Meantime, Monday's tabloid press was divided between interviewing Tom Hanks in one part of town, and Robert Redford, seated at a side table at the elegant Harmony in another, celebrating his new movie, The Company You Keep.
However Italian painters began to move beyond Netherlandish influences by the 1460s, as they concentrated on composition with a greater emphasis on harmony of parts belonging together – "that elegant harmony and grace ... which is called beauty", evident, for example, in Andrea Mantegna's Entombment.
The qualities that helped Fleetwood Mac's Rumours sell 40m copies – its west coast provenance, which gave the record a languid charm, and the pain of dual marital break-ups transmuted into elegant, harmony-laden pop songs – weren't really transferable, but they turned soft rock into one of the definitive sounds of the late 70s anyway.
But while the titles may have been works in progress, the music sounded complete, with a combination of elegant harmonies, textural interest and melodic lines soulfully rendered.
She and her sister Anna emerged from Montréal in the mid-1970s to shake up the country, rock and folk scenes with their blend of gentle songs, breathy, delicate and elegant harmonies and classy multi-instrumental work.
Two big scars held the body of the dove together, but the plate maintained an elegant, disjointed harmony.
She thinks of a night game in the South Bronx as an inspirational mise en scène, perhaps because it is the only spectacle in town that achieves so naturally the elegant, chaotic harmony of the best of her pop-classical, mixed-genre, technologically and textually tangled Wooster Group productions.
The choir also brought familiar Cuban songs, like "Son de La Loma," as well as an elegant close-harmony version of "Unforgettable" and a Ping-Ponging arrangement of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho".
What resulted was a heightened appreciation of Rossi's innovative spirit, which combined the elegant shifting harmonies of the Italian early Baroque with a careful attention to textual detail.
I really don't hear that, I hear--at least vocally--The Association, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Starship... Why did you feel like it was cool to do elegant four-part harmonies in an era where no one is harmonizing the way that you guys are?
Without a drumbeat anywhere in the song, Cam's lovely voice dances like a flame over elegant guitars and background harmony as she reflects upon a dream she had about her ex.
