When a newcomer to the world of a cappella attends the first International Championship of A Cappella Open Finals, he leaves with some questions.
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Critic's Notebook A three-hour immersion in the world of a cappella music at the first International Championship of A Cappella Open Finals left a layman listener with a few perhaps unanswerable questions.
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So do the songs peppering the narrative, sung a cappella.
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People booed the announcement and then started singing a cappella.
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She sang "On My Own" from Les Misérables, a cappella.
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The school has an a cappella group called The Ultrasounds.
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An a cappella musical about internet addiction fits that bill.
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Ms. Banks had encountered the a cappella scene at Penn.
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The a cappella arrangements are by Deke Sharon ("Pitch Perfect").
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Keys performed an impromptu poem before breaking into a cappella.
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I sang an Italian a cappella song at his request.
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I was in one of those a cappella groups in college.
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Somewhere (Dirty Blvd) (Extended Version) Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
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Surely, now everyone will realize how cool a cappella really is.
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IN TRANSIT Life in the big city, told a cappella style.
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We don't like corpses or a cappella music or fart jokes.
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You've likely heard about the popular a cappella comedy, Pitch Perfect.
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A violinist, a debater, a singer in the a cappella choir.
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They formed an a cappella group named, appropriately enough, Simply Human.
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DePayne Middleton Doctor booming a soulful a cappella solo, the Rev.
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He began singing a cappella at age 9 alongside his brother.
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Sometimes they break into bluesy a cappella wails, intoning words of desolation.
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"Everything that we did was based around a cappella harmonies," he said.
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"Pitch Perfect" follows the story of an all-girl a cappella group.
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I know the song by heart, I will sing it a cappella.
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It's real-life a cappella pair Anna Camp (Aubrey) and Skylar Astin.
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The rock band Vampire Weekend took the stage and sang a cappella.
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Well, almost a cappella — Carson Daly contributes some light percussion with hand claps.
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Entire portions of songs like "Dami Duro" became group a cappella shout-alongs.
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Hall belted out the Little Mermaid track "Part of Your World" a cappella.
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At Feinstein's/54 Below, the a cappella group Rockapella is performing through Jan.
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Do you think you can just sing a cappella going into the beginning?
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Ms. Clarke's choreography takes precedence, along with traditional Shaker songs, sung a cappella.
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One can only hope there was some a cappella action at the reception.
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Until now, there has been a clear trajectory for Yale a cappella singers.
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Some of Princeton's a cappella groups, like the Tigerlilies, have audience-participation songs.
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It's like the phrase 'a cappella concert,' or 'unmarked van,' or 'homemade condom.
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"Sometimes I found the a cappella online, on YouTube or something, but for most tracks it's pretty hard to find a cappella, so I just used the whole track," he said, citing the British artists Ed Sheeran and Passenger as examples.
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So, she brought out a cappella group Level to see which songs hold up.
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What is it about a cappella pop groups that makes their spirit so playful?
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Let's see what happens when you combine a beautiful city, romance, and a cappella.
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Accompanied by the a cappella group The Filharmonic, the two prepared to do battle.
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I got an a-cappella singer, one of our volunteers, to sing 'Amazing Grace.
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Ariana Grande's a cappella rendition of "Dangerous Woman" is still one of the GOAT.
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I understood when I needed to create something totally a cappella — just the percussion.
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In college, he was a member of an a cappella group performing spiritual songs.
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Here's a fantastic a cappella subway performance out of Chicago, worth listening to close.
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I don't want to see a bunch of white people singing a cappella covers.
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It's a setup that might favor a skilled group detached from a cappella orthodoxy.
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So he decided to sing a cappella and asked the women to join in.
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The extended a cappella vocals over the video credits are an invitation to remix.
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There's the world's most random joke, about the Oberlin a-cappella group the Obertones.
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Her playback wasn't working, so she decided to just go ahead and sing a cappella.
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Nasheeds are performed a cappella and are paeans to the glory of God and religion.
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NEWARK "The Movement," an a cappella musical, a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Jan.
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The Barden Bellas are the female a cappella group featured in the Pitch Perfect franchise.
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The a cappella group won the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off in 4.6.
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The a cappella group won the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off in 2011.
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Thank Pitch Perfect: Broadway is getting its first a cappella musical, In Transit, this fall.
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We're doing that, like an a cappella, where he's rapping and I'm playing the piano.
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They both attended an intimate a cappella concert at N.Y.U. They didn't meet there, either.
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An immense amount of energy went into coordinating the outfits for my a cappella group.
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With Danilo, they tried several styles, and he settled down with the a cappella piece.
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And then "Thank U, Next" combined strong a cappella vocals with thoughtful, sweet, earnest pop.
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"People, let me tell you," belts Aretha, a cappella, in the first moments of the track.
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Hollens, for example, has built his current a cappella career on subverting the rock star mystique.
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Finally, he crooned a short tune a cappella, honoring a longtime tradition of the piano bar.
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Unless you've been in an a cappella group yourself, you'll never quite understand what it's like.
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In fact, it ends in an a cappella version of one of Union's favorite '80s hits.
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For opera as well as a cappella, I like Teresa Berganza, Renée Fleming or Kathleen Ferrier.
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Broadway has its hip-hop musical, and soon it will have an a cappella show too.
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" Dylan said he gets goose bumps in the a cappella chorus "Since by man came death.
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Did Bon Iver's Justin Vernon secretly copy his spooky space harmonies from extreme a cappella arrangements?
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Sometimes she performs it a cappella so she can feel more deeply connected to her father.
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Vinnie, a preschooler from Berlin, squeaked his way through an a cappella lullaby to rapturous applause.
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Go watch a mime on the street, or an a cappella trio in the train station.
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This a cappella group sings in the holidays with help from Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson.
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They tried Cambodian food and listened to an a cappella group and laced up ice skates.
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Bush also began inviting different Jewish choirs and a cappella groups to perform at the event.
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The singer, 22, proves it once again in an a cappella performance of "Dangerous Woman," released Monday.
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The Clinch Mountain Boys were the first bluegrass act to record a cappella gospel hymns, in 1971.
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Pitch Perfect 3 may spell the end of an era for the improbably beloved a cappella franchise.
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Today, the list of "Return of the Mack" YouTube covers is inexhaustible and mostly acoustic/a cappella.
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Their fans and fans of a cappella at large have been clamoring for this collaboration for years.
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The next day Emily sent me a sick a cappella, and I threw it on the track.
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The band has been more of an a cappella group than a full orchestra to this point.
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As he performs an a-cappella version of Sia's "Chandelier," Josh directs his father how to react.
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Evenings are spent listening to Dice's gloomy lectures or singing Baptist hymns (of all things) a cappella.
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The couple met in November 2011 at a Harvard-Yale weekend a cappella concert in New Haven.
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Obama continued the tradition of inviting college and professional a cappella groups to sing at the event.
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Mike Boxer performed with Jewish a cappella group Six13 at the White House Hanukkah reception in 2016.
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Universal spent an estimated $45 million to produce the comedy, about an all-female a cappella troupe.
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He provided a haunting a cappella version of the dirge "O Death" and ended up winning a Grammy.
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The "Jolene" a cappella was also her 107th overall chart entry, which earned her the second world record.
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It's what happened when Demi Lovato challenged James Corden to sing diva hits with an a cappella accompaniment.
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At first blush, a comedy about an a cappella singing group seems like a rejected Whit Stillman idea.
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In the scene, the Barden Bellas perform and Banks comments that a cappella history has just been made.
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Specifically, a diva riff-off featuring diva hits from past and present accompanied by a cappella group Level.
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Lovato led the crowd in an a cappella cover of Paramore's "Misery Business" and everyone absolutely crushed it.
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At the age of one, Delgado created an impromptu a cappella song in the bath, as toddlers do.
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Watch and listen to what happened next -- the a cappella version of "Bump N' Grind" left no doubt.
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While "Detroit" depicts the Dramatics rehearsing without the accompaniment of instruments, they are not an a-cappella group.
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The pair joined vocal forces and sang an a cappella cover of Robyn's hit song Call Your Girlfriend.
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" The sample appears as an a cappella at the beginning of Dienel's song, and repeats throughout Bieber's "Sorry.
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CARAMANICA Vocal harmonies twist and turn, completely a cappella (overdubbed) at first, in "Receipts" as Josiah Wise — a.k.a.
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She would vent about her a cappella club, and we would compare the TV shows we were watching.
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Broadway's first a cappella musical will close on Sunday, unable to break through during an especially competitive season.
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His staircase cover of the Dion classic was performed a cappella, mostly in French and partly in English.
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Warning: if you watch unitl the end, you will cry #2reflections #into1 Posted by Chai Town on Monday, February 22, 2016 When Chai Town, an Illinois-based Indian-American a cappella group, was asked to perform an a cappella marriage proposal, the singers knew they had to make the concert special.
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There were groups striving to make a cappella their lives, groups that formed as passion projects and groups that seemed intent on dismantling the a cappella establishment from within by taking advantage of the competition's open format to import styles of singing you won't see at most college pre-frosh weekends.
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In Pitch Perfect, the innovation was livening up old-school a cappella by mixing a couple of songs together.
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He says Turpin was a member of the bible and chess clubs as well as the a cappella group.
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He's been making a cappella parody videos ever since, spending a good 200 hours of work on each one.
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Come to the United States and sing in front of audiences, as part of an a cappella boy's choir.
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Diners at Vancouver restaurant Le Crocodile were treated to an impromptu a cappella show Thursday night ... starring Jimmy Fallon.
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Now, Grande has released a completely a cappella version of her latest single, and it's definitely worth a listen.
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Ms. Uzuri began her performance offstage, singing into a microphone in wordless, a cappella peals and shaking a tambourine.
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The songs aren't all a cappella; sometimes there's an acoustic guitar or birdsong in the background. Nonesuch. Sept. 21.
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On Friday, from the first strains of the a cappella "Coração Do Mar," Ms. Soares's power was remarkably uncompromised.
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Turn to the harmonious vocal musings of the Virginia Gentlemen, an a cappella group from the University of Virginia.
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"I consider it to be one of the pinnacle a cappella works of the 20th century," Mr. Miller said.
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But around it, voices and instruments materialize like stray fantasies, and a sweetly unexpected a cappella coda anticipates satisfaction.
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So much so, in fact, that she can — and will — even belt out an a cappella show tune on demand.
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Unlike an a cappella group, the French army marching band actually marched, sometimes spelling out the names of French cities.
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In the video above, Lovato and Corden sing their hearts out with the accompaniment of YouTube a cappella group Levels.
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She's currently starring in the third installment of her beloved Pitch Perfect series about an all-female a cappella group.
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The a cappella group has been performing a Hanukkah medley for years along with a wide range of Christmas songs.
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He said that next year, he will be singing with the Yale Whiffenpoofs, the world's oldest collegiate a cappella group.
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Yorke stands with arms outstretched, goading the crowd into the a cappella bridge: "This is what you get," we shout.
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Most of the locations' names — Ensemble, Joynture, Rough Draft, Fueled Collective — sound like the names of college a cappella groups.
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Mr. Heaney was recognized as a master of sean nos (old style) music, a traditional Gaelic variety of a cappella.
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Instead of dating, he put his energies into singing bass-baritone for Superfood, a coed a cappella group on campus.
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Robyn sang the song a cappella for Peter Swartling, who became her manager, and at 15, her recording career began.
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The live a cappella is a result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields.
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In 1974, as a college student, he performed at the festival as a member of U.C.L.A.'s a cappella choir.
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I don't exactly spread this around, for obvious reasons, but I sang in a coed a cappella group in college.
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This year at Yale, the Whiffenpoofs, an a cappella group, admitted the first female member in its 109-year history.
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Below is an important wig for an important audition with Schitt's Creek's all-women a cappella singing group, the Jazzagals.
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Onstage, with its predictable subway sketches and its a cappella score, it seemed like a shotgun wedding of incompatible elements.
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The Kol Zimra a cappella choir performed at a menorah lighting ceremony before the White House Hanukkah reception in 2004.
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"I can have a normal life now," said Peter Hollens, an a cappella singer who creates cover videos on YouTube.
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" The show proper ends with the protest anthem "Hell You Talmbout" and an a cappella version of "One Fine Day.
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The couple did not overlap at Yale — Mr. Sogol graduated in 2132, while Mr. Hillier did not arrive on campus until 2134 — but they both sang as underclassmen with the same a cappella group, Mixed Company, and then as seniors with the Whiffenpoofs, one of the country's oldest and most celebrated collegiate a cappella groups.
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The couple did not overlap at Yale — Mr. Sogol graduated in 2001, while Mr. Hillier did not arrive on campus until 2006 — but they both sang as underclassmen with the same a cappella group, Mixed Company, and then as seniors with the Whiffenpoofs, one of the country's oldest and most celebrated collegiate a cappella groups.
