-pop star in a country that’s still starving for them. Music Review: SHINee and South Korean K-Pop Groups at Madison Square Garden ? Review 2011-10-24T22:32:21Z

Loops of plucked violin and layers of vocals add up to a statement of no-nonsense, matter-of-fact individualism from Brittney Parks, who records as the one-woman electronic band Sudan Archives. The 65 Best Songs of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Gardiner and music director Mark G. Meadows have expertly assembled and drilled a cast with the vocal chops for the occasion. Review | A galvanizing ‘Rent’ raises pulses as it welcomes audiences back to Signature Theatre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

CAMBRIDGE, England — At 8 a.m. one recent Thursday, the boys of the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge, stifled yawns as they began their first rehearsal of the day with some vocal exercises. After 350 Years of Tradition, a Boys’ Choir Now Admits Girls 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

She graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University and received a master’s degree in operatic vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Bria Langer, Timothy Riley 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Lindsay was introduced as “the blue-eyed soul brother, ” and the gospel great Mahalia Jackson — who would join the newly solo vocal powerhouse Mavis Staples for a duet — spoke confidently of his impending victory. At ‘Black Woodstock,’ an All-Star Lineup Delivered Joy and Renewal to 300,000 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The Philadelphia R&B vocal group Boyz II Men also introduced several Philly references to “The City of Brotherly Love,” the episode’s song about compromise. ‘Jam Van’ Dares to Ask: What if Family Road Trips Were Actually Fun? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

An employee of the auction house told the Guardian that it would definitely be among the 116 pieces going under the hammer, despite vocal protests from the UK. Banksy mural mystery deepens as it heads for sale in Miami 2013-02-20T13:55:00Z

Ressa stands tall as one of his most vocal critics, her every article incurring harsher recriminations from the government. A Thousand Cuts: inside a chilling documentary on Maria Ressa 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly, the man known for a vocal range of more than four octaves did not always know music was his calling. System of a Down's Serj Tankian goes classical with symphonic concerts in Northridge 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

That's the kind of ambition that propels Flamingo along: it's there in Stuart Price's wipe-clean production and in Flowers's heroic, disengaged vocals, which chill the songs to the bone. Brandon Flowers: Flamingo 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z

Many of the songs are slow or medium-paced, matching eastern-edged rock against harsh, insistent vocals, and the best are both quirky and highly original. Various artists: The Sound of Siam ? review 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z

Strauss underscored spoken dialogue with arch instrumental commentary, but the orchestra, at times hamstrung by his sumptuous style and parlando vocal lines, shifts its weight like an elephant in ballet shoes. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

The album is full of smooth and soothing vocals on top of beats that are dreamy and dance-y. Review: Debut from duo Rhye is smooth and warm 2013-03-06T18:43:10Z

On one sample would be a vocal part, on one sample would be a guitar part, on one sample would be the drums. Robocall: A Conversation with Daft Punk

 

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There is a back-to-school feeling at the Resonant Bodies Festival, the immersion in new vocal music that arrives each year just after Labor Day. Review: A Festival Brings the Musical World Back to School 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The album doesn’t hide Duff’s vocal limitations, either, but Breathe In. Review: Hilary Duff's 'Breathe In. Breathe Out.' Is Mindless Pop Fun 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

It began as Mr. Brown, a well-traveled drummer in his mid-30s, played a cymbal roll over a sampled gospel vocal; it ended, about an hour later, at a fever pitch. Music Review: Jaimeo Brown at Drom 2013-05-16T21:48:50Z

“This Is What You Did” tops her banjo with startling interjections: a hopscotching electric guitar, trilling and discursive saxophones, aggressive bits of drumming, vocal harmonies. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

When girls are so much more empowered, when they are so much more vocal — why have things changed so much in the public life and not in the private life? Consent alone is a low bar for sex: “We have become more comfortable talking about girls’ victimization than girls’ pleasure” 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Smoke, strobe lights and video screens on wheels restlessly reconfigured themselves as the band performed, without Mr. Reznor’s lead vocals and instruments. Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance 2013-07-25T12:00:01Z

At gatherings they are very vocal about their disdain for liberals and Democrats, calling them names, saying they're going to hell, etc. Perspective | Ask Amy: Teacher should take her parents to school 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Teen-pop vocal acts — boy bands and girl groups — always have an alibi. Camila Cabello and Harry Styles, Teen-Pop Alumni, Think Bigger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

"I'm so feeling for you right now," judge Keith Urban told him, comparing confidence-crushing vocal injuries for singers to "a footballer's knees." 'American Idol' recap: Top three sing three as show celebrates self 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

There’s the customer, for example, who anchors himself at the checkout and mutters in what sounds like heavy-metal vomit vocals. In the Jersey Suburbs, a Bookstore Whose Vibe Is Pure Narnia 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

On the tune that started it all, “Play It Right,” Ms. Meath’s vocals are multitracked in emulation of the arrestingly stark Mountain Man sound, and the electronics gingerly frame them. New Releases From Conor Oberst and Brantley Gilbert 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Lambert also shows off less of his vocal gymnastics on the album and although there are moments, he says the record is "more about telling a story now". Adam Lambert: Ready to rock the UK 2012-06-13T07:12:24Z

Church was a vocal critic of press intrusion into the private lives of celebrities and gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry in 2012. Church to give 6 Music Peel lecture 2013-09-25T12:59:49Z

If he doesn’t win this competition, his many and vocal fans will cut someone. Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Results 2012-03-28T12:39:21Z

Normally, the physical and vocal aspects of a character meld when actors move from table readings and early discussions to getting a play on its feet. Now hear this! Playwrights are making theater for the ears. Yes, that’s a thing. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

What seems surprising is that the vocal authority that was so naturally Ms. Franklin’s barely reflected the naturally reticent person that, by many accounts, she was. Aretha Franklin Reigned as Queen, in Voice and in Image 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Britain's bad-boy comic, who scored a vocal hit last week as the teen bunny in , looked to parlay his animated success by starring in a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore comedy Arthur. Box Office: Hop Bounds Over Arthur in the Battle of the Brands 2011-04-10T06:00:00Z

There are some nice moments, such as a guest appearance by guitarist Earl Klugh for their song This Time, and his backing band do great harmony vocals. Al Jarreau ? review 2011-07-05T18:30:01Z

The results pitch beautifully crafted, poignant songs and heartfelt vocals against foggy, ethereal production. Gayngs: Related 2010-12-09T23:40:00Z

The sheer volume of a particularly vocal section of your fanbase so attached to one very specific idea of what “works,” however, can’t help but breed a certain conservative nature in those telling the stories. Will Fall TV Finally Make the ‘Partners With Benefits’ Formula Work? 2012-09-19T12:00:45Z

He was the moral and vocal center of the performance. `Butterfly' back, and so is New York City Opera 2010-03-20T18:31:00Z

Rousing show tunes like “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “Before the Parade Passes By” became more than mere exhibitions of vocal stamina. Music Review: Lillias White Is Performing at 54 Below 2014-05-02T21:29:43Z

“Certain instruments — bass, drums, background vocals — you could hear those leaking through the walls,” she said. A Queen of Kitsch Who Made the Whole World Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

I think the vocal doesn’t sound like me at all, but I can tell why: The singer is exceptionally different from how I sing. Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

But when crises come, Lulu’s vocal lines turn crazed with zigzagging leaps and sky-high sustained tones, which Ms. Petersen sings with frightening intensity. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the only ones where I recorded the vocals last. Elvis Costello, Carole King and a Song 20 Years in the Making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

I'd put a few ad libs in on the guide vocal track, but she embellished them and made them her own. How Whitney's voice transformed two writers' careers 2012-02-13T10:13:24Z

The singer-songwriter says Botox injections used to keep his vocal cords from pressing together while they heal have limited his ability to hit high notes. John Mayer organizes, sings at benefit concert 2013-01-17T22:47:16Z

Nylon magazine featured the young star as someone to watch in its May "Young Hollywood" issue, and she appears in the new "Scream 4" film, giving her vocal chords a workout. The tribal edge of fashion 2011-05-19T20:19:23Z

Guitars and bass play elegant counterpoint to the vocal melodies, and keyboards thicken the already dense arrangements. Review: Smith Westerns tap into their inner child on second album 2011-01-14T16:53:06Z

Today many are vocal in their opposition to vaccine programmes. A jab for Elvis helped America beat polio. Now doctors have recruited him again… 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

He asked Bono, another close friend of Michael’s, to supply additional vocals to create an extraordinarily lovely duet. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

He uses a montage to boil down her explosion into superstardom scored only, at first, to the vocal track of “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The trio's vocal harmonies were riveting, though volume levels were painfully high in the opening moments. Crosby, Stills and Nash a special treat for boomers 2012-09-15T17:29:04Z

More to the point, Mr. Goode shaped the piano writing like a firmly focused vocal line. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

This excellent German vocal quintet presents seven of Martin Luther’s chorales in many versions, typically changing composers from one verse to the next. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

The singer, 71, is under strict doctor's orders to rest his vocal cords, according to an official statement. Rolling Stones face insurance battle 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Working there, recording these vocals with the idea of just finishing this song, it was nuts. Robyn Wrote a Song About Getting Drunk, Doing Karaoke and Jamming with a Metalhead 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

When Gay reached out to her to contribute vocals to the album, Munyaneza set up in a makeshift studio in her bathroom and recorded the vocals for “Nyuzura.” Blues, jazz, electronica. It all flows through Ben LaMar Gay. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Quite apart from the quality of the musicianship, Plant had entered a new – well, different – vocal soundscape: intense but restrained, with understated close harmonies. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

It’s an elaborately tentative construction of drums, keyboards, phantom orchestration and vocals wafting in all around, incantatory without exact repetition. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The latter mainly provided wordless vocals in harmony with the horns but took the lead on Washington’s sweet closer, “The Rhythm Changes,” and a hip-hop-inflected arrangement of the bebop standard “Cherokee.” An emotionally charged performance from Kamasi Washington 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The singer’s “Molting” EP, released earlier this year is fastidiously composed without seeming too calculated, the icy beats buoyed by string arrangements and Shaprece’s emotive vocals. Your week in Seattle music: Fleetwood Mac, Usher and more 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Instead of Win Butler's tortured tenor, Régine Chassagne handles lead vocals with her airy soprano, a voice built for disco. Music Monday: Arcade Fire, DoughKain, Lake House Entertainment 2010-08-02T18:51:00Z

On the surface, these three songs are archetypal electronic dance anthems, but they are bolstered by more complex vocal construction. Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself 2012-06-15T10:00:56Z

But I have no issues with any of the singing, nor with Harson's nixing of the “On My Own” vocal cliches. A fresher 'Les Miz' for a new generation 2011-02-07T17:38:54Z

I do wish I got a little more of her — without Terrence Howard's vocals.  'Empire' recap: Lucious -- not Jamal -- is the father 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Lerner’s own arsenal has always included a composer’s feel for orchestration, a ventriloquist’s vocal range and a fine ethnographic attunement. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

But what the world heard from Times Square was a backing track awaiting a lead vocal — presumably a live one. Mariah Carey Smiles and Glitters Through a Television Fiasco 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

But just as often — more often — it’s a runway show of vocal eccentricity. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

But the revival at Signature Theatre, despite a luxe period mise en scene and robust demonstrations of vocal authority, now strikes a spectator as pat and overly sentimental. Review | This revival of ‘Grand Hotel’ offers only cold comfort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

In his solo work, this Swedish-Argentinian songwriter is a practiced minimalist, painting pictures with just his fingerpicked guitar and soft vocals. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

It's not clear whether they will leave out the vocals, delivering a poignant statement on Curtis's absence, or if guest singers will, er, just do Curtis impersonations. Peter Hook to cover Joy Division album in full 2010-04-06T10:30:00Z

The song, with its blunt, steady beat and vocal pyrotechnics, “insists on the community effort behind the triumph,” The New York Times’s chief pop music critic Jon Pareles wrote. Beyoncé Scores Her First Oscar Nomination 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Yeah, it was more the vocal harmonies and more of the acoustic sensibility blended with the rock/electric sensibilities, which was a very ’70s thing to do. Nancy Wilson on leading Heart with her sister: “The guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that” 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Philly carries it off with an exquisite vocal performance in The Human League's, ahem, Human. Readers recommend: songs about forgiveness – results 2012-11-15T14:00:00Z

Beyond vocal language, the birds communicate with subtle gestures and movement of their feathers, Danovich observes. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

About the same time, the Drifters, a vocal ensemble that formed in the early 1950s with the soulful Clyde McPhatter as lead singer, were dissolved by their manager, George Treadwell. Ben E. King, soul singer of ‘Stand by Me,’ dies at 76 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The lyrics may be bittersweet, but Real Estate's sound is pop at its most comforting, with arms-wide-open melodies and vocals that were all warmth. FYF Fest 2014: Angel Olsen smolders while fans bake in lines 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Which would be merely irritating if these songs weren't so rocking and vocals so alluring as Kevin Magnum's, even as he's yelling about shoving his unmentionables "all up in your face." Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z

White Rainbow meets B closer to his home turf, supplying a minimalist Bay Area-inspired post-hyphy beat and doubling his vocals with a pitched-down track for an effect that ends up emphasizing the words. Music Monday: Lil B and White Rainbow, The Skins, Shabazz Palaces 2010-06-21T18:34:00Z

A Genre, Old and Irish, Is Renewed Early vocal music like Gregorian chant often uses a melismatic style, in which a single syllable of text is sung between successive notes. Music Review: Crash Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-20T20:49:46Z

At stake are seven songs complete with Cornell’s vocals and other recordings that the other three members of the band would like to turn into the seventh and final Soundgarden album. Chris Cornell’s widow, Vicky, and his Soundgarden bandmates are locked in legal battle over his unreleased audio recordings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Her biggest strength isn’t necessarily in her vocal range — although it’s there — but in the depth of her voice, how it’s full of body and, like her lyrics, leaves little to chance. Maryland native Bibi Bourelly enchants at U Street 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Bonynge says Sutherland initially resisted his efforts to steer her into Italian bel canto opera, but she soon flourished in those roles thanks to her astounding vocal ability. Husband: Joan Sutherland never knew own greatness 2010-10-18T18:46:00Z

Opera, the grandest form of singing in the 19th century, has long since died as the “living engine of vocal creativity”, the authors conclude. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

And what may at first sound like arrangements tossed together on a back porch actually, on closer listening, reveal careful choices about how instruments, vocals and effects are deployed. The Lumineers’ Strange Road to the Top 10 2013-02-06T13:01:48Z

In arias and especially in small ensembles, though, the vocal lines often fail to soar. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

You can tell as much from the credits: there are guitars by My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields and vocals by the Woking Gay Community choir, the latter, alas, merely a pseudonym for Weller's daughter. Paul Weller: Wake Up the Nation 2010-04-15T14:30:00Z

In view of the fact that almost all the private notations come well after the public compositions, Bach obviously subscribed to the sentiments expressed in his vocal music. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The songs were light breezes, though, a guitar here, a synth there, and cushiony drums from two separate kits cut with Aaron Chapman's glassy vocals. Sasquatch! 2010 day one notables: Shabazz Palaces, Nurses, Vampire Weekend 2010-05-30T18:46:00Z

The scrutiny of baby names eventually leads to guests’ mocking deconstructions of one another’s facial expressions and vocal inflections. Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z

The organist will be Michael Riesman, Mr. Glass’s longtime music director; the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and the Collegiate Chorale will sing the involved, bright-hued vocal music. Philip Glass, a Minimalist Maximized 2011-09-18T01:00:08Z

The bizarre vocal gymnastics of “Get Out of My House,” a song inspired by Bush’s reading of “The Shining,” include hee-hawing like a demonic donkey. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Wednesday's Bellini was like walking through miles and miles of vocal roses. Review: Over-the-top beauty begs for more bite 2012-12-06T20:59:13Z

She ended up contributing to several songs, with the highlight being her empathetic, velvety lead vocal lines on the gorgeous midtempo ballad "Woman in Chains." From the Beatles influence to personal strife, revisiting Tears for Fears' complex "Seeds of Love" 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Listening as her performance took on the clipped, robotic tones of a dance vocal, she said the result "exposes every nuance". Pitch perfection? Auto-Tune's rise 2013-05-17T10:04:05Z

As the original film hits its 20th anniversary, accompanied by the hashtag #Shrek20thAnniversary, numerous animators and artists have been vocal across social media in their praise for the film. "Shrek" at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

The first sung words introduce one of the oratorio’s most striking ingredients: a digitally processed effect that turns vocals into a kind of cyborg self-duet. Chelsea Manning as opera: Story of transgender WikiLeaks figure unfolds in 'The Source' 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Passing moments of vocal rawness didn’t feel out of place for this rapacious character. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a brief collection of seven songs that use only a lone piano and her whispery vocals — sometimes solo, more often wafting in as overdubbed harmonies — all suspended amid reverberations and hiss. The Playlist: Willie Nelson Is Still Standing, and 10 More New Songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Every song cleaves to a format of clipped guitar chords and drawled vocals laid over electronic percussion. Darwin Deez: Darwin Deez 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z

Nidi D'Arac's slick, engaging treatment of the music involves sturdy acoustic passages in which Coppola's vocals are backed by his guitar work, violin and accordion, and then thunderous bursts of folk-rock, electronica and dub. Nidi D'Arac: Taranta Container ? review 2011-07-07T21:01:00Z

In the third song, "The Being So-Called Human," the soul is steadied by the sun anew each day "and new and new and new," the vocal line taking leaps of exhilaration. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

So we have all these recordings of our grandma and our family singing these really beautiful, vocal Christmas songs. Arcade Fire: 'We want to save Potter' 2010-12-22T08:38:13Z

Forever Plaid Hit musical comedy about an ill-fated 1950s-era vocal group that returns from beyond to perform a concert. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 12-19: 'Forever Plaid' and more 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Like the Who’s “ Tommy, ” it was among the first rock operas, and introduced funk guitars and gravelly vocals into a genre where the unbridled rock sound was still viewed as heretical. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a Live TV Revival 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

"It's that big, high vocal and chunky guitars. It just grabs the listener." Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

They also follow a Daft Punk news account, which, despite Masters of the Sun's use of chunky synth riffs and repeated vocal lines, is probably a red herring. New music: KOTA – Masters of the Sun 2013-01-10T09:39:00Z

Scorpions sets Watson's densely effected vocals against a huge, echoing guitar solo. Nero: Welcome Reality - review 2011-08-04T14:30:01Z

Kevin’s on drums while Hunter assumes lead vocals, guitar and fantasies of stardom. ‘Metal Lords’ Review: Shred of the Class 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Some of the most strikingly mature vocals of the night were by Rachel Zegler, singing Sondheim as part of the in memoriam segment. At the Grammys, the Young Succeed Most When They Seem Old 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Early in her tenure, Delaney suggests a new program called GenuPal that constantly evaluates “facial expression, eye contact, and vocal intonations” to calculate the quality of each friendship on a scale from 1 to 100. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

In her telling, Tina’s contribution to rock and soul is a combination of the strength of her personality and a vocal power to match. Review | Tina Turner looks back on her horrific first marriage — and much more — in ‘My Love Story’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

At the end, the vocal harmonies that were so cutting when the song began return as tentative queries. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The song highlighted the strength and clarity of his vocals and earned him a standing ovation from all four coaches. 'The Voice' recap: Was it really the 'best live show' ever? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

