Also commemorating its own 10th anniversary, Musicians for Harmony rounded up musicians who aided its effort from the beginning.
Harmony filled up on waffles and milk for breakfast, while a few blocks away, Richie Figueroa, 9, stopped at a bodega on the way to P.S. 163 for a pack of Winterfresh gum.
Where Karen O often used to bounce her voice against just a line or a loop from Mr. Zinner, now the Yeah Yeah Yeahs build edifices of harmony, stacking up chords and counterpoint.
Soon the 30-piece orchestra was doing what her harp cannot: sustaining chords and gliding between notes, creating a cushion of harmony, stirring up extra counterpoint, placing the songs in broader vistas.
The heirs' efforts to fulfill Paul's dream of peace and environmental harmony take up the rest of this mini-series, which ends, again, in to-be-continued mode.
"Aus der Tieffen" ("Out of the Depths"), by Christoph Bernhard (1628-92), here featuring the tenor Marc Molomot, is similarly mournful until, on the repeated line "My soul waits for the Lord from one morning watch to the other," the harmony opens up, and the sun seems to come out.
Metaphors of music and harmony crop up everywhere, in the sonnets as well as the plays: "Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly?", "How oft when thou, my music, music playest …" I can't think of a modern writer who seems to have such an intense relationship with music.
Collaborations also proved popular -- with Zara Larsson and Fifth Harmony teaming up with MNEK and Ty Dolla $ign, respectively.
