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...Boston or Hartford after college. Unfortunately, pondering a life here raises more questions: What will I do next summer? Should I try someplace else? Wasn’t summer when I was supposed to ignore these things? I keep waiting for a spasm of homesickness, when the violins trill, the clarinets wail, and I suddenly remember how much I miss home. But it never comes. And the most frustrating fact is that I can’t pinpoint what I like about the city. Maybe that’s part of the appeal...
...pounded flat into hard, flawless two-bar phrases that loop relentlessly, making “Hell Hath No Fury” even tighter. . “Hello New World” is probably the best track Pharrell has mixed in a couple of years (apart from “Trill,” this recording’s knives-out club banger). Simple synth string lines surge and disappear, stabbing through the sounds of a protesting bass drum and a cracked cowbell. Pharrell’s so proud of his beats that he demands and gets a verse...
Audience members could not help but be particularly struck by Bartosik’s composure. She often played a difficult run or trill with one hand while resting the other calmly on her lap. Her cadenza and display of virtuosity at the end of the first movement was brilliant and unquestionably qualified as the moment of the most laudable musicality of the night...
...Silbo means "What do you want?" She asks him the time. Antonio blasts back that it's 11:30 a.m. Paula Rodriguez is asked to whistle to her twin Mirta: "Have you seen my glasses?" Mirta silbos back: "You're wearing them." To the uninitiated, it's all trill and squawk, requiring translation into Spanish by Darias. Later in the playground, Maria whistles to a boy called Luis. After he gives her the fuio acknowledgment she tells him to come and shake a visitor's hand. Luis does so. Teacher Darias explains that coverage depends on topography, wind...
...radio ad's announcer reads a list of famous Americans who gave their lives to Christ--from founding father John Jay to former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon--as fifes trill and drums roll in the background. "You too can be an American inspiration," the narrator concludes, "by joining the Presidential Prayer Team...