He said the song’s good feelings and “sunshine” vibe were “what God is to us” and encouraged Hawthorne to bring church to her vocals. 'The Voice' recap: Final four aim to please, shoot to win 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

This technique is palpable in the “Brokeback” score, in which the angular vocal lines sung by the character of Jack orbit around B natural, and those of Ennis tend toward C sharp. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

“What’s the point of going to sit at the hotel?” he said before entering the vocal booth. Rap Trio Migos Cracks the Code to a No. 1 Hit, One Step at a Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Yet at the same time, there’s simply no amount of varnish that can transform “Bip Bop,” the lumbering title track, or Linda’s lifeless vocal turn on “I Am Your Singer” into the stuff of greatness. Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Newsmax and other right-wing figures slamming Cena were some of the most vocal leaders in trying to help former President Trump overturn the election, and consequently, American democracy, last year. Conservatives pile on John Cena following apology to China 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

The composer’s vocal writing is, meanwhile, a tour de force for the soloists. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Michelangelo would send drawings, and Sebastiano frequently shared madrigals, poetic vocal arrangements that were sometimes set to music. How a Curator Attributed This Drawing to Michelangelo 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

But on “Good Grief,” they yank their vocals into acrobatic poses, in what sometimes feels like flamboyance for flamboyance’s sake. Review: Lucius, a Band Willing to Test Itself 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her singing evokes the cotton candy purr of Ms. Ross’s, without being mere vocal mimicry. Review: ‘Motown: The Musical’ Offers Easy Nostalgia and a Jolt of Racial Relevance 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Alcohol fueled our dreams, made us bold and vocal about our artistic ambitions, our desire to find others who burned like Kerouac’s “Roman Candles.” Modern Love: A Glass All Empty 2012-08-17T18:27:07Z

Gaelic vocals on the track Fear Eile echo the island’s rich mythology and the hollow percussion on Morning Dew evokes memories of hanging mist and raindrops falling off ... well, everything! The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Young Thug bristles in his vocals with what sounds like real rage — at injustice? The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

She and her daughter sang lead vocals on “Do Yo Dance,” a single released by the group this past summer. Cynthia Robinson, Sly and the Family Stone Trumpet Player, Dies at 71 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I’m still adding vocals as I put the mix together. Spiritualized's Jason Pierce hates making records, brilliant as they are 2012-04-26T21:34:00Z

At one point during “Long and Wasted Years,” I imagined his vocal chords as a frayed rope holding a broke-down engine. Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

“I was trying to work in that pop form and make those perfect vocals, while saying things that would never be said in that form,” she explained. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

“Ballad of a Thin Man” sharpened its mockery with something Mr. Dylan rarely uses, an obvious electronic effect: an echo repeating his vocal lines. Music Review: A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theatre 2012-09-05T11:35:10Z

I just opened a one-on-one vocal coaching studio, where I coach young singers who are interested in learning more about interpretation. Angel Blue’s Weekend: Watching ‘Porgy and Bess’ and Keeping the Faith 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The reverb slathered all over vocals and guitars on its debut album, “Gauntlet Hair,” bespeaks too much Animal Collective envy. ArtsBeat: A Couple of Good Bands Buoy CMJ's Opening Night 2011-10-19T19:00:01Z

And of course, there will be that very vocal contingent who will still be aggravated that Kardashian and her skin are topics of interest to anyone. Kim Kardashian's psoriasis is a cultural crisis 2011-07-26T19:27:00Z

Some voices are even more compelling than others, but over all Laskey inhabits each of their perspectives credibly, exhibiting a vocal range that grants the reader a panoramic view of the proceedings. Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Dory and her frantic self prove believable as Ellen DeGeneres fluctuates almost poetically—is that even possible in an animated vocal performance?—between aloof and anxious. 11 Great Vocal Performances in Pixar Movies 2013-08-13T09:45:16Z

At Tuesday’s opening-night performance of her show, “Forever Moore,” at the Café Carlyle, she turned songs into sonic exhibitions in which emotion was superseded by extreme vocal display. Music Review: A Voice, Something for Flinging Around 2011-04-27T21:39:58Z

The more dramatic songs, however, made us aware of occasional vocal inequalities. Meier/Breinl – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-14T17:00:01Z

Guitars and vocals pop with new gritty textures. Seapony's new album 'Falling' builds on first success 2012-09-10T20:41:04Z

There is riveting tension between the somberly elegiac vocal writing and the heaving piano part, thick with grating precisely textured chords. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z

The celebrated bassist and composer Christian McBride, who judged Joy in the Sarah Vaughan competition, finds her vocals “full of wisdom.” Samara Joy’s Voice (and Social Media) Is Helping Jazz Find Fresh Ears 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

But he declined to put his image on any of his covers and kept his vocals low amid the instruments on his recordings. J.J. Cale, Musician and Songwriter, Dies at 74 2013-07-27T20:34:33Z

Her hits, including “Supermodel” and “I Kissed a Girl,” fused sugary melodies and her bright, girlish vocals with storytelling that was brilliantly subversive for mainstream audiences. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The synthesizers normally occupy the top part of the mix, but Angelakos’ falsetto went higher still, often supported by munchkin-like backing vocals. Concert review: Passion Pit at UIC Pavilion 2013-02-23T06:19:00Z

Bocephus spoke and even shouted at times more than he sang, and the song’s backing vocals were a raucous concert sing-along. The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Behind his blistering trumpet solos, revolutionary vocal improvising and exuberant stage persona, how did Louis Armstrong see himself? Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Their distorted, synthy compositions carry a strong emotional undertow, not least because the vocals are so reminiscent of the Cure's Robert Smith. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

The vocal was good, but not as strong as the first round. 'American Idol': Did Haley's fall help her? 2011-05-19T02:29:07Z

The dragging beats and sparse, scattered samples conjure up a stoned disquiet: Horace Andy and Shara Nelson's vocals feel aching and sorrowful. Massive Attack: Blue Lines (remastered) – review 2012-12-06T15:29:01Z

Stone merely reproduces the vocal tics and falsetto screeches, the supplications and invocations of that golden era of electronic R&B invention – which is to say, roughly 1% of the achievement. New band of the day - Allen Stone (No 1,430) 2013-01-14T16:40:56Z

Manning suggests that Malcolm's youthful appreciation of jazz helped create a vocal rhythm that broke from convention and propelled his speeches with a kind of bebop daring. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z

Alas, all attempts to normalise Jackson are derailed by the arrival of Breaking News, a mind-boggling bit of self-justification with a peculiar muffled vocal. Michael Jackson: Michael - review 2010-12-09T15:29:00Z

But Mr. Bamba has a pugnacious vocal delivery, somewhere between chant and argument, and the instruments repeat at unswerving volume. Playlist: Psychedelia of Many Colors, Doo-Wop in Bluesy Shades 2011-08-06T20:30:28Z

Would this be a May/Iommi instrumental LP, with vocals to be improvised by fans at home with their iPods? Brian May and Tony Iommi plan 'riffs album' 2013-02-15T11:46:24Z

Many of the instruments and vocal tracks are heard on just one channel, pulling the music apart, particularly when heard through headphones; it’s still disorienting. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

A solo performance for vocals and synthesizers by this remarkable Japanese improviser, practiced and powerful, aggressive and almost occult. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z

Used indiscriminately these sorts of vocal hot flashes can sound schmaltzy and fey. Review: In Piotr Beczala’s Recital, Melancholy Mixes With Defiance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Tellingly, the first vocal heard on the album is not from one of the two stars, but Odd Future’s Frank Ocean, who provides the foreboding intro to “No Church in the Wild.” Album review: 'Watch the Throne' a royal waste 2011-08-08T21:59:00Z

Cleese has been vocal of late about the failings of various media companies. John Cleese: James Bond lost humour to please Asian markets 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Check back in with these Scots in ten years; odds are they’ll still be cranking through the same foggy riffs, still droning out melancholy vocals, still loping over the same modest crescendos. New Album, Rave Tapes, Is Classic Mogwai 2014-01-24T16:33:36Z

His interpretations here were marred by rough transitions between vocal registers and choppy phrasing. Music Review: Andrea Bocelli at Barclays Center 2013-12-12T23:13:30Z

For “New Ghetto Music” he drew on the penetrating emotional delivery he heard on the tapes, combining it with modern orchestral techniques and a bracing rawness inspired by tenores vocal traditions from Sardinia. Music in Review 2011-01-14T00:08:47Z

It won four: album of the year, best male pop vocal performance, best male R&B vocal performance and producer of the year. Stevie Wonder brings ‘Key of Life’ tour to Verizon Center

One fascinating aspect of the plan was that the same group of vocal soloists was employed in both works. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z

This performance of “Delta Lady,” a carnal strut that Mr. Russell wrote for Mr. Cocker, captures the band’s joyous cacophony of horns, belting vocals and barrelhouse piano. Leon Russell, From Rising to Resurgent 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

She is an object lesson in how to compensate for diminishing vocal resources by digging even deeper into the song lyrics. Music Review: Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-12-01T23:43:15Z

Because it's the overall sound of a record that dictates its success more than any individual component parts such as vocals or guitar or whatever, isn't it? New band of the day: Gallant (No 1,541) 2013-06-26T14:47:13Z

Mr. Pape has vocal charisma as well, and his dark, penetrating voice is ideal for the role. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z

The vocal soloists didn’t always sound ideally blended during some ensemble passages. Review: Dudamel and Los Angeles Bring the Noise to New York 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

For a city obsessed with tasting menus and small-plate smorgasbords, there is a fitting festival of experimental vocal music. A Tasting Menu of Yelps and Hums at the Resonant Bodies Festival 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Reynolds imagines the unscrupulous use of technology to capture and replicate performers’ vocal timbre and bodily mannerisms. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Roomful of Teeth is an octet of singers trained in unusual vocal techniques from around the world, and the composers who write for the group typically draw on those effects in subtly unsettling ways. Review: Roomful of Teeth Duels With Sounds of the Financial District 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Signs of Life,” a song about “cool kids” trying to beat boredom, assembles an elegant rock-disco groove, but Mr. Butler’s vocal is an attempt at rapping that’s as stiff as its apparent template, Blondie’s “Rapture.” On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

They met through a shared manager and became friends, with Harvey contributing vocals to the final Streets record, 2011's Computers and Blues. Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot 2013-05-15T17:30:01Z

I was underwhelmed by Colin Matthews’s “A Voice to Wake,” with its vocal line that felt somehow both sibylline and mechanical. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Murphy will be a full-time professor, coaching and overseeing the school’s vocal program. Another Musical Post Is Vacated at City Ballet 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z

On the campaign trail often concluded his rallies with the Staple Singers’ 1972 No. 1 hit “I’ll Take You There,” with Ms. Staples’s growling lead vocal booming over loudspeakers. Music: A Little Nudge, and a Soul Singer Is Back to Her Roots 2010-09-19T04:35:00Z

The song evokes Indian ragas through spare intervals and spiraling lines in the piano part, and Ms. Lustig sang sultry, plaintive vocal lines above it. Music Review: ?New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise? at Merkin Hall 2012-03-14T22:11:32Z

Darkly sultry is not the only shade on Ms. Sullivan’s vocal palette. Stacy Sullivan Sings in Memory of Marian McPartland 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Klein’s keening vocal approach immediately impressed Gabriel Roth, an owner of Daptone. With Wounded Spirits, the Frightnrs Rally Around Their Frontman 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Wine was vocal in his opposition to the regime, but after the 2015 election, when Museveni engineered an amendment to the Constitution rescinding the presidential age limit, the pop singer-turned-politician decided to run for office. ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Review: A Pop Star Turns Politician 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Dylan’s vocal sounds uncharacteristically fragile, and Langhorne’s guitar becomes a generous and soothing counterpoint: sweet and assured in the beauty of all things, even deep pain. Farewell to the Tambourine Man 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The ballet is set to two of Brahms’s vocal waltzes. Dance Review: ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’ From New York City Ballet 2012-05-21T22:16:24Z

Allan's voice is stronger on the album and he credits surgery he underwent in 2010 to remove a polyp from his vocal cords, which made it difficult for him to sing high notes. Country singer Gary Allan's new album gets label's early push 2013-01-23T21:49:56Z

She replaced Beanie Feldstein, whose comedic chops, according to critics, were not matched by the vocal range required for the role. Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ to Close Labor Day Weekend 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

And beneath vocal writing is a Minimalist score typical of Lapelyte, ostinatos executed with electronics and built from a rising two- or three-note motif, or a single tone at a steady beat. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Raised in a Pentecostal family in Detroit and rural Tennessee, she went to church five times a week and became the family vocal prodigy, though she said her parents forbade most pop music. Music: Up From the Underground, Into the Light 2010-02-19T20:16:00Z

The chords are major, but the hanging, wraparound vocals are chilly. Song: The Moondoggies "Fly Mama Fly" 2010-05-19T19:56:00Z

"I really think that there's a whole generation of audiences who are used to listening to music without rhythm, without harmonies, without vocals," he explained. Lou Reed is back with experimental music of 1970s 2010-04-20T16:39:00Z

After putting her own vocal talents to use, she toured for 18 months to promote her 2013 debut album, “Ela.” Globe-trotting singer Dom La Nena will touch down at Artisphere 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Acerbic comedian and fashion critic Joan Rivers was rushed to a New York hospital on Thursday after she stopped breathing during surgery on her vocal chords, a television station reported. Comedian Joan Rivers, 81, rushed to New York hospital: report 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

By the mid-1970s, while Joni Sledge was attending Temple University, Sister Sledge was the only female vocal group signed to Atlantic Records. Joni Sledge, Singer in the ‘We Are Family’ Group Sister Sledge, Dies at 60 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Elected officials, including local office holders and governors, have staked out vocal positions on the issue, demanding that “obscene” materials and even specific titles be rooted out from school libraries. Advocacy Groups Are Helping Drive a Rise in Book Bans 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Guerrero took a more vocal approach, opening the concert with a tirade against the recent mismanagement of Spain’s economy and demanding an overhaul. Music: Israeli Singer of the World 2011-06-23T11:54:54Z

The results of Fleming's sessions with producer David Kahne range from the inspirational proclamations of Willy Mason's "Oxygen" to the desperate entreaties of Arcade Fire's "Intervention," which features Fleming's teenage daughters on background vocals. Opera star Fleming sets out on "Dark" adventure 2010-04-16T23:15:00Z

On 7 November, Sony Music issued a track called Breaking News, hoping to quell rumours that some of Jackson's vocals on the album were "fake". Akon refuses to release unfinished Michael Jackson tracks 2010-11-22T10:44:00Z

Yet the vocal, knee-jerk refusal of Jordan's supporters to consider that the seven men who say he was aware of wrongdoing could be telling the truth is inexcusable. Rep. Jim Jordan’s “locker room talk” denial: Waving off sex abuse complaints shows limits o... 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Most of the roles in that “Spring Awakening” production were doubled by a deaf actor, who used sign language, and a hearing actor, who simultaneously performed the vocals. Using deaf actors, Victory Hall Opera continues to push boundaries 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

When we say ‘pop,’ we mean pop in the very ’80s sense with hooks and keyboards and lots of big vocals. Tegan and Sara’s Tegan Quin on the Group’s New Sound and Getting in Touch with Their Inner Cindi Lauper 2013-01-15T15:43:35Z

The demo "Fear and Trembling" shows off his reedy tenor voice, ringing almost completely unadorned save for foggy background vocals and a loop that sounds like several clocks softly whisper-clicking. Friday Favorites: I Low, USF, Fatal Lucciauno 2010-06-18T16:42:00Z

The vocal forces were huge — the 180 voices of the chorale augmented by the 60 voices of the Montgomery College Chorus — and some of their attacks were a little like tsunamis. National Philharmonic Chorale brings two hefty works to the stage 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

And I think the more vocal people are about it, the more this becomes a really mundane sort of footnote in their bio — as opposed to the only thing that people want to talk about. Anna Paquin on Bad Behavior and Keeping the Drama Onscreen 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

You can’t put on a Rameau opera, with its complicated tuning and ornaments and vocal style, with modern instruments.” Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

Rucker’s version, released in 2013 and featuring backing vocals from Lady Antebellum, went to the top of the country chart for multiple weeks, earned him a Grammy for best country solo performance. Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” keeps rolling 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Walker's work in the late 1960s as a member of the British-based vocal group the Walker Bros. gave way to a sonic descent into difficult, visceral experimental music after the trio's dissolution. Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))'s dark 'Soused': Judge it for yourself 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

While James's vocals are consumed by heartfelt emotion, this piece of nocturnal soul is given a frisky little lift with teases of drum'n'bass. Seduction playlist: get jiggy with these tracks 2012-11-09T13:15:00Z

Works presented earlier this month at the Prototype festival of new-music theater shows how eagerly composers are embracing a variety of vocal styles. How Young Singers Get Used to ‘Dust’ in Their Mouths 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Her father, who died when she was 14, was also a vocal coach and music critic. Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Clean-cut melodies, too much repetition and restrained vocals lead us into "Old Mad Joy." Lady Antebellum leads fall album releases 2011-09-13T00:40:46Z

The time spent practising the vocal parts in Good Vibrations was echoed down her career. Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due 2012-09-29T23:05:11Z

Island Def Jam, West's label, was stuck clearing samples for this late-breaking material or, in the case of one sample, rerecording an "old vocal track" sung by an obscure Chicago children's choir. Kanye West still working on Yeezus even though it's due out next week 2013-06-11T10:15:40Z

Bethel dances across the top of a prominent bass line on “The Model” like a gothic femme fatale, while Paterson’s sparse backing vocals and a spidery guitar function as characters in a mini-film noir. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z

That band would evolve into the Specials, with Mr. Hall taking lead vocals. Terry Hall, a Face of Britain’s Ska Revival, Is Dead at 63 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

When Mohammed and his vocal instructor visit one of Gaza’s richest men to ask for financial backing, the guy barely pretends to listen to their ardent, nationalistic pitch. Building a Palestinian “Idol”: A subtle fable of cultural survival and pop-culture triumph 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Judging by a few preliminary listens, Seattle duo Beat Connection 's new "Surf Noir" EP is mostly instrumental synthesizer/programmed drums headphone music sometimes overlayed with indie pop vocals. Download this: local act Beat Connection's "Surf Noir" EP 2010-07-13T21:13:00Z

Her fellow singing violinist, Eden MacAdam-Somer, brought astonishing virtuosity and raw expression to three “Rumi Songs” that drew on classical and bluegrass violin traditions as well as a wide range of vocal techniques. Music Review: Carla Kihlstedt at the New York Festival of Song 2012-11-17T00:26:28Z

The melody and vocal cadences of "Shakermaker" are lifted wholesale from the Coke jingle, and its final verse originally included the verbatim line "I’d like to buy the world a Coke." Pop music’s elitism problem: Why Oasis never got the respect they deserved 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

The company noted that the role of Akhnaten calls for a countertenor, that rare male singer with a highly controlled falsetto and a vocal range that matches a traditional female mezzo-soprano. Demonstrators protest L.A. Opera over casting of white singer as an Egytian pharoah 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

At first, her vocals are operatic and pretty, but soon she shrieks and moans like a woman suffering labor pains or nightmares. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

