The result is work that's virtuosically bizarre in style (Tiepolo meets Mad magazine) and ecumenically offensive in content.
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The virtuosically awful play-within-the-play staged by the "mechanicals" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is especially apt.
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Here the movement really is virtuosically musical — earlier postmodern dance was opposed to conventional musicality — and yet this musicality is largely of impulses within the torso.
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I thought it was so cool that you couldn't tell between someone who spent their whole life virtuosically perfecting their instrument and the most banal electronic sound.
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There was the playfully competitive counterpoint of "Death to Advertising," the liquid arpeggios in "Veda (Paraphrase)" and a virtuosically set faux folk tune in "The New Sincerity Auld Reel."
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ALBERTO SAVINIO Pairing the virtuosically strange figurative painting of Savinio — the pianist, critic and younger brother of the better known Giorgio de Chirico — with sculptures by Louise Bourgeois. Oct.
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Everyone is uniformly terrific, but Nyong'o's performance as the film's narrative and moral center is virtuosically creepy and heartbreaking, like she's swapping out souls between — or even during — takes.
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The Clippers of recent vintage, and the virtuosic and virtuosically self-thwarting basketball they play, are the product of the same year-to-year churn that makes every other team.
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What's astonishing about Allen, both at his height and then in his virtuosically distilled and reduced endgame, was how lightly he wore his brilliance, and how well he managed his decline.
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His hands flutter virtuosically as he modulates the notes, and he blows into it so with a purity that suggests a lifetime of smoking hasn't put a dent into his lungs.
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Monday's event closed with Parul Shah's display of contemporary Kathak, in which the virtuosically rhythmic turns of the traditional genre alternated with an entirely modern, often expressionist, use of the torso and limbs.
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Mr. Paxton's solo, "Excerpt From Goldberg Variations" (1986), performed by Nicholas Sciscione to part of Glenn Gould's recording of the Bach score, was a knockout, virtuosically musical and yet largely danced within the torso.
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" Ms. Elliott considered making Bobbie bisexual, puzzling over how to handle the character's offhanded proposal to Amy, a friend whose cold feet at the altar provoke the virtuosically jittery patter song "(Not) Getting Married Today.
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Even those are oversimplifications for what Primus's frontman, bassist and co-founder Les Claypool refers to as "goblin rock" — but regardless of what you call it, both are perfect for listeners seeking musically sophisticated, virtuosically performed catharsis.
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A major force of Focus public relations is Marissa Sharpless, a virtuosically engaging senior manager of social media and P.R. for Cinnabon who, speaking off the cuff, paints a brand picture of such depth and volume that it rivals any by Caravaggio. Mrs.
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Members of the virtuosically poetic Ensemble Signal played two substantial solos ("Black Moon," for bass clarinet, and "Towards a Brighter Hue," for violin), a trio and two works for small ensemble: all extravagant, extroverted, emotionally direct pieces that are also marvels of precision and detail, like puppies skilled at ballet.
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Consider this chunk of "crybaby," the Brand New-sampling first song off his mixtape of the same title: If you ignore the lyrics' actual content (which oscillates between asinine and laughable) and instead focus on their construction, you start to understand why you haven't stopped listening to Lil Peep even though you also think his music is virtuosically moronic.
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The daffy libretto, however, inspired Julian Wachner, best known as the director of music and the arts at Trinity Wall Street, to create an explosively, virtuosically eclectic score, with the pummeling perpetual motion of John Adams, the burbling angularity and dark comedy of Stephen Sondheim, the arpeggios of Philip Glass, and the coloratura of Handel — all thrown into a blender with some amphetamines.
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The Lisboa style of playing traditionally utilizes the Guitarra de Lisboa, but today it is increasingly more common to see musicians with Guitarra de Coimbra tuned tighter to accommodate the Lisboa tuning. In accompanying Lisbon Fado the guitarrista plays the introduction, traditionally based on the second half of the vocal melody, then alternates between the techniques described above and short expressive phrases answering the fadista's phrases in a musical call-and- response. In faster fados the guitarra often improvises virtuosically throughout, including soloing over the fadista's singing.
