Sentences with phrase «friends as composer»

With the 1959 work 18 Happenings in 6 parts, a series of seemingly random but carefully choreographed activities executed with such friends as composer John Cage and artist Robert Rauschenberg, he embarked upon a career of intellectually rigorous site - specific, impermanent works that defied commoditization and ultimately gave birth to performance and installation art.

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It weaves together audiotapes, rare home movies, diary entries, and interviews with her friends and those inspired by her, including Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Cecily Strong, original Saturday Night Live cast and crew members Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, and Paul Shaffer, as well as SNL creator - producer Lorne Michaels, series writer Alan Zweibel, Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, Second City CEO Andrew Alexander, and long - time friend and actor Martin Short.

Ryan Reynolds is not the first actor who might come to mind to play her real - life lawyer, Randy Schoenberg (grandson of composer Arnold) but he does a creditable job as the young attorney and family friend who becomes as driven and obsessed as his client — possibly even more so — in pursuing this case.

Set in a spa in the Alps, composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) escapes his pain as lifelong friend and past - his - prime filmmaker Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel) preps a new film.

Another a showstopper set at the Griffith observatory, brought to life from composer (and best friend to Chazelle since their time as band - mates at Harvard) Justin Hurwitz, with whom he worked on the film for over a half - decade (even before the breakthrough of Whiplash in the theaters), fleshing out a few concepts from an experimental musical film they had made together in 2009 called Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.

With that being said, the general storyline follows our protagonist, retired composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine), during his stay at a spa resort in the Alps with his daughter, Lena (Rachel Weisz), as well as his longtime best friend, illustrious film director Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel).

The film starts off has a lot of fun as the singer and her old friend go hat shopping and ride around town in a cab, turns a little weird as she fights with her songwriters (one of whom is played by the great film composer Michel Legrand), and picks up again as she meets a soldier in a park.

I was able to travel to Spain with my wife Ellen, and two of my children (Kerith and Benjamin), to visit various sites in Spain, and to meet other awardees, including conductor Ricardo Muti, Nobel Prize winning biologist Paul Nurse, singer - composer Leonard Cohen, the firefighters from Fukuyama, and to be reunited with Bill Drayton, the premier social entrepreneur in the world and, as it happens, a college classmate and friend for 50 years.

She lays down a beat for them by watching a metronome and banging out its rhythm on the floor with a broom — just like the 17th - century composer Lully, who conducted his orchestra by beating a baton on the ground, as we learn from Piper's nerdy friend Ed.

Marquis Hill and friends Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St Suite 301, LA, CA 90012 show starts at 9 pm Marquis Hill, rising trumpeter - composer and band - leader joins the 18th Street Arts Center as current Make Jazz Fellow.

She provides a colorful commentary and anecdotes about her life and her collection, which ranges from puppets found in the trash in Palermo to works and correspondence by her many friends, including painters, sculptors, poets, photographers and filmmakers, dance and art critics, musicians and composers, such as Fairfield Porter, Giorgio Morandi, Peter Rockwell, Meret Oppenheim, Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt, Francesca Woodman, Elliott Carter, Alvin Curran, and many others.

In 1964, she founded the New York Studio School in a loft on Broadway, with Philip Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin and other friends on faculty as well as Meyer Schapiro and the composer Morton Feldman.

Alongside his former lover, the artist Robert Rauschenberg, and his friends choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage, Jasper Johns is also seen as one of the fathers of Pop Art and its embrace of consumer culture with his playful appropriation of household brands and products.

Playing in the gallery is a pottily humorous film that imagines the German dada artist and composer Kurt Schwitters and his girlfriend as close friends of the artist's own grandparents.

During this time, Johns collaborated with friends in many other fields as well, including composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

The 74 - year - old New York artist has a condition called face blindness, but it has not stopped him from painting famous friends such as Barack Obama, composer Philip Glass and actor Brad Pitt.

Feldman was not only one of the most influential composers of the second half of the 20th century, but was also a close friend of artists such as Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, whose work will be presented in the show.»

Associated with Pop art as well as with artist friends like Allan Kaprow — whose Happenings first took place on Segal's New Jersey farm — and composer John Cage, Segal created a distinctive style that resulted from a concerted effort to combine art and life in one space.

Astonishingly, he was not popular in his day, considered «old fashioned,» second best as a court composer to his friend Telemann; he was, however, a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist, which, as with piano virtuosi Mozart and Beethoven, got him jobs that he might not otherwise have had.