| 单词 | fantasia |
| 例句 | Their celebrated remix of Friendly Fires' Paris, for example, was the kind of pleasure-seeking fantasia that the original song only dreamt of being. Vito de Luca of nu-disco hitmakers Aeroplane on becoming a one-man band 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z Taproot Theatre promises a different sort of production than the usual for Mitch Leigh's fantasia about Spain's Golden Age writer Miguel de Cervantes and his literary alter ego, Don Quixote. Local theater: From 'Laramie' to 'La Mancha' to the HMS Pinafore 2010-07-01T20:43:00Z But while you might expect social commentary to trip across its manicured lawns, or satire to barge through the mushroom-coloured raincoats thronging its station platform, Cheever's suburban fantasias are a good deal stranger than that. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z Ms. Thomas’s Polaroids in the show are personal snapshots and material for her remarkable paintings, which are both fantasias on black identity and super-real portraits of others and self. Art In Review: ‘TêTE-à-TêTE’ 2012-08-09T20:28:22Z Five days later, their first live-action Hollywood movie, “La La Land,” a romantic Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone musical fantasia for which they wrote the lyrics, opens; that film was the hit of this year’s festival circuit. What It’s Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The group knows its way around a heavy-metal riff but doesn’t chase after fusion labyrinths or prog-rock fantasias, beyond an occasional chord progression, like the one in “Pilgrims”, a highlight of the first half. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z I was more aware than in 2012 of the different characters of the two acts: the first expository and vivid, the second a more fanciful — and more meandering — dark fantasia on Jesus’ death and rebirth. Review: John Adams’s ‘Gospel’ Displays an Orchestral Wizard’s Tuneful Ear 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Such fabulations and occult fantasias are manna for writers about London. Diamond Street by Rachel Lichtenstein – review 2012-06-15T21:55:12Z My favorite film of 1977 was not “Star Wars” but “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Steven Spielberg’s U.F.O fantasia. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z “The New Girlfriend” never pretends to be more than what it is, a delicious and frothy fantasia with a teasing erotic frisson. Review: In ‘The New Girlfriend,’ a Widower’s Secret Life Is Revealed 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z And the listener, intruiged, hopes to hear a pitch session not unlike one of Draper’s fantasias. Alex Blumberg's podcast revolution is just beginning. NPR: this is your warning 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z In Ms. Kirsten’s fantasia, Ms. Kaplan portrays the archetypal Colombine, traditionally a feisty servant, as a woman caught in a “haunted repetitive loop,” to quote the composer’s note, lingering between life and death. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z But unlike those movies, “Strange World” doesn’t reflect a specific region or ethnicity — it’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” as a modern, intercultural fantasia. ‘Strange World’ Review: All Too Familiar 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z And what he’s done is cull a fantasia — a kind of punk French new wave — from reels of old film. Review: ‘John McEnroe’ Captures a Perfectly Imperfect Tennis Star 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Bowie, having admired Hall's work in New York, commissioned a colonial fantasia for his Let's Dance tour in 1983. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z Housed in an architectural fantasia—the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel—that was designed by the restaurant’s Victorian namesake, the Gilbert Scott is a soaringly pilastered throwback to the glory days of the British Empire. AD’s Aesthete picks three restaurants where the interiors are as fantastic as the food 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In the first, Nora’s mother comes to visit her at the institute – which looks less like a genuine Soviet facility than a postmodern fantasia based on one. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The morbid graveyard scene startled the ear with a richly twanging harpsichord that seemed to be grinding out delirious, slow-moving fantasias in the style of a latter-day Bach. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z A grand fantasia in the tradition of Schubert and Chopin, it is full of contradictions and unexplainable things. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The city features a plethora of parks and graceful neighborhoods, as well as college campuses--all with enough turning leaves to create a fall fantasia for exploring. Fall City Escapes 2010-10-20T17:00:00Z Though alert and nuanced in everything from the briny melee of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World to the trippy fantasia of the forthcoming Cloud Atlas, he resists categorisation. James D'Arcy: 'I delivered my first line and Anthony Hopkins burst out laughing' 2013-02-01T07:00:09Z The show is a fantasia that isn’t entirely sure of itself yet. Review | Jay-Z and Kanye set the tone in premiere of ‘Les Deux Noirs’ at Mosaic Theater 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “We’ve established the tension of the movie right away, between really heightened musical fantasia and real, urban modern city.” L.A. Transcendental: How ‘La La Land’ Chases the Sublime 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z What I got instead was a demented funhouse fantasia of fear, real fear, the kind of immediate visually – sourced fear completely alien to a child theretofore frightened only by the figments of his own imagination. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In the mustard gallery of the mini-show “The Witch’s Cradle,” we meet women artists who used masquerades or fantasias to evade or deconstruct male stereotypes. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z St. Vincent: Annie Clark uses St. Vincent as a vehicle for combining orchestral fantasias, disturbing lyrics and serious guitar shredding. Fall preview: Bargain-priced concerts 2011-09-08T15:25:00Z On any given day, they might have published a literary satire, a gender critique, biblical fan fiction and a fantasia about raccoons. Dear Prudence, how did Slate’s advice columnist find himself here? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z It continued with “My Funny Valentine,” one of her signature pieces, conceived as a semiclassical fantasia incorporating fragments of Bach and lofted over a platform of Mr. Leonhart’s delicately bowed bass. Music Review: Barbara Carroll at 54 Below 2012-09-10T23:43:30Z A charming western fantasia in which boys got to play cowboys-and-Indians for keeps, “Boys’ Ranch” featured some of Kirby’s very best early art. A Fresh Look at Schulz and Kirby 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Preacher is essentially an adolescent male fantasia brought to life. Preacher: AMC's new hope dances between the diabolical and the divine 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z But in general, these brief fantasias meander into blandly showy runs. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A fantasia on the life of Gombrowicz, it was also inspired partly by his work, primarily “The Marriage,” a play, and “Trans-Atlantyk,” a novel. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z Birth and death do not work backward, not even in Hamid’s traumatized fantasia. Review | ‘Exit West,’ by Mohsin Hamid, is a tale of love in the time of migration 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “The Mother of Us All,” which had its premiere in 1947 a few blocks away at Columbia University, is, to borrow Tony Kushner’s description of his “Angels in America,” a fantasia on national themes. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z What if Mr. Mac’s fantasia was the anti-dream, and those 24 beautiful hours were about the wisdom of staying woke? Review: Taylor Mac’s 24-Hour Concert Was One of the Great Experiences of My Life 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z HBO’s sprawling fantasia, whose upcoming eighth season will be its last, won six other awards for its makeup, costumes, music composition and stunt coordination. Emmys 2018: Game of Thrones makes a triumphant return on TV's biggest night 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z If you look through Wells’s bibliography, you’ll notice that he was never strictly a writer of what he called “fantasias of possibility.” Even in the 21st century, H.G. Wells still speaks to our fears and dreams 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s tempting simply to sever this finale from the rest of the series, to treat it like a bonus webisode, an alternative ending, a dream-sequence fantasia. Review: ‘Transparent’ and Its Unsettling Technicolor Dream Theater 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z As they scheme and scream and suffer, the actresses go along with Mr. Snyder’s pretense that this fantasia of misogyny is really a feminist fable of empowerment. | 'Sucker Punch': Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be 2011-03-24T21:53:04Z It’s a perfect pendant to “Posing Modernity,” as Thomas’s work — large, lavishly decorated paintings that shimmer with rhinestones — is a kind of prolonged visual fantasia on the erotics and politics of the black female model. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z As a pianist he lacks Mr. Joel’s supercharged kineticism, although he approached that intensity with a boogie-woogie fantasia based on “Great Balls of Fire,” in which he even kicked the keys with his right heel. Music Review: Tony DeSare at 54 Below 2012-10-05T04:30:05Z For “Side B,” the excellent pianist George Caldwell joins the dancers onstage to play a jazz fantasia on themes from Coltrane’s beyond-classic album “A Love Supreme.” Review: Urban Bush Women Channel John Coltrane at BAM 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z A fantasia of English eccentricity, it is set in a white-on-white hotel, all palms and pianos. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z And it’s true, I was glad for both reasons to see “I Married an Angel,” a dance-heavy 1938 Rodgers and Hart fantasia unlikely to be revived on its own merits. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Created by No. 11 Productions and directed by Ryan Emmons, “Ye Bear” is a fantasia on colonial themes — messy, overstated, indifferently competent. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Putting the world in Mr. Damon’s hands is as smart as making him the star of a big special-effects fantasia. Movie Review: ‘Elysium’ Sends Matt Damon Into a Dystopian Future 2013-08-08T17:18:18Z Well I mean I would say that the subtitle of the play, right, it’s Angels in America, a gay fantasia on national themes. Why “Angels in America” endures: “Without gay people, you can’t tell the story of America” 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Over snippets of vintage family videos, a piano fantasia as grainy as the footage unfurls like a sample for swaggering hip-hop alongside courtly, imperious strings. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z In most productions of this bulky fantasia, the moment is a long time coming — as much as five or six hours — and audiences are likely to feel as depleted as the now aged Peer. Review: A Minimalist Version of ‘Peer Gynt’ Still Provokes 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Hawthorne’s version of soul music is a fantasia, a collection of received ideas. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Blurred Lines’ Makes Robin Thicke White Soul’s Leader 2013-08-02T22:17:15Z His mission is to turn the city back into a fantasia of fun. | Party Monstre 2014-03-31T19:00:23Z You go with it because of the musical fantasia, and because you know these actors eventually have to play the hostile members — Joseph McCarthy, Everett Dirksen, David Schine, Cohn — of the congressional committee. Review | Langston Hughes vs. McCarthyism in ‘Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been . . . ’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Each episode flows and skids among surrealistic short films, satirical sketches, animated fantasias, blurts of essayistic journalism, and blips of documentary, such that the season amounts to a confrontational art installation about blackness and negritude. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Like other works describing weblike patterns, it suggests a stoner’s purely retinal fantasia, while also channeling the lush decorative splendors of medieval European and classic Islamic painting. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z It’s not so much docu-fiction as a fantasia on power, democracy and populism. Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play ‘The 47th’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “Because it’s a skyscape,” he said, “it puts you in the air and turns a landscape with the icons we know from physical space into a kind of wonderful fantasia.” Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The results include the glowing green fantasia of “Road 2470: Olympic National Forest” and eye-popping shapes and colors in “The Night Before Rachel’s Wedding, Truro Beach, Cape Cod.” ‘Women in Photography’ explores diverse possibilities of familiar medium 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Come for the bagels, the chocolate babka and the fantasia of murals and graffiti encircling the bakery — and then buy a crusty loaf or two to take home. Discover Miami’s Eclectic Bakery Scene 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Then some classical Romantic fantasias, leading into aggressive versions of Thelonious Monk’s “Think of One” and Freddie Hubbard’s “Birdlike”; he sang along to his rhapsodic improvising and beatboxed against his rhythms. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z The first of the Bach programs, featuring his violin concertos plus suites and fantasias by 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell, is Saturday at Town Hall. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z Rose Mary was a prolific artist who produced all kinds of paintings — rural landscapes, urban scenes, abstract fantasias, portraits, still lifes — but she could not bear to part with them. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z This takes place in Doug’s photo studio, which has been lavishly draped in kitschy décor that Leila immediately objects to as “Orientalist, retro fantasia.” Review: ‘Threesome,’ at 59E59 Theaters, Examines Sexual Inequality 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The company’s latest project, “Memory Rings,” presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at Freud Playhouse this weekend, offered a multimedia fantasia on ecological themes. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z In the first two seasons, Britell followed a fairly confined playbook of the eight-chord motif’s different guises: a beating piano similar to that Mozart fantasia, darkly regal strings and brasses. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most off-the-grid installation was the Todd Merrill booth, a Hollywood fantasia: chromed branches of a chandelier floated over demi-settees and a tufted sofa, arranged symmetrically as in a Busby Berkeley musical. Salon Art + Design, a Fair With Wit, Cheek, History 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Even seen in two dimensions, the films will dazzle you with their relentless fantasia of slo-mo jump kicks, fireballs, and severed limbs. The Unusual Genius of the “Resident Evil” Movies 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Rules Don’t Apply, set mostly in late 1950s Los Angeles, is a fantasia, a fictional portrait of an eccentric genius in the later years of his life, with a jumbled love story folded in. Review: Rules Don't Apply Rambles, But Beatty as Howard Hughes Is Still Something to See 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Unlike the cold fantasias of VR courtship, Bond Touch bracelets are fundamentally wholesome, and they reduce long-distance relationships to a series of mundane concerns. Bond Touch Bracelets and the New Frontiers of Digital Dating 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Visually, many of Beeple’s pictures mimic the Japanese Gothic fantasias of video games. Beeple Has Won. Here’s What We’ve Lost. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z But in Mr. Love’s fantasia, it is the reverend’s wife, Olivia, a pencil always handy in her hairdo, who writes the words that soar and console. Review: In ‘Fireflies,’ the Preacher’s Wife Gets Her Say 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Though some details are particular to the titular 1990s -- a video-game Cheat Code fantasia, most specifically --, the rituals will be familiar across the generations. TV Picks: 'Los Jets,' TV podcasts, mini-sitcoms, 'Wizard Wars' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Like a nitrous-induced fantasia, Ms. Morris’s moment is destined to fade as Brittany recedes into the ever-expanding ensemble of “Glee” characters next week. Brittany Meets Britney on ?Glee? 2010-09-29T12:32:00Z That applies even when the show is an elaborate musical fantasia like the Fiasco Theater’s revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine classic “Into the Woods.” Hugh Jackman in ‘The River,’ One of Several Compact Shows 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Murphy’s live-in-concert repulsion fantasias belie a tenderness that resides at the core of some of his work. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Between these two extraordinary works was “Dinah and Nick’s Love Song,” a lovely six-minute fantasia for harp and three oboes written for the wedding of friends. Europe concert diary: Harrison Birtwistle at the Proms 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The most immersive canvases are twinned fantasias in deep reds and purples, one of which is punctuated by whirls of white. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z He also suggests “In A Moorish Market Place,” “My Funny Valentine,” and the outrageous multi-genre fantasia made of “Lullaby of Birdland.” The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy. "And Just Like That," Steve offers a chance at renewal – but did he have to be so mean about it? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Opening in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday, Nov. 5, Alban Berg’s “Lulu” is a rich fantasia on the themes of memory, lust and death. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Beyoncé’s seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” is a dazzling nightclub fantasia, a nimble, freewheeling journey through decades of dance music that feels almost Prince-like in its ambition. Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Anger’s film spins a fantasia out of leather jackets, motorcycles, Hollywood iconography and pop tunes. Movie Listings for Oct. 28-Nov. 3 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z One of three selections from “The Games,” a 1984 fantasia about a post-apocalyptic society, was a fragmented, hectoring number sung by the fascist “game master.” Review: Meredith Monk, Still a Peerless Mixture of Otherworldly and Human 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z This is the message of the “Biennial Series” as a whole: Far from being a fantasia on what makes America great, it’s a vision — as the election was — on what makes America America. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But recycled lumber just can't compete with meticulously orchestrated digital fantasias. A nicely orchestrated 'exaggeration of data' 2012-01-05T21:47:04Z The irreverence of this wacky “Don Juan in Hell” fantasia has incurred the wrath of Christian groups in the U.K., and Balagan is getting emails protesting the Seattle production as sacrilegious. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z Carell, incidentally, also had his solo Oscar shot this season, with the mawkish fantasia Welcome to Marwen, in which women band together to heal his traumatised soul. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Usually this fantasia is played as a straightforward dialogue between guitar and orchestra, each presenting Rodrigo’s elaborations on the Sanz pieces with equal zest. Music Review: A Classical Guitarist Making Herself Heard 2011-05-15T21:26:50Z The show teams Mr. Arias with the mind-bending puppetry of Basil Twist to create a hilarious psychedelic fantasia that might be described as a surrealist version of “The Muppet Show.” Up Close: Joey Arias of ?Arias With a Twist? 2011-10-05T21:27:42Z The pulsating shimmer of Los Angeles at night can seem either like a dreamscape fantasia or a topography of nightmares. 'Nightcrawler' a different look at Gyllenhaal and L.A. 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z But apparently having decided that what audiences would want most from a fantasia on the life of the People’s Princess is a jaw-dropping parade of extravagant costumes, the producers budgeted accordingly. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Now, HBO’s sprawling, big-budget fantasia, leading all shows with 22 nominations, will have to fend off The Handmaid’s Tale, which last year made Hulu the first streaming service to take home this award. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The show’s final rooms, which plunge us into the visionary mutterings, masterly drawing and Afrofuturistic costume fantasias of Rammellzee — in many ways the true star of the show — are mind-altering. Review | From Basquiat to ‘Black Panther’: How graffiti went mainstream 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z They lull you into a mechanical fantasia where man is obsolete and machines rule. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z The coral reef, flickering with simulated sunlight, plunges the viewer into an undersea fantasia. Sure, It’s Castro and Cigars, but Cuba Is Coral and Crocodiles, Too 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z However, he said he stood by his suggestion that Secretariat's "idealised vision of normal life" represents a "fantasia of American whiteness and power". 'Nazi' row engulfs Disney film about champion racehorse Secretariat 2010-10-11T11:49:00Z Byrd’s fantasia “Two Parts in One” and complex setting of the “In Nomine” tune showcased that composer’s contrapuntal rigor, harmonic invention and melodic fancy. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z If this cartoon/drama fantasia felt less dated, and sported more urgency, suspense and some of the satirical zing Heffron usually injects in her plays, "Mother" might engage or alarm more. Review: 'Her Mother Was Imagination' is a drab showing of dystopia at Annex 2010-08-12T20:27:00Z Even when a particular piece seems amorphous or elusive, these elegies, fantasias, sonatinas and more are continually fascinating, especially in Mr. Hamelin’s commanding performances. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z The era of The Big Reunion bands was a boom time for a certain type of fantasia pop. The Big Reunion: from broken dreams to reality stars 2013-02-26T15:46:23Z No one likes to disrupt the entrenched fantasia of Ms. Catroux traveling as a glamorous vagabond on the unimaginably luxurious Saint Laurent caravan, dressed in clothes he designed especially for her. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z This being a comedy, nobody dies in this agreeably rowdy production, designed as an Elizabethan fantasia by Jonathan Fensom. ArtsBeat: London Journal: Shakespeare’s Liars and Lovers 2013-07-05T15:47:54Z And elements of her concerto subtly inform his Fourth Symphony — in its through-composition and fantasia form, in its Romanze second movement and in a first one characterized by its abandonment of the traditional recapitulation. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The jungle fantasia of “Tropical Malady” was followed by the disjointed quasicomedy of “Syndromes and a Century,” which turned an urban corporate landscape of office work and consumption into something like science fiction. | 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives': A Farewell to This Life, and All Its Ghosts 2011-03-01T22:56:29Z His arrangement of the overture was in the honored tradition of Liszt’s piano fantasias on themes from opera. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-16T21:42:46Z It’s one of the murder fantasias that used to be his stock in trade. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Performing at the New School, where he’s a junior, he refashioned “My Favorite Things” into a funk fantasia, and brought rich tonal colors to an original called “Sway.” At NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon, New Faces Make Their Mark at Grooving Places 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s such an operatic fantasia, and the big burst of color I needed to get my creativity and productivity back. John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps because Mr. Bean is a veteran of outsize entertainments like “The Lord of the Rings,” he seems more comfortable inhabiting this fantasia than Mr. Tatum does. Mila Kunis’s Dizzying Orbit in ‘Jupiter Ascending’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The emerald-green musical fantasia “The Wiz” at Ford’s Theatre led the way Monday with 13 Helen Hayes Awards nominations, easily heading the field in the annual cavalcade that is greater Washington’s theater awards. ‘The Wiz’ leads Helen Hayes nominations with 13 nods, including outstanding musical 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z These are also the questions raised by “Sweet Land,” a parable of, and fantasia on, Manifest Destiny and the colonization of America, that “sweet land of liberty.” Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “Preludes” is identified in the script as “a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff,” and it is an accurate description. Review: ‘Preludes’ Shows Rachmaninoff Failed by His Muse and Killing Time 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z When he applied that technology to re-create Méliès’ fantasias, there was a shock of recognition, of connection. The perfect double bill: Classic Hollywood from “The Artist,” Chaplin 2012-06-26T12:10:00Z It’s part of this four-decade fantasia, this obsession with Polynesian arts and culture, which included music and painting and art and architecture.” A Book Adds Rigor to the Laid-Back World of Tiki Cocktails 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The song argues against hate, and the video is a corresponding Technicolor fantasia filled with cameos from stars of the L.G.B.T.Q. universe. For Taylor Swift, Is Ego Stronger Than Pride? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z It was up to the broadcasters of NBC to put this fantasia in a frame of reality. Russian Through History: The Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremonies 2014-02-08T14:28:50Z Rota's design studio is responsible for the anticorporate fantasia that is the Boscolo Milan, and his mantra, as he explains in a press release, is "intense complexity aimed at creating an emotion in the visitor." | Boscolo Bari 2012-10-11T17:30:43Z The graphic novel from which From Hell is adapted is a fantasia on the Ripper story, and veers off into the realm of the paranormal. From Hell: in a handcart, From Hell: a ripping yarn turned into a yawn 2010-05-06T07:46:00Z Big Red himself is a big, handsome MacGuffin, symbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z Two years ago, she worked with Ochoa on an augmented reality project for the museum, featuring a fantasia of flying street vendors. A Vehicle for Social Justice, Bound for the Frieze Art Fair 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Its component parts have been carefully opened up and separated out into an assemblage of functional and symbolic elements, or alternatively, a fantasia on functional themes. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Aficionados cherish his troubled 1968 fantasia Song Cycle, which established a lifelong pattern of huge acclaim and modest sales; his new compilation of seven-inch singles, Songs Cycled, has some of that earlier album's expansive magic. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z Framed by forests and perched on a commanding hill some 60 m above a river, Vianden's spires and ramparts conjure up fairy-tale fantasia. Five Reasons to Visit Luxembourg 2011-01-13T14:15:00Z What they devised, in “Amaluna,” is a fantasia that interweaves feminine archetypes with elements of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “Romeo and Juliet,” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” among other influences. Women are the stars in Cirque’s new ‘Amaluna’ 2013-01-28T20:35:45Z Rosemary Myers’s charming offbeat fantasia, “Girl Asleep,” offers a giddy approximation. Review: In ‘Girl Asleep,’ Floating Through a Teenage Fantasia 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Even the quotidian stuff of your average “Legion” episode — superhuman cloak-and-dagger games, psychedelic-telepathic visual fantasias — works better this time around. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “My sibling and I have dreamed of creating a stage musical that brings the experiences of being trans and Jewish into a mainstream, pop culture fantasia,” Joey Soloway said in a release. ‘Transparent’ Musical Highlights Center Theater Group Season 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The fantasia costumes, too, are up to snuff. Review | Watching Cirque du Soleil can be complicated when you’re reminded the danger is real 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “My Funny Valentine” became a quasi-symphonic reverie and fantasia spread out over the keyboard in gorgeous displays of color that suggested a peacock fanning its wings. Music Review: A Classicist Who Enjoys Wild Flights of Imagination 2011-06-23T21:58:13Z But while that clip, an arresting black-and-white suicide fantasia, is a triumph for music video, it isn’t one for music television. At VMAs, Young Stars With Fresh Mouths 2011-08-29T05:17:13Z He says it again, or a version of it, in “Good Night, Oscar,” the unconvincing biographical fantasia that opened Monday at the Belasco Theater. ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z They include the whimsical, intricate visions of James Flames the gothic fantasia of Richey Beckett and the sleek modernist stylings of Invisible Creature, encompassing a cornucopia of styles, moods and motifs. ‘OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z In the event, neither he nor Murphy finds an untroubled path through Balanchine's pastel-tinted fantasia, and the smiles of the corps are decidedly glassy. American Ballet Theatre; LOL (Lots of Love) ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:02Z Most of these works are less arrangements of Sondheim songs than elaborate fantasias on them. Review: Anthony de Mare Introduces the Last of His Sondheim Project 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z While its mountainous foreground is a fantasia of landscape, the plain in the distance rolling away towards the sea resembles a map in its outlines of fields. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z That’s a shame because Mr. Mitta stages some nifty fantasias, like a shadowy bathhouse brawl that amusingly doubles as a physical debate over Western portrayals of the human body. Review: In ‘Chagall-Malevich,’ Two Painters Clash in Revolutionary Russia 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z This is pulp friction, a boom-bap fantasia compelling precisely for its adherence to form. Releases From Ghostface Killah, Fred Hersch and More 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z An untitled 1987 wall sculpture made of hundreds of beer and soft-drink bottle caps worked into decorative patterns suggests a kind of “African” fantasia. David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Consider it a romp through highly composed pop fantasias and flat drone ditties, featuring perhaps the weirdest Beach Boys song of all time. Download this: "Bass Treble Level" mixtape by Seattle's Devin Welch 2011-08-01T15:36:13Z Strangely, for all his faith in the curative powers of science, Bering defers to the fantasia of dreams for his final recommendation. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z And finally, “Dream,” when the concert hall fuses all this together to generate a sort of combinatorial fantasia — to “hallucinate,” as Mr. Anadol put it. Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall Is Technodreaming 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Its costumes and set decoration are completely imagined yet unfussy, convincing you that this is not a lavish historical fantasia, but a present-tense world, a real place where human beings live and work. "Mildred Pierce" is a quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece 2011-03-24T14:43:00Z Once onstage, Tyner kicked into high gear immediately with a beautiful fantasia that focused into a modal tune on a vaguely Latin groove. Review | McCoy Tyner proves to be worth the wait at Blues Alley 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z After more than a decade of ooh-la-la fantasias in its antique cabaret tent, ZinZanni takes a sharp left turn into street theater with this rambunctious, often mirthful new show. Teatro ZinZanni's new show mixes food, fun and a little commentary 2012-03-09T20:47:06Z I will not attempt to prosecute a play deliberately written as a fantasia for its factual improbabilities. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Let me emphasize, again, that Kalka works up fantasias on particular themes rather than systematic articles. ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The artist Kerry James Marshall, acclaimed for huge paintings that are fantasias of black life and history, has created an arresting “Porgy and Bess” banner that hangs outside. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z When opera expanded from court theatres and became part of the world of commercial theatre, scenic fantasia and vocal athletics ruled at the expense of musical or dramatic values. 'Opera has never been more alive' 2011-08-19T23:19:01Z The leader, Gregory, and some others live in the big mansion at the center of the wall, a colonial-style fantasia, complete with wood carvings and old paintings of southern life. The Walking Dead: season six, episode 11 – Knots Untie 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z One of the show’s most acclaimed episodes was a Season 3 underwater fantasia that included very little dialogue. ‘BoJack Horseman’: Here Are the Best Animal Gags 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The authors wage guerrilla war on prudery; they view sex as yodelingly absurd yet rather fun and, in this fantasia at least, consequence-free. A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The prominent booth of L’Arc en Seine, for instance, is a minimalist fantasia of pale-wood furniture set against ivory walls and carpeting. Art Review: Pavilion of Art and Design at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2011-11-10T23:44:24Z All that, and the movie looks like a stylish Mod fantasia, too. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Let's let him speak for himself: It would be easy to give over Joyce to Chapter XV, his technicolor fantasia on darkness. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z But, he added, of his take on a work that has been variously seen as a parable of industrial capitalism, a feminist fable, an absurdist fantasia and much more: “It’s not a politics-free zone.” The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Its centrepiece is the Arab hall, a tiled and gilded orientalist fantasia made of real and imitation Islamic decoration. 1111 Lincoln Road 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Contemporary white supremacy is a mishmash of old anti-Semitic tropes, racist pseudoscience and bizarre fantasia — what Lavin calls a “bigot’s pastiche.” An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In the afterlife fantasia, Springer is held to account for the toxic sludge he’s unleashed on the airwaves. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z But the pictorial outcomes are closer to Brueghel's apocalyptic fantasias, depicting "the order of human chaos", as Walter puts it. Words on the street: Stephen Walter's city maps 2011-02-02T22:29:01Z His latest novel to be issued in English, “Pow!,” is a red-toothed fantasia about meat production and meat consumption. Books of The Times: ‘Pow!’ by Mo Yan 2013-01-01T15:23:25Z In this bittersweet fantasia, modeled on Anton Chekhov’s plays, George Bernard Shaw substitutes cups of Earl Grey and cucumber sandwiches for Chekhov’s samovar and pickles. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In one double-page spread, the monster — with throbbing neck and muscled forearms — confronts his maker in a laboratory so bountiful with detailed paraphernalia that it could be a hoarder’s fantasia. Bernie Wrightson, Artist and a Creator of Swamp Thing, Dies at 68 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Much of the design, by Bretta Gerecke, is delightful, a gothic fantasia of hoop skirts and waistcoats and corsets seemingly fashioned from discarded umbrellas and hula hoops, mostly in funereal black. ‘Nevermore,’ a Musical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z A walk-in fantasia of urban infrastructure, with crisscrossing bridges and towering scaffolds, it’s as upbeat as the Picasso is elegiac. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z The production is described as a contemporary fantasia on 17th-century Italian music and theater, combining new arrangements of Monteverdi and Gesualdo with several modern scores. Opera/Classical Music Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The video, which premieres here, is a dreamlike fantasia, shot at the Alvin Ailey Dance School and featuring a bevy of child dancers and the model Helena Christensen. | Oh Land, the Pop Star Who Can’t Forget Her Moment as a Ballerina 2014-04-18T14:32:30Z The performers in Basil Twist’s puppetry fantasia won’t sign autographs, probably because they are wet feathers. 17 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z With Ms. Kirsten’s wondrously eclectic score, which combines spiky modernism, breezy pop, hints of Indian music, percussion wildness and more, this fantasia blurs the distinctions among the characters. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z These fantasias stretch across genres, and if you’re not looking for them you might not realize how common they are among the assertively woke shows that are drawing more attention at the moment. ‘Reprisal’ Review: A Femme Fatale on the Midnight Train to Revenge 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z A fantasia and a pavan and galliard by William Byrd were riveting. Richard Egarr brings ancient music to life at Library of Congress concert 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The fun is not always contagious, even for someone like me who grew up reading Tom Clancy’s wonky Cold War fantasias. ‘Interceptor’ Review: Failure to Launch 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z But that did not stop the composer, writer and soprano Kate Soper from exploring the matter in “Here Be Sirens,” her inspired, entertaining and strangely powerful fantasia. ‘Here Be Sirens,’ a Little Philosophy Included 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Her song “Paciencia y Fe” becomes the film’s centerpiece number, a fantasia on the immigrant experience that flits breathtakingly across several decades. Don’t Sleep on These 6 Performances During Awards Season 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z This music — at least the large-scale sonatas and fantasias that begin and end the recording — demand attentive listening. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It made all the froth and familiar fantasia seem old-fashioned, and close to irrelevant. On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, It’s Fantasy vs. Reality 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Not for nothing is Darren Lemming, the fictional center fielder of a team called the Empires, also at the center of “Take Me Out,” Richard Greenberg’s gay fantasia on the national pastime. Review: In ‘Take Me Out,’ Whose Team Are You On? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The race is led by Martin Scorsese's Parisian fantasia "Hugo," with 11 nominations, and "The Artist," a French-made silent tale of old Hollywood, with 10. Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar 2012-01-24T18:43:16Z Powell and Pressburger’s glittering wartime fantasia ranks among the greatest films ever made, a shimmering jewel in the crown of British cinema that deftly straddles the divide between this world and the next. Nine films that should have won best picture at the Oscars 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Even before he's back in Denmark, to deal with the death of his father, Shakespeare's fabled prince is bedeviled by ambivalence in "Wittenberg," an impressive if overstuffed comic fantasia by David Davalos. 'Wittenberg' is an intellectual workout with Hamlet, Faustus and Luther 2010-11-22T23:29:00Z The almost ominously immaculate quality of her playing was well suited to Mr. Adams’s dark fantasia, which offers virtuosity while staying — intentionally, I think — wary of its, and any, thrills. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Billed as a “musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff,” the piece takes place in Moscow, in 1900. A Musical Set in the Mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But it was a bass solo, not a fantasia. Music Review: Thundercat, No Longer a Sideman, Plays S.O.B.?s 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z The movie, an Afrofuturist fantasia that is also a musical, a science-fiction parable and a hacker manifesto, depicts a pocket of resistance in the form of a community of African rebels. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z When candidates fly to Las Vegas to campaign, they touch down just off the Strip, its fantasia skyline in clear view, at Harry Reid International Airport. How labor and a wily senator turned Nevada blue — and redrew the nation's presidential map 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The saga of Michael Oher, as told by Lewis, always read like a fantasia, one intended to put the gloss of white saviorhood on a set of events that smacked of racial exploitation. The back-and-forth over 'The Blind Side' misses the big picture. So did Michael Lewis 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Anticipating the solemn tone of a World War II epic, I chose to end the night on a high with Gerwig’s fizzy pop fantasia acting as a chaser. I did the 'Barbenheimer' doubleheader. Here's what I learned 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Why wouldn’t I look forward to going to Barbie Land and immersing myself in a fantasia of pink? Column: I'm going to Barbie Land 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The New York Times described it as a spectacle that was “part retrofuturism and part disco fantasia.” Beyoncé launches Renaissance tour with 37-song set list, dazzling costumes 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z This condition makes a fantasia of merely walking down Broadway. Review | Brendan Slocumb’s latest is as rich and suspenseful as ‘The Violin Conspiracy’ 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The result is a fantasia about “a race of hard laughers, mystics,” who “lived through the destroying light, and on, into Light ages.” The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z To satisfy an audience’s craving for meatier emotionality, there are melodramas embedded in this fantasia, too. Review | ‘Angels in America’ is back in freshly provocative, exhilarating form 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z “I’m trying not to be too emotional,” she said as she accepted the fourth award, for dance/electronic music album, for her joyful and audacious techno-disco-funk fantasia, “Renaissance.” Beyoncé, the all-time leading Grammy winner, should never attend another Grammy Awards 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Honestly, this could have been any song from Beyoncé's seventh album, Renaissance - a dancefloor fantasia that honours the black, queer lineage of house and disco. From Rosalía to Beyoncé: 25 of the best songs released in 2022 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z This past fall, Mr. Carlson and his team distilled the show’s Jan. 6 fantasia into “Patriot Purge,” a three-part “documentary” for the Fox Nation streaming channel. How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump’s Heir 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z In the live-action multiverse fantasia “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” it’s an apocalyptic attack on human life, a threat that can only be neutralized through a bold declaration of mother-daughter love. Review: The sublime French drama ‘Petite Maman’ needs only 72 minutes to crush your heart 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z An absurdist fantasia that skewers the idea of work as innately meaningful, “Tin Cat Shoes” layers digression upon digression, a knot of shaggy dog stories that’s amusing and enervating in about equal measure. Washington Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Tin Cat Shoes’ takes an appealingly odd look at meaning of work 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The result was a color-splashed visual fantasia, with bold angles and a surreal feeling of inhabiting another world — in this case, a strangely alluring sewer. Tony Walton, stage designer who won Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards, dies at 87 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z It takes three spaces for his broader project to unfold: a message about climate, identity and status, dressed up in a fauvist fantasia of color. Artist Hoesy Corona grapples with big ideas: climate change, the migrant crisis and inequality 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s a historical fantasia, a claustrophobic thriller and a dark comedy of manners, all poised on a knife’s edge between tabloid trash and high art.” Where to watch the 2022 Oscar nominees: what's in theaters and what's streaming? 