Word: counterpoints
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...music is full of humor: perhaps a razzmatazz counterpoint to a rather solemn theme or quotes from other tunes slipped in slyly. A favorite Jackson trick is to imitate-without breaking stride-the style of such pianists as Erroll Garner, George Shearing or Oscar Peterson. "I can talk to Pete Rugolo in his métier," says he, "or to Count Basie in his or to Lenny Bernstein. Maybe not to Lawrence Whelp...
...Counterpoint of Terror. Recovering from the initial shock, Castro's usually loquacious regime acted with a coldly silent efficiency that suggested expert Communist coaching. The island's radio stations broadcast no news but plenty of lively music, as a reign of terror spread across the island. The Castro government itself boasted that it had executed 29 persons, including Castro's ex-Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marín as well as three Americans, for plotting to assassinate Castro. Foreign correspondents were herded-along with 1,000 or more Cubans whose loyalty to Castro was questioned-into makeshift...
...Other Adolf (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Captured films of Nazi atrocities and modern German reaction counterpoint the buildup of interest in the impending trial of Adolf Eichmann...
Written at the end of Schoenberg's tutelage of Webern in 1909, the work is more approachable than his later 12-tone compositions, for it is only occasional contrapuntal and moves with a melodic continuity quite different from the strict counterpoint he adopted later. Continual variation of melodic fragments creates in each movement a concise, poignant compression, and the absence of tonality gives his chromaticism an ethereal unworldliness. Pulling free of the mundane world with several searing dissonances, Webern uses quavers, harmonics and undulating dynamics to create a mood of cerie, tortured contemplation...
...meaning is not in the narrative but the counterpoint. The emotion of the poem is neither grief for the dead doe nor amusement at the coy, giggling girl: "The emotion is in the place between - by speaking of two things which, like parentheses, can include between them what neither of them says - death and passion, the human comedy and indifferent death...