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Jones, who found success — and around 500,000 subscribers — performing a cappella covers on YouTube, primarily had a fanbase of teenage girls.
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Goulding, 31, even gave her friends a rendition of her 2012 hit single "Burn" a cappella while strumming with her guitar.
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Best Actress winner Frances McDormand danced her way into the party, and was delighted by an a cappella group serenading guests.
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An a cappella group at Princeton University will stop performing the Disney song "Kiss the Girl" after facing backlash from students.
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The a Cappella comedy carries a $240 million production budget and has been billed as the final installment in the franchise.
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An a cappella version of the song, featuring cameos by celebrities and singers, was even premiered at the Democratic National Convention.
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Brazil and its fans are back to singing the second verse of the national anthem a cappella after the music stops.
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A cappella music features perhaps the highest concentration of working beatboxers anywhere outside hip-hop (or perhaps higher than there, too).
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Quinton and I met as students at Princeton, both singing in the Princeton Nassoons (a cappella group) and the Chamber Choir.
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In the video, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 22, wakes up daughter Stormi with the a cappella musical greeting.
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Her program features an a cappella arrangement that she performs with Danilo, a 14-year-old Hanoverian owned by Patricia Stempel.
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It's part of a piece written in 2014, but the a cappella purity of the voices harkens back to the Renaissance.
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He studied architectural history at Cambridge University after college at Yale, where he sang in the a cappella group the Whiffenpoofs.
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The two join up with The Roots, who provide a cappella beats; it's coming out on an album called Holidays Rule.
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A group of young poets performed a long, powerful piece dedicated to the city, accompanied by a cappella singing and tap dancing.
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The singer donned the infamous hair piece for a low-key a cappella rendition of "Chandelier" on Facebook Live on Oct. 28.
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Tonewall, an a cappella band of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, is using its platform to promote diversity and inclusion.
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Brian Raymon Sogol and Scott Thompson Hillier met in November 2112 at a Harvard-Yale weekend a cappella concert in New Haven.
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Dave Malloy's a cappella opera about people in the throes of internet addiction, which is pretty much all of us, logs off.
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A black proprietor serenaded him a cappella, as if he were a celebrity of sorts: "Go get that senator's race," he boomed.
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" A circle formed around the grave and the barbershop quartet performed a mournful a cappella from "Treemonisha" called "We Will Rest Awhile.
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PITCH PERFECT 3 Now out of college, the Bellas reunite to perform their exuberant brand of a cappella at a U.S.O. show.
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She sang two songs, "Old Devil Moon" and "There Will Never Be Another You," on which she took an a cappella chorus.
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Each episode of Alias Grace, a new television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel, ends with a haunting a cappella folk song.
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His songs endure, equal parts confessional and craft, yet their punctuation — woeful slide solos and impressionistic a cappella arrangements — make them transcendent.
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"Religion is a prison but truth sets us free," Franklin says on the album's opening track, an a-cappella spoken-word piece.
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" Boyz II Men then joined to Keys on stane for an a cappella version of their 24 hit "Hard to Say Goodbye.
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"In Transit," the a cappella musical about the magic that unfolds on the New York City subway, opens this week on Broadway.
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Her voice barely seems to rise above them all, until — in an a cappella flourish near the end — it most clearly has.
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Investigators believe that they were radicalized in the early 2000s, when they switched to writing a cappella Islamic songs, known as anashid.
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With the Bellas removed from their natural collegiate habitat, the a cappella competitions that once drove the series feel out of place.
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And a hushed, partly a cappella number from the principal actresses inspires rapture: "Stronger," which celebrates the "Thrones" tradition of powerful women.
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I found myself listening to Grande's a cappella take of "Dangerous Woman" this morning, to fold myself into its sweetly intoned contours.
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In Pitch Perfect 2, it was the idea that an a cappella group could perform an original song, rather than relying on covers.
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Stevie Wonder and a cappella group Pentatonix performed a tribute to the late Earth, Wind and Fire singer, who passed away on Feb.
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Some facts about Lucas, provided by Gerber to BuzzFeed News: He's a fan of a cappella and he recently discovered how to clap.
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One will even fit up to 30 steaks, something that lucky members of Yale's all-male a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs, found out.
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An a cappella group called the Voices of Liberty serenaded visitors with a song that gave a shout-out to every American state.
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The technical difficulty is the highest not only that I've ever worked on, but that I've ever known to be done a cappella.
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From the distance, it may just look like a giant tree, but it's actually filled with 240 students who are singing a cappella.
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Above all, Ms. Langabeer and Tara Middleton sing (sometimes a cappella), combining lyricism and rhythm in ways that make each vocal line eventful.
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The songs are by no means a cappella; this one starts as a lo-fi waltz and gathers a full folk-rock band.
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He performed with the university orchestra and even sang with the Footnotes, an a cappella group of which he was also music director.
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Roomful, an a cappella octet founded in 2009, is a veritable repository of such practices, using amplification and close miking to artistic effect.
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Personally, doing theatre and a cappella help me do something I love, it usually doesn't feel like a chore to sing or act.
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The protest began with a rally on the Capitol lawn, where the Grammy-nominated a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock performed.
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RMR begins the video singing it a cappella — wearing a Saint Laurent bulletproof vest, and surrounded by men pointing guns at the camera.
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What qualifies this show for an opera celebration are the Isicathamiya singers, performing an a cappella style that originated among South African Zulus.
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The news was significantly less good for another new musical, "In Transit," an a cappella show that grossed $257,037 in eight preview performances.
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While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, he sang in a college a cappella group and studied English and African-American literature.
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The key document from this era is The Choir Inside (Wham City, 2009), which consists mostly of lo-fi a cappella field recordings.
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It was an a cappella elegy in which a prisoner implores his family not to visit him on the Muslim holiday of Eid.
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At Google, employees can choose from hundreds of interest groups like juggling clubs and a cappella groups, Google's version of college extracurricular activities.
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To make it a little less cutesy, Mr. Malloy studied not only college a cappella (three "Octet" actors and Annie Tippe, the show's director, are veterans of the New York University a cappella group N'Harmonics), but also Tuvan throat singing, Appalachian shape note singing, German yodeling choirs, Balkan choruses and the work of composer-performers like Meredith Monk and Caroline Shaw.
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Fox did release an a cappella version of "Seasons of Love" sung by the cast, which includes Clemons, and it's definitely worth a listen.
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He then closes on an a cappella version of "Live Forever" as 22 candles for the victims killed last Monday gently flicker on stage.
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By now, you know: if a bunch of celebrities appear onscreen in a box configuration, a delightful a cappella song is about to happen.
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Mr. Whelden, 34, is a plumber in Boston and sings with two professional Boston-based touring a cappella groups, Five O'Clock Shadow and Overboard.
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Come Together will be an a cappella performance between a soprano and tenor voice, interwoven where Kirke plotted the emotional positivity and physical intensity.
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Watch: Bro Culture, A Cappella, and the Frat House Legacy BROADLY: What was sex ed like at your own school, when you were younger?
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There's an oft-sampled Aaron Carl a cappella that says that "house music is freedom," which is ultimately what feels so disappointing about HOWSLA.
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Three years prior, there was Danger Mouse's Grey Album, which mashed up The White Album with a cappella tracks from Jay-Z's Black Album.
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In the United States, a very different kind of a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs at Yale University, admitted its first woman earlier this year.
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There's a new solo that Mr. Abraham, dancing as gorgeously as ever, has made for himself, accompanied by an a cappella choir singing Björk.
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Jim O'Heir, the host, likes a cappella singing — "it just soothes my soul" — but he didn't expect it to be particularly effective with babies.
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She's a town councilwoman, she's a part of the local a cappella group Jazzagals, and she's visibly improved her relationship with her own children.
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Carey could have pulled out her earpiece, told ABC to cut the technology and clear the stage, and sang the last song a cappella style.
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"I just personally can't wait for Pitch Perfect like, 20 — when we're really old and we're singing a cappella in our retirement homes," she said.
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Last night, she stopped by the VMAs to sing a cappella and read a poem inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. about love and equality.
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Forward Brandon Sherrod had sat out last season to travel the globe as a tenor in Yale's distinguished all-male a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs.
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" Grande recalled recording the tune a cappella, thinking she would "chop it up and sample it or make a beat out of it or something.
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Ahead, we spoke to former a cappella singers, as well as those whose groups are still going strong, about what they think of Pitch Perfect.
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He won a Grammy Award for his a cappella performance of the dirge-like "O Death" in the soundtrack, which became a best-selling album.
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An early weird moment came as Prince's sister stepped onstage and sang about 30 seconds worth of a cappella and shouted out her other siblings.
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I edited, back-to-back, an episode having to do with a cappella and the next one we have Booth entering into the secret service.
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" Lambert, who also works with musicians like Bon Jovi, Green Day and a cappella supergroup Pentatonix, says the result has been nothing short of "exceptional.
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I must admit I struggle to get behind anyone who sings a cappella, even the ones we're supposed to consider power-vocalists at this point.
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He blends her a cappella singing with sophisticated mixes of instrumental fragments and beats gleaned, without permission, from the YouTube videos of other amateur musicians.
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"Kesapaiva" ("A Summer Day"), five songs for a cappella voices — members of another resident ensemble, Roomful of Teeth — combined plainchant simplicity with tumbling, overlapping commotion.
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Next, on their plate, the group is scheduled to compete in the NYC Regional Qualifier of the International Championship of A Cappella Open this August.
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I wanted to film him doing an a cappella performance, and without prompting he arrived wanting to perform the exact song I'd had in mind.
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This 2016 iteration of the EP is filled out with "clean" versions you can do without, although the a cappella "U Scared" is a keeper.
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In a cappella choral writing, it is often a kink in an otherwise smooth canvas that sharpens or twists the meaning of a given word.
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Alas, they doubled down on the earnestness by recruiting Peter and Evynne Hollens, YouTube stalwarts with an a cappella background and a toothache-inducing sweetness.
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However, Ms. Campoamor did express concerns that Yale's movement toward gender equity and inclusion in its senior a cappella community may stop with her admission.
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She would go on to become a leader in the movement, who later formed the award-winning a cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock.
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Critic's Pick In Dave Malloy's ravishing new a cappella chamber musical, members of an addiction support group compare notes on getting lost in the web.
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The Oak Ridge Boys, a country group that first sang for Mr. Bush in 1983 when he was vice president, sang "Amazing Grace" a cappella.
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Madison McFerrin, daughter of renowned vocalist Bobby McFerrin, is slated to perform her own a cappella stylings — a fresh take on her father's signature sound.
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When the lights dimmed in the gilded auditorium, and a small choir walked onstage to sing "The First Noel," the a cappella sound was glorious.
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On the fourth night of Passover, Tony winners and their friends gathered for an a cappella version of "Go Down Moses" and many other surprises.
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The Republican-dominated body, in a rush to pass a Republican-dominated 20-item agenda in 30 days, just doesn't have time for a cappella.
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Yet not an instrument has been used in the performance of this a cappella musical, staged by the Tony-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall.
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The Corona, whose seven members come from Bosnia's different ethnic groups, combines storytelling with a cappella singing and a touch of modernity in its repertoire.
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Also notable are an appearance by the popular a cappella group Pentatonix, the Ravinia debut of John Mellencamp and performances by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.
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The video not only features the a cappella group's mellifluous singing, it also shows leading Oxford academics holding signs with feminist messages for International Women's Day.
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Tay eventually got into another cage, which took her across the stadium as originally planned -- but not before killing time with a little a cappella crooning.
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Miranda looked like he was trying to hold back tears during her chilling a cappella version of "What I Did For Love" from A Chorus Line.
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In the two-verse chorale early on Ms. Sorrell silenced the orchestra for the second verse, letting the magnificent chorus sing a cappella to breathtaking effect.
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The world of a cappella can feel insular, with its own practices, codes and in-jokes, as much a commitment to heritage as to vocal excellence.
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Her style is, to say the least, eclectic — shuffle a Björk discography and you'll hear everything from jazz to electronica to avant-garde a cappella tracks.
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For a taste of sweet harmony, try this video of students in Rome singing the Crosby, Stills & Nash song "Helplessly Hoping" a cappella from their homes.
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Ms. McFerrin, 27, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, is currently working on a non-a cappella record with her brother, musician/producer Taylor McFerrin.
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Ryan and I were members of the Princeton University Glee Club and the Princeton Nassoons, the university's oldest a cappella group, before beginning our crossword collaboration.
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In a new show on the site Scary Mommy called "Lullaby League," shot in New York homes, a cappella groups compete to sing babies to sleep.
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Olusola's bandmates in the Grammy-winning a cappella group — Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Kirstin Maldonado and Matt Sallee — were all in attendance at the American ceremony.
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She began the song singing against a lone repeated piano note; she ended it a cappella, and in between it was framed against low, grave strings.
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He started off with the successful alternative rock band The Ben Folds Five but later segued into country, a cappella, piano concertos and full symphony orchestras.
