Word: accompanimental
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Out of the matrix of these Negro work songs, field hollers and spirituals of the 19th century sprang the first crude country blues. It was spread by bardic singers with guitars or harmonicas?beggars, itinerant farm laborers, members of jug bands and medicine or minstrel shows. Then, with the Negro...
The music of free men is an awareness of this unruly, though palpitating, world. We need only open our ears and cleanse our souls of the need for reassurance. Take a lecture, Listen to the in regular emphasis of words, the variable length of phrase. It is a kind of...
The "accompaniment" for How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (TIME, March 15), by Cunningham's friend Composer John Cage, had nothing to do with music. At a small table downstage left sat Cage and Actor David Vaughan in dinner jackets, sipping champagne while they read humorous snippets and...
The program was best characterized by Indjic's performance of the Etudes. These are the exercises that teach the skills of which virtuosity is made. Indjic did his exercises remarkably well. Despite his choice of very quick tempi, he tossed off the flying octaves, thirds, and arpeggios with impeccable clarity...
At the outset, few of the volunteers were excited by McCarthy's prospects for success or ignited by his deliberately low-voltage campaign style. Yet his refusal to harangue crowds or play the demagogue ultimately generated a subtle student-professor relationship. At the same time, McCarthy demanded hard work...