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KAR is a file extension for a text and midi file format used in Karaoke. KAR was designed by Tune 1000. The KAR file format is now one of the main formats for karaoke in the freeware market. KAR files contain added text for lyrics, synchronized with the Midi music.
Jesus Christ Superstar - BiographyThe evolution of Jesus Christ Superstar into full-blown musical theatre is as unusual as the work itself is (was) controversial. Following the lead of Hair and The Who's Tommy, writer Tim Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, both British, took the bold step of creating a popular stage work based on the last days in the earthly life of Christ. Like Tommy, the work utilized recitative interspersed between songs and ensemble numbers and was designated as "rock opera" (although with the absence of staging, oratorio is a more accurate term). Also like The Who work, Superstar made its entry onto the world music stage as a double record set. This had not been the original intent of the show's creators but, unable to find a producer up to the challenge and risk, the sound recording was the only available avenue to the two men. It was, however, effective. Aided by a hit record of the title song, the 1970 recording quickly made its way to the top of the charts and went gold, paving the way for a 1971 staging of the work.
Although designated as a "rock opera," Jesus Christ Superstar was eclectic in its varying styles. Interspersed with outright late 60s- early 70s-style rock numbers were more conventional musical theatre fare. One of these, Mary Magdalene's song "I Don't Know How to Love Him" provided another top-40 hit. But overall, the musical required a different type of singing and singer, a hybrid which could produce the more grandiloquent styles of the 40s and 50s and juxtapose this with the more raucous chest-singing and blue-notes of the hard rock idiom. It broke new ground. More sensational however was the treatment of its topic. While the actual New Testament events were all there in place without much tampering, there was the shock of hearing the Gospel acted out in the contemporary vernacular, as well as a more than subtle hint of Mary Magdalene's romantic attraction to Jesus. Gone too, was the ringing affirmation of Jesus' place and success of His completed divine mission; left in its place is an enigma posed by Judas in the uptempo but anguished closing number and brooding instrumental postlude which closes the work. It incited hostility among much of the Christian public. But its ascent had begun. Tours ensued as did a highly successful 1973 film version. |
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