A. I crave all things hilarious, vocal, verbal or physical, and when I do my warm-up, I’m moving in ways that make me laugh, that turn me on, and it leads toward a comic moment. James Brown and Al Pacino, Salsa Added 2011-04-10T00:51:52Z

Singer Abbey Lincoln, who was then Roach's wife, animates the poetic imagery with a vocal performance that veers between tender and volcanic. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

The young Sullivan after all had a job producing piano and vocal scores of Italian operas and knew precisely how the composers achieved their effects. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z

In his apartment, in front of his “really expensive” microphone, he creates characters with vocals alone. For Your Ears Only: Broadway’s New Stage Is a Mic 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

After several memorable Mozart recordings, they take on the music of Rameau here, bringing the same startling zest for innovation and untamed dynamism to a dazzling selection of vocal and instrumental selections from his operas. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Back in November, Parker played me 10 tracks in various stages of completion, most awaiting vocal tracks and lyrics. Tame Impala Makes Music for Loners. But Now Kevin Parker Plays the World’s Biggest Stages. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

One of them is “People,” with Stevie Wonder on vocals and harmonica. Barbra Streisand stays mostly the way she was on 'Partners' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

She was a vivid chronicler of growing up hardscrabble in Butcher Holler, Ky. And she was one of the genre’s great vocal stylists, delivering heartbreak and sternness with equal aplomb. Remembering Loretta Lynn 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Handel’s vocal writing can be fiercely demanding, nowhere more so than in the Angel’s opening aria, “Be unbarred, ye gates of Avernus,” in which Liv Redpath, a soprano, displayed lovely tone and fine agility. It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Since being released from prison last year, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina have been vocal about their experiences while incarcerated and critical of abuses within the prison system. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina launch prisoners’ rights organization 2014-03-14T19:53:00Z

She called her new, gritty version of the vocal art form Alpine Dub. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z

Shorn of Vega's method vocals, these six tracks explore minimal synthetics to great effect. Hidden treasures: Martin Rev – Martin Rev 2013-01-10T17:03:53Z

He works largely as a one-man studio band, fusing his own vocals, instruments and electronics. Serpentwithfeet’s Music Is Otherworldly. But His Message Is Down to Earth. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

On that theory, apparently, Tenet presented an evening of Purcell, sizable vocal works separated by smaller instrumental numbers, not all of it Cecilia-related. Music Review: Tenet at Trinity Wall Street - Review 2011-11-25T23:32:29Z

It piles on the soul samples and a guest vocal from the Gap Band’s Charlie Wilson, while West plays the rogue in pursuit of “one good girl.” Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z

All those years Ms. Goerke spent singing vocal embellishments in Mozart and Handel came in handy here. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

And to hear Melchior and Flagstad in close to their peak vocal primes, with this kind of three-dimensional fidelity, is a gift no Wagnerian should be without. CD reviews: Two ways of looking at ‘Die Walküre’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

But after months in Los Angeles, undergoing “an extensive process — everything from psychological evaluation tests, to choosing songs, to movement and vocal coaching,” Wastman returned to Seattle. Mycle Wastman: a Seattle singer long before ‘The Voice’ 2012-11-29T23:19:19Z

The odd song out on “Black Panties” is “Shut Up,” which he released online in 2011 after he had surgery on his vocal cords. New Music: New Albums by R. Kelly and Parmalee 2013-12-09T22:29:43Z

On its parent album, Love Letter, it is exactly that vibe he mines: the album is full of classicist balladry and heartfelt vocals. Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z

It's a step up that has encouraged the duo to develop their intimate groove into something much more expansive, enlisting Marshall on guest vocals and recruiting a full-time live drummer. Mount Kimbie go beyond making music for after the club 2013-05-24T12:00:00Z

The tracklist also includes Shameless, a song that originally appeared – with vocals from Ferry – on Groove Armada's recent album. Bryan Ferry recruits Roxy Music for solo album 2010-07-13T10:01:00Z

It opens with a scrambled groove — courtesy of Robert Glasper on piano, Ben Williams on bass and Mr. Brown on drums — before a springlike vocal turn by Bilal. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

He thanks his grandmother and sinks at the loss of his father with mournful rasp, deepened even further by gentle chin-to-sternum plucking and the cumulus vocals of Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z

Lushly layered vocals with wrenching lyrics, laced into rich electric beats made from ambient sounds like creaky stairs and greasy-pan pops — Imogen Heap plays the Paramount Theatre on Monday. Innovative musician Imogen Heap to play the Paramount 2010-06-11T01:10:00Z

His similar facial features and dead-on vocal imitation make him singularly perfect in the role, as does his innate ability to switch between hostile and sympathetic, manic and pathetic. Saturday Night Live: the most memorable cameos of the Trump era 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

She's got the phrasing and feeling down, and displayed live some very impressive vocal firepower — belting, wailing and dramatically stretching out throbbing notes at the top of her range. Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z

As an orchestral, dramatic set-piece, Mr. Beck played the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” with his guitar as the vocal melody. Music Review | Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck: Yes, Two Guitar Idols Are Better Than One 2010-02-19T23:33:00Z

A string of petitions to remove Johnny Depp, accused of assaulting ex-wife Amber Heard, from the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel suggests that a vocal portion have had enough. Jeffrey Tambor: the problem with his post-#MeToo comeback 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Added layers — of guitars, vocal harmony or horns — are for heft, not decoration. New Music: Albums by Christina Aguilera, Soundgarden and Brian Eno 2012-11-12T23:19:31Z

The album’s penultimate track, “Mountjoy”, is an acoustic-oriented getaway, its strums melting into one another and brushing beautifully against the arching, deliberate vocal. REVIEW: World Peace Is None of Your Business Is Definitively Morrissey 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's not an immediately convincing reinvention: Sun is engrossing musically, but ruined by its intrusive, abstract vocal; the clanging notes of Bowls are similarly tiresome. Caribou: Swim 2010-04-15T20:55:00Z

Four singers — two women and two men — engaged in protracted vocal gymnastics, imitating the high-pitched squeak of a Disney character one moment, holding long sustained trills the next. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

On Friday, his vocal harmonies were strong and sure, and his bass playing was agile enough to slip between Alex’s stampeding kick drums and Eddie’s slaloming guitar leads. Concert review: Van Halen at the United Center 2012-02-25T07:25:00Z

Nothing in “They Try” was more enchanting than the singing of Kate Davis, a returning artist in recent years: the innocent, high firmness of her vocal lines enchanted. At Vail Festival, Dance Artists Renew and Extend Themselves 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

As St. Jimmy, Ms. Etheridge will add her vocals to such Green Day songs as “Last of the American Girls,” “Last Night on Earth” and “Know Your Enemy.” ArtsBeat: Her Name Is Jimmy: Melissa Etheridge Will Join 'American Idiot' Cast For One Week 2011-01-18T19:48:52Z

Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo, “Girls Like Me” This snappy “Valley Girl” soundtrack staple screamed Cali new-wave: jaunty piano, a perky tempo, girl-gang harmonies, and sassy vocals from Bonnie Hayes. The 12 best ’80s high school movie jams 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

“I’m Blessed,” which features rapper T.I., finds Wilson filtering his gratitude through his buttery vocals. How gospel and rap finally found each other and created a new batch of hits 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

"Word of Mouth" looks back as well, this time to Sacred Harp singing, an ecstatic 19th century a cappella group vocal tradition in the American South. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

From my vantage point near the men's lavatories it's sometimes hard to hear Solange's aerated vocals over the constant whirr of the Dyson hand drier. Solange – review 2013-01-20T00:06:13Z

Adventurous programming, as ever, is on offer from this vocal and instrumental ensemble, this time exploring so-called ancient groove music and the evolution of dance music, from Machaut and Monteverdi to Reich and Gorecki. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Her metallic vocal edge melts, her phrasing relaxes, and her suppressed vibrato begins to quiver. Music Review: Jazz Singer Stacey Kent Plays at Birdland 2010-06-04T22:05:00Z

But Grimm's soft-spoken manner and signature stingy-brimmed hat endeared him to "Talent" viewers, along with his soulful vocals. Singer Michael Grimm wins `America's Got Talent' 2010-09-16T04:46:00Z

The vocal parts for the Storch work are challenging because they are unusually high; there are no arias or solo-only movements, but several vocal solos. A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Damone’s style as a lounge singer remained constant through the years: straightforward, concentrated on melody and lyrics without resorting to vocal gimmicks. Popular crooner Vic Damone dies in Florida at age 89 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Cornell brought a rugged touch to “You Know My Name,” the theme of the 2006 James Bond movie, “Casino Royale,” and turned in a dusky, haunted vocal performance on the Golden Globe-nominated “The Keeper.” Chris Cornell’s talents transcend the grunge genre he helped create 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The record, released this month by the British label Warp, is of course libretto free, mostly dispensing with vocals in favor of complex, often orchestral arrangements. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

There’s a difference between following a formula and becoming cliche, however, and Gilbert easily skirts that line with his songwriting, his sonic choices and a more varied vocal approach on the Dann Huff-produced album. Review: Brantley Gilbert’s star-making album 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

His protean career was surely unique, as he sang and recorded more vocal music than any who came before. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z

He has been a vocal supporter of Atlanta’s sports teams, even penning a forgettable 2004 ode to the city’s NFL team, “Falcons Fever.” After slamming COVID-19 rules, Tritt to sing anthem at NLCS 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

The song "Blue" features vocals from baby Blue Ivy, who was born in January 2012. Beyonce's surprise release of new album excites fans 2013-12-14T01:25:45Z

Mr. Anderson sang while playing bass, and his thinner voice worked as a guide vocal more than a new interpretation. The Bad Plus Plays Ornette Coleman 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

All three are reined-in works, and Graham is actually at her best in music that permits her slightly grander, more extrovert vocal gestures. Susan Graham – review 2012-07-02T17:27:30Z

He received his most recent Grammy in 2007 for best male R&B vocal performance for the song “Future Baby Mama.” Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The quick pattering of a Middle Eastern hand drum, the dumbek, transformed other songs, spurring vocal arabesques. Music Review: At the Garden, Shakira Is a Star With a Conscience 2010-09-22T12:00:00Z

Mike Will also deploys little background interjections — a vocal snippet, a saxophone flourish, a handful of plucked guitar notes — as ingenious, near-subliminal attention-grabbers. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The band recorded the fourth album's songs without Julian, who provided vocals separately. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z

Now, almost 20 years after her remarkable recovery, Ruffner is mobile, vocal and very active despite some lingering limitations. Ginny Ruffner's art blooms at Bellevue Arts Museum and on film 2010-10-20T23:19:00Z

Weitz adds, “Someone said to me, ‘Do you have to be that vocal every time’ and I said, ‘Yes, why would we hold it in?’ The year rookie cop series Hill Street Blues hijacked the Emmys 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Calder’s vocal role was news to Nguyen: “I mean, Calder had taken out a whole page in The New York Times” in 1966, he said. Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Last June, Seattle pop vocal firecracker Brandi Carlile even named her album after the place, so taken was she by its idyllic atmosphere. Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z

"Now there are background vocals on every bloody song." Moulding music 2010-02-23T08:38:00Z

Thursday’s program stars Frauke Aulbert, a German vocalist with a range covering four octaves and vocal techniques from around the world. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Monte is a catchy pop song with glockenspiel and soft French vocals that you will love immediately and put on repeat for weeks. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z

The highlight, a delicate rendition of “Coney Island Baby,” casts light on Reed’s strong, drawling vocal influence on Mr. Arthur. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

But it was remarkably pliant and he worked the microphone like another instrument to create a theater of vocal effects that amplified the emotions in the lyrics. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

The new track, a sparse ballad to West's daughter North featuring faint backing vocals from McCartney, was released just before midnight on New Year’s Eve. Kanye West's 'Only One' featuring Paul McCartney: His worst-ever track? 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Eventually, she stood up and began walking the perimeter of the room, taking slow steps in bright orange socks, using those elongated vocal trills to create a force field around the audience. Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Its starts with a  slow, torchy vocal with little more than backing coos and a deep bass tone to underline it. Listen: Lorde's new single from 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

While the snorting, strutting blues I Know, with its hollering vocal finale, has the audience in raptures. Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition – review 2012-12-13T22:25:01Z

Given that, it’s surprising just how harsh the rest of “Kiss” is on Ms. Jepsen’s vocals, which are hopelessly buried throughout. Critic’s Notebook: Carly Rae Jepsen Faces Pressure to Follow Up Hit 2012-09-19T22:09:48Z

The vocals on the title track are essentially an increasingly agitated series of screams. Album review: Ty Segall Band, 'Slaughterhouse' 2012-07-06T15:52:00Z

Thomas kept telling me to not focus on complicated production techniques, but just to focus on the vocals and songwriting. | Daft Punk’s Secret Weapon: Producer Todd Edwards 2013-05-14T22:04:30Z

And Victor Chan as a figure named Castaway hugs everyone on stage with his powerhouse kumbaya vocals as he voices the young blogger’s secret thoughts. 'Miss You Like Hell,' an immigration musical for the new Trump era 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Ern Champion takes the popular concept of four white guys making calypso and throws in some restless treble guitars, counter-beat drums and echoed vocals, all in the Surfer Blood/Vampire Weekend vein. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

One is Count Ossie’s vocal and percussion group, playing the rhythms of nyabinghi — a rhythm arrangement he developed for Rasta gatherings in his various Rasta compounds in Kingston, Jamaica. CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Yaffe assures us that “Chaka Khan, who, as a teenager, had been a member of the militant Black Panther party, had no problem with the cover of the album for which she provided vocals.” ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Sun Records was a key inspiration for Lisbon, most apparent in the Tennessee Three chug of Blue As Your Blood and the backing vocals on All My Great Designs. The Walkmen: 'We're not difficult, honest' 2011-01-13T22:45:01Z

And the vocal coach Kevin Murphy, who has been director of music administration since 2008, will leave to join the faculty of Indiana University with his wife, the soprano Heidi Grant Murphy. Critic?s Notebook: Ushering City Opera Into a New Era 2011-08-12T22:27:56Z

This would be merely unkind and possibly unpleasant if the “Forbidden” performers didn’t replicate and exaggerate their subjects’ vocal tics with such loving exactitude. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!’ at 47th Street Theater 2012-09-07T02:00:00Z

The haunted piano-wire of Before I Move Off is nicely offset by a strolling guitar riff and playful vocals. Guardian First Album award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:15:01Z

Ms. Chapman’s original “Fast Car” spins a yarn of hope, relying primarily on an acoustic guitar and her own throaty, impassioned vocals. Dancing Away From the Bleak Life With ‘Fast Car’ 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

As for her take on his recent association with former President Trump, Mr. Findling said that the rapper, a vocal Democrat, was one of the first phone calls he got after the news broke. Cardi B Pleads Guilty to Two Misdemeanors in 2018 Strip Club Attack 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Depp’s fans have been vocal in their support, saying he has been falsely accused. Johnny Depp suit against Amber Heard starts with jury picks 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

If Mr. Gunn wields endless clout, the murmur of sweet nothings is not yet on his vocal menu. Music Review: Operatic Slugger Drives Some Pop 2011-04-03T21:11:49Z

Beck’s supercharged remake of a Yardbirds song has Rod Stewart on vocals and a churning, whipsawing arrangement that rivals anything from contemporaries like the Who. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Onstage, the duo opened with Jaden’s dreamy “Summertime in Paris,” featuring Willow’s airy vocals. Jaden and Willow Smith bring sibling revelry — and youthful urgency — to D.C. concert 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Since her dad was absent, MacColl could sing along to her brother Hamish's singles, apparently teaching herself the vocal harmony parts to the Beach Boys's Good Vibrations when she was seven. Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due 2012-09-29T23:05:11Z

Alan Jackson showed up to perform his part in the hit collaboration "As She's Walking Away," and Amos Lee helped with vocals on "Colder Weather." Paisley, Aldean help kick off CMA Music Fest 2011-06-10T19:28:08Z

Harplike plinks and clicking percussion rise around her voice, enfolded in instrumental and vocal harmonies as she sings that “portals open as you slowly drift through/surrounded by our love.” PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

For the past week, it’s been Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s most vocal opponent in the primary—one who is trying and failing to be just as charmingly irreverent as the Donald. Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly face off: Tonight’s Fox News debate puts the notorious rivals face-to-face after a 7-month standoff 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

With their strong vocal and horn arrangements, the Bridge recorded a series of hits, including “Welcome Me Love,” “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “Your Husband, My Wife.” Johnny Maestro, Brooklyn Bridge Singer, Dies at 70 2010-03-26T05:56:00Z

And though the boomy acoustics of the church did McCann no favors, the vocal splendor of her reading was hard to miss. 'A Christmas Surprise' from Tammy McCann, thanks to Billy Strayhorn 2010-12-19T13:24:00Z

She is also a generous collaborator, lending her warm vocals to projects as different as Don Paterson's Lammas, Harvey Brough's Requiem in Blue and Crass Agenda. Christine Tobin & Liam Noble 2010-09-22T21:00:00Z

With the instrumentation’s newfound clarity, swelling shoegazey riffs provide a backdrop for his gossamer vocals on songs like album opener “Malison.” Hibou turns anxiety into music on his new album, ‘Something Familiar’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The traditional vocal apparatus of humans is not a paragon of biological elegance. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z

The only remaining link is his exploration of low-end frequencies, which rumble disquietingly underneath his yearning vocals. Mercury Prize 2013: The nominees 2013-09-11T17:04:21Z

But before it ends, the song pivots completely, turning to slow chromatic chords and suspended vocal harmonies — a brief moment of respite. Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

There are also those conservative commentators who argue that Gibson was scorned in Hollywood for his rightwing sympathies and vocal Christianity, not for what we are now obliged to think of as “locker-room talk”. Can Mel Gibson ever be rehabilitated? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Along the way, the vocal social justice activist worked hard to bring major league baseball back to Washington and continues the uphill battle for D.C. statehood. ‘They’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga sang “Cheek to Cheek,” an 80-year-old song by Irving Berlin; their album by that title also won best traditional pop vocal album. Grammy Winners 2015: Beck, Sam Smith, Pharrell and Beyoncé Thrive 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Warren was famously a Republican until she became a vocal progressive. Kurt Andersen Asks: What Is the Future of America? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

“I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be in love,” she sings in a blur of reverb, guitar swoops and harmony vocals over a programmed beat. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

And a decade before that, it was George Clinton's Parliament and Funkadelic bands that boasted vocal effects and album titles every bit as freaky as Badu's. Erykah Badu's Maverick R&B 2010-03-25T23:01:00Z

But every vocal effect was musical and motivated by the dramatic moment. Music Review: Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-09T23:02:45Z

They needn't have bothered turning up, as their vocals are drowned out by the crowd. Suede/Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Relying heavily on a groovy rhythm section with drums and bass, the rediscovered synths and Polly's vocals add up to something between disco and New Wave, and has been met with critical acclaim. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z

“Butterfly Effect” unleashes her formidable vocal range on a fantasy of undoing a painful romance; “Conversation” returns to the luxurious feel of “Hrs and Hrs,” paying tribute to the simple joys of talking it out. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Not all the eight vocal soloists managed to project the Latin and German convincingly, inevitably negating some of their impact, but Erin Wall and Christopher Maltman were outstanding. CBSO/Nelsons 2010-09-20T21:15:00Z

Instead of the surf-cars-and-girls formula that had built the vocal group's franchise, Wilson was on a different mission entirely. Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z

Brown's famously shambolic vocal performances before the group split up in 1996 have gone down in band legend. Fans hail Stone Roses comeback 2012-05-24T10:52:52Z

But with her rich, gleaming sound and vocal charisma, she was a Manon of rare intensity and emotional depth. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z

They will then harmonize with recordings of her vocal tracks. ArtsBeat: TLC Said to Plan a Reunion Tour With Projections of Deceased Member 2012-04-26T15:57:22Z

Verdi modeled some of the choral and vocal ensemble numbers in “Rigoletto” after excerpts from Donizetti’s score. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Eye contact, smell, vocal intonation, physical demeanor and proximity. Does digital dating put women at an evolutionary disadvantage? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The vocal producer Benjamin Rice was charged with putting it all together. How the Orlando Charity Single ‘Hands’ Went From Idea to Reality 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

After growing up in Los Angeles, Larson got his start in the biz as a singer and a member of the pop vocal group the Four Preps, and he also worked as an NBC page. Glen Larson, TV producer, dead at 77 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Jasmine” remains a stone-cold soul classic, with coy vocals and a bass line that’s sensual and unctuous. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Not that religious themes are emphasized — several of the characters are vocal about their lack of faith — but they nonetheless hover around the everyday mysteries and miracles that Mr. Garcia finds in motherhood. | 'Mother and Child': Annette Bening in Rodrigo Garcia?s Study of Motherhood 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z

Ensembles and choruses quickly turn murky, with clashing vocal lines and clotted orchestral textures. Music Review: ?Heart of a Soldier? at San Francisco Opera - Review 2011-09-11T17:17:57Z

This recording immortalizes one of the very best casts of vocal soloists who have gathered over the years on the Symphony stage. Review: CDs from Seattle Symphony, violinist James Ehnes 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z

I found my voice and was vocal in the writing of this book. Carine McCandless on 'The Wild Truth' and her brother Chris' life 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Linehan is a vocal traditionalist in the mode of Petula Clark, to whom she paid tribute in an earlier show. Review: Maxine Linehan Transforms the Popular Into the Personal 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The local vocal group — partially made up of music teachers — survived the first round and continues to compete for $100,000 and a Sony recording contract along with seven other remaining groups. Seattle group Groove For Thought competes in 'The Sing-Off' 2010-12-08T22:13:00Z

Since I was listening exclusively to punk at the time, it was this voice, with its distorted screech – the vocal equivalent of scraping a plectrum down guitar strings – that caught my attention. My hero: Bj?rk 2011-07-22T21:55:12Z

From his first word — “Jesus,” a microcosm of caring — Mr. Padmore’s performance was an integrated, unforgettable vocal and dramatic whole. Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic Performs a New ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-02-28T03:15:50Z

You are very vocal when you don't like a place so why the ambivalence? An Indian Chef Comes Home Again at Paowalla in SoHo 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hoiby composed many pieces for solo piano, chamber ensemble, and orchestra, but he was always most acclaimed for his vocal works. Lee Hoiby, Opera Composer Known for Lyricism, Dies at 85 2011-03-29T05:00:25Z

But I wouldn't want to change the vocals – they suit that record, and where I was at that time. Macy Gray on her first album, On How Life Is 2013-01-01T17:00:03Z

Its midtempo groove, deliberate bass line and informal backup vocals hark back to Sly and the Family Stone, while Syd doles out her come-ons just a few syllables at a time. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana are synonymous with the grunge genre, or “Seattle sound,” known for its muddy electric guitar and angsty vocals. Before Nirvana or Pearl Jam, there was Tina Bell, the godmother of grunge. Musicians pay tribute in upcoming concert 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Billy Joel – Big Shot With a punctuated tempo, a vocal that seems to be impersonating Sly Stallone, and a staccato piano riff, it seemed time to show the Joel some love. Readers recommend: Songs about birds 2010-04-22T23:01:00Z

Bette Midler – The Rose We don't often have ballads in these here lists, certainly not those which are comprised just of vocals and piano. Readers recommend: Songs about the weekend 2010-06-10T23:01:00Z

Everything Time is the opener with the seraphic vocals and the house piano that emerges from the astral fog. New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z

The consistent, haunting melancholy of the music and lyrics — most of them spoken word, with Salvant’s vocals mostly wordless — were communication enough. Ambrose Akinmusire and Cecile McLorin Salvant, perfectly attuned to each other 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The song ends with a postscript, a fragile high vocal promising, “I am beside you, I am within you.” Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rogers was particularly fond of singing the harmony part on vocal collaborations. Kenny Rogers, Who Brought Country Music to a Pop Audience, Dies at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Organizers announced Church won top new solo vocalist and The Band Perry won top new vocal group or duo in a news release Friday. Eric Church, The Band Perry win ACM Awards 2011-02-25T18:40:55Z

Levine called it “delicate and different” and said it revealed Williams’ vocal “purity.” 'The Voice' recap: Top 12 prove it ain't over till it's over 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Blessed with a wide range and a vocal resonance so rich that KFC once hired him to do voice-overs, he's collected 14 top 10 country singles that fit a panorama of styles. Trace Adkins "Back in Town" with renewed energy 2010-07-17T02:02:00Z

Hand the result to Wendell Marshall to give it life, a bit of percussion, gorgeous strings and Ben E King's incredible vocal to top it off. Readers recommend: songs with the best bass lines – results 2012-10-11T12:35:46Z

The practice, which prioritizes vocal and dramatic abilities, results in white actors playing black characters, and black actors singing traditionally white roles.  Demonstrators protest L.A. Opera over casting of white singer as an Egytian pharoah 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Records when it was founded in 1958 by the movie studio of the same name, primarily to market film soundtracks and vocal records by some of the studio’s stars. Stan Cornyn, Record Executive, Is Dead at 81 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

And flamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga's haul of three statuettes included best pop vocal album. Pop idol Justin Bieber: No Grammys, no worries 2011-02-14T06:44:38Z

Simon: "A wasted opportunity, but your vocal was good." "American Idol" recap: Glambert to the rescue 2010-04-14T12:15:00Z

A health warning should be slapped on the vocal group the Prince Consort. Porgy and Bess; the Prince Consort; Live Music Sculpture – review 2012-07-14T23:06:10Z

She conducted her school choir while a student, but her true conversion to vocal music came during a recital by the glamorous soprano Victoria de los Ángeles in Wellington. Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z

At its most basic, vocalization requires two pieces of equipment: lungs and vocal cords. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

His new song, “California Roll,” dropped on Tuesday and features the Motown legend on vocals, keyboard and harmonica. Listen To Snoop Dogg's New Track Featuring Stevie Wonder 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The chorus creates a welcoming space for chorus members to explore and find their voices, and Deaton caters to the group's vocal ranges by commissioning special alto-tenor-tenor-baritone-bass arrangements of songs. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Sabala, who sings the title role, is a compelling young soprano who graduated from the Orange County School of the Arts in May 2016 and is studying vocal performance at Drake University in Des Moines. They filmed the opera 'Vireo' on Alcatraz. Soon you can stream it on your iPad or phone 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Yet it has many striking moments that Garry Clarke, five vocal soloists and the instrumental group of 20 nimbly and colorfully set before us. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z

She eventually spent more than a decade as a member of the Raelettes, Ray Charles’s backing vocal group. Mable John, Soul Singer With a Star-Studded Résumé, Dies at 91 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

The vocals, by the way, are uniformly evanescent. New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z

Without the former drummer’s steadiness, some seemed pushed to newly fast tempos, losing the spaciousness that once let the interplay between Brownstein and Tucker’s vocals shine. Review: Sleater-Kinney end their American tour in Seattle, a place ‘we call home’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

This show was all plush vocal harmonies and sweetly twanging guitars; their "cosmic Scouser" phase now long behind them, they're in thrall to Buffalo Springfield and the Everly Brothers these days. The Coral 2010-07-15T21:15:00Z

Her vocal dropped a few registers, cockney giving way to a mid-Atlantic burr. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

Fischer sang backup vocals for years behind everyone from Roberta Flack to the Rolling Stones, but became world famous in her own right after the 2013 Oscar and Grammy-winning film “20 Steps From Stardom.” A giddy crowd welcomes the reopening of Jazz Alley 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

In rehearsals, where tears flow and vocal cords surely shred, it’s striking how Ms. Gough also frequently refers to time the company spent with addicts in a recovery center in South London. She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

He has been a vocal supporter of President Trump in recent years, causing many Democrats to believe his surprising attempt to run is an attempt to take votes away from democratic nominee Joe Biden. Kanye West blocked from Wisconsin ballot for missing deadline by 14 seconds 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Progressive metal that blends furious riffs with moments of calm, harsh vocals with melodic ones, alternating explosions with restraints. February's best music from across the MAP 2011-02-15T11:40:25Z

Earnest vocals get giddily pitch-shifted and skewed by distortion and effects. Too Pop? Too Weird? A.G. Cook of PC Music Is Stepping Out on His Own 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

The way I find the forms or chords or samples that I think vocals could come out of is extremely random. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z

Yet this setting of poems by AE Housman embraced a different expressive tone, often heartbreaking with Atar Arad's viola lines plaintively echoing the vocal line. Mark Padmore/Prussia Cove 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z

But when Aminé performed the song on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” this week, he was serious from the start: orchestral swell in the arrangement, elegant backup vocals. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

“For a guy like me to be vocal about this type of thing, it’s not really my jam,” Chappelle told reporters in Columbia. Dave Chappelle’s endorsement matters, but not in the way Andrew Yang wants 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The Michael Jackson vocal comparisons no longer seemed quite as absurd, his signature falsetto soaring and his tenor oozing poise and confidence. Review | The Weeknd embraces his superstardom at Verizon Center 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

This was the first song that Lee Foss and I did with Ali Love on vocals. Jamie Jones's favourite tracks 2013-04-05T17:00:00Z

Mozart’s score of bright, agile vocal writing isn’t easy for aging singers, so Tcherniakov’s concept inevitably prioritized itself over the music. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

The vocal talent is variable, but the writing is savvy, the nods to genre are droll and the cliffhangers — don’t go into the abandoned amusement park, Tig! — just about unbearable. Five Great Podcasts From 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The verse, by Emily Brontë, which continues, “It vexes me to choose another guide,” proves peculiarly apt for Mrs. Tetherow, who emerges as Meek’s prime skeptic and becomes an unusually vocal opponent. Oregon Frontier, From Under a Bonnet 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z

After the first few taps of an icy note and a familiar vocal riff, the group heard where our new challenger was heading, and stared in disbelief. Frank Ocean Is Making “Radio Pop,” at Last 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

That vocal quality came through strongly in Derya Turkan’s soulful improvisation — which included the same languid oscillation of pitch that had struck me as so oddly expressive in the Pomo d’Oro concert. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

But Lynn’s vocal makes every line a tangle of conflicted emotions. Loretta Lynn Didn’t Pretty Things Up 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

In a rare event for a choreographer and company director, he also sang, performing the solo vocals in “Dancing Honeymoon.” Mark Morris Dance Group delivers an early spring​ 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Gonson, battling a cold, looked dressed as if for a trip to Russia and had occasional vocal troubles. The Magnetic Fields charm Neptune crowd 2012-03-20T17:56:08Z

Tenor Daniel Montenegro will be a rare vocal participant on July 23 and 24, with a set of songs flanked on the program by a Mozart violin-viola duo and the Brahms Horn Trio. Chamber music and cheeseburgers at Olympic Music Festival 2011-07-01T20:23:09Z

Then Durga McBroom-Hudson, a vocalist who has toured with Pink Floyd as a backup singer, posted on her Facebook page a photo showing her recording as part of a vocal trio. New Pink Floyd Album May Be Coming 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Over the years, the band’s solution has been to create shifting instrumental shapes and colors just beneath the vocals. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

Jamison just owned his youthfully smooth sex appeal, and showcased his confident, lithe vocals as well. 'The Voice' recap: Top 8 ... or top great? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

It was very honest with just a simple piano and a vocal. Christina Aguilera Wants These Women to Record the Next 'Lady Marmalade' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Medicine went out the window after he successfully auditioned for the London Opera Center, a training institution, and took a one-year program in vocal coaching. Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Whose Life Was a Worldwide Whirlwind, Dies at 74 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

The role of Edwin’s betrothed, the beauteous young Rosa Bud, who has awakened unseemly lust in the heart of Jasper, is sung with a shimmering vocal beauty by Betsy Wolfe. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z

The first movement of the “Partita,” a whirling and joyful vocal construction, begins to play. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

The song is a generic thumper; what sets it apart are the vocals, spoken by what sounds like a gum-snapping young woman, who rambles so much she probably gets on her own nerves. Music Review: The Chainsmokers Perform ‘#SELFIE’ at Highline Ballroom 2014-04-15T21:37:24Z

Hardwell made his set seesaw between earnest vocals and stark, stomping beats; Tiesto modulated smoothly, playing what sounded like one long anthem with a parade of different vocalists. Critic’s Notebook: Electric Zoo Festival Cut Short by Two Deaths 2013-09-01T22:23:22Z

On “Loneliest Soul” she peels off the vocals slowly and alluringly, letting each line settle in before starting the next. New Music: New Albums From Grace Potter, Josh Turner and Fly 2012-06-11T22:38:11Z

If in the middle of these rages I had to constantly look down at my script, I would have stripped my vocal gears on the very first day. Learning 'Lear': When To Hold Back, When to Let Go 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Prior to "Pet Sounds," the Beach Boys were essentially a boy band with soaring vocals and an impressive hit parade. New Dolby mix of Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" takes its luminous vocals to soaring heights 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Fruit juice is less popular, as it can lead to a thickening of the vocal cords. Playing drunk: Now, what was I shaying? 2011-03-23T21:31:10Z

Born in Ethiopia, Ms. Jernberg wove a keening Ethiopian folk song into her own assemblage of virtuosic vocal tricks: yelps, croaks and hums evocative of birds and of early Meredith Monk. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Blends Freedom With Radiance 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t just men: a sixty-plus female publicist, who’d been in the business forever, was vocal in her sympathy, calling him “wonderful” and “generous,” as her younger colleagues frowned peevishly. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Most of the girls grapple with their vocals and lyrics. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 12 – what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ichiyanagi remained in Japan and went on to compose symphonies, chamber works and vocal compositions, often making use of precipitous glissandos and prerecorded elements. Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“When we did hear from Disney management, they were incredibly vocal to us about how much they like our brand, how much they admire the programming we did,” Newman said. Fox TV producers offered assurances ahead of Disney merger 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made her a singular figure in jazz, died on Saturday in Manhattan. Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z

But with one incendiary photograph, she became something else: an alleged credible threat in the eyes of the FBI and a vocal authority on the First Amendment rights for all of us. Kathy Griffin still gets death threats: "They got me, but they never got me down" 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

Choosing his words, he wouldn’t admit to rising tension but accepted that “there’s a lot of adrenalin around,” not least in relation to the vocal health of his choristers. Westminster Abbey, Scaling Up 2011-04-24T00:49:23Z

A full chorus in the original version was reduced to a vocal quartet that chimed in with floating, crystalline harmonies. Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

But these miscues only heighten the sense of the uniqueness and unpredictability of the occasion, providing a kind of light relief before the superb quality of their songs, their musicianship and their vocals reassert themselves. Get Back: The Beatles rocked the rooftop 50 years ago 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

That elasticity allowed Leithauser, who kept rhythm on acoustic guitar throughout, to display his full bag of vocal tricks. Hamilton Leithauser might just be getting started 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The roster of vocal soloists was not the best. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z

She is also due to perform for the first time in Britain since undergoing vocal cord surgery. Adele and Blur lined up for UK music's Brit Awards 2012-02-21T12:20:15Z

Yet the orchestra keeps needling the vocal lines with jabbing dissonances and modernist harmonic twists, so a sober subtext comes through. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Until then, it's over to Bowman: "Seems too early in the day to be emoting to this degree… oh, he needs some more vocal I'm afraid." Chapel Club at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T18:14:53Z

He often adapted it, including for “Forbidden Colors,” a vocal version with the singer David Sylvian, piano renditions and sweeping orchestral arrangements. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

The last and most distinct track on the album, “It Is You,” shows the ideal deployment of her vocals. Natalie Prass Escapes Nashville 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

The piece was made using nothing but vocals from community choirs and pebbles for percussion but it was no simple affair. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

On that album, “For All We Know,” Nao, a native of Britain, blends sumptuous R&B grooves and hip-hop-inspired beats with her bright, otherworldly vocals. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Rodrigo failed to go full Eilish 2020, winning only one of her nominations in the Big Four categories, best new artist, plus best pop vocal album and best pop solo performance. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

While he has Ms. Paulus run every line of the narrative by him, he said she does not need to call him on vocal and choreography matters. After Turbulent Flight, ‘Finding Neverland’ Alights on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The production is spare and airy, Ms. Spears’s vocals pinched and over-manipulated. The Playlist: Britney Spears Puts on a Show and Tove Lo Plays it Cool 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

In some of the songs it’s clear the producers are eking out all they can from what recorded vocals Jackson left behind, stretching them with backup choirs, guests and cut-and-paste repetitions. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z

In what might be Rihanna’s finest vocal performance to date, she stretches on “Higher” to find the plaintive voice cracks that are Ms. Bourelly’s specialty. A Self-Proclaimed Outsider Moves Closer to Pop Music Limelight 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

As a man in a privileged position I have to be vocal about this. Justin Timberlake is "deeply sorry" for his sexist behavior toward Britney Spears & Janet Jackson 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Although his vocals were dubbed by Lloyd Williams, Mr. Jessie adopted the name Otis Day and began singing at gigs with a band. ‘Animal House’ Oral History: From Richard Pryor to a Real Melee 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Then there were the few but vocal dissidents in the crowd claiming the show was too simplistic, too idealistic and too liberal. 10 year time capsule: "West Wing" and the furies 2011-05-17T20:01:00Z

He’ll be joined by Stuart, a bona fide country legend who spent five years playing guitar and singing backup vocals for Johnny Cash. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Flick said its enduring appeal derives from that Organ 2 sound and “the rawness of the vocal,” which he described as having “a church quality.” Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ and the Long Tail of ‘Show Me Love’ 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Elfman will perform vocals from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as he did at last year's Halloween concerts. Danny Elfman talks about Halloween concerts of Tim Burton movie music 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

We sent one of our friends with a tape recorder and recorded his vocal and trumpet up there and then brought it back. Modfather speaks 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

The whole effect is that everything gets turned up a bit, and usually not the nice bit, but the "toppy edgy" sound of the guitar and cymbals, reducing the clarity of the vocals. Ask the indie professor: How loud is too loud? 2011-01-11T15:52:45Z

Known as "the Sinatra of the blues", Bland was influenced by Nat King Cole's smooth vocals and lavish arrangements. Singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T14:59:59Z

But, he added, “Bennett’s voice binds all his vocal selves together.” Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aucoin flawlessly writes vocal lines so that the words come through clearly. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

When she got serious about singing, Ms. Giddens turned to opera, earning a degree in vocal performance. A Solo Spotlight for a Powerful Voice 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

He has a smooth crooner’s voice, hips with an easy twitch and the vocal mannerisms of the young Presley down pat. | 'Million Dollar Quartet': On Broadway With Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Company 2010-04-12T02:19:00Z

When Dylan launches into take two of the song, it’s bouncy, with punchy vocals and organ flourishes, making it, already, a different tale altogether. Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

