She told BBC Scotland's Stark Talk: "We had a singing class, which was compulsory, and I remember being in tears sometimes because I was so terrified to sing".
The difference between the two groups was stark, with the singing group scoring significantly better than the listeners in a range of tests, according to the US Society for Neuroscience.
The evening ended with Mr. Allman and Mr. Haynes singing a stark and wrenching version of "Long Black Veil," the 1959 ballad covered famously by Johnny Cash about a man who allows himself to be executed rather than reveal his lover's name.
Her husband, Jeffrey Foucault, sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest.
Taduno faces a stark choice: to sing in praise of the regime or to continue striving "against injustice and oppression".
Interpreting stark, talk-sing versions of Rodgers and Hart's "He Was Too Good to Me," "Fifty Percent" from the show "Ballroom," and Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's "That's Him," she comes into her own as a dramatic ballad singer.
"Night So Long," the album's closer, was stark, short on hope, Danielle Haim singing about lost love and loneliness.
The mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly was singing "By a Bierside," a stark reflection on death written in the World War I trenches by Ivor Gurney, when a tendril of hair fell into her face.
Now, Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca is singing a decidedly different tune and offered a stark assessment of the failure of both the Revue, which Logitech will cease producing after barely a year, and Google TV.
The iconic Obama ad, which ran repeatedly, had Romney singing — poorly — "America the Beautiful" as a series of stark facts appeared on the screen: "In business, Mitt Romney's firms shipped jobs to Mexico and China..
The iconic Obama ad, which ran repeatedly, had Romney singing — poorly — "America the Beautiful" as a series of stark facts appeared on the screen: "In business, Mitt Romney's firms shipped jobs to Mexico and China...
