Sentences with phrase «concerto of»

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.

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.

In a medium that relies on a concerto of audio and visual, Krasinski is able to completely engage us and cause us to lean deeper into the story, in a movie that at times, is devoid of any sound whatsoever.

Not exact matches

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.

We do not use logic to discern the pulsing beauty of a concerto in D Minor on oboe....

But consider another example of repetition: I purchase a recording of a concerto by C. P. E. Bach, a concerto I have never before heard.

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 1950, Turing published «Computing Machinery and Intelligence,» written largely in response, not to fellow mathematicians but to neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson, who in 1949 famously declared, «Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain.»

The humpback sings in complicated sequences the length of a concerto; the blue whale makes great moans; the fi n whale sends out pulses that divers used to think were the creaking of the ocean floor.

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.

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.

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.

Stalin requests a recording of the concerto.

Just consider the opening moments, which intercut a frantic attempt to record a concerto and appease the USSR dictator, images of citizens are being dragged out of their homes by NKVD security forces, and Joseph Stalin himself forcing his drunk confidantes to watch a movie.

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.

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».

It didn't take more than a pair of open gull - wing doors and an impromptu V - 10 concerto to draw a very mixed crowd of scantily dressed ladies and chain - smoking scarfaces who probably never remove their sunglasses or their shiny jewelry.

«Cadenza,» said Sullivan, «is a virtuoso and improvised section of a concerto in which the soloist shows off his or her individuality, technical brilliance, bravado, and style.

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.

Few important cello concertos were written before the 19th century — with the notable exceptions of those by Vivaldi, Bach, and Haydn.

He had been invited to perform his first piano concerto with the local orchestra under Viktor Kubatsky; the two of them had also played his new cello sonata.

«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.

While the concerto is in one, single movement, the elements of a traditional four movement concerto are all featured.

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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.

The recipient of commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, St. Paul's Cathedral, and others, he has written more than 80 works for the concert stage, including the operas Two Boys (2010), Dark Sisters (2011), and the forthcoming Marnie; the song cycles Sentences (2015), for countertenor Iestyn Davies, and Impossible Things (2009), for tenor Mark Padmore; a viola concerto for violist Nadia Sirota; and the choral works My Days (2011) and Recordare, Domine (2013), written for the Hilliard Ensemble and the Tallis Scholars respectively.

Sala recomposed the tempo of the concerto for each musician so that the two performances progress in and out of sync to produce the perception of musical echoes — a paradoxical experience in a space in which actual echoes are impossible.

«We do not speak of designing a picture or a concerto, but of designing a house, a city, a bowl, a fabric.

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.

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.

The Chicago Tribune interviewed composer Jennifer Higdon (1999) about her new concerto for the low brass section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

And also, with an emphasis on visually explicit colour subject matter, and a celebratory exposition of the act of painting, the compelling experience of offering examples of a range of tour - de-force performances from the studio (a Rachmaninoff piano concerto perhaps — though with Hoyland there's a New York city jazz twist) may not be too fanciful.

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.»

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.

There's variety here already: one of the Well - Tempered Clavier pieces, an organ concerto, a toccata and fugue, and more.

Winner of the Greek Women's University Club 14th Annual Music Competition Two time, 1st place piano concerto competition winner, Eastern Illinois University Recipient, Talented Student Full Scholarship Award, Eastern Illinois University Invitation performances, Pitten Music Festival, Pitten Austria

B. 05-17-1915, Bertha di Vito - Delvaux, Belgium composer of eight operas, several concertos, nine ballets and many symphonic compositions and songs.

Left and right hands work together to produce the intricate beauty of a Vivaldi concerto.