Word: accompanimental
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One pantomimic cliché that turns up endlessly is the in-place step-slide, in which a character appears to be trekking across a tundra of coagulated syrup. Considerably fresher, though not terribly pertinent, is the occasional very cool jazz accompaniment that suggests that all attempts to immunize Iron Curtain...
Some of the best-intentioned and most experienced U.S. policymakers are convinced that the U.S. must above all counter Red China's war of ideas. These ideas really boil down to: get rid of the foreigners and let Communism give you a better life. Successful though this crude approach...
WILLIAM WALTON: FAçADE (Decca). At the 1923 London première of Façade, Edith Sitwell read her poems, with their witty musical accompaniment by her young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike...
As the film begins, a world-famous cellist lies dead, mourned in turn by his critic-biographer, six black-veiled mistresses and his wife. Flashbacks detail the end of the great man's life in a series of slapstick sketches played against the ricky-tick accompaniment of Yes! We...
MAHLER: SONGS FROM DBS KNABEN WUNDERHORN (Vanguard). In the 1890s, Mahler was so drawn to the German folk poems in the old anthology called The Youth's Magic Horn that he not only turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or...