Sentences with phrase «musical pieces which»

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I am very interested in and very keen on the idea of writing an original musical expressly for the cinema, taking into account the differences between the world of the cinema and that of the theater — which is rarely done when a theater piece is transformed to the cinema.

Having had a tremendous commercial success with the London production of Starlight Express (a musical intended for kids which is great fun, but not exactly a piece that I thought would change the course of Western art music), I thought there was now the possibility of being able to develop an area of my writing that I had been quietly working away on ever since I began composing.

It is a complex piece, and so dependent on its musical setting, which is eclectically rich, that a treatment of the libretto alone is something of a travesty.

For the life of me, I somehow can't find the identity of this series» cinematographer, but whomever this person may be, my hat is off to him or her, as his or her efforts, while not breathtaking, is consistently quite tasteful in its plays with coloring and lighting, which has a tendency to sometimes go from tasteful to just plain stunning, thus making the series a strong visual piece, as surely as it is something of a strong musical piece, as Christopher Dedrick must also gain some recognition for his spirited and sometimes upstanding score work.

There are also some new songs not featured in the stage musical that have been added, which unfortunately represent some of the weaker numbers in comparison to the very strong original soundtrack pieces.

The sensation of being caught in an endless loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one of the elevator - music themes of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first film performance).

It's also true that I have been conducting experiments on how the performing arts affect students, including this piece on a musical performance, and a forthcoming piece in Education Next about an experiment in which students were assigned by lottery to see Hamlet and A Christmas Carol or to serve in the control to identify what students learn from seeing live theater.

When a teacher opens and displays a media piece, students can readily discern the way in which content will be delivered, e.g. presented through a chart or graph, a musical number, or two sides of an issue being debated.

Cytus — is a musical game in which you should play various pieces of music.

Attendees of the upcoming «Skyrim in Concert» musical performance in London are warming up their vocal chords to excitedly hum along to the game's theme music, which is the only piece of music they...

Additional highlights from the evening (quite aside from the world premieres which I'll cover in another piece shortly) included touching tributes to Nintendo's Satoru Iwata from Geoff Keighley and Reggie Fils - Aime, along with a gentle musical interlude from Ben Harper, and another Industry Icon award (given last year to the founders of Sierra Entertainment), this time handed to Brett Sperry and Louis Castle, co-founders of Westwood Studios.

Brian Eno's «Light Music» is an installation of six light pieces, each of which seamlessly phase through an infinite combination of seductive self - generated «colourscapes» using a series of interwoven LED lights, each accompanied by a unique musical composition.

The piece, which was funded by CETA, included artists, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Franklin Parker, Houston Conwill, and Ulysses Jenkins, among others, in an improvisational musical and dance performance, based around an encounter with male and female spiritual energies.

Best known are perhaps the little shoes (scarpette), which she was sometimes photographed wearing, but there are all sorts of other pieces, including snail - like coils, arrangements of knitting needles partially encased in tight rings of coloured mesh (square or triangular or even spelling out her daughter's nickname, Bea), a musical stave made of pinned - up wires that takes up half a wall, with small note - like squares of knitted copper scattered across it.

Broken Voices is a new and exciting intervention into a musical score and the process of performance, which explores the ephemeral notion of sound by deconstructing an existing piece of music Duo Seraphim, for 3 Voci, by Monteverdi.

It was the performances that made the venue come alive: Nevin Aladağ's whimsical furniture - pieces - turned - musical - instruments were activated in improvisational jams several times a day, and 86 - year - old experimental composer and influential scholar Alvin Lucier captivated the audience with a live performance of his seminal piece I Am Sitting in a Room, which uses repetition and the frequencies of the space to resonate the room's spatiality.

Christian Boltanski is frequently concerned with the idea of the «score» in the sense of music: an installation is like an opera or a musical piece, of which there is a premiere and then however many performances and actualizations.

From the 1950s Feldman began to write pieces which bore no relationship to traditional compositional systems and which experimented with musical notation.

Collaborating with cellist Charlotte Moorman, he created one of his most influential works, TV Cello (1971), a performance piece which transformed a stack of televisions into a musical instrument.

The new pieces include drawings, a sound installation, sculpture and even a musical work, which will premiere at the exhibition's opening.

The piece focuses on the musical experience, which is called Tónandi and represents a Sigur Rós track in the form of small jellyfish - like creatures that react to motion: