Word: arpeggioing
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...well-suited to the fierce leaps and skips of the third prelude, "The Wind of the Plain." It was equally fun to watch him grab fistfuls of notes with such glorious abandon in "The Hills of Anacapri," the ending of which seemed contrived by Debussy to recall the final arpeggio of the earlier "Gardens in the Rain" from his "Estampes." Pollini's mastery of Lisztian technique was evident in the whirling "What the West Wind Saw," and his refined yet poetic sensitivity in "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair," which too often suffers from overwrought performances, made one wish...
...electronics. The tension is created by rapid, repeated-note figurations and massed sonorities. The release, such as it is, comes from a series of eerie tremolos and trills reminiscent of the doom-laden flute flutterings in Strauss's opera Salome. The soloists enter with a computer-assisted arpeggio, vibrating and echoing over the six large loudspeakers that are stationed around the hall. Then the soloists and the ensemble interact, responding to each other in the manner of Renaissance polyphony...
...Generals and Majors," with its hummable hook and over-blunt satire, is the stuff of a hit single, "Living Through Another Cuba" is the single best song the impending hostilities have yet inspired. A rising-and-falling arpeggio of treated guitar and human wailing leads into an over-heated, pseudosalsa beat, as Andy Partridge half-talks the lyrics...
...Always a Woman" has a bright arpeggio guitar part in the background, but the song lacks the vitality that comprises so much of Billy Joel's work, and never goes anywhere...
Tempo and Tenor. The New York scene, in fact, dramatically illustrates the tempo and tenor of today's music. All the old greats?and all tomorrow's stars?are filling the nights with once and future jazz. A season's billboard reads like an arpeggio of jazz excitement: Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear...