The 2009 Lyrics & Lyricists season at the 92nd Street Y the first season under the guidance of new artistic director Deborah Grace Winer will feature shows created by guest artistic directors Martin Charnin, David Zippel, Robert Kimball, Rex Reed and Billy Stritch.
While rehearsing “Ode to Joy,” the climactic final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, soprano Pat Rowser discovered it had plenty of high notes. And another challenge presented itself: “Ode to Joy” lyrics are in German.
LOS ANGELES - Nangulila ako bigla! said actress Marie-France Arcilla via e-mail about being surprised by Tony Award nominee and current Broadway sensation, Lin-Manuel Miranda, with Filipino lyrics in a new song he wrote for her character in a restaging of the musical, Working.
There is a young woman in spectacles and an orange wig dancing around her bedroom doing an out-of-tune spoof of the song “YMCA”, complete with arm-waving and expletive-riddled lyrics. Nothing out of the ordinary there, then, because of course, this is YouTube.
The lights dimmed and pictures of Independence High Schools seniors, dances and crowded hallways flashed on the screen as the lyrics I will remember you belted across the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Centers auditorium.
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