RC · Huddersfield Art Gallery, to Apr 7 Tino Sehgal London "This is so contemporary, contemporary, contemporary," sang the gallery wardens round the German pavilion at the 2005 Biennale.
At a glance, their sturdy Victorian doesn't seem like the obvious hub of a small-batch initiative to redraw contemporary jazz singing.
She fearlessly bends notes, but always toward an expressive purpose, and her scat improvisations are not the kind of vacuous ornamentation that has become the bane of contemporary jazz singing.
The American tenor Tony Boutté, a Baroque and contemporary specialist, sings Arjuna, also in Sanskrit.
The cast, all dressed in stylish contemporary black, sang in a small area at the back of the acoustically flattering space.
Here, too, we hear contemporary performers sing fragments of the old songs — which is particularly maddening in the case of Bonnie Raitt's gorgeously sensual but truncated rendition of the Lenoir song "Round and Round".
It also relies heavily on lots of contemporary music, sung in the background, right through the dialogue in many scenes -- to "keep things fresh and hip," Ms. Rhimes said.
Not long ago, when the violinist MIRANDA CUCKSON was a student at the Juilliard School, audience members who attended the school's new-music concerts spotted her as a prodigiously talented player who could make even the thorniest contemporary scores sing.
In the liner notes for the disc, Mr. Jaroussky writes that contemporary countertenors sing music that was intended for castrati, who had a different voice type — making the argument that countertenors thus have license to perform repertory not usually associated with their voices.
Using modern gospel techniques, unusual for the time, he anticipates contemporary pop-soul singing.
