Word: accompanimental
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Aron's satirical tone clearly criticizes the deep-rooted racism underlying French disdain for Algerians. More Subtly, however, Aron condemns the anti-Semitism that both the French and Algerians express. When the Arabs die, they dance to a Mozart flute accompaniment and ascend to heaven. Aron does not grant the...
The last Winter Games too provided a perfect illustration of the struggle: Katarina Witt, the self-styled "worker's hero" from Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, vs. Debi Thomas, the all-American Stanford premed student. In the left corner, a communist figure skater who lived like a princess and...
THE CHIEFTAINS: THE BELLS OF DUBLIN (RCA Victor). Is it too late for season's greetings? Not when they're as enterprising and altogether buoyant as this collection of Christmas songs by the great Irish traditional band, who augment their fiddles, harpsichord and Uilleann Pipes with vocal accompaniment by such...
Considering this play's basic flaw (its story), a production of The Pirates of Penzance cannot get much better than this one. Beautiful singing; skilled acting; perfectly-executed, though lacking in dynamics, orchestral accompaniment and appropriate sets and costumes combine to create an enchanting theatrical experience.
The key to the evening's success is its variety--romantic solos follow group numbers containing six skillfully intertwined strands of harmony. And although Evan Cohen's masterful ivory tickling is some-what overpowering during "Another Hundred People," his piano accompaniment is otherwise melodious and unobtrusive.