Of Chelsea Sorrell's mediocre performance of "Cowboy Casanova," he said: "Carrie Underwood karaoke is not going to fly.' He panned Reed Grimm's strange rendition of "Moves Like Jagger," calling it "Way too kitschy for me, too cabaret".
Outside on Nassau Street, strange calypsolike renditions of patriotic songs blared from speakers mounted on the walls of the Federal Reserve Bank.
You're likely to keep replaying in your memory this show's strange, smutty rendition of "There's a Place in France," which winds up being as perversely catchy as that strange, smutty "Honey Bun" number from "South Pacific".
For all her stylistic extravagance, Ms. Bridgewater demonstrated impressive restraint in her hushed, transfixing rendition of "Strange Fruit".
Singing in 1939 in front of a mixed-race audience in New York, Billie Holiday gave her first chilling rendition of Strange Fruit.
The 1965 rendition of "Strange Fruit" originally by Billie Holiday was sampled by Kanye West for "Blood on the Leaves" on his album Yeezus.
"Blood on the Leaves," which samples Nina Simone's 1965 rendition of "Strange Fruit" and was the first track in the first incarnation of the track list, is an example of West's signature dichotomy in which he melds the sacred and profane.
With a strange title and a complicated plot, "Rendition" was hard to explain even to those who wanted to know more about it.
(Schweitzer) 'Messiah' (Sunday) So omnipresent are renditions of Handel's sweepingly strange classic oratorio that it is possible on Sunday to hear two at Carnegie Hall alone.
These 9- to 12-year-old children poured out choral versions of songs that have complicated, adult meanings -- songs like "God Only Knows" and "Rhiannon" -- in renditions that are ecstatic, uncanny, strange.
