"A third of people below the poverty line live in households in paid work.
But get to the playoffs — all on the line, live or die — and the barroom brawler becomes a smarter bet.
Hear that line live in "As You Like It," one of the four shows in this young central Arkansas theater festival.
His approach borrowed an idea from Mr. Reich's more recent "counterpoint" series, in which a soloist records several lines of music and then plays another line live against the recording.
Most political candidates play themselves on SNL, often for just a cameo in a sketch or to declare the show's famous tag line: "Live from New York – it's Saturday night!" Seldom, though, do they go all-out thespian and play a character in a sketch.
And "Cello Counterpoint" (2003) adds to the series of densely textured single-timbre works that began with "Vermont Counterpoint" in 1982, in which an instrumentalist typically records multiple, interlocking lines, adding a final line live in concert (although on recordings this is a moot point).
