Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treatment of the demoniac tale. Nocturnal Procession, a stately, spooky march of Gregorian- chanting penitents, is one of the composer's most original and beautiful creations. The Dance in the Village Inn, better known as the First Mephisto Waltz, sweeps forward with a cloven-hoofed fiddler calling the tune...
Kern's itch to change and perfect is the mark of a meticulous craftsman. It is genius, though, that etches his tunes in the memory. Composer Alec Wilder, in his 1972 study American Popular Song, singled out Kern for exemplifying "the pure, uncontrived melodic line more characteristically than any other writer of American theater music." To listen to a Kern tune like They Didn't Believe Me is to realize how elegantly it obeys the laws of melody and mathematics: each succeeding phrase is both surprising and inevitable. In that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from...
Such excursions, meaningful as they may have been to Dylan personally or artistically, took their toll on his audience. Never a multiplatinum artist -- his most popular record, Desire, has sold only 1.5 million copies to date -- Dylan could no longer fine-tune the zeitgeist all by himself, and his records were perceived as too personal or, worse, increasingly marginal. "What are they playing that guy for?" sneered a Manhattan saleswoman recently when a Dylan medley came on the radio. One playing of Empire Burlesque and all such questions become academic. Listen up. You too, Mr. Jones...
Suddenly, the lawyers seem to be everywhere. On prime-time and late-night television, on radio, in the newspapers, the blast of advertising is increasingly tough to tune out. "Injuries -- call us first." "You may be entitled to money damages." "Dial L-A-W-Y-E-R-S." While traditional practitioners shudder, the U.S. Supreme Court is not flinching, and last week it seemed to guarantee that the barrage will become heavier...
Gingerich managed to include some clever trick in each of his lectures-Whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...