Title: Voice 10 Songs 3
Product review: Brava to Ms. McDonald's championing of a new generation of theatre composers -- too bad their songs aren't better. Most of them seem to be aping Sondheim's worst flaws -- dreary tunelessness, vague muddy tonality and harmonies, fussy overly-self-conscious lyrics -- while NOT aping Sondheim's real strengths -- his fierce theatricality and turbulent romanticism.The songs on this album are vaguely, weakly experimental but ultimately academic and inert sounding. These songs are NOT the future of the American Musical Theatre, I hope.
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