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Unlike the songs on Stratas' earlier album, The Unknown Kurt Weill, these are among the composer's most familiar. The soprano's increasingly raw voice is not entirely suitable to the works of the American period, like the wistful waltz Foolish Heart, from One Touch of Venus. But it is just right for the angry desperation of the Brecht-Berlin years; the harsh, bitter edge to the smoky Surabaya-Johnny proclaims there will be no happy end here...
...with soft sunlight. In the shadow of Manhattan's skyline, workers bustled around the Wollman Memorial Rink. One crew hoisted lights for night skating, while another busily polished rest stands for skaters. Someone at the controls of the music system surrendered to an impulse and played the Skater's Waltz. Said Jogger Susan Dorrity, who stopped to watch the activity: "I can't believe it's done...
...already out of control. In an effort to at least cut down the tools of the trade, New York police last month seized 45,000 crack pipes (some of them labeled I LOVE NEW YORK). But in some New York neighborhoods, crack dealers are so cocky that they waltz down the street patting children on the head and greeting store owners by their first names, "like they're running for mayor," says Sergeant Kevin Kilcullen, superintendent of the 24th Precinct narcotics division. "Sometimes they see us driving down the streets and wave to us and say, 'Hi, officer...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...
...pioneer with 35 albums to his credit. Then there are the grandiose synthesized symphonies of Jean-Michel Jarre (Oxygene) and the film scores of Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner). There are the strongly defined melody and deceptive, stutter-step 5/4 rhythm of Jobson's piano waltz Disturbance in Vienna, which also turn up on his new synthesizer album Theme of Secrets. There are the down-home guitar serenades of Folk Veteran Leo Kottke. And there is Hwong's dreamy, Asian-inflected music, which in her album House of Sleeping Beauties weds such disparate instruments as the shakuhachi (a traditional...