Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Counterpoint of Terror. Recovering from the initial shock, Castro's usually loquacious regime acted with a coldly silent efficiency that suggested expert Communist coaching. The island's radio stations broadcast no news but plenty of lively music, as a reign of terror spread across the island. The Castro government itself boasted that it had executed 29 persons, including Castro's ex-Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marín as well as three Americans, for plotting to assassinate Castro. Foreign correspondents were herded-along with 1,000 or more Cubans whose loyalty to Castro was questioned-into makeshift...
...Other Adolf (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Captured films of Nazi atrocities and modern German reaction counterpoint the buildup of interest in the impending trial of Adolf Eichmann...
Written at the end of Schoenberg's tutelage of Webern in 1909, the work is more approachable than his later 12-tone compositions, for it is only occasional contrapuntal and moves with a melodic continuity quite different from the strict counterpoint he adopted later. Continual variation of melodic fragments creates in each movement a concise, poignant compression, and the absence of tonality gives his chromaticism an ethereal unworldliness. Pulling free of the mundane world with several searing dissonances, Webern uses quavers, harmonics and undulating dynamics to create a mood of cerie, tortured contemplation...
...meaning is not in the narrative but the counterpoint. The emotion of the poem is neither grief for the dead doe nor amusement at the coy, giggling girl: "The emotion is in the place between - by speaking of two things which, like parentheses, can include between them what neither of them says - death and passion, the human comedy and indifferent death...
Frank Glazer Plays Musical Autographs (Concert-Disc). The musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...