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Written by CASA NewsLink
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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Once upon a time, a teacher tried to persuade a squiggly group of second graders to sing "You Are My Sunshine" without bursting any ear drums. Amidst the desperation, a young Laura Workman McMurtrey confidently informed the teacher, "I can sing harmony to this." The teacher, of course, was amused by this proposition for everyone knows, second graders can't sing harmony. Laura was persistent and retrieved her younger sister, Emily Workman, from the Kindergarten classroom down the hall and brought her back to the wriggling choir. The sisters sang the song in perfect harmony, shocking the teacher and earning a spot in front of the whole choir at their concert.  Be first to comment this article |  Add as favorites (0) |  Quote this article on your site | Views: 416
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Written by CASA NewsLink
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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It was a Saturday night. I had just moved in to Monroe Hall a week earlier and was only beginning to befriend my hall mates and accustom myself to life sans parents.
All of a sudden, a group of eight screaming men threw open my door and turned off the light. They seized me and subsequently barraged my ears with barbershop music. Throughout the rest of the night, members of the group imbibed the foulest-smelling liquid with which I had ever come in contact -- a certain Wild Irish Rose.
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Written by Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
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What do R&B star John Legend, actor James Van Der Beek and Osama bin Laden have in common? It's a sort of team sport practiced at universities, and it won't necessarily make you a big man on campus.
But there are surprising perks to joining a collegiate a cappella group.
In Pitch Perfect, Mickey Rapkin investigates this type of competitive singing — without instrumental accompaniment, so that vocal arrangements are emphasized — and finds an underworld of geek chic, whose inhabitants indulge in wild parties, exotic trips and even escapades with groupies.
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Written by Andrew Donaldson - http://www.thetimes.co.za/
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
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The son of George David Weiss, the man who has claimed copyright for his “adaptation” of this classic South African song, earning millions of dollars in the process, claims that he is disgusted by his father’s continued reluctance to recognise the song’s real composer.
In an open letter posted on Dave Marks’ Hidden Years internet site http://www.3rdearmusic.com/forum/forumjul05/mbubefeedback2.html, musician Bobby Weiss recalls his father telling him that the original version of Mbube had “no real author”, that this was some “old African chant” that he had adapted in 1961, turning it into a global hit for The Tokens as The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
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Written by CASA NewsLink
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
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I have always hated singing. I was introduced to it as the son of two concert pianists, trained at Juilliard and winners of international competitions, one of whom eventually became a voice and choir teacher (along with international baccalaureate music theory/history and other subjects). But growing up in my so-called "classical" music bubble, I was always taught -- well, not taught, but maybe steered towards the notion (well maybe that's just my fiction...) -- that singing, especially choral singing, especially casual choral singing, wasn't the same sort of feat as playing a Brahms piano concerto.
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