Word: accompanimental
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Folk songs, as Emrich has since discovered, cover a multitude of sins - historical and otherwise. To the accompaniment of fiddles, banjos, guitars, dulcimers, bottles, tin cans and washboards, one can hear love songs, laments and domestic satires:
Great Grizzly. Ironically, Graves is a living symbol of masculine energy and patriarchal virility. Twice married, he is the father of seven children, ranging in age from 36 to 2. At 59, he is still husky, cleaves the air with a great Roman nose which he once broke playing Rugby...
Ravel: Schéhérazade (Suzanne banco, soprano; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave...
¶ Leon Stein's The Fisherman's Wife, produced with two-piano accompaniment by the International Society for Contemporary Music in Chicago, was based on another Grimm story, this one about a fellow who catches an enchanted fish, gives it its freedom and is granted his every wish...
¶ Ned Rorem's A Childhood Miracle, produced with two-piano accompaniment by Punch Opera in Manhattan, was a fragile piece of Hawthorne about two little girls whose snowman comes to life and entertains them until grownups drag him indoors and he melts to a puddle by the firelight...