Sentences with phrase «singing unaccompanied»

I think when people hear a voice singing unaccompanied, an untrained voice in a public context, it's quite strange.

Glasgow - born Philipsz, 44, who now lives in Berlin, is interested in «sound as a physical or sculptural experience» and is best known for playing recordings of herself singing unaccompanied versions of pop and folk songs in public spaces.

Inspired by conversations the artist held with gallery staff, construction workers, visitors and local residents, the lyrics will be sung unaccompanied and in unison by over twenty choirs involving over 500 singers to create a powerful soundscape in the Turbine Hall.

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At age fifty - eight, he invited gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to record with his band, and Ellington was so delighted with the resulting version of his hymn «Come Sunday,» performed mostly unaccompanied, that he brought Jackson back to the studio the next day to sing it again — not for the record, but just for him.

I said, Well, friends, we're going to begin with singing «Amazing Grace» and we're going to sing it the way our forebears would want us to sing — unaccompanied.

Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong, and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in

Live from LA, Harry sang to us a traditional Irish song, unaccompanied.

At each location she had installed a recording of her own unaccompanied voice singing a gloomy renaissance madrigal.

In the exhibition that accompanies the Turner Prize, visitors step into a nearly empty gallery to find ourselves surrounded by Ms Philipsz» unaccompanied voice singing a sad Scottish folk song about a ghost.