Six cameras will be deployed -- three in the orchestra and three in the mezzanine -- to focus on the intimate vocal combinations that make up this faux operetta.
Most of the songs, even those telling sad stories, sounded celebratory, with brisk Haitian rhythms and endlessly inventive vocal combinations: quasi-classical chorales, call-and-response, polyphony and oom-pahs, all communal and indefatigable.
Infants decreased their production of caregiver-directed vocalizations, gestures, and gesture-vocal combinations during in the redirective condition.
Both the early association of the word with vocal-instrumental combinations and the lack of a clear, identifiable musical form are apparent in the important discussion of the concerto in 1619 by the German composer and theorist Michael Praetorius in his Syntagma Musicum ("Writings on Music").
The song's combination of acoustic guitar, vocal harmonies and rock drumming produces a "radio-friendly hook".
The stilted and awkward physical and vocal performances in combination with the visually flat cinematography bring to mind the look, sound and visual texture of American daytime soaps, an association that perversely makes the movie more and more watchable.
In addition there are passages for three instrumental or vocal soloists, a combination often already encountered in the popular Baroque trio setting of two high parts over a low part.
Critically acclaimed for its vocals and successful combination of ballads and pop, though criticized for lack of peculiarity and a somewhat inconsistent song selection, Seili spent 62 non-consecutive weeks on the Finnish Albums Chart since its release with 15 weeks atop the chart and sold over 95,000 copies in 2010, becoming the best-selling album of 2010 in Finland.
Each rehearsal involves a combination of vocal instruction, ensemble training, and musical interpretation.
Ms. Futral inhabits this role and sings this demanding work with a mesmerizing combination of vocal elegance and expressive ferocity.
