Word: crescendo
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...influenced guitars floating above a lush backing of piano and drum shuffle. "I Live," the only song in the set from Falkner's first solo album, Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown, brought cheers from the die-hard fans. More of a straightforward rock number, the song grew into a crescendo of cymbal crashes and guitar slashes not present with the restraint of the album version. After 45 minutes, the set came to an introspective close with "Goodnight Sweet Night," gently easing the audience back into serene silence...
...down with a flow of eastern influenced guitars floating above a lush backing of piano and drum shuffle. "I Live," the only song in the set from Falkner's first MISSING Unknown, brought cheers from the diehard fans. More of a straightforward rock number, the song grew into a crescendo of cymbal crashes and guitar slashes not present with the restraint of the album version. After 45 minutes, the set came to an introspective close with "Goodnight Sweet Night," gently easing the audience back into serene silence...
...staccato drum beats of the band were loud enough to set off blaring car alarms in the vehicles we marched beside. Heads poked out of upstairs windows and front doors opened in the public housing townhouses as people paused to watch the commotion pass in the street. Feeling the crescendo of noise and emotion, the drums beat a little louder, drowning out and then leaving behind the sounds of car alarms, as the growing crowd crested the hill and we marched out of Newark's past...
Brother Bill nods a yes and gets back into his car. Driving off, he turns up the volume of Saint-Saens. As rain and snow come down hard on the windshield and the classical music begins a crescendo, the old Catholic missionary looks suddenly weary. He is still recovering from a recent triple-bypass heart operation, and he's been told the prognosis is not good. "People think I'm a fool," he says, "but I love these guys--all of them. I know that many of them have done some really bad things, even killed people. But no matter...
...Sony Theatre. As patrons sat with their necks outstretched and their shoulders leaning forwards, they resembled an audience that might have been anticipating Bruce Willis to defuse a bomb or Keanu Reeves to board a bus--not four smallish string players on the verge of completing a crescendo. And yet it was the very creation of anticipation by those four smallish string players that elevated the concert from music making to story telling. Adhering to Haydn's tenet that a modern string quartet "should engage the mind as well as the emotions," the Guarneri Quartet played a repertoire that alternated...