| 单词 | crescendo |
| 例句 | Rishi said, trying not to let his voice reach the crescendo it wanted to. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The music in the hall rose to a crescendo, the beat of drums and the whine of the nadhaswaram so loud, we could catch the sound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Power chords of love dropped me to my knees, spiraled into rhythm and melody, exploded in a fearless white crescendo. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The music crescendos and so does her voice. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In the silence between them the buzz of insects in the hot summer air seemed to crescendo: thousands of tiny wings beating. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we play the whole thing again, double time, missing notes, ending with a giant crescendo, splattering the keys, and laughing like maniacs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z As his speech reached a crescendo, Khrushchev played up the theater of the moment to the hilt. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The drumming ebbs and flows, comes to a crescendo before stopping completely; then I am stagnant water again. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A crescendo is an increase in volume that leads to a climax. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This question represents a crescendo of decades’ worth of research. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They conduct the genome, thereby playing out its music—activating the viola at the fourteenth minute, a crash of cymbals during the arpeggio, a roll of drums at the crescendo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Meanwhile on the Row the planning reached a crescendo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As Petey drove them home, windows open, hot wind tossing their hair, the song of the crickets seemed to reach a furious crescendo. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve . times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All through the day, the heavy thump of the locomotives’ steam pistons thundered down our narrow valleys, the town shaking to the crescendo of grinding steel as the great trains accelerated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They feel like a crescendo, but they don’t necessarily seem to add up to one in terms of meaning. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The war gods’ voices rose to a crescendo in his head: Kill him! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She held her breath as its octaves rose, the tune climbing higher and higher until it reached an impossible crescendo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the orchard the bees sounded like a wind getting up, a sound caught by a spell just under crescendo and sustained. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Virgil had been showing me how to do a crescendo to bring the B flat out. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He thought the chicken would calm as he carried her—Charlie carried all his chickens around—but her frantic clucks added to the chorus of crickets and the crescendo of the owls: Who? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I wince as the cries peak and fall, and the onlookers cheer at their crescendos. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She flashes me a smile, and the world spins—chairs stretch into colorful putty, laughter crescendos in peaks, and the floor beneath my feet wobbles like the land is melting out from under me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then Amaroq slid into a musical crescendo that Silver joined in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the music built to a crescendo, Anorak stretched out his right hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The sounds— clashes, clangs, screams, moaning wails, roars of engines, spinning saws, snapping blades, the screech of spikes against the floor, hair-raising pleas for help—it all grew to a crescendo, became unbearable. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They applauded at the final Assignment; but the applause was piecemeal, no longer a crescendo of united enthusiasm. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z And there they sat for a precious few minutes, Papa and his two youngest children, while the rest of the family awoke and the sounds of the city began its crescendo all around them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The noise built to a deafening crescendo before ceasing abruptly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “We are the Vanderbeekers!” piped up Hyacinth as Oliver reached a crescendo in his song. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes as I heard the deep moaning sound that issued from him, and the rising crescendo of the student body joining in. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd noise swelled to a deafening crescendo. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A gradual crescendo in the percussion section reached a climax that woke the audience. compare with/compare to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As the drums reached a crescendo, three of the girls leapt above the flames, spinning in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The noise outside had risen to a dreadful crescendo. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A mislaid rope may be called a lost cord, but the familiar musical phrase is lost chord. climax/crescendo. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a crescendo in the ticking, and a flash. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “A, B, C, vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin D . . .” The Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana had risen to a sobbing crescendo; and suddenly the verbena gave place, in the scent- circulating system, to an intense patchouli. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A situation or apiece of music builds to a climax, not to a crescendo. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bedsprings as they reached a crescendo, as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Squeezed her hand with both of his.The shouts and calls from outside grew to a crescendo. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I miss her laugh, the way it starts like a pianists solo, soft and low and then crescendoing and filling the room. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sanjeev noted that the symphony, now in its third movement, had reached a crescendo, for it pulsed with the telltale clashing of cymbals. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Their song rose and fell in gentle crescendos that matched the waves lashing along the sand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The sharp, reverberating hoofbeats that moments ago had mixed into the surging sound of the river were now a crescendo upon me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the song crescendoed, a row of daisies poked up from the dirt and unfurled toward her hands. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He walked out through the entrance of the tent, the panic rising into a crescendo inside him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Ralph’s heart rumbled like a Peking Opera drum; it was the crescendo before — crash of the cymbals! — a hero appeared. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit.... The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The sound of celebration followed her through the open doors—music and voices, all mingled together in a joyous crescendo. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The cries grow louder and louder alongside a crescendo of laughter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When his voice rose in a crescendo, flames leapt from his fingers with a sudden whoosh and made the crowd gasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As he settles on three likely culprits, “The Aleppo Codex” builds to a moral crescendo more impressive than the climactic fight scene in any thriller. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Yet it wasn’t until the trailers for the film adaptation began appearing in theaters that the questions of how the story portrays people with disabilities began to reach a crescendo. “Me Before You”’s controversial end: Criticism mounts for story of quadriplegic man and his “interesting” fate 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Having decided against a dramatic crescendo between the spouses, Luiselli supplants the dull ache of marital grief with something far more panicked. Review | An author delivers a powerful plea for migrant children 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The night and music ebbed and flowed to the sounds of “shoo bop, shoo bop” and reached a crescendo with one of the band’s original songs. Bo?te | Tillman?s: Soulful Music at Its Heart 2010-02-26T23:42:00Z Too many sections share this structure of crescendo. Dance Review: ‘Hoo-Ha (for your eyes only)’ at Danspace Project 2013-05-24T21:01:38Z Beats sneak in and sometimes threaten to erupt, but always cede the space—a subtle crescendo in the strings acting as the catharsis rather than as an obvious rhythmic release. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The No 1 song in America begins with a line in Spanish: "Con los terroristas," someone growls, as the crescendo builds. Harlem Shake creator could lose royalties over uncleared samples 2013-03-12T10:35:23Z As before, its music is additive: lines and loops pile up, some dinky and some monstrous, all building a crescendo. Music Review: Lines, Loops And a Skyline Spectacle 2011-04-28T21:38:57Z Balsam-harvesting is a welcome change of pace for farmers at the end of the season’s crescendo. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s mostly a drone with a crescendo, patiently but inexorably building — “getting louder now,” Ms. Barnett sings truthfully. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z A good wedding should have physical flow and build to a crescendo that doesn’t drop. From Social Secretary to Party Planning Aficionado 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z But his more durable Cadence singles were sentimental torch songs that tapped Williams’ wider dramatic range and allowed him to reach a tenor crescendo for the big finish. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z Organizer Hugh Evans of Global Poverty Project calls the concert a "crescendo" to an ambitious anti-poverty effort that coincides with the United Nations meeting in New York. Black Keys, Foo Fighters sign up for charity show 2012-08-07T11:40:17Z Taking the personal approach and starting out by moping over his misspent life, it builds to an awesome Al Pacino trademarked crescendo. Clip joint: battle speeches 2013-06-19T15:17:31Z Around 3 a.m. on this particular night - still several hours from closing time - women in bachelorette sashes waded toward floating white platforms as crescendos drifted over the water. Casino bosses transform Sin City into Club City 2013-05-05T18:09:09Z Mr. Arjona’s voice is an ardent, full-bodied tenor that he uses largely for rockers and power ballads, full of big choruses and dramatic crescendos. Music Review: Ricardo Arjona at Madison Square Garden 2012-02-28T00:01:48Z Of all the dances I’ve seen inspired by the hypnotic crescendo of Ravel’s “Bolero,” this is the most interesting. A fiery tribute to female power: Ella Fitzgerald and Alvin Ailey dancers in ‘Ella’ 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Still, it is impossible to mistake the burlesque of French citizenship classes or crescendo of disgust and rage with which the movie ends. An African in Paris, Fighting to Preserve His Dignity 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z A crescendo of humiliation, anxiety and abuse, “Beauty and the Dogs” plays like a horror movie where every choice is a Catch-22 and every door a trap. Review: Seeking Justice After a Rape in ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Other times, he cupped the microphone tightly in both hands — an aged rock star lost in the crescendo. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Starr Kirkland, an actor, teacher and longtime Realize Your Beauty facilitator, reminded the campers to keep repeating their phrase as the group’s chant of shoddy messaging crescendoed. Amid the Mountains, They Can Be ‘Open Without Being Judged’ 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z And Mr. DeFrancesco dominated the solo spotlight, maybe unintentionally: his knack for pacing and crescendo, and his way with a boppish glissando, yielded reliably engaging results. Music Review: Frank and Personal Don?t Rule Out Commercial 2010-10-15T22:53:00Z In this waltz fun and amazement dance in the same steps; the choreography lifts the whole audience through a crescendo of changing emotions. Dance Review: A Playfully Roasted Old Chestnut 2010-12-12T23:28:00Z It’s an ungainly title, but from it, Cornell William Brooks builds steadily to a fervid crescendo. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks? The track then transitions into “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1,” building up slowly, dramatically, before bursting into Kid Cudi’s “beautiful morning” crescendo, with West lamenting “If I ever instigated, I’m sorry” in Auto-Tune. Kanye West to stop at KeyArena Wednesday with ‘Saint Pablo’ 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “I approach it as a musician, with crescendos and diminuendos. What you absolutely have to avoid is monotony and boredom.” Auctioneer at Sotheby’s Confident in London as Art Hub 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z There is careful consideration put into each note, each phrase, each perfectly placed crescendo; the attention to detail shapes its aesthetics. REVIEW: 45 Years Later, Led Zeppelin I Remains Transcendent 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Music throbs and rises to intense crescendos, fades and then reforms into towering clusters. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z Her crescendo on the Met steps wearing Oscar de la Renta “was like that,” she said. Daisy Edgar-Jones Would Like the Ingénue Phase of Her Career to End Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The film's impact also hinges on Goth as she conjures a transcendent performance as the villain, which comes to a crescendo with a show-stopping nine-minute monologue. Disney-esque and demented: Ti West on how his slasher flick "Pearl" compares to "Rocky Horror" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z One way to look at this: The show is emphasizing its own identity rather than ending with the sort of crescendo we watched in “Breaking Bad.” ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 11 Recap: Back to the Beginning 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Even “SVU” more frequently uses story lines that stretch across episodes without venturing too far from its standard crescendo. Television: ‘Chicago Fire’ and the Changing Dick Wolf 2012-10-07T04:49:02Z The players also displayed an aggressive bite in Vivaldi’s signature crescendo runs and an unusual palette of pale tone colors in pianissimo passages. Review: Avi Avital and the Venice Baroque, in Sizzling Communion 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z At one point, Mr. Gilbert asked the players to delay some crescendos, “so they really snap.” Young Composers Catch the Philharmonic’s Ear 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Choral chants start dainty and small, sailing into haunting crescendos. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z After the extended reverie, in other words, even the slightest crescendo carried heightened dramatic meaning. Saxophonist Pat Mallinger gets a moment of glory 2011-03-06T15:54:00Z So many things are going on, and there’s a crescendo, with the arousal level getting higher and higher, and that translates into a lack of ability to think clearly.” On the Campaign Trail, Love Doesn’t Always Win 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z At Bonnaroo, she made the arc of her crescendos bigger but not cruder; there was vulnerability at the beginning and soul power when she peaked. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Alabama Shakes Commands the Big Stage 2012-06-08T20:25:39Z The Mexican singer Blue Rojo works up a mournful crescendo of accusations in “Inframundo,” telling a woman who left him that “you no longer exist for me.” ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z After that, it crescendos to a single sforzando, and then still there is a sforzando in the cellos twice in the final bars. Semyon Bychkov on Tchaikovsky’s Protest Against Death 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Despite the fact that the record’s subtitle is Warm Earth Music for Plants . . . and the People Who Love Them, “Plantasia,” with its sprightly electronic hums and crescendos, wasn’t really meant for human ears. A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The band played half of “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” on Friday as well, including a near-apocalyptic crescendo in “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.” Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z The set opens with the title track of his most recent album, a slow, rumbly, tidal number whose gradual crescendo sets the tone for much of the evening's sculpted set. Richard Hawley – review 2012-10-06T23:05:53Z The song is a suite of three disparate sections — two carrying lyrics, one wordless with a spooky high vocal, each section a crescendo of increasing density and dissonance. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But the real agenda of Sunday's Governors Ball was a day of crescendos. ArtsBeat: Governors Ball Day 2: Turning Back the Clock 2012-06-25T14:55:04Z It’s hard to tire of watching someone vanquish an oppressor, score a goal, or in the case of the Brooklyn band Sannhet, follow a crescendo to the breaking point. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It doesn't hit a crescendo until a bit later. 'Fear the Walking Dead': Show runner Dave Erickson reveals new details 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Unwritten flourishes — a crescendo here, some rubato there — add to the impetuous atmosphere. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z As is typical of Oliver’s delivery, what begins as a simple explanation of facts grows louder and more urgent before escalating to a crescendo of silliness. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a crescendo of plenty, a shameless play directly to the lizard-brain beauty of abundance. The Sun Rises on Wegmans in Brooklyn 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The album begins with a rush of ominous synths on “Professional,” which concludes with a steep crescendo and intense background percussion that amplifies the overall sense of dread. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z “The natural lighting and then the wind coming in with the crescendos in the music — you just couldn’t ask for anything better than that.” Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z If they’re lucky, they might achieve a “Wagnerian crescendo,” or at least a “puny muscular spasm.” Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It might be the grunge surges of Cage the Elephant or the strategic crescendos of Explosions in the Sky, but it was hand-played and timed to human impulse. ArtsBeat: Governors Ball Day 2: Turning Back the Clock 2012-06-25T14:55:04Z Related to this crescendo in violence is the tendency for these killers to take an item, often a piece of jewelry, from their victims. 7 Things We Learned About Serial Killers From the Book Netflix’s Mindhunter Is Based On 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The scenery crescendos as you climb over Norway’s mountainous spine. Incredible journeys across Europe 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z McNulty eventually gets his comeuppance, and the show manages a magnificent crescendo of a finale. When good TV goes bad: how The Wire lost its spark 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “Later” moves in vignettes inextricably bound to one another, crescendoing at the end with a scene that is less cerebral but pumping with symbolism. Review | Paul Lisicky’s ‘Later’ conjures a queer utopia amid the AIDS crisis 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Béjart’s “Boléro” is a steady crescendo in which a lone protagonist standing on a tabletop gradually, like a dance demagogue, drives an all-male ensemble of followers into a frenzy of excitement. Dance Review: The Paris Opera Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2012-07-12T21:49:08Z The work ended with a grand crescendo, capped by cymbals, that quickly receded, leaving only the sound of Ms. Winan exhaling and gently hissing. The New Juilliard Ensemble in a Harrison Birtwistle Premiere 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Sleepless before dawn, she heard Shanghai gradually awaken beginning with a distant bicycle bell and growing to a full crescendo of cycling commuters. Secret to a Great Trip: Ditch the Devices 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z And on it went until it crescendoed in this regrettable scene: me grabbing my son around the waist and half-carrying him out the front door. When the war came for me 2013-03-19T00:00:00Z But where most bands use such crescendos as an ecstatic release, Low’s rowdiest outbursts were as emotionally constrained as its quietest moments. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Here, the duo’s voices seem to be forming something resembling a crescendo, but the wheels refuse to leave the tarmac. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z While it may strike some contemporary viewers as hokey, not many things on television have been as brilliantly constructed or portrayed as the crescendo of grief in the “Twin Peaks” pilot. Critic?s Notebook: A Series Homage Lovingly Wrapped in Plastic 2010-12-01T04:55:00Z The bells started to peal, eventually crescendoing to an explosion of noise that sounded like the finale of a fireworks show. Overnighter: In Toledo, Layers of Spanish History 2012-12-21T16:56:55Z This virtual vacation features plenty of rhythmic chug-chugging alongside distant radios, chirping birds, stretches of serenity and even a crescendo into some more composed song craft. Need More Nature? Listen to 12 Essential Field Recordings 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z She strode, ran, jumped and danced all over the stage to her band’s joyous crescendos, throwing herself into her songs’ messages of love, affirmation and inner strength. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The songs took their time, with crescendos swelling and ebbing from within. CMJ 2014: The Out-of-Town Advantage for Happyness, the Crookes and Money 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z And that gives it a thrilling pace, each inquiry reaching a crescendo of curiosity, which is then released in a discovery. Netflix's 13 Reasons Why and the trouble with dramatising suicide 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Taylor’s stump speech isn’t a barn burner with a dramatic crescendo. Diana Taylor doesn’t have a name for her relationship with Mike Bloomberg. She just wants him to win. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z And “Man of War” envisions isolation and decay, framed by descending chords and a somber yet exhilarating crescendo. On ‘OK Computer,’ Radiohead Saw the Future: Ours 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z In just a few minutes his voice reached a crescendo, a bravura re-consecration of journalism in these times as “advanced citizenship.” Meet Joshua Johnson, Diane Rehm’s successor — and a bold move for WAMU 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The versatile Strong anchored a driving rendition of “Pig,” guiding the song from patter to pound, and tossing in a lively fill or two into a thunderous crescendo. Rolling with COVID punches, Dave Matthews Band caps unforgettable Gorge run on high note 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Here's an exclusive free download of album opener Father Said - let it seep into your soul as it bubbles to the surface in a procession of searing crescendos. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z "A collection marked by a restless, metropolitan spirit, constructed from opposites that mix in a harmony of crescendo, diversity and contrast," read a style note from the Milan-based fashion house. Emporio Armani's urban and bright looks at Milan shows 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In stand-alone chapters that often end in a moving and artful crescendo, the book follows nine characters connected in various ways to the sighting. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It is music that exposes, and focuses on, all the nuances of a vocal performance — every change of timbre, every crescendo and diminuendo, every embellishment — and Ms. M’barek brought grace to every phrase. Music Review: Sonia M’barek at the French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-07T21:13:40Z But Mr. Pierce maximized the arrangements, surrounding his small, scratchy voice with counterpoint, resonances and the potential for towering crescendos. Music Review: Spiritualized ?Floats in Space? at Radio City 2010-08-01T22:22:00Z Like many Dirty Projectors' songs, its crescendos came in all the wrong places, its logic and meter inscrutable. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z On “God’s Work,” a nod to the Christian music she’s put out in the past and the album’s devotional undercurrent, she slides through swelling piano ballads and guitar-heavy reggae, crescendoing choruses and gentle, lilting hums. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet from this very point tension builds over three more acts in a steady crescendo climaxing in massive bloodshed. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z “Der Doppelgänger” exemplifies their shared purpose: Singer and orchestra, breathing as one, crescendo ever so slowly into a climax of uncanny horror. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Nearly all of them, through the years, are devoted to the power of love and desire, usually enacted through grand crescendos. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z The eerie mood is conveyed with slow crescendos and diminuendos, abrupt silences and, in particular, the impressionistic use of tremolando to evoke a sinister effect. Music Review: Mannes Beethoven Institute Faculty Concert at Mannes College 2012-06-07T21:52:55Z I flip pages during the applause, or on a musical crescendo. Dance audiences are too caught up in the performance to be rude 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z But she doesn't dance like a pop star, even as the pulsating chords of her new single "Green Light" crescendo. Life of the Party 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A little girl in the line of fire screamed in an accelerating crescendo, “I don’t want to get hit, I don’t want to get killed!” Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z At its closest approach to convention Radian stayed with a broad-shouldered rock march and a big crescendo, something like Mogwai or Godspeed You! Music Review: Knocking, Twitching, Buzzing, Rasping 2011-06-09T21:45:27Z But the music carries him, a spiraling crescendo with guitars and synthesizer swells, kicking into a four-on-the-floor beat, pumping toward a final realization: “Sometimes it’s hard, but you know I’m thankful.” Bartees Strange Ponders Success in Dire Times 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z But here the microphones are dry, the groove is intricate, the tempo is wakeful, and Mr. Butler drives its long crescendo. Review: ‘Motown Gospel Presents 1 Mic 1 Take’ Sells Simplicity 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z And it turned a Low song about ominous passion, “Monkey,” into a howling maelstrom of reverb with an extended crescendo from Mr. Miller. Music Review: Offering a Range of Songs, While Prizing Spirit Over Style 2011-01-31T23:59:58Z One crescendo comes in the segment called "Pollen II," which a reviewer for London's the Telegraph called "an almost eye-wateringly suggestive floor-bound exchange … representing the botanical fertilization process: steamy stuff, but immensely poetic." Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Three fingers plucked the air, then he swept forward to guide the sound to a crescendo. ‘We’re Like Athletes Here’: The Maestro With a Gym Habit 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The outfit was named after the Mannheim roller, an intense melodic crescendo developed by the court orchestra of the German city of Mannheim, in the mid-seventeen-hundreds. Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The few intonation missteps in the brass section paled beside the thrilling surge of the orchestra, where Fisch’s crescendos underscored the drama on the stage to telling effect. ‘Ring’ opens in Seattle with shining ‘Rheingold’ 2013-08-05T15:27:57Z We last spoke for a story about the influence of Berg’s “Wozzeck” and, like that opera, your “Hamlet” has a big crescendo on a B as well. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z As the boy rejects each answer, the fable-like text builds to a crescendo of solutions, both serious and amusing: A mass of people of all types proudly parade their love metaphors across the page. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But it’s a crescendo of anger, not sorrow; as he leaves the relationship wreckage behind, he snarls, “Don’t reach out for me, babe.” Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z In a scene of a mystic marriage, Coleman drops out altogether and the organ group builds to a frenzied discothèque crescendo along with the clattering and the shouting of the celebrants. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z I wedge a crowbar through the front door frame, the brittle wood creaking until the door cracks open in a crescendo of pops and screams. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Yet even here, Bay couldn’t help himself — eventually the song reached another explosive crescendo. James Bay makes waves at Showbox SoDo 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z These passing errors, though, were less memorable than the grace of his bow gliding over harmonics, or the control and tension with which he was able to build long crescendos. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s an album about alienation and loneliness disguised as pop music with glorious crescendos and sunburst choruses. Tame Impala and the lonely pursuit of perfection 2012-11-08T18:56:00Z Sound Vivacious, hitting a crescendo around 8 p.m. At Cassia in Santa Monica, Calif., Asian Food of Balance, Not Extremes 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The album opener, “Next to You,” features all four singing in unison and their close harmonies blend and build to a crescendo of choral voices, reminiscent of Arcade Fire. Little Big Town strike a nerve with Grammy-nominated song 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It rises to a harrowing crescendo of overlapping strains of agony—physical and emotional, spiritual and moral—that is among the strangest, most intricately tangled of all of Scorsese’s creations. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The horns played beautifully in the Adagio, and Schwarz went for the big contrasts in the finale — an unusually quiet opening statement of the big theme, followed by a dramatic and powerfully effective crescendo. A mighty Ninth and soaring voices 2011-12-29T17:30:06Z The National brooded cryptically over smoldering crescendos and U2 guitar chords. At Bonnaroo, Looking Inward 2010-06-12T17:02:00Z Mr. Dillon’s sound world is variegated and changeable: sudden crescendos evaporate in pianissimo chords; quiet pizzicato passages unfold into sequences of descending slides that evoke whining, at times, and exoticism elsewhere. Music Review: Capturing Shifts Between Ecstasy and Anguish 2011-01-18T23:32:38Z It almost seemed like a fast forward to Saturday's actual contest winner as the song's crescendo was punctuated with fiery rain and explosions of gold sparkly paper over the audience. Eurovision 2013: Reporter's log 2013-05-16T16:55:24Z Everyone was outfitted in simple, earth-tone outfits, minimalism also reflected in the choreography: Deceptively simple movements, like deconstructed Motown routines, crescendoed into expressive explosions of emotion. Solange sings like she means it at the Kennedy Center 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Combine her meddling with Clive’s inevitable discovery of Ellie’s actions, and we’re nearing the crescendo — rising, rising, until all at once, competing notes collide. Review | ‘Ellie and the Harpmaker’ plucks the heartstrings 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The details of its footwork build in a heady crescendo; the complexity of the human foot becomes intoxicating. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z The crescendo of the week is, without doubt, the final Saturday’s Burn. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Not the type to do anything halfway, he's now, with increasing crescendo, trying to forge a market-driven solution to the nation's unsustainable health care costs and using Dartmouth as a laboratory to do so. First Respo 2011-11-16T23:00:00Z The film’s music soundtrack is deployed like a cudgel: A musical-comedy-like refrain adds a comic buoyancy; a hard-rock cue suggests Gonzalo’s defiance; a stirring Prokofiev crescendo lends grandeur to the climax. Review: ‘The Apostate’ Chronicles a Rebellious Catholic 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This New York band’s new album, on No Quarter, feels like constant minimalist crescendo and tension building. Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z That abyss expands in a huge ensemble crescendo, part sex, part death, the cellos at the strident top of their range, before the roar drops out. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Shechter's Violet Kid is built on a series of musical crescendos, gloomy lighting fitfully illuminating shifty zones for the 14 dancers to swerve around, huddle into or hurtle across. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet – review 2012-10-12T11:23:48Z Finally, the whole city seems to crescendo in shell-shocking sounds that had many players in the orchestra reaching for their earplugs while producing a bravura performance. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z As he ended on a “Yes, we can” crescendo and the crowd roared, a swell of music burst from the speakers around the first Black president-elect of the United States. Not just a football movie: How ‘Remember the Titans’ became a hit and inspired a nation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Wanderlust’s big crescendo has elderly nudists fleeing a black Escalade and a wrestling match between George and Seth, the first a cheap joke about flapping body parts, the second a who-cares moment. Wanderlust: Nudists and Jennifer Aniston, Though Not in That Order 2012-02-24T15:45:56Z Ravel’s strategy in his 1928 classic was to increase intensity, bit by tiny bit, through relentless repetition, an excruciatingly steady crescendo. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As the piece unfolded, crescendos swelled effortlessly, with not a trace of exaggeration. Music Review: Cleveland Orchestra Performs Berg?s ?Lulu? Suite 2010-05-23T21:25:00Z The first hour, especially, is charming, before the balance shifts from romance to melodrama to, in the final minutes, the kind of maudlin crescendo that Asian audiences are accustomed to. | 'A Beautiful Life': A Contemporary Romantic Melodrama 2011-05-20T00:08:33Z Rock ’n’ roll needs disarray to sell its emotional authenticity, but Mr. Steinman has never favored authenticity when a crescendo would do. Review: In ‘Bat Out of Hell,’ Paradise by the LED Light 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Dark, moody, and unsettling, the Symphony No. 11 is full of moments of impending doom, terrifying eruptions of percussion “gunfire,” menacing crescendos, eerie calm, and rhythmic martial passages. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z Mirga led all of this patiently, whipping up a mighty crescendo about three-quarters of the way through in one of those spots that perhaps suggested nature’s dark side. The real headliner of the concert: alphorns, blowing a whirlwind of dark emotion through Disney Hall 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z There was, memorably, no vanity in Davis’ Rose in “Fences,” a performance that reached its aching crescendo in her shattering, snot-dripping “18 years of my life” monologue. Viola Davis on ‘Widows,’ MeToo and expressing her femininity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The book reaches its final crescendo when a Texas senator is emasculated by Martians and discovered by his intern, who starts to broadcast this inconvenient truth. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In “Copshop,” which crescendos with a shootout in a police station, there’s plenty of blood, plenty of madness and lots of bullets to go around. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z But when an educated professional, with exposure to contemporary new thinking, commits a similar act of violence, judgment levels crescendo. 'We shout at and smack our children: how can we stop?' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z In her by-now-characteristic fashion, Penny simultaneously unspools several suspense narratives, each of them accruing power and threat, faster and faster, until the novel closes in a crescendo of violence, unmasking and regret. Review | Louise Penny’s new novel shows once again why she’s a crowd favorite 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The moral suppleness of the flood hero crescendos with his first reaction to the post-flood world. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z It builds to its own crescendos and fade-outs, sometimes with sudden shifts in texture or drops in decibel. zoe ǀ juniper’s ‘BeginAgain’ mixes movement, stage magic 2014-03-28T15:50:49Z The producers of Sunday’s Academy Awards made a curious choice in assigning “play-off music”—the coercive crescendo that fills the soundtrack when speeches exceed the allotted time. A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “Hema and Kathy” traces a friendship in a briskly paced crescendo from childhood to adulthood, building to a conclusion that is satisfying, nearly beautiful. What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Then the layers of guitar start to build until the song soars into a shimmering shoegaze crescendo. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z Yet even the icy emptiness of Burial’s world possesses a strange kind of solace: Somewhere in the isolation waves of crescendoing synths descend, offering a cloak of hope and warmth. A Radiohead Spinoff’s Snarling Single, and 8 More New Songs 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Koz is clearer and more solicitous about his transaction with an audience, which involves a lot of imploring melody and some carefully plotted crescendo. Music Review: Dave Koz and BeBe Winans at Bergen Performing Arts Center 2012-06-24T21:39:13Z The finale built slowly, and seemed to end as openly as the symphony had begun: the closing measure’s crescendo not a sweep so much as a shine with lingering radiance. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In an ultimatum carried by a stately crescendo of keyboards, Holly Humberstone reminds a partner who’s threatening to leave just how much she has already put up with. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Though Korean cultural exports have long been popular in Japan, China, Southeast Asia and Latin America, they’ve experienced a slower crescendo in the United States. These Black women are obsessed with Korean TV dramas. Here’s why. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It wasn't just the sheer volume of rookies that rocked the Emmys that made it compulsively watchable; it was the way they built into a crescendo of preposterousness. New faces keep Emmys broadcast fresh 2010-08-30T07:28:00Z But the larger musical experience was a meditative drone a Minimalist would respect: sustained but subtly varying, punctuated by crescendos of activity and by contrapuntal outbreaks of honking. The Art of Summer: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Gridlock 2011-08-09T23:37:12Z With sure dramatic instinct she zoomed in on moments of pathos, lingering on a sighing motif, or building up crescendos with muscular impatience. Review: Hilary Hahn Plays an Unabashedly Romantic Bach 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Its big crescendo, which involves a quiet reading of a letter by an audience member, is more private and personal than magic typically has been. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z By the time the curtain rose to reveal ballet dancers stomping the stage, the protests had reached a crescendo. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z The clarinetist, Jörg Widmann, sculpted affectingly elongated crescendos in the third movement, while also shifting registers of peace and despair with magnetic intensity. The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Florestan’s characteristic gesture, for instance, is a surge: a crescendo with no corresponding diminuendo. Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He allowed its melody to build to a crescendo from its quiet opening of voluminous shapes in stark white. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z His swooping, swooning approach provided a bright contrast with Mr. Ford’s, which adhered more to a post-Coltrane model of onrushing crescendo. Music Review: Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band at the Blue Note 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z But Sondre Lerche, solo with an acoustic guitar, distilled the humor and frustration of “I’m a Boy” in a series of brilliantly timed crescendos, and Matt Nathanson belted the desperation of “The Real Me.” Music Review | 'The Music of the Who': So Who?s Next? Patti Smith and Others 2010-03-03T23:45:00Z Nearly every song includes hushed acoustic guitar textures, or swelling string crescendos that revel in high drama. Kehlani’s Journey of Healing 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s a celebratory assemblage of Bernstein-ian gestures: blaring brass, big crescendos à la “West Side Story,” syncopation and jazzy intonations. Alexei Ratmansky: From Hibernation to Bubble Bernstein 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z There was considerable variety within the songs — in the beats that appeared and disappeared and in dynamics that encompassed both hushed introspection and harrowing, overwhelming crescendos. Music Review: James Blake Sings With Piano at Terminal 5 2013-05-08T21:01:49Z The event's crescendo was Vale's karaoke performance of the Oliver Twist song "Who Will Buy?" before she ran up the block with three pink balloons headed for the after-party at The Pyramid Club. | 'Magic Fingers' Opens at Last 2012-11-19T21:00:56Z That movement ends with a crescendo conjuring gunfire but stops abruptly, leaving behind a suspended chord like tinnitus. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z His roomy, relaxed tenor was a source of unalloyed pleasure, especially in crescendos in which it bloomed without any hint of strain or steel. Review: ‘The Rake’s Progress’ Makes a Brief Visit at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z On “Actions Speak,” his lightly jagged funk complements a swarming repetition by Mr. Iyer; on “Lude” he builds an almost imperceptible crescendo over a subtly lopsided groove. Critic?s Notebook: ?Accelerando? by the Vijay Iyer Trio 2012-03-14T22:16:29Z I wanted crescendo, vibrato, to drown my screams and tears behind the roar of a large powerful engine. Trading my bicycle for a Harley: Learning to ride a motorcycle at 57 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z But over the years, as black performers made inroads into the mainstream arts scene and the civil-rights movement grew to a crescendo, the opera fell out of favor. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In contrast to his first four studio movies, which were all substantial hits, starting with “The Sixth Sense” in 1999, Mr. Shyamalan’s last four films have been crescendoing misfires. With ‘The Visit,’ M. Night Shyamalan Returns to His Filmmaking Roots 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The result nods to the xx’s best work but is unafraid of broader, heart-tugging crescendos, too. Pop & Rock Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z While vocally equal to the crescendos and curlicues, he was unable to compete with Mercury's memory – something vividly proved during Love of My Life, when 1980s footage of Mercury unexpectedly flashed on screen. Queen and Adam Lambert – review 2012-07-12T16:51:35Z Mr. Anderson’s pieces, “Odds” and “Masses,” cultivated the quintet’s dynamics, from tranquil colloquy to roiling crescendos. New Jazz Standards Quintet Makes Its Debut 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z This song is very "him" - starting out quietly and intimately with just a few notes on the piano, then building to a crescendo. Hamlisch left his signature on decades of films 2012-08-08T09:01:04Z It’s already a crescendo of heartache underscored by everyday details, a finished song. The Playlist: Prince’s Own ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ and 12 More New Songs 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Hilarity crescendos as wordplay plummets, until Chester realizes we all have bad days. Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z But there's this crescendo of anti-trans legislation, policy, representation in media. In "Changing the Game," young trans athletes become "a beacon for their own community." 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Recounting the meeting, her voice builds to a crescendo: “Bam!” she said emphatically in that Texas drawl. 10 years after Austin Tice’s abduction in Syria, his parents still fight for him 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The band joins her with somber vocal harmonies, tolling drone tones, clanking percussion and baleful fiddle slides, a crescendo of dread. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The focus of the concert was his voice and its variations on longing; he delivered “My Funny Valentine” as a tragedy with sweeping crescendos, even as he added some octavewide leaps to the melody. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z With power rock chords, crescendoing piano, and operatic heights, "Bat Out of Hell" wasn't like anything anyone had heard before. Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Gaveaux introduces the scene with a gently drawn-out orchestral crescendo that beautifully evokes the brightening atmosphere. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She handles a crescendo like few others can, and anchors the poppy, busy production backing with remarkable control over her instrument. Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The tape provided a powerful crescendo for the prosecution's case against Murray. Jurors get first glimpse of doctor's personality 2011-10-10T21:54:37Z I knew the notes were about to crescendo. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s an arc of mourning and mysticism, a patient crescendo dissolving into a haunted memory. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The stretches of Solange’s and Sampha’s improvised grooving that follow the choreographed sequences present not an interruption but an easy crescendo. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Lying somewhere between profound tragedy and wistful wonder, tender piano keys and sweeping string crescendos bleed into trembling beauty. Kamasi Washington Blasts Into a Fresh Era, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z On the surface, in these bands, the music’s crescendos usually signal euphoria. Broken Social Scene Pits Creativity Against Collapse on ‘Hug of Thunder’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Rather, they surfaced as a slow crescendo, as notes in a larger arrangement. What the Weeknd’s changing face says about our sick celebrity culture 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Schulman said that there’s “an absolute decrescendo of opportunity for women as the economics crescendo.” On Many Fronts, Women Are Fighting for Better Opportunity in Hollywood 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This time she seemed, if possible, yet more beautifully rapt, delivering gestures of contemplation and grief in a steady crescendo up to a point of urgency, only then to return to quiet stillness. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Then, as the music crescendoed, he leaped, suddenly, into the air. The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z It all builds to a crescendo with a montage of screams, peaking with the ultimate breaking point: "I've had it up to here." "Yellowjackets" is returning to push the boundaries of what being "Just a Girl" really means 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z It raises the question, as the proliferation of these brands reaches a crescendo, do we run the risk of home-design inspiration oversaturation? Paint companies are bringing inspiration (and swatches) from your Instagram feed to your door 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Gathered in a circle, we squatted low, waiting for the crescendo in the song before springing into a tuck jump. Soka Tribe classes turn the explosive energy of Carnival into a fitness routine 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The big drums and prancing keyboards merge dance-music crescendo and punky attitude. Album review: Pink, 'The Truth About Love' 2012-09-18T04:36:00Z Seeking is like the comic version of 2011’s Melancholia—in which filmmaker Lars Von Trier let the world end in a stunning explosion of fire and the crescendo of his Wagner score. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Love in the Ruins 2012-06-21T10:45:56Z Crouched on the floor, they cry as one, and as their wails reach a communal crescendo, you see Dani finally finding some measure of healing. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The slow crescendo, described by critic Mark Richardson, holds in it a certain duel truth: circumstances are really, really hard, but the only option is to keep moving forward. That cover song at the end of "Stranger Things" season 3 has its own back story 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Every so often the band allowed itself a dance beat or a major-chord crescendo approaching the lower elevations of . Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z It was all joyful praise, brilliantly timed with one crescendo after another. Worlds and Rhythms Meet, in Euphoric Result 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It played like a pro-wrestling spectacle: Mr. Cruz’s preening heel turn, the hooting crowd, Mr. Trump’s surprise appearance just as the boos crescendoed. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “I think everything is political: the mood is still there, and not for no reason,” she says standing in front of the Polaroids of the collection’s final looks — which she calls a “crescendo” of dresses. In the Studio With Paris’s New Fashion Darling 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z She thought its “emotional crescendo” would be well suited to unaccompanied voices. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z 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 Soft looks at the beginning and then crescendo! Runway Crescendo: Strut Over, Beethoven 2013-02-06T21:11:14Z Towards the end of the Giga, the music seemed to rush, but this was part of an underlying crescendo into the colossal Ciaccona. Prom 31: Nigel Kennedy ? review 2011-08-07T16:50:00Z The song, instead, erupts: A collective of instruments and voices reach a grand crescendo that eventually gives way to screaming, fiery cacophony. Phoebe Bridgers Wants to Believe 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Regardless of how many pillows I piled under my knees, it bubbled up until it hit a crescendo. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z String crescendos swelled gently with a single glockenspiel note at their peak; brasses or woodwinds formed chorales; an oboe or a flute offered a countermelody. Music Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter Performs Her Latest Songs in Concert 2014-03-02T23:26:25Z As the tour rollicks on, its tone — and Wang’s demeanor — morphs with each stop, like a concerto building to its crescendo. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z When the background music swelled, rather than cutting him off, it soundtracked a crescendo of gratitude that was both manic and sincere. Cuba Gooding Jr: ‘I had 10 years in the wilderness’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Even as it expands, the music recalls the modesty of its opening notes and often returns to them after its peak, as if each crescendo is already contained within them. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z As the voices reached a crescendo, he lowered one hand and touched the earth: so firm, cool, real. Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society 2010-03-18T23:04:00Z A listener doesn’t have to be aware of Alice Glass’s own story to recognize the crescendo of psychological manipulation — humiliation disguised as sympathy — in “Fair Game.” Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Fury at government corruption and raw cruelty drove him to a controlled crescendo over his five-minute selection, which brought the balm of reasoned language and outraged yet composed thought to the barbarity of the situation. Review | ‘Nobody wants this story told’: Nigeria’s Renegade Theatre makes U.S. debut with ‘Chibok Girls’ 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z As the publicity campaign for Captain America: Civil War escalates through a deafening crescendo, two things are clear. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Seconds later, when Ms. Bennett marked the crescendo by arching into one of Garland’s signature poses, the house exhaled with applause. Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland in ?End of the Rainbow? 2012-03-30T15:00:00Z Its opening song, “Home,” turns into a multitracked vocal crescendo, vowing, “Let’s get going!” Behind a ‘Best New Artist’ Nod: Yola’s 20 Years of Experience 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Webster defines the word crescendo as a gradual increase in loudness or intensity. Tony Floor's Tackle Box opens up to a parade of Columbia River salmon 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z The voices inside his mind reached a crescendo, pleading with him to perform his deed. The day he thought he could fly: How my father broke our family’s silence on schizophrenia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “Can you make the crescendo even bigger here?” she asked the London Symphony Orchestra as she conducted it in a recent rehearsal here. A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Her body language, except for basic bobbing, was arm and hand movements to signify her voice’s rising tones and crescendos. Music Review: Zola Jesus at the Knitting Factory ? Review 2011-10-19T22:05:25Z Brasses and strings sustained thick, looming chords and clusters that sometimes swelled in overwhelming crescendos. Music Review: Johann Johannsson?s Music With Images at Winter Garden 2012-02-02T23:09:34Z Each menu crescendos in a complicated, multicomponent spread, and the best of these featured lamb: barbecue ribs rubbed with cracked coriander seeds and XO sauce, plus a skewered grilled lamb kebab and a tomato salad. At Gem, a Teen Wonder Plays in the Big Leagues 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The sheer power of Bronfman’s technique, the rapid-fire artillery of repeated notes, the cataclysmic crescendos, and the huge sonority were overwhelming. Review: Yefim Bronfman pushes boundaries of what’s possible on piano 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Coote’s control and use of a wide dynamic range was another hallmark of her recital, with carefully shaded pianissimos and surging crescendos. Music Review: Alice Coote Offers Plenty of Flair at Zankel Hall 2010-04-06T22:38:00Z Her music is a kind of impassioned postminimalism characterized by a use of orchestral glissandos and crescendos — slow steady movements of a whole body of instruments. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The bourgeois — a doctor, a merchant, a usurer — are his main target, their music rootless, full of inane little scales that crescendo to deafening, unconducted carnage that implodes into deserved nothingness. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A birdcall-like motif in the strings’ high range opens the work, which moves through a crescendo to intense, energetic passages. Music Review: Lark Quartet Performs a Jennifer Higdon Work 2010-04-23T22:46:00Z Its whining crescendos as you move it higher up your cheek. Down with beard culture: An argument for old-fashioned shaving 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Jazz in 2014 — or more accurately, the discourse around jazz in 2014 — often resembled a crescendo of gibes and gripes, with each new affront calling forth a fresh wave of umbrage. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me. Were these sex scenes written by a man or a woman? 2012-06-12T11:37:00Z The parade, which had paused outside a bar on Rupert Street for a drum crescendo, were quiet after their telling off from Dame Helen. Helen Mirren's queen silences noisy drummers 2013-05-06T07:58:14Z The ensemble’s fresh sound owes much to its vivid, gusty crescendos, in which the sound seems to gather not only in volume, but in density, too. Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z Maybe that’s why one highlight of this album is the closing track, “Lullaby,” which hinges on a single, charged suggestion — “Let me rock you to sleep, pretty baby” — and a gathering-storm crescendo by the band. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Ray LaMontagne, Katie Melua and J J Grey 2010-08-22T22:55:00Z As skillful an orchestrator as Björk is, her crescendos and tightly designed wilderness can lose their strength with repetition. ‘Björk: Biophilia Live’ Documents Her Tour 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Not so on Thursday: After the start, with Zhang alone building tension through a slow succession of chords in crescendo, he was a constant presence. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The symphony closes with a 30-second crescendo by the three bass drums and then a shuddering crash. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Not only that, he writes a crescendo with sforzando in fortissimo, which is extremely violent. Semyon Bychkov on Tchaikovsky’s Protest Against Death 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Gospel routinely transcends its 1980s clichés: audience-tested vocal strength and trust in the power of crescendo trumps synthified slickness and outdated rhythmic feeling. Playlist : At Midcareer, Some Astonish, Some Explore 2011-04-29T18:39:43Z The inexorable trance arc from sustained chords to big beat to swooshing crescendo was thrilling for about the first 10 minutes — and then, the next times around, monumentally cheesy. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z The shift also registers in Mr. Black’s compositions here, which don’t stake so much on crescendo or on the gradual reveal. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z His sound is startling but rarely shrill, even as he opens up for big crescendos; he’s a crooner who contemplates pain with fastidious control. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z There had been criticism over the years, too, but it seems to have reached a crescendo this year. How ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Went From Parlor Act to Problematic 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “Anthem for the Earnest” by Mr. King tilted more toward a rock crescendo, but Mr. Iverson kept spiking the punch with icy dissonance. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z Momentum builds toward a thrilling crescendo and, rarest of all, a wholly satisfying ending that still whets the appetite for a sequel. Two New Wonderlands, Richly Imagined and Full of Peril 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z It seems to mirror the action of tides, with accelerating tempos, crescendos, choppy tone rows, superimpositions of fast over slow and vice versa, fluent and fantastically elegant improvising. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z But it brilliantly encases the song and, if the refrain preceding it suggests turning on, the crescendo parallels a druginduced “rush.” From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Adhering to the E.D.M. cult of the drop—the moment where a composition falls apart before the hook gloriously reëmerges—the film builds its emotional and musical peak to a crescendo of real sounds. That Zac Efron E.D.M. Movie 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z As the snare drum crescendos, an army of similar green-legged ballerinas invades the city’s harbor; their kicks slice past the skyline like blades. Amid upheavals, there’s good news in Hong Kong: Its ballet thrives 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z For musicians the sheet music provides the counts and note measure for measure, with directives on tempo and sound — allegro, adagio, and crescendo. Dining with Infiniti Design Director Shiro Nakamura 2011-08-20T18:44:26Z That was when the collection reached its crescendo, with martial music drumming the models in. Camouflage and Fencing Wear on the Paris Men’s Runways 2012-06-29T18:43:20Z Reaching a crescendo at the end of the set with all the lights ablaze, anyone watching could be nothing but completely overwhelmed. Womad: 30 years of world music 2012-07-30T10:36:06Z By the end, as music and dance rise to a shared, thrumming crescendo, our hearts are racing to keep up. Rosas & Ictus: Drumming – review 2013-06-26T17:09:43Z The dramatic crescendos of "All For Love" prove that a big, grand sound, deployed at the right time, fits the group's dynamic duets. Review: 'Golden' shows different side of Lady A 2013-05-06T16:25:17Z I just mean that I don’t have any sense that we are headed for a particular crescendo — that some specific element of suspense hangs before us, demanding we return to see how it’s resolved. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 9: Miscalculations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z But in this final crescendo, not only did we see Mike die; we saw Walt struggling to grapple with the capabilities of his own inner demons. Breaking Bad Watch: Four Terrifying Glimpses of Walter White, Lost Cause 2012-08-27T16:09:22Z There is one point where the string lines are marked triple forte, yet crescendo from there, accents spiking the way. Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The music hovered, coalesced and surged in inexorable crescendos behind Mr. Silberman’s fervent voice, an aching tenor that climbed into falsetto, shaping songs as anthems, elegies, waltzes and cries of anguish. | The Antlers: Strumming Off This Mortal Coil 2009-12-17T05:48:00Z Haider Ackermann’s weekend show, with its sober start and crescendo of mouth-watering colors left people who love fashion with moist eyes and a sense of joy. Special Report: Fashion: Nuturing by a Style 'Angel' 2011-03-06T18:54:56Z His greatest asset is his voice, which is made for melodramatic crescendos and heroic upward leaps. Music Review: Adam Lambert?s Message at the Nokia Theater 2010-06-23T22:04:00Z No vocals are necessary, as the band's slow-burn crescendos and destructive codes speak volumes, literally and figuratively. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z As he plays his acoustic and electric guitars left-handed, Mr. Howard’s songs seem to cascade from his fingers, gathering words and melodies as they go, carrying his reedy, tremulous voice as their crescendos surge. Music Review: Ben Howard at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-04-03T21:27:26Z Rounding the north tip of the road, the music reached a moment of climactic yet playful exuberance — a mix of surging Romantic crescendos and eerily angelic choral drones — until a jazz combo crept in. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The collection reached a crescendo with a gown fit for Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts. Milan designers: Summer fashion should be fun 2012-09-24T18:09:09Z The excitement grew with swirling crescendos of sound in “Kullervo Goes to Battle,” the fourth section. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z What they ultimately conjured, piece by piece, reaches a crescendo in a climactic rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” Zellweger on her empathy and adoration for Judy Garland 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Then the crescendo: “Give me liberty or give me death!” On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The offending outburst causes a ticklish pantomime of flying nasal debris, mortification, apology, insult, umbrage and political death, before it crescendos to cardiac arrest. | 'The Sneeze': Gesundheits as Chekhov and Vaudeville Collide 2010-10-01T23:39:00Z He went on to praise the powerful crescendo that reflects "defiance against those who would do us harm". Batman composer records tribute 2012-07-30T09:53:55Z It’s perfect because it starts soft, and then it goes in crescendo. Runway Crescendo: Strut Over, Beethoven 2013-02-06T21:11:14Z Mr. Brooks’s number is a crescendo starting with feet still; the controlled violence of his performing is marvelous. Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Wake up gently with a crescendo of light and soothing chimes, a waterfall or even a retro alarm. The ultimate holiday gift guide for 2020 In this context there’s an inevitability to the crescendo of later scenes of institutional torture and humiliation in plays like “One for the Road,” “Mountain Language” and “The New World Order.” | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z The final section was dominated by long sustained chords that would crescendo and then subside into almost inaudible calm. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z When you use your voice, it goes up, it goes down, it rises to a crescendo, gets loud, gets quiet. Quirky NPR science show 'Radiolab' offers live version at Paramount 2012-08-23T20:58:03Z The drought was finally broken as the social and political ferment in West Germany reached a crescendo in the early 1970s. New Europe: A history of German cinema in clips 2011-03-15T14:20:00Z There’s a vague sense of uplift that permeates a lot of instrumental- and post-rock music, chiming guitars and big crescendos that signify drama. Your week in Seattle music: Patti Smith, E-40 and more 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It was a sea of air horns, an abstract wall of klaxons, an incessant, aerosol-fuelled drone, occasionally receding before crescendoing at particularly exciting moments in the game. My Krautrock adventures: Faust’s albums were the greatest recordings ever made by anybody — how could I keep them to myself? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Quite the opposite: Ms. Barrio’s solos crescendo to an almost frightening intensity. Flamenco Festival Enters Its 14th Year 2014-03-01T00:04:35Z “Complications ensue. They move apart. Eventually the script calls for a crescendo. Blackness and whiteness collide, and the ending, for our Klansman, is an explosion.” ‘Life of a Klansman’ Tells Ugly Truths About America, Past and Present 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z I miss the crescendo of everyone working on something together. Simone Rocha on Being Part of Fashion Week in a Pandemic 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z So, too, was The Grand Skua, four minutes of marching music and chanting that builds to a yelping crescendo. British Sea Power ? review 2011-01-14T23:01:00Z It is almost impossible to build a crescendo of excitement based on the same tuxed and beaming people repeatedly coming up on to the stage. It's my first time attending the Oscars – here's my wishlist for the night | Peter Bradshaw 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z And so once you hear “Become Ocean,” with its grand crescendos and elegant symmetries, its gigantic, staggered drift, you have a key. Big Ears Festival Resists Commercial and Genre Constraints 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z As in the film, it was almost as little was happening, but sudden crescendos and squalls of noise proved satisfyingly unsettling. Solaris - review 2013-03-16T03:04:41Z It all came together in the last month or two to a real crescendo. Eminem, clean and sober, draws on new inspiration 2010-06-25T23:23:00Z Branagh is the wizard in charge of all this magic, and he uses his wand judiciously, knowing when to effect the dramatic crescendos and when to let his players, well, play. In 'Cinderella,' goodness and fairy tale innocence rule 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But as the first ripples of sadness swell to a paralyzing crescendo of distress, she never loses her grip on a character that is unrelentingly embattled. | 'Helen': Ashley Judd Stars in a Portrait of Depression 2010-07-29T23:34:00Z As audio, the song is more ominous, scalloped with sudden dissonant crescendos and menacing gaps, with the singer quietly commanding, "I need you to trust in me." The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z There isn’t a weak member in the cast, despite the pileup of tearful crescendos some render more truthfully than others. Theater Review: Plays That Grapple With Grief in War and Love 2011-03-22T13:00:07Z Flaws builds beautifully to a crescendo layered with harmony and a wall of hazy guitars. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z "Dickinson" is rising to its own song's crescendo in a confident second season, continuing the anachronistic charms established in its first and buzzing even more vibrantly with bright wit. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z As to the poets who made it into Dear World, there are predictable highs, plateaux and crescendi. Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK edited by Nathan Hamilton – review 2013-04-12T08:01:01Z She’s backed by sustained ensemble chords at first, then tremolos and crescendos building tension, then some hints of solace but no clear resolution as Bridgers resignedly concludes, “I’m a liar.” Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa’s Retro Rock, and 8 More New Songs 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “Soon the innocence that dresses itself in mist will be shoved aside by a confident sun, and the chase for money will reach its crescendo.” A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s a long crescendo, then it’s an epic climax, then it’s a diminuendo. The Creator of ‘Radiolab,’ a Lapsed Composer, Returns to Music 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It's the kind of music that gives you a lump in your throat after a few notes — songs you might turn to after a bad breakup, save for their swelling, hopeful crescendos. Indie musicians help movie soundtracks hit right emotional note 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The "Hallelujah" Chorus, for instance, began not as the usual grandiose declaration, but instead rather quietly — the better to build the drama into a gradual crescendo of considerable impact. Handel's 'Messiah' gets zippy, memorable treatment 2011-12-18T02:26:03Z Call-and-response vocal parts, howling guitars and towering crescendos function as exclamation marks. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z Both of those 1980s-era properties crescendoed over four films, with initial ticket sales for each new offering exceeding the last. Little Lionsgate Soars to the Top With John Wick Ticket Sales 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z But the sentimental crescendo of the “Toy Story” trilogy was real. ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In fact, to turn the tables, I know I will never be able to write a crescendo such as you have in your Third Symphony, about which I have been jealous for years.” Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z When the soldiers cross paths, they snap into ranked formation and gradually their brisk footsteps crescendo into a single massed beat. ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Pearl Jam’s songs, particularly its early ones, often face up to youthful traumas and fears, taking heart from rock-ribbed melodies and surging crescendos. Review: Pearl Jam’s Full-Throttle Marathon at Madison Square Garden 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Among the main components were skittish tapping sounds, breathy scratch tones and rapid crescendos on single notes that whipped through the room at unpredictable intervals. Finding Beauty in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Darkness 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The nearly 9-minute track begins as a crescendoing praise and worship song with Cobbs’s powerful vocals projecting a sense of higher purpose. How gospel and rap finally found each other and created a new batch of hits 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Black Lives Matter is a crescendo event; we're exhausted, but we recognize that it's a war of attrition. "Antebellum," Janelle Monae's cross-dimensional thriller, was literally born from a nightmare 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z A few intonation issues unsettled the flute solos in the first movement, but the menacing horn notes, on wailing siren-like crescendos, drove the music to a fever pitch. Review | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays on, and with gusto, despite no new contract 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He would be saying, 'Listen to that crescendo! The gospel according to Diane Birch 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z There were crescendos that went nowhere and others that paid off in stunning light shows accentuated by his production prowess. James Blake awes Lincoln Theatre crowd with exercise in subtlety and space 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The tunes tend to crescendo and spiral upwards in tempo and emotion, before falling back to a softer denouement, often delivered as a cappella repetition of the chorus or an echo of a previous verse. ArtsBeat: Mumford & Sons Begin U.S. Tour in Hoboken 2012-08-02T09:21:07Z Humanity's ecological violence slowly builds, finally reaching a reverberating crescendo. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The song builds to a crescendo, and ends in a whimper. A playlist for Salon’s epic New Year’s Eve catharsis party 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet the movie’s emotional potency is undeniable, its slow crescendo of wounded feelings and shimmering photography leaving unexpected imprints on the eyes and heart. ‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’ Review: When Men Leave, Children Grow Up. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z He’s worried about despoiling the planet with pollution, corporate agriculture and other exploitation, and his set was a long crescendo of fears and warnings — tumultuous and hardheaded. Review: Paul McCartney and Neil Young Share a Bill, and Some Songs 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z It enjoyed a surge in ratings and a crescendo of critical and social media buzz perfectly timed to when Emmy voters were casting their ballots. 'Breaking Bad' finally makes good with best drama Emmy 2013-09-25T01:11:09Z Silent All These Years swells and crescendos – a suitably triumphant setting for a tune about finding the courage to speak up. Tori Amos – review 2012-10-04T16:54:33Z The balloons and confetti camouflaged some of the slow spots or underlined the crescendos. Concert review: Coldplay at United Center 2012-08-08T05:27:00Z Wanting to partner up and possibly get married has been the crescendo.” It’s a Boom Year for Brides and Grooms 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z But the wonder of this music derives also from the layered semantic crescendos, where the struggle of the subject for individuation, meaning and equilibrium is just as precisely choreographed. Old Earth – review 2012-06-17T15:46:45Z "Outblaze the Sky" is a short piece which is, in effect, a single big crescendo. Q&A with composer/conductor Oliver Knussen 2011-11-10T22:22:05Z “A white blank page and a swelling rage,” he sings in the accusatory “White Blank Page,” as the band strums a surging crescendo for each line, then quiets and starts again in the next. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z It has become ubiquitous not just at clubs and festivals but on television commercials, in sports arenas and anywhere else requiring euphoric builds and monstrous crescendos. Why US pop has gone mad for Molly, aka ecstasy 2013-07-14T18:00:00Z The strongest of these chapters read as stand-alone pieces, often ending in a moving and artful crescendo. A Search for U.F.O.s Leads to Utopian Dreams in This Debut Novel 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The weekend crescendoed with Alison Roman's baked ziti, a veritable dairy fest of fresh ricotta, stringy mozzarella, heavy cream and salty parmesan layered with pasta and garlicky tomato sauce. “I said goodbye like a lover": Sending off problem foods like a New Orleans jazz funeral 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z It's got a smooth maple syrup undercurrent with little crescendos of green peppercorn and tart apple. Drinks for dad: The ultimate Father's Day bourbon gift guide 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z There is a long crescendo throughout. The system is simple, but the acoustical effect is disconcertingly not. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z As an improviser he invested in a kind of ongoing crescendo effect: waves of controlled intensity, surging modulations and patterns that spread through the band. Barbra Streisand’s ‘Partners’ Is a Duets Album 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z AMC split the final season of "Breaking Bad" in two, enjoying a surge in ratings and a crescendo of critical and social media buzz perfectly timed to when Emmy voters were casting their ballots. '30 Rock,' 'Veep' win first Emmy comedy awards 2013-09-23T01:15:18Z But each one strives and triumphs like it’s been packed with key changes and crescendos. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Hirsch wines begin in precise, soothing tones, but they finish in a crescendo — full-bodied, deep and powerful. Austria’s premier wine is back in fashion. This time, can gruner veltliner be taken seriously? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Horror movies tend to be relentlessly linear, moving in a crescendo of suspense that grows out of our panicked curiosity about what will happen next. | 'We Need to Talk About Kevin': ?We Need to Talk About Kevin,? With Tilda Swinton - Review 2011-12-08T23:38:55Z I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the 12-minute crescendo at the end of my opera “Dog Days” is a B quarter flat; it’s a homage or reference to that moment. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The result is “Love,” an affectionate catalog of the humilities of indie-rock life — those broke nights sleeping in the tour van — that crescendos into an unyielding bond. Sleater-Kinney Asked St. Vincent for a Creative Spark. The Trio Blew Up. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The Scherzo, including hard-driving passages and a terrifying crescendo up to a cliff’s-edge silence, spoke of the players’ courage and trust in Mr. Hayes. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z She married Michael Jackson, just as concerns about his behavior with children were crescendoing, and his efforts to remake his face were intensifying. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The story "The Sky Was Everywhere Like Water" begins, "There's a woman with her lip split open and it's not my fault," and crescendos with a dizzying end. Robert Lopez's 'Good People' have been very, very bad 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The most pleasing moments were rhapsodic and slathered with rubato, as in the schmaltzy second theme of the first movement and the soaring crescendos of the slow movement. Review | Cellist Alban Gerhardt proves to be a musical omnivore at Phillips Collection 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z There’s a crescendo leading to Shabbat and a bittersweet denouement when it’s over. 'Without it, I’d be lost': the unexpected joy of Zoom Shabbat 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z To fully experience the exhilarating crescendo of a Krasznahorkai sentence requires a willingness to submit to this kind of frantic excess. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The group’s new record is its most subtle to date, even if its crescendos are just as heavy-fisted. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z But as the novel reaches its crescendo, Doyle shatters the natural structure of his narrative and manages to disorient us despite our weary confidence that we know the dimensions of the molestation tale. Roddy Doyle was determined to write a novel that shocked — and succeeded 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z By contrast, the growing fire in “Die Walküre” is more of a rising crescendo of drama. Light it up: The man behind the fire in Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2013-08-15T19:17:11Z Few things in cinema are more elusive, or precious, than a comedy that crescendos in giddy delight a few minutes before the end credits, leaving you weak with laughter. Wanderlust: Nudists and Jennifer Aniston, Though Not in That Order 2012-02-24T15:45:56Z Mr. Foster wrote and arranged a number of songs for the band, none more celebrated than “Shiny Stockings,” a puckishly genteel theme set at a cruising medium tempo with a slow but powerful crescendo. Frank Foster, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Dies at 82 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z The entire band seems to follow him into this magical accident, and the song’s crescendo is overwhelming. The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, as the class climbed its aerobic crescendo, dozens of passers-by dropped their shopping bags outside the windows of the store to gawk at this makeshift spin studio. Urban Athlete: KiwiSweat Offers Pop-Up Workouts in Unusual Spaces 2011-12-15T22:33:04Z The bass on Limit to Your Love is so heavy that the air conditioning units rattle, while The Wilhelm Scream bursts unexpectedly into a thrilling crescendo. James Blake ? review 2011-01-16T22:16:00Z She proves it with the ballad How, from new album What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, which is only a crescendo away from Christina Aguilera territory – but where's the fun in that? Regina Spektor – review 2012-07-03T12:22:57Z “Now that I’ve seen how the crescendi look, I play it differently.” The Vienna Philharmonic Looks to a New Generation 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z As I pressed on, putting over 100,000 miles on my car, I heard a steady and growing crescendo of support for Trump – one that changed from embarrassment to pride. What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But as the music crescendoed, the pristine image dissolved into fragmented cuts of Goulding in black, her fingers extending from cut-off gloves. Ellie Goulding brings pop-star panache to Merriweather Post and still keeps it real 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes the gleam faded quickly, but just as often it crescendoed into a turbulent chaotic flow, wisps of green and pink twirling across the night sky. Viewing the Northern Lights: ‘It’s Almost Like Heavenly Visual Music’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Despite the slightly new direction, My Morning Jacket fans won't stray far -- the title track "Circuital" is a seven-plus minute song that builds to a crescendo around James' voice and dueling guitar and piano lines. My Morning Jacket get nostalgic on "Circuital" 2011-05-30T14:28:20Z The electric guitar riffs were broader and cleaner, the beat heftier, the crescendos smoother in songs like “Falling Out of Love at This Volume,” from the mid-’90s, and “Poison Oak,” from 2005. Music Review: Soul-Baring Offered Amid Glitter 2011-03-09T22:23:04Z Coldplay will start with an elegant melody, then add a soaring guitar part and compound it with momentous percussion at the song’s crescendo followed by any combination of “ohs” and “ooos.” Do I Hate Coldplay? Or Just Think I Do? 2011-10-27T15:15:56Z As the voices and instruments meshed and the crescendos surged, Eden was within reach. Music Review: Close to Eden, Where the Music Is Artisanal 2011-05-19T21:27:50Z And “A Day Off” slowly built its crescendo, with great solos by Mr. Ellman and Mr. Threadgill, until it was rocking: not a riff, not a tune, but a wholeness, a bumping, polytonal processional. Henry Threadgill and Zooid at the Village Vanguard 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z On Tuesday evening, those crescendos took shape as spring showers, August hailstorms and maritime tempests. Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z In the pre-concert talk, the ever-irreverent Adams described the crescendo leading to the emergence of the Nixon plane in Act I as an “enormous sugar high.” L.A. Phil delivers a dazzling reimagining of 'Nixon in China' 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z At every point, Ms. Kitamura was brilliantly controlled; she began by building a long crescendo from the rotation of her torso, center stage. Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Riley’s “The Tar of Gyu” upended the notion that electric guitars command only blocklike dynamics — that on-or-off quality of amplification — with crescendos on single chords that puffed up grotesquely before coming to abrupt stops. Review: Dither Delivers an Electric-Guitar Master Class 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The mood shifts and as Houston’s voice crescendos, tears begin to form in Andrews’s eyes. ‘When I Skate It Just Feels Free’ 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z “The most recalcitrant temperaments,” he wrote, “would shudder at the sight of its surging crescendo, like the roar of an immense and sublime conflagration!” Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z As each section made a gradual crescendo, colored lights shone on the respective players; the mallet percussion instruments were kept especially busy with repeated figures that rippled up and down. At SSO, impassioned Shostakovich, ‘Become Ocean’ | Classical review 2013-06-21T17:00:44Z “And we wanted each scene to keep progressing and crescendoing bigger and more elaborate.” Signature Moves With Sean Bankhead 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z In that trio of songs, Spyres the Bel Canto star was most in his element: his tenor both riveting and rending, his high notes both tossed off and made to bloom with long crescendos. Review: A Singer’s Immense Sound Engulfs a Recital Room 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Absolutely loved the dishes that built one on one to the crescendo that is the Marron. Momofuku Seiobo Champions Caribbean Food With Australia’s Bounty 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z These images of paranoia and darkness crescendo on the wrenching “Gary Condit,” in which the singer mourns the death of a friend and confronts the fear of one day losing his parents. Cymbals Eat Guitars rises above 2011-10-20T16:36:00Z But instead the melodrama amplifies to an appallingly hackneyed crescendo. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The slow, inexorable crescendo of "All I Can," the album's best song, with its funereal organ, is almost too much to bear; "We Are Fine" balloons from plinkety-plink ukulele to anthemic clouds. Sharon Van Etten's 'Tramp': haunting, hypnotic, brilliant 2012-02-06T22:51:06Z By the final minute, the crescendo of slicing guitar and majestic strings fade into swells into oblivion. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z Check back in with these Scots in ten years; odds are they’ll still be cranking through the same foggy riffs, still droning out melancholy vocals, still loping over the same modest crescendos. New Album, Rave Tapes, Is Classic Mogwai 2014-01-24T16:33:36Z I remember being shaken by that big, unison B crescendo near the end, just the sense of it being so inescapable. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z To a degree that even he seems to recognize, “X” functions best not as a theory of comedy but as a raw and enthralling crescendo of confessions. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z A crescendo of barks greeted a vehicle that recently pulled up to the Montego Bay Animal Haven in Jamaica. When Your Vacation Happily Goes to the Dogs 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z She arrives in pristine classical poses, then lets them wither; careens between jazzy crescendos and curling in on herself. Review: In Rebecca Serrell Cyr’s ‘Assemblage,’ an All-Inclusive Approach 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z All the permutations of various effects are set to music, which requires a programmer to take a song and marry the toy box of fountain effects to its musical lines, rhythms and crescendos. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The ecstatic crescendo of All These Things That I've Done, tonight greeted with glitter cannons filling the air with silvery lightning bolts, is usually the highlight of any Killers show. The Killers – review 2013-06-23T17:14:07Z He shuts his eyes and the background music crescendos. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The performance doesn’t build to a crescendo before the breaks or even as it approaches the finish. ‘Rococo Rouge,’ Company XIV’s Burlesque Show 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Dig the way "Montana" builds to a crescendo and the video ends in a campfire crackle. Video with commentary: 'Montana' by Boise's Youth Lagoon 2011-10-17T18:46:14Z Yes, I felt a rush when the free-form jazz horns of The National Anthem reached their unified crescendo, but it was a rush of relief that the Mingus-in-a-tumble-dryer racket was finally over. Radiohead's Kid A: still not much cop 2010-10-11T11:59:00Z It starts with a few moody guitar notes before crescendoing into gutteral yells of "Frozen is heaven and frozen is hell." Moment of Friday: Zak Smith picks the metal-est song in the world 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z It opened with “World News,” a soaring crescendo in song form, and then led into “Camera Talk,” which oscillated between a headlong new wave beat and a half-time reggae groove. Music Review: Local Natives and Suckers Perform at the Bowery Ballroom 2010-05-09T21:50:00Z Meanwhile, the rock beat builds with a slow and erotic throb that reaches a mighty crescendo amid loud chanting, splashing potions, ever-wilder dancing, and gyrating camera moves. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Trills and subtle crescendos were stylishly rendered throughout, the whole performance enhanced by Ms. Hyun’s energetic leadership. Amphion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But when she is shown, in color, under a graffiti-splattered underpass in Montreal, her barely submerged pain gradually crescendos as she sings in her native French. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z “Two Hands” crescendos, in the middle, to a one-two knockout: there’s the pleading, shuddering “Shoulders,” followed by “Not,” a gradual exorcism that’s one of the best rock songs of the year. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z It probably didn’t help that season three had already featured a memorable crescendo at its halfway point. How Deadwood went from eye-popping TV to a parade of old hams 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z He twisted and leaped to the crescendos in the music, and frequently thrust his microphone in the direction of his fans, which made for some mighty strange sing-alongs. Concert review: The Weeknd at Lincoln Hall 2012-05-04T06:09:00Z The valleys and peaks of “Sometimes” are Bilal at his finest — from the emotional honesty channeled through each crescendo, to the calmest falsetto and most passionate screech. Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Savages reclaimed the frenetic, dissonant drones and crescendos of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, with the ascending wail and piercing glare of its lead singer, Jehnny Beth. Critic’s Notebook: Cacophonous Declarations of Independents 2012-10-22T03:57:17Z “No one and nothing stays unchanged,” she sings, and as she slowly builds a crescendo, she hints at both a formidable obstacle and the will to overcome. Preview NYC Winter Jazzfest in 7 Tracks 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The crescendos of the left-hand octaves unfolded with spine-tingling intensity, vividly contrasted with Mr. Ohlsson’s poetic nuance as the piece morphed from funeral march to danse macabre to quiet melancholy. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Celebrates a Bicentennial at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-24T23:27:22Z In the second, a siren crescendoed into a blaring signal whistle to herald the piano’s violent re-entry — a satisfying climax built from unusual means. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The struggle of Brody under competing, irreconcilable stresses and demands has been a theme of this season, and it crescendoed in “I’ll Fly Away.” Homeland Watch: Motel Matches 2012-11-19T13:00:01Z In truth, it moves fluidly between the two, as solid rhythms splinter and abstract arrangements coalesce and crescendo. These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review 2013-06-06T21:30:01Z The violence crescendos over a hundred and forty repetitive pages, saturating the mind with savage images that steadily override any effort to maintain a protective distance. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Maybe you just need an energetic, gradually crescendoing pick-me-up in the middle of a long workday. 11 Songs That Will Make You Want to Move 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Imagine, for a moment, standing in New York’s Grand Central Terminal: the brisk movement of human bodies, the announcements over the speakers, the crescendo and diminuendo of incoming and outgoing trains. A Sonic Tour of New York Landmarks 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z As Juliet, she spun like a top in the midst of "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds" and rose to a fine crescendo in Viola's willow cabin speech. Susannah York obituary 2011-01-16T10:38:03Z With two open palms, he signals a slight crescendo, then suddenly turns his hands down to bring a quick hush to the ensemble before moving on to something utterly different. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Similar to the oceanic crescendo that runs through Wagner’s Vorspiel to “Das Rheingold,” this bass is felt before it’s heard, the downbeat swooning to fill a space, tuned to its own harmonic center. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A bit earlier, Rountree had asked if the players wanted to pick a specific place to stop a crescendo. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Which is not to say that the brass section didn't bray, and the strings didn't pulsate - but not to the point that the singers were unheard during crucial crescendos. Strauss' Elektra at Salzburg darkly brilliant 2010-08-09T00:46:00Z Then it steams into a crescendo of neurosis, from krautrock to raveup: “I find it harder to speak when someone else is listening,” Mr. Toledo sings. The Playlist: Searching for the Real Desiigner and Saying Farewell to a Punk Band 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But the crescendo of the novel, with both romances spiraling to feverish conclusions, takes the breath away. In Hollywood, Stories About People of Color Are Still Rare. These Y.A. Fantasy Novels Pick Up the Slack. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Big Dance reaches a crescendo on July 10 when the area from Trafalgar Square to the South Bank Center will be turned into a single open-air theater. Pros and Amateurs Join Up for London's Big Dance 2010-06-29T10:00:00Z Wake up gently with a crescendo of light and soothing chimes, a waterfall or even a retro alarm. The ultimate holiday gift guide for 2020 In “Thankful” the harmonized, enigmatic refrain — “Thankful are my friends with remorse, ah ah ah ah” — becomes a climactic crescendo, with jittery guitars piling up until the voices disappear. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z The swelling crescendo of the penultimate episode clocks in at an hour and 18 minutes. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z In Max Payne 3, Health's distorted guitar feedback and pummelling drums swell to savage crescendos as soon as any shootout starts, like some bloody post-punk opera. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z “I wanna feel all that love and emotion/Be that attached to the person I’m holding,” he sings, his voice reaching a breathless crescendo as the music swells behind him. Conan Gray, a Budding Pop Singer Who Feels It All 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Despite the variety of Coleman’s music and subject matter, “The Best Is Yet to Come” tends to overdose on overbearing crescendos and throbby interpretations of the songs that would better suit a larger theater. | 'The Best Is Yet to Come': Brassy and Bawdy, With Fingers Snapping 2011-05-26T22:00:14Z And the band’s martial drums, chiming guitars and inexorable crescendos create arena-size superstructures filled with rhythmic — and emotional — crosscurrents. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z For his part, Petrenko paced the crescendo at the start of the final section brilliantly, cranking up the tension. Philharmonia/Petrenko – review 2013-04-25T17:02:24Z Complaints, never absent from the industry even at its most celebratory, rise to a crescendo. Cheerleading for Milan 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z And when the band wanted to get fans shouting, it knew just when to surge back into a jubilant crescendo and chorus. Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Tour Gets Down to the Music 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z First came the boos, like an owl symphony, or a cattle crescendo. Is Ryan Gosling's Lost River Crazy Brilliant or Just Plain Crazy? 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The song crescendoed to a big, AC/DC-style finish, and during that wash of power chords and crash cymbals, Ryan kicked one of the monitor wedges off the front of the stage. The night Ryan Adams said “f**k you” to the Fillmore 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z And is that a punter dressed as Rasputin invading the NME/Radio 1 stage to pummel out synth-pop crescendos that sound like cymbal factories exploding? Reading festival 2012 gets an A* in Having It 2012-08-26T14:48:03Z Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the most gruesome scenes — what Dr. Gurwitch called “crescendos of horror” — are notably absent in a discrete suite of rooms aimed at children. In Museums About Horrors, Children Learn of the Heroes 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Playing a grand piano from a standing lunge, Elew approached the song delicately and then demonstratively, with a strobelike staccato and a strong pull of crescendo. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z Your life is a series of enacted acts that come to crescendos and conclusions, minute by minute, day by day. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z As much as it improvised atop its structures, the group burrowed into them, building tension and momentum from within, turning them into meditations or shaping them into galvanizing crescendos that crested in a standing ovation. Finding the Joy at South by Southwest: 12 Notable Acts 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z But the songs do behave like electronic music, working with layering and crescendo at the expense of melody and harmonic movement. Review: With ‘Kidsticks,’ Beth Orton Sort of Returns to Dance Beats 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Their mom cooks recipes from the cookbook, Ethnic Vegetarian: Traditional and Modern Recipes from Africa, America, and the Caribbean, for the holiday’s crescendo, the Karamu feast. Day 27: What Are Kids Saying About Kwanzaa? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z After having lived in the states for 12 years I’ve always found the American holiday rhythm: Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukah, New Years Eve feels like an uninterrupted festive crescendo. For Canadians, Thanksgiving Is a ‘Quieter’ Affair in October 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z He goes full-scale, orchestral Wall of Sound, appropriately, to share big crescendos with Ashe on “Til Forever Falls Apart,” which starts as a vow of fidelity but turns into visions of California apocalypse. St. Vincent’s Synth-Funk ‘Pain,’ and 9 More New Songs 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z In her book “Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow,” the musicologist Deirdre Loughridge contrasts that passage with the drawn-out crescendo that links the end of the third movement with the finale in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z He is extraordinarily sensitive when it comes to letting the crescendo of a story speak for itself through a particularly telling sentence from a diary or letter. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “So it’s really been a gradual crescendo for me to reach this point.” A record number of congresswomen are mothers. Here’s a glimpse inside their first-ever caucus. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z My consciousness soared above and outside my body as the music and the frenetic, Evangelical energy crescendoed around and inside me. "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Dudamel seemed most concerned with the large gestures and was most in his element with a favored Hartke device in the symphony of building a massive crescendo and then suddenly dropping to pianissimo. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Haim, a group led by three sisters, sang poppy, upbeat advice with strong harmonies and a hint of 1970s Southern California, then segued their chiming choruses into grand guitar crescendos. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z The lyrics appear at the tip of a crescendo. Readers recommend songs with 10 words or fewer: The results 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z As the hours pass, Treuer connects these notes of foreboding into a crescendo belied by the quiet lyricism of his prose. ‘Prudence,’ by David Treuer 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Pianist Albert Kim, who provided reliable accompaniment throughout, managed an impressively long and dramatic crescendo in the Brahms “Botschaft” and some splendid colors in the Rachmaninoff “She is as Beautiful.” For lovers of pure sound, Belov’s Persian-thread program delivers 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Nothing much happens, but this is a remarkable journey and one that builds to a crescendo. Summer voyages: In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas 2013-07-25T17:07:19Z The "Avengers: Age of Ultron" promotional push is reaching its crescendo, with the movie opening Friday. Jeremy Renner shows off Hawkeye's sensitive side on 'Tonight Show' 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z His “Marche Funèbre” followed a linear progression not unlike the stages of grief, with an aching introduction, a plaintive interlude and a cathartic crescendo in the final march that receded into glowing acceptance. Review | Zoltan Fejervari shows off his technique with a program of gems 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The pace builds to a crescendo, as more dubious offers are made: A yacht appears, and a beach house “given to you by an uncle in Nigeria.” Art Review: Laure Prouvost Exhibition Opens at New Museum 2014-02-20T23:19:30Z The third movement, “A Sense of Direction,” opened like the evening news, informative marimba and all, before a passage of tense introspection rushed up into a bracing crescendo. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z It crescendos into sirens and the clang of freight trains. Piano lessons with a side of philosophical sparring 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The exit gallery offers up a kitsch crescendo. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z But before we got to that final crescendo, it became clear that even passageways that seemed barren could turn corners to wonders such as Cathedral Domes. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky’s underground rock star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Its songs exulted in the long, billowing crescendos, sometimes laced with electronics, that have made My Morning Jacket a quintessential band for outdoor festivals. Music Review: Bob Dylan and Wilco Set the Warm and Familiar Askew 2013-07-28T05:36:13Z The missiles return to their silos, accompanied by what sounds like the orchestral crescendo of the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump’s Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z “I Feel a Change,” from a collection due in November, is a long, aching crescendo, a fraught love song set over a patient vamp, exulting in togetherness only to realize it’s not to be. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, it was H.E.R.’s star that shined brightest, as the Grammy-winning singer/guitarist traded soaring solos and even higher flying vocals, before a monstrous walk-off shot covering the instrumental crescendo to “Purple Rain” on Saturday. Review: Bumbershoot’s youth movement takes center stage during pivotal, rollercoaster year 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z There were four serious crescendos over about an hour; when Mr. Williams’s repeated melodies dug in, the drumming became a thudding whirl with a flexible pulse, and Ms. Drewchin’s singing sounded completely impulsive, unprogrammed, free. Music Review: Guardian Alien at Shea Stadium - Review 2011-09-26T22:17:56Z It’s just a tone that maybe crescendos, and then diminishes. The Creator of ‘Radiolab,’ a Lapsed Composer, Returns to Music 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Strings crescendo into blooming petals, and Kehlani makes a pledge to embrace tenderness. Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z But in the bravura soliloquy that concludes “Head of Passes,” Ms. Rashad crescendos to a state of fiery defiance for which rage is too mild a word. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z This horrifying scene, one of the most haunting in the show’s six seasons, reaches crescendo when Rick moves to cut Jessie’s hand from Carl’s with a hatchet. Walking Dead Recap: OMG This Show! 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z As its lyrics grapple with questions of self-doubt, betrayal and redemption, the music rouses itself to huge, cathartic crescendos. Pop: For Mumford & Sons, the Road Is Like Home 2012-09-23T03:03:11Z But at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, things are moving happily in the opposite direction: think crescendo, not diminuendo. A New Labor Contract at the Expanding Cincinnati Orchestra 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z It reaches a crescendo, and the refrain pours fire on fire. Poem of the week: Pervigilium Veneris 2011-03-21T11:04:18Z A discordant crescendo rose, and Mr. Burickson eventually ended things with a heartfelt send-off. Odyssey Works Makes Art for and About One Person 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z Performing alone, he stretched pained moments into huge crescendos. Music Review: Lindsey Buckingham at Town Hall - Review 2011-09-29T00:01:58Z But primarily, this is about crescendos and breaks. The Chemical Brothers 2010-05-21T21:00:00Z Sunday’s show was a far more live event; a day of physical crescendos made by musicians working together, not by volume tweaks. Music Review: Governors Ball on Randalls Island 2012-06-25T22:17:41Z As the sun set and the music crescendoed, I realised this drive was about being alive, being in the moment and being a tiny human being in this big beautiful world. The day David Hockney took me out for a drive in the Hollywood Hills 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Crowe intercuts that footage into a pivotal scene late in Sunday’s premiere episode with Pearl Jam’s “Given to Fly” crescendoing over it. Cameron Crowe’s living soundtrack: “For my scenes, he would do a Bob Dylan song or an Elvis Costello song” 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The novel’s emotional crescendo comes at Robin and Mercy’s 50th-anniversary party. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Not for its trance-inducing twists and turns over cliffs or the boundless views of waves crescendoing over jagged rocks below. Brews, baby seals and ‘Big Little Lies’: How an epic Highway 1 road trip brought three guys closer together 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z As the men and women made their way around the room, the music throbbed along with their footsteps, building to an ominous crescendo. Balenciaga put engineers, architects and moms on its runway — to make a statement about power in the workplace 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z You can spend the rest of your days chasing a crescendo that comes anywhere near this one. Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z Singing about the moon and stars, the band carried tuneful songs with Beatlesque chord progressions into guitar crescendos worthy of Pink Floyd, or brief detours into spacey noise, winsome throughout. Music Review: Latin Alternative Music Conference: Politics and Hybrids 2010-07-08T22:15:00Z The tensions reached a grim crescendo this month, shortly before the first round of voting, when a Kurdish singer was stabbed to death at a ferry terminal after declining to sing a Turkish nationalist song. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The chesty excess of Mr. Tyler’s vocals, with their squeak-topped rasp, often brings humor to the slow ones, even as they pitch their crescendos toward the cheapest seats in the stadium. New Music: Aerosmith and Ne-Yo Don’t Hold Back 2012-11-05T22:41:32Z The murmurs of enthusiasm kept building, and finally Wattsie reached a crescendo. Explorer: In New Zealand?s Remote Fiordland 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z Turn around to watch a flutist put on his glasses or the strings as they build to a crescendo or the percussionists as they prepare their arsenal for the big finish. Google Cultural Institute Puts Us All Onstage 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It had lyrical grace, funk, gospel crescendos and gnashing collective improvisation; it also broke out into a unaccompanied solo passages for Mr. Washington and for the drummers, Mr. Austin and Ronald Bruner. Review: Kamasi Washington’s Spiritual Circle, Looking Inward 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, the novel is tightly constructed to reach its crescendo with a trip to a Navajo reservation for an act of charitable outreach that’s marbled with vanity and racism. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “When we reach the crescendo, you will die. Of pleasure.” Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The jamming was rhythmically sure and dynamically varied, savvy about the uses of crescendo. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z The noise grew to a crescendo; they were ready to run. Journeys: Through the Alaska Wilderness Behind a Team of Sled Dogs 2012-03-02T23:24:30Z But the music, a gigantic crescendo of ascending phrases, tells you what’s needed. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Litton expertly paced the crescendos and accelerations of the first movement, and there were fine solos from several quarters, notably the poignant oboe of Nicholas Stovall to open the second movement. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap In lieu of tension, the film is stuffed with crazed musical crescendos, amateurish structural feints and pregnant pauses that cry out for the familiar “chu-CHUNG” of a “Law & Order” scene change. Movie Review: In ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ a Rogue Prosecutor Makes a Mess 2014-01-16T23:40:23Z By whatever means, Hayes was able to coax out sounds that could shift from slippery syncopation to dizzying, psychedelic crescendos. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The postrockers sound as incendiary as ever, too – marching drums, spiraling crescendos and their ability to underpin even the loudest noise with achingly beautiful string parts. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! – exclusive album stream 2012-10-08T12:47:47Z They will not be reunited in the same frame until the film’s final 30 minutes, a crescendo of rising emotion that ends with the couple’s definitive separation. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z At the same time, crescendos can disappear into whispers just as quickly. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z They all find themselves in the eye of a Twitter storm, only this time it’s for real – the anger doesn’t crescendo then vanish. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z By the end of this week, the doubts around the report crescendoed to the point where CBS had to back off. CBS’s Benghazi Apology: Sorry Is the Hardest, or At Least Slowest, Word 2013-11-08T15:51:06Z They also added cap guns, the sound of crickets, musical crescendos, ringing telephones, chiming clocks, thunder crashes and a mind-boggling nine songs, some sung while the action is happening. Review: A noisy 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' distracts 2013-01-18T01:32:11Z The Annie Lennox appearance, which she described afterward as “from the operatic to quite raw,” reached a crescendo as the models in streamlined suits gathered around her. Special Report: A Birthday for Dolce and Gabbana 2010-06-20T16:39:00Z The action builds towards a crescendo that will leave heads spinning. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z Like a lot of bands of their ilk, their songs tend to crescendo, then collapse into chaotic noise and feedback. ArtsBeat Blog: Relationship Tension, Over Screeching Feedback 2011-10-19T05:46:55Z Mr. Herring’s stentorian voice can be a make-or-break proposition, but there’s passion there, particularly when he reaches the “We can pull through — together, together, together” crescendo of “Through the Roses.” How Baltimore and a Viral ‘Letterman’ Moment Pushed Future Islands to ‘The Far Field’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z During a final crescendo, a vertical downpour filled the screen, growing denser up to a final whiteout of apocalypse or redemption. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z In the process, he sought out greater drama in the music, with mighty crescendos and exquisite pianissimos. Review: Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ With Heightened Drama 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The music now reaches a crescendo, and then … Elton John's John Lewis Christmas ad: it could have been so different 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z By the time Mr. Ladin crescendoed, he was moving on many levels at once, free of friction but in touch with a vast history. March in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The music builds from those meditative verses to an instrumental crescendo, accompanying one last highlight reel: dunks, triumphant fist pumps, hoisting the championship trophy and weeping in disbelief. How Pearl Jam’s ‘Present Tense’ became the final song on ESPN’s Michael Jordan documentary ‘The Last Dance’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The many kinds of rhythmic footwork, all glorious, that occur during the solo — cascades, crescendos, accelerations and decelerations — are all part of one concentrated stream of consciousness. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca ? Joyce Theater ? Review 2011-09-29T00:11:26Z Dudamel was typically passionate and energetic as he led the orchestra on Wednesday night in Mahler's Symphony No. 6, his curly hair bouncing when he jumped at a crescendo. Dudamel and LA Philharmonic make waves in Caracas 2012-02-16T17:32:08Z She addresses it most directly in “I Drink Wine,” a crescendo of confession and self-help underpinned by churchy piano and organ: “How can one become so bounded by choices that somebody else makes?” she sings. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Mercante sang with a full-bodied sweetness and exemplary pitch, and his shaping of the crescendos in Dowland’s “Come Again, Sweet Love” was just one example of a reliably musical imagination. Composer Aaron Grad shares his ‘Old-Fashioned Love Songs’ at the Mansion at Strathmore He slid it in gently, and I felt the pulsating rhythms, the insistent crescendo. Style Invitational Week 1356: Ask Backwards 38 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z By way of contrast, a track such as "God" seems to emerge with new, previously unheard levels of passion as the song builds to its powerful crescendo. Ultimate "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" remixes spotlight one of the great post-Beatles solo albums 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z She used elementary mechanisms like crescendos, rising scales, accelerating tempos and rock beats to generate the exhilaration of carnival rides spinning too fast; grins spread unstoppably around the club. Finding the Joy at South by Southwest: 12 Notable Acts 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The hours usually arrive with crescendos of sound and image. Art Review: As in Life, Timing Is Everything in the Movies 2011-02-03T21:43:44Z Phil offered a series of gloriously suave solos, but the feeling was of one long line and grand crescendo unbroken. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z I thought it would be this kind of crescendo moment, but it wasn't. Carol Vorderman: My family values 2011-08-19T23:05:51Z It’s an incantatory enigma, wandering among electronic drones, jazzy drum crescendos and cinematic orchestration, building extraordinary drama. Taylor Swift’s Ode to Moving On, and 9 More New Songs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z As with great music, silences are as much a part of the human experience as soaring crescendos. Too much of a good thing 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Arms” is one long crescendo of regrets overwhelmed by desire. Selena Gomez’s Boldly Revealing Ballad, and 9 More New Songs 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z |
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