In previous years, the "Pose" stars have been vocal about the show's lack of award recognition despite its critical acclaim and praise regarding trans representation. "Pose" star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez makes history as first transgender actress to win a Golden Globe 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Her “Casta Diva,” couched in a dark, almost mezzolike tone but with real power in the high notes, was the picture of vocal suppleness and deeply felt phrasing. Music Review: The Trees and Fields Are Laced With Arias 2011-07-12T20:32:20Z

One of their recent works unfolded at Bethnal Green in London, where as part of an exhibition with the Whitechapel gallery, they used 20 volunteers to supply vocals in an agitprop performance. Cultured Traveler: In Istanbul, Seeing Art Through Two Lenses 2013-08-16T16:15:44Z

A vocal champion of parents’ rights in opera, she said she recognized the complexity of the situation. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Once upon a time, actors in movie musicals had to meet certain standards of vocal beauty — or have their voices dubbed by singers who did. Streep sings Sondheim, and finds her voice 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

But while he was enrolled at Adelphi University, he and two classmates formed a vocal group, the Ivy Three. Charles Koppelman, Force in the Music Industry and Beyond, Dies at 82 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The samurai tends to emerge in the face of situations where Takeshi wishes he was more vocal or adventurous — in the face of rude restaurant patrons, snide managers and unfamiliar dishes. Netflix's "Samurai Gourmet" has the pleasure-seeking, main character energy I want for the summer 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

Rhiannon Llewellyn delivered the soprano vocal lines to bewitching effect, even if the decidedly European quality of her sound sometimes felt at odds with the rest of the textures. Afrodisiac ? review 2010-10-18T21:45:00Z

The production of his debut is appropriately epic, its echoing acoustic guitars and yearning, Fleet Foxy vocals mixed with cowboy cattle calls and Pawnee chants. Lord Huron: Lonesome Dreams – review 2013-01-13T00:05:21Z

But the main special effects are Nishimura and Swenson, not only in the way they use vocals and movement, but in the inclusive spirit they bring to the show. 'Skirmish': stripped-down dance that says a lot 2011-10-23T16:42:04Z

"Some of them recorded their vocals separately, so they didn't actually see each other that much during the process." Girls Aloud reunite for Strictly Come Dancing 2012-10-09T09:40:04Z

But those “mannerisms,” vocal and physical gestures that might have seemed hopelessly old-fashioned coming from others, seemed, when Ms. Millo did them, the very embodiment of opera’s origins. Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback? 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The polls in a string of midterm contests were closing, and Mr. Blum, a vocal critic of President Trump, was talking about how much was at stake. Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews? 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Given his position as a vocal and persistent champion of reason, I always suspected this day would come. New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

He’s now a marine biology doctoral student at the University of Miami and a vocal online critic of Shark Week. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Eight months in the making, his debut album aims for the sparkling disco insouciance of the Scissor Sisters and Mika, but is stymied by McElderry's perfectly characterless vocals. Joe McElderry: Wide Awake - review 2010-10-21T22:40:00Z

Among those performing will be the Keen Dance Company and Grace Drums, a female drumming and vocal ensemble. Spare Times for Oct. 12-18 2012-10-11T22:15:05Z

The echoed layering of guitars and vocals creates a visceral spinning sensation for the ears. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z

Nor could it do without the vocal ability the cast brings to the throwback score, which gets high marks for its precise rhymes, crisp rhythms and sense of character. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The image of vocal terror is among our most universal and elemental, from Edvard Munch to Janet Leigh. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The tracks are knotty, disorienting studio fabrications, surrounding hand-played R&B with amorphous electronic textures, interwoven vocals, foreboding orchestral strings and densely layered samples. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Consider “Against the ’70s,” with an impassioned guest vocal by Mr. Vedder: “Baby boomers, selling you rumors of their history,” he sings. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The drone tones in “Sax Solfa” underlie saxophone lines and loops, darting and rippling keyboards and bursts of gibberish vocal syllables, surfacing like anxieties no meditation can dispel. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

For the most part, he stayed in the back, letting Carlile handle vocals. Will Ferrell, Chad Smith, Brandi Carlile and two members of Pearl Jam make ‘One Classy Night’ a laugh 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The ambitious concoction, titled "Surely," splits a divide between modern jazz and classic, smoldering vocal blues. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

The solos, vocal and instrumental, were more uneven. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The instruments sometimes cushion the vocal line with mystical, piercing harmonies, until emotions break loose and the music becomes fiendish. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

To any early-arriving audience members, waiting in the theatre foyer outside, the vocal exercises must sound like maniacal laughter – and why not? Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z

It was somewhat surprising and briefly distracting when Simonian was bequeathed the lead vocal for "Don't Worry Baby" and throughout the song had to look at the teleprompter at his feet. An assertive Brian Wilson surveys beloved hits at Greek Theatre 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Lee Bisset's Sieglinde was the pick of the vocal performances, but this is Negus's Ring, and all the better for it. Two conductors fight it out in the Wagner ring 2010-08-02T11:38:00Z

When the female vocal quartet Anonymous 4 retired last month, it left behind a discography spanning a thousand years of music. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

But the vocal soloists were mostly not on the same level. Review: At St. Ignatius Loyola, Bach’s Mass in All Its Elements 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

On vocals is Ms. Washington, from Dallas by way of the Berklee College of Music. Jazz Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:59:45Z

Dashon Burton, his deep, rich bass-baritone and his trademark waist-length dreadlocks are familiar to followers of Roomful of Teeth, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and other vocal ensembles. Review: Works by Hélène Grimaud, Daniel Barenboim and Others 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

During “Mannish Boy,” Scorsese never once takes his camera off of Waters, revealing his unique vocal artistry and unmatched artistic intensity. 100 Years After His Birth, Muddy Waters Still Looms Large 2013-04-05T16:16:48Z

The gestures were delivered as stock, pulled from a drawer; accompanied by too much mugging, they felt detached from the music and from Lahyani’s considerable vocal talents. Wolf Trap Opera’s ‘Carmen’ could use a little more of the original’s edginess

A good, soaring, high-mid female vocal bounces off the walls nicely, and it doesn't interfere with the bass or drumbeat. Calvin Harris: The secrets of my success 2012-12-21T08:00:06Z

The word falsetto refers to a "false" voice, so called because the voice uses only part of the vocal apparatus in our throats, rather than the full vibratory sound used in regular singing and speaking. Falsetto: The enduring love affair with the soaring male voice 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Swooping vocals dominated “Wild Water Blues”; in “Falling Rain Blues” electronics, including sounds of rain, enhanced an evocative tapestry. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

At that show, his emotional range was limited and his vocals a weird croak-rap. Bumbershoot preview: Do mainstage pop acts warrant the big bucks? 2010-09-03T00:09:00Z

In earlier years, his work has sometimes sounded like samples from Davis's 1980s Tutu and Amandla albums spliced with hip-hop, rap, contemporary electronics and north African vocal music. This week's new live music 2013-03-23T06:00:12Z

He gave his last vocal recital about 10 years ago. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

It's the kind of record where you believe every note: there's not a single rote lyric or needlessly ostentatious vocal. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-10T18:34:00Z

In years past, her voice alone would’ve done that; here, given the album’s psychedelic approach, Spalding’s vocals hit harder, especially when coupled with guitarist Matthew Stevens’ fluid chords. Esperanza Spalding, effortlessly reaching new heights at 9:30 Club 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

And there’s plenty of variety, beyond the gold standard of harmonized vocals backed by organ or guitar. Playlist: New CDS From the Four Bags and Phantom Family Halo 2011-10-01T04:00:07Z

Michelle has always been a strong, active and vocal woman, to see her striking a bland pose of indifference and aloofness, not to mention the unlikeness of her facial features made the painting failed spectacularly. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Reagan’s vocal crusade against one scourge, and her relative silence on the other, adorn her legacy with complications, in this week after her death at 94. On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said no. On AIDS, she said nothing. 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

The 81-year-old was taken to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital on Thursday after her breathing stopped during a vocal cord procedure at a clinic. Joan Rivers' family remain hopeful 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

She wrought a change, both visual and vocal. British arts and theatre: women's time in the spotlight has arrived 2013-03-24T00:06:13Z

Yola’s impressive vocals carry you along a soulful, rocking journey of discovery. AP’s top albums of 2021: ‘Sour,’ ‘Donda,’ H.E.R. and Eilish 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Both Barât's vocal chords and his audience are happier on a blast through his ruffian rock past: two Dirty Pretty Things songs and a whopping six from Libertines days. Carl Bar?t ? review 2010-10-25T20:45:00Z

The elaborate arrangements mash musical genres into a slick pastiche performed by singers whose vocal quirks have been meticulously ironed out. Movie Review: A Tutorial on Tolerance, With Beats and Upbeats 2011-08-11T22:18:11Z

“At what point does perception catch up? It’s when we get vocal about it.” Long Misunderstood, Appalachian Food Finds the Spotlight 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Lynn’s most important vocal inspiration was Kitty Wells, who, before Cline came along, was the only woman in country history to consistently score major solo hits. Loretta Lynn’s New Album, and the Trail She Blazed in Country Music 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lydon’s vocals straddled speech and song: declaiming, bleating, chanting, hitting notes on the sharp and discordant side of their underlying harmonies. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z

But Sheng also needs a poetic text to inspire a vocal style. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Media Vita," Protheroe says, "Church music of the pre-Reformation period in England was written for specialist choirs of men and boys who had outstanding abilities in vocal range and musical intelligence. Group devoted to Byzantine works reaches West with Sept. 11 concert in Seattle 2010-09-10T04:01:00Z

Fans of soulful vocals reminiscent of James Brown will want to catch this show. Listen: From SYML to Lee Fields & The Expressions and more, a playlist of songs by musicians playing in Seattle Dec. 6-12 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

He described Kutcher's performance as "carefully judged," but said "the illusion never fully seizes hold" despite "an impressive attempt at vocal mimicry". Mixed reviews for Kutcher as Jobs 2013-01-28T12:57:31Z

Unsurprisingly, it was H.E.R.’s star that shined brightest, as the Grammy-winning singer/guitarist traded soaring solos and even higher flying vocals, before a monstrous walk-off shot covering the instrumental crescendo to “Purple Rain” on Saturday. Review: Bumbershoot’s youth movement takes center stage during pivotal, rollercoaster year 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Though he reached large white audiences mostly when he was past his prime with black listeners, Mr. Brown turned his vocal specialty into something universally recognizable. Books of The Times: ?The One,? James Brown Biography by R J Smith 2012-03-08T00:53:14Z

The three vocal soloists and the choral singers are pushed to the absolute limits of their registers — and beyond, in some cases. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z

“It’s very divorced from what the normal experience is for people,” Thom Brooks, an academic and vocal critic of the test, told Reuters. How old is 'Big Ben'? The trivia Meghan Markle must know to become... 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Though the Wonder Years have never reached MCR-level notoriety, they appeal to a similar emo sensibility, their early songs packed with frantic suburban angst, acrobatic vocals, big choruses and pummeling guitars. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

There were also questionable decisions by the vocal soloists. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Melody rules, thanks to countless wordless vocal hooks and Bruno’s surf-guitar fills. Album review: Best Coast, 'The Only Place' 2012-05-14T17:54:00Z

Mr. Bieber came out of the booth to hear his vocals played back. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z

Minhaj noticeably drew energy from the vocal crowd at the show's tapings. "Patriot Act" is the toughest show to lose right now 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

That’s why vocal music, especially contemporary vocal music, is more direct than purely instrumental music. Alice, all grown up: Barbara Hannigan on singing in a new Wonderland 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Perhaps as a result of this, Streep, who listens to music continually as part of her preparation for a role, didn’t have a particular vocal model for this one. Streep sings Sondheim, and finds her voice 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

With musical director Doug Peck on hand to ensure vocal fidelity and Nancy Missimi's resplendent costumes, Rockwell's “42nd Street” is certainly very solid in all the traditional areas. Marriott Theatre's '42nd Street' ★★★½ 2011-04-12T21:22:08Z

Paul Carrack did some stirring work on organ, and took a soulful vocal lead on a couple of songs, “High Time We Went” and another Cocker staple, “You Are So Beautiful.” Review: Eric Clapton, at Madison Square Garden, Travels a Familiar Road 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The actors’ vocal delivery and facial expressions are lively and convincing: Miot — who radiates Ricky’s jokester spirit — and El are particularly good. Review | Ally Theatre revisits pool racism in world premiere 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Terrace Martin’s shivering alto saxophone and Thundercat’s gauzy vocals are as powerful as the track’s spitfire refrain: “Can you hear me, can you feel me?/We gon’ be all right.” Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

I should know as her vocal producer, if her voice is pretty tired, let’s record all the stuff that’s in a lower register. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z

“October Sky,” initially written in the wake of her mother’s death, required around 300 vocal takes. The Secret to Yebba’s Debut Album? A Big Voice and Lots of Time. 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Bartolo gets his laughs, but that's down to Bruno Praticò's own very Italian comic acting, and his vocal velocity – it makes a change to have the violins struggling to keep up with the singer. Il Barbiere di Siviglia ? review 2011-01-19T18:17:23Z

It’s like there’s something in the pectin in the apple that helps get rid of vocal clicks. A minute with - British singer Freya Ridings 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Blige conjures her inner Aretha on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which is filled with her trademark vocal runs and propped up by a full, soulful arrangement. ‘Duck Dynasty’ folks, Mary J. Blige among new holiday CDs 2013-12-16T19:51:12Z

“Layla” is full of warmth, with a soulful vocal melody, Nielson’s nimble guitar playing and the band’s signature fuzzy tones all contributing to an enveloping atmosphere. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Dirty pop hooks drowned in the honesty of screaming vocals with seething cheerleader harmonies over the top. The best Australian bands you've never heard of 2013-03-12T15:12:48Z

With their dance and vocal skills, they scarcely need to. 'Skirmish': stripped-down dance that says a lot 2011-10-23T16:42:04Z

Three of the pieces here were vocal, sung by Anu Komsi with confident expressiveness. London Sinfonietta/Knussen | Classical review 2010-04-02T21:00:00Z

Samm, though wonderfully committed, is pushed to his vocal limits on occasion. Otello – review 2013-01-17T17:48:35Z

The years that Ms. Netrebko spent singing bel canto heroines paid off here in the skillful way she dispatched the trills and runs that Verdi folds into the vocal lines. In the Met’s ‘Macbeth,’ Anna Netrebko as the Scheming Wife 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

And, to his credit, he sets the text to vocal lines that make the words come through clearly, a skill that many composers writing operas do not share. Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z

But a vocal minority, backed by what one cardinal called a "massive wave of attacks" on the pope from traditionalist media, emerged to block some of the reform proposals. Pope Francis plays long game to reform Catholic Church 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a spare and lovely piece, moving concisely through a lot of emotional weight with the tight pings of bells and glockenspiels offsetting the vocal lines. Holidays, unaccompanied: Vocal ensembles put seasoning in the ‘seasonal’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

During The Best Person I Know, a shoegazing throwback of organ and vocal, the backing singer literally stares at her footwear. Cat's Eyes ? review 2011-03-21T18:26:59Z

“She commands the stage as an actress and handles the vocals with a combination of thunder and silk that brings tears to the eyes.” Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Here, Muhly develops musical ideas without being constrained by elements like plotting and vocal setting, as in the operas. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Tillis, known for his rich baritone and the smooth sincerity of his vocal performances, spoke with a stutter since he was a toddler, according to online biographers. Mel Tillis, country music star known as 'Stutterin' Boy,' dead at 85 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

It’s still about Kirk’s daddy issues in space, but Rihanna is breathing new life into the story with her increasingly magical vocals. Hear Rihanna's New Song in the 'Star Trek Beyond' Trailer 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Each song is sung exactly alike, with the same few gestures and vocal mannerisms. Review: ‘Sincerely, Oscar’ Is Some Embarrassing Evening 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

He said Jackson was very particular about all aspects of his musical productions, from his vocals to arrangements to instrumentation. Will.i.am doesn't support new Jackson album 2010-08-03T14:43:00Z

It is sly and earnest, full of songs that move anxiously in several directions — punk, new wave, funk, soul, hip-hop — and full of agitated vocals from Mr. Williams and Mr. Haley. Happy No More, Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D Want to Wake You Up 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Premier was convinced there were unreleased vocals in the vault. Fans Were Surprised to Get More Gang Starr. They Almost Didn’t. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

And Johnson, formerly of The Head and The Heart, will bring acoustic guitar and baritone vocals. 9 hot Seattle-area concerts to catch in holiday season 2021 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

By 14, he had formed a vocal group, As One, and started performing R&B songs in churches. Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit 2013-07-21T16:14:52Z

Ms. Sunshine put them right to work, assigning vocal lines and harmonies to create a wall of sound behind her solos on an extended gospel song. Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z

Rapunzel," "What Would You Say, "Tripping Billies" and "Stay" offer ample opportunity for the frontman to flash his trademark hiccup vocal technique and shake to jittery shuffles that bound, bop and bounce. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

With “Paperback Writer” on the A-side — an unlikely pop premise, a surging riff, a profusion of vocal harmonies — the single affirmed the Beatles’ mastery while forecasting change. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Supporters say the opposition, while vocal, is only a small group fueled by a desire to defeat Gehry. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Twain said she has worked hard to overcome the vocal damage. Shania Twain bounces back with "Now" 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

And on Thursday, she called the jazz singer Kurt Elling to the stage for an extended interlude of shared vocal improvisation. Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Hits Redial in ‘On My Way to You’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The speakers’ vocal modulations are keyed to the mural-size video projection, which pulses and shifts in psychedelic patterns. Hank Willis Thomas opens a 'Black Righteous Space' at the California African American Museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Gunn has been vocal in his criticism of Donald Trump, tweeting last year that the US is in “a national crisis with an incompetent president”. Disney fires Guardians of the Galaxy franchise director after offensive tweets 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

For the rest, Dante Anzolini — the conductor and, necessarily, the hardest worker in the performance, charged with cuing vocal entrances on shifting and treacherous terrain — merited only praise. Music Review: ?Satyagraha,? by Philip Glass, at Met Opera - Review 2011-11-06T22:10:16Z

This pattern repeated itself for the second ride of Steel Vengeance: anxious ascent up a 200-foot-plus hill and a terrified, vocal descent. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

The British singer suffered a setback this month when she underwent surgery in Boston to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords, which was causing recurrent bleeding. Adele aims for big night at American Music Awards 2011-11-20T20:06:37Z

She layered sultry vocals over hip-hop drums on “Where Did I Go?” and “Teenage Fantasy.” Review | Jorja Smith’s star power on full display at Howard Theatre 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

As usual, Big Mike had some great vocals. "American Idol" recap: Casey James is no Sinatra 2010-05-05T12:06:00Z

All of which, surprisingly, makes Rocky's choice to sample Stewart's vocals on Python Lee Jackson's "In a Broken Dream" an unexpectedly perfect fit for his new single "Everyday." ASAP Rocky channels Rod Stewart, enlists Miguel, Mark Ronson for new single 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

“End of the Line,” a fabulously woozy ballad, bids goodbye over bell-like guitars and light, breathy vocals that suggest drunken angels delivering a eulogy. Album review: Sleigh Bells, 'Reign of Terror' 2012-02-20T03:53:00Z

