Word: backgrounder
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...material on his latest album, Everyday, save for the two obligatory monster singles “I Did It” and “The Space Between.” Matthews’ band was incredibly tight, each member playing their part with aplomb and fading into the background skillfully for the songs where they were not featured. Carter Beauford, drummer and backing vocalist, was the most impressive element. On “Lie in Our Graves,” the introductory coupling of guitar, voice and drums was about as exciting as Matthews gets...
...James L. Stillwell ’04, “because we didn’t know each other.We were all cracking up. That was a way for us to diffuse the tension.” Apparently, it worked. According to Stillwell, by Friday night the debauchery in the background was so scandalous that it was distracting the audience from the action going on downstage. “I thought about going nude,” says Stillwell, “but decided against it.” An emergency meeting had to be held last Saturday?...
...Many of you felt that the scariest person in our cover photo was not the man firing his gun. "The most unsettling character is the man in the background, casually leaning against the wall with his arms crossed," wrote a reader from Michigan. "How many people would strike that pose if a gun were being fired in front of them?" A Florida reader agreed, observing, "The person leaning nonchalantly against the wall has an almost grotesque attitude, the resigned acceptance of a checkout delay at the grocery store. This is a world I cannot comprehend...
...teach them the basic components of music, from tempo to harmony. Within the lab is the Performalator, an online tool that enables kids to compose and play music. "The great thing is that this is both for someone who has some musical experience--and for someone with no musical background at all," Gallman says...
...play’s set points towards this presentation of characters as more archetypical, as the set itself is clearly allegorical. On the left side of the stage is the field, with a black tree standing against a black background interrupted only by wisps of white cotton, while on the right is the bedroom, drowned in a pure, virginal white countered by the black bed frame...