Word: a-flat
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...that while Lang sometimes employs frivolous shows of technique to draw in his audience, the thought and soul within his playing truly captivates listeners. With the crowd already coming to its feet, Lang jumped into Chopin’s “Heroique” Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat Major, his final number. The treacherous double thirds at the beginning were no obstacle to the pianist, who zipped through the chromatic introduction to settle into the stately main theme. In the military march, accented with crisp dotted rhythms and a precise backdrop of octaves, Lang brought out Chopin?...
...ramp up a song's intensity, they'd modulate chords like crazy. One Seasons website asserts that "Opus 17" "ties Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" for the largest number of chromatic key changes in a Top 40 hit." (Five, if you were wondering: from F# to G to A-flat to A to B-flat to B.) All these felicitous tricks were in the service of songs bursting with drama and pain-stories of mismatched love, the messy ends of affairs, the unbreachable barrier of class...
...with double bass and low brass) provide for a sense of gravity and struggle. The final movement, Allegro scorrevole (“flowing easily,” one of Carter’s favorite indications), is a lively and brilliantly orchestrated finale. The work ends with a lone, high A-flat in the piccolo, a shrill, satisfying conclusion...
...father was able to offer great perspective with Ben was faced with tough decision making in picking musical groups at Harvard. Upon hearing his son's offer to play with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Isaiah asked, "What do you know about baroque music?" Ben replied, "It's tuned to A-flat, right?" Isaiah laughed and replied, "That's politically incorrect...
...evening began with performances by Drury and Hodgkinson, which were followed by a joint performance by Vosgerchian and Levin of "Eight Variations on an Original Theme" in A-flat major...