That’s how much of this concert went, as the singers jumped from one small vocal explosion to the next. Review: Lucius, a Band Willing to Test Itself 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon the orchestra’s music director Andris Nelsons will conduct Copland’s pensive “Quiet City” then take on Beethoven’s mighty Ninth Symphony with four appealing vocal soloists and the excellent Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

As for Hepburn, "determined as she was, her vocals were not used." Marni Nixon, voice of classic movie songs, has died at 86 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

It seemed hokey and just from a vocal perspective, it's got to be difficult to belt out a song while sitting down. "American Idol" recap: Sexual frustration edition 2010-03-10T16:01:00Z

But when vocal struggles made him realize that he would not make it as a singer, he went to Columbia Business School and studied arts administration. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Joining intermittently on vocals, as on the recent album “No Morphine No Lilies,” is Rachel Friedman. Jazz Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:59:45Z

Dell’Arte serves as a training ground for rising young singers, and the vocal performances here spoke well for its efforts. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Incoronazione di Poppea’ by Dell’Arte Opera 2013-08-19T21:47:37Z

In practice, that means putting and R&B vocals over hands-aloft club beats. David Guetta: Nothing But the Beat ? review 2011-08-25T14:30:01Z

While the dance routines were strong, turning the music of Motown — which featured some of the most vital, urgent vocals in pop music history — into a Busby Berkeley routine was a swing and a miss. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

But there was so much to praise in the superb lineup of vocal soloists, the high quality of the players, and the sense of drama throughout all the participating ensembles. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

It turns out that in the intervening year, I've lost a little bit and I have all kinds of problems with my vocal cords, but I got through that show, which was the goal. Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

They generally alternate lead vocals, track by track. Playlist Jon Pareles: Wistful Country, Politics and a Hint of the Divine 2011-05-25T19:02:17Z

Surrounded by supporting vocal harmonies from the reunited Dixie Chicks, Swift sounds as if she’s holding her acoustic guitar more tightly than ever before. Taylor Swift's 'Lover' album review: The pop star keeps getting older without growing up - The Washington Post 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Crystal Castles reached back to the punk-tinged synthesizer riffs and out-of-tune vocals of the 1990s rave era, though it also had more current, consonant tracks. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

Mr. Sully’s sound mix strands most vocals just barely above the audible. ‘My Voice Has an Echo in It,’ Part of the Coil Festival 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The track uses only two synthesized chords and a slow pulse, but the vocal is pained, aching and constantly escalating the drama: a desperate human voice trying to escape an electronic grid. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

It also happens to be a time when Broadway has been more vocal about its appreciation for understudies and swings — performers who, during the pandemic, have been more crucial than ever. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

It says it was the unauthorized procedure that caused the laryngospasm -- when the vocal cords seize up -- that blocked Rivers' airway and cut off oxygen to her brain, according to the Associated Press. Melissa Rivers sues over Joan Rivers' death 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Constant touring on the hardscrabble chitlin’ circuit honed their vocal chops. Dells vocalist Marvin Junior dead at 77 2013-06-02T22:17:00Z

Instead of vocal might and depth of feeling, Beyonce offered sturdiness. Concert review: Beyonce at United Center 2013-07-17T17:37:00Z

But he flashed some vocal talent as he sang his most meme-friendly lyrics: “I think I’m losing my mind” and “You so precious when you smile.” Review | At Jingle Ball, Megan Thee Stallion made the TikTok stars sound like stocking stuffers 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

With his comforting, friendly and often neighborly vocal tone, Oswalt is also a regular voice actor and stand-up comedian. A Minute With: Patton Oswalt on Spirit Awards and playing host 2014-02-26T21:29:28Z

With his easy, relaxed vocal style, West is a playful, drawling jester hosting his own ostentatious champagne sodden hip hop party. Poll: Who's best? Jay-Z or Kanye West 2012-05-18T11:35:20Z

His belief in faith healing reflected a vocal minority of Catholic leaders who still viewed psychology as a threat to Christian faith. The Catholic Church’s grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The balance of the elemental and ethereal is present in the vocal lines, too, especially for Miles, the son chosen for the fatal errand. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The vocal improvisations of scat singing greats like Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway provided inspiration, though here, of course, the effect is precisely scripted. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

White Rabbits extrapolate a good part of their sound from Radiohead’s technique of surrounding a sustained vocal melody with jagged pointillism. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z

She took vocal lessons throughout her life, but the only singer who was a conscious influence, she said, was Billie Holiday. Julie Wilson, captivating singer of cabaret, dies at 90 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Violins deliver harmonic glissandos that echo in the vocal treatment of the word “husband,” which warps, melting downward. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

On “Me & My Shadow,” a track vaguely reminiscent of “Hotel California,” Deschanel’s backup vocals play second fiddle to Ward wildly jamming on his fuzzed-out Gretsch, providing proof that he is an extremely underrated guitar player. M. Ward's A Wasteland Companion: The Folk-Rocker Delivers Again 2012-04-10T10:45:04Z

The vocal lines combine skittish, darting leaps with gentle sustained passages, which Ms. Soper navigated ably but timidly. Music Review: The American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall 2013-01-20T20:34:10Z

But her return single, “Cry Pretty” — the title track from her sixth album — bore no sign of vocal diminishment, no indication the post-accident Underwood would be any less vivacious than the old one. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s the most personal one to me as it references my grandmother Mary, and my mum sang backing vocals on it. Mary McCartney: ‘My mum sang backing vocals on Let It Be’ 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

“It was vocal and real and something we paid attention to,” he said. After Criticism, Film Museum Will Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

It was a hectic mélange that folded in slick nu-disco production from Nile Rodgers, a woozy vocal cameo from Lindsay Lohan, even an EDM screed from the upstart house singer Kiesza. Pop & Rock Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Her style may change—sometimes smoky, here whispering, there deeply mournful, then cheeky and girlish—but Spektor’s vocals are always uniquely identifiable. Regina Spektor’s “…Cheap Seats”: The Return of the Pop Maverick and Her Piano 2012-06-01T10:45:25Z

In one song near the end, “S/word and Leviathan,” he protects his right to go loud, constructing a big, echoey pattern played on a lute, with faraway vocals, then troweling electric guitar on top. Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z

Surprisingly enough, the group's 15-cut demo tape is more tame, with the vocals much clearer, resulting in a more commercial sound than one would first suspect by their stage demeanor. Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' – interview from the vaults 2013-04-17T08:53:00Z

These were odd vocal sounds that I would manipulate digitally and there were interesting flutes, for instance, from South America and Finland that I wanted to be more abstract. James Horner on creating a 'sound world' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

In that previous performance, Carlile had often guided Mitchell or taken on lead vocal duties herself. Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harle’s electronic setup was flanked by a harpsichord on one side and a string trio, but the musicians disappeared after a little Baroque-versus-electronic byplay, and the dance beats and pitched-up vocals began. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

It asks: What would happen if all of the singers onstage shared a particular school of singing and even a certain vocal quality? Bel Canto Rarities, Delivered With Unflashy, Revelatory Style 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

Among the most vocal supporters for a ban was the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon. Lebanon Bans ‘Wonder Woman’ Because Its Star Is From Israel 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Cue Foghat, cue Matthew McConaughey’s mustache, cue hard rock guitars, wayward vocals, and everything else on “Know Me As Heavy,” the kickass song that sounds like an abridged Hold Steady tune. New Guided by Voices, English Little League, is Exhaustive, Awesome 2013-05-03T11:00:15Z

Especially in the first two of the three acts, there is little variety in the pace or color of the vocal lines. Review: ‘Voodoo,’ by Harry Lawrence Freeman, Has First Staging Since 1928 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The vocal group Akai Tori sings an eerie traditional ballad about the burakumin, an ostracized social group; it was still a taboo subject, so the song was banned from the radio. The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

But more memorable than those imperfections was van Zweden’s refreshingly measured treatment of the orchestra, particularly in its support for the vocal soloists. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

He was also a vocal supporter of the rights of Palestinians, repeatedly comparing Israel with the apartheid-era South Africa that he had protested in his youth. Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The band is also a vehicle for his yelping vocals and needling, surrealistic lyrics, neither of which serve him well. Music Review: Two Different Spins for a Noisy Room 2011-08-17T22:09:16Z

Camara takes it even further afield in the album-closing reprise by singing it in his native Fulani language before handing the vocal back to Plant. Robert Plant aims for nuance in album 'lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

How does she always get away with not being judged on her vocal skills, range, etc. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

This is upsetting, of course, and explains why atheists have become so vocal in demanding their place at the table. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

I love the first-syllable exclamation in “Oh! Darling,” though: Its clipped agony contrasts with the way Paul McCartney stretches out that “daaaarling” and effectively captures the raw-throated desperation of his vocal. An Exclamatory Playlist! 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

Spirityouall has a smartly tailored aesthetic, but Mr. McFerrin complicates and provokes it — sounding shots of vocal percussion, modulating the flow, coaxing kinetics out of languor. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The vocal lines are notoriously difficult, requiring strength and subtlety, passion and craftsmanship. ‘Aida’ Revival at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

The hit song, which featured vocals by US soul star Aloe Blacc, reached number one in 22 countries, including the UK. Get Lucky named song of the year 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Stemme met the challenge and then some, with rich texture, masterly vocal control and seeming lack of effort that belied the difficulties of the role. Stemme shines as Isolde in Wagner's love story 2013-06-14T14:56:09Z

Fans of Turner Classic Movies, a channel that runs old movies without commercial interruptions, were another vocal constituency. CNN, other Turner channels return to Dish Network after blackout 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

Three years after its release, she played a solo set on MTV “Unplugged” that was marked by self-conscious candor, hoarse vocals, and an uneven acoustic guitar. What We Still Need from Lauryn Hill and Her "Miseducation" 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

What is this show, a full employment act for recent dance school graduates and vocal accompanists? ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: It's Michael Jackson Week. Oh Dear. 2011-12-01T13:14:42Z

It was motored not only by her vivacious vocal but by Clarence Clemons’s surging sax. Aretha Franklin’s 20 Essential Songs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

“Most of my demos are just guitar and vocals, and then going into the studio Aaron always had suggestions on different directions that would take it someplace else,” she says. Sharon Van Etten learns how to share 2012-02-08T22:14:00Z

All are delivered with the combination of superb ensemble, and perfectly characterised vocal lines that is the persistent hallmark of this outstanding group; the sound is rich, full and gently resonant. Guerrero: Missa Congratulamini Mihi, etc 2010-08-05T22:15:00Z

Elfman is set to appear in the concerts performing the vocals to songs from "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Danny Elfman bringing back Tim Burton-themed Halloween concert 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

She said the older boy has even figured out how to exploit the times when she needs vocal rest. Heather Headley’s 15-Year Intermission 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

A little sleepy for me, but those were hot vocals. "American Idol" recap: Glambert to the rescue 2010-04-14T12:15:00Z

Another vocal standout is Michael Thomas Grant as the young master. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

"Vessel" is more than beats and rhymes — Zavala's encyclopedic sampling and gorgeous guest vocals render a degree of musicality rare in not just hip-hop but pop music in general. New albums from Seattle bands: Hey Marseilles, Unnatural Helpers and more 2010-05-07T20:57:00Z

He filled in missing vocal parts, proving at times that he could sing as gruffly as any conductor, though in other stretches the glorious tone of yore seemed almost intact. Celebrated Bass-Baritone Plans a Surprise Debut at Conducting 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

This collaboration led to “Gaia,” a spellbinding symphonic poem featuring Spalding’s vocals and libretto, premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Almost as disturbing as her vocal shortcomings were her quirky physical mannerisms, which happily bypassed the Wagner but eventually turned to mugging and stopped the show completely before the last two Strauss songs. Review: Karita Mattila, and Her Quirks, in Concert 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Blake Hazard’s “Little Situation” is not the strongest political critique here, but is refreshing in its musical sunniness and sweet female vocals. Other songs — Ledinsky’s “DonaldTrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack” is just kinda of obvious or slight. The best anti-Trump songs: Dave Eggers’ playlist includes some gems 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

After five hours, Hadlock has tracked guitar, vocal, bass and percussion, then asks the band to play together in the big room. Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z

Her powerfully gruff vocals on this track, from their debut album, add just the right amount of melodrama to offset a sparkling melody reminiscent of the Kinks’ “Tired of Waiting for You.” 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Forget Palma Violets, Savages are the first vocals/guitar/bass/drums band worth caring about for eons. New band of the day – No 1,276: Savages 2012-05-25T09:22:34Z

She’s just an amazingly talented vocal artist, and she can play that incredible guitar. Why Kane Brown Loves Cookie Monster, Elvis Presley and ‘Ted Lasso’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The country vocal trio hinted at its new direction with the sparse, soul-strutting groove of "Downtown," one of the spring's most engaging country hits. Review: 'Golden' shows different side of Lady A 2013-05-06T16:25:17Z

Throughout their set, which seemed to be over just as it was getting started, the band’s sound was plagued by a ruinous amount of guitar compression, drums that were too loud and indistinct vocals. Echosmith: A young band finding its way | Concert review 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

As for Journey: as always these days, of course, the band will be absent its longtime vocal asset Steve Perry, who long ago stopped performing with the band. Journey to perform at 2015 Hollywood Bowl opening night concert 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A band of local musicians will perform Dancing in the Dark and the vocal will be provided by the groom's sister. Family life 2013-03-02T07:15:01Z

Besides the concerts, by period-instrument and historically inclined vocal groups from around the world, the festival fills an exhibition hall with instrument makers, publishers and record labels, all showing their wares. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z

A hub for some of the country’s most beloved performers that blurs the lines between superstar D.J.s, cheeky magicians and bona fide vocal heroes. U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

From that embryonic experience Mr. Radcliffe obtained an appreciation for New York’s theater scene and, more practically, the vocal lessons he was assigned to master a candy-bar jingle that “Equus” required him to sing. Now Just a Muggle, With Song and Dance 2011-03-02T22:59:08Z

The music, though still sleek, turns more electronic, and Ne-Yo seizes on Jackson’s anxiety as well as his vocal phrasing. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

The instruments are hand-played, the vocals are scratchy growls, and the songs revisit Mr. Richards’s favorite idioms — blues, country, reggae, Stonesy rock — for some scrappy storytelling. The album was recorded on analog tape. Keith Richards on ‘Crosseyed Heart’: It’s Solo Rock ’n’ Roll, but He Likes It 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

If critics identified in Mr. Botha a weakness, it lay in his acting abilities, which some observers found lacking in comparison with his vocal power. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Open-throated male vocals say the words, and keys and guitars paint the picture, wailing and then restraining themselves over a bass/kick heartbeat. Friday Favorites: Stephanie, OC Notes, Toro Y Moi 2010-06-04T19:49:00Z

Bell, 33, and Shepard, 39, who welcomed their first child in March 2013, became vocal earlier this year in asking magazines and online outlets to stop publishing unauthorized pictures of celebrities' children. Kristen Bell pregnant, expecting second child with Dax Shepard 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

She first used her own image and vocals for the October 2017 single “It’s Okay To Cry.” Sophie, Grammy-nominated Scottish musician, dies at age 34 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

But the shrill, thin vocal lines and blasting accompaniment were more ambitious than successful. A pleasant, if not ravishing, KC Jukebox 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Just What I Needed,” with vocals by Orr, got the band signed to Elektra. Ric Ocasek’s Eternal Cool 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Its title track features reverb-heavy vocals and a slow build to guitar peels, finding power in fallibility. Ruston Kelly Survived Addiction and Heartbreak. It’s in His ‘Dirt Emo.’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Yet regardless of how much one admires fine vocal styling, this time of year tests the patience of the most devoted pop fan. Noticed: Sometimes a Man?s Got to Hoop 2010-12-04T00:17:00Z

Mields's light and even soprano proved nicely scaled to the piece's vocal demands; her delicacy of expression never tipping over into emotional wallowing. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman – review 2012-06-11T16:55:02Z

Three songs in, during Tessellate, a choir squeezes through the crowd and, reading the lyrics from sheets of paper, offers an angelic counterpoint to Newman's ghostly lead vocal. Alt-J – review 2012-06-20T17:39:40Z

His smooth, smoky vocal style, with a slight rasp, was influenced by both the country star George Jones and the blues singer Bobby Bland. Lonnie Mack, Singer and Guitarist Who Pioneered Blues-Rock, Dies at 74 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

But few of the venue’s previous performers combine buzzes, throbs and bleats with Low’s other specialties: ethereal vocals and visions of salvation. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

That was evident in Mills’s vocal inflections on such songs as “Cry to Laugh,” as well as his taste for rolling New Orleans rhythms. A casual blend of art-Americana from Blake Mills at the Hamilton

The drum stutters and patty-caking backing vocals embellish the epic, the hard groove luring the inevitable acceptance of the vague story. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z

In the end, it was probably Martin's best vocal performance, and it became a stand-out song. Easy as ABC 2013-01-21T17:30:01Z

After attending Birmingham Southern College, he headed for New York, where he began performing and doing musical and vocal arrangements on Broadway. Hugh Martin obituary 2011-03-14T18:25:05Z

Midgette: The "best" singer, in terms of conventional vocal production, was Emily Noel, who was given her own solo turn — though the question always arises of how well or prettily a witch should actually sing. Review | Two critics debate a rare rehashing of a revised ‘Macbeth,’ singing witches and all 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Adele was forced to cancel the final two nights of her tour after the singer said she suffered an injury to her vocal cords in a long apology to her fans on social media. When Adele cancelled her tour due to vocal-cord damage, fans threw their own show 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. May’s “Let Me in Your Heart Again” was also attempted for “The Works” album, but not finished; the “Forever” version has newly recorded guitar parts and backing vocals. Fresh Releases by Pink Floyd and Queen 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

What she subtracts from her vocal expression, she loads into her compositions. | Sara Serpa Quintet : Instruments and Voice, Improvising on Melodies 2010-09-22T22:24:00Z

Such a small scale may sound nothing like “El Niño,” a sweeping, nearly two-hour Nativity oratorio written for vocal soloists, a trio of countertenors, a full orchestra and choir, and a children’s chorus. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

The setting was apt, and not just because of the hall’s reverberant acoustics, which allowed the resonance trails of vocal lines to linger and tangle with one another. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Brent plays guitar and sings lead vocals, as a charismatic and talented frontman in a Southern Rock and Blues band that Sarah and I both love, the Righteous Hillbillies. Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

The exquisite vocals of the cast were magnified by the miniature amphitheater-style setup of the space, which created an aural experience that — like the text itself — felt both grand and intimate. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

When the song reaches its climax with a chorus of double-tracked vocals – Ocean's low-key sing-song voice set against a passionate falsetto – it's probably the sonic highlight of the album. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z

He said he knew Mrs. Bachmann had been “vocal” in her criticism of the law, which they both considered an encroachment on local education. Michele Bachmann and the Making of an Acolyte 2011-09-23T21:25:59Z

Wearing a simple black dress and classy earrings, Adele sang for the first time since vocal cord surgery forced her to cancel a tour last year. Major Grammy Honors for Adele and Foo Fighters 2012-02-13T05:27:04Z

Having averred that the theme of Sehnsucht, or longing, tied the program together — certainly it’s a major theme in German romanticism in general — Padmore emphasized text more than vocal beauty. Tenors show two facets of recital tradition 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In addition to album of the year, Ms. Swift won pop vocal album for “1989” and best music video for “Bad Blood.” Kendrick Lamar Sweeps Rap Field at Grammys; Taylor Swift Wins Best Album 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

