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madrobinsSo I'm watching the Kennedy Center Honors. This year's honorees: Morgan Freeman, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townsend & Roger Daltry, George Jones, and Barbra Streisand.
Two notes: 1) Twyla Tharp is a dead ringer for Elizabeth Moon. Like, seriously. 2) When they sang the Who songs, for the last one--"Teenage Wasteland," they had a chorus of NYC firemen and cops. This makes sense (and explains why I got weepy) when you remember that at the first concert for NY after 9/11, the Who were one of the first groups to sign on, and sang the song for the firefighters and police in the crowd. It was a swell moment.
Bonus note: Idina Menzel has a swell voice, but needs to enunciate more clearly, and chill with the trills a bit. I never realized before just how good Streisand's enunciation is--and how spare some of her arrangements really were.
Two notes: 1) Twyla Tharp is a dead ringer for Elizabeth Moon. Like, seriously. 2) When they sang the Who songs, for the last one--"Teenage Wasteland," they had a chorus of NYC firemen and cops. This makes sense (and explains why I got weepy) when you remember that at the first concert for NY after 9/11, the Who were one of the first groups to sign on, and sang the song for the firefighters and police in the crowd. It was a swell moment.
Bonus note: Idina Menzel has a swell voice, but needs to enunciate more clearly, and chill with the trills a bit. I never realized before just how good Streisand's enunciation is--and how spare some of her arrangements really were.