Word: accompanimental
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In Washington's party-of-the-week. Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, made her debut in the stately gold-and-white Washington headquarters of the Organization of American States. Upstairs, the elegant elders made their way through a champagne supper to...
Shango Hymn (Geoffrey Holder and his Trinidad Hummingbirds: Washington). Singer-Painter-Dancer Holder and group, to the accompaniment of water glasses and backs of chairs, offer some authentic samples of Caribbean hymns and work songs that may surprise ears accustomed to steel-band calypso. The rhythms are complex, the melodies...
And Mr. Senturia's pared-down orchestra (the Symphony is scored for brass, winds, tympani and 'cellos) provided an admirable accompaniment. The first desk winds handled the fugal introduction to the second psalm with ease, a particularly delicate passage full of grace and restraint, and in the more monolithic third...
Michel Singher '62 complemented Mr. Wiseman throughout. His performance of the Faure accompaniment was in itself a creditable piece of pianism, even if, at times, he tried to drown Mr. Wiseman out.
Sparkling, too, was the accompaniment of Wallace Woodworth and the Cambridge Festival Orchestra. Mr. Woodworth elicited a clear and confident performance from his small group: the attacks were precise, the phrasing decisive, the dynamics well modulated.