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When fans of the wry "Pitch Perfect" series first met the ragtag singing group the Barden Bellas, they were ensconced in the college a cappella bubble.
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Performed a cappella, the songs spin tales of mythologically mean prison guards, and loves and lives lost, and the backbreaking purgatory of unendingly repetitive physical tasks.
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During her time at Berklee she'd already had a taste of a national audience, appearing on two seasons of NBC's a cappella group competition, The Sing-Off.
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We were first graced with the a cappella intro to the pure love song "I'm Sprung" in 2005, back when heavy autotune was a brand new thing.
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So even a cover or an a cappella performance is at risk of being claimed because a song's melody and accompanying words are protected by composition copyright.
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Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig won Best Audition for a Future Awards Show, nailing a tight a cappella duet medley themed to the best costume design category.
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Kaplan revealed he would be "taking a step back" from the a cappella group after six years during a tearful video posted to Facebook on May 12.
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Instead of the sounds of bustling tourists, the Lincoln Memorial was filled with beautiful music last week thanks to an impromptu a cappella performance from a visitor.
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But it would completely overwhelm "Svadba-Wedding," Ana Sokolovic's intimate a cappella work for six women, whose harmonies are only occasionally punctuated by glockenspiel or rain stick.
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Vocal arrangements are by Deke Sharon, who was the on-site music director and vocal producer on the a cappella-themed movie "Pitch Perfect" and its sequel.
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A cappella punk rock adds a surreal layer of humor that makes the videos seem beautifully meaningless, and turns awkward dancing into a work of modern art.
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The festival lineup includes the a cappella group Ball in the House from Boston, the Kodaly Quartet from Hungary and the Yinhe Siqin Mongolia Original Music Band.
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Then came "Pitch Perfect," from the book by Mickey Rapkin, which tracked the first all-female a cappella team to make it to an international singing championship.
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Designed and performed by Moving Star, an a cappella vocal ensemble, "Nooma" derives its title from the ancient Greek word "pneuma," which means both breath and spirit.
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She was also eager to help and soon hosted, along with Ms. Kreuk, a Nxivm a cappella concert, said Frank Parlato, a former publicist for the organization.
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She ended the concert with the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," greeting mortality with faith and returning to the a cappella purity that brought her 1960s fame.
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His two youngest kids learned all the words to George Strait's "Amarillo by Morning" before an event in Amarillo, which they opened with an a cappella rendition.
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The book explores more of the phenomenon that is college a cappella groups while the film lightly glosses over the realities of what the students go through.
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They'd been plugging away in Tulsa, first as an a cappella act that eventually released the independent Boomerang in May, 1995 to no luck at all with labels.
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The other Bellas are similarly unhappy with how things have turned out for them in the real world, wishing for their glory days as college a cappella champs.
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No, the very first alphabetically sorted song in my Apple Music library is a cover of "All of Me" by the Dartmouth a cappella group The Dartmouth Aires.
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Best Verse: Jay RockOverall Grade: A- Desiigner's original XXL a cappella was really the hit that people actually liked, and the overproduced song that followed was the remix.
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Member Avi Kaplan has announced that he will be "taking a step back" from the a cappella group in a tearful video posted to Facebook on Friday afternoon.
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Recorded by Crosby alone, the lyric-less a cappella piece is a haunting requiem for his lost love, and an exorcism of pain that words alone can't express.
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Because their performance at the airbase was going to be mostly a cappella, only the choir and a handful of dancers were aboard the plane, Russian media reported.
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Someone who spent their entire morning social media stalking a former a cappella group member probably isn't in the right headspace to welcome baby news with open arms.
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" It's the first a cappella musical on Broadway, created by a quartet of songwriters including Kristen Anderson-Lopez, a co-author of songs for the animated film "Frozen.
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BYU Vocal Point, Brigham Young University's all-male a cappella ensemble, expressed their excitement about the release by posting a beautiful medley of the movie's songs onto YouTube.
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The most muscular Disney Channel Original Movie star and your favorite angsty a cappella singer are starring together in the upcoming film Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
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"She Bangs" wasn't a wise choice—not because it's a silly song (though that's true, for sure), but because it's not well suited to an a cappella rendition.
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But in tracks like "Stay, Go (Go, Stay)," a jazzy melody and a gorgeous a cappella vocal bridge float to the surface, providing just enough to cling to.
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Their live a cappella singing is a direct result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields, without the benefit of an orchestra.
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All passengers must leave the train as this subway-set a cappella musical by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth closes its doors.
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The set features several trampolines — this Coyote likes to fly through the air — and the music by Roderick Jackson and Ulali, a Native American women's a cappella group.
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Whatever nooks and crannies they missed were usually occupied by the different groups of musicians, including a jazz trio and an a cappella quartet performing Mr. Zorn's compositions.
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Before she was the star of a Netflix series and a '90s game show with a rockin' a cappella theme song, the slippery thief was a video game pioneer.
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On Tuesday's episode of The Voice, the 70-year-old country icon joined goddaughter and Voice coach Miley Cyrus for a stunning a cappella performance of her 1973 hit.
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Mr. Sharon may be as perky as you might imagine the so-called "guru of a cappella" to be, but little can prepare you for his infectious good cheer.
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He topped off his proclamation with an abridged, a cappella rendition of Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," the tune many will probably know as the theme song for MTV's The Hills.
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" But this a cappella group still loves its laser-pointer syllables, which arrive like cruel bullets on "Here Comes Santa Claus," and make for a genuinely harrowing "Making Christmas.
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"Octet," a well-received a cappella musical by Dave Malloy that opened at the Signature Theater Company last spring, is set in a 12-step program for internet addicts.
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They put out a casting call for a cappella singers and went into the houses of babies from 2 to 14 months, choosing families who were struggling with bedtime.
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Then, last month, the Whiffenpoofs and Whim 'n Rhythm — Yale's all-female senior a cappella group — announced that they would admit singers based not on gender but on their designation within the world of a cappella singing, with the Whim functioning as an SSAA group — referring to Soprano I and II and Alto I and II — and the Whiffenpoofs keeping its TTBB standard, referring to Tenor I and II, Baritone and Bass.
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The Voice coaches teamed up with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots during an appearance on The Tonight Show on Monday for an epic mashup of their songs, done a cappella.
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After he lifted Earth, Wind & Fire's "That's the Way of the World" above Pentatonix's thicket of vocal beatboxing and a cappella harmonies, he called for universal accessibility for the disabled.