On the new album, Khalid embraces a fuller sound that often harks back to the 1980s and 1990s, with pillowy synthesizers, tickling guitars and multiple layers of his own vocal harmonies. Khalid Has Fresh Insecurities and a New Set of Musical Tricks on ‘Free Spirit’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

He sings in a percussive manner, full of vocal stabs, and his voice congeals easily into a sweet coo, precise and seemingly effortless. Pharrell Williams Takes a Stand on Cheery Musical Ground 2014-02-26T18:08:14Z

Crucially, the vocal lines manage to combine lyricism with character in a way that is direct yet never simplistic; underneath, the complex and substantial orchestral writing is charged with vivid colour and momentum. Bliss 2010-09-03T20:31:00Z

The vocals are midway between Tom Verlaine's beatnik yelp and David Byrne's deadpan drone. New band of the day – Parquet Courts (No 1,442) 2013-01-30T18:17:10Z

There the young George virtually invented himself through dogged determination, hard work and sheer nerve, not to mention a striking vocal and physical presence that the world would soon learn to treasure. Music: George London Foundation Contest Set for Morgan Library 2012-02-12T15:44:19Z

The orchestra adds cinematic drama to Amos's raw vocals, in effect creating new songs. Tori Amos – review 2012-10-04T16:54:33Z

The ensemble, a young, thoroughly drilled male vocal quartet founded in 2006, split its program between sacred and profane views of love. Music Review: New York Polyphony at American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012-02-17T22:15:25Z

She demonstrated her sad-edged, no-nonsense vocal style on Curse the Day, before moving on to the gently swinging Windy Day, and the complex, mournful and drifting The Gap. Marry Waterson and Oliver?Knight - review 2011-03-13T14:40:47Z

It’s a waltz praising a beloved child: a lullaby in minor chords, cradled in acoustic guitar picking and vocal harmonies. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The award citation praised “Partita” as “a highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects.” Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer 2013-04-18T00:31:19Z

Onstage, the soloists did well too, given a fluid, arioso style of vocal writing that limited their opportunities to shine but did encourage them to be real characters. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z

Her soft, innocent vocals waltz with Sim's hoarse, seductive moan on Islands and VCR, but physically they couldn't be further apart. The xx 2010-07-13T21:00:00Z

All these disparate vocal worlds are linked by the orchestra, which wraps around the singers lightly and sleekly — never explicitly underlining them, never competing. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

They will also be joined by an impressive group of four vocal soloists from around the country and the Baroque trumpet virtuoso Kris Kwapis. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn's songs and vocal ensembles are grey areas in his output and are rarely programmed alongside those of his contemporaries. A Celebration of Mendelssohn Song – review 2012-11-12T18:35:31Z

On Something Good, the beat skitters like dubstep, and yet the vocals and the guitar picking reek of folk. New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z

Camané even ended his set with vocals and instruments unamplified, as if playing at a traditional fado house; his voice was large enough to fill the opera house. Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z

That White House snub hurt the real Etta James, and unleashed a temper almost as legendary as her vocal artistry. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

The softly-plucked guitar and the eased restraint of the vocals invite the listener to get close to the speaker and its warm, wispy, radiant sounds. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, whose album together, “Cheek to Cheek,” was named best traditional pop vocal album,” made a jovial, cross-generational duo. Grammy Awards: Pharrell Williams, Madonna and Sia Offered Hymns Somber and Strange 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the male vocal group Chanticleer performs a program ranging historically from ancient to modern and focusing on women, as composers and muses. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

She is particularly attached to the vocal part of the soprano, which she considers “my own voice, a woman’s voice.” The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The most resonant voice in the strings section, the cello has been described as the instrument that most closely corresponds to the human vocal range. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z

Stefani admired her vocal “originality,” but said she already had a singer in her lane. 'The Voice' recap: Blind auditions are now twice as nice 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

In the interview, conducted for an in-depth feature article, Adele also spoke about her changing voice and vocal style, dealing with her growing fame, her tour next year and her artistic process. Adele on Love, Fame, Ego and ‘25’ 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

As Ms. Kent sang the melody, which evokes a jazz-inflected echo of Erik Satie, she became the vocal embodiment of a sophisticated footloose gamine. Music Review: Jazz Singer Stacey Kent Plays at Birdland 2010-06-04T22:05:00Z

Frequent Village star Lee made a wily, frustrated, ambivalent Judas, with firmer vocal command. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z

And his delivery — vocal and physical — has a strenuous, defensive quality. Trajal Harrell’s ‘Twenty Looks’ in Full at the Kitchen 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Its chunky pianos and wailing vocals could rouse any generation, as could the pool-party sizzle of “International Smile.” Katy Perry shows all sides of her 'Prism' at Honda Center 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

And with its heavy synths and static-infused vocals, "Tadlock's Glasses" shows off the Boys' taste for experimentation — the song sounds almost as if it's being played underwater while being simultaneously sped up and slowed down. Pass the Hot Sauce! After Seven Years and a Big Health Scare, the Beastie Boys are Back 2011-05-03T18:35:00Z

I like the blunt assessment of another critic who, noting the difficulty of the vocal parts, wrote, “The singers did what they could.” Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

Plush ripped into their opening number, “Athena,” pounding away at power chords and sending vocals soaring into the rafters. Rock’s saviors? Ladies of Plush rock harder than most anyone 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

His sound is slightly nasal, but in an expressive way: more a vocal characteristic than a flaw. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

But other than those critiques, the pop culture world wasn’t vocal enough on Stefani’s appropriation of Asian culture for personal gain. Before We Embrace Gwen Stefani's Comeback, She Owes Us An Apology 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The only added elements are air and electricity: live vocals and expert amplification. Ice Music - review 2011-01-07T22:30:01Z

His growling, howling vocals – an instrument that he used to imitate a saxophone or a wild animal -- flowed through unstable musical structures. Captain Beefheart, dead at 69: Music as an action painting 2010-12-19T12:42:58Z

Bad hair, a shuffle, a funny vocal pattern. Golden Globes 2015: Ricky Gervais isn't ruling out more 'Derek' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

An esteemed jazz crooner whose vocal power is matched by his cool sensitivity to each song, Elling presents the premiere of “The Big Blind,” a drama in the format of an old radio musical. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In my group a couple with a new puppy named Sato were vocal about what they thought community meant and how they thought the Block Association should work. ‘Block Association’ Review: Yes, in Your Backyard 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

A few compatible peers, notably Sam Beam of Iron and Wine, contribute tactfully subtle background vocals. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z

They draw on the rhythms, production and vocal sounds and melodies of classic house. New band of the day: Hot Natured (No 1,491) 2013-04-12T15:39:44Z

The ensemble’s glassy vocal blend, lit up by a tone that is pure without being puritanical, has also made it a partner of choice for contemporary composers. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Randy Jackson said backstage he thought Alaina's performance, not her vocal problem, would count in the voting. `American Idol' to crown winner in country contest 2011-05-25T14:57:08Z

This season, he canceled a series of high-profile appearances across Europe, citing a burst blood vessel on a vocal cord. Jonas Kaufmann: A Tenor in Demand, Now in Short Supply 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

I hear strange music" backing vocals – and the humour far surpasses that of Brother: "We're playing more shows, where the songs will be different. Herman D?ne, Low and Sea Of Bees at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-17T18:42:01Z

A couple of songs from her two solo albums also slipped past in an agreeable fusion of swirling vocal and drivetime rock guitar. The Cranberries | Pop review 2010-04-02T21:30:00Z

She started seeing a vocal therapist six years ago, which led to “an easing up, and finding more pleasure in the singing.” Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

She was diagnosed almost two decades ago with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes spasms of the vocal cords and should have axed her career. Diane Rehm’s next act: Using her famed voice to fight for the good death 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Still, I’ve been hearing from a small but vocal contingent of people who are teaching themselves to embrace boredom while in quarantine. Quarantine is perfect for discovering the beauty and power of boredom 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Black Thought’s “Welcome to America,” with gritty vocal choruses from C.S. History Meets the Present on the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Album 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The Bobs' most recent CD, "Get Your Monkey off My Dog," is one of their strongest yet: a wacky blend of virtuosic vocal technique and demented humor. The Bobs, now Seattle-based, celebrate 30th birthday 2012-08-22T23:14:03Z

She promises, “Give me all you got/I can handle it,” in a whispery, unthreatening voice that somehow isn’t overwhelmed by a brawny beat, a forthright string section or Brittany Howard’s vocal harmonies. Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Some are played in the original recordings, some chopped up and looped, but most are performed live by the marvelous Mr. Brookshire, on vocals and piano, joined by Ms. Garfield and her four terrific dancers. Keely Garfield Draws on Kate Bush at Danspace Project 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

I did that vocal on my lunch break from the bar. | Britain’s R&B Wunderkind (And This Weekend’s ‘SNL’ Guest) Sam Smith 2014-03-25T18:55:16Z

Here's special guest Boy George, bustling on to apply his ravaged vocal cords to the plaintive Somebody to Love Me. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl 2010-09-30T20:30:00Z

Even so, the score — laced with frenetic piano and strings, balanced by Charlotte Church's vocals — is a potent synthesis that was recognized with an Oscar nomination. Film composer James Horner feared dead: Six of his memorable scores 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The result is an original and varied set that is helped by his soulful vocals and angry lyrics, including thoughtful songs in English and French. Tiken Jah Fakoly: African Revolution ? review 2010-10-21T20:31:00Z

He shared the notion with Mattingly, who had been composing since he was 6 but had been wanting to try writing vocal music. A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

He will handle vocals and guitar for "Late Night's" 8G Band. Fred Armisen to lead band on Meyers' 'Late Night' 2014-02-11T00:10:06Z

But his nasal vocal, the strangled way he pronounces “Norf Side Long Beach” and the electronic siren tone at the center of Clams Casino’s production make him sound more bleak than boastful. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

The 23-year-old was forced to cancel a string of live dates and award show appearances when she underwent surgery in Boston last month to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords. Adele's "21" becomes top UK album of 21st century 2011-12-05T14:06:26Z

They can’t possibly keep up with the background vocals, except for the odd snap of “think!” in the chorus. The flash and breakneck frenzy of James Brown’s “Live at the Apollo” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

But the next version of Black Country, New Road can’t help but become a very different band without Wood’s songwriting, lyrics and vocals. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

As Baths, Will Wiesenfeld creates unsettling but beautiful electronic music, layering brittle drums with piano, unusual acoustic samples and his own fragile vocals. Your week in Seattle music: Steve Aoki, Nickel Creek 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

I like the combination of cute vocals, weird lyrics and even weirder electronic production. Little Boots Q&A 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z

The chorus of voices that envelopes his own vocals are otherworldly and dreamy, helping Gotye simultaneously sound like he’s pleading and exasperated. Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z

“Six,” created by Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, puts its women in competition even more explicitly, structuring the show as an “American Idol”-style vocal contest. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Together, he and his sons worked with others on the vocal arrangements and the harmonies — "and we decided to record what we were doing." Oak Ridge Boys' William Lee Golden on family, music and America: 'I'm thankful' 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

"One of your best vocals ever," Jackson said. 'American Idol': Lady Gaga gives microphone advice 2011-05-12T02:06:53Z

Using a hand-held microphone in the manner of pop artists, she sang with art-music power and sheen, drawing from various vocal styles. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

The 8,500-acre fire raged in late August near Livingston, while Mayer was in Los Angeles receiving treatment for a growth near his vocal cords. John Mayer organizes, sings at benefit concert 2013-01-17T22:47:16Z

He's a capable physical and vocal clown but, please, someone teach him when to stop. Punt and Dennis ? review 2011-01-13T22:16:00Z

Martin’s score for “2 Days Monday,” which he had selected as the A-side of their first single, began with the Scaffold’s singers rotating their vocal parts against, of all things, a solo tuba. Revisiting the brilliance of "McGear," Paul McCartney's brother Mike's 1974 solo album 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

Blanchard got to work immediately, composing a new vocal part on a blank page of staff paper: a melodic line that could work atop the existing orchestral harmony. ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Bird nevertheless impresses both with her dramatic commitment and her highly strung soprano, though she is not alone is supplying a vocal approach just a little too full-on for a venue of this size. Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-07-08T17:29:37Z

Actors are chosen for their ability to match the cadence and vocal peculiarities of a particular star closely. Dietmar Wunder, the German- Speaking Voice of James Bond 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

They are horrified by the fact that Obama is president, and they see the New Atheist movement as a vocal, in-your-face threat. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Nearly all of the vocals are pitch-shifted, chopped up or both, as if Mr. Blake isn't sure he should be undisguised for even a syllable. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Her high-pitched vocals sounded good, if slightly buried by the music in the echo-y theater. Pop queen Robyn kicks off City Arts Fest, reigns supreme 2011-10-21T18:45:12Z

There is little differentiation between the various vocal lines, and no real acting to be done. Music Review: A von Trier Tragedy, Recast as Opera 2011-07-31T21:40:49Z

But she underwent throat surgery last fall to stop bleeding in her vocal cords and her participation remains up in the air. ArtsBeat: Jason Aldean and Nicki Minaj to Perform at the Grammys 2012-01-12T16:58:57Z

Judge Kronstadt determined that there was a genuine dispute as to whether several elements - including signature phrases, hooks, bass lines, keyboard chords and vocal melodies - were similar. Blurred Lines dispute to go to trial 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Many of them are run by people born years after the case closed who, in learning its details, have become some of the brothers’ most vocal defenders. The New Menendez Defenders 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

She teamed with Vince Gill on "How Great Thou Art," bringing the crowd to its feet yet again with a soaring, pitch-perfect vocal. ACM honors top female artist in 'Girls Night Out' 2011-04-05T11:31:04Z

He’s also a romantic, unafraid of wide emotions, and a gentle vocal presence, even on his toughest songs. Critic?s Notebook: Eric Church and Jason Aldean, Country Music Outlaws 2012-03-28T23:11:05Z

And when singers don’t arrive with a fully formed idea of their characters, or the vocal resources to fill them, the machine’s smooth planes coldly project their hesitancy into the auditorium. Review: The Met’s ‘Walküre’ Has a Cast Worth Bragging About 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Botstein is joined by six vocal soloists and the Bard Festival Chorale. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

He conducts symphony orchestras, and he tours with a 12-piece vocal ensemble who play entirely improvised concerts. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

While "Blossom" showcases her vocal talents, her next album hopefully will reveal more of her musical personality. Review: Brecker blossoms on King-Taylor tribute 2013-02-26T17:40:09Z

Pretty portents of sorrow fill “Kathryn Calder,” the self-titled album by the singer who is best known as the modest team player supplying harmony vocals in the New Pornographers. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Weiland, whose growling vocals and dyed red hair became a symbol of the early 1990s grunge era, was fired from the band in February. Rock band Stone Temple Pilots to go on without ex-singer: lawyer 2013-06-04T20:41:33Z

It was just finding the right thing because this vocal can go in a lot of different directions. Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose: From One Anita to Another 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Moroder took her seriously, adapted a chorus she'd written, cut the track and brought her in for the fateful vocal session. Donna Summer: 'the audience was groaning worse than I was' ? a classic interview from the vaults 2012-05-17T18:30:01Z

A vocal and powerful group of anti-Zionist Jews who favored assimilation and steadfastly denied the existence of Jewish nationality continued to press their case until Weizmann finally prevailed. 'The Balfour Declaration': Jonathan Schneer's history of a short statement that led to the long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians 2010-08-11T23:15:00Z

That same year he provided the vocals for a lip-synching George Hamilton in “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” a movie about his dad. The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Few folksingers of any past era were lucky enough to have the groomed arrangements and vocal purity here. Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack: Folk and Mirrors 2013-11-22T13:00:38Z

The bandleader Kay Kyser, the vocal harmony group the Four Vagabonds and others recorded the hit song, whose lyrics included these: Mary Keefe, Model for Rockwell’s ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ Dies at 92 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Mr Ai is a vocal critic of the Chinese government, complaining about a lack of basic rights and freedoms and often incorporating these political themes into his work. Chinese police investigate artist 2011-04-07T10:17:58Z

It’s a rich, handsome set of songs, often centered on acoustic guitars, marked by sumptuous vocal harmonies but with an emphasis on Mr. Pecknold’s introspective lyrics. Music: Less Fleet, but More Mature, Foxes 2011-04-29T18:36:51Z

We Are Scientists, however, are here for a party and that's just what they give the very vocal crowd. We Are Scientists – review 2012-07-26T15:42:48Z

While this is not bad, the vocal talent here is clearly not Archie-caliber. Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging tonight's 'American Idol' Top 9 performances 2010-04-07T00:51:00Z

She privately honed her voice by painstakingly pressing play and pause on her CD player to transcribe the lyrics to her favourite albums and learn the vocal styles. Singer Ren Harvieu's second chance 2012-05-14T00:52:15Z

Each book did better than the last, buoyed in part by a market for children’s literature that was increasingly vocal about its lack of diversity. Jason Reynolds Is on a Mission 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Making video or vocal appearances are a host of celebrated city dwellers. Review: ‘New York Spring Spectacular’ Barrels Into Radio City 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Analysts said the HDZ reticence evinced a reluctance to alienate a vocal part of its support base. Croatian leaders tread softly in face of World War Two revisionism 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday lashed out against vocal clergy in the mostly Catholic country who have spoken out against everything from a controversial contraceptive law to his hair, or lack of it. With Pope's ear, Philippines president rebukes clergy over hair joke 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

It also gives you another chance to admire the abilities of the vocal talents. Fantastic Mr Fox recap: Wes Anderson reworking well worth another look 2013-06-28T16:00:37Z

In many ways, “The Look of Love” resembles not just “Pepperland” but most of Morris’s work to vocal music, whether Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys or Baroque opera. Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Though one could hardly complain about the unusual selection of rarely heard pieces, the execution, while generally fine, showed signs of vocal fatigue. In D.C. debut, vocal ensemble Vox Luminis offers moments of beauty despite hiccups

The band’s raw, abrasive sound — a blend of punk, rockabilly, blues and country — featured the wailing, slightly disjointed vocals of Doe and Cervenka. Los Angeles punk band X to celebrate 40 years at the Croc 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The group enjoyed immediate success with a huge 1958 hit, the secular hymn “For Your Precious Love,” with Butler on lead vocals. The Impressions keep on pushing 2012-06-28T15:58:00Z

The three began meeting on their own to perfect their sound, and when Ahmet Ertegun, president of Atlantic Records, heard their elegant three-way vocal braiding, he signed them to his label. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Less within producers’ control were Rihanna’s vocal chords, whose poor health apparently caused the pop star to pull out of a live performance of her song “Kiss It Better” just before showtime. Here Are the Best and Worst Moments of the 2016 Grammys 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Haunting new wave-inspired vocal track which fits perfectly into an early morning set at Panorama Bar. DJ Kristian Beyer Q&A 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

Though too shy for the stage, Ms. Sutherland’s mother did vocal exercises every day and was her daughter’s principal teacher throughout her adolescence. Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

We can't tell if Piles of $$$, with its Auto-Tuned vocals and 808s and Heartbreak ambience, is a critique of or paean to R&B lotharios, but who cares with that chord sequence. New band of the day ? No 1,080: Caged Animals 2011-08-09T15:48:00Z

