Word: codas
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...Norway. In the third movement, Friere’s accents and staccatos lacked the caustic bite that keeps listeners on edge. He never foraged deep enough into the keyboard to make Grieg’s melodies soar, though the orchestra, which finally reached a fully blended volume near the coda, did manage to salvage the concerto’s explosive conclusion.After Friere’s encore rendition of Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” which was just as tame as the main performance itself, Sung led the orchestra...
...chordal battle. After a virtuosic passage that unabashedly showcased the percussive capabilities and dissonant tones of the instrument, a plaintive melody, influenced by Bartók’s roots in folk music, resolved the chaos. Jerking out of this harmonic respite, Lang coaxed the coda from a steady trot of sharp staccatos into a thunderous gallop of arpeggiated exclamations. Lang transitioned flawlessly from the mad chaos of Bartók to the nuanced subtlety of the French impressionistic style with a few selections from Claude Debussy’s Preludes. It was these simple tone poems, not the virtuosic...
...expressed in the vocabulary of Chinese socialism - a popular government slogan printed on giant red banners reads "Sweat Today for a Beautiful Home Tomorrow." The exhortation echoes China's 30-year economic expansion, which lifted millions of peasants out of poverty. But it also carries with it an implied coda: earthquake survivors can expect a better future, as long as they don't delve too deeply into the mistakes of the past. "I think Sichuan is very much like China as a whole right now," says Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based scholar. "You can't help but be impressed...
...recovery effort is expressed in the vocabulary of Chinese socialism; a popular government slogan printed on giant red banners reads SWEAT TODAY FOR A BEAUTIFUL HOME TOMORROW. The exhortation echoes China's long economic expansion, which lifted millions out of poverty. But it also carries with it a coda: earthquake survivors can expect a better future, as long as they don't delve too deeply into the mistakes of the past. "I think Sichuan is very much like China as a whole right now," says Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based scholar. "You can't help but be impressed...
...Nobody Does It Better," Carly Simon Carole Bayer Sager's words are legitimately sexy, while the music by Marvin Hamlisch uses every cliché in the composer's arsenal to build to a syrupy but irresistible coda...