Word: counterpoints
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...Thomas Choir soared through three Bach motets, developing the counterpoint with the honed accuracy of an efficient cable-weaving machine. Under the conducting of Kurt Thomas, 53, who made his debut as the group's cantor (i.e., choirmaster) only four months ago, the tone was rich and powerful, the movement of sound clear and regular. An audience of 2,000 Bach lovers gave Thomas and his singers an ovation...
...wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead of on improvisation; the Jerry Mulligan quartet; and today's "big band jazz." I must single out sax-player Jaki Byard, who wrote many of the fine illustrations. This was a most rewarding evening...
...appeal to the Supreme Court, the Jencks defense asked a new trial in which, specifically, Judge Thomason would be required to act as screener. It was this specific appeal that the Government argued against. In the legal point and counterpoint, the idea never came up of turning the FBI files over to the defense directly. But this was precisely the idea that the Supreme Court turned into a rule of law. Wrote Justice Brennan, with Chief Justice Warren, Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter concurring: "Because only the defense is adequately equipped to determine the effective use [of reports...
...Webern pulverized melody, harmony and rhythm. Schoenberg said that these pieces packed the art of "a whole novel in a single sigh." The result is music that drones at times with shrill insect insistence, rises to jagged, shrieking climaxes, lapses in midphrase into sudden silences that form a weird counterpoint to sound. Most listeners will be more attracted to Webern's songs, based on such idyllic poems as Goethe's The Perfect Match ("A flowerbell blossomed early from the ground in lovely bloom...
...last year, was an elegant, admirably contained piece. Last week's far more complex work, also choreographed by Jean Erdman, was a wittily detailed examination of the love life of a voraciously modern woman and a hesitantly questing male. Leading Dancers Erdman and Donald McKayle defined the amorous counterpoint in elaborately postured movements grotesquely amplified by a corps of eight dancers and echoed by an alternately liquid and rhythmically spiky score...