For years now, Snider has endeared himself to crowds with his endlessly digressive between-song commentary, which combines the sly phrasing of a stoner, the perfect timing of a standup comedian, and a mastery of the tiny detail.
Muhly, whom Rebecca Mead profiled for The New Yorker in 2008, is a musical prodigy who made his name writing operas, but he proves to have a flair for writing in this piece, which includes song-by-song commentary that is equal parts incisive, weird, and hilarious.
Bartholomew, an accomplished player on his own, offers some song-by-song commentary, musing that "Blue Monday" was one of his best.
Guillot, audience services coordinator at Folger Theatre (and one-time student of mine at George Washington University), takes a respectful route in compressing Daisey's oft-performed, 105-minute monologue into 70 minutes of song and commentary.
The East Asian audience is prepared to respond in quick succession to a sequence of different stimuli physical characterization, human speech, song, narrative commentary, visual composition, formal movement patterns over long periods of time, for 8 hours in Noh or up to 12 hours in Kabuki.
U2 saw the song, a commentary on mass media culture, as encapsulating some of the tour's principal themes.
32.77, www.ville-sete.fr/brassens, traces the poet's life through photographs, and songs and commentary in his own voice, and a video of him in concert.
She talks directly to the audience, impersonates male authorities (all oppressive, all offering their own wives as positive examples of womanhood – the governor of Holloway's deploys the "crochet hook or tighter underwear" when she feels her passions rise) and sings music-hall style songs of commentary on the situations ("Some girls don't turn into ladies… they want more than bugger all").
Music podcasts are similar to pre-recorded radio shows in that they include songs and commentary.
