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...fall alongside. Fortunately there is an inescapable medium in American culture, which I hold particularly dear, that helps serve as a carrier of memories-popular music. Yes, pop music. Top 40, Billboard, Kasey Kasem, whatever you'd like to call it. Music spilling out of apartment windows, pumped up bass beats from cars cruising around, dance tunes plaguing the club scene. Popular music is a universal language for everyone from early adolescents to the middle-aged to enjoy...
Along with an interesting if not mystifying tale, "The Freshmen" succeeds musically. The charged bass precisely complements the guitar with a brightness in each note that at once reinforces and rebukes the lyrical subject matter. Paralleling this double-edged musical sword, the song can identify both with sad moments (saying goodbye) and happier instances, such as journeys out on the open road with a crisp breeze cutting across your face and the somber song ambling along on the radio...
...Most Euphemistic Course Title Award: To "Music 167br: Composition in the Digital Electronic Medium," in which techno guru Ivan Tcherepmin expostulates on how to "drop bass" and "git bizzy." DJ Tcherepmin also gets props for giving his prerequisite the same name. (Ecstasy may be purchased at the Coop at a low, low price...
...most powerful instrument of persuasion of this balding, burly, bass-voiced leader is his ability to stand up and say to his fellow rulers, Look at what I've done here. In the 11 years Museveni has run Uganda, he has brought a country savaged by dictators and murderous wars back from the dead. He has implemented free markets, controlled inflation and cut the civil service. A middle class has emerged, hopeless state-owned enterprises have been privatized, agricultural productivity is soaring, roads crisscross the country. A devil for investment in local enterprise, Museveni charmed Egyptian businessmen into manufacturing muteete...
Somehow energized after a second movement that lacked much cohesion of thought between the soloist and orchestra, Zacharias dove into the finale with visible enthusiasm. He slammed his powerful left hand into the bass line during at least two tuttis, and practically cued the cellos himself during the recapitulation. He pushed every beat with an ardor that made up for his interpretation's lack of spaciousness...