Word: chromaticism
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Sutherland played the farce nearly as well as she sustained her pealing top E-flats. Faking a drum roll, getting her feet twisted in a minuet, ripping off a dazzling 2½-octave chromatic scale, while tearing up some papers and scattering them into the orchestra pit, she shed fresh...
Richard Wagner was determined to make a name for himself in Paris. So when the Paris Opéra rejected his latest work, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner dusted off his Tannhäuser, which had been produced in Dresden 16 years earlier, and Frenchified it. He wrote new music for...
"Look at the text, people. Bach didn't leave us many musical marking because he didn't have to. It's all in the text. Basses--storm up that chromatic scale on "Sie noch so brummen." Brummen means, well, movement, confusion, like the French brouiller, boulverser. Make beautiful German vowels...
A voodoo Aida of sorts, Koanga is set in the ante helium South and tells the story of an African prince (Koanga, also a voodoo priest) sold into slavery on a plantation. He falls in love with a mulatto slave girl, and eventually makes a bold -but tragic-dash for...
Greatest Story? To a large extent, Webber and Rice share Judas' doubts. "It happens," says Rice, "that we don't see Christ as God. but as simply the right man at the right time in the right place. It is a great and inspiring story, though." Shorn of...