Sentences with phrase «of jazz composition»

A jumble of sharp edges and fluid forms intermix to create an unexpected harmony of parts, a sort of jazz composition defining each in Romare Bearden's 1977 collage series based on Homer's poem about an epic journey....

Philip Clayton, a theologian at Claremont School of Theology, picks up on this dimension of evolutionary process and likens creaturely life to the unfolding of a jazz composition: God provides the motifs, but creatures (of various kinds, from the smallest to the largest) provide the original riffs.

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He studied jazz composition at Humber College in Toronto before earning a Master of Music degree at the famed Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

If a violin had been made in the first place by Antonio Stradivari himself and if skilled hands had played upon it the compositions of the masters, any cheap endeavor to make it hiccup with syncopated jazz would be resented.

The same might be said of Brian Eno's dissonant composition Ju Ju Space Jazz.

She attended Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, and won Best Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (19jazz piano, and won Best Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (19Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).

I sat for hours on the bench beside a sixty - two - year - old jazz pianist as he practiced his scales and played me some of his new compositions, and I observed Roma, the fifty - seven - year - old laboratory scientist in her first year of teaching adolescents in an after - school program.

At a time when many of the jazz greats were making their mark, Leon, too, writes a composition for his love.

The album includes arrangements of compositions by Lennon / McCartney, Randy Newman and the Brazilian composer Ivan Lins who performed at the Syracuse Jazz Fest a few summers ago.

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He has written for film, commercials and video games, including compositions for Street Fighter V, Mobile Suit Gundam: Side Stories, jazz arrangements of CAPCOM's Monster Hunter and Okami series, and big band arrangements for Rooster Teeth's animated series, RWBY, which reached # 1 on the iTunes charts in May 2016.

The JRPG comes to the foray of the PS4 with its exciting action sequences, fast - paced gameplay, cerebral story and fresh acid jazz soundtrack composition.

Gerald Lazare, an artist friend and honorary member of the Duke Ellington Society of Canada, sees parallels between Sargent's paintings and Ellington's compositions, which combine the improvisations of jazz with formal composition.

«Hors - Champs», a video filmed «live» by STAN DOUGLAS and one other camera man, records the performance of four American musicians playing a Free Jazz composition.

Larry Rivers (1923 — 2002) started his career as a jazz musician in 1940 while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music, and later shifted towards the world of visual art.

Whatever nooks and crannies they missed were usually occupied by the different groups of musicians, including a jazz trio and an a cappella quartet performing Mr. Zorn's compositions.

He changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 as he worked as a jazz musician while studying music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music.

And yet the sound of the calliope is not a lament or a dirge — instead, witnesses will hear strains of Sam Cooke and Jimi Hendrix, and new compositions by the jazz pianist Jason Moran.

In Douglas's installation, four musicians interpret Spirits Rejoice (1965), one of the seminal compositions of 1960s free jazz, by the iconoclastic American saxophonist and bandleader Albert Ayler.

The results are jazzed, allover compositions that resemble Jackson Pollock's dripped lines, pared down and forced through a screen of Op Art.

Long known for the naturalistic alloy of jazz - inflected compositions and exotic textures that he helped pioneer with his indie - rock projects Shrimp Boat and the Sea and Cake, Prekop managed, as ever, to confound expectations with his most recent solo release, Who's Your New Professor, an album of airy abstractions and a chiming, unusually electric aesthetic.

As a torchbearer for jazz,» Moran challenges traditional forms of musical composition; his experimental works merge object and sound, underscoring the theatricality of both mediums.

John Corbett analyzes Wool's navigation between jazz - like improvisation and deliberate composition; Fabrice Hergott focuses on the artist's dialogue with the surface as a subject of the paintings; and John Kelsey digs into the artist's media - savvy black - and - white painted images: «Gestures go viral, escaping one painting and contaminating another.

Moreover, Gaines's artistic output has been greatly influenced by the composer and artist John Cage's use of chance and indeterminacy; the repetitive, minimal compositions of Steve Reich; and his own background as a jazz percussionist.

Abstract, spontaneous compositions, void of imposing structures, but still harmonious and fluid — Jazz!

Davis's exuberant, colorful compositions echo the dynamism of the American scene and the rhythms of jazz, the artist's lifelong passion.

Biggers's work is known for its combination of meditative rigor and improvisatory edge, resulting in multilayered compositions that draw from the Buddhist idea of «both / and,» hip - hop culture, constellations, Afrofuturism, slave quilts, Jazz, and mandalas.

Born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg in 1923, Rivers studied music theory and composition at the Juilliard School of Music and initially pursued a career as a jazz saxophonist, playing regularly in New York City nightclubs.

For example, jazz musician Kamasi Washington's composition Harmony of Difference (2017) plays in a dimly lit blue room offering seating for visitors to take a break immediately following Schutz's painting.

Although Gioni refers to visual musicality, this descriptor is explored in detail via Storr's characterization of Ofili as an artist who applies acrylics, oils, and resins to surfaces like a virtuoso musician, orchestrating compositions with the equivalent rhapsodic flair of a jazz legend.

«I base each series of pictures on a single jazz composition.

An original composition by jazz pianist Jason Moran was developed in conjunction with the exhibition Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.

The sculpture celebrates the unifying power of music and the legendary jazz musician and philosopher who pushed the limitations of western tradition through his radical compositions, reimagining a (present) future.

Vocalist, composer, cultural worker Imani Uzuri is an eclectic interdisciplinary artist who creates concerts, experimental theater, performance art, theater compositions, and sound installations in venues / festivals, including Central Park SummerStage, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, Blue Note Jazz Club, Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, Performa Biennial, Festival Sons d'hiver, London's ICA, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Inspired by jazz compositions and films from his youth, Gotovac applied cinematic editing principles to create montages of everyday items, including cigarette cases, train tickets, and food labels, using personal history as his medium.

The influence of Jazz underlies his compositions, animating them with rhythmic movements and emboldening his masterful use of colour.

Because the strong frameworks of these compositions are interrupted, there is always a portal through which the viewer can tease out his own narrative - a jazz - like storyline that underpins every painting.

Inspired by the compositions of legendary gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, The Hot Club of Troy plays acoustic jazz in the...

She has always used a variety of natural (sand, dirt, rocks, seed pods) and unconventional (panty hose, found objects, masking tape) materials to fashion her works, utilizing these materials as a jazz musician utilizes notes and sounds to improvise a composition.

Using acrylic and silkscreen techniques on linen and canvas, this show pays hommage to abstract expressionism, inspired by the discordant beauty of Charlie Parker's jazz composition, Now's the Time.

Koetje includes many references to high modernism in her paintings, from uninflected geometric forms to collage - like compositions that evoke the colorful and hard - edged arrangements of Stuart Davis» jazz - infused paintings.

The parallel with the music of the time is a particularly fertile one, as her broad brush compositions, much like jazz phrases, could be analyzed in terms of inception, combustion, duration, and direction.

You fundamentally want to ignore the law of copyright as applied to musical compositions and that simply isn't possible legally, although obviously, if the old «Real Book» contains only songs that are out of copyright (usually pre-1923, but more complicated in the case of songs that were historically governed by state law than for other copyrighted works that were historically governed by federal law), you wouldn't have a problem and many Jazz compositions are in the public domain because they are sufficiently old.

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