Mr. Sivelov approached Book 1 without an apparent agenda: unlike Richard Egarr, whose harpsichord performance at Weill Recital Hall in 2008 explored relatively recent theories about what "well-tempered" tuning meant to Bach, Mr. Sivelov played the work on the piano, in the standard modern tuning.
Ensemble Perspectives is a French-based five-piece group led by bass-baritone Geoffroy Heurard; their finely balanced, blended voices and precision of tuning mean they sound good in everything from John Tavener's The Lamb to some 17th-century Italian polyphony by Michelangelo Rossi or Henri Salvador's croony Syracuse.
Females vary with respect to the best frequency and the bandwidth of tuning (mean BF 4.9 kHz, range 4.5 5.2 kHz; mean Q5-dB value 660 Hz, range 300 1100 Hz).
That sense of spaciousness, together with the Thai-inflected tunes, means Khruangbin sound like no one else, even as their songs shimmer with echoes of Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin or Curtis Mayfield's score for Super Fly.
His inability to hold a tune means he sounds indifferent during On That Day, his response to 9/11 and its aftermath, yet it fits perfectly because his response to 9/11 is dolefully puzzled: "Some people say it's what we deserve/ some people say they hate us of old/I wouldn't know, I'm just holding the fort".
The guarded Cook obviously did not go into detail on what the "stay tuned" means, but as Facebook is attempting to make its own foray into mobile, the idea of the two companies working together in the future is certainly interesting and still very much a possibility, Cook's "stay tuned" implies.
Live son and classic merengue tunes mean a dance floor bursting with energy.
It seems every new condominium these days has its own tune, meant to convey its soul to potential buyers.
It is full of polytonal, polyrhythmic mayhem and mashup: cacophonous marching bands, simple parlor tunes meant to represent Beth Alcott playing the family's spinet, and, throughout, myriad quotations of the famous opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth, a work that obsessed Ives.
