Month: January 2012
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Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown and Beaverton High grad turned Broadway star Shoshana Bean come to Portland (The Oregonian, 1/27/12)
Marty Hughley’s article here. A really fantastic photo gallery is here. Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown and Beaverton High grad turned Broadway star Shoshana Bean come to Portland By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian January 27, 2012 Arts and education walk hand in hand in many ways. Sometimes it’s a serendipitous stroll. Take, for example, the…
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SET LIST, 1/28/12, PORTLAND OR
As good as you think Shoshana Bean is, you haven’t heard anything until you hear her in her hometown. Every time we get to sing together is a privilege, and we’ll be doing it again at the end of February in Fort Worth (click here for details!). Thanks to Chanda Hall and all the folks…
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I LIKE YOU ALMOST THE WAY YOU ARE
There’s a fun tradition in gospel music of taking secular love songs and, with the smallest changes in the lyric – a pronoun here, a reversal of direction there – turning them into love songs to God. It was in that spirit that I decided to revisit the 1978 Grammy Award winner for Record of…
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THE STRANGER, STRANGER
The second track on The Stranger is the title track, a song that on the original album bounces in turn from smoky film noir jazz to Steely Dan-style rock to tropical disco and back again over the course of five minutes and fifty-one seconds (with the best drumming and bass playing on the whole album).…