Word: accompanimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the accompaniment of a constant stream of anti-Western vituperation from Cairo, as well as the jingle of Egyptian money, El Azhari put on a vigorous, glad-handing campaign. He played upon the anti-religious sentiment of the younger generation by hammering away disdainfully at Premier Khalil's...
The well-digger is played by Raimu, who is like Fernandel, except that he is fatter and has less conspicuous teeth. He converses with his hands, using his voice only as accompaniment. He is at his best in an elaborate double-entendre involving well-digging and the courting of his...
"Movie music," said Sir Thomas Beecham, "is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica." For years, audiences approached screen music with what the industry regards as a more eupeptic attitude: they ignored it. Although isolated scores such as Max Steiner's music for Gone With the...
A French rendering of rock 'n' roll sometimes sounds like a musical accompaniment to Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée. While U.S. rockers chant wide-eyed changes on adolescent love, requited and otherwise, their French counterparts in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Pré...
Mozart's motet for soloist and orchestra, "Exsultate, jubilate," which preceded the Hindemith, fared less well. The spirit of Hindemith hovered over, giving an air of tenseness that was out of key with this more gentle work. The orchestra, which is usually excellent in accompaniment, was strangely insensitive and much...