Sentences with word «concerto»

Acceptable or not, craftsmanship and the ability to draw and paint without the aid of computer or photography is a positive human compulsion, and is just as valid a virtuosity as singing with a beautiful voice, or a piano concerto played with nimble fingers.

Created by the artists behind 1513: A Ships» Opera, performed in 2013 on the Thames in Central London, Whitstable Sounding is a live, moving, balletic scored concerto of ships» steam whistles, bells, horns, hooters, flares and sirens.

Recently completed projects include Azul, a cello concerto for Yo - Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony; the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's film Youth Without Youth; Rose of the Winds, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered by them with Yo - Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble and Miguel Harth - Bedoya conducting; and Kuai Le (Joy), premiered by Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at the opening of the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai.

Many ecologists think that the point of performance is the exhibition of skill and exertion, rather like imagining that we like a violin concerto because the violinist has to sweat to play it fast enough.»

May 3, 2018 • A world premiere recording of a new piano concerto by Philip Glass sits comfortably beside a Bach classic.

I played concertos by Phillip Glass, Run the Jewels» bombastic lyrics, operatic solos by Peter Hollens, and the party - starting lyrics of «Do Something Crazy» by Outasight.

In addition, most of the concerts included a Mozart piano concerto with Barenboim as soloist.

At its core is a performance of the Adagio of Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, conveyed via drums suspended from the gallery ceiling.

It's akin to a Mozart concerto played by the drunk guy at the piano bar down the street.

I tend not to stream really long stuff (Bach cello concertos come to mind) and choose to own those titles because I know that for creatives involved if I'd like to sit down and enjoy a full ensemble symphonic composition today, I need to make sure that there is money headed to them so I can listen tomorrow.

Highlights in Ireland include the widely - acclaimed Chopin and Schubert series at IMMA and the equally - successful complete Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos at the National Concert Hall.

August 31, 2016 • From operas about Steve Jobs and Alice in Wonderland to an orchestral evocation of Detroit and a new concerto for Yo - Yo Ma, the new concert season is flush with premieres.

Saratoga Performing Arts Center Friday night kicked off their holiday season with the Orchestra of St. Luke's performing Bach's Brandenburg concertos at the Bethesda Congregational Church in Saratoga Springs.

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From classical concertos to golden oldies, music is the background of our lives, so mine it for old memories or new ideas.

Without a conductor, you can imagine the orchestra going from concerto to chaos in a flash.

Sala wanted to imagine how a fictional journey through the winds, the waves, and the water currents of the high seas would affect a musical masterpiece of the age of Enlightenment; what would become of Mozart's Clarinet concerto if it were to float and drift like a message in a bottle.

«There's an invisible concerto going on,» says Jonathan Williams, an atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for...

I seem to recall that there are, or were, recordings you could buy that let you play your chosen instrument along with the rest of an orchestra — Haydn's trumpet concerto sans trumpet, with you supplying the necessary.

But this piece, the double concerto... Read more

Our ambitions rose as the kids joined the school band and the possibility of scholarships and concerto nights loomed, especially for obscure and difficult instruments.

Strains of Mozart gently filled the air as a string trio played concertos between Victoria's Secret and a booth offering custom - made leather purses.

In «Brain - Changing Games,» writer Lydia Denworth stated, «With practice, a violinist can play a Mozart string concerto beautifully, but that will not make her better at much else.»

For me, one form of this was when music suddenly came to me — this tape I'd been listening to again and again [Mendelssohn's violin concerto].

Sexual selection, which tends to favor animals that win many mates, has spiced up the world with stag antlers, cicada concertos, and other wonders.

I love this BIALETTI CAFFE CONCERTO ESPRESSO MACHINE!

For their first ready - to - wear collection, Karen Erickson and Vicki Beamon transported us back in time to the Prohibition Era by way of a swanky German speakeasy burlesque bar complete with cabaret café - style seating, flapper dancers, and live concerto music courtesy of The Citizens Band.

Viewers may initially feel as though they're hearing the world's tiniest violin concerto as Rachel bemoans the fact that her highly paid, prestigious work bores her, but Bell, whose comic timing and Diane - Keaton - meets - Buster - Keaton charm ought to have secured her a bigger acting gig by now, doesn't condescend to her character's malaise.

Don Cheadle succeeds in making Miles Davis relive on film, through a powerful cinematic concerto, drenched with discordant harmony.

Just when you thought the recent wave of rebooted franchises had run out of gas, along comes MAD MAX: FURY ROAD — George Miller's non-stop concerto of clanking iron, splattering blood and broken bones.

Well, of course, it can't help but be, but that's more the strength of Ishiguro's moving concerto and less the keyboard - guitar hackjob of Alex Garland's screenplay.

The scene where Franz Liszt himself (Fritz Leiber) is playing Claudin's concerto onstage at the opera, while Claudin plays it in the catacombs was a masterstroke, and one of the best things in any 1940s Universal horror.

An unapologetically absurd thriller, Grand Piano follows Elijah Wood's Tom Selznick, a musician returning to the stage after a lengthy absence, as he's forced to play a difficult concerto by a madman with a sniper rifle.

In February of 2012 Patrick performed as the featured soloist with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra in the North American Debut of John Psaths» timpani concerto «Planet Damnation».

Co-drivers may complain about the lack of a central screen, but when you have the V10 concerto and loads of G - forces to entertain you, then you shouldn't really be cribbing.

With two 8 - inch subwoofers, this system won't make your Beethoven violin concertos sound perfect, but you will feel the canon fire in Tchaikovsky's «1812 Overture.»

Twentieth - century composers have made the cello a standard concerto instrument.

Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China is a foodie travelogue and comic tour de force, but it's also something of a word - jazz concerto.

Just like the Grieg concerto — a complex piece of music that is centered on 10 simple notes that make all the difference.

Lying under the grand piano many days, they had heard concertos and sonatas being taught by their «mom,» Georgann.

Rooms have aptly artistic titles (the ballet studio suite and concerto junior suite) and include a kitchenette.

«Four Seasons,» Antonio Vivaldi As the seasons change one into the next, Vivaldi's concertos evolve from spritely upbeat Spring to a calm sleepy warm Summer, through to the warm, rich notes of Autumn, and finishes with snow falling in Winter.

THIS 2 BEDROOM 2 1/2 BATH CONCERTO 6 MODEL IS A CORNER APARTMENT WITH WRAP AROUND BALCONY AND AMAZING VIEWS OF THE RIVER, THE PORT AND THE OCEAN.

I wanted to avoid making this too similar to my previous concertos, as I do n`t like repeating myself.

The conversation delves into the processes behind more recent soundtracks as well, including CONCERTO: The Extraordinary World of Concerto Gate and Romeo x Juliet.

Mistaken Visions is an indie group hailing from Hamburg, and boy do they have a terrific concerto prepared for all music lovers.

Image above: Elena Berriolo, pages from La Notte, a 16 - page book, inspired by Antonio Vivaldi's flute concerto La Notte, on display in the show.

Drawn from the holdings of the Dakis Joannou Collection and installed in the beautiful spaces of Geneva's Museum of Art and History, False Friends proposes unexpected connections between artworks and aesthetics, methods and materials, offering a reading of contemporary art as a magnetic field of elective affinities and striking variations — a cacophonic concerto of forms.

David Lang's virtuosic percussion concerto «man made,» crafted from found objects takes the stage with it's first international performance in Vilnius, Lithuania.