Word: arpeggios
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...know Ravel's Bolero. It is difficult to get it wrong. The Pops did. Not in tempo, or interpretation, but the actual score itself. Players kept missing notes, First the French horns came in wrong, then the English horn massacred an arpeggio, and soon the entire performance was beyond redemption...
...South to work in his auto factories. City blues begin in Detroit. The heavy beat of electric blues is the beat of the machines that ground the Negro down. It is the sound of the piston, the rhythm of the steel press. And the life of blues is the arpeggio of release, the moment when a few high beautiful notes free themselves from the beat and dance and dream of freedom...
...suit the mood of the audience. Requests are encouraged (current favorite: Lara's Theme from the film score of Doctor Zhivago), but in many instances the cocktail pianist is more prized for his fellowship than his musicianship. Table hopping between sets is essential, and any pianist worth his arpeggio greets the entrance of old customers by sliding into their favorite numbers...
...presidency without a meaningful challenge to his reign. Now it dared to rebel. "Jimmy, why don't you cut out?" demanded a folk singer at a Local 10 meeting last month. Jimmy, who voluntarily quit in 1958 as czar of the American Federation of Musicians, amid an arpeggio of tears, could not see leaving his $26,000 job as the head of Local 10. "I don't think they have any problems," he said...
...Faure is a comforter, Bruckner is a seer. In the Te Deum he probes the cosmos with dramatic horn calls, crescendos and sforzandos, threading the strident opening arpeggio throughout his relentless score, and develops leaps of an octave and fifth into a towering mystical insight into the universe. When a Faure melody rises, we feel that it is doing so only to fall back to rest; when Bruckner moves upward his chromatic alterations impel the music to a new height of transfiguration. Indeed, the Te Deum proclaims less traditional Christianity than a musical cosmology, and this performance treated...