Word: counterpointing
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...Ironic Counterpoint. Clearly nothing less than that was Leonard Bernstein's high intention. And with Mass-subtitled "a theater piece for singers, players and dancers"-he rose to an auspicious occasion and splendid circumstances: a new national opera house, an audience ready to assume that anything that works at all is a masterpiece. A cast of 23 skilled dancers, 40 musicians onstage, 40 more in the pit, two choruses, assorted soloists, the best in lights, costumes, alarums and excursions that money could buy. The result, in some ways, was both too much and not enough. Mass is a jumble...
...work takes its form from the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie eleison, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. As more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins...
...barge itself is a motorless wonder. While the orchestra members travel overland by bus, Boudreau moves the barge from stop to stop, like a kind of riverside hitchhiker. All the tow captains know the Point Counterpoint, as the barge is officially known, and willingly put a towline aboard and move it on to the next town. That saves the orchestra $12,000 to $15,000 a summer in tow charges. Placed against the orchestra's annual $90,000 budget, the saving is substantial...
...case not necessarily in counterpoint, take the 1971 American College Jazz Festival, held recently on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. While 15 groups from all over the country joined in, trumpets blared through sinus-shattering amplification, making it painfully clear that the young today seem to like their jazz every bit as loud as rock. Yet it was astounding to hear one band after another mix rock, the classics, or electronic compositions into fertile jazz blends. Even Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal...
During the rally, members of PCPJ will begin assembling a geodesic dome on the Common to serve as a "Peace Treaty Implementation Center" during the coming summer. PCPJ spokesmen explained yesterday that the dome is intended to serve as a counterpoint to the Army Recruiting Station near Tremont...