"So would we, Jimmie!" the crowd roared back, pleading with him to stop the chatter and sing "You Are My Sunshine" one more time.
He chattered and sang at work and, a lifelong bachelor, considered himself married to the job.
The closing work, "Shot in the Dark" (2012), had the soprano Tony Arnold negotiate a vocal line that had her whispering, chattering and occasionally singing simple, appealing melodies (the fantasy world of David Del Tredici's "Final Alice" came to mind), cloaked in an ensemble texture that oscillated between eeriness and high anxiety.
There was always lots of chatter and gossiping, often singing along to someone on a guitar and, on celebratory days, "Magic Mike", AKA karaoke.
In rhyming verse, Treml counts the wombat's visitors as they coo, giggle, warble, chatter, squawk and sing.
There is scarcely room to breathe but they chatter and even sing on the four-hour journey down red mud, dusty roads to the local town, avoiding herds of cattle and stray goats on the way.
Kibbitz = chatter, talk, conversation.
As you follow Gerda through an unimaginably dangerous and whimsical world with singing flowers, a chattering crow and a talking river to save her friend, Kai, you'll realize this isn't your average bedtime story.
But the creepy images they convey as they wield the masks in their spindly fingers are at odds with the jaunty, chattering music they sing.
At the end of my previous visits, Dakotah had chattered rapidly, nearly free-associating, occasionally singing, as if he would lose his visitor as soon as he paused.
Indeed, females never initiated the chatter song while inside their nests, instead only singing in response to their mate.
