While "Bohemian Rhapsody: Star Wars Edition" begins with a play upon some iconic text: "A long, long time ago in a karaoke bar far, far away," the vocals that follow are anything but karaoke-quality.
And it's all set against the backdrop of the iconic text, A Course in Miracles.
Part of that intensity emerges from MacMillan's interweaving of the iconic text with other passages from the Catholic Holy Week liturgy, and thanks to the Britten Sinfonia Voices we could hear those texts clearly.
The iconic text of that talk is known as "The Hope Speech".
Iconic texts that faced a barrage of abuse for being over-taught, irrelevant and hackneyed, well, they've been on one syllabus or another for a long time for good reasons.
Others, like Marilyn Minter's simultaneously voluptuous and grotesque paintings or Barbara Kruger's iconic text-and-photo work, offer a more metaphorical critique of a culture's sick demands.
But the music, with its hymnal harmonies and oom-pah-pah dance riffs, did not have enough profile to stand against these iconic texts, though the baritone Ryan Allen brought an amusing, pontifical quality to his singing.
Yeast Expression looks like a normal six-pack of beers, until you find out iconic texts like The Seven Deadly Sins or Kant's What can I know?
Yeast Expression looks like a normal six-pack of beers, until you find out iconic texts like The Seven Deadly Sins or Kant's What can I know?
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth and For Women Who Are Difficult to Love are some of the most iconic texts of contemporary African literature.
He plans to return the document to public view at the National Archives, which has had it on display, along with other iconic texts like the Emancipation Proclamation, the Marshall Plan and the Apollo 11 flight plan.
