While the harmony between Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant has fueled the Lakers' run toward the title, Fisher's return from a broken right foot on March 13 has been a close second.
In slow movements it is likely to be compelling progressions of chords, enhanced by melodic ornamentation and enlivened by continual suspensions, dissonances, and resolutions (i.e., by suspending single notes while the harmony around them changes; this creates dissonance, the tension of harmonies that seem to clash; the tension is "resolved" when the harmonies change again).
The opening concert (and a host of others) at the annual Istanbul Music Festival (May 31-June 27) will take place at the Zorlu, while the harmony continues into the summer, with the Istanbul Jazz Festival following quickly on its heels starting July 1.
While the harmonies grow funky, and the counterpoint becomes complex, even in its bustling moments it is — particularly given this orchestra's warm sound — an unanxious, relieved work.
His allegorical lyrics inspired Prince Buster, while the harmonies of the Impressions left their mark on the early work of Toots and the Maytals and others.
Through fundraising efforts, PACS has established a Scholarship Fund for students at the Juilliard School's Pre College Division, while supporting The Harmony Program, a New York City organization that provides music lessons to economically disadvantaged children.
The witty premise of the piece is hand-crossings: the right hand burbles away in the middle of the keyboard, filling in the harmony, while the left darts over and under it, picking out scraps of melody and bass line.
Suspension, in music, a means of creating tension by prolonging a consonant note while the underlying harmony changes, normally on a strong beat.
Precisely the point: while the formal logic of the harmony is preserved, "the depth and density of the sound," in the composer's words, are extended.
One figure, the wheel within a wheel, which was made up of circles turning in alternate directions around a central chorus of singers, represented the all-embracing nature of the Gospel; the outer ring of dancers represented the ultimate circle of truth, while the central chorus symbolized the harmony and perfection of God that is at the centre of life.
"Be aware a little more, here, of the harmony," he tells Lucas while replaying a few measures.
