A fiercely dramatic soprano in modern dress takes center stage on a polished parquet floor, singing an aria that Mozart added to "The Marriage of Figaro".
Not that there was anything informal about the finely polished and expressive singing of Mr. Quasthoff and the soprano Sylvia Schwartz, the mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink and the tenor Michael Schade.
The choral singing was polished and energetic, and the orchestra accompanied it splendidly.
A lot happens in these songs — sound effects, eccentric interludes, dramatically different kinds of singing, from polished wailing to sleepy, floppy throwaway vocals.
Samuel and McCain had Winston Samuel and Ralph McCain, deceptively urban in their caps and T-shirts, delivering polished cool in their singing and tap dialogue, choreographed by Luther Fontaine.
Kurt Reichenbach, a West Coast jazz singer out of the Mel Tormé-Billy Stritch school of polished pop-jazz crooning, sang "Goodbye to All That," a song with music by Arthur Schwartz from the 1946 musical "Park Avenue" that could pass as Ira's heartbroken farewell to his younger brother and greatest collaborator: The things we planned — Goodbye to all that!
Whenever your master polished mirrors, he would sing.
So does that of Charlotte Margiono as Leonore, whose singing is bright, polished and excitingly agile throughout.
Having a polished portfolio of all your singing credentials will help you show prospective employers that you've got the chops for the gig.
The new Grill feels darker and more polished: polished wood, polished silver, polished people.
