Longstreth employs a method for arranging voices known as hocketing, which stretches back to the work of thirteenth-century French monks.
Another imaginative leap was her pensive, slowed-up rendition of the Gershwins' "He Loves and She Loves," arranged for voice and piano (Andy Einhorn) and reconceived as a song about marriage equality.
Another imaginative leap was her pensive, slowed rendition of the Gershwins' "He Loves and She Loves," arranged for voice and piano (Andy Einhorn) and reconceived as a song about marriage equality.
Arranged for voice and accordion (played by her excellent pianist and sideman, Charlie Giordano), her version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" treated the song as a funny, personal, fragrantly sexy prelude to bedroom delights.
So he bought a guitar in a pawnshop, and he came home and said, 'You children are going to be my group now.' " He arranged their voices in the four-part harmonies he remembered from his boyhood in Mississippi.
Three beautifully sung ballads — "I'll Be Around," "The Way You Look Tonight" (a smooth, glossily orchestrated bossa nova) and the old Tony Bennett hit "The Good Life," arranged for just voice and piano — are the heart of an album that finds Mr. Feinstein embracing his past as an intimate crooner and popular music purist par excellence.
The music of the past, he said, was conceived in terms of space: whether counterpoint, with its multiple voices arranged in vertical alignment, or the symphonic forms, in which the dominant voice is typically projected on top of a complex accompaniment.
Music and Dance ANCRAM Ancram Opera House "The Wind in the Willows for Six Voices," arranged and directed by Jim Pau.
Happily, they've arranged a "hidden voices" tour to talk you through exotic species, such as corkscrew hazel, diva magnolia, eastern hemlock and Chinese red birch.
