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[MUSIC REVIEW] Audra McDonald
10.13.06
Vocalist Audra McDonald will be performing at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on Nov. 11, 2006. Here's what the New York Times had to say about her today:
A Soprano So Sure She Can Caterwaul
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: October 13, 2006
“Gonna kill my lover man, gonna kill my lover man, gonna kill my lover man!” screams a character named Rosie Pearl in Laura Nyro's great song “Tom Cat Goodbye,” the cry of a betrayed woman that builds to a peak of frenzied rage rarely expressed in pop songwriting. Howled by Audra McDonald on Wednesday evening at the Allen Room, where she inaugurated the new season of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, Ms. McDonald gave herself over completely to this terrifying emotional explosion, allowing her impeccably disciplined lyric soprano to shatter as the lyrics decomposed into a murderous stream-of-consciousness rant.
When it was over, Ms. McDonald remarked that while recording the song on her newest album, “Build a Bridge” (Nonesuch), her husband, Peter Donovan, who played bass on the track, was frightened by her performance in the studio and asked that the volume be lowered.
And there you have the essence of Ms. McDonald, a performer as well mannered and gracious as you could hope to encounter who, when the occasion demands, has the imagination, courage and vocal stamina to turn herself into an avenging fury.
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