Word: musicianship
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...song exemplary of the band’s recent tendency towards polished, upbeat, yet still clearly indie-minded tunes. Though the crowd seemed slightly upset at not hearing an old favorite, they were quickly quieted and then enthralled by the group’s mature songcraft and impeccable musicianship...
...cappella music is a lot harder than it looks. I played the trombone, played in orchestras and sang in choirs throughout high school, but singing really good a cappella music requires a totally different type of musicianship. There’s just nowhere to hide yourself in a group of 13 people. Every single person is playing a huge role in each song, which requires an enormous amount of focus. A cappella singers must not only be outstanding soloists but exceptionally solid musicians as well. As a singer, I feel really lucky to be in a group with so many...
...pounding chords of “The New Year” answered all questions, and the combination made perfect sense. The first song merely set up the captivating “New Year” in a brilliant juxtaposition that prefaced a night of masterful song arrangement and exquisite musicianship. Combining highly recognizable material from their Transatlanticism album with lesser known tales of woe like “Lowell, MA,” “Photobooth,” and “Amputations,” Death Cab gathered generously from its ten-record cornucopia and projected their...
...don’t really buy the authenticity of our musicianship and our playing,” Corrigan said. “We always see there’s a lot of room to grow and improve but people keep showing up. And then to find out that there are 15 different countries that are going to be represented at the show on Saturday? Never...
...heart of Charles? vocal achievement: ?Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been a master of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal or conventionally melodic articulation. He can?t tell...