Word: accompanimental
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The Man Without Memories. Until Gromyko's entrance, a successful diplomat was a subtle, imaginative artist, who could improvise a stiff note to a fractious government as quickly as a compliment for a fat lady. But Gromyko behaves in chancelleries and council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic...
Abe's program is 15 minutes of casual rambling. He tosses out wisecracks, parodies travelogues, concert ballads and popular songs, rasps his offbeat lyrics and thumps out his own piano accompaniment.
Those who are thoroughly sick of Lassic and all the sentimental pictures about thoroughbreds will naturally be wary of this one about a Southern home steader's boy and his pet fawn. But with the exception of a few views of the clouds to the accompaniment of singing voices. "The...
Shakespeare's Henry V (spoken excerpts by Sir Laurence Olivier, with music composed and conducted by William Walton, Philharmonia Orchestra of London and Chorus; Victor, 8 sides). Walton's music was superbly tailored to its job: that of complementing Henry V's sights, speeches and sound. Put...
For the occasion Berlioz, a Paul Bunyan of music, hired a military band of 200, added 80 strings and a chorus of 200.* But his stirring symphony could barely be heard in the square. Wrote he: "The final blow came when the troops of the National Guard began to march...