Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The similarities between Herman's song and David's consisted of an identical series of ten intervals. And My Sweet Lord really does sound very much like He's So Fine, in melody and rhythm...
crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water, which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worst flips him or her out of the shell...
...Tunnel of Love appears in stores this week, but anyone with a radio has already heard Bruce Springsteen telling what it is about. The first single from the album, Brilliant Disguise, floats easily in the air to a snapback, mid-tempo rhythm. It is like a silk scarf shading a lamp: the song throws off odd refractions of color and veils a 100-watt glow. The melody is sinuous, but the lyrics say something scary just at the end: "God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he's sure of." That is Tunnel of Love in two deft...
...title track of Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., sounded like a marching song, but the rhythm thrust home a sawtooth short story filled with despair and defiance. The new LP is a little more straightforward and a lot more spare. Springsteen's E Street Band reveled on Born in the U.S.A. Here they hang back; indeed, on four songs the Boss handles the instrumentation by himself. Born in the U.S.A. was an album full of bright light and bold colors and deliberate, surreptitious contradictions. Tunnel of Love, by contrast, seems washed in autumn moonlight, pale and chill...
Fuerzeig ended the program with a very jazzy taste of Gershwin, in honor of what would have been the composer's 89th birthday this week. These short selections, the 'Preludes for Piano' and 'I Got Rhythm', were played with the same technical confidence and attention to detail which marked the entire program...