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Another musical collaboration on the album, "Backwoods Galaxy," the eighth track, pairs Fleck's banjo with Chick Corea's piano and Branford Marsalis' tenor saxophone. The three musicians establish the song's complicated tone by first hammering out a funky, amorphous wall of sound. The banjo then sets up a background for the improvised doodlings of Marsalis' smooth horn and Corea's tight piano solos...
That, according to Beausoleil's Doucet, accounts for the striking vocal style that marks Cajun music: a high tenor that must strain to be heard over the roaring accordion and droning fiddles. The protean Doucet, 43, is a virtuoso violinist, accordionist and singer who gleefully punctuates the French lyrics with the traditional shouts of "Oh, ya, yaie!" He is also an accomplished composer and scholar who has tracked the Cajun style from its origins in northern France through the songs of such 20th century Cajuns as Amada Ardoin and Iry Lejune. Together with his brother David and some friends...
...reporting error, an article in yesterday's Crimson contained an inaccuracy. Anthony G. Oettinger, professor of applied mathematics and professor of information resources policy, was reported to have said he "did not want to associate [himself] with the 'general tenor"' of the remarks of Professor David Landes. Oettinger said yesterday he did want to associate himself with Landes. In a letter yesterday, Oettinger said "faculty and administration [need] to co-exist and to collaborate in an appropriately balanced...
Although Oettinger said he did not want toassociate himself with the "general tenor" ofLandes's' remarks, he said professors shouldpartly blame themselves for the current situation...
...Friedrich Nietzsche, John Bell Young plays 14 solo works and is joined by Constance Keene in two pieces for four hands. In The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, Young is again the pianist, joined at times by violin and a second piano, as well as by the excellent lyric tenor John Aler for 16 songs...