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Violins without strings are held in a playingposition by stone statues (Interlude,1998). In other instances, men hold bows as thesit away from a "haystack" of violins and play forthe Exercise of Memory (1998). OlivierMessian's "The Quartet for the End of Time,"inspired The Final Movement (1998) as itwas composed in the concentration camp. Fourmusicians sit adjacent to the ever-presentchimney. They are a reminder of the Jewishmusicians who were forced to play while newprisoners traveled to Auschwitz to perform forcedlabor or face immediate death. These men becomeswallowed by the tranquil landscape, readingnoteless sheet music, playing a soundless song...
Producer Sean ("Puffy") Combs, head of Bad Boy Records, pushed back the release date for one of his groups, the vocal quartet 112, to avoid the crush. "People are putting out albums because it's the holiday, not because the albums are ready," says Combs. "There's a lot of greed out there." He predicts the aftermath of Super Tuesday won't be pretty: "It's going to look like a crash on Wall Street...
...male front, crooner Jimmy Powers, playedby Jonathan Simpson '99, is cheesy to the point ofperfection. Along with the dynamic but sometimespatchy-sounding Angel City quartet, he insinuatesa sentimental path into our ready hearts.My ready heart. Lieutenant Munoz (RodrigoCharazo) was a favorite as the figure of dissent,with his deceptively sunny but really acid piece"All You Have to Do is Wait." It is with "Funny,"towards the end of the show, that Roulleau finallysinks his teeth into Stine and shows some fire inthe eye. However, this is not really a failingwhen playing a character which is generally staidand less than...
Back when Brand Nubian's debut, One for all, was first released, Grand Puba seemed the quartet's spokesperson, the lead, the one with the skills and the knowledge. The fact that one of his two solo joints on the album was their first single might've been what delivered this message or the fact that he was the most adamant about his five-percenter beliefs, which fit right into the era of Africa medallions and Feared Black Planets. Regardless, everybody of course seated Brand Nu's beats, was amused by Derrick X's pre-B Real's nasalness...
Take the rebel romanticism of Jodeci and the pleading sincerity of Boyz II Men, and add a dash of the martial-arts mythologizing of the Wu-Tang Clan. Let simmer, and you'd have something approximating the R.-and-B. vocal quartet Dru Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...