Stories about "Naima Murphy"
It can be arranged: The art of setting songs for a cappella
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3:36 pm
For three years, I have sung oohs, ahs and na-nas with The Crosstones. Having never been in an a cappella group before, I started out wary of singing in semi-circles and using bizarre syllables to recreate Billy Joel's greatest hits. But after spending my first year at Bates watching numerous a cappella performances in packed rooms all over campus, I was hooked.
Stroke of Dawn
Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:36 pm
Watching the day begin from a canoe on a lake, says Demmit, of Columbia, Md., helps center her. "Everything starts fresh when the sun first hits the water," she says. "What happened yesterday doesn’t matter."