Word: counterpointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SETTING FREE THE BEARS, by John Irving. Two Austrian university students plot to free the animals from Vienna's zoo. In counterpoint to this escapade are events recollected from Austria's and Yugoslavia's part in World...
...Some ol these, connected to the keyboard, trigger various "raw" sounds, such as "sawtooth" waves and "white noise." Other parts then modify the raw sounds by controlling their attack, volume and rate of decay, and by adding such characteristics as vibrato or echo. Complicated combinations of sounds-like the counterpoint and chords of Carlos' Bach album-are achieved by taping each series of sounds as they are produced, then combining them on multiple tracks of the same tape...
BASICALLY, though, the play remains a nicely constructed minor piece of suspense. With the quartet of actors being completed by Joe Taylor--whose slightly Southern intonation adds a relaxed counterpoint to the proceedings--The Turncoats is, what they used to call, a good little story...
...counterpoint his European journey, President Nixon last week sent Congress his first message on domestic problems. In it he once again confounded his critics and tempered his cam paign rhetoric by proposing to realign the previous Administration's antipoverty programs rather than cancel them wholesale. As New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits observed, the message was far more important for its "positive approach and tone than for the rel atively few organization changes it makes." It was also a tribute to the coun sel of Nixon's chief adviser on urban affairs, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose...
...familiar with Ligeti's score from its use in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it accompanies the discovery of the monolith on the moon. The music is not conceived stereophonically but, like a clever piece of audible op art, achieves that effect from its dense-textured 16-part counterpoint, which seems to shimmer around its source in concentric waves. As an exercise in the deceptive qualities of pure sound, it is an awesome tour de force...