Word: odes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reich: Tehillim (ECM/ Warner Bros.). In the year of minimalism, Steve Reich's hypnotic psalms are a modern ode...
TIMOTHY CROUSE writes about it in his literary ode to reporters on the tortuous campaign trail: It's the fear of missing the assasination or the major gaffe that finally rolls every member of the pack out of the sack at some ungodly hour day after day. But not even the most hard-assed editor would have legitimately expected his reporter to be there on October 21, when Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Headlee dropped the campaign's bombshell and dramatically dashed his fortunes...
...FORGET, though, that these are not just any poor songs. These are Important Ones confronting modern day issues. Apparently seeing the potential listening public among the growing ranks of the unemployed. Joel begins The Nylon Curtain with "Allentown," an upbeat ode to those who are out of work in the Pennsylvanian factory town. Joel sprinkles insincere comments about broken American promises in between the vacuous refrain "And we're living here in Allentown." "Iron and coke and chromium steel," Joel chirps cheerily...
...ceremony--which included addresses, recitation of a Bicentennial Ode, and presentation of honary degrees and commemorative medals--brought to a close a four-day celebration that has drawn doctors and scientists from around the world...
...unadorned white shirt and dark trousers, there is a deep warmth in his best works: Music for 18 Musicians (1976), one of Reich's longest (nearly an hour) and texturally richest pieces, infused with an uncharacteristic sense of brooding and menace; the Octet (1979), a sunny minimalist ode to joy; and Tehillim...