| 单词 | tonal |
| 例句 | Music can be more or less tonal without becoming completely atonal, however. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But the practice of speaking a rich, tonal language to my neighbors has softened his voice in my ear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In tonal music, just about any melody is allowed, as long as it fits into the harmonies as they wander away from and then head back to their home base. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z From the Renaissance to the present day, most Western music has tended to be tonal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The pattern was the same; only the rhythm and tonal quality were different. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these musics have long traditions that are very different from the familiar major-minor tonal system, and usually also have a different approach to harmony, rhythm, and performance practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z NOTE: The dominant in modal music did not have the harmonic function that the dominant has in tonal music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The only word her brain was capable of producing, in various tonal permutations, was: What? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z This note is the tonal center of that key, the note where music in that key feels "at rest." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Schulwerk uses the native language, sounds, timbres, rhythms, melodies, and tonal material surrounding the child, particularly in its folk music repertoire. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Then he drew his sword as well, and followed the others through a gated archway that the Tonists always left open for lost souls seeking tonal solace. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I remember one time we ran out of meat—” His voice dropped to a curious low sing-song, dropped into a tonal groove the story had worn for itself. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z As the name implies, atonal music treats all notes and harmonies as equal and in fact tries to avoid melodies and harmonies that will make the piece sound tonal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Bulges in the rock implied bulk, and tonal shading with earth-tone pigments lent contour and perspective. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Most Western tonal music is based on major and minor scales, both of which easily give that strongly tonal feeling. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This version includes the tonal tendencies and interesting titles for each tone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z That note is the tonal center of the tune, and without it, there is a feeling that the song has not reached its proper resting place. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z "All the inside joking about Hollywood - tonally, you get a sense that something is being played with," he says. In fact-based films, how much fiction is OK? 2013-02-19T20:53:09Z The images often startle in their depth, sharpness and tonal range. Amsterdam's Old Days, in Photos 2010-05-10T10:00:00Z Comedy’s rules, such as they are, are structural, not tonal. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z This month’s picks include films from around the globe and tonally range from family friendly to downright gory. Five Action Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Stylistically and tonally, “Short Stay,” Mr. Fendt’s first feature film after three shorts, is a throwback to the early days of mumblecore. Review: A ‘Short Stay,’ but Long Stuck in a Rut 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z And so, at least superficially, does the music: mainly tonal, largely number-based and melodic. Urban Arias’ ‘Bastianello’ and ‘Lucrezia’ are at once timeless and anachronistic My time is stretched beyond all measure, and Westworld is such a tonally flat slog of obfuscated meaning, that I’m already tempted to just watch the video and be done with it. Losing the plot: could Westworld's plan to release spoilers have worked? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z While Canto V opens in lush tonal harmony, the frequency of dissonance is heightened, until in the last four minutes, the violins soar together in an arching series of chromatic clusters. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Colvin initially sounded less than ideally solid and secure, but later he established better breath control and let the tonal beauty of his voice blossom. Review: 'Messiah' at Benaroya features strong solos, magnificent music 2010-12-17T19:02:04Z Reactions from those exiting the cavernous Roy Thomson Hall diverged almost as wildly as some of the movie's jarring tonal shifts. TIFF 2014: Verdict remains out on Downey's 'The Judge' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z I found Joy disappointing and tonally mismanaged, compared to his stylish American Hustle, although Jennifer Lawrence is certainly a commanding presence and is duly rewarded with her nomination. Golden Globes nominations 2016: will it be a Blanchett/DiCaprio one-two? | Peter Bradshaw 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “God Forgives” is his least tonally consistent album, both in music and in content. Rick Ross Tries On a New, Streetwise Role 2012-08-01T13:32:00Z He pointed out that the chords in Beethoven’s plea for peace, “Dona nobis pacem,” at the work’s end conclude without a firm tonal or rhythmic resolution. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z The acted scenes are so tonally off that they seem like an afterthought. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z His biggest problem was the tonal pronunciation, especially when he began performing. Irish-American Bishop learns Chinese to break down comedy walls 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z After intermission, Goode created an alternately plangent and subdued atmosphere in Leos Janacek’s suite “In the Mists,” with a deliberately economic tonal and dynamic palette. Review | Pianist Richard Goode plays a deeply satisfying concert at U-Md. 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z But Ms. Bagnold’s novel was darker and grainier than the film version, and Ms. Gaitskill locates in it the seeds of her intermittently powerful if tonally awkward third novel, “The Mare.” Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The stories are hot and violent and on the wrong side of good taste, the music voluptuous, tonal and broadly traditional. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But the tonal variety of the speaker suggests an entire, tortured life cycle captured in full. Three Beckett Plays About Time at BAM 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s brash and frightening and funny — tonally, think of Frank McCourt meeting Axl Rose — without offering any real graininess or depth. Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z But she thinks the tonal look appeals to her clients for other reasons. This Is the Manicure of the Season 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The result is a bizarrely cheery and thus tonally incomprehensible show in which everything potentially painful is anesthetized by saccharine songs and middle school clichés. Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z But there’s a lack of a comparable fluidity here; the show often feels tonally stranded between wish-fulfillment fantasy and dream-crushing naturalism. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z They – I would say the serious modern composers – don't want to compose tonal music any more. Ceclia Bartoli: the limitations of being a mezzo 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z Unfortunately, Madigan’s plodding pacing is a persistent drag, while her tonally inconsistent performers, who run the gamut from the farcical to the lugubrious, sometimes seem to be jobbing in from different plays. Inconsistent tone, uneven direction plague 'Off the King's Road' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In the manner of Ligeti, sustained, mostly subdued chords kept going out of focus, with pitches slipping into piercing clusters, then slipping back into shimmering tonal harmonies. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Structurally and tonally, they create an arch form, but what's most striking about the whole work is the boldness of the scoring. Pergolesi: Septem Verba a Christo – review 2013-03-21T21:40:01Z That creates a soundscape with different angles, intensities, and tonal values. At the Oscars or in the cinema, the sound that puts movie lovers in... 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z “Musicians, if they choose to, can drive a tonal wedge through the noisome pestilence; the stench that often accompanies our contemporary societal lifestyles,” he said. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z There’s sometimes not much in the way of tonal cue — in lighting, sound or affect — so it can take the audience a while to catch on. ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Review: Quiet Tragicomedies of Love and Loss 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Ironic humour carries safely enough in a conversation guided by facial clues and tonal hops, but it won't easily survive the transition to Sunday supplement. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z There was some superb duet work, but when counter-tenor Iestyn Davies sang his solos, his extraordinary tonal richness and imaginative phrasing combined into something truly unforgettable. Prom 26: The English Concert/Bicket – review 2012-08-03T17:25:24Z The piano plays an angular melody as the quartet offers a wistful tonal accompaniment, as if regretting the decline of harmony. Review: Despite being interrupted by cellphones — twice! — Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival kicked off its second half with a remarkable concert 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z There was nothing tonally jarring or just plain dumb, like the business with Tommy clinging to the hood of Janet's car after an argument in last week's episode. "Rescue Me" recap: Season 7, Episode 2: "Menses" 2011-07-21T14:30:00Z But Bash and Tapper’s casually vivid language highlighted the dramatic tonal transformation of a once-staid network over the past decade. The new CNN is more opinionated and emotional. Can it still be ‘the most trusted name in news’? 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z She delivered a pensive, understated “Lazy Afternoon” that displayed an impressive tonal control and the right air of dreamily sensuous hyper-awareness of nature in full bloom. Music Review: Nightclub Tradition Gets a Jolt Of Youth 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z This effect is partially temporal and partially tonal: Here, Natsu possesses some level of certainty, at least about Makiko’s mania and what it says about female identity. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The Oregon jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore’s “Penthouse Serenade” rippled with sunshine, and Tierney Sutton’s “Beautiful Love” became a tender exercise in expressive tonal coloration that she seemed to model with her hands. Music Review: Saluting a Radio Man Who?s One of a Kind 2011-07-14T22:48:03Z H6LLB6ND6R appears not only on the soundtrack, but also as an actual band in the script, yielding tonally discordant sequences that feel like music video breaks. ‘Hellbender’ Review: The Family That Preys Together 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z She often cited Tony Bennett as her favorite singer, and developed a vocal style of a depth and tonal color beyond her years. Winehouse leaves behind unfulfilled promise 2011-07-23T18:55:00Z Since it’s do-it-yourself-friendly, the tonal manicure is your opportunity to explore not only color but also finishes and textures. This Is the Manicure of the Season 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The play’s tonal shifts, from farcical to terrifying, were expertly handled by the troupe, who made us laugh, gasp and squeal in unison. A Surprising First Live Show, in the Hometown I Once Fled 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Yet an overdue tonal shift has taken hold at the Oscars, one that dials down the negative voices, possibly in recognition of adjustments that took decades to achieve. The Oscars Red Carpet Is Living Again 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z None of this is to demean the likes of David Daniels and Bejun Mehta, terrific singers who bring remarkable body and substance to their falsetto tonal quality. Music Review: Philippe Jaroussky Performs at Metropolitan Museum 2014-02-26T22:22:56Z It begins with high scratching sounds and chords that blur tonal and atonal harmonies, yet sound uncannily precise. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z Here was a writer who, at his best, wrote with panache, lapidary refinement and a wide tonal range. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z The concert offered a welcome chance to hear the orchestra away from the dispiriting confines of Avery Fisher Hall, whose acoustical demons often rob it of tonal bloom. 2010-02-15T01:23:00Z It showed that Mr. Danson wasn’t intent on being the center of attention, was game for tonally adventurous fare and was still in the swim of things. Television: Ted Danson of ?Damages?: Humble Egotist 2010-03-20T03:20:00Z The next piece, the premiere of Mr. Carpenter’s “Music for an Imaginary Film,” demonstrated even better the tonal capacities and power of the Touring Organ. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Performs on His Touring Instrument 2014-03-10T20:12:51Z His compositional palette incorporates atonal and nontonal elements, but within a primarily tonal framework. Music Review: Lark Quartet Performs a Jennifer Higdon Work 2010-04-23T22:46:00Z He perfected the deluxe tonal style — soft white-grays, velvety darks — that became his brand. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He wanted a range of instruments that would share the specific tonal qualities of a violin instead of the varying sounds produced by the modern viola, cello and double bass. Music Review: At the Tank, New Sounds From New Strings 2010-05-31T22:56:00Z At the opposite tonal range is Siobhan Davies's The Art of Touch, with its exquisitely detailed movements plucking and striking the air with delicate precision. Rambert Dance Company ? review 2012-05-16T17:32:04Z Nor is it surprising that the first reality-TV president inspired hordes of satirists, even though their efforts often fell flat, whether in the woefully misjudged liberal-elite parody “The Hunt” or Jon Stewart’s tonal misfire “Irresistible.” Perspective | Movies are rushing to impact the election. Don’t ask whether they’ll work. Ask whether they’ll last. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “We started using some samples and clips from movies in Trenchmouth, but as we got older and bought more equipment, it allowed tonal things to happen that we were always reaching for.” Damon Locks and the Black Monument Ensemble’s Spiritual, Funky Escape 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s consistent with the previous books, both visually and tonally, as though everything really was made in 1991. Griffin and Sabine’s magical return 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z "It would be a completely different tonal piece," he said. FX's 'Sons of Anarchy' rides into final season with deadly intent 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The structure is choppy, and there are odd moments of tonal dissonance. Review: Fighting to Save Her ‘Little Pink House’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z There’s a complete tonal shift, and it’s this road trip movie, this odyssey. Matt Bomer on Magic Mike XXL: It's All About Strong Female Characters 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Her language is so distinctive, so rich with spectral colors, eerie glissandos and hazy harmonies that you cannot reduce it to tonal and atonal elements. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z At first, there is little tonal variation and sourness overwhelms the comedy, but it finishes with poignancy. Staircase ? review 2011-03-02T19:30:01Z Late Strauss and early Schoenberg make a piquant pairing – Strauss's glorious rekindling of the dying embers of tonality alongside the very music that had undermined the tonal system 30 years earlier. LPO/Jurowski 2010-06-16T21:00:00Z Global Zero, a non-partisan atomic disarmament organisation, backed the YouTube video, which gives a colloquial briefing on the intentions behind the bill – to tonally unsettling effect. Morgan Freeman and Jack Black back Iran nuclear deal for fear of becoming 'super dead' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Many of the scenes are captured from above and are painterly in composition, but in a different way from the tonally rich prints in Culatra. How Joachim Brohm set the world of landscape photography on fire 2013-03-28T11:25:50Z Grief over Ledger’s death may have been a factor, but there’s also something dramatically rich and tonally ambiguous about the character that responds to the alchemy of top-notch acting. Why Joker should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In Michael Gordon’s “Exalted,” another premiere, the young singers brought admirable spirit and assurance to a taut, urgent and tonally sophisticated setting of the first line from the Kaddish. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z “Massive tonal shift is the thing I kept saying to everyone,” Burd said. With ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky ‘Achieved My Destiny’ 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The crossover genre, however, offers the same kinds of mellow tonal sounds and rich buttery voices — music to relax to, if you will — without classical music’s perceived strictures or judgments. Perspective | How a classical musician turned 400-year-old French songs into a modern hit 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In “Three Pieces in Old Style,” from 1963, Górecki moved in a quite different direction, adopting a stripped-down, archaically tonal voice. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The players dug deep into often noisy textures while sustaining tonal richness. Midori and Ieva Jokubaviciute demand attention with performance at Library of Congress 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z As a star herself, she has become emotionally and tonally varied, sometimes an outright softy. Music Review: Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday Tour at the Chicago Theater 2012-07-17T22:51:53Z The score’s overall tone is lyrical and flexibly tonal, open to the harmonic and coloristic byways that the drama’s shifting settings and emotions demand. ?Heart of a Soldier,? Opera About Rick Rescorla, 9/11 Hero 2011-09-04T03:00:09Z “Divine,” “omega,” and “power” create another tonal through line. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z As the musicians began Act I of “Così,” he exhorted different sections to emphasize specific tonal qualities, using a torrent of onomatopoeic sounds. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Instead he wrote music of majestic despair in an achingly tonal harmonic language spiked with prickly dissonance. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z He also edited the film, and his complex sense of audiovisual composition—textural, tonal, thematic, rhythmic, philosophical—is as original and as personal as his cinematography. “Black Mother,” Reviewed: Khalik Allah’s Deeply Personal Portrait of Jamaican Life 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z I'm working from three coloured prints Ray has sourced, each one tonally very different from the other, with one cropping out the asparagus altogether. How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z In telling his life story, Lynch demonstrates the same disregard for causality and tonal consistency that marks his films. Review | David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But overall, his tonal sensitivity paid dividends time and again. Teen violinist Stephen Waarts offers imaginative take on classics in local debut 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z As a poet, Professor Honig was praised for formal precision, masterly tonal control and sometimes biting wit. Edwin Honig, a Poet, Professor and Translator, Dies at 91 2011-06-05T00:27:26Z The tonal values are balanced, he says, “so going from room to room isn’t jarring.” A Former Athletic Club Becomes A Posh Manhattan Apartment 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z There are a lot of tonal shifts in The Boy Next Door; your character changes so much from beginning to end, to put it mildly. 'The Boy Next Door' Star Ryan Guzman: You're supposed to laugh at my movie 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But if you looked at the breadth of the lineup, you could see a subtle tonal shift taking place, one that made viewers inclined to stay where they were instead of flipping around. Is NBC's Thursday night lineup doomed? 2011-04-15T14:15:00Z This time it was Strauss's elegiac Metamorphosen, composed nearly a century later but wrought in similar tonal overdrive. BBC SSO/Runnicles – review 2013-04-12T18:43:18Z Neo-Classicists like Piston wrote works that essentially hewed to tonal harmony, put a premium on textural clarity and utilized traditional forms. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z It's both a sound and a feeling, a tonal exuberance. Review: Basement Jaxx endures, hits new peaks on 'Junto 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z That's where I get high levels of joy, in that tonal movement. "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The other narrators tend to be tonally similar – withdrawn, calm, searching – so that Aaron's sections threaten to overshadow them, especially when, feeling his advancing age, he makes one final attempt to understand his unknowable son. Great House by Nicole Krauss ? review 2011-02-19T00:05:23Z Yet this new British film does not feel tonally inconsistent or stylistically scattered; rather, form imaginatively fits function. In Nida Manzoor’s World, Martial Arts and Jane Austen Belong in the Same Movie 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Dorothea, too, adopted mezzotint in preference to aquatint for her own work, appreciating the subtle tonal gradations. Dorothea Wight obituary 2013-06-10T11:48:42Z He simplifies what he sees, eliminating tonal shifts, flattening space, sharpening contours and exaggerating contrasts. The stomach-churning, visceral power of Chris Finley's weightlifter portraits 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The trimmed-down Chorale, prepared by Joseph Crnko, provided a fleet, light sound with considerable dynamic and expressive range and a lot of tonal variety. Handel's 'Messiah' gets zippy, memorable treatment 2011-12-18T02:26:03Z A similarly fast second movement, however, begins a process of tonal darkening, with double basses producing an ominous unpinning to the pianos. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z And the actors’ mostly mic-less performance occasionally suffers from their attempts to both emote and project; the volume erases much of the tonal modulation and dialogue pauses. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black ‘Hamlet’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z But these are strange times, and the lanky redhead whose first name rhymes with “tonal” has been stuck in his apartment for weeks. Domhnall Gleeson doesn’t fit the celebrity mold, and he’s completely fine with that 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He speaks at an allegro gallop, with a thick Scottish accent that itself is often musical in its tonal variations. When it comes to Shakespeare, composer Patrick Doyle knows the score 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z And tonally, the book was a gift, piercingly honest, deeply painful, but funny and self-deprecating too. For Nick Hornby, adapting 'Wild' was a fast-paced uphill hike 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z With the Washington Chorus’s larger forces, the piece — by one of the most popular living composers, who writes tonally and tunefully for chorus — sounded even more imposing and, well, wintry. Review | Christopher Bell strikes soundly in his first D.C. outing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z This does create tonal whiplash in spots, as when an emotional hospital sequence is capped by the sudden arrival of a sari-wearing acolyte from Mother Teresa’s order. From Paul Rudnick, a Mismatched Couple but Perfect for Each Other 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Stritch understood a lyric, and in a weathered voice shorn of tonal beauty but smacking of experience she revealed a song’s heart. Good Night, Elaine Stritch, You Will Be Missed 2013-04-04T18:29:41Z He seemed less concerned with tonal allure than with tracing every line, every emotion as it passed. Review: Two Masters Unite in a Meeting of Musical Minds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Berg’s musical language in the opera is an extraordinary blend of old and new — with some tonal harmony, bursts of Expressionist angst and stretches of atonality. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Of course, this is exactly what occurs in tonal music, especially the music of the Classical era. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z I pushed that through television initially, and to more dramatic work, something more tonally complex. "The Menu" director on his film's crossover with "Succession," flavored by "corrosive" egos 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Maher didn't assign an approximate date to this tonal changeover, which is somewhat strange given how abruptly the attacks of September 11, 2001 changed his own career. How September 11, 2001 became the borderline dividing two eras of late-night comedy 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Such was the mélange of color and deep pile fabrics that each outfit — except one with the shock of scarlet — seemed to be in a single tonal shade. Special Report: Cavalli at 40 2010-03-01T12:57:00Z One way to listen to the collection is to follow a single song through its many restless transformations, and one that goes through a particularly striking tonal evolution is “Poor Places.” Behind Wilco’s 2001 Masterpiece, a Band Breaking Its Heart 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The resolution returns things to sweet and goofy ground, but Mr. Chow’s signature is so sure that the tonal changes have a unity born of conviction. Review: ‘The Mermaid’ Features Stephen Chow Behind the Camera 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The tonal equivalent of "28 Weeks Later," "Land of the Dead" or "Zombieland" would never get financed in the superhero genre, much less distributed or seen. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z In the opera he created a new kind of tonal language that was as direct and communicative as it needed to be to tell Shakespeare’s story but was also indelibly contemporary. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z A film like Florence Foster Jenkins, with its rare blend of A-list performers and tonal levity, should be experienced the old-fashioned way, says Streep. Off-Key, but on Point 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z This tonal restlessness certainly adds a variety and richness to the book, but also reinforces the impression that Young can’t stop talking and can’t bring himself to leave anything out. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The pleasingly bright flatness of Mr. Katz’s designs offers no resistance to the bland people cavorting with a sailboat in blithe disregard of any tonal changes in the music, selections from Poulenc’s “Les Biches.” Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Offers New and Old 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Just as “Queen of Earth” transfigures its narrative conflicts into an exalted cinematic music, it retrospectively emphasizes the tonal values of Perry’s earlier films. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The beats here are wisps, less stated than implied, and the tonal spectrum derives from the metallophones used in the music of Java and Bali. Playlist: Reggae via Senegal, and a Tough Utopia 2011-06-10T18:55:16Z With tonal shifts, that's what it's like to walk into a dozen people's apartments. Brian Tyree Henry stars in "The Outside Story," a road movie "with the smallest possible mileage" 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Many Prokofiev scores try to contain modernist, sometimes barbaric impulses within Neo-Classical forms, in a harmonic language that for all its dissonance is essentially tonal. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z He also has his own band, Erimaj — but on “///// EFFECTUAL,” he pares down almost entirely to solo drum kit, creating a series of poetic experiments in rhythm and tonal color. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z When those elements work together, the ear is cosseted and coddled and the listener begins to conflate artistic beauty with an imaginary tonal beauty. British pianist Leon McCawley shines in program at the Phillips The score begins with a glacial chord progression in the strings—a typical Frey array of off-kilter tonal harmonies, suitable for a transitional passage in a lied by Schubert or Schumann. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But Monk maintained a rough piano style and wrote tunes to reflect it; his virtuosity worked on a level that was more tonal, and more physical. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z For a modern composer such as Kancheli, it’s rather romantic, tuneful at times and very tonal.” Chorale, violist to join SSO for water works 2013-03-27T21:08:35Z Both tonally and melodically, a few tracks within the set tended to blur together despite their rhythmic variations and his thematic restlessness. Jose Gonzalez rides a vibe of gentle, mesmerizing energy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z As he developed his musical voice, Shapero thought it possible to reinvigorate Classical forms by using innovative adaptations of tonal languages and spiky rhythmic techniques. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Although tonally distinct, both novels describe single working-class motherhood and small urban apartments in unflinching detail. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z As for Glass, his 14th etude, played after Schubert’s F Minor impromptu, seemed so richly tonal, with recurring curlicues of melody, that it sounded nearly Romantic. Timo Andres in dialogue with the past, playing Schubert and Glass at the Phillips 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Marking a tonal shift toward the end of the show, this number from “God Bless the Go-Go’s” provides a breather from the general exuberance. How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Eventually the movie "lurches into action movie territory, complete with the sort of violence and brutality that is tonally at odds with the farcical set-up." 'Let's Be Cops' should hand over its badge and gun, reviews say 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z In the film, Smith’s complex, resonant tonal textures accompany visuals of desert sands and windblown spice. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Yet it’s so wonderfully funny and deeply embedded in class-consciousness — “We must never forget it’s a miracle when anyone gets anywhere from a bad postcode,” says one character — that it’s tonal incontinence is easily forgiven. ‘How to Build a Girl’ Review: Write On 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z He kept both hands on the keyboard for nearly an hour, with pulsating rhythm and ambiguous tonal centers. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z One was tonal: The extremity of the punch and its aftermath was at odds with the surrounding comic scenes in a confusing, dispiriting way. Watching the Season 4 Finale of ‘Louie’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z His half-hour, single-camera sitcoms, with their deep ensemble casts and tonal blend of cringey awkwardness and heart, offered viewers the easy reliability of the best multicamera comedies but without the one-liners and studio audiences. With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Its authorship is debated, its syntax elaborate, its language awkward, its tonal shifts perplexing. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The Duffers claim that their influences are more tonal than specific, that they draw upon the cinema of the past for mood more than detail. Stories from the Set of Stranger Things, the TV Escape We Need Right Now 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The challenge for the anglophone poet lies both in rhyming skill and tonal balance. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z Hornaday adds that "there are moments when 'Nightcrawler' becomes too strident for its own good, and the plot ultimately goes into its own sensationalistic, far-fetched territory that compromises Gilroy's impressive tonal and visual control." 'Nightcrawler' is an effectively creepy thriller, reviews say 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z That tonal trick, to make you think you were watching something less challenging than you actually were, was just the first of many Gilligan pulled. Breaking Bad: 10 years on, TV is still in Walter White's shadow 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Her solo songs likewise represent a tonal and thematic hodgepodge. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The story can be hard to follow, but the roguish sense of play and the wild tonal shifts are thrilling. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z With Katrina Lindsay's intriguing costumes it's a thoroughly beguiling spectacle, suffused with a gloriously rich tonal score that nods towards but never merely imitates the music of the period. Dr Dee: An English Opera ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:01Z The action is nonstop, the ultra-vivid colors jump from the screen, the tonal shifts induce whiplash, and the soundtrack will fry your speakers. Can the Makers of ‘Money Heist’ Mint Another Hit With ‘Sky Rojo’? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z At one end of the decibel scale, the pivotal beach scene in “Roma” is largely silent, but the tonal textures remain key. At the Oscars or in the cinema, the sound that puts movie lovers in... 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z His musical voice is fascinating and exciting, tonal and yet inventive. Heart of a Soldier: capturing 9/11 in an opera 2011-08-25T22:14:01Z Her voice is a wild bunch of tonal shadings, and her compositions tend to move through several strains. Review: Joanna Newsom’s ‘Divers’ Shares Thoughts of Life and Death 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Van Sant’s paintings, in a palette that ranges from pastel to acid, have none of the tonal darkness of social documentary. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z “Ocean’s Kingdom” is, in many ways, an old-fashioned story ballet: a tuneful, tonal, orchestral work, in four movements, that accompanies a straightforward tale of love, complete with a princess. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z But the practical details of Jewish life are far less substantial, and far less crucial to the movie, than the way that the movie is tonally Jewish. The Mesmerizing Chaos of “Uncut Gems” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Reese hit on one of the big trends to emerge from these previews: She used a mixture of tonal textures to create interest instead of relying on anything too gimmicky. Layering's not just how we dress but how we feel 2011-02-15T21:18:20Z But she was accompanied by an intimidating solo Baroque flute and a pair of honking, tonally wayward bassoon-like oboes da caccia. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z His farewell speech was a thematic and tonal potpourri. Paul Ryan’s small, sad goodbye 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Her tonal luster and variety of touch enliven everything she plays. Miranda Cuckson at Spectrum and Paul Huang at Lincoln Center 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Zoom used "simple supermarket bread" for his carby hexahedrons, which he baked in six batches of varying doneness to create a palette with tonal range. The absolute best way to make croutons, according to so many tests 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z His tonal model for “Bridge and Tunnel” were the early Beatles hits that “put a smile on your face without being cornball-ish,” he added. Edward Burns Returns to Long Island with ‘Bridge and Tunnel’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Every element was tonally perfect, well-balanced, transmitting all the lush awesomeness of his recordings and then some. Concert review: James Blake at the Tractor Tavern 5/19 2011-05-20T18:34:07Z “For a lot of composers writing after the Holocaust, it couldn’t be tonal music anymore, for a long time.” With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The conservative juries were appalled by his works’ lack of conventional finish, abrupt tonal transitions and almost insulting playfulness, and they rejected him. Review | Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z There are 28 scales that converge or bombard the tonal center. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z He seemed delighted, instead, with the basset clarinet's edgy tonal character, its ability to enhance dissonance. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z “The light sources and tonal relationships are reversed. The outlines of the children become more clearly defined, their individual features softened.” The French Artist JR Brightens the Montauk Highway 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Here, he expands his tonal range and approaches a kind of Kafkaesque absurdity. ‘The Boat Rocker’: Ha Jin’s timely novel about freedom of the press 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The tonal quality and texture of the sound itself is at least as important, if not more important, than the notes that are being played. The Strange Business of Scoring ‘Stranger Things’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z This unsettling question hangs over the novel, and the protagonist’s seesawing unreliability feels intentional and well executed, not the jarring result of tonal indecision. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The three groups were asked to perform a Chinese tonal task–”It’s simply differentiating a tone,” said Klein. An Infant's Brain Maps Language From Birth, Study Says 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The octet is his more painterly outlet as a composer-arranger, working not only with a conventional tonal palette but also with microtonal shadow and spectral overtone. Music Review: Jazz Twists From Steve Lehman and His Octet 2014-01-16T23:02:16Z The pensive second movement is written in Hindemith’s trademark musical language: essentially tonal but harmonically elusive. Music Review | Riccardo Muti: Seldom-Heard Symphony Resurfaces as a Novelty 2010-03-05T21:23:00Z It adapted characters and plots from the comics, drew tonal inspiration from the Burton films and then went on to influence Batman properties that followed. ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Predicted the Bat-Future 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z “Fateful Findings,” which I and many others consider Breen’s most deranged film, exemplifies the tonal stiltedness and libertarian rage that pervades his work. What Distinguishes a Neil Breen Film? Neil Breen. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z “It’s very tonal,” Ms. de la Martinez said, “and it has these beautiful melodies. It’s so approachable.” Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z "It's not quite tonal, but it's not jarringly atonal," Taub says. Paul Taub's 'Edge': local flutist explores periphery of Europe 2011-11-03T20:00:10Z If Pape’s tonal pleasures have often seemed to come at the expense of vivid characterizations — as in his beautiful, bland Gurnemanz in Wagner’s “Parsifal” — he fits the restraint of this conductor, chorus and production. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The London Philharmonic Orchestra's conductor Vladimir Jurowski brought clarity without dissipating Strauss's orchestral richness; the work's tonal palette and harmonic seesawing were both faultlessly laid bare. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z It’s so tonally and ideologically unfocused that its ideas just slip away. Review: Zapped by Lightning, a French Teacher Becomes ‘Mrs. Hyde’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z But Birchall's ability to coax meanings from tonal subtleties – such as when his tenor sax hovers over humming low bass drones on Going to the Mountain – is pretty effective. Nat Birchall: Guiding Spirit 2010-05-20T21:30:00Z With little, tonally, to distinguish West Is West from the first film, it's all perfectly watchable: the odd chuckle, one or two nicely moving scenes, a good number of culture clash gags. West Is West ? review 2010-10-19T14:36:00Z Also, by using more tonal colors, Rue creates backgrounds that allow the metal components to recede into them when he wants to create distance. Painter Jared Rue brings nature in close 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies. Celebrating Charles Gayle at the Vision Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Best, excellent in the recent “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” and Mr. Brown seem the least comfortable with the play’s tonal shifts. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z But in his review for The Times, A. O. Scott wrote that the film’s first act holds some tonal surprises. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Schooled’ and ‘Down a Dark Hall’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z There's a nice rhythmic and tonal balance at work here: Everybody else in the movie is trending toward some version of comic resolution, of forgiving their own sins and those of others. "Change of Plans": Dinner for cheaters 2010-08-28T00:30:00Z You have clear tonal production, registers which are alligned and a vocal scale which is evenly produced. American Idol, Miley Cyrus Week: Our Eggheads Debate 2010-03-24T13:12:00Z Stoic performers in sky-blue bowling hats and cloud-print ties rode up and down emitting deep, tonal chanting and murmuring bits of unintelligible poetry. The arts buzzword of 2016: 'immersive' 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In this piece the listener will hear everything from dissonance to beautiful consonant tonal writing, to jazz to all kinds of things. All hail Joan of Arc, in music -- but in London? 2011-11-03T11:31:03Z They were especially fascinated by the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, composed between 1903 and 1906, in which Mahler seemed to be pushing tonal harmony to its breaking point. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z This “master” emerges near the end like a sharp note in a song, tonally and narratively dissonant from the earlier mythological imagery. A Poetic Body of Work Grapples With the Physical Body at Risk 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Everything is entirely tonal, the harmony stable, the sonority rich and satisfying. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z At one point, after the 20-minute mark, Mr. Smith played a press roll that gradually migrated from his snare to his high tom, whose pitch Mr. Ware then adopted as a tonal center. Music Review: Back to an Ensemble After Solo Work, Offering a Mind-Meld With Partners 2010-10-05T21:13:00Z The sound design also underscores what the play portrays as Henrietta’s key astronomical insight: the idea of star fluctuations as tonal. Review | ‘Silent Sky’ tells the story of pioneering female astronomers with humor and warmth 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The question is, do Weston's still lives, in all their tonal beauty, their formal perfection, their technical skill, invest these commonplace objects with a heightened presence, or do they capture something innate? Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation? 2010-08-18T15:49:00Z Hymn verses appear five times in the oratorio, descending through the keys of E, E-flat and C major toward the darkness and radical tonal uncertainty of the Crucifixion itself. A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z “They have to market a movie that is in someways a follow-up to The Fault in Our Stars but is a very tonally different film.” John Green: 'Paper Towns' Is Funnier Than Trailer Suggests 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z It is impossible to keep track, and worse, the constant tonal changes are treated as unimportant, as if style made no difference to the audience. Review: A Skilled Ballet Leader Creates a Messy ‘Raymonda’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Crystal Lucas-Perry, for instance, shines in two segments with tricky tonal shifts. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The earliest of these works, Stravinsky's serenely tonal ballet blanc, was a striking reversal from the uninhibited adventurousness of "Rite of Spring," written 14 years earlier. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The tonal variations are partly in the eye of the beholder, and partly in the screens themselves. Review | In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Adams’s musical language is abundantly tonal, goal-oriented and animated by an irresistible rhythmic vitality. Composer John Adams does double duty at Strathmore with BSO 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z But the playful, poetic imagination that distinguished that work is missing in this tonally uncertain drama about loss and damage. Theater Review: ‘7th Monarch,’ by Jim Henry, at the Acorn Theater 2012-06-25T22:46:52Z That same tonal shift takes place again in the second story, “Homeward,” but it’s a wholly different kind of tale. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Making no tonal distinction between the banal and the outrageous, it conveys the impression that nothing is safe. ‘Fest’ and ‘Bear/Skin’ at American Realness Festival 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Now, with “In Colour,” his first solo album, Mr. Smith, 26, is tapping a broader tonal range than the xx’s severe palette allows. Jamie xx Looks Inward and Back on ‘In Colour’ 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z An unambiguously tonal section ensues, more or less in the key of G-sharp minor. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Medieval music and contemporary music both fall outside the strictures of the tonal system of major or minor keys, either because they preexisted that system or because their composers eschewed it. Review | JACK Quartet challenges the listener in ways both old and new 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The rest is sweet and funny and does not disgrace the series, except for a couple of mild sexual references and tonally weird "gay guys are sissies!" jokes that seemed more Dreamworks than Pixar. Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z More intriguing are the tracks where the experimentation with tonal approach succeeds. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Still, that does mean it's tonally of a piece with the rest of the film. Cannes 2012: Confession of a Child of the Century ? review 2012-05-21T15:24:07Z A tonal traditionalist, he steeped her in the approach of 19th-century masters like Brahms. Ursula Mamlok, Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 93 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The tonal shifts in the film are both its blessing and its curse. Adam McKay's "Vice": A sly, irreverent portrait of Dick Cheney's monstrous power 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The soloist's tonal beauty is jaw-dropping, with rich sound that tapers away to a pliant thread, and yet can be aggressively assertive. Review: CDs from Seattle Symphony, violinist James Ehnes 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z Their music was terse but buoyant, enlivened by tonal frictions. Music Review: Tri-Centric Modeling Event Honors Anthony Braxton 2010-06-21T22:59:00Z Mr. Juwoski “countered megalomania with a depth and tonal vastness that make many recordings look pale,” the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel wrote. Meet the New Generation Leading Berlin’s Classical Scene 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z As infatuation consumed her, van den Heever summoned the tonal amplitude to fill out Wagner’s portrait of a love that is annihilating in its totality. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z He layered instruments to create tonal and harmonic variety rarely if ever heard in rock recordings. Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z No, “good” suits Peterborough just fine, and it proved a tonally perfect self-appraisal for my pilgrimage to a community and a theater company that play an outsize role in the history of American drama. Perspective | An ‘Our Town’ for our time, staged in the New England community that inspired it 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Haggard said she loved “Fleabag,” but she insisted that tonally, the shows differed. Did Daisy Haggard Create the Next ‘Fleabag’? Not Exactly 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Grimes, with his tonal evasions and nubby attack, helped prevent any kind of stasis, as did Mr. Taylor, who brought grace and even lyricism to his alert percussive stir. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z Yes, the tonal versatility and variety of the sheng is a source of marvel for me. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The musical equivalent is tunes and tonal harmonies written for conventional orchestral forces. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z One sign of Michetti’s masterly direction is the tonal control his actors maintain over the material. Globalization in a white takeout carton: Roland Schimmelpfennig's 'The Golden Dragon' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z A double portrait of Ken Moody and Robert Sherman in layered profiles riffs on the exquisite, black-and-white tonal range that platinum print photography can produce. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The soprano Tamara Wilson, as Desdemona, gained authority and tonal richness as the performance went on, her high notes strong and clear. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z And while there are a few effectively uncomfortable moments, they are diffuse and tonally wobbly. Theater Review: ‘Tar Baby,’ With the Comic Desiree Burch 2013-01-10T21:52:00Z It’s not so much a tonal problem as opposed to how much information you put in. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z A naked male torso lies face-down and diagonally on the floor, sensuously illuminated in a full array of tonal grays. Minor White snaps into focus again in Getty Museum show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z You need to be an assured — or at the very least charismatic — actor to not get lost in the tonal shifts of “Outlander.” ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z The show’s 28 tonally subtle black-and-white photos, some vintage, some newly printed, tell a half-century story of cultural turmoil and change that the world at large still knows little of. Kazuo Kitai’s Record of a Japan in Transition 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Whatever repertoire Mr. Freire turned to, he had a depth of tonal variety, a poetry of phrasing and a natural, almost joyous refinement. Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Gallagher’s nice-guy air and naïve sense of disbelief prove a good anchor for a movie that, visually and tonally, holds back from its characters somewhat. ‘The Heart Machine’ Explores Human Connection 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z From there until the final image, which powerfully reminds us that not every loss can be undone, the production insists on pushing the tonal contrasts rather than smudging them. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z I had read several articles about Lai before traveling to Wuzhen — plaudits for the range of subject matter and tonal control of his plays — but like most Americans I had never seen his work. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z He brings a musical awareness of the language and a tonal assurance that can shift on a dime from mordant irony to delicate feeling. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The tonal variations and tonal possibilities became endless to me. ArtsBeat: Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica, Talks About His Beloved Marshalls 2012-04-06T17:27:17Z Linney considered the dicey tonal challenges of the material before signing on. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z Sullivan in the Beckett Theater at Theater Row in Manhattan, it’s a mishmash of acting styles in a tonally uneven production that rarely wipes the dust of decades from the text. Review: A Sprawling ‘Days to Come’ Has Everything Except Central Figures 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Whether he’s working in romantic comedy or horror or swordplay, Lee answers only to the visual and tonal ideas that interest him. The Great Unknown Movie of the Century So Far? Here’s Mine 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Is Sofia Coppola relaxing back into more familiar territory after the mixed critical reaction to her tonally adventurous last outing, Marie Antoinette? Sofia Coppola heads for Somewhere familiar 2010-06-15T12:26:00Z He encouraged Feldman, who had a day job working in his family’s coat manufacturing business until he was 44, to create music that incorporated neither tonal nor serial techniques. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z Technically, that's because of Adès's seemingly infinitely subtle and infinitely expandable tonal universe. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell got the best actress and best supporting actor Oscars for Martin McDonagh’s jagged, angular, tonally unpredictable and – for some objectionable – black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The Shape of Water's Oscars win is the triumph of a real artist and immersive cinema | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z But the mastery of tonal color really stole the show. Simons in confident Christian Dior style evolution 2013-03-02T00:08:15Z Stephenson’s book tackles the same themes but from the opposite end of the tonal spectrum. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But there’s another less tonal issue for the show, and that’s the question of dramatic stakes. “The Americans” ups its stakes: Finally, the slow-burn drama lays out consequences for its family of spies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z So keep things “tonal and tactile with as many luxurious materials as your budget allows.” How to create a sleep-friendly bedroom 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In addition to their many comedic, tonal and thematic differences, there's also that matter of their divergence at the box office. Should comedy hits start refraining from sequels? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z But their songs contained all manner of complexities: rhythmic and harmonic, as well as tonal, political, philosophical and metaphysical. Review: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Harmonic and Political Still 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z His is a classic baritone with a resonant, melancholy timbre, but it lacks range and tonal variation; Matt often half-talks his vocals in the style of singers like Tom Waits and Nick Cave. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z Wells masterpiece to highlight rather than the structurally disjointed and tonally unstable “The Invisible Man”? Surely Penelope Fitzgerald ought to be represented by “The Blue Flower” rather than “Offshore” and W.G. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z At any moment, its narrative, if you can call it that, can switch from a tonal poem to a musical, from a video game to a game show. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Schopenhauer used the tonal range of music as a metaphor for the entirety of existence. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The occasional big effects were commanding and intense without ever descending into coarseness, and the delicacy and tonal allure he brought to the cycle’s preponderance of quiet songs were deeply impressive. Olympic Music Festival opens season with songs of love 2013-07-01T16:17:08Z The music is so spiked with dissonance, clusters and wayward chords that it seems boldly modernist, even when the harmonies are tonally anchored. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Striking a delicate tonal balance, Mr. Adomian transformed being assaulted into a cuttingly funny yarn without diminishing its horror. Comedy: Gay Male Comics Await the Spotlight 2012-08-15T14:06:57Z I was very much inspired by that character and the crazy tonal shifts the show pulled off. ArtsBeat: Elizabeth Meriwether Answers Your 'New Girl' Questions 2013-02-05T16:00:20Z The tonally wobbly and workmanlike revival that opened on Sunday at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park doesn’t decide. Review: Danai Gurira Makes a Sleek Supervillain of Richard III 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Hall said that although he didn't expect Voigt's classmates to match her extraordinary vocal power, they could aspire to her tonal purity. Placido Domingo, Deborah Voigt to headline opening of Chapman's new arts center 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z It predates the tonal system, with its varieties of major and minor scales, characterizing much of what we recognize as Western music today. Breathing life into 700-year-old music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z But even then, to fully embrace The Dilemma also requires a tolerance for tonal discordance and a sociological interest in the bridge between the earnestness of the bromance and the gender hegemony of toxic masculinity. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The news conference also came less than a day after President Obama’s farewell address in Chicago, and it previewed the tonal whiplash the country is in for come Jan. 20. Donald Trump and the State of Conflict 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z How about scoring five tonally different films in one year? Godzilla, Alan Turing and more move to Alexandre Desplat's music 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Blanchard, in his trumpet solo over the plaintive theme, struck a careful tonal balance, sounding haunted but unflinching. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet the preview, incredibly, was of the most harmonious Van Noten shows in some time, owing to its fine tonal color palette. Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows 2012-09-26T19:09:09Z The Challenger plot feels tonally off and too on the nose—not worth the use of the tragedy as material. In Season 3, “GLOW” Raises the Stakes 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z This is important: The tonal manicure is everywhere. This Is the Manicure of the Season 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet for all his loyalty to classical forms and tonal harmonies, the same prickliness injects a certain asperity into even his most lyrical moments. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z He zeroed in on what he heard around him, keeping inside the tonal center from moment to moment and tracing a natural sort of song around it. Jazz Musicians Memorialize Charlie Haden 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Gordon’s recent large-scale works fixate on a limited sonic palette — a cohort of bassoons, a smattering of wooden 2-by-4s, the innards of a piano — but somehow unlock a vast range of tonal hues. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Dean’s harmonic language deftly blends tonal elements with raw astringencies. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The tonal confusion continues in “Swelling & Irritation,” in which the difficulties a married couple faces during lockdown are mostly played for laughs. