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First Night

The bari’s laryngitis for his first time on the stage built a backstage tension no lozenge could assuage. The bass was getting nervous: he had a tricky part; in “Sh Boom” he sings a counterpoint—the timing is an art. The … Continue reading

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arranging

There’s a jazzy edge to travel kind of a riff of improvisations compromises that flex like shoe leather on a bandstand vanish like clouds and reappear like bruises during the waiting as yesterday’s orderly practice scales resolve into ad hoc … Continue reading

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serious

standing among the other singers in the chorus ready to pour forth music back aching feet sore joints stinging he smiled with the joy of a gospel singer performing in the heavenly chorus because that’s how the chorus rings out … Continue reading

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