Word: counterpoint
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...tempo over fugue. But Mehldau, like Bach, is at his best slowed down. Like Glenn Gould playing 32nd trills as eighth notes, Mehldau proves that virtuosity is not dependent on quick pace alone. Yet even at a more leisurely speed, Mehldau's improvisational line exhibits an overall concern with counterpoint, which at once indicates his post-bop tendencies and classical training. But here they tend to be more appropriate, as Mehldau's impromptus have a tendency to fall into the trap of classical meter at brisker tempos...
...Kyra Strasberg provides a well-executed counterpoint to Suarez's studied coolness in her emotive portrayal of Caesar's spurned wife, Calpurnia. Laszlo Berdo's Caesar remians stoic throughout the first act, which makes Cleopatra's seduction of him all the more impressive...
RACK 'EM UP Do those wobbling, teetering stacks of CDs on your desk and shelves make you nervous? Julian Brown, the award-winning British designer of the famous Hannibal tape dispenser (you know, the one that looks like an elephant), has a simple solution: the CD2 ($12.50 at Counterpoint, 888-545-5073), a simple, elegant little rack that comfortably cradles 10 CDs at a time at a pleasingly jaunty angle. It's so unobtrusive, you hardly notice it. CD2 comes in six colors, from translucent orange to grass green to metallic aluminum, and when you don't need...
...have to agree on what you're for to know what you're against. And one thing they're against, it seems, is agreement itself. Too monolithic, too uniform, too global. The protesters prefer debate, diversity. They'd like to teach the world to sing in off-key counterpoint. To their minds, the IMF and the World Bank are tyrannical choirmasters with steel batons and a tin ear for cultural differences. They finance mammoth industrial projects that sweep up hundreds of workers from the countryside, decimating small farms and villages while swelling urban slums. They bottle up small streams into...
...While the fact that Elian appears happy and relaxed with his father now seems incontrovertible, the family's attack on the authenticity of the first photographs was hardly surprising, since those images had served as a kind of "happy-ending" counterpoint to a day that began with pictures of heavily armed masked men dragging a terrified boy screaming from his home of almost six months. Juan Miguel's Miami relatives are clearly in no mood to let go of the boy, however, and followed Elian to Washington within hours of his removal from their home, attempting unsuccessfully to gain access...