Word: string
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Come to Be" sounds like it's a lost track from Rubber Soul and "Coda" is right off Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band. Lead singer Schneider's voice is eerily like a combination of Lennon and McCartney. Songs like "Find Our Way" use muted horn and string parts a la Beatles classics such as "Got to Get You Into My Life." Let us not forget that Apple was the name of the Beatles' record company. Coincidence? You make the call. But the Beatles aren't the only Apples influences. "You Said That Last Night," "Get There Fine...
Idei's stature in America's "New Establishment" mirrors Sony's performance these days. Men in Black is just one of a string of hits this year that has enabled Sony Pictures (Columbia, TriStar) to fly past $1 billion in U.S. box-office sales in record time. In music, Sony's record division continues to churn out profits, even though the industry is downbeat. Sony's PlayStation game player has blown away Nintendo. And Sony still sells $23.28 billion worth of audio-video equipment. Its second quarter was a monster, with sales rising 20.6% to $13.6 billion and income rising...
...third movement opens with a quick, exciting string passage, and overall conveys a morehopeful tone than its preceding movements. There is a regular, bouncy rhythm echoing throughout the different sections of the orchestra--about as bouncy as Prokofiev could ever write. There is a meditative scene in the midst of this action that the orchestra portrayed very gracefully. But it quickly turns back to marching notes of stridency and urgency--and the symphony ends with a bang, not a whimper...
...string quartet come about at the Horde shows...
...have strings on our record and we wanted to do something different. On Lollapalooza, every show was the same and the bands weren't really into it. We wanted to do something exceptional and bring in a string quartet. Ben worked overtime arranging the strings and arranging the charts. We thought it'd just be a way to stand out a little...