Think of all the endless work advice doled out to young women: Lower your vocal pitch. Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

“I asked my vocal coach many years ago when it would be time to stop,” she said, “and he said, ‘Your voice will tell you.’ Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The series will chronicle her on a cross-country adventure with her bandmates and friends, meeting with vocal coaches and doctors to strengthen her voice. Shania Twain's OWN series gets a premiere date 2011-03-17T21:02:48Z

I can’t do too much, I try to be quiet, except for a vocal warm-up. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf on Acting in O’Neill 2012-06-14T16:57:18Z

The very next day, she cut vocals on a song called “Bad Luck,” powering through the guilt and uncertainty. How Neko Case Finally Unleashed Her Feminist Rage 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The vocal delivery maintains the relaxed, casual innocence of the opening, but the lyrics are almost post-apocalyptic, digging into very adult matters of environmental collapse and the costs of war. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

This is vocal jazz as smart and knowing as the best American TV, as Stigers integrates 50 years of jazz modernism in a way that avoids histrionics and supper-club populism. Curtis Stigers 2010-08-01T21:15:00Z

In 1943 he became a rehearsal pianist and vocal coach at City Opera, which then performed at City Center. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

The pleasures of Is Your Love Big Enough? lie in its subtleties, though: the way La Havas's vocals purr and pounce by turns, how Matt Hales's production refuses to be obvious. Lianne La Havas: Is Your Love Big Enough? – review 2012-07-07T23:05:10Z

One member, Bob Nastanovich, whacked a second drum kit, concocted noise from analog electronics and shouted punky responses to Mr. Malkmus’s lead vocals. Newbies and the Reunited Gather in the Desert 2010-04-19T21:37:00Z

He was vocal with his views about what the city was doing and what we as a whole could do better. I failed my friend Dante Barksdale. We all failed him 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

After 22 years, that creative break comes to an end on Friday with the release of “Slowdive,” which offers a more polished take on the band’s trademark hazy vocals and reverb-dunked guitars. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Chris Mann, of “The Voice” fame, didn’t have much stage or vocal presence; I will charitably ascribe that to his recent appendectomy, which forced the premiere back by a week. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It applies Auto-Tune and other gadgetry; it unleashes samples and distortion; it tucks phalanxes of overdubbed saxophones and backup vocals into its mix. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Especially when the Republicans are as vocal on these issues as the Democrats are quiet. Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z

The machines, tireless and perky, and the chance to multiply her vocals bring out an airy, optimistic side in her songwriting on Flock of Dimes’ debut album, “If You See Me, Say Yes.” Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The score doesn’t call for vocal acrobatics or for a particularly big range and only occasionally for bursts of passion. Review | Lucy the chimpanzee’s life makes for compelling art at Atlas 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Pasadena, and elsewhere for her vocal performances of Joplin hits like “Piece of My Heart,” “Ball and Chain,” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” ArtsBeat: Janis Joplin Musical Coming to Broadway This Fall 2013-06-26T19:25:00Z

While she had been a standout vocal soloist at church, she had originally planned on going to college to study accounting. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

"People will be very surprised to hear her vocal capability," Baum says of the new song. Rebecca Black works to overcome 'Friday' infamy 2011-04-25T13:35:01Z

Her vocal in Korean, from the original track, chants, “Don’t answer my phone. It’s just a depressing story anyway.” Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

For those in search of vocal riches, here was a full treasury. Critic’s Notebook: Opera Stars and the Revival of Bel Canto 2014-05-04T21:52:06Z

Their dialogue crackles with vocal fry and viciousness as they reckon, maybe for the first time, with the consequences of school hierarchies. ‘Tahara’ Review: Hierarchy at a Hebrew-School Funeral 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

His falsetto vocals in “Feed the Babies” and “Pearl Cadillac” echo Curtis Mayfield and Prince, as he sings about parental responsibility and about his own gratitude to his mother. Gary Clark Jr. Finds a 21st-Century Blues Spirit on ‘This Land’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Those progressives were especially disenchanted by President Obama, who was a vocal opponent of the forever wars but once in office labored to put them on a more “sustainable” and “more lawful” footing. ‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

From its moaning vocal introduction, echoed within a few bars by Johnson’s slide guitar, the narrator details how he betrayed his best friend, and then was himself betrayed, all for the love of a woman. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

Felix Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, was a vocal critic of the Kennedy Center’s track record for including Latin artists. George Lucas and Carole King selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Featuring Rihanna on guest vocals, the song is a like a set of Russian dolls, version nested inside version. Frank Ocean, the Cure, and Boys Who Do Cry 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

In 1994, James saluted Holiday with an album of jazz standards called "Mystery Lady," which yielded the first Grammy Award of her career, for jazz vocal performance. Blues/R&B singer Etta James dead at 73 2012-01-21T06:00:00Z

Singers have updated the manuscripts over the years, adding suggestions for vocal phrasings and new liturgy. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z

The 10 songs blow past in less than 33 minutes, with robust melodies resolving in arms-wide-open choruses augmented by wordless “sha-la-la” vocal harmonies. Album review: Redd Kross, 'Researching the Blues' 2012-08-07T04:24:00Z

But do check out the heartbreaking vocal and the churchy keyboards. Readers recommend: Mr and Mrs songs ? results 2011-04-07T11:23:48Z

The truth of the matter is that vocal conservative Hollywood celebrities are in short supply. There is no better place to be Stephen Baldwin than the Republican convention 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

With its haunting piano and raw vocals, this is one of the stand-out tracks of their debut album. Nine Inch Nails: a beginner's guide 2013-07-08T13:52:00Z

With a mature but not deep voice, Ms. Sanchez, 16, delivered flamboyant performances throughout the season, but on Tuesday, she appeared rushed, her gale-force vocals less overpowering than usual. Critic’s Notebook: American Idol Winner Phillip Phillips Is Known for His Modesty 2012-05-24T06:17:26Z

“When he gets up on the microphone, it’s insane. I’ve never seen someone give so much emotion to a vocal before, brings you to tears.” From Bieber to Vedder, producer Andrew Watt shows his range 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Then the show caught fire, mainly on the strength of Ms. Rachvelishvili’s vocal power and compelling stage presence, and Mr. Eyre’s sure sense of dramatic pacing took hold. Music Review: ‘Carmen,’ With Anita Rachvelishvili, at the Met 2012-09-30T21:49:45Z

They did add a chorus and another vocalist, a countertenor who serves intermittently as Orpheus’ double, singing in harmony over the baritone’s vocal line. “Eurydice” heads to LA Opera and then Met 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Emerson’s calm vocals and the upbeat ingenuity of the music promise to get her through any crisis. Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

All three sang, though Mr. Collins’s vocals were toughest to distinguish. Music Review: Prince Rama: Summoning the Spiritual With Cowbell 2010-08-10T22:37:00Z

Their every physical gesture is an opera cliché, the problematic flip side of modern operatic vocal training. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

C. Tangana is one of the songwriters and co-producers and the director of a sweeping, scenic video; Galician musicians sing lead vocals. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer citation aptly described some of the techniques involved: “speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects.” Review: Roomful of Teeth Stretches for a Piano Premiere 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

I watched the strong and vocal and assertive ones and felt inspired by them. When I stopped orbiting men at work 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

Trying to squeeze Leoncavallo's emotionally charged vocal writing on to the tiny stage put a strain on the soloists. Pagliacci ? review 2011-03-02T19:40:01Z

Let's overlook the fact that the backing vocals are lifted almost directly from KC & The Sunshine Band's Get Down Tonight, because right now it's damp and cold and Adele sounds like warm Ribena and horns. This week's new singles 2011-01-15T00:05:59Z

"I knew that what we had in the South China Sea was the debris of MH370 and I was not going to sit around and not be vocal about that," Hendry said. “MH370”: The 6 most shocking theories surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

It injected a few more hooks into the duo's trademark sound: a blues-based minimalism that embraces moaning-at-midnight vocals and trancelike grooves. Black Keys riding out the buzz 2010-12-24T06:00:00Z

There are jaunty, melodic passages with impressive guitar backing; high, swooping vocals and slinky, breathy whispers; and lyrics that deal with everything from time and illness to a killer willow tree. Ruth Theodore: Dear Lamp Love Moth – review 2013-06-13T22:00:01Z

Her gradual discovery of her extraordinary vocal range is a story unto itself. Seattle vocalist-musician Amy Denio juggles multiple musical beats 2010-04-02T21:48:00Z

The 55-year-old tenor says he’ll receive a master’s degree in vocal performance from The Conservatory of Music, Giacomo Puccini in La Spezia, Italy, on Tuesday. Tenor Andrea Bocelli to Receive Master’s Next Week 2013-10-17T16:45:53Z

I have never heard an effect quite like the vocal quality Mr. Rattle drew from the strings in the exhalations near the end of “La Mer.” Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z

“If you’re looking for a savior, well, that’s not me,” she sings, her lush stacked vocals this time highlighting the line’s unapologetic defiance. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The title track, on which all three women share vocals, is a stark stunner about squeezing men dry, then dumping them like bad memories. New Albums from Pistol Annies and Barbra Streisand 2011-08-22T22:39:07Z

Colaneri had to write a vocal arrangement for two tenors, a baritone and a bass — and more. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

What happens when a couple of LA hipsters decide they'd like to go to Jamaica and make a record with the foremost vocal group in the history of reggae? This week's new live music 2012-06-15T23:05:20Z

After writing, Costello would make an initial recording of a song with his vocals and guitar at his home in Vancouver. Elvis Costello rocks out from the back porch 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Renowned for its groove-rich bass lines, cascading string choruses and gospel-steeped vocal arrangements, the Sound of Philadelphia rivaled the music being made by the Motown and Stax labels in popularity and influence. Thom Bell, a Force Behind the Philadelphia Soul Sound, Dies at 79 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

But even better were the Gundecha brothers, whose ancient dhrupad vocal tradition has been in decline partly because of the intense training required. Darbar festival 2010-04-07T21:00:00Z

Now Gang of Four’s songwriters — Mr. King, on lead vocals, and the guitarist Andy Gill — have a new rhythm section. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z

The pigpen squall of guitars makes a gloriously greasy mess, but Slocum’s vocals cut through like vinegar. Rihanna Inches Back to Music, and 8 More New Songs 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Doctors told Wells they could save her by removing her vocal chords, an option she rejected. | Mary Wells 2010-11-23T17:57:00Z

Mitchell's high vocal lines are offset by the sombre orchestral timbres of low strings and woodwind. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z

His last album, “Take All My Loves,” was an adaptation of nine Shakespeare sonnets, with vocal cameos by singers like Florence Welch and William Shatner. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Opening with a wall of vocal harmonies that are soon joined by swollen strings and what sound like sleigh bells, the song then settles into a more typical groove, Mvula's rich voice sounding beautifully despondent. New music: Laura Mvula – Like the Morning Dew 2012-11-09T10:36:00Z

When estrogen is introduced for trans women, it will not change the vocal folds. Eva: transgender voice-training app helps women and men talk the talk 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

And he's been vocal about his love for the Man of Steel, even naming one of his sons Kal-El, the native Kryptonian name of the boy who would be Superman. Nicolas Cage defends Marvel movies, defying Coppola's and Scorsese's cinema snobbery 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

It denied ever administering general anesthesia or conducting a vocal cord biopsy, which media reports alleged contributed to the comedian's death. Joan Rivers' doctor not currently working at New York clinic 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

Along with being vocal about almost everything else, Stern has long been outspoken regarding politics. An unexpected consequence of Roe v. Wade: Howard Stern for president? 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

The Ingles were vocal opponents of discriminatory housing and the Vietnam War, and they lobbied the City Council to end Chattanooga’s Armed Forces Day parade. Lady Bunny Is Still the Shadiest Queen Around 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

A sampler triggers vocal mantras, many unprintable because of cussed commands for the dance floor. Essential tracks: John Carpenter's 'Lost Themes' gives off eerie, futuristic sounds 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Over the next half century, backed by a vocal fan base, “Star Trek” roared back for more and, in the process, led the way in cementing space travel as an ideal canvas for relevant storytelling. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Among these hits, with vocals that swooped, wailed or moaned, were Jackie Wilson’s “Lonely Teardrops” and Roy Orbison’s “Crying.” It’s All Right to Cry, Dude 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

And her self-released album, “Thirsty Ghost,” was also nominated for best jazz vocal album. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Madley Croft, who helped write two of the album’s songs and served as a sounding board, praised Jehnny Beth’s genre experiments, which include android vocal stylings, melancholic saxophones and a piano ballad. Savages’ Jehnny Beth Is Going Solo. Don’t Tell Her It’s a Mistake. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Last month, it was the men’s a cappella vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Perspective | Kennedy Center seeks creativity. Making artists into administrators may not be the answer. 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Lacking strong characters and saddled with vocal lines hovering uncomfortably between tunefulness and expressionism, the mostly young cast was hard pressed to make much impact. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z

The sheer beauty of Paul McCartney's vocals — especially during the "I wake up to the sound of music" section — is a wonder to behold. The definitive version of the Beatles' "Let It Be" doesn't exist — but this new deluxe remix sizzles 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Peacock’s “Girls5Eva” got to market first with a story about a 1990s female vocal group reuniting now that the singers are in their 40s. Fall TV 2021: The 31 Shows to Watch 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mars channels the powder-puff vocals of Jason Mraz on “Count on Me” as well as on “Marry You,” which borrows liberally from Coldplay in its spacious drums and forceful velocity. Critic?s Notebook: Bruno Mars in Ascension 2010-10-05T22:58:00Z

Another Wisconsin singer named Marla was recruited to produce “girl next door” harmony vocals. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

He recorded some solo albums, including two on which he played the sitar, and a vocal effort that was, he said, "the greatest embarrassment of my life". Big Jim Sullivan obituary 2012-10-03T17:19:47Z

Some of their responses, including furious vocal complaints about Raúl Castro’s government, were startlingly unguarded. Havana’s Vital Biennial Was Trumped by a Stifled Voice 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

I didn’t miss the vocals, grateful as I was for the live, buoyant rendition of Tchaikovsky’s glorious music by the Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Gary Sheldon. Review | At the Kennedy Center (at last), Miami City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ is a perfect Thanksgiving story 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Like everything on the EP, it is slow, spacey, northern European, synthetic pop with chord changes that conjure hopelessness and vocals that couldn't be prettier even though they project despair. New band of the day – Ditt Inre (No 1,428) 2013-01-10T16:56:00Z

His vocals were technically great tonight, but there's more to it than that.Randy: Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging the 'American Idol' Top 7 performances 2010-04-21T00:42:00Z

She plays a taunting, growling trumpet solo; she puts her vocals through an electronic warp. Beck and Phoenix’s Bouncy Synth-Pop Team-up, and 8 More New Songs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

But in the bel canto works of the early 19th century — of which “Norma,” from 1831, is a lasting masterpiece — vocal quality is more than a want. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

She glittered when she switched to an acoustic guitar for “Tired,” her serene vocals shimmering like a firefly gently cupped in hands. Review | Beabadoobee needs more fuel for mosh-pit dreams at sold-out D.C. show 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

With Justin Harris's wilting vocal reminiscent of an American Bobby Gillespie, the lyrics are rooted in family crises – single mothers and deceased ones. Menomena: Moms – review 2012-10-04T20:30:01Z

It came from a correspondent unwilling to accept that most music is vocal music, and that most writing about music reflects the fact. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

On their third album, "The Ash & Clay," they play a music that is reminiscent of The Everly Brothers' close vocal harmonies, supported by some fine guitar picking that recalls some of Appalachia's finest instrumentalists. Review: Milk Carton Kids raise voices in harmony 2013-03-25T18:37:08Z

On Closer those vocals are not too passionate and emotive, and the guitar figure is almost Edge-esque. New band of the day: Lulu James (No 1,461) 2013-02-27T16:57:00Z

Some crude sexual taunting and tussling are all too convincing – and greeted by a young audience, in the newly vocal, responsive manner of Royal Court spectators, with groans. Posh 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z

The Collegium’s vocal soloists, drawn from the chorus, were adequate, and more than that in the case of the tenor Thomas Hobbs, who was a fine Evangelist. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

Rousseff, in particular, signed a significant affirmative action law that many believe helped foster a new, more vocal generation of Black intellectuals in Brazil. Brazil’s Lula Promised ‘More Books in Place of Guns.’ Can He Deliver? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

A blood-boiling montage of footage reminds us that some of Tyson's most vocal supporters were women, along with male leaders of the church community of which Washington was a part. ABC's Mike Tyson documentary "The Knockout" is a celebratory apologia without adequate interrogation 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Jersey Boys is a so-called "jukebox musical" that charts the origins of vocal harmony group the Four Seasons. Christopher Walken joins Jersey Boys 2013-07-24T08:40:33Z

Little Big Town won for vocal group of the year. 2014 CMAs: Miranda Lambert a big early winner 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The duo never fails to deliver an intense show with MC Ride’s rantings and ravings and gruff vocals paired with drummer Zach Hill’s wild, driving beats. SXSW 2013: Recapping the Music Festival 2013-03-18T14:58:24Z

"There were ideas, yelling, laughing and a lot of jokes, just for the heck of it … We played loud and Patrick was singing live vocals, so it was very raw." Fall Out Boy team up with Ryan Adams for 'wild' LA recording session 2013-07-18T12:07:40Z

Melodic vocals drift over a stuttering beat in “You Lost Me,” insisting, “I don’t want you to see me this way.” Album review: Sleigh Bells, 'Reign of Terror' 2012-02-20T03:53:00Z

Ms. Harvey’s vocals rise out of a kind of bleary skiffle, with the strumming of Autoharp or distorted electric guitar above rudimentary drumbeats. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-14T23:38:13Z

He told The Associated Press that he could hear Costello’s breathing in the mix used for his vocals. Pump it up! Costello preps Spanish ‘This Year’s Model’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

When she took up a vocal position as a Clinton supporter, she became a target of the alt-right. Katy Perry Woke Up. She Wants to Tell You All About It. 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Moran, however, found a way to own the material, making the melodic eighth étude sing like a vocal work. Review | Glass ceilings: A composer’s études lead to a late debut 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

Over the past year, Mr. Schumer has been vocal about the challenges facing passport applications. Another Pain Point in a Summer of Travel Woes: Getting a Passport 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Bryan Hymel brings youthful impetuosity and impressive vocal stamina to the part. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Her vocal range is stunning, though the precise parameter is unknown. Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

She sang backup vocals in a band, published an autobiography called “Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?” and used her shortwave radio license to talk to people around the world. Peggy Sue, namesake of Buddy Holly rock classic, dies in Texas 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

But considering how committed to form and mode this band has been — aggro bursts of guitar and drum, vocal growls delivered with abandon — there is a whiff of concession on this album. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z

More than 50 musicians are involved in the project, though the album centres around the gently thrilling vocal work of four female singers from Bulgaria. Eva Quartet & Hector Zazou: The Arch – review 2013-02-28T23:30:01Z

The vocal sections were the best, in a crisply defined performance from members of the Washington Chorus, with their new music director, Christopher Bell, serving as conductor when Riesman’s hands were otherwise occupied. Review | ‘Koyaanisqatsi,’ film and soundtrack, back at Kennedy Center 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

There was just one vocal work, Canticle II: “Abraham and Isaac,” written in 1952. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z