Word: accompanimental
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No Antiseptic Vaults. Lewis began his musical career pounding out the piano accompaniment for the choir of Chicago's Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, moved on to the Chicago Musical College, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. But he got married at 18 and quit college to take...
PASTEL BLUES (Philips). Whoever called these blues pastel is colorblind. This is raw, strong and often ugly singing by Nina Simone, who makes one chilling visit to the South (Strange Fruit-"black bodies swinging from the trees") but mostly moans and shouts with gospel fervor about love and loneliness (End...
TOM PAXTON: AIN'T THAT NEWS! (Elektra). Like many another contemporary folknik, Paxton writes his own songs rather than searching Appalachia for old, impoverished ones. The result is a running satire pegged on today's headlines. With a precise, Midwest enunciation and simple guitar accompaniment, he sings out...
Levine's notion that music and bodily movement could aid learning came from a curiosity about how people function in certain circumstances. "A good trial lawyer moves around in the courtroom to help himself think better," he says. "I think better when I move around. My 12-year-old...
Levant the wit hurls poisoned shafts. Proposing a movie based on his own life, he casts Rosalind Russell in the title role, then decides she is too masculine. Leonard Bernstein "uses music as an accompaniment to his conducting." Oscar also punctures himself. "I'm a neurotic basket case," he...