Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale-Harvard Glee Club Concert, despite some perplexing problems succeeded in a very enjoyable fashion. Instead of moving in the drab chronological way of so many concerts, the program, for instance, had the quiet counterpoint of Nanino lead to an erruptive Milhaud psalm setting. Both choruses performed their older serious works well, but they combined to render an only mildly exciting Part II Finale from Berlioz' Faust...
...Counterpoint & Cowpunching. Tall and blond, Hallyday comes on stage in a prim dark blue suit, picks at a pink guitar, swings his jelly hips, pokes his microphone suggestively at girls in the audience, and shouts: "Je cherche une fille...
Until recently, his French fans actually thought he was a transplanted U.S. yokel. Partly through pressagentry, partly through pure myth, he was described in the French press as the 18th offspring of a poor Oklahoma homesteader. As a youth, he had played the guitar, punched cattle, and studied counterpoint by candlelight. And so on to Paris, where, the story had it, he was sending home his hard-earned francs to his schizophrenic mother in the Dust Bowl...
Ventilated Curriculum. But Schuman proved an able administrator and an adroit innovator. Under his baton were launched the famed Juilliard String Quartet, a department of dance, fresh courses in the theory of music. Along with their technical lessons in music, students at Juilliard were encouraged to study counterpoint and harmony of a different kind: sociology and race relations. "Musical education has to be ventilated," explained Schuman. "We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
...music is full of humor: perhaps a razzmatazz counterpoint to a rather solemn theme or quotes from other tunes slipped in slyly. A favorite Jackson trick is to imitate-without breaking stride-the style of such pianists as Erroll Garner, George Shearing or Oscar Peterson. "I can talk to Pete Rugolo in his métier," says he, "or to Count Basie in his or to Lenny Bernstein. Maybe not to Lawrence Whelp...