The record, one of the best of its kind in the notoriously uneven tribute genre, asserts Ms. Collins's place as a significant composer of impressionist memory songs in which folk and semi-classical elements seamlessly merge.
From Flora's earliest memories, song was around her from morning to night.
Listening to it once I wasn't exactly knocked out it seemed like every clean, clipped, post-Random Access Memories song Daft Punk were ever involved with, and every half-entertaining, over-melodramatic Weeknd song I've ever overheard while walking past an open car window.
These notes can be general well wishes, memories, song lyrics, inside jokes, lists - whatever the person wants to share with the birthday boy.
The service at his religious center was a mix of Bible readings, tender family memories, songs and words meant to inspire.
Renee Veneziale is doing a fine job as Grizabella, but how can you do justice to "Memory," a song that has been recorded by more than 170 artists?
Released in the midst of the G.O.P. primary season, with Occupy Wall Street a fresh memory, the song is at least timely and likely revolutionary.
Naturally, the subway sounds also stir the Sondheim words from memory — a song of consolation for two lovers taken from each other by unyielding circumstance.
Tolkien himself called the story "laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination", saying that "the whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real".
Hal eventually regresses to his earliest programmed memory, the song "Daisy Bell", which he sings for Bowman.