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Let's investigate... THEN: Back in 2000, DJ Vimto, good old DJ Vimto, had the genius idea of mashing Coco's a-cappella vocals with the kinda-successful Fragma track "Toca Me".
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After his arrival in Chicago, he joined the Golden Jubilaires, and in 1960 he became part of Charles Bridges's Famous Blue Jay Singers, performing a cappella at schools and hotels.
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Mr. Lang took inspiration from the biblical Book of Ruth for his engaging a cappella choral work "where you go," performed by the Yale Choral Artists, conducted by Jeffrey Douma.
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Until September she was the musical director and the president of the Lymph Notes, an 18-member a cappella group at the college of medicine; she is still a member.
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Elder Ward led his mixed-gender quartet through three haunting a cappella devotionals, while the D-Vine Spiritualettes, Pastor Shipp's onetime go-to female trio, sang without instrumentation as well.
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AND FINALLY Don't stop the music Even if you're not a fan of Rihanna, you'll probably be tapping your foot to this a cappella group's medley of RiRis greatest hits.
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On the mostly a cappella round of "Wavering Lines," his voice was engrossing, but on the bright "Coming Through," featuring Cat Power, Willis was too clean and carefree—not himself.
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" The track is "I Thought About Killing You," much of which is a spoken-word recitation about murderous and suicidal impulses over a cappella voices intoning, "I know, I know.
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Panchenya is also skilled in local folk traditions such as floral embroidery, a cappella choral singing and ancient pagan ceremonies, which survived the ideological white-washing of the Soviet era.
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Pentatonix, the cheery a cappella pop group, held at No. 1 with its latest holiday album on the latest Billboard chart, which covers sales in the last week of 2016.
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She made a virtual appearance at the exhibition opening via Skype and belted out a song a cappella, demonstrating that she has lost none of her ability or her vivaciousness.
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The Tonight Show host recruited an all-star crew to help him perform an a cappella version of "Wonderful Christmastime" — which simply isn't complete without its original singer, Paul McCartney himself.
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The singers begin by performing in unison an a cappella version of the melancholy Beatles classic "Yesterday," their eyes attuned to screens hanging above them, across which the musical score scrolls.
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At Feinstein's/2315 Below, Lorna Luft is appearing Friday; Barb Jungr and John McDaniel are reprising their Beatles tribute on Wednesday; the a cappella group Rockapella is performing Thursday through Jan.
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While he sounds great—he sang a cappella a couple times and yes, he really does have a lovely warble—he meanders around the stage like he's wandering through a mall.
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She left Chicago for Brown University in 2007, and though she didn't major in music—instead focusing on theater, and black and African studies—she joined her school's a cappella group.
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Cyrus' godmother, legendary singer Dolly Parton, appeared on the show on Monday, singing her hit "Jolene" with her goddaughter and a cappella group Pentatonix, who previously sang the song with Parton.
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Natasha actually became a good friend and a friend of the show, and she came back and did a slowed-down a cappella version for the finale, which was so nice.
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The artist is known for her vocal-based pop and has three full-length albums — and a few other well-liked covers on YouTube, like this a cappella Frank Ocean song.
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Mr. McFerrin is still best remembered for his commercial smash hit, "Don't Worry, Be Happy," from 1988, the first a cappella track to reach No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart.
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Linda H. Humes, artistic director of Yaffa Cultural Arts, will describe the holiday's core principles, and then the Persuasions, the a cappella group, will treat the crowd to gospel and soul.
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Theater All passengers must leave the train when this subway-set a cappella musical by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth closes its doors on Sunday.
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On an a cappella interlude on her seventh album, In a Poem Unlimited, you can hear the cold she was fighting off—or some approximation of it—in her vocal chords.
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Mohamed has brought a sweeping range of acts to Tiny Desk, from Afro Blue (an a cappella group from Howard University) to Rahim AlHaj (an oud player from the Middle East).
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It even has its own song, a beautiful a cappella from Boyz II Men, who appear in the show as Peter's neighbors, meeting to provide a soundtrack to the little boy's adventure.
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The piece is a full music experience, in which the viewer is treated to an amazing a cappella rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," with all five parts sung by the same vocalist.
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Disappointment. Yeah, so Pentatonix — the a cappella group you openly dislike but secretly don't think is so bad — performed at the event, but other than that it was kind of a bust.
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"When I found out about the actual lyrics, I played it a cappella on YouTube and slowed it down to see if it actually was 'a,' and it is," told BuzzFeed News.
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Kendrick, who is currently starring in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and Corden have musically tangoed before: last year on the talk show, they engaged in a live a cappella battle.
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Opening with the words "this is my voice, my weapon of choice" in a deep, a cappella drawl, the first track then launches into an intensely fiery pattern of bass and percussion.
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The three joined forces — two musical, one buttery — for an a cappella rendition of Parton's "Jolene" that was particularly country-fied, because it was filmed in front of a Cracker Barrel façade.
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To future generations, I suspect the success of Pentatonix, Glee, and the a cappella show choir will seem like a sad relic of the Obama era, the product of a blinkered idealism.
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Beginning in 1971 he wrote what was perhaps his choral masterpiece, "Vigilia," an a cappella setting of the Orthodox vigil of St. John the Baptist that features otherworldly swooping and sliding gestures.
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It's habitually covered by everyone from symphonic Finnish metal bands, through countless talent show wannabes, to the middle-aged taxi driver who sings a cappella at my local pub's open-mic night.
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The superb chorus Schola Cantorum Reykjavík prefaced the orchestral concerts with a selection of a-cappella pieces, including Leifs's Requiem, which is as spare and sad as the Organ Concerto is savage.
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So when Beyoncé — just before beginning an a cappella version of "Love on Top" — had to sneeze, I thought for sure we were going to see a gigantic visualization of B's boogs.
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I knew that A CAPPELLA meant voices with no instruments (it really means "in the manner of the chapel" in Italian, which makes sense when you think of choral singing, I think).
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They started things off with a spontaneous a cappella rendition of Ludacris's "Move Bitch Get Out Da Way," which is truly the only appropriate song to sing when faced with LA traffic.
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The Iberi Choir, from (the country) Georgia, sang gorgeously harmonized songs, many of them a cappella, with convoluted passages of eerie dissonance; one song had lyrics dating back to the 12th century.
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The vocal isolation works both ways so you can listen to the karaoke version of a song with no vocals and just the instrumentals, or the a cappella version with vocals only.
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"The whole appeal was in their a cappella singing," said Robert Hurwitz, who paid only $8,000 to license the original "Le Mystère" album in America for Nonesuch, the label he then led.
