| 单词 | dissonance |
| 例句 | They stared at him, at his face that was as blue as his hands, and they struggled—all save Thyon—with an overwhelming upsurge of cognitive dissonance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He took heavy medications to pave over the dissonance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In some modern music, many of these dissonances are heard as pleasant or interesting or jazzy and don't need to be resolved. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Of course, if there are problems with tuning, the notes will not sound good together, but this is not what consonance and dissonance are about. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That’s in part because it can be so hard to even see the points of conflict or dissonance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I struggled with this dissonance—a whorish dress, gifted to a loved daughter—until the meal had been finished and the plates cleared away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Or they may simply feel "unstable"; if you hear a chord with a dissonance in it, you may feel that the music is pulling you towards the chord that resolves the dissonance. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There was a dissonance, faint, every two minutes across the water, and finally even that disappeared. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As the music, enlivened by unscored dissonances, swelled to a raucous climax, she gripped the wooden sides of her chair, closed her eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s a weird kind of dissonance, seeing him stand here in front of my door. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A dissonance may sound surprising, jarring, even unpleasant. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This was the second time tonight she had been surprised by the stark dissonance between a face and a mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But many people have halfburied truths, or small lies, or disconnects, little bits of dissonance in how they live their lives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Moving from a dissonance to the consonance that is expected to follow it is called resolution, or resolving the dissonance. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The pattern of tension and release created by resolved dissonances is part of what makes a piece of music exciting and interesting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But consonance and dissonance do also have a strong physical basis in nature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The king had his court musicians, one of whom was Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, devise a tune specially, one they mischievously knew was practically impossible to turn into a fugue without creating horrible dissonances. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His published discourses on the physics of music and on the proper use of dissonance - deliberately clashing discords of various kinds - influenced many, if not all, Italian composers of the seventeenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By contrast, the pain suggested by dissonance - the clashing of adjacent notes - is almost entirely absent from music written between 1750 and 1800. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Music that contains no dissonances can tend to seem simplistic or boring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This dissonance, more than any creation of story or character, is the show’s accomplishment. Welcome to His World. And Hers. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Mortimer has a wispy, coltish demeanor that compounds the dissonance. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z To illustrate the dissonance between the two organizations, Keller includes a racist poem published in a 1922 white union newsletter. A look back at Seattle’s black musicians’ union 2014-01-02T18:40:56Z It confounded us, but it made sense, too: Lying and deceit had added to our dissonance. Coming out to my wife 2013-02-19T01:00:00Z On Sunday, DeGeneres’s co-star in the movie, Albert Brooks, also highlighted the odd dissonance of Trump’s choice. Ellen DeGeneres hits back at Trump by explaining Finding Dory plot 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Advertising a pharmaceutical product must be a tricky business; there’s so much cognitive dissonance involved. Alvin Ailey Partners With Maker of Reyataz for a Dance 2011-11-29T23:13:04Z That movie’s somewhat unstable blend of melancholy and humor was accompanied by an acute cognitive dissonance arising from the casting of Mr. Sandler. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z Even the relief of being freed from an unwanted pregnancy couldn't break through their cognitive dissonance. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z A Sure Blend of Noise and Melody Imported From Wales Ritzy Bryan, the lead singer and guitarist of the Joy Formidable, derives a lot of her power from an artful dissonance of style. Music Review: The Joy Formidable at Terminal 5 2012-04-01T18:50:59Z But it also exemplified the singular weirdness of Washington friendships that, at their most improbable, can demand a discomfiting blend of open-mindedness, compartmentalization, cognitive dissonance and, sometimes, outright denial. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z There’s a fascinating dissonance between how we view political action and protest today and in the past. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Convenience and laziness rather than an actual hankering for flesh brings about, for many of us, a heavy cognitive dissonance. My life as an (almost) vegan restaurant critic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The resulting music on "High Violet" is fairly consistent with the National's prior material, bridging the gap between Joy Division's post-punk dissonance and Bruce Springsteen's varnished heartland rock. Indie rockers the National confront hype, stardom 2010-04-24T16:26:00Z Largely constructed from slowly but steadily alternating pools of close-harmony dissonance, “For George Lewis” doesn’t immediately recall Lewis’s recent wry, riotous music for orchestra and chamber ensembles. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The strings continue their unspooling, repeating motif as the harmonies transform, sometimes taking on a touch of tang, sometimes shadowed by a dark cloud of dissonance. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “Hoping and hoping and hoping that the feeling goes away,” is how Murphy handles the dissonance on “I Can Change.” The Weirdness of the LCD Soundsystem Reunion 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Bujalski hopes the cognitive dissonance that “There There” creates is productive or at least interesting. In ‘There There,’ the Actors in the Room Are Far Far From Each Other 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “There’s a single voice, but there’s also incredible dissonance in this movement,” he said. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Nicholas Ludford’s “Salve Regina” is a joyous tangle of long, florid lines with the occasional tangy dissonance illuminating a single word. Review: Singing the Lone Survivors of Nearly Lost Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The music veered between dissonance and an uneasy stillness. Concert review: The Weeknd at Lincoln Hall 2012-05-04T06:09:00Z The mixed message created by the suits and feet creates a slight dissonance that vibrates throughout like a sustained chord. ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Review: Opening a Wide, Wonderful World 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Gen Zers rely heavily on digital spaces for self-expression, community building and news gathering, Stenberg noted, but also face a sense of cognitive dissonance as they try to stay present in virtual life and reality. ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ and the Difficulty of Coping IRL 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z As Milton suggested, dissonance certainly results from the grating combination of harsh, clashing tones. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamelin opened with Berg’s Opus 1 Sonata, making it sound less a harbinger of modernism than a Romantic effusion mildly tinged with dissonance. Music Review: Romantic Temperament Applied to Monuments 2011-07-31T22:03:40Z I feel like if it has anything to do with noise or dissonance, I feel very free to use that. Kim Gordon on "No Home Record" and why "palatable" art doesn't affect change 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Goldman’s book is still winceably clunky in its “Me Generation” confessional style, but Mr. Sondheim’s score has seldom seemed more psychologically penetrating or more astutely edged in the dissonance of desperation. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z But they share bright, modern dissonances and a mixture of sobriety and ecstasy that fits the religious material. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z Later, the body of Leon sings a final monologue, like a benediction, in music that surrounds ethereal vocal lines with shimmering strings and pungent harmonies spiked dissonance. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It was not that the players underemphasized Webern’s free use of dissonance and spare, often eerie timbres; they reveled in them. Music Review: Capturing Shifts Between Ecstasy and Anguish 2011-01-18T23:32:38Z The problem is that there was no allowance for the transition, or the dissonance it created. A Designer’s Suicide and the Clothes He Left Behind 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z There are tremendous suspensions over the bar line, places where Barber creates a great tension by changing harmonies, staggered in such a way that the dissonances form and then resolve. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z He doesn’t know the dissonance my wife and I have long struggled with, having married according to a traditional template before creating this new one. Two Open Marriages in One Small Room 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z In contrast to Mozart’s original, dissonances crop up and accumulate. New-Music Performances Open the MoMA Summergarden Series 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z There’s cognitive dissonance in hearing the phrase “Carol Burnett on Netflix.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Last Flag Flying’ and ‘A Little Help With Carol Burnett’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In his score, Blanchard deftly blends elements of jazz, blues, hints of big band and gospel into a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z As he played Chopin's D flat Nocturne, its simple song and silken dissonances sounding in the ghostly gloom of the Turbine Hall, no one stirred. Daniel Barenboim - review 2011-04-08T23:51:33Z But while Pecis’s work is lush and expressive, Suss’s is drier and more prim, and the differences are enough, when you encounter them one after the other, to set up an entrancing visual dissonance. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z In the climactic moments of the final episode, “Against Oblivion,” the orchestra breaks into wrenching fury and slashing dissonance. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z Spiced with some dissonances but essentially accessible, the works on the program were all in a style with which Ms. Vinokur is clearly comfortable. Music Review: Olga Vinokur in Recital at Bargemusic 2013-01-04T22:37:50Z You didn't ask, but one of my favorite dissonances now is one that disturbed me greatly when I was younger. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z This dissonance, a “dull roar in the background” of her childhood, grew into “a persistent buzz” at the back of her brain by the time she was a teenager. They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated. 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The score, like many American works from the mid-20th century, strikes a balance of dissonance and tonality. Review: An Orchestra Offers a Novel View of Music History 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z One of the book’s greatest achievements is Gay’s psychological acuity in the creation of female characters who are teeming with dissonance and appealing self-awareness. Roxane Gay’s powerful new story collection, ‘Difficult Women’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The foundation was a minor chord and a recurring sequence; above it were ghostly whispers and sporadic, three-dimensional whirlwinds of dissonance. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The dialogue is full of stylized harmonies and dissonances; plots and characters operate in counterpoint. Theater Review: ‘The Awake,’ by Ken Urban, With Consciousness in Limbo 2013-08-30T22:36:00Z It's dramatic, fierce, spooky, fascinating and sometimes very melodic, though it's not for those unmoved or unnerved by the angularities, discontinuities and dissonances of some contemporary-classical music and improv. Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra/Barry Guy: Schweben – Ay, But Can Ye? – review 2012-11-29T21:50:01Z Modality and untempered tuning, which result in the striking dissonances and harmonies of Georgian traditional singing, are ill suited for Western five-line notation. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z "It's the sharp eleven that adds the mystery," Allyson explains, referring to the dissonance, adding that her mom used to play Satie in the house. Karrin Allyson brings heartbreak to Jazz Alley 2011-08-03T01:39:31Z This is akin to what happens in a movie house, where people watching an intense film will tolerate a score saturated with dissonance, because the music reinforces the cinematic drama. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z Milhaud’s hyperactive score, full of barbed dissonances, certainly does little to endear itself to the listener, and the material is darker than in “Barber” and “Figaro.” An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z He eschews dissonance for the most part, and seems to abhor experimentation for the sake of experimentation. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Despite working in an industry whose gatekeepers have recently begun fetishizing the idea of experimentation and “full creative control” for artists, Berlant and Early have been experiencing a kind of professional and creative dissonance. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Readers who delve below the seeming dissonance may find themselves echoing the speaker in “Cheap Legs,” who asks, “And who’s to say we didn’t gradually understand/ our situation, along with everyone else’s?” The three best poetry books for June 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z “This color has a history of being quite attractive,” she said in an interview, “but I’m looking for a dissonance, something that also awakes or repulses.” Pamela Rosenkranz Wins the High Line Plinth’s Third Commission 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z A brisk and welcome run through the Beach Boys' "Little Honda" is soon followed by an exercise in drone and dissonance, with Kaplan hunched over his foot pedals, conjuring shrieks and howls. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z Since then, the state of the negotiations might best be described as minimalism interrupted by loud bursts of dissonance. Minnesota Orchestra Calls in Big Gun in Dispute 2013-08-30T23:17:14Z The centerpiece of the CD is a four-part mini-suite that covers a range of moods from tender lyricism to turbulent dissonance. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z Questions about the dissonance between select performers who promote unhealthful lifestyles and Broccoli City’s principles are fair, but the collective maintains a steadfast commitment to education through entertainment. Review | In a time of political uncertainty, Broccoli City Festival is needed more than ever 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z They pour their ideas about politics, ecology and interpersonal relationships into vast, multifaceted, semi-abstract compositions that deal in dissonance and overload but often resolve into major-key resplendence. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z For that reason, while it’s not a sunny book — not with the reckless dissonance that thrums through it from beginning to end — it’s still a summer book. “Tigers in Red Weather”: Massachusetts gothic 2012-07-15T21:00:00Z But Ms. Evans doesn’t want to succumb to the trap of unceasing self-regulation and so turns up the controls of bodily presence until the signals commingle into dissonance. What It Takes to Raise a Black Woman Up 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet the orchestra keeps needling the vocal lines with jabbing dissonances and modernist harmonic twists, so a sober subtext comes through. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z His songs often feature angular melodies and modal passages, and he plays emphatically, almost like a percussionist, with lots of chord clusters, some containing hints of dissonance. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z The easiest resolution of the cognitive dissonance this generated was to reject the science that causes the discomfort. Extract: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 2010-04-16T09:19:00Z There was some dissonance between her gentle radiance and Mr. Palestine’s theatrics. Dance Review: Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine Reunite at MoMA 2014-04-15T21:31:12Z Playing a snippet from his 1964 composition “A Love Supreme,” she speaks of how he uses dissonance as “a gateway to resolution.” Theater Review: ‘Water by the Spoonful,’ at the Second Stage Theater 2013-01-09T03:00:00Z Stravinsky's changing time signatures and use of dissonance in the Rite set the tone of music for the rest of the century. A century on, Stravinsky's 'Rite' still summons the caveman 2013-05-26T10:43:44Z If he delivers a scalding smash of dissonance, it’s because he’s offering a clear message that just happens to contain a ton: blistering energy, power, pathos, optimism and frustration. Orrin Evans Has Been Playing Jazz for Years. So Why Is He a Rising Star? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The concert opened with a ferociously precise account of Ligeti’s “Romanian Concerto,” composed in 1951 but banned because of its hints of dissonance and first performed 20 years later. Music Review: A Castle?s Locked Doors Bring Out a Wife?s High C 2011-03-20T21:12:53Z In 1951, East German authorities initially sought to block the Brecht-Dessau opera “The Condemnation of Lucullus” because of its “predominance of destructive, caustic dissonances and mechanical percussive noise.” A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In fact, the show’s raw dissonance is its chief appeal, and if it’s artificial, or even insincere, that hardly makes it less effective. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I learned of Wagner’s anti-Semitism before ever hearing his music, and when I finally did all I could hear in his swoops and little flits into dissonance was something faintly but unmistakably sinister. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z He toyed with buzzing textures and insistent dissonances in a brisk version of “Aquarela do Brasil,” and in his “P’ro Flavio,” a whirlwind of dissonance and pointillistic picking coalesced into yet another upbeat melody. Music Review: Badi Assad Is a Headliner at New York Guitar Festival 2014-01-21T22:43:03Z He played peacefully when moving through dissonance, and when he constructed a ballad phrase, his investment was lingering and extraordinary, as if the purpose were nothing less than to play the greatest ballad phrase ever. Masabumi Kikuchi, Playing Peacefully Through the Dissonance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z If the story needed very thorny dissonance, he provided that. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z A little visual dissonance goes a long way. Music Review: Gesaffelstein, a.k.a. Mike Levy, at Webster Hall 2013-12-05T23:36:19Z Schumann’s wife, Clara, was blunter in private, calling Liszt’s compositions tasteless and “a chaos of dissonances.” Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z That I eventually came to love and revere that music may mean that I came to a sense of truce with dissonance, both musical and psychological. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Arceneaux’s play, which will debut at Performa, the performance art biennial in New York City, this week, explores some of this dissonance. Art, Reagan and blackface: Edgar Arceneaux examines controversial performance by Ben Vereen 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Perdomo plays with deep sonority, rhythmic aplomb and an ear for useful dissonance. Playlist: Albums by Rosie Thomas, Punch Brothers, Luis Perdomo 2012-02-12T15:54:38Z Are some of the dissonances — “piquant,” said Robert Quinney of the Choir of New College, Oxford — that make it sound so modern actually errors? From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z But there are laughs to be had, mainly at the dissonance between her acerbity and her – apologies if this sounds ungallant – bimbo-ish appearance. Jennifer Coolidge 2010-08-18T16:36:00Z Normally, in classical music, dissonance resolves into consonance; tension melts into resolution. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z His songs are full of asymmetry, dissonances and meticulous counterpoint, yet still upbeat and catchy. Review: Tom Zé Brings Brazilian Songs With Breezy Tunes and Sly Jokes to BAM 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z The band’s initial lineup replaced those musical elements with loping bass lines and untethered guitar parts, embracing dissonance and opening up spaces that punk had filled in. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z What made his work so captivating, critics said, was its eclectic originality, propulsive rhythmic force, companionable combination of dissonance and consonance and its masterly command of sonorities from the lush to the spare. Lee Hyla, 61, Who Mixed Rock and Jazz Into Classical Works, Dies 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Birtwistle said audiences often had trouble with dissonance because it was unfamiliar. Groundbreaking composer Harrison Birtwistle dies at 87 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The title number from Gershwin’s antiwar musical, “Strike Up the Band,” undercuts its buoyant marches with unexpected dissonances. New York Philharmonic’s Fourth of July Celebration 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z This kind of dissonance could and often does make for easy storytelling, a variation of the “but he’s no angel” cliché. "I Love You, Now Die" and what we think we know about teenage girls 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Her stepfather was an English aristocrat, and I was intrigued by the dissonance between her free spirit and the stuffy world of earls and dukes. Author, author: Richard Mason 2011-03-12T00:06:54Z The Berg leans heavily on these quartets’ modernist features, highlighting every crunching dissonance. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The dissonance can be jarring, but it’s never boring. How to survive a summer at gay conversion camp 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Reading Pacific Time’s menu — or, for that matter, merely focusing on its name — provokes some cognitive dissonance, in that the restaurant looks to countries on the big ocean that Miami is nowhere near. 2009-12-31T18:01:00Z Instead of employing grand changes in volume, “Everything That Rises” finds Mr. Adams exploring dissonance and just-intonation tuning, in the gentlest of ways. Five Nights of New Music, From Gentle to Terrifying 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z That said, there was a lamentable trend in 20th-century music to equate the level of dissonance with artistic quality. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Diallo Riddle, who created and stars in “Sherman’s Showcase” with Bashir Salahuddin, addressed the possible dissonance at a panel last week, asking: “Is it OK to be silly? Is it OK to laugh?” Review: ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ Tests Whether It’s OK to Laugh 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There is a "dissonance" in Eggleston's photographs, Hickey notes, suggesting the tension of the moment that America, with all its "mass-produced banality", began to colonise the old south. Memphis greys 2010-12-03T12:22:00Z What he often finds interesting in past pieces is an odd dissonance, a technical peculiarity or a structural twist, but in his best works these small inspirations are usually obscured. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z She and Mr. Lin pushed the first movement of the Concerto No. 5 into melancholy dissonances before returning triumphantly to the opening theme. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z Pizarro blazed through a bewildering range of styles, from faux orientalism to progressive dissonance, that transformed I Got Rhythm into I Got Serialism and back. RLPO/Wilson – review 2013-04-08T16:27:14Z The major seventh is a pretty dissonant dissonance. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z There's something about being in entertainment where there's a cognitive dissonance about what you should be able to do and what you think you can do. W. Kamau Bell on going up against Bill Cosby in Showtime series: "It is scary" 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Then in a split second there’s a dissonance that changes absolutely everything. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Mixing such urgent media with indulgent platitudes only sharpens the level of cognitive dissonance we're collectively experiencing as we witness these escalating hostilities from afar. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Eliot thought the play was consequentially an artistic failure, but it is exactly this dissonance between Hamlet and the hackneyed avenger storyline that gave rise to an unprecedented classic. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z He might as well be analyzing the dissonance that afflicted Grand Theft Auto IV. Video Game Review: Grand Theft Auto V Is a Return to the Comedy of Violence 2013-09-16T14:04:49Z This quartet, its textures shifting throughout, is permeated with the intense, driving regularity of classic Minimalism, but married to the kind of spiky, even gritty dissonance that didn’t really interest Reich and Glass. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s piping and childlike in “Party,” while it’s low and poised in “Imagining My Man” except for sudden, vehement interruptions: “I do not have the answer,” she cries with cutting dissonance. Aldous Harding’s Songs Won’t Be Pinned Down. Nor Will Her Voice. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z That is, until Dean wrote his adaptation, which captures something of the authentic “Hamlet” music — in all its strangeness, dissonance and haunting beauty. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The oratorio begins with an orchestral arrangement of Schumann’s quizzical piano piece “The Prophet Bird,” deconstructed and spiked with dissonance. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z On that album Wilco opened up its music, letting noise, dissonance and other disruptions transmogrify what had been solid, straightforward roots-rock. Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z But discordant sounds are just one element of dissonance. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Rather, it tells us something about the psychology of the day, that people clearly felt little dissonance in the diversity of religious belief, aesthetic style and cultural identity that was common to these lands. Review | ‘The World Between Empires’ helps dismantle the myths of Rome 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Walking up Horatio Street, in Greenwich Village, on a hot and humid Saturday morning, I could make out the slow-moving dissonance of the performance from two blocks away. Crawling Through New York City with the Artist Pope.L 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Among the myriad forms of dissonance associated with jazz’s avant-garde, the most pernicious might be an inconsistency of tense — as in past, present and future. Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z There’s a very strong dissonance between this gilded museum on a hill and the communities in Ferguson. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z But there is a serious cognitive dissonance between the effort we put into controlling our image and, at the same time, claiming allegiance to transparency and authenticity. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z But there are few other spaces in the National Gallery where the dissonance between American identity and American reality is so perfectly hidden in plain sight. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z With Tuesday's announcement that AC/DC, Drake and Jack White are headlining the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, the annual two-weekend gathering in the desert offers more than enough cultural dissonance to go around. First impressions of Coachella 2015: Disconnects, surprises and more 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Looked at this way, Black Friday’s true meaning, then, is less about succumbing to the agitprop of a commercialized holiday than about a deeper cognitive dissonance and self-delusion. Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z This year she’s bogged down by the dissonance between the beauty of spring and the ugliness of what’s happening in the world. Going outside is our only escape. But now that’s scary, too. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In Kile Smith’s “Conversation in the Mountains,” to a text by Paul Celan, dissonances made you doubt that the passage’s two speakers, contemplating geology and language, really did see the same thing in a glacier. Review: In a Gilded Space, a Choir Reflects on War and Peace 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The work begins with clouds of ethereal dissonance that are moved along by gentle rhythmic impulses. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z What’s exceptional is the dissonance between the golden idol and sex god that he was hailed as in the lead-up to and beginning of the games and the gleeful mockery he inspires today. Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb 2012-08-06T21:30:00Z He acknowledges dissonances between his hopes and the more complicated reality on the ground in India. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The exciting dissonances and strange harmonic colours set Pękiel in a category of his own. Pękiel: Masses – review 2013-05-25T23:05:17Z On the whole, it’s a smoothly constructed iteration of anodyne late-20th-century Establishment Classical Music, not committed enough either to its lyricism or to its dissonance. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z Drones and repetition have appeared throughout his work; so have dissonance and noise, along with lyrics that favor the bleak and macabre. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Playing those — with all the discipline they require in terms of intonation and vibratoless sound — sets a quartet up to tackle the dissonances in a Mozart slow movement. Brooklyn Rider Joins String Quartets Exploring the Nonclassical 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Stewart’s pastoral days, juxtaposed with the less idyllic toils of the rest of us, make for perfect comedic dissonance. Martha Stewart, Comedy Genius? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In America, her exhortations for the intellectual and artistic pleasures of cooking were broadcast simultaneously with the rise of women’s lib, a dissonance with which the show never directly engaged. The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Suspensions were a favorite expressive device in the Baroque era, created when one of two voices moves a step, creating a temporary dissonance that is resolved when the other voice follows suit, restoring consonance. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The finale, with its biting folk rhythms and pungent dissonances, was weighty, witty and sharply focused. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z While they clearly draw on Banks' research into Persian and Indian musical tradition, there are modern touches too: echo effects, bent pitches, ethereal dissonances, punchy vocal accentings. Review: Sculpture park a perfect setting for Esoterics' exploration of ancient myth 2010-05-08T18:39:00Z For the final Allegro, a twitching figure gets volleyed about amid blasts of dissonance — the aural equivalent of wearing orange socks with red slacks. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Below, Rijeka — governed by seven countries since World War I — is beautiful in its dissonance. 36 Hours in Rijeka, Croatia 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z While the austere dissonance never truly leaves the piece, Ehnes' light touch on the rising and falling violin arpeggios sounded like someone throwing a single thread of spider web over the moon. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z “Navigating the world from my childhood bedroom is like some weird dissonance between-like feeling,” said Ms. Ciesemier, 27, a producer at a nonprofit. Teenage Angst, Revisited in Isolation 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Badura-Skoda catches Mozart’s frustrated rage in the stark motifs and hammering dissonances in the first movement of the Sonata No. 15 in F Major. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The way that worth can be weighed in interactions with other people and how a dissonance can build in a person when their self-image doesn’t match the way the world views them. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Witness the cognitive dissonance in Newsweek’s headline: “She was born at around 11.47pm with a lusty yell, and it was a cry round the brave new world.” Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z In proclaiming “the emancipation of the dissonance” in a 1926 essay, Arnold Schoenberg meant to justify in historical terms his move from functional harmony toward free atonality and, ultimately, a new 12-tone system of composition. Music Review: Re:sonance at the Austrian Cultural Forum - Review 2012-01-13T23:37:14Z I liked the startling dissonance between the drink’s appearance and its flavor, but I felt a little guilty. Some drinks leave a sour taste in your mouth. And that can be a good thing. 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The New York Times’s chief classical critic Anthony Tommasini described “a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance.” Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The dissonance radiating from that scene is twofold. In ‘Robot & Frank,’ Technology of the Not-So-Distant Future on Display 2012-08-12T02:53:01Z These well-mannered, well-regarded films helped justify the quote on his tombstone: “Keep calm in front of the dissonance.” Movie Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Beginning with a hard rumble at the piano’s lowest register, answered by trilling dissonance at the top of its range, the piece unfurled in free tempo, with strong impressionistic effect. Music Review: A Tribute to Mary Lou Williams 2014-03-07T00:05:59Z The music is so spiked with dissonance, clusters and wayward chords that it seems boldly modernist, even when the harmonies are tonally anchored. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Both composers, Mr. Korstvedt said, began musically in the world of Catholic church music, and their approach to dissonance was rooted in that tradition. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Watching them was an exercise in cognitive dissonance. Tom Petty, Classic Rocker? Sure. And Weird Video Star, Too. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The six singers of Delitiae Musicae clearly relish those musical risks, occasionally perhaps just a little too much: passing dissonances are sometimes emphasised rather obviously and the voices sometimes acquire a reedy edge. Gesualdo: Madrigals Book 3 ? review 2011-07-14T21:30:01Z The surreal dissonance of the gesture was summed up when a reporter asked the president if the book was his Bible. As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, these cognitive dissonances — the sentiment that “I don’t have free will, but you do” — are never satisfyingly resolved. | 'Bridesburg': ?Bridesburg? at Gene Frankel Theater - Review 2012-01-23T22:55:31Z There were dissonances that went beyond those encountered in medieval music, but they always sounded like a natural outgrowth of the ancient modes. Music Review: JACK Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-12-19T22:09:52Z There’s a rhythmic structuring to that; there’s counterpart, harmony, and dissonance. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Its themes are shaped like Haydn’s, heard through a filter of mild contemporary dissonance. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z What “Dystopia” shares with Mitchell’s art that Mr. Varone’s choreography doesn’t, though, is a sense of dissonance and ferocity. Review: Doug Varone’s ‘ReComposed,’ Inspired by Joan Mitchell’s Swirling Pastels 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z I had that vertiginous wah-wah feeling one gets when plunged into cognitive dissonance. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z He came closest to surprising in the cadenza he created for the first movement, which had ruminative dissonances and lively string crossings. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z In solos, Pickens offered a profusion of ideas, switching from enormous chords shot through with dissonance to fleet phrases of considerable velocity and rhythmic momentum. Saxophonist Donald Harrison goes back to bop 2011-01-21T15:36:28Z The music is nervous with the dissonance of cabaret jazz. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z That alone is call-a-therapist cognitive dissonance, but the whole package belongs in a therapist’s office, SOLO, not with him and his monstrous paranoia and control. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Demanding a paternity test without cause fails the good-husband test 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Enthusiasts have figured out how to push headlong through the cognitive dissonance of enjoying live murder. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Written as a continuous movement of 12 interlocking études, it’s an engaging piece in which spiky dissonances and plush harmonies, moments of impish playfulness and inward reflection, cohabit in unpredictable ways. Music Review: Something New From the Chamber Music Society 2014-04-18T22:24:21Z If there’s a connective thread, she says, it’s her abiding interest in unreliable narrators, cognitive dissonance, and making the internal external. Dee Rees wanted to make ‘an old-fashioned movie’ and ended up with an Oscar contender 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z When that quixotic bid failed, swamped by the late populist surge of Alberto Fujimori, he withdrew from national politics but continued to explore the complex dissonances of South American politics. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z For his entire career, he was a champion of modernism, reveling in the possibilities offered by dissonance and electronic experimentation. Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The dissonance between rebuilt beachfronts and devastated housing can make it seem like a Hollywood Western town where there is little behind the edifice on main street. Summer on the Jersey Shore, After the Storm 2013-08-02T19:39:00Z Echoes of Bartok abound in Ligeti’s Bagatelles, like in the bristling rhythms of the fourth movement and the brisk dissonances of the Finale. Music Review: The Folkways That Led to Dvorak and Bartok 2010-10-20T21:18:00Z Left with a feeling of unendurable “dissonance” with her ethics, she quit performing. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The Second Quartet, a 45-minute emotive brawl, responds to these events in a style strongly influenced by Schoenberg and his emancipation of dissonance. Review: Escher Players Explore Less Familiar Ground: Zemlinsky’s Quartets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z His chasing her across Europe and America is a byproduct of his cognitive dissonance, his inability to think about the millions dying, off page. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – review 2012-07-26T07:00:02Z “That dissonance was interesting. At this point, I’m writing songs with the expectation that I’ll have to defend them in some way. But at the time, I definitely was not.” Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Halsey’s fourth album, “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” announces its character from its first sounds: slowly tolling piano arpeggios with a few notes flatted into dissonance. Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The first movement begins with a hard-driving theme, like some pumped-up march that trumpets the dissonances embedded into its diatonic harmonies. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z We can try to erase it, by launching cancellare campaigns, or decide to preserve it, hoping, perhaps, that its dissonance will diminish with time. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Cliff is the reason for the cognitive dissonance we’ve been experiencing for the last three or four years. Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Schoenberg’s atonal musical style is by definition full of dissonance. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But programmers deemed his three-year run on Radio Belgrano a popular flop, with pieces veering too far into dissonance and classical motifs when mass audiences wanted dance and background music. Horacio Salgán, Argentine tango composer and musical pathbreaker, dies at 100 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z These comments create some cognitive dissonance, because Olyphant, despite some gray hair, doesn’t come off as a day older. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The adagio accumulated tension and weight, and its climactic eruption into dissonance was truly shocking. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-03-24T17:59:19Z Growing up, the dissonance between his family’s socialist ideals and America’s Russophobia led Mr. Lewis to a lifelong interest in Communism. Jeffrey Lewis, Singer and Illustrator 2011-11-22T23:09:54Z She started writing when she was at Yale Law School: “My first novel was published at the same time I published an article on the operational dissonance of the unrelated income tax exemption.” Want to Be in Stacey Abrams’s Book Club? Sorry, It’s Family Only 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z So instead of meeting that man, I met a man with a barrier of cognitive dissonance around him, and self-deception and mythology. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z I’m always trying to find creative ways of incorporating dissonance into my work, but also using the familiarity or nostalgia of tonality to achieve certain effects. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Martinů's Sixth, with its whirring string dissonances and yearning chorales, is one of a handful of great works by a composer better known for quantity than quality. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z The harmonic language is a hybrid of octatonic scales and atonality, but there are clear levels of dissonance and consonance. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z There’s dissonance; the celebration is muted, reticent, almost secretive. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z But these Rodin sculptures are more fundamentally heterogenous, joining the ancient and contemporary together without embarrassment, and with no effort to minimize the dissonance or hide the seams between past and present. Exhibit review: In Virginia, a Rodin show changes how we see the sculptor 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z But in passage after passage, Mr. Storgards emphasized the discontinuities and jarring turns of the music, as well as the piercing shards of dissonance that Sibelius folds into his deceptively sonorous harmonic language. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z It veers from dramatic percussive solos and village brass band passages to whiny strings, dark dissonance and cheerful waltzes. We're still on a sugar high: Run (or leap) to American Ballet Theatre's 'Whipped Cream' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z More striking than the table of numerals itself is the vibrant glow of its chromatic dissonance. TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Each concert has its own arc and character, balancing deep rhapsody against thorny dissonance. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The music seethes sadly at this, but the dissonance passes through a sublime moment of consonance — courting sunshine — before drifting back into tension, then transpiring upward into pure shimmer, almost toneless. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z This is still Hollywood we’re talking about, so there had to be some dissonance beneath the heartfelt harmonizing. What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But women and other marginalized audiences are already accustomed to managing the cognitive dissonance of finding meaning in art that ignores us, or worse. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Punk is about dissonance beyond sound, the determination not to be easily embraced and therefore co-opted. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The music channels Mr. Moore’s fascination with overtones toward a meditative glow; while some of the chords resemble Sonic Youth songs, the dissonances don’t bristle as much here, and the consonances drone and soothe. Playlist Jon Pareles: Wistful Country, Politics and a Hint of the Divine 2011-05-25T19:02:17Z Mr. Botstein seemed far less worried about whether the mainstream classical audience was still as hostile as it once was to Nono’s dissonances. Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Now, in a moment when many Americans are reëxamining their country’s history, the falseness—the dissonance—of that heritage is becoming harder to ignore. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The dissonances underneath some of the uplifting simple affirmative chords add an increased tension in the string version. Dudamel leads a dark and satisfying dose of Mozart and Pärt 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Unlike Ben-Haim, whose music was somewhat retrogressive in style, Kopytman incorporated dissonance and extended instrumental techniques familiar from the work of Bartok, and the strident brutality played to the Ariel’s strengths. Ariel Quartet pays tribute to Israeli composers and folk music 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But there’s always tension somewhere: in a tinge of dissonance, in an insistent syncopation, in the spaces she refuses to fill in. Review: ‘Me,’ by Empress Of, Has Cool Assurance and Jumpy Lines 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z CaroleBristol identified three separate topics within this week's theme: "records that deliberately use dissonance", "records that have mistakes in them" and "inept records that work despite their limitations". Readers recommend: discordant songs ? the results 2011-02-10T17:22:20Z Han’s attraction to dissonance is evident even on the sentence level. The Author of ‘The Vegetarian’ Takes on Korea’s Violent Past 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z It was a dissonance that reflected an underlying clash of two strains in pop culture. Television Review: Carrie Underwood Stars in NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’ 2013-12-06T17:45:01Z Ah, the cognitive dissonance of the liberal urban secular Jew! A Different Kind of Christmas Dinner: Spicy Shrimp Stir-Fry 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Psychologists call this cognitive dissonance: holding two opposing thoughts or feelings at the same time. I’m glad my mum and dad died before they got too old 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Once again, Ms. Jonas’s acute percussive instincts contribute: A crunching sound — perhaps of someone walking on seashells — accompanies the dog’s progress, creating a delightful dissonance. Review: Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Triumph 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He’ll lull you into a groove with a fiercely repeated phrase, then blast you with a fistful of dissonance. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z There’s cognitive dissonance here, but also a nice, sappy, deep-colored rosé. At just $15, this soulful Spanish garnacha from a lesser-known region is a steal 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Then the music would scamper off on dazzling individual tangents: playful, willful tempo fluctuations, thickets and inundations of dissonance, wry quotations, pensive melodic interludes. Music Review: Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Carnegie 2012-12-05T22:57:47Z That has caused some significant cognitive dissonance among people in the arts world who are otherwise full-throated champions of the president. A master of pop culture had little to do with the ‘high’ arts 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Blonde Redhead released its first two albums in 1995, part of a downtown New York indie-rock moment still preoccupied with Sonic Youth’s muscular and meditative dissonance and the long tail of no wave. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer uses the term “cognitive dissonance” more than once to describe what he sees as their complex psychological state. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Without the voices for which it was written, Gesualdo’s music seemed, if anything, overly polished and polite, its dissonances more distant than dangerous. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2014-03-17T20:59:12Z It is significantly indebted to Britten especially, and creates a dissonance with a text that explores such a profoundly non-western philosophy of life. Corp: Dhammapada ? review 2011-03-17T22:15:01Z Brash dissonances dissolve into invitingly harmonized passages, which then climb back toward thorniness. 2010-02-15T00:46:00Z Mr. Zorn’s idiom of juxtaposed dissonance and ethereality threatened to become too familiar by the end of Wednesday’s program, on a Miller stage that regularly presents work by a newer avant-garde. Review: John Zorn’s Spirit of Restless Invention Flows Forth 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z I had a moment of cognitive dissonance as I made sense of the fact that my friend was not, as I’d been assuming, a girl. The right’s Lena Dunham nonsense just won’t stop 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z There was grit in his rapport with Mr. Scofield, who retains his fondness for crunchy dissonance and rubbery lines. Review: John Scofield Reunion Looks to a Familiar Past 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z They share interlocking fingerpicked patterns and, with moments of dissonance, nudge one another toward new ones, very gradually making their way from quick, fluttering interplay to tolling repose. Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Despite the dissonance, everything is bound into a whole. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z The oom-pah-pah beats and tinkling timbres keep taking detours into odd syncopations and dissonances. Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z Sometimes there is dissonance when one friend finds himself in a group dominated by those of another orientation, rather than connecting one to one. The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z With a lightweight attack and a deft tangle of dissonance, this solo articulated something essential about the music at hand, and by extension the mind behind it. Matt Mitchell’s Jazz Gallery Concert Showcased New Material 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z There is a thorny dissonance between past and present. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ couldn’t come at a better time 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Laura Schwendinger’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” inspired by the famous Bosch triptych of that name, was a suspenseful tangle of bristling lines and eerie dissonances with passages of melancholy respite. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts Continue at Symphony Space 2010-04-06T22:28:00Z Eastman’s contribution was to expand hardcore process-oriented Minimalism, finding ways to fit in expressive dissonances, improvisation and elements of African American music, including its spirituality. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Koh sailed undaunted through this athletic piece, whose contrasting character veered from harsh dissonance to fleeting lyricism. Music Review: A Violinist Layers Bach With Relative Newcomers 2011-01-31T23:34:50Z The result creates an unearthly dissonance: the auditory equivalent of awakening in the fog of a bad dream only to discover you’re still trapped in the nightmare. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Most of Stevens’s new tracks are thickets of counterpoint, dissonance and noises that can be comic or ominous. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z In one of the instrumental interludes, the “Fantasy Upon a Ground” in D, an inadvertent moment of dissonance rendered the work somewhat too fantastical. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: Thomas Ad?s Conducts Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-25T20:35:00Z This is the critical dissonance at the core of SketchFactor, which launched nationally this month to accusations of racism and profiling. SketchFactor: Starting with its name, safety-focused app leaves many uneasy Her soaring melodies were woven through sections of vividly contrasting character, with grating dissonance melting into more lyrical moments. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z The new hotel’s success probably relies on the dissonance between the fantasy it offers, a taste of the “golden age” of jet travel, and the reality of how most people experience travel today. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The instruments mimic sirens, and dissonances build before an uneasily calm ending that sets the stage for the second movement, an anxiously rhythmic danse macabre, even more fiercely lucid in its encore performance. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The cognitive dissonance continued as munchkin models stomped up and down the runway while toting pithy posters. Teen activist Greta Thunberg is now a fashion icon, whether she likes it or not 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In Czechoslovakia, the underground was being inspired by dark dissonance in the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z The compositions hurl notes with maniacal relentlessness, the harmonies bristle with dissonance, and the lyrics, when they occasionally appear, are bleak. King Crimson Plays at the Best Buy Theater 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z That tension sets up an entrancing dissonance and, perhaps, an implied drama between the choice of whether to drink or to abstain. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z A choir singing from a loft above the auditorium chandelier creates a cognitive dissonance, with another performing simultaneously onstage. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The Messiaen unfolded in shifting musical episodes with blocks of thick harmonies; modal strands of overlapping plainchant; chorales spiked with dissonance yet awesomely angelic. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z Cognitive dissonance apparently comes into it somewhere – "something we all experience, but we maybe don't know we do". Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z A. Today there's a dissonance between what we know now, and what they knew then. Q&A: Author Erik Larson nervously awaits arrival of 'Beasts' 2011-05-09T15:32:05Z But in terms of moral dissonance, Felicity Huffman is the most surprising villain, and the one whose motives I keep trying to unpack. Perspective | Where is William H. Macy in the college admissions scandal? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But these are easy dispensations to grant to a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions — both individual and collective — that grip this strange land getting stranger. A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The barbarous kind of dissonance is the easiest for listeners to discern, like the obsessively repeated chords at the opening of the “Dance of the Adolescents” in Part 1 of “Rite.” Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The contrast between the diners and the server is ludicrous, obscene, nearly impossible for our brains to synthesize for its dissonance. I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z She drifted away from the dissonance of collegiate politics and toward the blurry, permissive worlds of art, fashion and nightlife. Turning Trash Into Poetry 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The tone changes from major to minor ring sweetly in the music, but manifest a jumbled dissonance in the script that never coheres into a workable story. Le sigh! Netflix's Damien Chazelle drama "The Eddy" mixes jazz with misery 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The second movement was more sly than sardonic; the climactic burst of dissonance in the third movement was beautiful, not brutal. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z An effective cult leans into this dissonance, first instilling in the mark that they lack the fundamentals required to live their best life, and then inserting itself as the salvational force. From Midsommar to martial arts: how movie cults got real 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Vecchio said the portrait reflected a “dissonance” found in Miller’s work, between the “clarity and the transparentness of the message” and an “ambiguity and grayness about the present.” Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z More than the details, the overall impression was strikingly consistent from song to song, with sprinklings of dissonance over generically lyrical foundations. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z Each song slowly emerged out of a rumbling chromatic dissonance: Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge,” Mr. Shorter’s “Nefertiti,” the songbook standard “Body and Soul.” Vijay Iyer and Mark Turner Help Open the Met Breuer 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z And “Shacked Up” is a slow-drag country waltz that milks the half-step dissonance in its melody, as if Bob Wills were tipping his hat to Thelonious Monk. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z Certainly, the 2019 season is subjecting Miami fans to a kind of psychic dissonance. The Miami Dolphins and the Art of Losing to “Win” 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z It would be no easy task to weave in such dissonances, but they too were central to the creation of the Old West. Comics That Dismantle the White Cowboy Myth 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z There was no real cognitive dissonance existing in the minds of most people in the Soviet Union of the nineteen-seventies and eighties. Life Under Alternative Facts 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z In 1990 Gary Giddins of The Village Voice raved about the “easy, loping quality” of his playing, “buoyed by familiar dissonances yet surprisingly free of cliché.” Herb Ellis, Jazz Guitarist, Is Dead at 88 2010-03-31T03:52:00Z The unnamed black protagonist of the novel, set between the South in the nineteen-twenties and Harlem in the nineteen-thirties, wrestles with the cognitive dissonance of opportunity served up alongside indignity. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” as a Parable of Our Time 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z These cultural dissonances occasionally play in Oliver’s favour. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The dissonance between the film’s structure and its tone is potentially interesting, and the off-balance intensity of the performances means that “Both Sides of the Blade” is never dull. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In the driving scherzo, with its pounding chords and gnashing dissonance, played at a quicker tempo than you usually hear, Mr. Nézet-Séguin emphasized the wild, brutal elements of this vehement music. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z His compositions are full of demanding, musicianly convolutions: leaping melodies, meter shifts, mutating chromatic harmonies and dissonances. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z That poetic image pretty well sums up the general notion of dissonance in music: a barbarous, discordant, clashing combination of notes. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Schoenberg didn't so much "emancipate dissonance" as muddle it, rendering it a useless device. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The fear of navigating this cognitive dissonance, as well as the fear of armchair critics declaring that you’ve failed is, I believe, at the heart of many people’s reluctance to adopt more green practices. How I deal with the unbearable hypocrisy of being an environmentalist 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Initially, her verse grabs readers with an almost sing-songy nursery-rhyme cleverness — but it quickly draws them into a sense of perilous dissonance, which strikes from the heart of those bony dashes punctuating almost every line. Review | A writer ponders Emily Dickinson’s most pivotal moments 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z I know that what I’m saying smacks of cognitive dissonance. Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Cipullo’s musical language, rooted in tonality with generous helpings of dissonance, is direct, succinct and original. UrbanArias visits Baker, Stein and Picasso in Paris, and beyond 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The emotional valence of this room-size grid of images is one of nervousness, fretfulness, restless, undirected energy and dissonance. Review | Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The music, too, relates mostly to the beautiful films, underlining scenes of agitation, for example, with liberal dissonance and in general fomenting a mood of, yes, disquiet. Review: ‘The Book of Disquiet,’ Opera as One Man, With Films 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z When dirty thugs fight whites, they lead this country to the coroner; I’ll end this racial dissonance by banning every foreigner. Style Invitational: Put it in Bee-verse — write a spelling-word poem 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z She asked to hear it, and was amazed to discover a foreign sound world, craggy with dissonance and ambiguous in its unmoored harmonies. Recording As a Road To Recovery 2011-01-27T22:59:45Z That cognitive dissonance, that self-deception to me, was something new that I had not thought about putting in any of my fictional films. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z I remember yet another moment of dissonance, from the day in 1986 when Reagan celebrated the renovation of the statue with a bland speech about liberty, complete with bombastic music and a relighting spectacle. Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z “People are so frustrated. They’re overwhelmed. They’re angry. Our government is still denying that the fires are climate related. The cognitive dissonance is remarkable.” The Greta Thunberg effect: are climate crisis documentaries feeling it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Wider discussions about the nature of science and how it works are vitally important in our world of shouty social media, conspiracy theories, fake news, confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s the opposite sort of choice you would expect to score this scene, and that dissonance makes it ideal. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Still, one stable, ongoing subplot is better than throwing dissonance into that storyline's flow by interrupting it with subplots that don't apparently relate to the main mission. We salute you Bo-Katan Kryze, but the third season of "The Mandalorian" took on too much 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s set featured an extended stretch of tense, fascinating electronica: darkly hovering tones and chords, evolving from dissonance to dissonance. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z As with Mike Daisey’s performance piece “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” your film is likely to bump up against the cognitive dissonance some people experience about Apple products. Filmmaker Alex Gibney on Steve Jobs, storyteller 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z As immaculately sung by Anderson’s young Lucy, valentines of songs subversively careen off course into darker dissonance, evoking Stephen Sondheim’s pastiche numbers for “Follies.” Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Effervescent music accompanies notes on her birthday; dissonance, jittery trills and suspenseful pauses are an obvious analogue for an entry about footsteps in the night. How an Opera Can Fit in a Mailbox 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z This refers to the dissonance between the bloody defense of the American dream as white people accept it, and the shared struggle that is the Black American experience. "Between the World and Me" transforms a father's letter to his son into a chorus for a people 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z “Basically these couples are living in a constant state of cognitive dissonance,” Dr. Tavris said. Cultural Studies: Hand-Holding Across the Aisle 2010-09-24T19:30:00Z He grew up idolizing Monk and reworked Monk’s language of halting gestures and piquant dissonance, eventually rendering his own approach. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Haynes respects the art too much to idealize the artists, or to impose retrospective harmony on their dissonances. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “There is a limit to their tolerance for dissonance,” she added. Music: Face the Music, Teenage Alt-Classical Ensemble 2012-03-25T02:43:04Z Those "new" sounds with all those dagger-like dissonances? The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z “It is an expression of the human condition, dissonance, harmony — all of these different instruments playing off each other. In a good world, everybody gets a turn to stand up and play their bit.” Getting up Close with Glenn and Ted Nash, new duo in jazz 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Instead synthesizers and percussion play musical styles that are almost futuristic, creating an atonal dissonance between what we’re seeing and hearing. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Since we are more accustomed to the use of female bodies as attracters of consumers’ eyes and minds, Ms. Abeles’s substitution of the male body may cause a flicker of cognitive dissonance. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z The viral response has combined a sudden uptick in civic responsibility with widespread dissonance about how much of it is needed, making the perfect recipe for discord. South Park pandemic special: a biting and surprisingly affecting satire 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z But the band shows discomfort with it to an equal degree, using dissonance and ruptures and squeaks and finicky or absurdist behavior, causing musical arguments within itself and toward its material. Review: Instant Composers Pool Orchestra Plays at Roulette 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And not that I even dislike that idea—there’s something kind of appealing about that whole dissonance. Eyeball Kicks: Dan Clowes’s Complete Eightball 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z That was about as much dissonance as this year’s Lilith Fair allowed. Music Review: At Lilith Fair, Sisterhood Remains Powerful, if Stressed 2010-08-02T22:17:00Z Many of the repetitions are exact, but a whack on a drum is sometimes slightly off the beat, or a dissonance is added, or there is a long silence. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Put her in a room with seven inquisitive members of the London Sinfonietta and you're going to get dissonance, not consonance. Micachu/London Sinfonietta 2010-05-05T21:30:00Z But perhaps audiences tolerate dissonance so long as a work offers melody and structure, and those were elements Varèse never abandoned. Music Review: More-Than-Full Var?se at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-21T22:35:00Z All the same, he comes to believe that his community suffers from “cognitive dissonance”; there is, he writes, “a broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.” The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Many of the participants favor exit, but “Women Talking,” as its title suggests, is mostly voice — a weave of voices in varying arrangements of harmony and dissonance. ‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z But the whole thing seems to have been fed through some kind of elaborate cognitive dissonance machine to the point that it barely even resembles television. Your Face Sounds Familiar – the worst show ever? 2013-07-01T11:07:19Z The thing that bothers me about talkbacks is that they often seem to work to dissipate dissonance. David Mamet Doesn’t Want to Hear From You. Do Other Playwrights? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z What’s missing is tension between the public mask and private predilections, the dissonance between noblesse oblige and unlimited privilege. Review: ‘The Royals’ on E! Is Another Pretender to the Throne 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The dissonance between Weiner’s view of his work and the way the rest of us received it was frankly hard to forget. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z “Good music always has an aspect of dissonance, as far as I’m concerned.” A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It’s a George Condo Creation 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z At least the music fell gratefully on the ear, delivering consonance rather than dissonance, and in its very length, “Become Ocean” evoked a sense of vast oceanic scale. At SSO, impassioned Shostakovich, ‘Become Ocean’ | Classical review 2013-06-21T17:00:44Z Not content to comment from the safe confines of the art world, he hoped to create small dissonances in everyday life too. Hard truths and savage intensity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Here was Monk as no one else plays him, Perez avoiding the obvious dissonances and rhythmic asymmetries that lesser pianists invoke. The provocative pianism of Danilo Perez 2011-04-22T14:03:00Z It's this dissonance that makes the film so disturbing. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z Mr. Henze’s score is the product of an age when dissonance reigned supreme, yet the music is guided by an ear for beauty that suffuses the vocal lines with lyricism. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z At the same time, it resolved the old symbolic dissonance between vertical hierarchy and social hierarchy that survived into the first years of the twentieth century. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z If “Become Ocean” tries to lull you into a reflective state, “Deserts” tries to rile you up with gritty blasts of dissonance, spare motifs and sputtering rhythmic figures. Music Review: Seattle Symphony Explores Nature at Spring for Music 2014-05-07T21:12:37Z At the same time, the day-to-day lived realities of polygamy weren’t always so elegant, and they caused people a great deal of cognitive dissonance and shame. Polygamy, progressivism and the real history of Mormon feminism: “Women who joined this movement were gender radicals” 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z One musician drew a mallet around the cylinder’s circumference, while the other gently thrummed the edges of the bars underneath, producing slight, dreamy dissonances. Review: New Works Designed With a Daring Trumpeter in Mind 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Mayer: It’s always going to be a tricky song because of the cognitive dissonance between the tempo, the melody and the lyric. How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z But when they tried to draft a text about these dissonances, the next projection announced, “When we tried to formulate that into text for this slide, we couldn’t figure out what to say.” ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Her songs are straightforward, driving and melodic, with some lightly surreal storytelling but little of the dissonance of her old band. A great year for live music: From Wilco to Eleanor Friedberger and Philip Glass 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z But it’s how elegantly they’re used, in overlapping hunks, with careful dissonance and blindsiding rushes. New Music: DAVID BYRNE AND ST. VINCENT 2012-09-10T23:59:47Z He seemed delighted, instead, with the basset clarinet's edgy tonal character, its ability to enhance dissonance. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s concert was most notable for its consistency, the immersion it offered in two composers who, by the 1970s, were both writing with a roughly similar mixture of jittery dissonances and lyrical Romantic nostalgia. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-27T16:31:02Z In this piece the listener will hear everything from dissonance to beautiful consonant tonal writing, to jazz to all kinds of things. All hail Joan of Arc, in music -- but in London? 2011-11-03T11:31:03Z This power of belief over evidence is the result of two factors: cognitive dissonance and the backfire effect. No ad hominem, no ad Hitlerum: How to convince someone when facts fail 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness. | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z Working with thorny dissonance but a gentle touch, he grounded the improvisation in an unsettled, wakeful vein. Music Review: Tyshawn Sorey’s Wu Wei Quintet at Greenwich House 2013-04-18T22:47:19Z In the somber opening of the second movement, marked Allegro religioso, Mr. Bavouzet voiced the theme with careful attention to the slight inner dissonances that tweak the calming harmonies. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z While Canto V opens in lush tonal harmony, the frequency of dissonance is heightened, until in the last four minutes, the violins soar together in an arching series of chromatic clusters. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The musical setting is emphatic — full of conviction — with the words clearly articulated by the rhythms, and the harmony tinged with piquant dissonance. Review | A giant meditation on creation fills the Kennedy Center Concert Hall 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z When two instruments intersected on a single note, he was not interested in smoothing it over, but in the slight dissonance of different timbres — a slightly strident flute, bisected by a shrill solo violin. Eschenbach and the NSO go almost modernist with Mahler 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z There was a tension — something that felt like cognitive dissonance, the effort to deal with two opposing things at the same time. How much normalizing does an abnormal president deserve? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Theirs is not a Beethoven of struggle, of strife; if they allow rough edges to creep into the blistering dissonance of the Grosse Fuge, they hardly threaten the general air of composure. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z "Michael just loved kids. We infantilized him as though the man wasn’t essentially omnipotent. The thing about cognitive dissonance is that, when fully employed, you can rationalize or dismiss anything," Kierna Mayo writes for AfroPunk. How we talk about Michael Jackson and abuse matters 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z We become newly aware not only of the harmonies of people making Rodgers-style music together, but also of the dissonances within. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “There’s a moment of cognitive dissonance — a feeling of not-Wilco seeing Tweedy performing songs with other musicians,” the website DFW.com wrote of a performance in late June. Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco, Records With His Son Spencer 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z There's a gradual accumulation of protracted dissonances and a weird, climactic double-bass solo, in which time and rhythm seem to stand still amid a sequence of throbs in the instrument's highest registers. LA Phil/Dudamel – review 2013-03-18T12:43:41Z In a pattern that he kept repeating, he whomped a low string, then tumbled into articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance. Review: Circuit des Yeux, With Haley Fohr’s Deep Vocals, Seeks an Essential Truth 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The movie is also disinclined to consider the cognitive dissonance arising from the replacement of the lullaby lyrics “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” with “Suffer, suffer, scream in pain.” Review: In ‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’ Dracula Yearns for a Little Monster of a Grandson 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Jazz composers, in slightly different ways, also emancipated the dissonance, though they seldom invoked the concept or used the term. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z In the second term, her daughters were passing into adolescence and she was feeling the generational dissonance awaiting all parents, no matter their station. Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But don't let that worry you, because as long as you continue to suffer cognitive dissonance by insisting it's the best piece of technology ever invented, everyone will keep on buying them. Digested read: My iPad 2 by Gary Rosenzweig 2011-07-25T19:59:02Z It unfolds in sound waves that swell and subside, rich with unsettling slides, piercing dissonances and spiraling riffs that never quite slip into a regular pulse. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z And Ms. Shaw’s work “To the Hands” contains a movement of spoken numerical figures — data about displaced people around the world — over a solo instrument’s arpeggios that oscillate between beautiful order and unnerving dissonance. Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But sung in canon, some of the notes bumped roughly against one another in daring dissonance. ‘Make Noise Enough’: Excavating Shakespeare’s Songs 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Among its many other charms, “Pete” is the one show capable of addressing the profound spiritual dissonance of seeing your teacher at the store. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z What makes the marital dissonance on screen so gripping is the subtle ambiguity of interactions between the couple, which appear mundane but are freighted with significance. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The Queen's Ballad shows how well Shipp maintains the integrity of a song while finding ever-changing new melodies in it, and hitting chords that fizz with compatible dissonances. Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio: Floating Ice – review 2012-12-13T22:06:01Z Often there were chords that coalesced, in airy dissonance, as the reeds sidled into formation. Music Review: A Distinctive Voice, No Matter Who Is Performing 2011-04-26T21:30:10Z Because we reject dissonance, it can’t be just a so-so relic relegated to the archives. ‘Saved by the Bell’ Review: This Time, It’s Actually All Right 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z There’s also a jukebox playing classic rock; for an exercise in cognitive dissonance, you can’t beat eating a borlotti bean sandwich while listening to Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” On an Oregon Lake, a Lodge Serving Kicked-Up Camp Food 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z I'm familiar with this brand of racial cognitive dissonance. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z He played percussively with fingers flattened and splayed, he left unexpected spaces others would have filled with showers of notes, and his chords clanged with dissonance. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z This collective cognitive dissonance is sorrowfully expressed in the penultimate number "Something's Missing" once they're no longer basking in that hospitality. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z But for all the pleasure she took in the recognition, Ms. Kaller said, she was taken aback by a certain artistic dissonance in the overall list of nominees. Disappointing Season for Broadway Women 2010-05-14T03:32:00Z Virelles is a Cuban-born pianist who uses understated dissonance and darkness to interrogate — and, sometimes, explode — the sacred traditions of his home country. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The mood of the piece was ominous and unsettled, but also darkly alluring, with a use of glassy dissonance that registered as richly luxurious. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Dutoit set the tone with an opening passage that leaned on Liszt’s dramatic dissonances and demanded an assertive pianistic response. Music Review: A Romeo Who Struts, A Juliet Who Glitters 2010-10-13T21:49:00Z While the woman needs the safety of her anonymity, she’s also struggling with the need to be seen—that’s another example of her cognitive dissonance, how she herself feels sort of split in two. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Blunt, austere percussion — from a booming Japanese taiko drum to the metallic scrape of a knife being sharpened — is layered with neo-medieval wind consorts, modernist dissonances, Minimalist vibraphone patterns and isolated electronics. Playlist: Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament 2010-02-19T21:40:00Z “It’s cognitive dissonance. You oscillate in between two things — one is cozy, the other malign.” At the Met’s Roof Garden, Raising a ‘PsychoBarn’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “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 The dissonance of Abercrombie & Fitch now being known for its Curve Love jeans is arguably one of the wildest reversals in recent retail history. The teens who hated Abercrombie are the adults shopping there now — and they can’t believe it either 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z And we had specifically grown up increasingly in churches that demanded an absolutely extraordinary amount of cognitive dissonance. "They cannot survive without fear": A heretic on leaving the evangelical church 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z He tended to gloss over big moments with infuriatingly brisk tempos, and the crunching appoggiatura on the work’s final chord, one of the most eloquent dissonances in all of music history, simply failed to register. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Not that the First is deficient, but it represents Prokofiev at his prickliest, with slashing dissonances and abrupt shifts. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z But the dissonances between the pianos are only ever highlighted gently, at hinge points when both are clearly audible. Review: A Sublime New Direction for Andrew Norman in Los Angeles 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z In this piece, synthesizer and saxophone create piercing dissonances that are sustained to the point where sonic boundaries blur, throb and flicker. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Matthew gave me the intellectual tools to get past that cognitive dissonance.” Matthew Vines Won’t Rest in Defending Gay Christians 2012-09-14T22:53:06Z Through notation and conducting he stirs the flow of music in several directions at once, forming stimulating dissonance and contrapuntal shapes between tidal currents of chords. Music Review: Surprises From Someone Fans Thought They Knew 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z What were those notes that seemed to escape from the orchestra and jab me with touches of dissonance? Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z That the juxtaposition between the experimentation in its setup and the brazenness in the characters' and story's incendiary satire has now reached a point where that dissonance is simply an everyday truth. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z “There’s a level of cognitive dissonance, even looking at it,” he said. ‘Prometheus Eternal,’ a Comic-Book Anthology in the Company of Masterpieces 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But Joubert's music, with its well-judged use of dissonance within a tonal context, seems much more striking when anguished and despairing than in the rather bland diatonic choral writing of the final two movements. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z Relying on the thrill of noise and dissonance in this balletic tidbit, Mosolov anticipated by more than half a century industrial rock and heavy metal. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z I've never thought for one minute, oh this line, oh this dissonance is going to turn this audience off. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z Nevelson’s collages, which combine cardboard scraps with paper, metallic tape and wood, have an entrancing dissonance. TEFAF New York: A Worldly Fair Overflows With Art and Design 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Her paintings have an almost musical quality about them, in the way that they experiment with extremes of dissonance and harmony. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In the Wednesday performance, conducted by George Manahan, even the pruned score retained the portentous, seething lushness of the music in a Douglas Sirk melodrama, with expressive touches of dissonance. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z To reread "To Kill a Mockingbird" in advance of Tuesday's release of Harper Lee's much-anticipated follow-up, "Go Set a Watchman," is not so much an exercise in nostalgia as in cognitive dissonance. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z He’s not afraid to spike the momentum with dissonance and atonal shrapnel that would be right at home on a Sonic Youth album. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z The Wagnerian legato of the last minor-key variation reached a stentorian fortissimo to emphasize the dissonances of its final cadence. Review | Angela Hewitt’s cinematic Goldberg Variations 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Hearing new details about things they hadn’t realized were open to interpretation feels like cognitive dissonance, as if someone were tampering with the wording of the Constitution. J.K. Rowling Just Can’t Let Harry Potter Go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The sound is a pastiche of dissonance and lushness. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Waite has a knack for showing the ways that cognitive dissonance can chart pathways in the mind that cause emotional confusion to obscure rational thought. New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z In the same way that being Mr. Lamar requires a sort of cognitive dissonance, being his fan does, as well. Music Review: Kendrick Lamar Weighs in at Williamsburg Waterfront Park 2013-09-11T21:41:02Z The show’s Jimmy is a much-needed note of dissonance: the actually pathetic antihero. The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV’s bold angry men 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z There is a slight dissonance, but not an unpleasant one; the effect is more like the distortion of memory. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Timbres of strings, winds and harpsichord stacked in throbbing dissonance, a grinding wall of sound melting into ordered harmony — so began the world, according to French baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel. Review | NSO presents an exuberant panorama of early music 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But “these people were also working on breaking down boundaries of sound, creating distortion, creating noise, working in dissonance,” Marshall said. A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z As we saw in the first-person accounts in chapter 6, the dissonance created by this emphasis on surrender is one of the big reasons so many addicts don’t get better in AA. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z The cinematic city walk is also an exemplary part of artistic modernity, as in the visual architectural dissonances of Michelangelo Antonioni’s great films, including “La Notte,” “The Eclipse,” and “Zabriskie Point.” Cinema’s Walking Cure 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Tom is smooth and opportunistic, a pianist, a mother’s boy and, with deliberate dissonance, a dedicated wolf. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z There's something else ufologists are a textbook example of: cognitive dissonance – the mental distress of trying to hold two conflicting worldviews simultaneously. The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Inside the aging body is this witness that thinks it’s 18. There’s the cognitive dissonance of, what’s happening to me? When I’m not crying, it’s funny.” Michael Douglas Refuses to Age Gracefully in ‘The Kominsky Method’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The event, which will continue Friday and Saturday with a better roster of pop acts including Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars, was rich with cognitive dissonance. Rock in Rio USA is a ball of confusion 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “Yes, I am Black and queer,” he said, “but I am also male, educated, American. My job is to sit with that dissonance, and then do something about it.” Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z "It's an unbelievably powerful, passionate piece with irregular rhythms and dissonance in line with other 20th-century pieces," says Stern. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z Growing up as a preacher’s kid in Memphis, my world was filled with cognitive dissonance. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z “The Hamlet Zone” is a place in which words are broken up, transferred and shared, and in which the voice of one character is woven together, in both harmony and dissonance, with that of another. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z "I met a man with a barrier of cognitive dissonance around him, and self-deception and mythology." Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z This makes for a pleasing cognitive dissonance, cultural ruminations organised by a Linnaean schema one associates with scientific textbooks. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Musicians tried dialogue and simultaneity, drone and dissonance, deference and competition, empathy and obliviousness; idioms mattered, but were permeable. Music Review: Round-Robin Duets at Brooklyn Masonic Temple 2013-05-02T21:52:58Z But about twenty-five minutes into the movie I experienced a strong cognitive dissonance: I watched as J.D. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes there’s the amplified ticking of a clock, a bursting heartbeat, a mismatched thrum of tentacular chords or a brass fanfare sliding into sinister dissonance. Review: Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Denny is not by any means the first artist to use the visual representations of luxury and fashion as a material way to confront cultural dissonance. Tech Bro Uniform Meets Margaret Thatcher. Disruption Ensues. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The harmonies will arrive amid visual dissonance, as when, last year, Patti LaBelle appeared on a float festooned with the Ocean Spray logo and escorted by people clad to harvest cranberries. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Adapts to the Eye of the Times 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But that inherent dissonance hasn’t prevented the movie from becoming a mega-blockbuster. "The Lion King," beautiful and bland: With nostalgia upgrades, there's always a cost 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Most people reduce the dissonance by deciding that the beloved’s politics are just an aberration or less important than other issues, Dr. Tavris said. Cultural Studies: Hand-Holding Across the Aisle 2010-09-24T19:30:00Z Like its companion pieces, it has soaring soprano lines and smoothly flowing polyphony, with only occasional touches of light chromaticism and mild dissonance to betray its 20th-century provenance. Music Review: Amuse Revives Villa-Lobos?s ?Missa S?o Sebasti?o? 2010-06-14T23:07:00Z Melding the live action with the uncanny valley animation creates an emotional dissonance. The “Lady and the Tramp” live-action remake is a little ruff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Masses of chaotic dissonance rise up here and in the otherwise lush “mourning ode” movement that follows. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z When those same friends gathered together less than two years later to sing the song at her funeral, the dissonance was jarring. Hear MUNA's Uplifting New Song for the LGBTQ Community 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The beat heaves and erupts, the harmonies thicken and bristle with modern-jazz dissonance, and twin-guitar riffs slice crosswise against the dramatic declamation of the melody. The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z He can jolt chords with piercing dissonances or tame them into modal calm. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z As examples of bias, of cognitive dissonance, the results are interesting. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z But every note in Mr. Sondheim’s score feeds a larger, sustained air of menace and obsession, of ugliness and dissonance lurking beneath surface prettiness and harmony. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z Johannesburg, then and now, is Africa’s economic hub, a behemoth bazaar, a city held thinly together amid an atmosphere of frenetic, punk-like dissonance. The Atget of Johannesburg 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z There is just a weird dissonance about that. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z There were some nicely drawn textures in “By The Brook” — the solo cellos audible for a change and the gentle woodwind dissonances toward the end just right. Despite some standout playing, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra struggles at cohesion They also explain concepts like cognitive dissonance and negative reinforcement with that demonstrative gusto often found in beloved middle school teachers. Review: Thinking Outside (and Inside) B.F. Skinner’s Box 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z She has solidarity with her economic class and not her religion, the dissonance that makes the oxymoronic concept of high-power Jewish sympathizers to a Nazi cause possible. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z The paintings teeter between order and chaos, harmony and dissonance, beauty and ugliness. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z Posted in white sans-serif letters on a black background — like iPhone notes adjusted for low light — the diary captures the mind-bending dissonance of life in a war zone. 5 Ukrainian Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z And then by the dissonance between the absurdity of how he looks, in his powder-blue T-shirt and fake ears, and the eloquence of what he says. Postscript: Leonard Nimoy 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But the precision and sting of the music, the steely blasts heaving with dissonance, display a feisty new voice eager to say something important. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Are these unearthly sounds then meant to be transformations of the awful, the way composers a century ago used dissonance to signal horror? Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The upshot of this convergence is a fascinating cultural dissonance: Americans seem to be talking about divorce more, while divorcing less. Family Matters: The Joys of Vicarious Divorce 2010-08-27T19:16:00Z Deaf Center is a Norwegian duo who play piano and cello with long tones, far-reaching sustain, carefully overlapping dissonances and wizardly use of audio space. Pistol Annies, YOB, Deaf Center, Paul Simon 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z The work’s anguished dissonances seem to attest to awe rather than to mortal terror. Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z To be from California, as the composer Gabriella Smith and I both are, is to grow up surrounded by dissonance. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z This is the dissonance that trails us through the book, nagging all the way. You Had to Be There. ‘Encounterism’ Argues You Still Do. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Foregoing introductions, he launched the group into a 26-minute excursion that segued from the staggered dissonance of the band’s title tune to the less agitated “Spirits.” Sound Prints truly suprise and delight at Town Hall | Concert preview 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z In songs that flaunt the complexity and dissonance of prog-rock and the bitter angularity of post-punk — while stirring in ideas from jazz, classical music, funk, salsa and flamenco — loathsome characters do odious things. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Embedded in that dissonance is a kind of complicity, the act of participating in systems responsible for terrible things — a notion that, to Kitamura, is perhaps the book’s central concern. Katie Kitamura and the Cognitive Dissonance of Being Alive Right Now 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z He prefers the lower intervals of the chords and Lage, at times, likes the higher ones, and they both like a measure of scruffy dissonance. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Out of the dissonance came double-breasted suits in navy and sky-blue and chocolate brown; suits with tuxedo lapels and cowhide trim. Why the Suit Is the Shape of the Moment 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z In “tell me,” he colored individual words in sharp dissonances that punctured the litany of a boy’s questions about his fallen brother. David Lang’s ‘Battle Hymns’ Are Performed on the Intrepid 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But a film also resonates peculiarly with the specific time of its creation, not necessarily through overt connections to current events but in terms of consonance or dissonance with prevailing moods. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z 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 It’s recognizably him, with the same strategy of dissonance as in “The More You Ignore Me”: a love song that isn’t. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Don’t quit before you get to Part 2; Monk’s solo is a seminar in his language of chiming dissonance, off-the-cliff arpeggios and fistfuls of clanking harmony. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Because you are safe to go into your own private head-place, and the chances are that there is a real dissonance between the erotic you and the you in the real world. How to have sex with the same person for the rest of your life 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z But both address war, displacement and the ringing dissonance of their country’s modern history. Review | It’s time we looked at Iran through the same lens as its best photographers 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z During this summer that promises to be the hottest on record, the dissonance made me ask the question: How does one look at art when it feels like the world is burning? When All the Art Is Green: Swiss Institute Takes On Climate Change 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z In music, dissonance, at least to Western ears, sounds dissonant, but it's often used in a way that's extremely effective. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The album’s opening track, “Burn the Witch,” is a spiral of tension, cryptically portraying a society ignoring its own witch hunts as a clattery, insistent string arrangement ratchets up the dissonance and agitation. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z At once, the three women create parallel physical geometries – in unison, stretching arms diagonally across the body’s centerline, tilting their torsos, rearranging the lines of their legs — that catch the music’s dissonances. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The music features jarring dissonances and a heavy yet agile orchestration that will be familiar to those who have heard Shostakovich’s operas and symphonies. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z There is real dissonance between the energy that the culture expends in discussing late-night television and the actual enthusiasm that it brings to watching it. A Late-Night Talk Show Is Not the Presidency 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It was a dissonance Mr. Hopkins made note of at the beginning, saying that usually he’d be instructing the crowd to “please be respectful of other people’s bodies and space.” Review: PWR BTTM Is Part Theater, Part Punk, Entirely Captivating at Joe’s Pub 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z However subtly, he distinctly choreographs each episode, using the camera and staging to underscore eddies of harmony and dissonance, shifting moods and awareness. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But even as the dissonance builds and Alice grasps that something is amiss, the movie stalls. ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review: Burning Down the Dollhouse 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The Largo is easygoing but poised, with quivering trills and lyrical passages shot through with dissonance. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z The shadow of late hovers over the work, like in the fortissimo chords of the dramatic “Grave,” whose leaps and dissonances seem influenced by the Grosse Fuge. Music Review: Devoted to Echoes of a Composer?s Brief Career 2011-03-27T23:07:15Z Bacevich’s critique of American foreign policy over the past decades targets the notion of “American exceptionalism” and the dissonance between the windy rhetoric of the country’s political leaders and the harsh realities of the world. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The first movement’s dissonances erupted with full ferocity, thanks to a well-paced buildup of tension. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z Romantic-era composers loved to milk and savor moments of dissonance to enhance the emotional impact of a crucial turn in a piece. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Leading from a portative keyboard in front of the orchestra, he brought a beautifully blended sound from the 16 voices of the chorus, rich in dynamic variety and always sensitive to Bach’s piquant dissonances. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z With the most minimalist of drum beats, two guitarists and a bassist split the difference between dissonance and melody, toggling back and forth between the two and sometimes blurring them together. SXSW: Psychedelia lives! 2014-03-14T15:03:00Z The slow improvisations here are the stars: “Tokyo Part III,” which grows into a mild flurry of dissonance; “Tokyo Part IV,” with its Bill Evans-like, rootless chord voicings; and the super-slow, magisterial “Tokyo Part IX.” Masabumi Kikuchi, Playing Peacefully Through the Dissonance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z I was a bit amazed that he kind of practised this cognitive dissonance for so long. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “Sure, it ends in Major, but only at the very last moment, and on a chord that glides softly and mysteriously away into silence — not unlike the final dissonance in Walker!” The art of programming a classical-music concert: Seattle Symphony brings together Dvorak, Walker, Szymanowski 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z This dissonance is crucial to the film and to the persona Pitt would develop, partly because it tempers beauty, making it approachable, funny, human. Brad Pitt and the Beauty Trap 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But there were shadows plucking at the grandeur, a sense of magnificence dissolving into dissonance. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It holds Cosby’s achievements and his wrongs close, and it recognizes that there may be unresolvable dissonance between the two. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z There's a narrator, there are electronic sounds, there's bestial - or rather cetacean - improvisation from the choir, there are football rattles and a whip, there's serialism, crunching dissonance, and loud-hailers. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z There are also penetrating dissonances, one note pushing against another, that make the whole room vibrate and a listener feel alive and alert. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z His use of dissonance — passing dissonances, radically unprepared modulations that turn in directions one does not expect — is a very sophisticated, progressive tonality. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z In his Seven Antiphons and elsewhere, he uses dissonance sparingly but effectively, sometimes sustaining it at length. Review: The Tallis Scholars, Hovering in a Meditative Sphere 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z What about the cognitive dissonance of their attending a public school that continues to operate as if these events don't matter and don’t affect them? Grieving together, and also apart: A Jewish American wrestles with identity, belonging and trauma 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z He also showed how his humor could play out musically, adding a delicious dissonance to the final statement of “The way you sing off key” in “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The cognitive dissonance on display here might prompt a reader who wishes to preserve her sanity to close the book immediately. Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Vanska led a remarkable, sharply defined rendition, the gritty dissonances and eccentricities of the original string quartet version magnified tenfold. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z In this brief work of kaleidoscopic variety, the four musicians purred through elements of folk music and multi-metric structure, more intense dissonance in the second movement, and Stravinskyesque rhythmic savagery. Music of Czechs, by Czechs but for everyone at the Library of Congress 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, however, Rozhdestvensky is particularly good at cumulative tension: the gathering dissonances of the first movement, the relentless pace of the second scherzo and the formal grief of the passacaglia are immaculately judged. Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 – review 2013-03-07T22:14:01Z As sung with spectral sound by Mr. Bostridge and played by Mr. Adès with attentiveness to wayward harmonies and flecks of dissonance, the music seemed at once old and new. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z Some tracks have only a string quartet, playing slowly dragged harmonies that sometimes pinch into fine-grain dissonance. Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Like the Mozart quartet, which it emulates, Jadin’s begins with a slow introduction clouded with smoky dissonances over a weary heartbeat played by the cello. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Beginning with martial percussion and dissonance, the symphony’s baseline is horror. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Cognitive dissonance, says Tavris, is unconscious mental conflict that arises when two attitudes, or an attitude and a behavior, or an attitude and new information, are incongruous with one another. Why can’t law enforcement admit their mistakes? 2012-10-21T14:00:00Z There’s such a profound dissonance between the immortality of music and the mortality of the human body, and we mourn that, too. This is how we will say goodbye to the rock-and-roll generation 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But in his case the dissonance has a specific source: his time in World War I, which physically and emotionally decimated a generation of Europeans. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z There’s a delicate dissonance in the multiple-part songs, which are all the more affecting for their implicit yearning for harmony. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z It ratchets up Fela’s deliberate pace and sometimes exults in the dissonance of its churning, brawling funk. Sharon Jones Headlines Daptone’s Night of Soul 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z “Half Past France,” once a wistful ballad, was remade with clouds of ominous orchestral dissonance; “Leaving It Up to You,” once a rocker, became even more queasy when turned into brittle, twitchy funk. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z I asked Newman about the dissonance between his lyrics, which are often dark and even melancholy, and the actual music of his songs, which is typically upbeat and danceable. WATCH: Carl Newman of The New Pornographers: “I’ve always loved epic, sugary pop songs” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z These pastiches — a British-style drinking ditty, a sober hymn, a sincere parlor song — are the most inspired moments in the opera, run through with dissonances and the creaking out-of-tune piano Mr. Maxwell Davies calls for. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z Working with dissonance is often a risk, especially for a young performer. DoNormaal’s creative mix of harmony and dissonance 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z In “Der Doppelgänger” — one of Schubert’s most terrifying songs — she sustained dissonances, letting their uneasiness warp and linger under Padmore’s stark melody. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z What one does hear, particularly in the coda, are dissonances, but less in the spirit of mockery than of disquiet, a sort of cry of pain that nonetheless resolves and dissipates. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z There are other factors ready to sabotage good intentions, too, such as perfectionism and a dissonance between words and actions, Pychyl said. Perspective | My nest is empty, but the stuff remains. Why is decluttering so emotionally fraught? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z In his e-mail, Steinlauf described a decades-long process in which “the dissonance between my inside and my outside became undeniable, then unwise and finally intolerable.” Is this any of our business? A rabbi tells the world he’s gay — and criticism follows. After his careful buildup, all of the band except Burton fell away, and in their duet the pianist goaded his sideman into spasmodic dissonances. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The feeling is one of cognitive dissonance, a quick oscillation between repulsion and attraction. DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day 2012-04-04T22:26:55Z Most baffling was the omission of Mica Levi’s score for “Under the Skin,” which, like Greenwood’s work for Anderson, moves from seething dissonance to eerie simplicity and back again. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Caryl is good on the cognitive dissonance induced by the Islamic revolution in Iran. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z And Mr. Muzijevic played with subtle beauty, allowing the piercing dissonances in Schumann’s chromatic harmonies to emerge without any sense of making points or underlining complexities. Music Review: Schumann?s Poetic Side, Poured Richly Into Songs 2010-03-01T22:28:00Z “I tried and tried and tried to pretend/But the dissonance will win in the end,” she sings in “When We Were Young,” as her words collide with an upbeat, handclapping folk-rock arrangement. That Dog. Made Its First Album in 22 Years. A Lot Has Changed. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Most were fairly traditional, in the sense that they used dissonance sparingly and expressively and were structurally clear and direct. Music Review: Joel Sachs Takes New Juilliard Ensemble to MoMA 2010-07-26T23:43:00Z Sessions is a beloved figure among the president’s supporters, so Trump’s tweet-shaming of Sessions caused some cognitive dissonance within the conservative-media ecosystem. After a wild week, conservative media stand (nervously) by Trump 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The majority employ his mature harmonic language, replete with rich dissonances and characteristic rhythms. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Occasionally, a revival can use this dissonance to its advantage. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z This supremely clever feature by the Quebecois director Denis Côté wrings great comedy from a simple dissonance. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Most numbers are slowed down and set to harmonies that morph from quiet lyricism to frayed dissonances, with Mr. Sorey’s subtle percussion work adding a nervous sheen. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Also Korngoldesque are the glinting dissonances that affirm rather than undermine the diatonic harmony, as if putting floodlights on the chords. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z In some ways, Ms. Fure’s vocabulary of dread-inducing noises is familiar: a panicky pulse, heavy distortion, muffled cries and amplified whispers, sustained dissonances. Review: An ‘Opera for Objects’ Makes Music Out of Fear 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z You recognise the dissonance in those two thoughts. Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z Her horn players all have a few years on her, but as they conjured a cloud of rugged dissonance, they seemed to know who they were answering to. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z I started spending a lot of time in the library trying to resolve this dissonance between what I felt my country was like and what it might be like. America's housing crisis: 'A problem we need to hate more’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z But there can be a cognitive dissonance to seeing an 80-year old who looks so youthful. Martha Stewart Welcomes You to Generation Ageless 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z A late Romantic in the mold of Liszt and Wagner, Bartók became a modernist through his study both of pre-tonal folk music from Hungary and other countries, and of post-tonal incorporation of dissonance. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z You will understand, at this point, why cognitive dissonance set in. Personal Journeys: Dodging a Holiday in a Remote Mexican Town 2013-12-27T17:34:54Z Such prejudice is the natural solution to cognitive dissonance, which holds that when people’s belief systems conflict with their behavior, they will sometimes modify their beliefs in order to justify their behavior. The Wal-Mart-ization of higher education: How young professors are getting screwed 2014-02-16T11:59:00Z Verlaine encouraged musician friends to set his texts, which inspired composers who were drawn to the poems’ dissonance and irregular rhythms. Review: Philippe Jaroussky Breaks Away From Baroque Boundaries 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The title track, which opens the album, plummets listeners into this world with immediate dissonance. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Those kinds of off-rhythms and the dissonance, and then the lyrics, are very intellectual and political. What Do Lars Ulrich and A.O. Scott Have in Common? A Lot, It Turns Out 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Key was a smart guy with a social conscience, and his cognitive dissonance about race was typical of his time. Book review: ‘What So Proudly We Hailed,’ by Marc Leepson Only the first, composed before the all-important 1967 encounter with Steve Reich's Piano Phase, suggests that there may be merit in variety, with nicely crafted hanging dissonances and textural play. Smith Quartet 2010-04-25T21:15:00Z The score risks sounding amorphous at times, but Ms. Saariaho prevents this by injecting shards of dissonance, elusive harmonies that slip and groan, and spiraling figures that create moments of dizzying intensity. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s a place of spiritual dissonance and contradictions, at once a high desert casino town and an aspirant city of culture. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Some women in Riyadh say they are used to the cognitive dissonance. | The TV Watch: Saudi Arabia: Ramadan TV Gently Pushes Saudi Boundaries 2012-08-20T02:22:34Z Is it "soft"? Yes, Gonzalez, who produced the album, prefers gentleness to dissonance. Jose Gonzalez rocks his mellow way in 'Vestiges & Claws' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The strings sweep in, low and loving, and in the last moments of the album, they slip down a half step into dissonance, and then disappear. Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Minchin’s score, one of the most original in years, balances melody on the edge of dissonance, so that even can-do anthems have an undertow of apprehension. | 'Matilda': ?Matilda,? by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London 2012-01-31T11:00:00Z He pushed the pop/noise/hook/distortion matrix further in a set that started with pure animosity — drone and dissonance — and ended up euphoric and spattered with brittle noise. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The New Museum, two blocks south, offers the same kind of cognitive dissonance: a gleaming tower devoted to high-end globalized art, it is a similar product of gentrification. Last Chance: ‘Come Closer’ at the New Museum 2012-12-25T22:34:38Z The songs, accompanied by a throbbing onstage band led by Chris Fenwick, find the natural dissonance in sweet melody and vice versa. Review: Homeless Teenagers, Strutting and Seething in ‘Runaways’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Tilson Thomas had conducted these seascapes in San Francisco last June, and his conception remains broadly paced, carefully contoured and wonderfully sweeping, emphasizing the introspective darkness in the brass and stinging dissonances in the detail. TilsonThomas leads London Symphony in victory lap at Disney Hall 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The movie deftly accounts for the dissonance between the two events. ‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Where thundering chords denoting burning hatred and the throes of spiritual despair are indicated, we hear instead the thinner textures of a piano sonata, albeit one liberally laced with dissonance. Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z The Berio work obsesses over a clash between two notes, A and B, harping savagely on the dissonance and exploring it in smooth passages and caustic, brittle interruptions. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Yet the most extreme dissonance comes in an urban image: a poster of a fashion model, emulating an Old Master portrait, that hangs next to cracked wall. In the galleries: A meeting of lines in art and architecture For starters, the dissonance between critical and public reaction to Bird Box implies that their products, if pitched right, can be critic-proof. Flying high: how Bird Box became Netflix's biggest hit to date 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z There are pieces that feel prickly with dissonance, but by and large Mr. Jarrett reaches for soulfulness, even at the expense of precision. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z Mann then zooms in on the dissonance between her generic expensive kitchen and her exuberant personal style. Review | Stop feeling embarrassed by how much you love reality TV 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z But Malick's father was an Assyrian Christian, with family roots in the mideast, which surely created a lot of cognitive dissonance growing up, and might account for the pantheistic vision that his films depict. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z Such are the dissonances that attend settling into one’s figurative seat at Orchestra Hall to experience the DSO through virtual reality. How a mannequin head could revolutionize how orchestras and audiences come together 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z The orchestra embraced the dissonances folded into the thick, descending chords. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z Even as “The Little Match Girl Passion” becomes more familiar, it retains its capacity to grip and haunt with its icy web of spare lines, insistent repetitions and uneasy dissonances. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z The songs conceal or completely disregard the signposts of pop, and they linger in dissonance and ambiguous tonality. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura,’ From Deep Within 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Like so many of Shepard’s plays and short stories, this narrative explores the confusions of identity, the pull between freedom and roots, and the hard-to-erase dissonances of family life. Review: ‘The One Inside’ Presents Sam Shepard in a Minor Key 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z From Loy A. Webb, “The Light,” also at MCC, concerning the romantic dissonance in the fragmenting relationship of a culturally hip black couple. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z He opened Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata by using the pedal to blend arpeggiated individual pitches into clusters of ever-morphing consonances and dissonances, as if the piano had somehow become an electronic instrument. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “The sound is a pastiche of dissonance and lushness,” Mr. Goldstein wrote. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Reissue 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Its harmonies are constantly swaying back and forth with subtle dissonances, a never-ending push and pull. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z De Brossard's all-male response to the Virgin Mary's suffering permits and explores masculine emotion and vulnerability as its expression of grief, at times alarming in its dissonance, gradually gathers momentum. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet – review 2013-04-16T16:10:34Z For all the work we've done as a society towards recognizing that fatness isn't a moral failing, in a display of tremendous, collective dissonance, we still view thinness as a moral good. Why Jenny Craig couldn't last in the Ozempic Age 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z If a musical language is saturated with seventh chords, then the harshness of that embedded interval becomes the norm, not the exception, which softens the dissonance without sacrificing the pungency. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z So they probably stand on the brink of a breakdown if they don’t solve some of that cognitive dissonance. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z So there is a bit of dissonance between my temperament and the subject I chose to write about. I spent 40 years looking for the kid who bullied me: “I think we do carry those childhood injustices with us” 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Stranger and more memorable was the elegant performance of the other work that followed, Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 2 in A minor, with its unexpected dissonances, its stormy first-movement flurries in the cello and viola. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z An insomniac himself, Dr. Pigeon is not soothed by his soundscapes because he knows them by heart and will fret over dissonances only he can perceive. The Sound of Silence 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Floating on the edge of dissonance, the mournful tones stopped me in my tracks, and I looked around for its source. Cádiz, an Underrated Corner of Spain 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But back to the whole reason I agreed to the 1994 endeavor: cognitive dissonance that leaves me unable to calibrate effort and reward. 1994 Was a Prison of My Own Making 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z When I thought about her words a little more, however, I understood that the dissonance was mine. Turns out our stereotypes of hunting are really about our own fear of death 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z In his own music especially, he often seems intent on extracting consonance from dissonance or forging ungainliness into grace. Music Review: A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z Dax selected the name to evoke "the dissonance between the political landscape at the national level and the cultural milieu of the downtown New York performance scene". Come to the Cabaret 2013-02-28T17:53:53Z The orchestra overture depicts the “Representation of Chaos” in the cosmos through daring music that at times evades stable harmonic zones and is run through with passing dissonance, like stray motifs in search of cohesion. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z “High Fiber Diet” offers many moments of recognition and dissonance, as the artists play with and against our expectations of these familiar fibers and forms. Familiarity of fiber art rendered compelling at Bellevue Arts Museum’s Biennial 2013-01-16T22:57:38Z But there was also dissonance, if not outright defiance. Our college was closing, and we were angry. That didn’t mean we’d skip the reunion. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Instead he wrote music of majestic despair in an achingly tonal harmonic language spiked with prickly dissonance. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z It gives Beck room to peal some clarion melodies and then attack them with trills, bent notes, blues licks and dissonances. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z This dissonance is unacknowledged and reveals a lack of self-awareness that plagues the final third of the book. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Older, more chipper songs — “Definition,” “Get By” — fared better, but not by enough to sandpaper down the dissonance. Music Review: Lloyd Banks Performs at Nokia Theater 2010-04-30T22:56:00Z The result is a strange and affecting dissonance. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z Mr. Ronson, a journalist and author who also was a writer on the indie movie “Frank,” said that for him, “Okja” was about cognitive dissonance. A Maverick Director, His Big Pig and the Small Screen 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Jamie Lidell This willfully eccentric British soul singer has long sanctioned a dissonance between his albums, which skew nifty and earnest, and his performances, which go more for manic sprawl. Playlist: Music From Kris Kristofferson, Jamie Lidell and ?Treme? 2010-05-16T14:06:00Z The orchestral arrangements are tinctured with dissonance; sustained synthesizer tones slide on and off pitch, feeling precarious. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The orchestra cushions her singing with delicate, tart dissonances. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z There’s also, some possible dissonance between the first iteration of the exhibition in Frankfurt, and its recasting for the more conventional and nervous Smithsonian. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Like her husband's music, dissonance was the leitmotif of Lina's life: from the long, debilitating campaign for Sergei's affection to her struggle for professional success. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-05-12T08:00:04Z The dissonance is real, and our kids are aware. Perspective | Don’t shy away from talking to kids about the Capitol riot. They know more than you think. 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Carter's overture, though sharing some of Copland's upbeat diatonic flavour, had an admixture of Carter-ish contrapuntal complexity and dissonance. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z By her account there was dissonance between the prevailing aesthetic in alternative rock and her background as a classical violinist and voice performance major. Music: Tracy Bonham?s Bumpy Path From Angst to Bliss 2010-07-09T23:45:00Z In many of his late pieces he explores radical chromatic harmony and dissonance, sometimes cutting loose almost completely from tonal moorings. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Ms. Cuckson’s readings of the Shapey études emphasized their vigor and muscularity, qualities manifest in the assertive dissonances of the set’s chordal opening. Music Review: New-Music Champion Inches Toward the Standard Repertory 2011-01-20T00:30:17Z “Klondike” underlines the cognitive dissonance of wishing that context away. ‘Klondike’ Review: Domestic Violence 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z She acknowledges the dissonance between her appearance and her voice. Whatever happens on 'The Voice,' Vicci Martinez feels like a winner 2011-06-22T23:29:04Z The violinists played loud, amplified drone chords, mostly consonant but with ear-scraping traces of dissonance, following a slow, regular, graceful pulse, interlocking their two-chord patterns or sometimes just working over a solitary one. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z "Most of the songs are almost love songs that don't have any dissonance or irony, or second-guessing," said Sparhawk. Alan Sparkhawk talks about his trio, Low 2011-09-15T19:24:03Z KFC didn’t invent the concept of videos that inspire such cognitive dissonance that they just have to be shared, of course. Sexy Colonel Sanders? How the face of KFC became a (kind of weird) sex symbol 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z But the more intriguing, subtle and, for composers, handy kind of dissonance involves intervals — that is, the combination of notes that create an acoustical, harmonic tension demanding resolution. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The group’s focused energy and exactitude underlined the close dissonances and hypnotic minimalist repetitions of the music, casting an intoxicating spell. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The E flat work, coloured by horn and clarinet, alternates harmonic familiarity with sudden dissonance, its last movement ending with almost shocking, or perhaps jokey, abruptness. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z Perhaps this narrative dissonance is indicative of Jones’s attempt at experimentation. Review | ‘The Prophets’ reimagines the lives of enslaved people with the epic love story of two men 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Even in a recorded version, its volcanic drums and cyclonic dissonances tear through the theatre. Sasha Waltz & Guests: Continu – review 2012-10-01T17:13:25Z As the score vacillates between rhythmic, melodic passages and warped dissonance, they look at times like they’re trying to worm their way out of their bodies. Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Higher voices intrude, until there is a pileup of parts, and the music heaves with Expressionistic harmonies reminiscent of Berg, yet spiked with jazzy chords and piercing dissonance that somehow seem American and fresh. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z The extreme harmonies of Gesualdo’s “Moro, Lasso” showed off the singers’ assured sense of pitch and control, as they leaned into the difficult dissonances and allowed the resolutions to fall into place naturally. Music Review: Clarion Music Society at the Five Borough Music Festival 2012-11-27T22:51:16Z Their efforts paid off in an engrossing, characterful performance of the dozen short movements, in which brash dissonances are playfully contrasted with emotive outbursts and lyrical interludes. Review: The Pacifica Quartet Interprets Composers’ ‘Last Words’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z There is a dissonance between what we see and what we are told. The Full Monty on stage: the boys are back in town 2013-02-10T16:59:01Z Subversion was in the form of less musical dissonance and less density, more freedom, more harmonies, more play. Glitter down the Atlanta Highway – the B-52s are setting out on their final dance party! 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z He said dispersal of images and text in “Cook Korean!” causes visual dissonance. Some of the newest cookbooks look like comics. But does that work for readers? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z It was in essence a popcorn movie about cognitive dissonance, one of my favourite subjects. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Flash cold smoking, done in the kitchen just before plating, imparts a tangy, cooked woodland savor to the raw flesh of the fish that makes for a delicious cognitive dissonance in the mouth. In Search of Japan’s Hidden Culinary Revolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z But instead, he retreated into his safe space and didn’t risk introducing dissonance into it, for fear he might lose what ignorance had failed to take from him. The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The eternal struggle between dissonance and harmony, between stress and release, is what makes music what it is. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z But I like noise music, so it's more of a wedding of maybe hip hop and noise, with some dissonance. Kim Gordon on "No Home Record" and why "palatable" art doesn't affect change 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z But at Mr. Cooper’s glacial pace, each dissonance is left hanging so long that it seems to suck the oxygen out of the air. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z To use musical terms, were you after dissonance or harmony? Finding out you have a hole in your heart: Joshua Mohr on his memoir 'Sirens' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Paradoxically, both composers share a profound understanding of confusion, in its best and most exhilarating musical sense: initially causing discomfort through calculated dissonance. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z How’s this for a strange blend of irony, defiance, and cognitive dissonance? Angry Video Game Nerds, calm down about “Ghostbusters”: It’s still a comedy about ghosts and those who bust them 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z When I was all of a sudden thrust into that context, there was a lot of cognitive dissonance for me personally. Sheik navigates Broadway, pop worlds 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z “I don’t know. There is some dissonance, obviously.” This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z He has an ear for subtle dissonance, and his inventive orchestrations are enhanced by judicious use of saxophone, piano and celeste. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z “It’s so cool that they do that,” said Clement, whose surprise pauses, thick dissonances and sprinkled flourishes decidedly enlivened the proceedings. This year’s Jazz Port Townsend was very much a family affair 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s important to keep in mind the contextual aspect to dissonance, whatever the era of music history. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Elsewhere dissonance and turbulence cohabit with a desire for connection. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z “Part of being a film-maker,” she says carefully, “is that you enter a public discourse. And I value and respect that. Even at the risk of the dissonance it may encourage.” Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The mismatch is intended ironically, but that dissonance is too weak and brittle to sustain the work across the score’s 75 minutes. Review: Staging Their Own Siege, Sardonic and Messy 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z But while the quartet colored beautifully within the lines, its interpretation was a little self-effacing in its reticence to shape expressive lines and lean into Mozart’s dissonances and agitated rhythms. Dover Quartet boasts young stars in the making 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z With each of Swift’s responses to Mueller’s lawyer, there was the curious dissonance of a victim refusing to behave like one. Taylor Swift’s punch-the-air moment for girls 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The rendition is perfect dissonance: a balance of hope and frustration and beauty and pain. My new US citizenship: It's complicated 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z It assumes they don’t want to deal with the dissonance of being unsettled, yet fascinated, by the behavior of fictional characters. Olive Kitteridge and Why "Likability" Is for Saps 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z At that time, he experimented with collage, with neo-classicism, and with aggressive dissonance, in ways that were bound to alienate him from the Soviet authorities but which began to bring him respect in the west. A guide to Arvo Pärt's music 2012-06-18T16:10:26Z Dr. Grubman assured me that if I were an actual billionaire, I would resolve the dissonance in time. DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day 2012-04-04T22:26:55Z It’s a scripted rant, but not all of the dissonance in “Actress Fury,” at the Bushwick Starr, is deliberate. Theater Review: ‘Actress Fury,’ a Dance-Theater Work Set in a Dressing Room 2014-02-10T22:37:23Z This is music built of morphing textures, subtle coloration, straightforward but involving rhythmic underpinnings and rich currents of melody, all cloaked in a harmonic language that embraces dissonance without making it the point. