Word: accompanimental
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The only thing about the film to escape the deadening hand of Mr. Mekas is Meyer Kupferman's superb music, easily one of the best background scores ever composed. It is consistently witty (often reminiscent of Prokofiev's whimsical compositions), and able to conjure up a whole spectrum of moods...
Perhaps most typical of the performance was the delightful background music. Had the production been done with Elizabethan overtones, the unique rhythms might have seemed even more macabre than Barabas' horrible, murdering vengeance. As it is, the music jumps and thumps in fanciful accompaniment to the play. Following each murder...
> In Russia, it is sometimes hard to tell who is married to whom. Despite their names, OLEG PROTOPOPOV and LUDMILLA BELOUSOVA are man and wife-and the best pairs figure skaters in the world. To the accompaniment of Rachmaninoff, they performed a breathless routine of intricate acrobatics, skated off with...
"Uhuru" was also being shouted to the southeast, 80 miles from Kenya's coast on the tiny, palm-wreathed island of Zanzibar. To the accompaniment of a 41-gun salute, a red, gold and green flag was hoisted in Zanzibar Town, replacing the Union Jack and ending 73 years...
To the twanging accompaniment of background music that would better fit a Kabuki drama, these five bleeding hearts go the way of all flesh. En route, they converse in quaint prose poems reminiscent of haiku: