Word: obbligatos
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...press dogged the Princess' footsteps, struggling to make significant gossip of every transient expression. But in the three weeks since Margaret and Peter Townsend had each returned to England, the titillating "will-she-or-won't-she" speculation of the keyhole-peepers had become only a tinkling obbligato behind the sterner voices. Whatever else the royal family may be in modern Britain-symbol of ancient legitimacy, shining emblem of Commonwealth unity, indestructible warranty of the glory that is Britain-it is first and foremost a family affair: every spinster is its maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious...
Beethoven: "Eyeglass" Duet for Viola and Cello (Joseph de Pasquale and Samuel Mayes; Boston). One of the most recently discovered Beethoven treasures (first published in 1912 ), this one is puckishly scored "with two eyeglasses obbligato." Scholars are still puzzling over what this notation means; Beethoven may have simply wanted to say: "Take a close look at the notes, boys, and play it right." Boston Symphony First Deskmen de Pasquale and Mayes play it so right and so resonantly that it sometimes sounds like a full quartet...
...Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato to her torch songs was Snyder's fearsome behind-the-scenes frenzies. Mostly, his uncontrolled temper was directed at Ruth's employers, and the combination of her talent and his tan trums boosted her earnings from $25 to $2,500 a week. After 17 years of his table-thumping furies, Ruth...
...River, and at least half her age in Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll (". . . Pas un petit morceau de mon gateau" she chortles in the second chorus). Best item: Plain Ole Blues, a cumulative band number to which the irrepressible Lizzie adds a polytonal obbligato...
...Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...