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Dutilleux at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-27T20:50:47Z I said, taken aback by the dissonance between the lilt in her voice and what she was saying. Motherlode Blog: My I.V.F. Education 2013-12-10T16:24:16Z Certainly, with no orchestral clothing to cushion its dissonances, the music seems more anguished, more modernist, especially in the monumental first movement. Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 (transcribed Stevenson & White) | CD Review 2010-03-25T23:00:00Z The dissonances and symmetries of her migratory history continue to be the source of her poetry. Poetry review: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-05-14T23:38:00Z But Malick's father was an Assyrian Christian, with family roots in the mideast, which surely created a lot of cognitive dissonance growing up, and might partly account for the pantheistic vision that his films depict. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z Accessibility appears to have been the key to this opening concert; dissonance was used only in the most painterly way, and references to folk and popular music were plentiful. Music Review: Soundtrack for Bird and Turtle, and Other New Music 2011-03-29T21:48:48Z It’s doubtful that watching Nancy Drew get busy will be a deal-breaker for most people; a slap of cognitive dissonance for some, definitely. The all-new "Nancy Drew" is progressive and hooking up, y'all 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z So there was cognitive dissonance when, in January, Adele canceled her much-publicized Las Vegas residency just 24 hours before opening night. Adele Returns to the Stage in Las Vegas, Resolute and Reflective 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The filmmakers use Elsa as a template for exploring the dissonance between one's actual age and that interior emotional time clock that for so many tends to stop just shy of 40. Romance proves ageless in 'Elsa & Fred' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z When he played Mozart and late Schumann at the piano for me, Widmann rejoiced in finding the moments of acidulous dissonance, unresolved tensions and modernist style-clashes in music I might have thought I knew. A guide to Jörg Widmann's music 2012-10-08T14:22:33Z "Now, Chris and I look to play notes that will clash, and then bend them into one another to harmonize, then back into dissonance," Edkins says. Metz: All out, all the time 2013-05-09T22:15:00Z Like many other European composers in his broad age group, by the late 1950s, ten Holt was incorporating serial procedures into his compositions, prioritizing dissonance over tonality and consonance. The Minimalist Composer Who Keeps Getting Left Out 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Being a female Hollywood star means something completely different than it did when “Big Little Lies” started, and Season 2 reflected a certain cognitive dissonance. “Big Little Lies” Season 2 Was a Metaphor for Power in Hollywood After #MeToo 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z In the Adagio, a movement dedicated to Bartok’s memory, quiet, floating dissonances sustained by the flute and clarinet created a subtle trembling effect that was unexpectedly poignant. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Orchestra members chose the pitches of their notes, aiming for maximum dissonance and guided by the score as to whether the phrases were to be rising or falling. Music Review: It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos 2011-03-08T23:21:59Z Wayne Coyne’s disembodied voice floats through a matrix of drone and dissonance. Album review: The Flaming Lips, 'The Terror' 2013-04-15T17:47:00Z While there is great beauty in the chiaroscuro interplay between his expressionistic dissonances and Renaissance-style harmonies, his works never build toward resolution or transfiguration. Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Andrew Hsu’s “vale” began the program with an amorphous cloud of dissonance, slow and vibrating, that gradually warmed into wavelike full-ensemble exhalations. Review: Crescendos and Decay in Juilliard Premieres 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Its prevailing tone is modern: jagged rhythms in the opening Allegro; eerie dissonances and extended string techniques in its hushed Adagio. Music Review: New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:22Z Simple disagreement triggers some cousin of cognitive dissonance, where the reader's brain scrambles to forcibly reconcile beliefs that don't actually contradict each other. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Kutik and the imposing pianist Anna Polonsky moved together effortlessly through thickets of dissonance in the first movement and the playful, percussive jabs of the second. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z In the first gallery, nine tiny lithographs — each measuring 3 inches square, each in its own handmade frame, and all from 1949 or 1950 — combine the dissonance of collage with the harmony of resolved compositions. Frederick Hammersley at L.A. Louver: There's more than meets the eye 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In a similar vein, Mr. Agnew said that “if we approach the text first, we should be able to find out when to go fast or slow, when to allow the dissonance to speak.” Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s also easy to miss the queasy sensation of cultural dissonance from a distance and to think we can eavesdrop on another society’s conversations without missing important cues. Is Charlie Hebdo racist? Or have critics been too quick to condemn it? 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Instead of sales metrics or star power, Big Ears contemplates the perceptual properties of music: shades of dissonance and consonance, the particular qualities of a drone, the ever-changing applications of subtlety and brute force. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Dylan turned his piano into an orchestra: rumbling, jazzy dissonance; terse counterpoint fills underneath his vocals; thundering gospel chords as prelude to spider-walking flourishes with both hands. Concert review: Bob Dylan at United Center 2012-11-10T06:43:10Z I had a fairly Western upbringing, but while performing my job I felt a rending dissonance. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Some of the most renowned songs in music will use dissonance in an artful way. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z In “A Quiet Place” the ribbons and glitter are gone: the music is jagged and fractured, with polyphonic chorales and jazzy burlesques that explode in bursts of dissonance. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z And there’s a cognitive dissonance between the show’s racial consciousness and some of its more Cinemax-friendly attributes, like the constant nudity of Asian actresses. Review: ‘Warrior,’ Pitched by Bruce Lee and Made by Cinemax 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The structure is choppy, and there are odd moments of tonal dissonance. Review: Fighting to Save Her ‘Little Pink House’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But they make for some potent cognitive dissonance. Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Although León’s language is different from decade to decade, her ear for slightly bent phrases in the early works can help prepare a listener for the way she later learned to make starker dissonances dance. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z There are examples galore of gnashing, aggressive dissonance in Mr. Sondheim’s music, including parts of “Sweeney.” Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z And balances went awry in the fast section, though there, too, Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s focus on fleeting dissonances kept the attention mostly on the score’s narrative qualities rather than on the niceties of its execution. Music Review: Mostly Mozart and Chamber Orchestra of Europe 2012-08-07T21:46:15Z A melancholy, beautiful choralelike middle section teetered between dissonance and consonance. Music Review: Works That Make Technology an Ally 2011-06-01T22:38:12Z This dissonance is indicative of the show’s desire to be two things at once: a tense, moody-broody procedural and a lightly comic, character-driven cozy mystery. Television Review: Jackson Brodie Mysteries on PBS - Review 2011-10-14T23:14:58Z Instead, the cognitive dissonance induced by the show bewildered me: Why was Swift, a shrewd businesswoman, blathering on so cheesily? Taylor Swift Is Confusing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The melody lands on unexpected notes, and the cluster chords that support it are spiked with piercing dissonance. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z This impression is only enhanced by the instrumentation, as the winds dominate in quiet chords spiked with a rasp of dissonance. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z It's not nostalgic or particularly defiant; its blazing final chords are blurred with dissonance and unnervingly inconclusive. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2013-05-03T13:16:09Z Part of that dissonance comes down to the language and stories we use to talk about political action in the past. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Occasionally, the cheerful rapper Kyle talks about sketchy things with a sweet voice, and the dissonance is high. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z That cognitive dissonance, along with Narcissister’s grab bag of props, prosthetics and costumes, which she layers on as if she were a Russian doll, lends her dance pieces a sinister air. Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Of course he is interested in the similarities, but he takes particular note of their peculiarities: to get along together, all will have to attend to mutual differences and dissonances. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z The term works, in part, because of its dissonance. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z But there may be an emotional dissonance here because people honestly like Harrelson. Woody Harrelson's anti-vax joke raises questions about what we excuse in likable people in our lives 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z But the music here becomes as a restless aural collage pierced with flinty dissonance. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z And while the subject matter no longer shocks, the dissonance, atonality and droning viola remain startling. Review: Box sets from Cash, Kiss, Jackson, others 2012-11-20T19:58:14Z The cognitive dissonance would be less of a problem if the movie were funny, but it isn’t. ‘Song of Back and Neck’ Review: A Painful Comedy About Pain 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “There’s a real cognitive dissonance as a person in the world,” Kitamura said. Katie Kitamura and the Cognitive Dissonance of Being Alive Right Now 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z But what is meant to be a political parable, or even just a moody crime saga, is cut short by the dissonance between its self-serious attitude and the rough-edged execution of its melodrama. ‘Back to the Wharf’ Review: Ghosts of the Past 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z However, for all the work we've done as a society towards recognizing that fatness isn't a moral failing, in a display of tremendous, collective dissonance, we still view thinness as a moral good. Why Jenny Craig couldn't last in the Ozempic Age 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z He shunned European romanticism for an astringent, modernist aesthetic, writing colorful, densely scored works with complex rhythms, lyrical interludes, striking dissonances and vivid percussive elements. Review: Bard Festival Salutes Carlos Chávez 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z As Madsen puts it, this is essentially asking people to remember that there's something they must forget, but perhaps that captures the worldwide cognitive dissonance around the issue of nuclear waste disposal. "Into Eternity": The quest to make us forget nuclear waste 2011-02-04T19:45:00Z Their dissonance is ideal for this dance around the issue of who's on top, and yes, I mean that in all senses. Roman Polanski knows the ropes in 'Venus in Fur' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Thompson and her editor, Sylvie Landra, adroitly capture the eddies and squalls of casual conversation, as the polished cast works in harmonious dissonance to strike contrapuntal notes of idiosyncrasy. | 'Change of Plans': All Kiss-and-Tell and Wink-and-Nod at a Crowded Dinner Party 2010-08-26T23:23:00Z In the introduction to Part 1, Mr. Gilbert let the slinky, exotic lines in the woodwinds and brasses linger over steady, sustained harmonies so that the clashing dissonances really registered. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z Families like hers, Professor Halley said, offer good examples of “very ripe cognitive dissonance” around the topic of inheritable gene editing. Once Science Fiction, Gene Editing Is Now a Looming Reality 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Bishop was leaving the dissonance to Mr. Dorji, whose guitar solos rejected melody in favor of texture and envelopment. Sir Richard Bishop Offers Solos at the Issue Project Room 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. McIntyre’s “Dedifferentiation With Brass” experimented with different textures, layering a prerecorded electronic track over pulsating dissonances, like a grainy screen. Music Review: TILT Brass Offers Five Premieres at Concert at Roulette 2013-06-28T21:47:24Z Many Prokofiev scores try to contain modernist, sometimes barbaric impulses within Neo-Classical forms, in a harmonic language that for all its dissonance is essentially tonal. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z I felt struck by cognitive dissonance: I did not recognize this man’s name, nor were David and I married. ‘Tell Your Husband to Leave Me Alone’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The two versions of the mascot cancel each other out — or otherwise induce cognitive dissonance when one tries to make space for dual realities. The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z But everyone else is content to lounge in the cognitive dissonance of the blurry boundaries of their homosocial intimacy rituals. ‘Horseplay’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Then he became fascinated by, for example, a fleeting dissonance or a passage of enveloping tenderness. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But rather than seeming tired or sad, the age dissonance–which was already built into the original movie–is all part of the fun. Review: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Seems Like Old Times 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The austere dissonances of the octet’s second movement, as well as the performance’s exuberance and rhythmic bite, seemed, in the group’s thoughtful programming, an outgrowth of the first half of the concert. Music Review: The Knights Chamber Orchestra at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-18T21:30:07Z But I feel much less disoriented than when I was battling cognitive dissonance every day trying to maintain a coherent worldview out of pieces that just wouldn’t fit together. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z “It’s almost congitive dissonance, throwing active and passive together,” he argues. South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive: Talking Digital Comics With ComiXology’s David Steinberger 2013-03-11T21:34:32Z But the harmonies are pungent with dissonance and strangely diffuse. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z It captures the cognitive dissonance of our moment, in which women are seemingly reviled and revered, running for president and still fighting for paid maternity leave. What Does Misogyny Look Like? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z It is harrowing from end to end, stoked with rhythmic tension, dissonance and amorphous noise: a soundscape of impending collapse and inexorable entropy. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The emphasis is on refinement, scrupulously avoiding harsh textures and grating dissonances to conjure pleasurable languor. Music Review: Rossano Sportiello Pays Tribute to George Shearing 2013-06-16T21:32:51Z But there was a cognitive dissonance in that while we were told 'go get a life', there was also a sense that being, say, a doctor or a lawyer, wasn't for the likes of us. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z Sometimes there is a complete dissonance between someone’s sartorial and decorating styles. Designer Jonathan Adler on how to find your decorating style 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Environmental dissonance seems to fix books in my consciousness. Road Trip Reads 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The book’s entries touch on the newfound danger in what used to be commonplace activities and even the dissonance of enjoying a beautiful spring day as war rages on. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The nervous vibrancy of that music contrasts with the cool shimmer of the Los Angeles scenes, with suspended dissonances that evoke film noir. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z It also reveals another, perhaps more fundamental, obsession: dissonance. The Author of ‘The Vegetarian’ Takes on Korea’s Violent Past 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The orchestra continues that mission, welcoming new compositions that fling wild dissonances and abstruse rhythms into the mix. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-22T23:03:12Z Mr. Yirga’s fingers flew across the keyboard, and the crowd nodded their heads reverently even through deep forays into dissonance. In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Debussy tucked some piercing dissonances inside these milky harmonies, and Mr. Rattle brought them out through the pinpoint accuracy he elicited from the inspired Met players. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z It’s that moment of cognitive dissonance when you glance up at nature over the edge of your phone. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Then the pair sympathetically reinvented Duke Ellington's Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me by wrapping sparing new dissonances around crisply swinging solos. Steinway festival – review 2013-03-27T18:21:42Z It's been cut in places, lasting around 75 minutes, though its sinuous themes, dark dissonances and the range of its choruses still make few concessions to its young singers. Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z The dissonance within the institution was deafening in that moment. The Sorrow and Vitality of Aretha Franklin’s Funeral 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z In Mozart, the ends of phraselets are often decorated with little dissonances, elegant deflections; in Haydn, the same role is often played by witty cross-accents, or unusual figurations. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z David Robertson, making a too-infrequent appearance, conducted the Met orchestra in an energetic and moving performance of Britten's score, which is filled with surging melodic themes amid its spiky dissonances. Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera 2012-05-06T16:31:04Z |
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