Word: accompanimental
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The vocal texture began in octaves and then thickened on the fourth word to a full four-part harmony. Though the piece was done a capella, an optional keyboard accompaniment exists which employs some startling effects such as the contra-octave CCC more than three octaves below the male voices...
Yet the Mass is no Mendelssohnian adaptation from the original. Careful attention was paid to ornaments, most noticeable in the brilliantly-played trumpet parts. Richter varied his tempi quite a bit though they were generally fast by standards of only twenty years ago (such as on the Scherchen recording of...
Gerald Moshell, to no one's surprise managed to secure nearly all of Harvard's best student string players. Their work in the difficult Poulenc piece was very solid: the occasional lapse in pitch during the high accompaniment passages was understandable. Poulenc juxtaposes short lyrical passages with pounding tuttis. The...
IT WAS CONSIDERED A stroke of genius when Perry Miller compared I.S. Bach to Jonathan Edwards, but when George Henry played Robert Schumann in accompaniment with Dunnock's readings, the genius was not so striking. Schumann's works did, however, evoke the internal tensions of the poetry in a way...
"It's going to be fun, folksy and down to earth," said Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox. He was plugging his new TV variety show, Lester Maddox-U.S.A., a combination of God, patriotism and dancing girls. The first installment, to appear on an Atlanta station this...