Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It was a cameo, a gem of political theatrics last week in the Rose Garden burnished by sunshine and the lovely memory of every American's uncle, the late Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson. It was too tiny a melody for the tin ears of the networks. And yet...
Though the choreographers cooperated on all aspects of the piece, Baryshnikov's mark is on the corps de ballet work in the ballroom scene, and he has clearly progressed since the tame groupings in the Nutcracker seven years ago. Prokofiev's waltzes are drenched in melody, yet edged...
Zandonai's failure was primarily due to the lack of a strong individual style. For all its harmonic piquancies and orchestral sleight of hand, the score of Francesca sounds derivative-a touch of Puccini, a sprinkle of Debussy, a pinch of Wagner. Further, it lacks a single memorable melody...
ROCK, HOWEVER, PLAYS a much larger role in this album than in her previous Big Science. "Sharkey's Day", for example, is probably the closest Anderson has come to making a song that really rocks. With Belew's sawing, distorted guitar and a dense, varied percussion section firmly driving the...
The Gabriel/Anderson collaboration, "Excellent Birds," is the only major mistake on this album. With its obvious, snappy chord changes, its overwrought vocals, its melody which sounds like something off of Security, and its pointless lyrics fashioned in the David Byrre made, this song indicates what could have happened in the...