Only the high-falsetto operatic singing of both soprano and tenor in Act VIII (the only act given) of the Ming Dynasty opus "The White Serpent", was painful to Western ears.
The ceremony starts beautifully with the singing of both national anthems.
By the time the ceremonies broadcast by New York's municipal radio station, WNYC opened with the singing of both "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Hatikvah", the crowd had swelled to 15,000 in number.
Sierra Maestra never enjoyed the phenomenal success of Buena Vista, but Rodríguez never complained; instead, he championed his veteran musical heroes, singing on both of Buena Vista pianist Rubén Gonzaléz's albums and contributing to albums by Ibrahim Ferrer and the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Kulacēkarar, a Cēra prince, sings of both Rāma and Krishna, identifying himself with several roles in the holy legends: a gopī in love with Krishna or his mother, Devakī, who misses nursing him, or the exiled Rāma's father, Daśaratha.
And yet hers is the most haunting singing of all, both sweet and firm, effortlessly passing from loud to soft, from high to low, and including midphrase ornaments that sound related now to yodeling, now to trilling, now to those soft one-note repetitions in Monteverdi and Cavalli.
The singing activity of both tettigoniid species usually starts in the afternoon and continues until midnight.
In the folksy song "Light Up My Room," Mr. Robertson sang of how both his lover and the hydroelectric lines beneath his street illuminated his life: "We can dance to the radio station that plays in our teeth," he crooned.
Whether dreading or savoring the moment, Pitino kept everyone waiting, not appearing on the court until after a pregame ceremony honoring the late U.K. broadcaster Cawood Ledford and the singing of the national anthem, and both teams and all other coaches, Smith included, were out on the floor.
"What once was Charles Bukowski/ Is now Emily Dickinson," he sings, chronicling both the loss of bohemian wildness and the pleasures of more precise literary epiphanies.
A kick drum provides the workman-like four-to-the-floor backbone; high-on-the-fretboard guitar melodies curl themselves in knots as they generously spin out; vocalists sing lyrics of both the heart and mind, and the bass bubbles away volcanically, slipping and sliding around the beat.
