Word: accompanimental
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Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto is the kind of music that loses all its effectiveness without a graceful, polished performance. The orchestra gave it just that. Flutists Kathleen Henry and Karin Peterson played easily and lucidly, while Sandor Shapiro's violin performance was appropriately subdued. The string section and Daniel...
The printing presses rumbled their accompaniment. From Vice Minister of Health Fu Lien-chang came a long eulogy of Soviet medicine; from Feminist Teng Yingchao (wife of Premier Chou Enlai), a brochure extolling Soviet standards in marriage and personal relations.
The meeting of Ike and Nixon at Wheeling was reported in mocking purple prose by the Post's Murray Kempton: "A star was born unto the Republican Party last night . . . Nixon stood up before chilled and adoring thousands ... an antiaircraft beacon's rays upon his brow for a...
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos (Jennie Tourel; Haydn Society). The Greek legend of Ariadne appealed strongly to Haydn. When he was 58 he wrote a short, melodious and seldom-heard solo cantata in which the abandoned princess bemoans her fate. Mezzo-Soprano Tourel sings it in warm Italian. The accompaniment is...
* With dialect lyrics by Armenian-American William Saroyan and a tricky harpsichord accompaniment.