11.   For decades, children have sung along as their favorite television characters taught them to sound out letters.

12.   His father, a gospel singer and songwriter, encouraged him to sing as a child.

13.   I took the Vinson Cole approach and tried to sing it as beautifully and lyrically as I could and it went great.

14.   If I decided to sing as a career, I would have not played golf.

15.   It is seldom sung as written.

16.   Madonna sings it as a lush, danceable ballad in a hushed, breathy tone without regard to phrasing or intent.

17.   Other sopranos bring comparable distinction to this music, but Ms. Price sings it as a woman whose roots and recollections come from another part of town.

18.   Singing as a way of surviving for female composers still holds true, right up to Ani DiFranco and Lisa Loeb.

19.   Some of her fans will see the music she sings as country, some as folk and some as something else.

20.   Soprano Heather Buck had the most to sing as Belinda, commenting on the action, nudging it forward, her soprano pure and piercing, her manner statuesque.