Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the red ON THE AIR sign winks on, and Pianist Rich Dworsky whacks out a couple of yards of barrelhouse. Keillor swings into his theme song, the old Hank Snow tune Hello Love: "Well, look who's comin' through that door/ I think we've met somewhere before...
...fast lane of a Los Angeles freeway, a Randy Travis song on the car radio can put you, all at once, onto a stretch of two-lane blacktop. A tune like On the Other Hand or What'll You Do About Me can turn a city singles bar into a state-route sugar shack. If there is a new spirit in country, just about the friendliest place to get acquainted with it is on the tracks of Travis' fine new album, Always & Forever...
...Tories upstaged both Labor and the Alliance by having Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of Evita and Cats, write a campaign tune titled It's Great to Be Great. Party Chairman Tebbit proudly labeled the music "brand new, not second hand," like Brahms' Fourth Symphony, Labor's theme, or the Alliance's Trumpet Tune by 17th century Composer Henry Purcell. All in all, many Britons agreed with Independent Television News' Jon Snow, who declared, "The campaign has become Americanized." Labor put on a strong show by adopting staged events, photo opportunities and other techniques refined by Thatcher four years ago. Last...
...Harbison. His music is approachably tonal without being obvious; a Harbison tune is less a hummable melody than a strongly profiled motif designed to forward the musical argument, not seduce the ear. His structures are sturdy,his orchestration is crisp and clean. Yet this is not the dread "Princeton School" music of baleful repute, the arid note spinning that often characterizes the works of Ivy League composers like Milton Babbitt. Harbison, who as a teenager played jazz piano and who at Harvard led the Bach Society Orchestra, is an academic with a heart...
...most overt example of statusgrubbing did not occur in baseball but in basketball. Consider the year that both Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell were getting their contracts renewed. A few days after Red Auerbach signed Russell to the tune of $100,000, Chamberlain demanded $100,001. The rivalry that the two big men had on the court spilled off the court...