Mr. Turner, who has few equals among the current generation, nurtures his own Tristano fascination, and he displayed it via calm, controlled lines of notes that traveled to the very end of a deep breath.
In the back pages of my grandfather's Little Red Book, I've tried to make out the tiny lines of notes that he scribbled in the margins during military struggles, when Mao's words must have seemed like both protective armor and possible artillery.
The two alternated on the high register of their horns running off lines of notes at break neck speed, eventually ending this jazz duel in flurry of high energy with piercing punctuation.
A few lines of note, with translations: "The only way out of a debt crisis is to deal with your debts.
What else?" I reel off six or seven things, along the lines of noting the nervous couple with the age difference and wanting to know which company they clearly both worked for and how long she'd been married and whether the ring was as cheap as it looked.
But that manipulation works only with music that has a single line of notes — for instance, a solo vocal performance.
But with only one line of notes in hand, Mr. Morgenthau summoned every important moment and explained how new investigations had undermined the shaky verdicts.
The woman had only to find her place in the line of notes and chords, and slip back in, like a girl stepping into the alternating jump ropes in a game of Double Dutch.
The opening line of Notes On Camp reads like a commentary on the obituary closet: "Many things in the world have not been named, and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described".
"Rothko Chapel" unfolds as a series of fragmentary viola lines, flickers of notes on the celesta, isolated wordless chords intoned by the chorus and subdued rhythmic figures in the percussion.
Her work found its way to "The Cosby Show," where it reached an audience of millions, after Mr. Cosby's wife, Camille, saw a line of note cards, posters and prints that Ms.Honeywood and her older sister, Stephanie, sold through their company, Black Lifestyles.