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What we're listening to: The Fairfield Four's 1992 a cappella rendition of "Last Month of the Year," which was mentioned in a CBC radio program about the Christmas music of black America.
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Although Ms. Gordon and Mr. Lowe overlapped in their time at Cornell, during which she attended several concerts performed by his a cappella group, the Hangovers, they did not meet in college.
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Her album-closing rendition of "This Woman's Work," by Kate Bush, features nothing but Olatuja's luminous, classically trained voice overdubbed a handful of times, wound together in an airy, a cappella arrangement.
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But on "Hard Feelings/Loveless" — a particularly weird and great interlude on Melodrama — she stands on a rooftop with a group of young women and sings a cappella harmonies with a smile.
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In a rare carpool karaoke move, Corden even pulled the car over for a street-side performance of Lovato's "Confident" after auditioning their new "band" with an a cappella version of Jonas's "Jealous."
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But when it comes time to perform, and she spots her dad in the crowd, she makes the last minute decision to sing his favorite tune instead, a cappella, imperfect, and absolutely wonderfully.
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Here's something to make the topic seem fresh and wondrous again: a delightful a cappella parody music video, set to the tune of The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face," by A Capella Science.
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It's the day made famous by Earth, Wind & Fire ... and only TMZ has video of band members Verdine White and Ralph Johnson singing an a cappella version of their epic, feel-good song.
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But there's strength in Ms. Lambert's rock bottom, as she hints during an a cappella prelude to the song, which describes a needle finding the groove of a vinyl record in a jukebox.
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In Frederickton we slipped (undetected, we thought) into the back pew of a weatherboard church, where the congregants were singing hymns a cappella and by heart in what was approaching an Irish brogue.
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A cappella music is often overwhelmingly white, which is one reason that the group Women of the World — which won the competition — stood out, with members of Japanese, Indian, Haitian and Italian heritage.
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"Little Rock" wants to honor that bravery, using the ritual and communion of theater — sprinkled with soul-soothing a cappella music — to bear witness to what the students suffered and what they achieved.
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NEW HAVEN — In 1987, David Code — then a member of Yale's Whiffenpoofs, the country's oldest collegiate a cappella group — staked out an unpopular position: It was time for the group to admit women.
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Alan Southworth: This is my second puzzle in The New York Times and, as with my debut co-constructed with Ryan McCarty, I collaborated with another member of our college a cappella group.
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Now they do, on an expanded reissue that adds an entire disc of remixes (resurrected from 1990s singles) and delves into the album's construction with a handful of a cappella and instrumental tracks.
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Pentatonix, the quirky a cappella group that first became popular on YouTube, has scored its second No. 1 album with "A Pentatonix Christmas," which has been climbing steadily since its release in October.
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A group of a cappella singers at a Chick-fil-A in Nashville surprised onlookers by breaking out in song last Saturday, and footage of the uplifting moment is now going viral on Facebook.
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Aca-nope. (That's how that works, right?) But we don't really care because what it does show is our favorite a cappella ladies busting some serious moves on their first day on the set.
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The cast of Pitch Perfect 3 has yet to see the script for the third installment of their beloved a cappella film franchise, but they have plenty to keep them busy in the meantime.
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While Banks reprises her role as a cappella commentator Gail Abernathy-McKadden-Feinberger, after directing the last installment, she's ceded the behind-the-camera reigns to Step it Up: All In filmmaker Trish Sie.
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Maldonado, the lone female member of a cappella group Pentatonix, is currently launching her own solo career, introducing fans to an intimate side of herself — and, of course, to a new name: kirstin™.
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Still, the more we watch the a cappella group perform, it's hard to buy that anyone would be less than delighted by their showstoppers, of which I wished there were a few more of.
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A family from Anchorage, Alaska, has become an Internet sensation with their a cappella version of the hit single by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line, "Meant to Be." Let&aposs roll the clip.
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Kamm, a thin, middle-aged former mechanical engineer and a singer in a local a cappella group, managed to negotiate down the number of asylum seekers his town would host, to 200 from 400.
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Finally, there is an a cappella performance of the Irish song of rebellion "A Row in the Town," and it is performed with an anger that wakens the senses as it freezes the blood.
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The song is about being swept up in desire but Ms. McFerrin sings it in a solo a cappella loop, giving the performance an eerie intimacy and feeding her own power back to her.
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The following week, President Obama argued in a soaring eulogy for Mr. Pinckney, which culminated in an a cappella rendition of "Amazing Grace," that the attack's lessons offered a way forward for race relations.
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In May 2019 he proposed outside her maternal grandparents' house in Mamaroneck, N.Y., while fellow alumni from the Colgate 13, an all-male collegiate a cappella group to which he once belonged, sang backup.
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The customary generic stickers slide right off a piece like Jackie Sibblies Drury's "Marys Seacole" — which turned the biographical drama inside out — or Dave Malloy's "Octet," an a cappella chamber opera about internet addiction.
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In late November the San Francisco Conservatory of Music hosted the fifth annual installment of "Techapella,"a showcase for the a cappella singing clubs of some of the most powerful companies in the world.
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An heir to the towering musical legacy of her father, the jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, this singer, songwriter and one-woman band is on track to reclaim a cappella music from its current collegiate affiliations.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pentatonix celebrated the holidays by taking the top spot on the Billboard 200 album chart, thanks to the a cappella group's "A Pentatonix Christmas," according to figures on Tuesday from Nielsen SoundScan.
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After getting engaged in Paris in June 2016 right before she jumped onstage to perform with the a cappella group, the couple is now in the midst of planning their November wedding in Los Angeles.
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In the film, entitled "Rescue Humanity", the band's lead vocalist, Chris Martin, sings an a cappella rendition of Coldplay's hit song "Don't Panic" over footage depicting distressed migrants at sea being rescued by MOAS staff.
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The couple first noticed each other in 2005 when they sang in an a cappella concert at college, and three months later, a friend introduced them at a party after they performed in another concert.
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She will still be a producer on the Pitch Perfect threequel, just as she was on the previous two movies, and will also reprise her role as Gail, the lovable announcer and a cappella enthusiast.
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As she sat in her box at Alice Tully Hall next to the man she describes as her "beau," the businessman and philanthropist Ravenel Curry, she gently swayed as the Tallis Scholars sang a cappella.
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"Admitting a woman definitely creates new options for next year for a lot of us," said Anna-Sophia Boguraev, a sophomore at Yale who currently sings for the all-female New Blue a cappella group.
