Sentences with phrase «concerto as»

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.

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Were I to live as long as Methuselah, I would see endless changes in science — it may be even some of Einstein's formulas upset — but I never would have to change my mind about the beauty of sunsets and rose gardens and Beethoven's concerto.

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

As Wolterstorff recognizes, «the fact that Jesus never ran for political office does not become an objection to running for political office, any more than the fact that he never heard a piano concerto becomes an objection to listening to piano concertos.

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.

Writer / director Terence Davies (adapting the 1952 play by Terence Rattigan) takes the scenario for what it is and plays it — along with the Samuel Barber violin concerto that serves as the film's score — at the appropriate, amplified level.

If the previous two, 1998's Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Thin Red Line and 2005's forgettable The New World, could be easily described as poems, then this one feels more like a concerto grosso, one which really does make a sincere effort to tie together life, the universe, and everything in a way that the number 42 fell short.

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.

Paddy Considine also has a tremendous small role at the very beginning as Andreyev, the radio producer who presides over a live transmission of a piano concerto, featuring a soloist, Maria Yudina (Olga Kurylenko) who is to play a fateful role in the action.

As he says in the documentary that came out in 2008 about his life, «When you see a one - handed violinist play the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, you can always say, there's a story behind the notes.»

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».

However, that additional weight likely won't see anyone shirking away from the drop top as by chopping off the roof gets the driver and passengers closer to the Aston Martin's V - 12 concerto.

Instead of musical notes or instruments, Stark uses words and their natural rhythm to write award winning works that read as smoothly as listening to a classical concerto.

«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.

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

Music has a history of influencing artists and, as Richter listened to John Cage, Whitaker listened to Beethoven while composing to echo the orchestra's rich depth and beauty: a concerto of colour.

For the artist, as a classically trained pianist, painting holds emotions akin to those felt listening to a concerto.

The words are those of Anni Albers, who spent a long and intimidatingly productive life attempting to prove exactly this assertion — that houses and cities, bowls and fabric, can be as much works of art as pictures or concertos, sculptures or frescoes.

Rather than concertos they are chamber music, «the music of friends» (an apt expression for someone as generous as Parsons).

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.

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.