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z He raps quickly in a thick, gluey voice, with little tonal variance, like endlessly striking one key on the piano. New Music: Sara Bareilles, George Duke and Ace Hood 2013-07-15T20:42:55Z Gotham is under siege in ways that tonally and visually recall 9/11; what is obviously the island of Manhattan gets cut off from the outside world at one point. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z He cites Debussy, Ravel, Bartok and Messiaen as favorite composers, and the tonal colors and sonorities of his partitas were grounded in their legacy, particularly Messiaen. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z A dominant contemporary saxist for 20 years, Redman is a player of tonal delicacy and careering power, capable of everything from Wayne Shorter-like contemplation to more urgent, stomping solo sax-driven blues. This week's new live music 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z It’s a fresh story, tonally different and I love it. Bryan Cranston: ‘I’m a mutt. I relate to that. It’s what I am’ 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Though tonal enough to be assigned a key, the three-movement work is not conventionally symphonic, its episodic outer movements seeming more concerned with color than with structure. Music Review: Spring for Music, a Festival of Orchestras, Plays Carnegie Hall 2014-05-09T22:21:55Z These players, whose native musical tongue is tonal beauty, do not always find their way to the grit and angularity needed for much Russian repertory, especially that of the 20th century. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z His Fourth is structured in four traditional movements and mostly hews to a tonal harmonic language. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z How did you work at striking that tonal balance between comedy and drama here? Big Mess on Campus: Making ‘Emergency’ 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Another of her voices is a less emphatic, tonally thinner echo of Sarah Vaughan. Music Review: A Singer?s Tribute to Lena Horne, Her Regal and Daunting Role Model 2011-05-12T21:12:39Z Its appeal lies precisely in this tonal flatness — the anthropological distance the narrator maintains from her subjects. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Although the voice sometimes needed more body in midrange, Ms. Mei brought ardor and tonal resonance to the climactic moments and technical agility to her challenging Act 3 aria. Opera Review: Zurich Opera's 'Guillaume Tell' Is Tripped Up by Gimmickry 2010-11-23T12:40:00Z I played him like a mustache-twirling, villainous murderer, and the casting director was like, “Yeah, that’s totally tonally off, but thank you.” Lukas Gage on the Audition That Went Awry, ‘You’ and Writing His Own Ticket 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z This tunnel vision gives the book a certain tonal and thematic unity, but it also leaves a trail of missed opportunities. Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z They soften rough edges, sell jokes, break hearts and add to the movie’s tonal coherence. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Review: Listen Bud, No Spoilers Here 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z One possible motivation for these colorless phases concerns the centuries-old tradition of grisaille, a form of gray or brown tonal painting. Art Review: ‘Picasso Black and White’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-10-04T20:56:12Z The story takes a turn, narratively and tonally — the rhythms seem to quicken or at least your pulse does — after another of Lokita’s immigration interviews goes badly. ‘Tori and Lokita’ Review: Precarious Lives in Exile 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It is likely the singular nature of Holmes' voice is related not only to its low pitch, but also its resonance, the unique tonal quality and placement of the voice. What’s behind the obsession over whether Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice? 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Perhaps there’s something about the precise direction of David Lynch, or simply the tonal shifts, that stops it hitting home. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z When asked why he didn't go "all the way" and write tonal music, he said self-mockingly that if he did, he would turn into a boring imitation-19th-century Anglican composer. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z Although the film may echo bits from such exponentially better shockers as "An American Werewolf in London," "Silence of the Lambs," "Misery" and others, this tonal mishmash is a misfire of literally gross proportions. A gross 'Tusk' from Kevin Smith 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The Bolívars were a colossal orchestra, a visual as well as a musical spectacle, and their tonal mass was blunt, overpowering. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Much of it is tonal, but unhinged tonal. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Obviously the songs, tonally and lyrically, they tell part of the story as well as just being a performance. Alan Cumming on Speaking His Mind, Making His Own Hats and Getting In Touch With His Inner Elf 2012-12-07T13:00:31Z In a fine program of Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel and Waxman — difficult music, in a range of styles and impeccably rendered — Waarts showed an uncommon, preternatural sense of tonal color and lyrical beauty on the instrument. Teen violinist Stephen Waarts offers imaginative take on classics in local debut 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The orchestra and Joseph Crnko's chorus both outdid their former levels of clarity and tonal opulence. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z Critics praised his tonal beauty, vocal flexibility and interpretive sensitivity, as well as his ability to inhabit seemingly any period in a 400-year swath of musical literature. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z The film’s five-act structure is watertight, the pacing of its drama exquisitely judged and the tonal swerve at its midpoint handled with utter confidence. Why Parasite should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z During the reflective second movement and the bustling, densely layered yet always lucidly textured last movement, Mr. Lindberg’s distinctive harmonic language came through, neither tonal nor atonal, but shimmering, diaphanous and pungent. Music Review: Conjuring Up Wondrous Sounds 2010-11-21T22:44:00Z “Along the way this subversively funny, tonally twisted film morphs from something playful with dark undercurrents into the opposite,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in March. DVD: Desert Tales, Centuries Apart 2011-08-06T20:23:02Z Ms. Skride brought a wide tonal palette to her insightful and passionate interpretation, her tone meaty and bold to open, then sweet, gossamer and brash. Review: Baiba Skride Wrestles Bartok’s Art of Darkness 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z His daring emboldened other composers to embrace tonal languages and heed their instincts. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z But it’s a total tonal gumbo, which sometimes treats its topics with kid gloves, at others chucks them in the air and juggles. The Judge review: jury in, gavel out on Robert Downey Jr courtroom drama 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s a bit of a tonal obstacle course too, and the early episodes wrestle with a lot of plot. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z She starts simply, sparely, but she and her dancers exaggerate each motion, using the eye to direct the ear to tonal distinctions. Review: Hot Feet and Cool Bodies at Vail 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s squarely tonal music, not post-Schoenberg in the sense of avoiding functional harmony. | Brad Mehldau: Pianists, Yes, but a Jazz Singer and Deep Metal, Too 2011-02-25T19:44:54Z While it’s in keeping with his previous work, tonally and substantively, it holds a distinct place in the author’s mind. When a Therapist Puts Buddhism Into Practice 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point. The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z With Longenbaugh's narrative and tonal variety, the malleability of an exciting ensemble of actors and the unique approaches to eight short pieces by five directors, the two-hour program feels constantly fresh. Review: 'Arcana,' at Open Circle Theater, explores what lies in the cards 2010-09-16T22:23:00Z “There was, in the ’70s, a moment when even a few luxury companies used to sell a tonal shirt and tie together in a plastic box. A Chat With the Ever-Evolving Tom Ford 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Bulging at 212 pounds, Wahlberg looked the part, but his enhanced muscles were in the service of a tonally incoherent mess of a “comedy” that proves how woefully inept Bay is at satire. Don't go changing: actor transformations that weren't worth the effort 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Behind her, the band echoes the slurry guitars, tonal abrasion and down atmosphere of early-to-mid-1990s indie rock like Helium or Polvo. Music Review: Speedy Ortiz Cuts Through Thick Night Air at Death by Audio 2013-07-07T21:48:44Z This irresistible show recreates that feeling every week, as the hosts, Todd Nathanson and Dany Roth, pit two tonally similar songs against each other. 7 Podcasts for Music Lovers 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z It turns out that one of Vollrath's own researchers is also studying the tonal qualities of the material, the good vibrations "which the spider can understand down in the nano-range". Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z The song’s title wasn’t announced during the set, but its mournful essence was clear enough, yielding a singular tension in an otherwise tonally consistent performance. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z Zapata’s carefully crafted prose oscillates between matter-of-fact and lyrically poetic, a tonal range that provides a very pleasant reading experience. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Cohen’s “Rock” peers directly at its subject, using its simple form for an elegant exercise in tonal control. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z "I sometimes think Scarlatti must have travelled to the 18th century from the future, because his keyboard music implies tonal effects and colours that seem unimaginable on a harpsichord," agreed WaxwingSlaine. Readers' reviews 2011-02-10T22:10:00Z It frequently emerges without the help of rhyme, through a mastery of quick-moving tonal subtleties. Poem of the week: Showing Me by Sam Gardiner 2011-04-04T09:59:20Z Over all, the Emerson’s interpretation of the work proved less notable for its tonal beauty than for its attention to detail, like the witty emphasis on the pizzicato gesture and the “Es muss sein!” Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays Beethoven, Mozart and Fauré 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr Hough’s flip description of his own music is “tonal with a twist”, but there is nothing flip about his analysis of the revolution ushered in by Schoenberg. He’s the piano man 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Alpaca tunics with tonal patched pockets checked all the boxes for casual styles made stylish, while a collaboration with Manolo Blahnik finished off the sporty elegance with boots of hand-woven herringbone wool. Fashion Review: In Carolina Herrera They Trust 2014-02-16T11:46:16Z Even from the back benches, he enthused, "the fine tonal fiber of the stringed instruments carried with a beautiful clearness." The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z And it was with the market in mind that he took the attention-grabbing style he’d been developing and pushed it hard: splashy strokes, chunky surfaces, tonal contrasts that could be read from across a room. Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z He used to talk about the “grammar” of his particular music, freed from a tonal center. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z That the result fails to generate much charge is due in part to the galloping excesses of the writing and to one’s impression that neither actor seems entirely comfortable with the tonal changes required. On London Stage, Absurdity and Terrorism Aren’t Mutually Exclusive 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z I'm really curious to see what the show is like tonally, given how shell-shocked everyone seems to be after Whitney Houston's death. Grammy awards 2012 ? live coverage 2012-02-13T00:19:42Z It was her tonal beauty, however, that set her apart. Remarkable violinist, conductor were masterful pair at Seattle Symphony 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z The movie, Puig writes, "had decisive potential. But a weak script, lack of subtlety and tonal inconsistencies impede what might have been a powerful family drama." 'The Judge': Well-acted but guilty of sentimentality, reviews say 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “It’s not like a spoiler, because tonally I hint that there’s something wrong,” Goldthwait says of the surprising turn of events. Bobcat Goldthwait: 'I knew Robin would want me to finish the movie' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z It's a tonally strange break from the usual excitement, but one that shows humans at their best and worst in a bleak and hostile environment. Six to watch: Star Trek episodes 2013-05-09T15:16:48Z Ms. Dain showed good agility in the Haydn if not always ideal tonal luster. Review: St. Thomas Church Season Honors John Scott 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z I'm able to really push the envelope and push the comedy in a direction that I feel like is a good tonal fit for the show. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z But there are a number of fascinatingly opaque tonal shifts along the way. Behind the Candelabra – Cannes 2013 review 2013-05-21T08:25:41Z So by the time Logan finally unsheathes his claws, toward the trailer’s end, it’s a jarring tonal break from what seems like a quieter, smaller film. 4 Trailers That Have Us Excited for 2017 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Why take on another show that is tonally gloomy or too difficult to think about? Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The irony," Adams notes, "is that the moment he published this book, he turned his back on tonal harmony. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z The violinist played it with exquisite tonal refinement and grace. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z The result is not a smooth, seamless work, but a tense, oddly paced, tonally inconsistent one. Theater Review: ?A Map of Virtue,? by Erin Courtney, From 13P Company 2012-02-17T18:07:22Z The first of this novelist’s books to be published here, “The Country Life” boasts pitch-perfect tonal control and humor of such sly subversion that the novel’s premise transcends mere skit. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Religion and devotion feature prominently in this novel, but this tale has more in common tonally with Dumas than Dostoyevsky. A Swashbuckling Pirate Pulled Into One Last Job 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In the manner of Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, director Richard Scerbo spoke about the composer’s style, which is occasionally dissonant but still grounded on tonal centers, and each work’s background. Review | With a trumpet fox trot and the roar of a siren, Inscape delivers Hindemith 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The startling photograph is a platinum print, a stable and durable darkroom technique that offers the widest tonal range. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The tonal shifts of teenage life are beautifully rendered by Gerwig, her film adeptly veering between comedy and pathos within the space of a scene. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 5 Lady Bird 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z It's a plaintive sound, whose settings of ancient Sufi texts often speak of sadness and exile, delivered with an immense vocal and tonal range. Farida Mohammad Ali: the mother of all Maqam 2010-07-01T21:30:00Z But the show's main challenge may lie in the very particular tonal whiplash it inflicts on its viewers. Is "Treme" still great? 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z Hamblett effectively juggles the tonal potential of acoustic piano, electric keys and guitarist Munk's pedal effects, and like many accomplished graduates of the present era, the players effortlessly ease between time signatures and idioms. Dave Hamblett Group: Light At Night – review 2013-02-21T22:59:01Z Many of them, with vocal techniques built for tonal blend and rhythmic precision in a chorus, favored a straight tone that gleamed like white light but also exposed waywardness in pitch. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z You also raise something I keep coming back to as I think about this show: the tonal whiplash. Is Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ as Offensive as It Looks? Let’s Discuss 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z His tonally grounded music flickers, hums, pulses, thunders and soars from the expert, 15-piece Boston Modern Orchestra Project under Gil Rose's firm and trenchant baton. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z Performing at the New School, where he’s a junior, he refashioned “My Favorite Things” into a funk fantasia, and brought rich tonal colors to an original called “Sway.” At NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon, New Faces Make Their Mark at Grooving Places 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z And it was part of a diverse program of well-crafted, entertaining movies that occasionally provided tonal and thematic respite from the edgy gloom and doom on offer. Perspective | At the Toronto International Film Festival, you can feel anxiety in the air — and on the screen 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Maguire, who made his name playing coming-of-age roles in 1990s movies like "The Cider House Rules," "Pleasantville" and "The Ice Storm," said the latest film is tonally very different from anything he has done before. In "The Details," a grown-up role for Tobey Maguire 2012-10-05T18:51:22Z Adam Driver embodies that tonal duality as Stallworth’s partner, alternately a source of gravitas and comic relief. Where to Stream ‘Green Book,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Other Big Oscar Winners 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Their exposed trades were exciting, echoing and answering each other not just rhythmically but tonally as well. ‘Transformation: Rhythm’s Roots’ Explores Black History 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The sound quality is excellent, with a neutral tonal balance, a just-right amount of bass, and clear, spacious highs. A great noise-canceling headphone 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z Especially fine was the legato of the strings: not just tonally lovely but suspenseful. Mariinsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The tonally and visually distinct “Dos Estaciones” and “Robe of Gems” both take place in a contemporary Mexico consumed by violence. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Soon enough, this changes direction, though, the music literally bending into another sphere, but the narrative remains melodious, tonal and even pastoral through various creative scorings. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z A show of abstract ink drawings by the contemporary Taiwanese calligrapher Huang I-Ming at M. Sutherland Fine Arts vividly demonstrates at large scale the unlimited textural and tonal possibilities of black ink on white paper. Asia Week’s Rare and Unusual Objects for Art Lovers and Collectors 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z What I was doing by naming my piece this," he adds, "was making a very public statement of my embrace of tonal harmony. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z But the tonal slipperiness of Mr. Monkman’s art, with its compound of anger and absurdity, social realism and serious camp, comes through. A Cree Artist Redraws History 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But Lewis’s displays are tonally different from these opulent productions. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Over mocktails, Goldberg discussed the finale, the series’s tonal leaps and how Sally survived. Sarah Goldberg on the ‘Barry’ Finale and Bad Decisions 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z If you ask me, it wasn’t particularly deserved; the film was poorly paced, tonally dissonant, and an inferior version of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. 'SPECTRE' Producers So Desperate for Money They're Taking $20 Million to Make Mexico Look Better 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Although earlier works included here are more textured, the recent drawings are all line and tonal contrast. Review | In the galleries: Powerful messages that require few words 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z She gets the structure and pacing just right, but throughout this book I found myself longing for a narrator with more artistry — someone with greater eloquence, more tonal sophistication, a lighter touch. Review: ‘Becoming Nicole,’ a Young Boy’s Journey Into Girlhood 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The two Britten arrangements, with their dissonant tonal colors, added some needed variety to a program that leaned sentimental and Romantic. Audience can’t help but show its appreciation for Irish song and opera 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Much of “Regrets” is really beautiful, with half-hidden rainbow colors, tonal subtleties and a mesmerizing diversity of line. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z But “The Lone Ranger,” which received terrible reviews, suffered from tonal problems. Masked Lawman Stumbles at the Gate 2013-07-07T19:43:07Z And while Mr. Wuorinen now acknowledges that his chosen style has fallen out of favor, he still doesn’t miss an opportunity to castigate tonal composers. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet the architectural and tonal distinction of Cannes, with its ornate glitz, comes off equally soulless and barren, massive tombs of misdeeds and mischief past and present. The Scattershot Satire of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z She found other qualities in the piece as well: her shapely, nuanced account of the Ballada drew on some of the tonal opulence that made her Carnegie Hall appearances so appealing. Music in Review 2011-04-06T23:27:11Z His work was stubbornly, unfashionably tonal, and frequently witty; he pursued neither the pastoral idioms that obsessed Vaughan Williams, nor the serial techniques that burst onto the scene in the 1960s. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z "Pickle Rick" travels a tonal spectrum between utter ludicrousness and dead-sober epiphany, and it hits the mark not despite its core absurdity, but because of it. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z So does the almost unrelenting tonal darkness of the first two plays, making them seem less like a protest against women’s victimization than a fetishization of it. Review: ‘Fruit Trilogy,’ Eve Ensler’s New Show, Brims With Outrage 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Visually flat, tonally monotonous and convoluted for the sake of being convoluted, it was genuinely painful to watch. How the return of House of Cards is both a blessing and a curse 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But beneath its rash of surface scratching, even “Implosion” has an audible tonal shape to it — a sense of narrative and lyricism. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The most joy I get as a filmmaker is from tonal movement. "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z It didn't sound particularly baroque: Bainbridge's tonal palette seemed in equal parts Miles Davis and Debussy, while a palindromic structure brought the material full circle in the manner of Berg's Lulu. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z To show off the tonal variety of the organ by playing different musical sections with diverse instrumental colors, Mr. Carpenter took this breathless overture at a somewhat restrained tempo. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Performs on His Touring Instrument 2014-03-10T20:12:51Z Ms. deBessonet, the creator of the marvelous Public Works series and the director of a bubbly production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Delacorte last summer, is usually expert at keeping tonal balance. Review: On the Road With Mom in ‘Miss You Like Hell’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The immediacy of his sweet, soulful playing, coupled with the tonal purity of his 1707 Joseph Guarneri cello, made for gorgeous phrases in Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. Review | A childhood dream to perform ‘Meditation’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z And as I tried to show in the first video for this project, through his chorales alone Bach explored the far reaches of tonal harmony. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Elsewhere it recedes into familiar-seeming greens and browns, but with tonal effects that show both the advanced technology used to capture these pictures and the artist’s considerable compositional role in their manipulation. 6 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z It seems HBO threw in “Vinyl’s” structural and tonal problems free of charge. Review | Skip the first episode of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ and wait until it gets its act together 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z At one point in this tonally jolting play, now receiving its world premiere from Signature Theatre, the character watches a video by a goddess-movement shaman. Review | ‘Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes’ veers jarringly from comedy to darkness 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Certainly there's a tonal and narrative similarity with Bayona's spine-tingling chiller in which a desperate mother searches for a mysteriously vanished child. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: Clash of the Titans; Hierro; The Bounty Hunter 2010-07-26T23:05:00Z A Canadian-born tenor saxophonist on the rise in New York, Doxas boasts a tonally rich, flexible style of improvising and a willingness to blend influences from jazz, Western classical and prog rock. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z His control of pulse and transition, his summoning of tonal resources, were so firm that the opening Andante movement built inexorably to a catastrophic climax. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z “Suor Angelica,” the closer, is the reason to see this “Trittico”; it’s the only one of the three roles in which Grigorian’s lack of tonal warmth plays fully to her advantage. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Whenever we make a Death Cab album I write a lot of songs, and there’s always a few songs that don’t’ fit in—tonally or lyrically. Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard on Striking Out on His Own 2012-10-16T12:00:54Z As much as it is a musical tour de force, “Hamilton” is a love letter to the English language’s tonal richness and malleability. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z But they did not shy away from Webern’s restlessness with tonal harmony. Music Review: Chiara String Quartet Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-29T21:02:00Z Now, his emphasis needs to be on fusing with the tonal qualities of the group, which includes two countertenors, two baritones and a bass. Artists contemplate the isolation of the Internet era through photographs 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But it lacks the tonal variation and emotional wallop that the company's best work delivers. The Coming Storm – review 2012-06-22T16:19:25Z The tonal shift is jarring but typical of this endearing muddle, which flails in search of an identity. ‘Are You Here,’ a Comedy Directed by Matthew Weiner 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Tap dancers line up on platforms creating tonal worlds beneath pools of light; ballet dancers spin across the stage in rapid-fire chaînés. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z The tonal tug-of-war between frothy self-celebration and serious discussion of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements made for some awkward red carpet moments. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Haden helped the music cohere by creating a strong tonal center, and the frontline musicians were only loosely tied to the pulse of the drummer. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z While the band’s current style encompasses lots of tonal and dynamic contrasts, none of them involve acceleration. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It is tonally elusive, cerebral and subdued, but this is a film with a healthy, if self-conscious IQ. Beginners ? review 2011-07-21T14:00:00Z There's even a tonal shift, I feel now, that doesn't jar, but definitely seems to bridge the first to the later books in the series. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 23: The Drawing of the Three 2013-07-09T11:29:36Z At this show he was spread wide topically, but not tonally. Critic?s Notebook: Eric Church and Jason Aldean, Country Music Outlaws 2012-03-28T23:11:05Z Along the way this subversively funny, tonally twisted film morphs from something playful with dark undercurrents into the opposite. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z Modestly scaled and tonally perfect, “Fallen Leaves” opens in a fluorescent hell-on-earth and ends with a vision of something like paradise. ‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Love (and Laughs) Among the Ruins 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The film is so stuffed with incident, opinion and hairpin tonal shifts that it’s hard to fully parse in one sitting; online might well be the best place to unpack its myriad provocations. Black History Month: the best movies to watch in February 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Set in a guesthouse in Depression-era Minnesota, this large-ensemble piece has become a tonally different show — warm and human, letting in air and a little soft color. Broadway Is Back! A Guide to Shows, Tickets and Covid Protocols. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z His high register isn’t quite a falsetto; it’s even and humble, a tonal shift in tense moments. Music Review: Fred Hammond at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center 2012-12-23T21:52:30Z It's in those passages that an orchestra with a greater tonal depth than the Staatskapelle Weimar might extract more intensity, though the performances under Michael Halász seem sensitive and committed enough. Bruch: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 2010-04-15T21:50:00Z But the issue isn’t that “Utopia Avenue” and some of the other novels fail some superficial critical litmus test — some arbitrary insistence on tonal consistency or unity of genre. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z There’s plenty more to come: It will be followed by season two of the tonally similar Stranger Things, both of which revolve around preteens in peril. Innocence lost: Stephen King’s It and the real-life horror of kids in Hollywood 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The director's description of the "The Last Kiss," as "very moving," despite being "tonally, very you know, slippery," is delivered with perfect deadpan by Bagley. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The young director Owen Kline packs worlds of cringe into “Funny Pages” — shame, disgust, embarrassment, sweaty sexual panic, acres of pustules — it’s all here in this terrific, tonally flawless feature debut. ‘Funny Pages’ Review: Ordinary Life, Complex Stuff 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z In both cases — and in two mediums — Ms. Hall showed an uncanny gift for finding tonal variety in flatline feeling that made you watch raptly even when it hurt to do so. Review: A Virtuoso of Depression Broods Again in ‘Animal’ 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z His performance anchors the film’s otherwise clumsy tonal shifts. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z While Raz is again playing a retired warrior lured back into action — this time a former mercenary rather than a former military officer — there are tonal differences. What if ‘Fauda’ Moved to New York? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z But one missed the sheer tonal beauty in this most poetic of slow movements. Richard Goode lends a lively voice to an exuberant all-Bach piano program 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z In any case, the blunt emotionalism of the track almost supersedes its social critique, falling in line with the tonal framework of the album. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z Chronological blending also helps to create a tonal balance throughout the show between coolness and charm. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z But the rest of the performance dovetails with the movie, tonally and otherwise. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “This is tonally a very different kind of movie.” ‘13 Hours’ Gives Benghazi Attack Cinematic Treatment 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z That tonal poise is, perhaps, not maintained in the film's final moments. The Paperboy – review 2013-03-14T15:00:01Z They tonally echo the original while creating new story lines and characters from scratch. ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.) 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z From a two-channel video on display, the longing voices of a man and woman singing a kwv txhiaj, a traditional Hmong tonal poem, fill the room. A Minnesota Exhibit Framed Around Longing for Home 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The final product is a widely varied mishmash of genres, producers, and collaborators that fails to achieve any sort of tonal or thematic consistency. Review: Chris Brown Has Hits, But Mostly Misses, on X 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z No correlation was found between age, value, and the instrument’s tonal quality or expressiveness. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z These segments don't feel nearly as well thought-out and the tonal shifts can be a little jarring, but the actors always have a nice camaraderie with each other. Review: `21 & Over' an all-night rager 2013-02-28T18:44:09Z Fear and tension are odd accelerants for a comedy, and that’s precisely the point of “Atlanta,” one of several new series that defy the structure and tonal expectations of the standard television half-hour. Fearless, fresh “Atlanta”: Donald Glover’s dreamy, surreal series is infused with peculiar magic 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Roma was filmed in colour and converted to black and white in post-production, with the tonal values manipulated to achieve the desired look. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Self-taught until college, espousing no particular aesthetic school, she writes smart music that is not ashamed to be tonal, and beautiful. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Though this fine session certainly confirms that, he demonstrates a tonal delicacy and impulsiveness that may bring Lee Konitz to the minds of some. Steve Lehman/Stephan Crump: Kaleidoscope & Collage - review 2011-03-10T23:18:01Z I originally bought the single in Rough Trade and I treasure it because it captures his tonal sensibility. Mick Hucknall: soundtrack of my life 2012-10-27T23:19:42Z The sequence epitomizes the intriguing tonal chiaroscuro in “Pantheon,” a rewarding, if not entirely flawless, riff on Greek mythology by the distinctive Happenstance Theater. Review | Angst and comedy among the Olympians in ‘Pantheon’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z This show has so many tonal jumps, especially when Cassie’s drinking or freaking out. Kaley Cuoco Thanks You for Flying With ‘The Flight Attendant’ 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z It is not without tender or enjoyable moments — that’s the beauty of a formula — but there’s a tonal imbalance of comedy and drama. ‘Pink Skies Ahead’ Review: Partying Through Anxiety 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Somehow, it found a new tonal register for movies: profoundly flip, joyously melancholic, mundanely surreal, sincerely ironic. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z I hope when they watch the film that they’ll enjoy that tonal balance. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Lin’s double concerto is most ambitious toward the end, when resolutely tonal sound blocks from the tuned percussion and brass evoke a still landscape, crossed by flutters from the woodwind, cello and sheng. Review: The New York Philharmonic Celebrates the Chinese New Year 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s a tonal standout of the film, a blissful reprieve in cinematography and performance. ‘José’ Review: Coming of Age Gay in Guatemala 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Pike, too, showed an ability to muster power while retaining tonal beauty, and in his case it was absolutely needed. St. Thomas Choir Performs Handel’s 'Messiah' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Hockney took two weeks to paint the splash caused by a dive, with its little passages of tiny dots, curly white lines, and carefully executed passages of overlayed hatching and tonal gradations. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z It’s hard to deny that doom metal and whisky have a tonal kinship. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z A Deutsche Grammophon blurb describes Victoria as “a towering composer whose works glow with the passion and vibrant tonal palette of El Greco,” presumably the case these recordings are trying to make. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Outstanding, too, was the resigned Wanderer of Terje Stensvold, who combined authoritative presence with vocalism of tonal richness and keen dramatic understanding. Prom 18: Siegfried – review 2013-07-28T16:29:00Z The pivot from pure farce creates a tonal tightrope that “Eureka Day” traverses with empathy for all involved. Review | Mosaic Theater’s ‘Eureka Day’ slyly takes aim at self-righteous liberalism 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Her smoky voice is a tonal wonder, conveying meaning that doesn’t need translation. Spanish-Language ‘Vagina Monologues’ at Westside Theater 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Nightly political humor represents a substantial tonal shift for her. Who comes after Trevor Noah to host "The Daily Show"? The answer may be among these stars 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s gruesomely, outrageously funny and a reminder of Baumbach’s ability to make drastic yet effortless tonal switches. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Each of the 14 tonally limpid movements depicts a kind of bird, wind or sky. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z McCain’s funeral in the cathedral will be, it goes without saying, tonally opposite, but somehow the spirit attends all. Perspective | Aretha Franklin and John McCain, off to the sweet hereafter by different means 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z On top, it’s best to keep it tonal. Fine Points: Formal Pants for Holiday Parties 2012-12-12T21:02:42Z The two men shared a music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, and Bernstein — on the lookout for young talent working in a tonal style — soon was championing Gruber’s music, even if he never conducted it himself. Composer Gruber to conduct Bernstein, Stravinsky, his own ‘Rough Music’ at SSO 2013-04-11T20:43:51Z The duo’s control of sound and tonal shading proved impressive throughout the performance, which drew the listener in with its gentle emotion. Review: Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ With Christian Gerhaher 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z With the Bach, hearing the piano four-hands arrangement on the same program as the original revealed an unsurprising diminishment of concerto character and tonal color and a surprising retention of compositional integrity. Review: Mark Morris Conducts at Tanglewood, and Offers a Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The film is a tonal tightrope walk, and Mulligan is astonishing in it. Carey Mulligan Won’t Let Hollywood Off the Hook 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z A range of hills, in precisely the same tonal register as the Nile, washes above the slender dividing stripe. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But the same thoughts are tonally different in the authors’ different versions. Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z Even with performances that are coolly modulated under Ryan Maxwell’s direction, the sudden tonal switch is too heavy after so much easygoing banter between Silvia and Cat about property and romance. Review | A new play and a vintage satire reflect factional frenzy 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Stylistically, his music is tonal, though often ambiguously so. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z They are pictures of supersaturated shades – inky reds, livid oranges, fizzing greens – so unlike the tonal politeness of his earlier pale work. A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z “I have, at least in the last couple of years, been interested in darker, tonally strange pieces.” Zoey Deutch Enjoys ‘The Joy of Cooking’ and the Occasional Tracksuit 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z They also demonstrate a mastery of tonal values that almost reads as photographic. Art Review: ‘Unknown Corot: Unpublished Drawings’ at Jill Newhouse 2012-07-05T19:50:44Z But craft this strong — and, despite the tonal uncertainty, true — should not be taken for granted. A grittier 'Grit': Talent upgrade matches classic novel 2010-12-21T14:49:00Z Given the title, one might hope that the solo show “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns” would be more tonally variegated. Review | Too much monotone in ‘Bright Colors’ at Studio Theatre 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Taking over directing duties from Stallone, Simon West preserves the hardboiled action and wisecracking cast dynamics of the original, channeling some of the B-movie tonal elements he might have picked up directing Con Air. Review: 'Expendables 2' fleet-footed and engaging 2012-08-14T14:44:10Z When binge-watchers catch up on this season, I suspect they’ll be surprised by the tonal whiplash of “Espionage,” the season’s penultimate episode, compared with the episodes that came just before it. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 9: ‘This Is All We Need’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Red leans heavily on visual flair, employing high-contrast shadow, dense fog and monochromatic hues to signal tonal shifts from upbeat, pop-friendly moments to gravely dramatic ones. ‘Dead Kids’ Review: A Flashy Portrait of Teen Angst Gone Awry 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z But the marvelous show you actually see, honoring the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, is, tonally, some other thing: quieter, slower, better. Leonardo da Vinci, Maestro of Change, Shines at the Louvre 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The piece goes from totally dissonant to much more tonal and dronelike. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z It’s a completely different thing tonally, but it’s the same level of commitment. Magic Man: A Q&A with Burt Wonderstone‘s Steve Carell 2013-03-08T13:00:42Z They continued using essentially tonal languages and tried to reinvigorate classical forms with fresh harmonic and rhythmic techniques. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The first and final movements feature more contrapuntal motion and tonal ambiguity. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The tonal spectrum of this novel is narrow, but deep, running from desperate optimism to despair and back again, all set in the gory mundanity of an office. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z A student of Pierre Boulez in 1957-58, Bennett's work evolved from the avant-garde to a more tonal style. Composer/pianist Richard Rodney Bennett dies 2012-12-28T12:24:08Z If this movie works, which is to say people like it and it engenders good will, I would love to do a movie that’s more on that tonal scale of comic action. Better Call an Ambulance: Bob Odenkirk Is Out for Revenge in ‘Nobody’ 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But he was intrigued by the tonal challenge of making a grown-up movie starring talking furniture, and he said he loved the idea of melding the most advanced filmmaking technology with a lavish, old-fashioned musical. ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Disney’s $300 Million Gamble 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The eyes are another expression, and so are speech and tonal expression. Possessed: Yoga Mat Helps Doctor Maintain Extensive Regimen ? Possessed 2012-03-30T22:13:15Z Young, pealing voices sing largely tonal lines over a luminous mix of organ, cello quartet and harp. Music Review: Trinity Church Brings New Music to 9/11 Remembrance 2011-09-09T23:31:31Z In an interview, Mr. Lowdermilk seemed to embrace such failings as an aesthetic, describing the show as “a tonal structural mission statement for the kinds of theater we want to create.” Review: A Girl’s Kerouac Dreams Go Astray in ‘The Mad Ones’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Quite Yet Inside “Late Bloomers,” a tonally wobbly romantic comedy about the indignities of aging, is a somber marital drama struggling to get out. Movie Review: ?Late Bloomers,? With William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini 2012-04-12T21:52:54Z “Yet it’s so wonderfully funny and deeply embedded in class-consciousness — ‘We must never forget it’s a miracle when anyone gets anywhere from a bad postcode,’ says one character — that its tonal incontinence is easily forgiven.” What’s on TV Wednesday: Ben Platt Live and ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z That’s a lot of weight to put on a show that wants to entertain, and the tonally uneven production often feels like a too-loose patchwork of sketches. FringeNYC: Plays That Are Bold, Daring and Full of Lust 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z In a necessary tonal shift from the epic "Avengers: Endgame," this one has much smaller stakes in terms of its story. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The bulk of the program was rhythmically steady and consonant if not completely tonal. Music Review: The Underwood New Music Readings at the Miller Theater 2010-05-24T23:34:00Z The harmonic language is tonal but tart; and even with its plush string writing, the scoring is transparent. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z Then in one of many tonal shifts, she raises her voice, irritated at the audience’s hypothetic gratitude: “But I made you tense!” Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z None of the Ariel Quartet’s members are over 30, and they tended on Monday to favor the kind of raw enthusiasm often associated with young musicians over tonal allure or variety of color. Ariel Quartet’s Program at SubCulture Includes Beethoven 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z In a set of atmospheric chansons by Debussy, including “Beau Soir,” she captured all of the tonal innuendos of the French text, delivering it with tempered, rather than unbridled, expression. Buzzed-about South African soprano Pretty Yende at the Kennedy Center It’s just the kind of radical tonal shift that, if there were anything remotely comforting, wryly funny or redemptive about it, would be positively Sheltonian. Perspective | Lynn Shelton had the audacity to tell her own stories on film. She will be missed. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Harrison was also responsible for introducing the recently invented Moog synthesizer to the tonal palette of “Abbey Road.” When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Then tonal contrasts begin to sort out: The trunks of the park’s living trees are loamy browns and blacks; those of the cedars, a dry gray-going-white. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z This solemn, straightforward music needs flawless textures to avoid dullness, and the many excellent qualities of A Far Cry do not include that smooth tonal sheen. Music Review: A Far Cry, in the Schneider Concerts at Tishman Auditorium 2013-01-17T22:50:08Z The music is dreamy and delicate, with alluring tonal harmonies flecked with pungently dissonant details. Music Review: Pianists Embracing the New 2011-05-25T21:52:25Z The link between the eight films is, above all, tonal and thematic. Eight Tales of Art and Sex in Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z She pushed the tonal envelope but never to breaking point, and sang with ravishingly long lines in the slow movement. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Strings and winds find their own asymmetrical rhythms, with thick and tonally colorful percussive-like attacks. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Ultimately “The Shaggs” seems hamstrung by tonal uncertainty: the girls are extravagantly untalented, as we are repeatedly reminded through excerpts from their album’s title song, both played live and heard on the original recording. | 'The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World': Three Sisters, a Deluded Dad and Some Wretched Rock 2011-06-08T02:15:25Z "He was looking for instruments that did something personally, tonally for him." Richard Gere guitar sale takes in nearly $1 million 2011-10-12T20:56:02Z Such a man emerges in “Anton Chekhov’s The Duel,” a very satisfying and tonally precise English-language adaptation of an 1891 Chekhov novella. | 'Anton Chekhov?s The Duel': Fiona Glascott in Dover Kosashvili?s Adaptation 2010-04-27T21:31:00Z There was unevenness, too, in Oliemans's Strauss grouping, always thoughtful and probing but tonally a bit unforgiving. Oliemans/Martineau – review 2012-07-13T17:00:01Z It is to Jones's huge credit that she brings comparable tonal colouring to the WNO orchestra's playing; making things sound so fresh and immediate in such a familiar opera shows a remarkable musical perception. La Traviata ? review 2012-02-13T17:14:00Z Mr. Clayton’s piece “Round Come Round” moved warily, a game of group hide-and-seek with a trickling melody and a droning tonal center. Music Review: Jazz Gallery All-Stars in a Solo Relay at Symphony Space 2010-06-20T21:32:00Z The two artists also possess different color senses: Crider paints mostly in a single hue or a limited tonal range, relying on shape and light to vary the effect. In the galleries: Jason Gubbiotti’s ‘War Paint’ at Civilian Art Projects Theatre previews are invaluable for giving performers a chance to adjust such tonal imbalances: for brightening this colour and damping that. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z He taught me the system of tonal convergence. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z A gospelly and then funky Let It Be stretches Redman's rugged inventiveness on tenor; a spacious, tonally pristine Bach Adagio – mostly in conversation with just Grenadier's bass – benefits from its simplicity. Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows – review 2013-05-02T22:50:01Z “What Taika is looking for, because it's such a tonal balance, is when we were filming it’s to really capture a range,” Neal explained. How “Jojo Rabbit” crafted that hilarious yet horrifying “Heil Hitler” scene 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Storage 24- good fun and you don't have to have seen the previous 23 Storage films Magic Mike straddles the pole tonally between grit & cheekiness, but drops the balls of story & character. Open thread: What are the funniest films you've seen? 2012-07-06T16:18:58Z Fluently tonal, the piece has delicacy, grace and warmth, and the orchestra seemed to enjoy it as much as the audience did. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z I learnt to look for the structure, for the action or movement of the pose, the distribution of weight, the proportion of the body, the light-to-dark tonal scale. Early Bridget Riley works to go on show at National Portrait Gallery 2010-04-26T17:47:00Z Rather, he said, he was hoping to achieve at St. Thomas a sound that made use of a greater variety of tonal colors in the boy treble voice. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z That the page of “More about CNN’s ‘The Hunt’” is quite tonally off is predictable but still something; there’s a promotional video showing various fugitives from the law set to pulse-pounding instrumental country music. CNN uses news coverage of fugitive’s death to promotes its show “The Hunt” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z His performances were exemplary in tonal clarity, textural richness, and what George Bernard Shaw used to call "marksmanship." Lugansky: A pianist of awesome talent 2011-11-16T18:03:04Z Here that language frames tender tonal passages reminiscent of Schubert and Mahler, which the Kronos played with great sweetness and expression. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z So why revive this clever, but now dated and tonally strident, allegory about Mideast political intransigence in 2012? Intiman's 2012 revival season: the pluses and the minuses 2012-08-17T16:43:32Z The expanded brass section was bold and tireless, the woodwind solos vividly characterised, and the strings supplied a tonal warmth that retained a distinctive patina in the hesitant melodic flow of the slow movement. Prom 56: BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-08-28T14:44:08Z Leichter’s dry wit is masterful, but her novel suffers from the occasional tonal inconsistency. Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Yet to advert to rules of tonal consistency is to impose an external, puristic point of view on material that is wonderfully motley and personal. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Martin embraced chromaticism, which weakens music’s sense of a tonal center, but refused to abandon tonality altogether. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z They also improvised a lot, sometimes in direct communication around notes, chords, or tonal centers and sometimes in parallel paths. Music Review: Anthony Braxton at the Kennedy Center 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z The researchers studied trends in style and diversity as well as how harmony, chord changes and tonal quality changed over time. Study of 17,000 Songs Finds That Hip-Hop Made Most Impact 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The question about humor is maybe a larger question tonally about the piece. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The show remains a fascinating tonal roller coaster, with deranged absurdities packed into scenes that have real pathos. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z His pictorial, tonal, and dramatic sensibility is original and distinctive. What to Stream This Weekend: “Burning Cane” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The set proceeded from this baseline, with an enveloping atmosphere and an arid, soft-hued tonal spectrum, like a sonic equivalent to the painterly abstractions of Georgia O’Keeffe. Music Review | Kneebody: Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too 2010-02-19T06:17:00Z We saw it midway through shooting the series and felt it was perfect tonally. How the Creators of ‘Cursed’ Conjured a Fresh Take on King Arthur 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z I happened to be wearing a tonal blue outfit: navy jacket, chalky shirt, ocean tee. Luxury Has Gotten Jumbled, but Not at Bottega Veneta 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z For the next hour or so, Mr. Palestine filled the room with one continuous piece, changing gradually but thoroughly, luxuriating in the organ’s infinite sustain and tonal depth. Music Review: Charlemagne Palestine at Plymouth Church 2014-03-07T22:39:48Z But tonal quality never has been what Mason's best work is about, even though she can sound quite voluptuous at times. Karen Mason delivers a pungent show for Valentines 2011-02-11T17:16:49Z In the 1930s, he adopted a more Neo-Classical style, composing essentially in a tonal language enriched with contemporary sonorities and demonstrating utter mastery of counterpoint. Classical Playlist: Teodor Currentzis, Bach and Per Bloland 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The Donmar season is intended as a showcase for young directors, and Simon Evans does a good job in using sound and light to lend this rigorously austere piece tonal variety. The Silence of the Sea – review 2013-01-15T17:51:48Z The ensemble’s gorgeous tonal sheen rendered their performance of Sibelius’s String Quartet “Voces Intimae,” which concluded the program, luxuriant and emotive. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z He did not convey an unsuspected radicalism in Reger, but he did produce a tonal nuance, and the strings, winds and brass were able to evoke the glowing use of oils on canvas. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z “Tutti,” a work for large instrumental ensemble and electronic sounds, is hardly a “tonal” work, as American neo-Romantics would write, but it is deeply euphonic, drawing on a palette both traditional and exploratory. Classical Notes: Yan Maresz’s “Tutti” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The closest tonal approximation for “Sorry to Bother You” is one of the late films of Jean Renoir, “Picnic in the Grass,” in which science fiction and political satire meet theatrical exaggeration and romantic lyricism. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z In his pieces for solo piano and chamber ensemble, this means an ongoing wrestle with the question overarching all contemporary classical music: how to deal with the division between tonal and atonal? He’s the piano man 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z But the clash between heavy-handed satire and naturalistic conflict leaves “Days of Rage” in a tonal muddle he can’t resolve. Review: In ‘Days of Rage,’ the Revolution Will Be Trivialized 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z “It felt like a good touchstone, tonally, for where we might end up.” ‘Jackie Brown’ and Tangerine Dream: What ‘I Care a Lot’ Is Made Of 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The humid air buzzed with conversations in melodiously tonal Vietnamese. Explorer: In Vietnam, Traveling an Unlikely Beer Trail 2010-02-17T19:12:00Z There's the oddly sprawling narrative, wildly uneven in the picaresque tradition, beginning in media res before pulling back, taking tonally unexpected turns. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z But in the 1970s, he began to explore a more folk-inflected, tonal language. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The highly tonal score is kind to audiences and kindly crafted for singers. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Based on the 1974 novel by Stephen King, the musical adaptation has posed theatrical and tonal challenges since its first developmental workshops in the early 1980s. What Happened to Off Broadway Revival of ?Carrie?? 2012-04-09T21:38:26Z Juggling a twisting plot, tonal shifts among drama, comedy and romance, large set pieces and moving the production to Buenos Aires, Requa and Ficarra handle it all with a jaunty ease. 'Focus' filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa go for the unexpected 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet these two self-assured records are apt tonal companion pieces. Music: Two Bands Nurtured in a Garden State of Mind 2010-03-13T00:05:00Z Her new book, “How Art Works,” is ambitious, covering everything from figurative paintings to abstract expressionism, tonal music, novels, and theatre. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In the Symphonie Fantastique, the conducting revelled in the tonal possibilities of such a huge orchestra, sculpting the music in expansive sweeps and making Berlioz's scoring seem even more tinglingly surreal than usual. NYO/Bychkov 2010-08-08T11:33:00Z “Although the notion of a female assassin was not unique, Luke’s take was fresh, intelligent and tonally much bolder than others,” Sally said later. