Word: accompanimental
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Using all the tricks of variation he likes so well, Benjy Britten had made Composer Johann Christoph Pepusch's original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle...
Luxury Liner (MGM) floats Metro's musical stock company in a welter of romantic complications which could be followed only with a navigation chart. The tangles are slowly and rather painfully unsnarled to the accompaniment of songs by Lauritz Melchior, Marina Koshetz and young Jane Powell, who is expected...
He was born on the feast day of Saint Igor (June 18), at Oranienbaum, on the Gulf of Finland, where his family frequently spent their summers. In his autobiography, he recalls the "sharp resinous tang of fresh cut wood" and an enormous dumb peasant, feared by all the other kids...
These sudsy romantics are elegantly produced by John Houseman and directed by Austrian Max Opuls who, back in the early '30s, made one of the finest pictures of this genre-Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late...
Head Start. When he got back, Cole was waiting for him with a contract for his song. Capitol made a sneak recording of it, backing Cole's voice with a rich, fluty orchestral accompaniment. Fascinated by its haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc...