Word: waltzed
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When one adds to the equation great events such as the Halloween Masquerade, the Winter Swing and the Spring Waltz, as well as convenience and a superb dining hall, who could ask for anything more...
...Metheny's previous CD, Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (Telarc), released last year, teamed the two friends for a bewitching program of unaccompanied duets. "It encapsulates the love and respect I have for Jim," Metheny says. Best of all is a magically spare version of Farmer's Trust, a tender waltz originally recorded by the Metheny Group in 1982, which leaves no doubt that despite his love of ear-popping electronic effects, he is above all a wonderfully fluent spinner of simple yet indelible melodies...
...judgement passed in this film about the different characters, all of who are simply, as human as can be portrayed. Ben's parents are horrified by his attraction to a black girl, and his father especially is a criminal. Yet they are also the same ones who waltz with each other by candlelight, and go to jail with dignity and calm. Van's frat boy friend, Trey, is a drunkard and a friend of a bigot who picks fights with Jews, yet he also forms real affection for Van, and in a thoroughly confused but sweet gesture, tries to hook...
...ravishing The Art of Song (Verve), is a lyrical excursion across a landscape that embraces classical music (Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical), folk (Wayfaring Stranger), American popular song (Kern's In Love in Vain) and contemporary jazz (Jeri Southern's Theme for Charlie and Haden's own Ruth's Waltz). The only thing these disparate pieces have in common is Haden's singular vision, his insistence that this music beats with a single heart that pulses as steadily as his bass swings...
...particular concern, according to the flyer, was a recent decision by the current committee co-chairs to hire nude models as decoration for the House's recent formal waltz...