Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Late in his career, Announcer Bill Stern made an endearing confession about his vocal ways as the Christopher Columbus of television sportscasting. Said he: "I had no idea when to keep my big, fat, flapping mouth shut." The insight dawned too late to be of much use to Stern, but it might have been of value as a guide for his heirs. Unfortunately, nobody in the broadcast booth was listening. The result is the TV sports event as it is today: an entertainment genre in which an athletic game must compete for attention with the convulsive concatenations of blah-blah...
Ellen Greene's performance as Anna 1 is critical to the communicative power of the production: her clear enunciation and vocal power keep the words from getting lost in the bustle on stage. But she lacks the vocal or emotional resources to prevent her voice from becoming monotonous at times. I missed Carmen de Lavallade's Anna II (she is injured but expected to return to the show), but Julie Ince's performance in the role--which requires a sort of supine acceptance of the world, with vague but unquenchable rebellions continually flaring up--was only passively effective. Her dancing...
...three singers on a dark stage instead of at the front of a concert hall. The performance of the songs by Robert Honeysucker, David Ripley and Kim Scown is remarkably emotional for such somber music, and Honeysucker especially in the "Second Report on the Unknown Soldier" creates an affecting vocal performance with no need of a set of other theatrical assistance...
...announced) fans at Boston Arena saw a fast-paced, exciting, action-filled, rough-and-tumble and--except for the vocal cadre of 50 Crimson supporters lumped at the Harvard end--enjoyable sport last night. But it wasn't the kind of hockey Harvard can play if it expects to win more than a few, fortunate games this season...
...Electronic Entertainment, some pop stars were asked what albums they had been listening to lately. While most listed mainstream stuff like Pink Floyd and the Police, David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, mentioned "Vietnam Music Instrumental Popular Songs" by Tran Quang Hai and Bach Yin, "Ethiopian Polyphony and Vocal Techniques" and "The Popular Music of North Africa" (on Vogue Records in case the Coop is out of it and you have to order...