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　　Introduction：Sarah Brightman

　　Music: Scarborough fair

　　Brightman was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire to Paula and Granville Brightman, the oldest of six children. Her ambition to be an artist was apparent from an early age: she took ballet lessons starting from the age of three and was an excellent student. At the age of eleven she attended a boarding school for stage, where she remained despite the fact that she disliked the institution. Brightman auditioned for London's Royal Ballet a few years later but was rejected.

　　At age sixteen, in 1976, Brightman joined the dance group Pan's People. She later went on to lead Hot Gossip, a mixed dance act who appeared regularly on The Kenny Everett Video Show. The group, whis was noticeably more 'raunchy' than Pan's People, had a chart-topping disco hit in 1978 with "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper", wherein she first discovered her vocal talents. Brightman released several more disco singles in subsequent years, but none became as prominent as "Starship Trooper," as the song is also called.

　　In 1981, Brightman auditioned for a role in the new musical Cats and received the role of Jemima. It was there that she met her future husband, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. At the time, Brightman was married to another Andrew: one Andrew Graham Stewart, a music manager. Lloyd Webber divorced his first wife, Sarah Hugill, to marry Brightman in 1984. She went on to star in a number of his musicals, including Song and Dance and Requiem.

　　Brightman achieved greater success with her starring role as Christine Daa?in Lloyd Webber's adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Lloyd Webber refused to open The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway unless Brightman originated the role of Christine, which he had written specifically for her. Initially, the American Actors' Equity Association balked, due to their policy of hiring only Americans. Lloyd Webber had to agree to cast an American in a leading role in his next West End musical before the Equity would allow Brightman to appear (a promise he kept later in the casting for Aspects of Love). However, the two divorced amicably in 1990, effectively ending Brightman's stage career.

　　Brightman decided to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Inspired by the recent success of German band Enigma, she requested to work with someone from the group and traveled to Germany in 1991 to meet her future producer and boyfriend, Frank Peterson. Their first collaboration on a major label release (with A&M Records) was Dive (1993), a pop album with a loose water theme that featured the hit 'Captain Nemo' (a cover of a song by the Swedish electronica band Dive).

　　Fly (1995), a pop/rock album and her second collaboration with Peterson, propelled Sarah Brightman to fame in Europe with the hit 'A Question of Honour'. The song was introduced at the World Boxing Championship match between Germany's Henry Maske and Graciano Rocchigiani and featured a mix of dance music, rock elements, classical strings, and Brightman's operatic vocals from the opera piece "La Wally".

　　Time to Say Goodbye (Con Te Partir? was the second Brightman song debuted for Maske, this time at his retirement match. This duet with tenor Andrea Bocelli sold more than 3 million copies in Germany alone, became the largest-selling single in that country to date, and was also a bestseller in numerous other countries. The album eventually sold more than 5 million copies world wide. No doubt due to the song's success, a 1996 re-issue of Fly contained this song as the first track.

　　Music: What you never know

　　WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Colors: I'm Feeling Very Blue Today

　　Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories.

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　　Every people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.

　　Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for their color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland jazz.

　　Pink is a lighter kind of read. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.

　　Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful. Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song – Mood Indigo – about the deep blue color, indigo. In the words of the song: "You ain't been blue till you've had that Mood Indigo." Someone who is blue is very sad.

　　The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green.

　　Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money.

　　The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now. But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.

　　In some cases, colors describe a situation. A brown out is an expression for a reduction in electric power. Brown outs happen when there is too much demand for electricity. The electric system is unable to offer all the power needed in an area. Black outs are common during World War two. Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night.

　　Music: Time to say goodbye