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Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
Fan also surprised the audience with a brief performance of chanting scriptures in the Pali language, which was met with applause.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Both supporters and critics of Penny have held demonstrations; Penny arrived at the courthouse Friday to critical chants from a small group of protesters.
—Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Listen to this article A siren screamed down 31st Street as six men faced one another in a dim church and began to chant.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
Fan also surprised the audience with a brief performance of chanting scriptures in the Pali language, which was met with applause.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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Distinguished violinists from Joseph Szigeti to Hilary Hahn have tackled the Fourth Sonata, yet Jackiw sets a new standard, running the gamut from boisterous fiddling to solitary chant, with sly parodies of overcooked Romanticism along the way.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Both supporters and critics of Penny have held demonstrations; Penny arrived at the courthouse Friday to critical chants from a small group of protesters.
—Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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This opera is sung in Italian with English captions.Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
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Ernest sang the hit for the dancing country music fans Monday, which perfectly led into Jelly Roll's show.David Wysong, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
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There’s that earworm refrain, followed by formidably declarative verses, a powder keg of a chorus and a high-concept bridge.Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Could anyone utter these lofty words today without courting a chorus of snickers, a social-media immolation?George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat [Chrysalis/Partisan] Laura Marling’s first album in four years is a trove of nocturnal ballads and introspective lullabies recorded in the room with her newborn daughter.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
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Heretic Euphoric Dream Spray A soothing earthy citrus, consider this a lullaby in fragrance form.Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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The couple picked out outfits to wear for their date and received a private serenade from Wayne Newton.Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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On Sunday, the Puerto Rican trap star visited NPR Music for a performance that featured special guest, the singer Lia Kali, and a sweet serenade for his mom, who was in the crowd.Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
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There were minor scuffles in the stands and some booed the Israeli anthem, Reuters reported.Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The album doesn’t need the single anthems to accomplish his goal and make noise commercially as Tyler will be riding Chromakopia into another set of Grammy nominations in ‘26.Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Repetition with fidelity led, with the aid of print, to longer organized forms such as the motet, a vocal music composition, and the conductus, a Latin song with a rhythmic structure.Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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Rita, being the daughter of a pub piano man, gets to sing live when the BBC arrives for a morale-boosting outside broadcast, and Ronan soulfully executes a sweet pastiche of 1940s ditties, composed by Nicholas Britell and Taura Stinson.Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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And who knew that the cartoon series about the Harlem Globetrotters, the real-life, gravity-defying basketball heroes of the time, gave birth to an album of Globetrotters ditties, many co-written by Neil Sedaka?David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
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LeVar Burton has spent years as a constant, edifying, steadying presence in American pop culture.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Chip stocks were largely higher after semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research ‘s quarterly beats and stock pop.Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Chant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chant. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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