Word: counterpointing
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...started creating music and playing the piano at home in Concord, Calif, when he was four. Later he studied at Mills College in Oakland with Composer Darius Milhaud (who remembers him affectionately as a "good composer"), and worked at "counterpoint until it ran out of my ears." When listeners notice his Bach-like counterpoint and his big, polytonal chords, he says, "When I play jazz I am influenced by classical music. And when I compose I am influenced by jazz...
When English movie-makers get together to produce a comedy, they first throw caution to some wind or other in constructing an outlandish plot. Then they work meticulously over every minor character and every line of dialogue to provide a delightful counterpoint to the extravagances of the story. The result is more often than not complete hilarity...
...Might as Well Be Spring (Marion MacPartland; Savoy). The English-born pianist gives this shy song just the right tone with a clear texture and a simple counterpoint...
...admiral arranging a fleet for battle. None of Novelist Tucker's girls is an Anna Karenina or an Emma B ovary, but all four are distinct, believable and likable. And though they come on only for bit parts, Novelist Tucker's Negroes loll and drawl a pungent counterpoint to the sly, good-tempered comedy of pursuit...
Today, erect as a Junker, Lyonel Feininger is still absorbed by the stresses of the ghostly world he creates, where shadow and substance play upon each other in a sort of counterpoint. Each day, after helping his wife tidy up their Manhattan apartment, he disappears into his studio. Sometimes he comes out to strum a bit on the piano, then returns to paint again and grumble about the light...