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...members of the Inaugural Committee approached the Pitches and asked them to apply after the Harvard-Yale Jamboree, where the Yale Whiffenpoofs, the Krokodiloes and the Pitches sang...
...Whiffenpoofs, who sang at President Bush's inauguration in 1988, invited the scouts to the Nov. 21 jamboree. While the Krokodiloes have been invited to sing at Inauguration, it is unclear whether the Whiffenpoofs will sing as well...
Kimball says he began the odyssey of applying to sing at the ball when he asked himself, "Wouldn't it be great if we sang at the inauguration?" From there, Harvard's oldest A Capella group put together a promotional kit and wrote letters to the Talent Division of the Inaugural Committee...
...SAID EVERYTHING LIKE SHE meant it, and she sang it as she lived it. "I'm telling you, me and my old voice, it just go up a little bit and come down a little bit," Billie Holiday says during a rehearsal interlude on this landmark set. "It's not legit. I do not got a legitimate voice." True enough. But Billie Holiday changed every notion of legit -- twisted it right around into such a newfangled shape that her silken, serpentine style became the touchstone for all jazz singing. She was, by herself, the new tradition. Others followed, and some...
...level -- this package contains peerless music. Like a superb actress, Holiday knew how to internalize her turmoil. She had too much pride in her womanhood, her race and her artistry to turn herself into a sorry paradigm of self-pity. Rather she could make each song she sang a personal testament -- a confession, a regret, a reverie. She did not trade on her personal devastation. She used it till the end, to drive her artistry...