Word: counterpointing
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...light of God in the heavens, as "three wise guys" once did, than to trust narrowly in science, which gives people a reason to "fear the bursting of bombs." A unique arrangement of "We Three Kings," by Eric McKissach, a choir member from MIT, set the altos in counterpoint to the sopranos and the basses in contrast to the tenors. Five men stepped out of the group into a semi-circle and surprised the audience with an excellent acapella version of "Jingle Bells...
...period is masterfully captured in newsreel footage of a bankrupt Dust Bowl farmer surveying his parched land and saying, "I'd like to see rain, I mean, I have seen it. I'd like to have my son--he's eight years old--see it." As a counterpoint to this hopelessness a robust Joe Louis is shown lustily chopping wood in his training camp and making sanguine predictions about his upcoming bout with Max Schmelling...
...melody line. (This partly explains why nobody sings Dylan songs like Dylan; Joan Baez, for instance, seems obsessed with proving to us that she can hit every note when she's supposed to, not understanding, as does Dylan, that one's voice can be played off the melody in counterpoint). But on this version, the power of his voice is absorbed by The Band's crescendo on the last two lines of each verse. It seems like a bad choice of takes...
...slave well-to-do almost overnight. Not for Scott Joplin. As a youth he may have earned his living playing honky-tonk piano by night in a string of saloons and bordellos in the South and Midwest. But what few realized was that he was expertly tutored in harmony, counterpoint and the works of the classical masters...
...because some primitive might be better. We're looking for a man who'll write to script." That sort of remark annoys Jerry Goldsmith. Says he: "There are damn few composers alive or deceased who have had the opportunity we have had to experiment with atonality and counterpoint." Next month Goldsmith will perform his themes from The Wind and the Lion, The Blue Max and The Waltons in London's Royal Albert Hall...