Word: obligatto
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...part of Canada in a four-hour blackout, during which the Faculty approves the CEP's Gen Ed program. Master Finley, admitting that he had been "a bit hasty" in judging the proposal, predicts that the old Gen Ed system "will be the tune, and this new business the obligatto," Harvard decides to install emergency generators...
...more sincerely lyrical sections, Burgin kept the work moving steadily forward. The entire woodwind choir produced beautifully pure tones combined with accuracy and incisive intonation. Jane Rogers played the difficult first trumpet part with power and clarity; the last movement, virtually a concerto for brass instruments with percussion obligatto, gave her and her colleagues ample opportunities to display their talents...
...beyond the usual order of things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling no doubt that he was being attacked from both sides, lashed out wildly with punchy, agitated jabs. During these gyrations, the pianist managed the almost superhuman job of bringing order out of chaos...
From the New History Society comes a tunefully encouraging obligatto to the theme of futility which runs through the world today regarding Peace. A prize of $5000 is offered in a world-wide competition for a plan to secure universal disarmament...
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