Word: counterpoints
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Course of Wisdom. With such bewildering international counterpoint, the argument over the testing of thermonuclear weapons soared to a crescendo with the 1956 campaign. The headlines had barely caught up with Adlai before the White House was back with the promised Government report, in which the President reiterated that the course of wisdom was to negotiate a foolproof disarmament agreement with the Russians before throwing away the U.S. nuclear lead. "One truth must never be lost from sight," Ike wrote. "It is this: the critical issue is not a matter of testing nuclear weapons-but of preventing their...
...Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 no. 4 was not dwarfed accoustically as it might have been in Sanders Theater. Senturia drove his strings to the kind of relentless rhythm that can make Baroque music so exciting. While the accuracy of the violins was not quite 100 percent, the counterpoint was clear and the pacing excellent...
...track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together...
...opinions as versifiers play with words. Don Juan's speech in Man and Superman ("They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public-spirited, only patriotic," etc.), is really a prose aria balancing on a counterpoint of ideas...
Record companies are today practically forced into the arms of the modernists. They have exhausted the "standard" repertory of late 18th century and 19th century music and even the cool counterpoint of the preclassical masters. Some of the moderns prove to be profitable indeed. The reason: contemporary composers favor brilliant or unusual orchestral effects, and such effects are just dandy for showing off hi-fi phonograph equipment. Thus the battle of modern music appears to have reached its turning point, and the composers who pioneered during the '20s and '30s and their followers are about to enjoy victory...