As usual, Ms. Voigt sounded splendid, singing with full, free, luminous sound, excellent diction, lovely shadings and plenty of power.
The idea is that words sound excellent no matter who speaks them, even if it's not Sir John Gielgud, not a rapper, not a performer by nature".
Sound: Excellent – this is a custom-designed concert hall, after all, albeit one more used to dealing with orchestral music than amplified guitars and drum kits.
Huey Morgan (The Huey Show, listen again here) picked out his favourites for the occasion, surfing the wave of songs that sound excellent on a summer day without plunging into torpor.
The popularity of streaming has led to obvious changes in how music is being produced — in 2018, a pop song needs to sound excellent piping out of a laptop's tiny speakers and on headphones — but streaming has also resurrected the idea that the medium through which an album or track is made available is as much an aesthetic choice as anything else.
(Pareles) MELISSA ETHERIDGE (Wednesday and Thursday) Melissa Etheridge's voice — weathered, rich, craggy — has earned her loads of fawning comparisons to Janis Joplin, but her tough, melodic folksongs feel more like the oeuvre of Bruce Springsteen: personal, political screeds that sound excellent on the radio.
