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McLachlan's stretches a little more thematically with "Hold On," a song inspired by an AIDS documentary about a woman who learns that her finance has AIDS. The song, which also appears on the No Alternative benefit album, has a moody, organ-supported sound that may seem a little strange...
The album's textured sound, which includes electric guitars, mandolin and violin along with the cello, helps the instrumentals of Broken Moon to be both complex and interesting without overpowering or drawing attention away from the singers. The catchy choruses and melody lines that characterize many of the songs, especially...
It is not clear what inspires Peck's musical eclecticism, and how he imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds...
This view of opera as overwhelmingly sensuous enhances Koestenbaum's later exploration of opera's artistic ambiguity, the equilibrium between opera's dramatic and musical appeal. One chapter, entitled "The Unspeakable Marriage of Words and Music," describes not an egalitarian relationship, as Wagner dreamed of, but a constant exchange of...
However, while Koestenbaum contends that the opera queen is an increasingly rare species in the post Stonewall world, that the tragic campiness of the opera "addict" is dated, he in no way gives the impression that opera serves little function in a sexually open world. Instead, the relationship between song...