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Dave Malloy's "Octet," the sublime a cappella chamber opera that opened on Sunday at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is a portrait in song of perhaps the greatest David and Goliath struggle of our time.
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The couple met at Harvard, from which they both graduated, when Ms. Schwartz, then a freshman, tried out for the Veritones, an a cappella singing group for which Mr. Powell, then a senior, was president.
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Led by the chorus's artistic director, Francisco J. Núñez, and its associate artistic director, Elizabeth Núñez — married maestros — the event will also feature the rapper and composer Nick Demeris and the a cappella group Midtown.
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He also plays the guitar, the acoustic bass, the recorder, and the accordion, and can still sing the a-cappella tunes he learned, in his twenties, as a member of the Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus.
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Mr. Whelden, a plumber in Boston who sings with two professional Boston-based touring a cappella groups (Five O'Clock Shadow and Overboard), proposed during his performance at a New Year's Eve concert in Rockport, Mass.
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Guitars, strumming and keening, rally behind her, fall away and rally again as she confronts both her antagonist and her own self-consciousness: "Everyone will hear me complain," she proclaims in a cappella vocal harmonies.
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LAURA When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs and I saw my mom standing there, singing "A Quiet Thing" a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me.
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Ms. Andress occasionally tips over into melodrama — she was a member of the a cappella group Delilah, which competed on the reality competition show "The Sing-Off" — but mostly her voice is steady, calm, alive.
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The Range, the one-man electronic-pop act created by 27-year-old musician James Hinton, seeks out a cappella and spoken-word samples from obscure corners of YouTube, then incorporates them into his intricate instrumentals.
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In May, the 28-year-old told the world he was stepping back from whirlwind grind of the multi Grammy-winning a cappella group in order to get back in touch with his family—and himself.
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I haven't seen the earlier films, but it looks like Pitch Perfect 3 takes the a cappella conceit that's worked so well and then cranks up the ridiculousness of the plot around it to new levels.
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Avi Kaplan, Scott Hoying, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, and Mitch Grassi – an a cappella group that got their start on YouTube, obviously, and became famous largely because Pitch Perfect fans need their aca-fix between sequels.
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There is no real category for selfies that are actually videos and are also built around singing a cappella to ensure no one has forgotten your talents while you've been on a break from the studio.
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At No. 123 is Canadian jazz-pop crooner Buble's latest album "Nobody But Me," selling 212,284 album units, while a cappella group Pentatonix's holiday record "A Pentatonix Christmas" debuted at No. 2000 with 60,000 album units.
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His Ojai wasn't set up to prove the influence of, say, classical Indian singing on contemporary American a cappella vocalism; the weekend's performances and styles seemed to inform one another without imposing themselves on one another.
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Performing all 15 songs from last year's Dangerous Woman album, Ariana's voice is immaculate throughout, whether she's singing over trap beats—"Everyday", "Touch It", torch songs—"Leave Me Lonely," or opening "One Last Time" a cappella.
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They have their own theater where they put on plays in which men dress up as women and their own a cappella group that flashes in and out of the building wearing tuxes day and night.
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An ace beatboxer known for his role in the a cappella Broadway musical "In Transit," Mr. Snow showcases his percussive talents but mostly narrates the action through a combination of rhymed spoken word and straightforward prose.
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The title figure is Samantha Montgomery, an eldercare worker in New Orleans who, in her spare time, makes films of herself singing her own songs a cappella and posts the videos under the name Princess Shaw.
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For this performance in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Garzón-Montano will be joined by Madison McFerrin, an innovative a cappella singer who creates lush, jazz-inflected pop songs using just her voice and a looping station. cityfarmpresents.
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In 1986, one of the greatest a cappella virtuosos in American history was between a breakout solo album ("The Voice") and an impending commercial smash ("Simple Pleasures," featuring the No. 1 hit "Don't Worry Be Happy").
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The best scenes stand apart from the shaggy-dog mystery, as when the chorus rehearses an a cappella rendition of the New Order song "Blue Monday" while its members secretly converse, their words rendered in subtitles.
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The series begins with a video of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles singing an a cappella version of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" while viewers get flashes of the chorus members preparing to go home.
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" Joined by a contingent of the its youngest members, the group sang a new a cappella version, by Mr. Núñez, of "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman," the old tune best known as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
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The "Frozen" composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez, in collaboration with James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth, has written this new a cappella musical about 44223 subway riders in search of love, self and a seat.
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The symphonic version — which sets a poignant poem by the film's director, Sally Potter, to music — opens with an a cappella lullaby, in Yiddish, before moving to animated orchestral passages that draw on Klezmer and Gypsy idioms.
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A powerfully sung a cappella version of the spiritual "God's Gonna Trouble the Waters" (anyone who's seen Alvin Ailey's "Revelations" more than once could probably sing along) kicks the show into high gear on the musical front.
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And while Banks is back in the role of a cappella commentator Gail Abernathy-McKadden-Feinberger, she isn't directing this most recent installment — Step it Up: All In filmmaker Trish Sie is taking over the director's seat.
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Still a Wonder The awards were full of tributes, but perhaps none was as moving -- and simple -- as the a cappella performance of Earth, Wind & Fire's "That's the Way of the World" by Stevie Wonder and Pentatonix.
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Before getting on stage to perform with her a cappella group on Monday for their world tour, the singer's new fiancé Jeremy Michael Lewis took advantage of the romantic backdrop to surprise her with an epic proposal.
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The series has hosted the massive ensemble of the Polyphonic Spree, the ten-member a cappella troupe Afro Blue, an 11-piece brass band, 17-member chamber rock band Mother Falcon, and the 23-member Mucca Pazza.
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Near the end, the a cappella section "Earth Seen From Above" was simply exquisite, the ensemble making a softly hovering, kaleidoscopically shifting drone as an image of our planet, wrapped around the sphere, filled in with color.
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The Silver Lake Chorus, which devises elaborate arrangements of indie-rock songs, makes it a communal a cappella piece full of ethereal oohs and ahs, making way for handclaps and la-las as it prettily revs up.
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We got to the quietest moment where it is just our three voices a cappella, and suddenly that voice yelled the song that would then follow me for nearly 15 years: "Summer of '69," by Bryan Adams.
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Directed by Annie Tippe, this a cappella show offered the season's most sophisticated and heartening artistic paradox, as a dauntingly high-tech subject was embraced and exploded by that most low-tech of instruments, the human voice.
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And that accounts for the queer, gay, black and brown people whose bodies heave as she teases us with an a cappella start to opener "Luxury" before launching into its Machinedrum-produced pounding 90s-house club beat.
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