A Hawk and a Hacksaw, whose name comes from a bit of dialogue in "Hamlet," has even taken to live performances of the new soundtrack, consisting of original compositions, as well as reworked versions of songs from the film and unrelated folk tunes, as accompaniment to screenings of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".
Heard for themselves, they are more mysterious than they were as accompaniment to tableaus of the suffering Christ.
Tuesday night's ceremony began with a rafter-rattling blast of organ music as accompaniment to a colorful procession of flags, each from one of the 19 geographic regions of the archdiocese.
As accompaniment to a bag of popcorn it's delightful; as a piece of cinematic art, however, it is a violent, awful revelation of human hubris, shortsightedness, and self-importance.
The program couples "Appalachian Spring" with the rarely heard "Music for Movies," then concludes with Copland's score for the documentary "The City" as accompaniment to a showing of the film.
Alongside classical experiments for assessing toxicity, the use of computational tools is gaining more and more interest in the scientific community and in the industrial world as accompaniment to or replacement of existing techniques.
So it was a good choice to end the Brooklyn Philharmonic's little concert at the South Street Seaport on Saturday night with Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" as accompaniment for a dazzling display of pyrotechnics by the Zambelli family, set off from barges in the East River.
He wanted it to evoke the deliberately spare style of classic Staple Singers tracks, in which the emphasis was on the vocals, sometimes with just a chorus, snare drum and the tremolo- and reverb-laden guitar of Roebuck (Pops) Staples, the group's patriarch, as accompaniment to the husky, sensual contralto of Mavis, his youngest daughter.
The music also serves as accompaniment for the arboretum's Carnival of Roses, a competitively judged flower show at the Horticulture Center from 2 to 5 p.m. Admission to the Beethoven Festival is $35, which includes all performances.
I'm thinking of the waning days of the old Stadium, in 2008, when Derek's great rush through September carried him to the top of the all-time career hits list at the famous crater, each fresh rap of his coming as accompaniment to the deep "Der-ek Je-tuh!" cries from the bleachers that the new restaurant site has pretty well silenced.
