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People who are unaware of his talents often are startled to hear him absentmindedly humming a complicated passage from Bach's B Minor Mass. Bruce sings in several choirs, so his familiarity with music is greater than the average appreciative listener's.
The concert could have been enjoyed by a sufficiently tired listener, or by one who heard only the compositions and not the performance; a display of musical prowess it was not.
Verdi: "Di quella pira" from Il Trovatore (Tap). This album, as its cover proudly proclaims, presents one aria rendered by 40 tenors, containing 80 high Cs. As written by Verdi, Di quella pira ("From that pyre"), from the third act of Il Trovatore, had not a single high C in...
In a Davis performance, the voice does only half the job, and maybe less than that. His guitar becomes an animate creature, vital to the song. Unlike so many of the new style folk performers, Davis uses his guitar to provide more than a tonal background. Often the guitar will...
It is, perhaps, a mistake in terminology to say Davis performs. He seems nearly oblivious to his audience; occasionally he looks up to ask a question, but in general he is unconcerned. He is playing for his guitar, and the guitar is working for him. The listener does not get...