{"id":636,"date":"2004-04-14T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/sing_it\/"},"modified":"2004-04-14T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T19:53:04","slug":"sing_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/sing_it.html","title":{"rendered":"SING IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Guess who the critic is talking about:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>1) Frank Sinatra<BR>2) Bing Crosby<BR>3) Mel Torm\u00e9<BR>4) Tony Bennett<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>The man practices artless art. He takes verbal liberties, even makes occasional<br \/>\nmistakes. Since he doesn&#8217;t seem to notice or care, no one else can. He chats between songs. He<br \/>\ninvites the audience to ignore the command in the programme that applause be withheld until the<br \/>\nend of each group. He basks in relaxed glory, and cultivates the illusion of spontaneity. When he<br \/>\ntells stories, he demonstrates a vast dynamic range and crisp diction in a variety of accents. He<br \/>\ncolours the text boldly or subtly, as needed. He shares interpretive secrets. In the process, he turns<br \/>\nCarnegie Hall, capacity 2,804, into a cozy parlour.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>5) None of the above. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Go here for <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com\/StoryFT\/FullStory&#038;c=StoryF\nT&#038;cid=1079420314096&#038;p=1016625900929#\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>the<br \/>\nanswer<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who the critic is talking about: 1) Frank Sinatra2) Bing Crosby3) Mel Torm\u00e94) Tony Bennett The man practices artless art. He takes verbal liberties, even makes occasional mistakes. Since he doesn&#8217;t seem to notice or care, no one else can. He chats between songs. He invites the audience to ignore the command in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbvgEs-sing_it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}