"Strange birds," he said, "often sing to me".
In a ballad opera, airs, often sung to popular tunes of the day, alternated with spoken dialogue.
"Sure, it's allowed on a case-by-case basis" is a refrain often sung to buyers, said Julie Friedman, a senior associate broker at Bellmarc.
She often sings to "you" — to a girlfriend who needs a pep talk ("Walk On"), to a slumming V.I.P. ("East Side of Town") or to a true love ("Stowaway in Your Heart").
"Strange birds," he said, "often sing to me". He is survived by a son, George, by his former partner the theatrical and film agent Maddie Burdett-Coutts; and his brother, Richard.
Mr. Khan, the young nephew of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the star of Pakistani qawwali music who died in 1997, often sings to a two-beat rhythm and a one-chord drone that isn't too dissimilar to the ones Mr. Branca uses.
He has said that this is the song people most often sing to him when they spot him on the street.
The poem, most often sung to Edward Parry's hymn-like melody, was recently suggested as a new national anthem for England, despite the fact most readings of the original text understand it to be deeply caustic in its sentiment.
Her taxi driver father, Mitchell, was a jazz enthusiast and often sang songs to his daughter as she grew up.
Her father Mitch often sang Frank Sinatra songs to her, and whenever she got chastised at school she would sing "Fly Me to the Moon" before going up to the headmistress to be told off.
