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MAIN SECTIONS advertisement Top Jobs Home News Asst. Lead Maintenance Boerne, TX Weather Story Tools: Traffic Receptionist/Technician Sports Alamo Area Council of Govts. Spurs Concert Review: Swingle Singers' lovely sound still Home Center Service H.S. Sports intact Business Web Posted: 02/09/2005 12:00 AM CST View All Top Jobs Politics Entertainment Mike Greenberg Top Homes Books Express-News Senior Critic Columnists Canyon Lake Dining l Reviews The last time the Swingle Singers were in town — for a 1979 performance of By Owner Diversions Luciano Berio's Sinfonia with the San Antonio Symphony under Francois Huybrechts Movie Reviews — none of the eight current members was long out of (or maybe yet into) swaddling Movie Times MASON, TX Movies clothes. FSBO Music Top Dining Picks The Swingle DNA was still very much in evidence, however, in the troupe's return, Tired of Renting TV Listings Monday night in the recital hall of the UTSA suburban campus. The singers also are Stage booked to perform at the Texas Music Educators Association convention. Visual Arts View All Top Homes S.A. Life Long based in England, the Swingle Singers was formed on a lark in 1962 by Health freelance session singers in Paris. Thee troupe gained huge success in the U.S. Top Autos Travel & City Guide with its first recording, “Bach's Greatest Hits,” a collection of keyboard music in founder Ward Swingle's jazzy doo-wah vocal arrangements — with string bass and Bmw 04 X3 Obituaries drumset also emulatred by voice. Eventually, the troupe got around to singing actual BMW Center News Wires words, but nearly always with the trademark “instrumental” accompaniments. AP en Español Mercedes 05 ML500 With Swingle in semiretirement, the current artistic director is tenor Tom Bullard, MULTIMEDIA Mercedes Benz of S. A. who joined the group in 2001, fresh out of King's College, Cambridge. The senior KENS 5 Video member, bass (and uncannily convincing drum set) Jeremy Sadler has been with the Toyota 02 Tacoma Slide Shows group since 1998. Volvo Center Web Cams Monday's concert included several of Swingle's old arrangements, which still OPINION View All Top Autos Editorials / Op Ed sounded fresh and wonderful — among them, the Bach Fugue in G Minor and “Badinerie,” and Stephen Sondheim's “Send In the Clowns,” with beautiful “chime” E-N Columnists arpeggios under the lyrics. Swingle's harmonies were gorgeously iridescent in Michel SPECIAL SECTIONS Legrand's “Summer of '42,” and dense but tautly controlled in Hammerstein and Stock Show & Rodeo Kern's lovely “All the Things You Are.” Holidays Postcards Home There were many other wonders. In an arrangement by J. Forbes, Chopin's sad Find a Business Pets | Animals Etude in E Minor took on a somewhat Brazilian rhythmic lilt. A quick, jazzed-up Print Coupons Special Reports section made the return to Chopin's original for the last few measures doubly Newspaper Inserts Mideast Battlefield poignant. View TV Ads Great Day S.A. Bullard's contributions included a superb arrangement of “Pretty Lady,” from DIVERSIONS Sondheim's “Pacific Overtures.” Comics & Games Medical (30) Contests & Showmanship brightened the concert without seeming obtrusive. The troupe danced Automotive & Vehicles (14) Promotions a quite decent twist while singing Quincy Jones' “Soul Bossa Nova,” arranged by B. Department Store (12) Horoscope Parry. Dining & Entertainment (10) SPECIAL INTEREST Apparel & Jewelry (9)

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