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z My music isn’t across-the-board tonal, and it’s not across-the-board dissonant. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z What informed your approach, visually and tonally, to telling this story? "She feels things deeply": How "A Radiant Girl" slowly realizes the persecution of the Holocaust 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The characters remain firmly on the right side of realistic and the touching moments are naturally occurring, rather than plonked in for tonal variety. Have you been watching … Getting On? 2012-11-14T13:27:21Z Despite Mr. Cake’s finesse, this workaround doesn’t work; there is probably no cure for the play’s tonal whiplash. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z And yet the idea of making the space jockey race integral to the plot does seem tonally inappropriate. Week in geek: Can Ridley Scott give Alien new life with 3D prequels? 2010-06-17T16:15:00Z Ditto the dark gray sweatshirt with tonal “Priscilla” embroidery across the front. Our Merch, Ourselves 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Foster navigates the tonal shifts with ease, and her actors follow. Why Money Monster Will Make You Mad As Hell 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z As for pop, the genre is presented as a tonally narrow emotional ethos. ‘Trolls World Tour,’ a Kids’ Music Movie, Has Big Problems With Pop 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z This was not just a tonally glowing performance but a nod to the pianist's autobiography. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z This installment had some really interesting tonal choices. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Since its first printing, critics have condemned Kleist’s play as poorly organized and tonally erratic. In ‘Love in the Wars,’ Achilles Battles an Amazon Queen 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z But I’ve come to think about the music in this piece as an ‘energy map’: of different builds; densities; ebb and flow; tonal/chromatic; metal/wood; extended/traditional, etc. High Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Garde Musician’s Latest Show 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The instruments set the mood: The piano plays thick, grating chords that split into glancing strands of delicate notes, as the violin and cello sustain tonally murky sonorities and break into soft, oscillating squiggles. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Warm, steady, restrained, securely tonal, the orchestras in his works tend to serenely repeat small cells of material, without strange instruments or strange uses of conventional ones. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Just when the jumble becomes aggressive, a grounded tonal chord on electric guitar breaks through and brings calm. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z At times, the music was reminiscent of the composer Jonny Greenwood’s tonally lush yet harmonically mysterious soundtracks for the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Still, we get a multiracial, tonally subtle painting of three women by Emma Amos. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z Alongside the poetry's stylistic variety and growing tonal authority, what Paterson's selection from his six volumes to date reveals is the underlying thematic consistency of his oeuvre. Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z The first half consisted of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with Hélène Grimaud the confident soloist, though her tonal range was on the forceful side, with little sense of the work's grace. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z A character called Dominant, an embodiment of the dominant chord in tonal harmony, complains to a bartender about her fate. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The texture of this leafing — rich, delicate and tonally varied — can't be reproduced in a print, which is how famous art often is replicated for film. Scenic artist hit a masterwork mother lode with 'Woman in Gold' What emerged all the more clearly as a result – particularly in this sympathetic acoustic – was an acute sense of Schubert's extraordinary harmonies, as well as the crucial milestones in his tonal landscape. Paul Lewis ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:17Z It’s a tricky space to describe tonally, but you know it when you see it. Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z So much of that is out of my hands tonally. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Used well it's a vital component of a writer's tonal range. From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z “Plano” toys with language, form and expectations, and the excellent cast savors its elisions and tonal fluxes. Review: The Women of ‘Plano’ Are All About Men 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot of things going on tonally with the show,” Mr. Hudgins said of a series where characters can be coldhearted, bracingly violent, then comically pride-filled. ‘Shut Eye’ Lays Its Tarot Cards on the Table 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The plot itself is chaotic, and not in an especially good way, and the tonal challenges and problems inherent in ultra-black comedy are not addressed. Horrible Bosses ? review 2011-07-21T21:31:02Z It is up to her – and Harris, reportedly with King's input – to maintain the movie's tonal balance between grave tension and laughter earned purely. "Zola" transforms the greatest stripper saga ever tweeted into a masterful, can't-miss odyssey 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Alan Cooper, reviewing Mealor's "Now sleeps the crimson petal" for The Herald newspaper in Glasgow, wrote: "Surprising turns of harmony accomplished within a traditional tonal ambiance gave this composer's music a uniquely seductive freshness." Royal wedding to feature composer Paul Mealor 2011-04-28T15:46:06Z The first comes from Agent DiPierro, talking to Darlene about “The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie,” the fake slasher movie that served as a sort of tonal Rosetta Stone for the season’s horror-movie vibe. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But tonal structures and popular idioms coexist with serial ones in his music in a totality that, for all the apparent simplicity of some of its parts, is very far from simple-minded. Masterful maverick HK Gruber leads thrilling program | Classical review 2013-04-19T16:44:35Z “The Handmaid’s Tale,” meanwhile, adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel, is tonally different from both of those bighearted shows: It paints a grim future for the United States where women are treated, well, very unkindly. Emmys 2017: What to Watch For 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z His arrangements weren’t perfunctory, or there to class up the funk; they had rich harmony and tonal range and pulsation. Music Review: Erykah Badu at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-09T21:45:40Z Mr. Edberg vividly captured the stark, wailing character of the opening section and the moments of wry humor later on in the piece, which blends tonal and atonal elements. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In her chapter on yellow, she notes that its simple yet resolute lightness on any tonal scale of dark-to-light emphatically calls attention to itself. Where yellow means go, and go now: LACMA's standout show on '60s Dwan Gallery 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Its generous tonal lyricism develops in layers: hymns and folk songs for the household; a square, petulant simplicity for Brother’s naïve savagery; an enigmatic chromaticism for Doodle and the pathos of time. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The neglect of Milhaud’s opera may have something to do with the fact that mid-20th-century music had lost the clear mirroring of struggle and reconciliation that Mozart’s and Rossini’s tonal harmonies offered. An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “Kajillionaire” benefits from the divine timing of release in a season of social and physical isolation, a tonal echo of the movie’s mood. Evan Rachel Wood Uses Her Roles to Heal 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z He also allows Tines and Koh — exemplary technicians and artists of profound intensity — to explore their full tonal and textural ranges. Review: Musicians of Color Reclaim Control in a White Space 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z "You can be doing everything right on the violin but as 90% of tonal production comes from the bow, as long as your bow isn't working, nothing's going to work." Violin or guitar: Which is easier? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z With the passage from gentle empathy to steely realism to wry satire, one marvels at the dimensions of Evaristo’s tonal range. Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Stylistically and tonally adventurous, the film plops humorous, kooky beats in between frenetic editing and gravity-breaking gunplay. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Our Kevin here is played by Jason Ritter, scrappy and sincere, and strong enough to keep the whole thing afloat despite tonal inconsistencies that would sink other shows. Review: Jason Ritter Saves ‘Kevin (Probably) Saves the World’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z These stories manage to be unflaggingly funny, yet never wearisome: the tonal control is complete. The 5 Simple Machines by Todd McEwen – review 2013-04-02T10:57:00Z The key is to use modern tools to push out content that’s tonally different from what you might find on modern cable news. Captain America is trying to … captain America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Or was it an under-whisked melange of runny ideas and uncomfortable tonal shifts with the structure and coherence of blunderbussed meringue? Mistresses: series three, episode four 2010-08-26T21:00:00Z More unsettling is the tonal shift the film takes as the topic turns to the funds Vreeland's photography now generates. 'Monk With a Camera,' though devoted, is blurry at its center 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z There is no tonal shift, and no disavowal, moral or strategic. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z Once he connected to the “extraordinary sadness” of the character’s Frankenstein-like origins, Mr. Gunn said, “it drove the whole thing for me, and I found it tonally interesting because of that.” James Gunn, Guardian of the ‘Guardians’ Franchise 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z I like some of the box office behemoths — mostly, I like “Black Panther” — but too many of them were numbingly familiar in every way, narratively, tonally, whatever. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The tonal shifts require both physical and emotional agility. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Over the years, Sheldon’s social awkwardness and off-putting superiority was woven into his friendships and eventual marriage as a matter of mirth, rather than being singled out for maudlin tonal shifts away from comedy. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z But there’s a crucial tonal difference: no meanness in it. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z In many of his late pieces he explores radical chromatic harmony and dissonance, sometimes cutting loose almost completely from tonal moorings. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z His masterly tonal control let him summon unlovely sounds whenever he chose to, and he chose to often. Von Freeman, Fiery Tenor Saxophonist, Dies at 88 2012-08-19T05:50:05Z The tonal change of these shows has reflected a broader outlook change. 'Once the couple gets together, the tension is lost': how sitcom romance died 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z At 191 pages, “Becoming RBG” is more than twice as long as Fawkes’s biography of Brontë, but tonally and visually it skews younger. Charlotte Brontë and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Before the World Knew Them 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Run by the data company Senzari, the outlet looks not at other wins or quantifiable data but the more amorphous plot and tonal elements of recent winners. Oscars 2015: Big Data number crunchers try their hand at calling the awards 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z He plays the piano with a poetic touch—his father is the distinguished pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane—and his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The tonal shifts were as clunky as ever, but Mr. Scher worked his ballet clichés — the man wandering in a forest of girls — to better effect. Dance Review: Avi Scher & Dancers at Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater 2012-04-09T20:47:24Z She can play clusters of dissonant or oddly harmonized notes with a rolling momentum and a tonal sensitivity that become their own comforting logic. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The language is essentially tonal, with lush, thick chromatic harmony and more austere modal passages that evoke the heritage of sacred music. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z What’s great about it is the shows are so different, tonally. ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Kerry Washington of ‘Scandal’ 2013-07-18T20:25:18Z I don't believe at all in the official distinction between tonal and atonal music. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z Vreeke respects and enhances the many little shadings and shocks of this tale, with small blasts of heavy-metal music, fraught silences and tonal lighting. Review: 'Dying City' illustrates the elusive nature of closure after soldier's death 2010-03-25T21:47:00Z Though Lenox's instrument did not carry the high tonal sheen of the greatest gospel voices, this program surely needed more Lenox and less Griffin. A flawed celebration of Mahalia Jackson's centennial 2011-05-21T14:55:00Z On the musical side Puccini’s full-throated, melodramatic and unabashedly tonal verismo style swiftly became and remained the lingua franca of American opera. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z Dark contextual comedy has always been a welcome element on the show — see the Hound’s profanely succinct critique of sword-namers — but the tonal disconnect of the borscht belt stuff stopped me cold. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Slicing and Dicing ‘Two Swords’ 2014-04-07T02:00:52Z The practice, which he formalized around 1939, allows a photographer to balance the tonal values in black-and-white images ranging from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z These tonal and procedural fumblings expose a more serious blind spot. Review: In ‘While We’re Young,’ a Coupling of Gen X and Y 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Persian carpets extend this tonal range with madder reds and shades of indigo. Mariette Himes Gomez Decorates a Historic Washington, D.C. Home 2014-01-13T05:00:00Z As the show broadened geographically it did the same tonally, newly injected with a kind of mordant humor as its characters began to give in to rather than resist its grand, apocalyptic currents. How The Leftovers became the most ambitious show of the decade 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z My point is that the tonal range of what's admired as "grown up" in comics is skewed – and skewed, I suspect, by self-consciousness. When it comes to comics, you just can't beat a drunken, violent aardvark 2010-07-18T21:31:00Z There's little balancing going on here between opposing tonal or timbral extremes. New band of the day ? No 974: Niva 2011-02-25T17:37:15Z It was this mix of tonal colors that made “Songs in the Key of Life” such a rich and challenging album. Stevie Wonder right at home in United Center concert 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z The red coat symbolises the tonal ambiguity, or superimposition of the erotic and the uncanny. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z Taruskin traces an alternative revolution, one that involves not the collapse of the tonal system but a radical rearrangement of its familiar building blocks. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z It's tonal music, Taub explains, even if it's not the tonality of the West's major/minor scales. Seattle Chamber Players tour Mediterranean in 'Icebreaker' festival 2012-02-15T22:23:04Z Through a series of instructions, personal questions and tonal shifts, interspersed with family photos, the score probes the psychological terrain of my relationship with my father, and what it felt like to lose him. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The tonal tensions of this new version cancel each other out. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z His stamina, projection and dependable diction carried him through the demanding part, but he had too little tonal variety as he went from scene to nightmarish scene. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Kreith doesn’t do much to distinguish them tonally and the actors, most of whom play double roles, shift between them by fussing with their accessories. Review: Tina Howe’s New Englanders Thrash in the Shallows of ‘Singing Beach’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z One is the extension of tonal relationships, so Elgar must have been encouraged by “Parsifal” to experiment in tonality. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The musical language combines atonal and tonal aspects into lush, mystical sonorities. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Bar the odd squabble over “a tonal thing or a joke”, the pair have “never disagreed to any great extent over anything truly important,” Roiland says. How Rick and Morty became TV’s most unlikely hit 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z A single double bass has a limited amount of tonal variety. Not your classic classicist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z She said the play “is still largely a lament,” but that she is now envisioning a tonal shift at the end, as she thinks about her own emotional well-being and that of her audience. ‘Pass Over,’ About Black Men Trapped by Dread, Heads to Broadway 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z “The music in musicals is always, you know – musicaaaal,” he says, affecting the tonal equivalent of jazz hands over the phone from his home town of Wellington, New Zealand. Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z His reaction to the Nazis inspired “funebre’s” striking tonal shift from initial hope to darkness. ‘It’s good, man’: Seattle Symphony Orchestra concertmaster offers a peek at Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z These issues are of great interest at the moment to Catholics enthralled by the tonal shift of Pope Francis' reign. 'Last Confession' takes earnest look at reform, power struggle The first image of the downtown show, “Wall Street, Morning” of 1960 demonstrates a tonal complexity commensurate with DeCarava’s exceptional printing skills. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Catastrophe’s Taylor agrees that this tonal change has been in keeping with the mood of the times. 'Once the couple gets together, the tension is lost': how sitcom romance died 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z “Hot pink is feisty and grown up. In that tonal choice people are saying: ‘We’re not going to be seen as weak,’ and ‘Don’t mess with me.’ Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Uncomfortable space has been a tonal constant in Thick since 2005. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z Shot largely in black-and-white, the movie is a tonal and thematic change of pace for the director Jacques Audiard, who has a habit of haunting the grimmer, bleaker corners of human existence. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z With an unassailable technique and a commanding sense of structure, he offers uncontroversial, authoritative performances elevated by his tonal mastery and poetic sensitivity. Buttoned-down pianist Murray Perahia cuts loose in Strathmore concert 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The gardens of Villa Gamberaia are so famous for their structural rigor and restricted palette that a historian once detailed the tonal variations of green. Setting the Stage for Unreal Men 2010-06-20T15:15:00Z These are not exactly tonally nuanced instruments, so the emphasis was on percussion. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Both tonally and visually, the whole thing is an eye-popping, stomach-churning – and very funny – assault on the senses; one that also somehow finds time to muse on the nature of existence. How Rick and Morty became TV’s most unlikely hit 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z And it’s too bad, because on its own, this final hour is funny and sweet, raw and delicate, in a way that recalls Louie’s past tonal balancing acts while raising the show’s stakes. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Despite the thematic connections between the two films, their stylistic and tonal differences are drastic. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z There is a tonal ambiguity to the bumptious romantic pursuit that follows, a surprisingly tremulous and fragile air, which may be what dismayed critics who were expecting a more conventional drama. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z A photography BA followed but she found herself "constantly getting marked down on a technical basis, for having the corners turned up on my photographs, my tonal range". Britain's cultural debutantes 2011-01-16T00:04:11Z In another, he makes his ever-present dot pattern do the equivalent of a slow tonal fade, as if the landscape were dissolving into a molecular mist. Art Review: ‘Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective,’ at the National Gallery of Art 2012-10-18T17:25:34Z The fatalities and clichés escalate, as the wife plays the femme fatale, and the men run circles around one another amid the dust, blood and some tonally off, ill-conceived cutesiness. Movie Review: ‘Swerve,’ a Thriller Set in the Australian Desert 2013-12-05T23:27:49Z Phil debut at the Bowl conducting Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” with what The Times at the time felt had the angularity Stravinsky intended but not the rich tonal beauty or exact pitch. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The performances were exemplary, with superb choral singing in writing that ranges from whispered Sprechgesang, to fiercely dissonant clusters and close-packed tonal triads. Weltethos – review 2012-06-22T16:10:32Z It's still awash with dramatic misfire and tonally, it's a complete and utter mess, but Van Zandt is still lovely to be around. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z Both toy with barely audible noises, such as rubbing or scraping instruments with foreign objects, that may or may not blossom into full-fledged lush tonal sonorities. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But Mullova is at heart a no-nonsense player and there was plenty of emphatic phrasing and steely tonal discipline to underline her determination that this would not be a traditional interpretation. Mullova/Giacometti – review 2013-03-25T18:36:56Z It’s a difficult, tonally severe, often audaciously shocking film about the unbearable weight of grief and the inescapability of familial sin that will divide audiences upon release. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z This marks a significant tonal shift in the cultural conversation about abortion. How #ShoutYourAbortion is transforming the reproductive rights conversation 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z She noted that it was singing along to her father’s piano playing and entering “a Poly place, tonally,” that her voice first emerged. How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Allison worked assertively on that tune, laying into its tonal center with palpable force. Music Review: At Jazz Standard, Steve Cardenas?s Flinty Spine 2010-06-02T21:55:00Z His tonal palette is somewhat limited because of a vibrato motion that rotates rather than pulsates, but he is still a world-class fiddler. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface But Joubert's music, with its well-judged use of dissonance within a tonal context, seems much more striking when anguished and despairing than in the rather bland diatonic choral writing of the final two movements. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z Meant to evoke the hypnotic play of light and color in an installation by the artist James Turrell, the piece fuses free-flowing tonal masses into an undulating cloud, amplified and mixed with electronics. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z Sorry to say that #Venom is pretty much a complete failure - a tonal mess that feels 15 years old, ignoring the storytelling strides that the superhero genre has made in recent years. “Venom” first reactions: Critics divided as Tom Hardy’s film called “ridiculous” and a... 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Many of the songs on “Camila,” which Mr. Feeney executive produced and includes writing by Ms. Cabello on every track, are infused with tonal or lyrical references to her Latin heritage. How Camila Cabello Lost Some Friends and Found Her Voice 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z While the burdens of interpretation are high in the Ninth — is it on the verge of a tonal breakdown, or a depiction of Mahler’s onrushing death? Classical Playlist 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Arena Stage in Washington used tonal silhouettes of Rothko and his young protégé, the play’s other character, in a minimalist composition. When the Color Is Primary 2011-09-04T03:01:07Z What would-be immigrants couldn’t tell their interrogators they inscribed on the walls in the form of classical Chinese poetry—complete with parallel couplets, alternating rhymes, and tonal variations. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Eventually the music did grow tonal — temporarily at first, to be subsumed again in noise. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z The tonal flip side of “Veep” was on view this spring at Arena Stage, where dramatist Lawrence Wright’s “Camp David” received its world premiere. In Washington, the drama never ends “It was such a tonal shift,” he said. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Maybe the film fails: maybe it succeeds: maybe it is tonally different from the book and succeeds anyway. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z He kept tweaking that—what you find out where, and tonally how that should feel. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z But Vinterberg’s delicate, grounded direction and the actors’ wonderfully loose performances insist upon authenticity, creating a tonal mishmash that’s endearingly absurd. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The ambition aptly includes tonal complexity, with humor dappling the somber. Review | Constellation’s ‘Children of Medea’ spins a dreamscape family portrait 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z "Titane" features numerous tonal shifts that keep viewers off guard, which makes your film thrilling and enthralling. From Hitchcock to the Macarena, "Titane" director on how monstrosity and humor feed her body horror 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Reflecting the tonal shifts in the recastings, the tone of the new movie is a drastic shift from the original, too. Total Recall Revisited: What Colin and Arnold Can Tell Us About Pop Culture 2012-08-01T12:00:49Z He was more willing to sacrifice tonal sheen for expression, more overtly emotional and more liberal with embellishments. Multiple blessings of Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z But any losses of tonal fullness or allure were momentary, and the generosity of her singing dissolved any reservation about her breath control. At SummerStage, Metropolitan Opera’s Recital Series Begins 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Under Tamblyn’s direction, the process becomes a dark, tonal habitation of loss for both characters. What Hollywood needs right now is this film about flawed women 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z She naturally combined tonal richness with clear delivery of the texts. Review: In a Flat World, a Soprano Conjures Italy 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Pine's Europa project uses a novel tonal palette, playing bass clarinet instead of his usual saxes. Brecon Jazz festival ? review 2011-08-16T18:35:01Z But the most glaring shift, one that colours the book entirely, is tonal. Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining 2012-06-22T11:32:40Z It took confidence, too, to write tonal and disarmingly tuneful music in the latter half of the 20th century, when Modernism was the prevailing dogma. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In a demonstration of Roy’s tonal range, this section begins in the ironic voice of an Indian government official named Garson Hobart. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z And, while remaining tonally accurate, the script bubbles with great stupid jokes. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z All of that fun, though, is in the service of the sucker punch tonal shifts that arrive whenever “4 Kids” seems to be going in a predictable direction. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The Prokofiev sonata established the tone of the recital: tremendous virtuosity, tonal variety and sheer firepower. Jon Kimura Parker’s ‘Rite’ packed with power | Classical review 2013-05-09T17:32:36Z Yet such distinctions soon became irrelevant as Skride displayed a technical ability and tonal finesse that made time stand still. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z I do remember him being narrow-minded about composers who stuck essentially to tonal harmonic languages — let alone to Minimalism, which he could not abide. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The result: a weird tonal shift and quite a few unpleasant moments. Anything goes in dark comedy 'Let's Kill Ward's Wife' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z "Stranger Things" is scary and in its latest season, more gruesome and tonally dark than ever. The lure of “Stranger Things”? It’s not the '80s – it’s forgotten childhood freedom 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z "His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled," said Lee, also DC's co-publisher. Comic book artist Gene Colan dies at 84 2011-06-24T13:53:07Z With her direction, Whitney White occasionally dips too far into melodrama, but otherwise nimbly adapts to the tonal shifts and key changes of Harris’s script. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In commentaries he explained that he was striving for cool, uninflected, more objective music, and likened the piece to “tonal masses” that are “sculptured in marble.” Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z The magazine deplored losing “Kabotchnik,” with “its rich, sneezing tonal effects.” In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs Shakes the Family Tree 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Stewart "does an impressive job of balancing the story's tonal shifts, largely keeping the melodrama at bay while at the same time modulating the film's surreal humor." 'Rosewater': Jon Stewart scores solid reviews in directing debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The artful tonal contrasts of Bey’s portraits have been blended into a rich, glossy reduction of medium and very dark gray tones. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z H. K. Gruber, a composer and conductor widely considered one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Weill, said that while Schoenberg was introducing his 12-tone technique, Weill “found his own way remaining in the tonal idiom.” Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Steel bands, now found in countries around the world and becoming increasingly popular in the United States, include at least a half-dozen types of steel drums with different tonal ranges. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Which is to say yes, I cede the point that there was something tonally off when there didn’t need to be. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: Was This the Worst Episode Yet? 2013-04-29T15:52:37Z And while the high-style direction tends to level the tonal differences, a few of the plays stand out. Theater Review: ‘The Mysteries’ Retells the Bible at the Flea Theater 2014-04-21T21:16:34Z Mr. Rouse’s final symphony is often tonal, directly stated and taut, with an uncanny timelessness. Review: Christopher Rouse Leaves a Haunting Final Symphony 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z There are tonal shifts in “She Memes Well,” as Brunson ranges from lists detailing her favorite pieces of pop culture to essays about self-acceptance and mental health. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z One of the stunning accomplishments of this book is Ma’s tonal range: Amid the sharply observed social world, we watch Ari slide into dangerous instability. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Those are trying circumstances for any moviemaker, especially a relatively unproven one navigating material that requires tonal precision, but both Mr. Owen and Ms. Keener, who play the victim’s parents, said their director remained coolheaded. Out of Character, in the Director?s Chair 2011-03-25T18:45:10Z Andrea Arnold doesn’t direct concise, compact narratives; she makes big, messy, maximalist movies, firmly anchored in the human condition but faithfully replicating the wild tonal and emotional swings of real life. ‘Flux Gourmet,’ ‘The Meddler’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z His catalog as a solo artist is unbelievably rich, tonally varied and full of buried treasure. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The music here, essentially tonal, pledges allegiance to no particular ism, save for a personable eclecticism rooted in respect for tradition. Classical Recordings: Ethan Wickman and Nicholas Phillips 2011-02-06T02:08:05Z The former shaded songs with inventive colors, textures and effects; the latter utilized an assortment of shakers, sticks and bells to underline rhythms with tonal nuances and jazzy dynamics. Wilco begins 6-night stand with loose, upbeat set 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z His trumpet solos were models of rhythmic precision, tonal subtlety and expressive understatement, executed without showboating. Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Bring Rhythmic Precision to Café Carlyle 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Todd Phillips’ deliberately offensive films have always courted controversy but The Hangover Part III marks a tonal shift for his successful franchise. The Hangover Part III: The Third Time’s the Harm 2013-05-22T23:43:08Z Despite the tonal irregularities of the play, the cast’s excellent performances largely compensate for the dramaturgical shortcomings. Fatherhood is tested in 'Foreclosure' at Greenway Court 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z It sounds tonal — kind of — but also weird and quite distinctive in color. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z The paramount challenge of this book was the tonal integration of parts that at first glance appear to be incongruous. ArtsBeat: A Macabre Mystery: Poe Ballantine Talks About Memoir and True Crime 2013-09-04T20:44:29Z All these shows set the standard for capitalizing on audacious cinematography and conscientiously economic writing to evoke tonal details, inviting audiences to contemplate the smallest flourish that go into the grand payoffs. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Britto throws the kitchen sink at the problems of modern cinema, blending fiction and documentary and piling on in-jokes and tonal shifts. The Hidden Stars of This Year’s Sundance: Hoaxes, Hucksters, and Glamorous Frauds 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z For the final section — “To see the Earth as it truly is” — the chorus sustained a crescendo of impressive, cathartic tonal beauty. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Asked whether he was ever criticized for writing tonal pieces or quoting Chopin, Mr. Crumb replied innocently. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The cleaning revealed the painting's full tonal range, especially in the darker areas, and resulted in a clearer sense of how the artist intended for space to recede through the rocky landscape, the gallery said. Restored Da Vinci painting reveals hidden details 2010-07-14T17:17:00Z Or is it a basic tonal vocabulary of what to expect throughout the album? Autechre Worked in Isolation for Decades. Now It’s Unintentionally Timely. 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But Mr. Cope evokes those qualities through a series of arresting, essentially tonal themes and a constant manipulation of textures and dynamics rather than through harmonic spikiness. Music Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays at Merkin Hall 2010-04-20T22:27:00Z Kauffmann abbreviated the title and edited the text thoroughly—sharpening the quick cuts, juxtapositions, non sequiturs, and sudden shifts of topic and tonal register that give Binx’s narration, and the novel, its distinctive style. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Early in his career, Alberto Ginastera incorporated elements from the music of his native Argentina into his scores with traditional tonal means. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z But here’s the part they will like the least: “The Future” is really good, a film that’s not only tighter than the free-ranging “Me and You” but also more mature and tonally darker. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z Even though they are entirely different films tonally, Tatum shows off this same ability in the "Jump Street" franchise. 'Foxcatcher' star Channing Tatum still wrestling with his ambitions 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The defining feature of “Andor” is how it takes a “Star Wars” story and, without getting conceptual, transposes it in visual and tonal terms. ‘Andor’ Review: Star Wars Without the ‘Star Wars’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Currier’s musical language, which draws from tonal and atonal sources, if not pathbreaking, is very personal. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z But as I said earlier, despite the ongoing flaws, I was cheered to see “Gotham” affirm its tonal roots, at times, in winningly outrageous fashion. 'Gotham' Recap: Take It Away, Balloonman 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z So too are McLachan's performances; occasionally one would like a little more tonal variety, but the dedication of his playing is without doubt immensely impressive. Stevenson: Piano Music – review 2013-01-24T12:33:33Z This isn't a version of Schoenberg's serialism – far from it, since, the infinity row creates the possibility of resonantly tonal centres across a large-scale work: this is not "atonal" music. A guide to Per Nørgård's music 2012-07-30T15:58:34Z This is daring dramaturgy, requiring the utmost in tonal control to keep it from tipping into righteous bathos. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet those chords represent such ingenious use of the tonal language that your ear and intellect perk up, while your emotions melt. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z Edward Rothstein wrote in The Times that “Ghosts” brought “camp humor, postmodern pastiche, parody and effulgent tonal nostalgia to the Met.” William M. Hoffman, Who Wrote the Pioneering AIDS Play ‘As Is,’ Dies at 78 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Life and death hangs in the balance of every single scene, which doesn’t exactly lend itself tonally to increased brand interaction with cartoon peanuts. Game of Thrones: assessing the final season's bizarre marketing campaign 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Nature as abstract, geometric, all detail omitted, the painting is a feat of control and tonal delicacy. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z |
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