Word: arpeggio
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...duet with Barron to “Georgia on My Mind” was one of the high points of the evening. They began with tense, elastic pauses, counterpointed by Barron’s minimalist stride piano underpinning. Carter emerged pure and sonorous, producing a cascading arpeggio of longing notes that caressed the classic tune. Barron interspersed her melody with clear notes, striking the keys to produce an insistent urgency. Barron and Carter weren’t so much in synthesis as symbiosis, each thoughtfully responding to the other in a manner that gripped the entire audience...
...conductor Bruce Hangen coaxed the orchestra into a heart-warming rendition of Edward Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations.Almost immediately after the lights dimmed and 24-year-old guest conductor Michael Sakir planted his feet on the podium, the orchestra jumped into a frenzied arpeggio followed by several cymbal crashes. With the boisterous opening of the prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin,” the strings were quickly overpowered by the brass line—though not enough to hide the fact that the violins were out of tune. Despite...
...first time I ever got a real stinker.”However, the harsh words would prepare him for the world outside Harvard.Reviewing “Nixon in China” 20 years later, a New York Times critic wrote, “Mr. Adams does for the arpeggio what McDonald’s did for the hamburger, grinding out one simple idea unto eternity.”Though the review was harsh, Adams says it “was a laugher.”“That guy was an old fogey,” he says...
...band spent two weeks in a makeshift studio near Kiama, on the N.S.W. South Coast. "We took a Method approach," explains FitzGerald. The acting analogy is apt, since the music provides much of Heidi's inner voice. You can hear it in Heidi's Theme, where a delicate xylophone arpeggio rises above the earthier glockenspiel, perhaps symbolizing Worthington's character Joe. But it's not all so harmonious. For Rough Sex, Decoder Ring provide a jarring guitar riff to accompany one of Heidi's teenage tumbles. It lasts barely three minutes. Elsewhere in Somersault, the frisson between image and sound...
...song is a familiar 12-bar blues in boogie-woogie tempo: two verses, a chorus ("Shake, baby, shake"), two verses of instrumental break (one featuring Jerry Lee amok on piano, his pummeling accentuated by an arpeggio as if he were running barefoot over the keys, and one of Roland Janes's less ornate but momentum-sustaining guitar work) followed by a reprise of the second verse with the inspired vocal filler "We got a chicken in the barn/ Whose barn? What barn? My barn!" (the drums whacking the "whose-what-my" to give it extra force and fun), then...