Affordable Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden [DVD] – Review
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There’s always something happening in Percy s park! Here are four adventures of everybody s favourite park keeper and his animal friends with music and sound effects. It features: ‘The Secret Path’; ‘The Rescue Party’; ‘After the Storm’; and ‘One Snowy Night’.
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EX/EXOne of the finest singers of his–or any–age, Nat “King” Cole performed the definitive versions of many vocal standards. This collection gathers 22 of the velvety-voiced crooner’s most popular favourites: “Let There Be Love”, “Mona Lisa”, “Unforgettable”, “Let’s Face The Music And Dance”, to name a few. The choice of songs, as well as the superb quality of these recordings, both make The Ultimate Collection one of the better Nat “King” Cole compilations available. –Ted Kord
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A Hard Day’s Night may have been The Beatles’ first big-screen experience but, as they had become the biggest band in the world by the time of its production, the Moptops were able to ensure it was a bit different from the band-movie norm. “We’d made it clear that we weren’t interested in being stuck in one of those nobody-understands-our-music plots,” John Lennon would later recall. “The kind of thing where we’d just pop up a couple of times between the action, all smiles and clean shirts, to s
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Ted Neeley makes for a wimpy looking Jesus in Norman Jewison’s screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice “rock opera,” which was a smash on stage in the early ’70s. Jewison (Other People’s Money) adds some good exterior settings in the desert, but Lloyd Webber and Rice’s dialogue-free story (everything is sung, as in a real opera), with its quasi-profundities about the inner demons of principal figures in the life of Christ, is the real hook. Yvonne Elliman sings the show’s best-know
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Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is a departure from his Adiemus recordings into the more conventional territory of large-scale choral and orchestral writing, though his customary passion for mixing languages remains in full force with texts in English, Latin and French. Jenkins has said that The Armed Man was inspired by the “L’Homme armé” masses which were popular in the 16th century, and he makes this debt clear with passages written in a neat pastiche of Palestrina-style renais
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