His method, Lessac Kinesensic Training, is a holistic, almost spiritual approach encompassing speech, singing and movement.
Bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing.
"But we all have the opportunity to present the whole range of Musiktheater at a very high level," he said, using the German word that encompasses all sung theater.
The album's "concept" may be as baffling as ever (even Parks seems at a loss to explain precisely what the richly evocative imagery of his lyrics is evoking), but the music flows beautifully - no mean feat when it encompasses barbershop singing, acid rock, early pop, Hawaiian chanting and mock-religious plainsong.
The work, composed in 1980, describes the legendary magician Merlin and some of his exploits in a shimmering, eclectic language that encompasses leitmotifs, free dissonance and singing lyricism, all woven together in a picturesque and fully persuasive way.
It draws on research in ten European countries and North America, and charts the growth of a multi-media information culture that encompassed manuscript and print, correspondence and conversation, gossip, singing and official proclamations.
The generally dissonant music encompasses a Brueghelian landscape of sounds, including lusty, growling and otherworldly singing, skittering woodwinds, surging brasses, crashing percussion and a prelude played by a battery of car horns.
Resuming Jan . 28 with James Naughton singing the songs of Randy Newman, this adventurous, far-reaching series — its programming encompasses Broadway, indie rock, gospel and alt-country — will continue through March 8 at the Allen Room in Jazz at Lincoln Center.
I'm a sophmore here at Cal, and encompass all forms of nerdiness whether they be with math, CS, coffee, or singing.
Night Aquarium encompasses three installations: the Flowers and Fish display at the Enoshima Aquarium Big Sagami Bay Tank, the singing orbs of Resonating Spheres and Night Fish, and, most recently, the vivid light-dyed tanks of Small Resonating Sea. .