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Josh Fix is a South African-born American singer-songwriter, composer, multi- instrumentalist and music producer. In 2008 Fix released his self-produced debut album "Free at Last", which saw limited distribution but nevertheless garnered praise in the press, and, among other accolades, found itself on Time Out New York's "Best Rock Albums of 2008" list. Associate Editor Hank Shteamer called Fix a "post-Radiohead Elton john [who] obliterated slacker chic with a virtuosically glossy piano-pop opus." Fix's most recent release, a mini-album "This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry" (2009) was released in Europe through British indie label Lojinx.
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Rocker Lenny Kravitz once described them as "something I'd wake up to on a Saturday morning when the sun is coming through the window. There aren't enough people [like this] singing about love and honesty". Influenced by the classic songcraft of Prince, Heatwave and Kool & The Gang, the members of Tortured Soul are three distinctive guys with three different backgrounds, united under a groove-centered rhythm. The band's frontman and principal songwriter, John- Christian Urich, can be seen simultaneously drumming and singing with effortless mastery, while the rest of the collective, made up of keyboardist Ethan White and bassist Jordan Scannella, virtuosically generate the pulsating accompaniment.
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I contacted Galway with the proposal of writing a Pied Piper Fantasy and, with his approval, started planning the work." Corigliano partially based the form of the work on Robert Browning's narrative poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," arguably the most famous version of the tale. However, the composer altered the narrative to better fit a musical setting, explaining, "The biggest problem was that the legend per se had no elements of virtuosity in it; the Pied Piper played his song to charm the rats and lead them to destruction and piped a march to lead the children away from Hamelin, but there were no actual confrontations or tensions that could lead me to write virtuosically for the soloist. So I had to modify the story a bit, and I included battle scenes between the Piper and the rats and other elements that could set the soloist’s fingers racing.
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Pickard has composed a number of critically well-received orchestral and instrumental works, among them five symphonies and a number of symphonic works, including perhaps his best-known piece, The Flight of Icarus, which the San Francisco Chronicle called "a translucent and achingly lovely memorial to the fallen Icarus ... a serious contender for the most exciting musical premiere of 2006". His orchestral writing has been highly praised: in March 2008 The Times commented that "his orchestral mastery is total", while, in April 2008 The Guardian described his music as "at its best virtuosically effective, in a style that never seems either self-consciously conservative or too stubbornly middle-of-the-road". He has also composed a piano concerto, a trombone concerto titled The Spindle of Necessity, and five string quartets. The Strad stated that the fourth quartet was "one of the best pieces of British chamber music to be heard for years", while Tempo, reviewing a recording of his quartets nos.
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It was not the first time that Schumann had tackled variation form.Examples include the Abegg Variations, Op. 1 (though much less complex); some incomplete youthful pages (from which stand out the Variations on the Allegretto of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, where the manner in which the variations are conceived is already completely alien to the virtuosically ornamented convention then prevalent); and the Impromptus on a theme of Clara Wieck, Op. 5 But here the variation principle is used more as free transformation, no longer of an actual theme, but of a musical 'cell' or cells (as for example in the same composer's Carnaval). The Études symphoniques learn the lesson of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations: the theme that acts as a unifying element is amplified and transformed, and becomes the basis from which blossom inventions of divergent expressive character. The work also shows the influence of the Goldberg Variations, most obviously in the use of a pseudo-French overture variation, and in the use of various canonic effects.
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The song received general acclaim from critics. Manny Faces from BirthPlace cited the song as an improvement from her previous material, writing "It’s a little harder, a little less sloppy and a little more promising than some of her previous efforts, many of which have drowned in sonic experimentation that, in some opinions (mine), haven’t done her any favors". A writer for PAPER hailed the track as "[The] first 2013 party jam", adding that the song "will jolt you awake this Wednesday morning more quickly than that venti coffee you've been nursing since 9 am". Rolling Stone writer Jody Rosen gave "BBD" three-and-a-half stars out of five, describing the song as "a typically fleet, flashy collection of disses and boasts that glory in estrogen power, Sapphic delights, and the fun of cuckolding stupid dudes". Spin writer Marc Hogan thought that the track reflected well on Banks' sense of style, writing "With the squiggly high-end and wobbly sub-bass of what we’re really calling trap-rave now, huh, plus some masterfully timed quiet- loud dynamic shifts, the track displays the virtuosically foul-mouthed rapper’s usual immaculately stylish beat selection".
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