The researchers applied their new approach to selected classical
piano pieces by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
It has all the lightness of
a piano piece by Cage, whom I see as the conductor of this terrific example of curatorial chamber music.
Not exact matches
Lulu was about 7, still playing two instruments, and working on a
piano piece called «The Little White Donkey»
by the French composer Jacques Ibert.
Chronic pain can be viewed as a learned memory: In the way that repetition of a
piano piece enables you to learn it
by facilitating transmission of the appropriate signals through your neurons, pain that persists can become chronic because your neurons become more efficient at transmitting pain signals.
The best of the old themes is the one heard most famously in the first score's «Oogway Ascends» and it gets an absolutely lovely treatment in the opening «Oogway's Legacy», with romantic
piano (played
by Lang Lang of all people) taking centre - stage, and it's probably the best
piece on the album.
The period is nicely captured — though never heightened —
by Edward Lachmann's grainy, shallow - depth Super 16 photography, while much of the mood - setting is achieved
by Sandy Powell's wonderful clothes and Carter Burwell's soundtrack, which is reminiscent of Philip Glass's spare but highly emotive
piano 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).
Jay, If you want an actually engrossing character
piece by Haneke check out the
Piano Teacher.
Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode sit at a
piano and play a deeply complex
piece (composed for the film
by Phillip Glass).
It's a look that makes bits of standard
piano - black trim seem like out of place low - budget
pieces by comparison.
The
piano black trimmings on the wheel, matched
by the other
piano black
pieces in the cabin, give it a welcomed touch of luxury.
You know the term «four - hander» for a
piano piece composed to be played
by two pianists, right?
The project was inspired
by a
piece called
Piano Phase
by American Composer Steve Reich, in which two
pianos start
by playing identical 12 - note melodies until one of the
pianos begins to speed up, creating interesting new harmonies with the second pianist.
In «From Kandinsky to Pollock», 25 of the works shown at the Strozzina have returned, now exhibited upstairs in the voluminous rooms of the
piano nobile:
pieces by Picasso, Brancusi, Klee, Giacometti, Dalí, Ernst, Duchamp, and Pollock.
Unlike her other Zine Machines, this one was inspired
by a work of art from the DMA's collection, Music Box Based on
Piano Piece Composed in Tokyo in 1954
by Nam June Paik.
The program included works, selected
by Brown in conversation with his wife, that span his career: Music for Violin, Cello and
Piano (1952), Corroboree (1964), New
Piece (1971), Centering (1973), Tracking Pierrot (1992), and Special Events (1998).
The building, designed
by Pritzker Prize - winner architect Renzo
Piano and conceived as a laboratory for artists, is as much a
piece of art as what lies within its walls.
Michener will play
pieces by Xenakis alongside related improvisations, with his
piano connected to a bespoke system that triggers video images with each key stroke.
But this was in a beautiful building
by Renzo
Piano, so a
piece by itself in a way.
In his
piece «Drishti Point,» Tom Recchion plays the
piano from the inside, bypassing the keys altogether and making music
by touching the strings themselves.
Here, these choir
pieces have been translated into compositions for the
piano for the first time, and complicate the reading of the Romantic selections
by reminding us of the virtues of collectivity in relation to the soloist or notions of individual genius.
The
piece for
piano and projections was inspired
by (and includes) projected paintings of Journal, Nocturnal, 2014,
by Margaret Garrett; La Nuit d'etoiles sur la Rhone, 1888,
by Vincent van Gogh; Evening on Karl Johann, 1892,
by Eduard Munch and I've Got It All Up Here, 2010
by David Salle.
Musicians too took notice: Schwitters imagined a score in which the tones would be produced
by «violin, drum, trombone, sewing machine, grandfather clock, steam of water, etc.,» 40 years before John Cage composed
pieces using a watering can, a iron pipe, a bottle of wine, a grand
piano, five radios and an electric mixer.
A Kurt Weill song is linked to a figure painting
by Max Beckmann, an orchestral
piece by Darius Milhaud to a Georges Braque Cubist still life, moments from John Cage's prepared
piano «Sonatas and Interludes» to a Robert Rauschenberg «combine» painting.
VanDerBeek's association with Rauschenberg dated to their overlapping student days at Black Mountain College in Asheville, N.C. Theater
Piece No. 1, a 1952 event there simultaneously combined poetry readings atop ladders
by John Cage, M.C. Richards and Charles Olson; Rauschenberg's pre-minimalist White Paintings hanging from the ceiling while he played scratched records; a
piano composition
by composer David Tudor; and a spare dance performance
by Merce Cunningham.
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