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s a historical fantasia, a claustrophobic thriller and a dark comedy of manners, all poised on a knife’s edge between tabloid trash and high art. Review: Kristen Stewart's 'Spencer' continues the Diana-ssance. But don't call it a biopic 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And as if it were taking its cue from all those full stops, this historical western fantasia unfolds at its own disorienting stop-and-go rhythm. Review: Netflix's starry Black western 'The Harder They Fall' is both a dazzler and a muddle 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Or maybe it was the sheer relentless claustrophobia of the movie itself, boldly orchestrated by the Chilean director Pablo Larraín as a kind of biographical horror fantasia and companion piece to his equally hypnotic “Jackie.” Telluride: 'Spencer' showcases Kristen Stewart; Peter Dinklage shines in 'Cyrano' 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z That’s the message of the singer’s new single, “Rumors,” which dropped Thursday night accompanied by a Greco-Roman fantasia of a music video starring Lizzo and her guest on the track, Cardi B. Lizzo rags on the haters with help from Cardi B on 'Rumors': Watch 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z There were no rules: Extensions, partial wigs, tracks, weaves — all of it was fair game, a fantasia of Black hair innovation. The Joy of Black Hair 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The noodle soup that I’m slurping is a fantasia: Flavors amplify and fade, amplify and fade, over and over. China’s luosifen soup is a fantasia of flavors that doesn’t deserve its pungent reputation 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z It aimed to “create a dazzling fantasia in celebration of these visionaries who have been leaning in, learning, and lighting the way forward.” Vanity Fair's 2021 Hollywood issue salutes visionaries. But 'where are the Latinos?' 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Redistricting allowed Republicans to manicure a different electorate that resemble a right-wing fantasia completely detached from the rest of the nation. How to stop an Insurrection Caucus: These reforms could reduce GOP extremism and save our democracy 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Tune into a timely audio play: the Public Theater’s podcast presentation of “Shipwreck,” which The Times called a “truly thrilling, truly original fantasia of a drama.” Become a Dessert Person and Face the Haunts in Edith Wharton’s Home 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Peppered with amusing person-on-the-street commentary, set off in their own smaller frames, this is a woman's interior monologue brought to life as both candid semi-autobiographical memoir and cinematic fantasia. Review | ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ marks Radha Blank as not just a fresh filmmaking voice, but a wise and accomplished one too. 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z At the dawn of the disco phenomenon, Ross breaks through with a pre-Studio 54 slow jam turned whirling fantasia. Diana Ross's greatest songs – ranked! 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The area is a $25 billion corporate fantasia of towers and shops that feels like an answer to the question, “What if a hashtag studied urban planning?” Hudson Yards Is Coming for Your Soul 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Coming into the night, many were predicting that either Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” or Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s fantasia “Once Upon a Time” — both anchored by star-packed casts — would take the ensemble prize. 'Parasite' wins top prize at the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The coves and harbors are surrounded by improvisational urban fantasias — dream worlds that are gloomy yet enticing, sometimes festooned with ribbons of human intestinal tracts. Review: Lari Pittman's extraordinary 'Declaration of Independence' at the Hammer Museum 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s an in-your-face, postmodern fantasia of reds, greens and boldface messaging. With his new chicken documentary, is Morgan Spurlock part of the solution and the problem? 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In Quentin Tarantino’s Tinseltown fantasia “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Bruce Lee faces off with Brad Pitt’s fictional stuntman Cliff Booth in a scene that some say makes fun of the martial arts icon. Bruce Lee’s family calls ‘Once Upon a Time’ ‘a mockery.’ Is it insult or homage? 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The psychiatrist’s bland interjections—“It’s not your fault. . . . You’ll be all right. . . . I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands”—might also be a fantasia on a lifetime of therapy. Psychotic Operas at the Prototype Festival 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z To embroider is to embellish: to create a fantasia and thus be momentarily free. Opinion | The Feminist Power of Embroidery 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In Lynch’s surreal black-and-white fantasia, an alien baby — possibly a lamb fetus, though Lynch has never revealed what he used — grows sicker and sicker until its bandages are removed and its organs fall apart. The Filmmaker Karyn Kusama Explores the Many Dimensions of Women’s Rage 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z No putters on the town’s elaborate fantasias of novelty golf. Strengthening to Category 4, Hurricane Michael Aims at Florida 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z There, she saw “Johnny Suede,” a rockabilly fantasia that featured an unknown actress named Catherine Keener. Nicole Holofcener’s Human Comedies 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z He seeds his reader’s imagination, and his outlandish fantasia germinates many varieties of interpretation. Yan Lianke’s dark satire of modern China 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The universe this fantasia creates is utopian, but it’s a response to actual conditions. Perspective | I’m a boomer who didn’t get Marvel films. Now I rock a ‘Black Panther’ backpack. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It signals that the title of this arrestingly strange and provocative fantasia should be read sarcastically, even impudently. Review: Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' is an arrestingly surreal satire on class rage and cultural identity 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Implicit in that belief is the fantasia that we are living at some other point in our history, when terrible things aren’t happening to black men who walk into Starbucks. Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z So expect the unexpected from a comedy that apparently gives way to a romantic fantasia taking note of the shifting balance of power between East and West. At the theater, eager anticipation for Manville, Irons, 'Soft Power' and more 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Adam Bock’s “A Life,” produced Off Broadway in 2016, is a terrific, terrifying fantasia on the afterlife whose main character merely happens to be gay. A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z A particularly creative player may also be praised for his fantasia, his “fantasy”, while a true legend of the game, such as Roberto Baggio, is a maestro. Why Italian football does not make sense in the English language 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Around me, the sun filtered through dense canopies of leaves, and mosses hung, beardlike, from Sitka spruces and Douglas firs, turning the landscape into a Seussian fantasia. Lessons in Stillness From One of the Quietest Places on Earth 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In this fantasia, they meet in the rubble-filled 16th Street Baptist Church on the day of the bombing while rioting is going on outside. ‘Four Women’ channels Nina Simone’s protest music 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Taking place in a circus, it’s a colorful fantasia with purple elephants, fuchsia lotus flowers coming into bloom and snake charmers. Tom Petty made amazing music videos. Here are nine of the best. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z As night fell across Las Vegas on Monday so did an unfamiliar hush as residents and visitors grappled with the realisation that America’s entertainment fantasia was now a crime scene. 'This isn't supposed to happen here': hush falls over Las Vegas after shooting 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In the Baroque perfection of his preludes, fugues, toccatas and fantasias, she said, one could find the order that is not always visible in the melee of human life. Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor who rediscovered life’s beauty in Bach, dies at 90 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Kalkan had one main commercial street, and it seemed as genuine as a theater set: men hanging around in doorways, hawking carpets and baubles, crowded together in some fantasia of Middle Eastern life. Going Local: Is It Possible, as a Foreigner, to Experience a Country as Its People Do? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z It is a gem of a work, opening with a fantasia of flurrying 16th notes that echo snowfall. null 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z A sequel that plays just fine as a stand-alone work, “Endless Poetry” is the latest in a projected five-part autobiographical fantasia. With 'Endless Poetry,' Alejandro Jodorowsky leads us on a surreally inventive tour of his young adulthood 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z People will continue to look at people—to listen to them, read about them, or reach out and touch them—and on such flimsy sensory foundations spin their private fantasias. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The characters are a fantasia of Left Coast lunacy: the earnest millennial, the retro-hippie, the girl in chunky glasses, the dude in dreadlocks. All is not peachy as Georgia congressional race takes a detour through San Francisco 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The film whips you around the cosmos, into DNA strands and through a cubist fantasia of light, color and heavy bass drones. Beyond the headliners, Coachella's scene offers plenty to sample 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The glory of the work is the middle movement, an “Adagio con fantasia,” music of subdued resignation in a pungently tonal harmonic language. null 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It is best approached, I would say, as a fantasia on Fawcettian themes. Light Shines in the Dark of “The Lost City of Z” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z For now, Putin’s neo-imperial historical fantasia has bought him time, providing many citizens with a sense of national pride that has been painfully lacking in the post-Soviet era. How annexing Crimea allowed Putin to claim he had made Russia great again | Sophie Pinkham 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Michael Kenna’s photographs and Mark Thompson’s oil paintings at G. Gibson Gallery are a fantasia in black and white, making for a fascinating compare-and-contrast exercise. 3 don’t-miss art exhibitions around Seattle, March edition 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The remainder of “Migration” is a feisty fantasia on tap dancing and the percussive dance styles of African-American stepping. Step Afrika! brings black migration saga to vibrant life 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “It was a really magical experience. I was so in awe of everyone working on the film,” she said of Henson’s project, which utilized his signature puppets amid its fantasia. Jennifer Connelly says ‘American Pastoral’ character drew her to Philip Roth adaptation 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z De Quincey resigned after eighteen months, but during his tenure he introduced the use of imaginative fantasias to frame his own travails as a subject worthy of the public eye. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z As for Mar-a-Lago itself, who am I to cast a tattered net of words over this splendid Jazz Age fantasia, the living-room ceiling of which had actually consumed the country’s entire stock of gold leaf? Memories of Trump’s Wedding 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Kalanick’s Twitter profile picture at the time showed the figure from the cover of Ayn Rand’s capitalist fantasia, The Fountainhead. How Uber conquered London | Sam Knight 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, they produce a kind of fantasia on the original—less updating than rewriting. The Terrifying Beauty of Mallarmé 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Newer items include seven fantasias on calligraphy by Cilek, who took inspiration from calligraphic works produced in dervish communities. Looking beyond the ecstatic whirling; viewing African artists via their books 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z These multimillion-dollar fantasias are doing brisk business with birthday parties and youth programs. The Rise of Climbing 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z American science fiction has long had a rightward tilt, from the contemporary strain of small-press sci-fi Tea Party fantasias swarming the Hugo Awards nominations all the way back to libertarian deity Ayn Rand. White supremacist calls Charleston 'a preview of coming attractions' 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Disney and Stravinsky did meet — the play sets the event in 1939 — and Mr. Stroppel creates a fantasia of his own that has them playing off each other even into a chummy afterlife. Review: ‘Small World’ Pits Disney and Stravinsky in Duel of Ideas 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Its depiction of two outlined faces against a night-city backdrop is a neon- inspired Art Deco fantasia. A backstage glimpse into the theater world 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The floral fantasia serves as the organization’s biggest fundraiser, taking in about $2 million to help fund a range of local programs. Lights, camera, blossom! Disney films inspire floral fantasy 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Or the weird gold fantasia moment in the middle. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — a post-film (and trilogy) chat 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z To expect Russia to sit on its hands while Ukraine moors itself in the Western bloc is ideologically-motivated delusion of the same order as any irredentist fantasia. Once More On Russia And Ukraine 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z He repeatedly condemns “state bureaucrats” from coming between you and healthcare, holding up market alternatives in a fantasia where there are no insurance flunkies who do the same. Paul Ryan's American Idea is Mad Libs with a thesaurus full of conservative lies 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Neymar offers a certain amount of fantasia but the 22-year-old has had an erratic season at Barcelona and there is too much reliance on him to carry the national team on his slight shoulders. World Cup 2014: who will win the greatest prize in Brazil? 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z An urban nightmare that grows increasingly bleaker for its young heroine, “Marisol” is a dark fantasia that reflects a number of the social and spiritual troubles of the early 1990s. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Marisol’ at Luna Stage in West Orange 2014-05-03T03:48:48Z Proposing the United States as Design Nation is no fantasia. USA: The United States Of Design? 2012-10-10T12:42:46Z But the evening took off like a rocket with a romantic fantasia, riffing on the eternal Saturday night, social media, boy meets girl. Olympic opening ceremony: Peter Bradshaw's review 2012-07-27T22:53:55Z So: the sonata form—to set this aside means to extemporise a fantasia that is however not a symphony, not a sonata, not a concerto. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z But Davy fell back into the folds of the curtain, frowning, not at the young lady, but at the fantasia. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z He locked himself into his bedroom with his child, and droned out, to soothe her, a fantasia on the violoncello. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Michael Taylor’s multilevel set is a fantasia on a subsiding Victorian villa, with crazily sloping walls, terrible plumbing and tassels everywhere. Bumbling Murderers, Power Moves, Raucous Rhymes: London Stage 2011-12-12T03:03:22Z Like Mr. Davis, Mr. Jamerson is mindful of the difficulties of mastering the material at hand — in his case, the Grace Church presentation of Vaughan Williams’s fantasia. | Westchester: Holiday Vocal Offerings Abound in Westchester 2011-12-10T00:08:29Z In structure they are as artistic as the overtures to such operas as Zampa, Euryanthe, and Tannh�user, which likewise are 'practically nothing but fantasias on the operas which they introduce.' Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z I knew Mirandos, and his fantasia came next, and hastily retreated, pulling Miss Benette by her dress to bring her away too; for I had a horror of his spreading hands. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z But she was not lonely, she repeated; and to prove it, her mind would indulge in a fantasia of loneliness. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Then follows one of the most difficult staccato fantasias in existence, for the voice imitates the tinkle of that silver bell. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Then came the memory of Jules playing the piano, of Rubinstein’s Romance, of the ecstasy of his fantasia: the glittering rainbows and the souls turning to angels. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z What is more, these fantasias contain much of Liszt's own genius, not to speak of his wonderful pianistic idiom. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Far down the field a brass band is discoursing a fantasia on old Scottish airs. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The Eagles’ games follow the disjointed logic of the subconscious, each one a fantasia of improbable joys and unspeakable terrors jumbled together in a neurotic heap. The Fifth Down: Week 3 N.F.L. Matchups 2011-09-23T10:00:03Z The pianist flourishes with the waltz, or a general fantasia of the opera on every and all occasions. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z And then several hours at Liszt's, where one succession of concertos, fantasias, and all sorts of tremendous things are played. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The programme included 'an extempore fantasia on Erard's new patent grand pianoforte of seven octaves by Master Liszt, who will respectfully request a written thema from any person present.' Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z But can I care for the innumerable fantasias in the drapery line? Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z This could herald a sea change in the comic-book stakes from furrowed Anglo-Saxon angst to fluffy Gallic fantasia, but I doubt it. The Smurfs in the US: Something borrowed, something blue 2011-08-23T13:39:31Z In the evening Hosseyn had a great "fantasia" and fulfilled his vow—and spent all his money. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z He regarded it as a synonym of the fantasia, which was a free form made up of fugato instrumental passages. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Liszt thereupon improvised fantasias on Italian operatic melodies, which aroused tumultuous enthusiasm. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Unfortunately, the first half of this fantasia is the song I have just noticed, with elaborate bravura passages for the piano, but the middle episode is much more like the real man. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z And when Castalia went to her pianoforte, he woke up at the conclusion of an intricate fantasia quite in time to thank her for the performance, and to praise its brilliancy. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z His delusional fantasia: The existence of ties between the U.S. Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed 2011-02-28T13:01:00Z So far she knew but few, and only the unimportant compositions of her husband, several songs and fantasias, nothing else. Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:40.700Z The Hungarian Rhapsodies, on the other hand, which are still more fantasias on the adopted matter than the operatic transcriptions, continue to be favourites of the virtuosi and the public. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The orchestra and chorus then perform the fantasia. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Then she wandered restlessly back to the great dim drawing-room, and played amateurish fantasias on the melancholy Polish melodies of her childhood, till Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goldsmith returned. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z From wondering what was wrong with my author I passed away from him altogether, and presently found myself spinning, as it were, fantasias on life in human terms. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z My memory awakens, my fingers give birth to dazzling fantasias, which call forth enthusiastic acclamations. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It is an imperfect instrument; a kettle-drum, for instance, on which one can play neither concertos nor fantasias. On the Heights A Novel “I thought you were never coming, that you had deserted me altogether, and left me lonely in the midst of the fantasia,” he cried, seizing her hands. Bye-Ways Then she sat down to the piano, and tried to calm her agitation by playing dreamy fantasias; neither did this succeed. Black Diamonds And as I continued to do this these fantasias began to accrete more and more about the figure of Derwent Rose. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z He then played a fantasia on themes from the Huguenots, the Ave Maria and Serenade, and, at the request of the public, the Erl-King of Schubert. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Grand fantasia to entertain the male after a strenuous day in the city. The Intelligence of Woman It was a fantasia that exploded into life like a rocket, shedding a stream of vivid human fire. Bye-Ways Mr. Knoblauch's The Faun is a romantic fantasia, but is not without its keen social satire. How to See a Play It is a magic lantern fantasia with an occasional muskeg to represent the waits between views. Seeds of Pine Liszt had already played a great fantasia of his own, and Beethoven's Twenty-seventh Sonata in the former part of the concert. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z "Yes," said he to me at Mivart's Hotel; "in France there is more fantasia; in England there is more roast beef." Visits To Monasteries in the Levant She did not seem to be stirred by the fantasia of the firelight, or to catch any gaiety or life from the boisterous activity of those about her. Bye-Ways I did not stay long; I heard Madame Agar, dressed in deep mourning, declaim "the Marseillaise," and M. Thom� execute a fantasia on well-known operatic airs. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The motive power here is "A brilliant fantasia for the piano by Signor Rumblestominski." The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. But by degrees the beauty of the composition, and the consciousness of her talent inspired her, and she played with precision and fire a humorous and melodious fantasia. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors At Moorish weddings the bride is carried in procession in a palanquin to her husband's house amid a fantasia of gunpowder—the reckless rejoicing discharges of ancient muskets in the streets. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Then, without speaking, he hurried away in the darkness to the place where the soldiers were feasting, and the men of the camp were holding their fantasia. Bye-Ways It was just after one of these stormy scenes that Krespel fled to Angela's country seat to try and forget in playing fantasias on his Cremona, violin the annoyances of the day. Weird Tales. Vol. I In due time the concert came off and a slender, blue eyed girl hardly four feet high appeared and played a fantasia or themes from Somnambula. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso The driver was performing a fantasia on his horn; the passenger was waving his cap. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts "His fantasia, half prose as it is, is beautiful ... all through there is the spirit of the Magic Flute and at times almost the music." A Modern Symposium A fearful fit of coughing interrupted further elaboration of the blasphemous fantasia. Dreamers of the Ghetto She played a sweet bit, a fantasia by her teacher, Herr Klug, entitled "The Five Blackbirds," and displayed a wonderful command of the resources of the keyboard. Melomaniacs She played Artot’s Souvenirs de Bellini, and never have we listened to a long fantasia of several themes, worked up in all manner of variations, with a purer pleasure. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso The pompous footman got down and executed a fantasia with elaborate "froisture" upon the knocker. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 H. Zöllner's orchestral fantasia "Midnight at Sedan" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events The simple duet was woven into a brilliant fantasia, but always in the gay spring-like spirit of the poem. A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy The bridegroom and his friends come over from some other village where they live, to show off a bit of fantasia to the bride and her friends. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit The composer of what operas, symphonies, overtures, choruses, masses, cantatas, sonatas, fantasias, arias! Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Miss Beasley and Miss Gibbs took their places, Mademoiselle played an introductory fantasia upon the piano, and the curtains were drawn aside. The Madcap of the School Saint-Saëns's fantasia "Africa" for pianoforte and orchestra given by the Symphony Society in New York City with the composer as soloist. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events One of the best of these was the fantasia on the Hundredth Psalm, which was brilliantly executed. Music and Some Highly Musical People They are good for a long journey, or a swift run, or a fantasia. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit "If I could believe that!" she sighed, and the ivory-backed hair-brushes played rather a tremulous fantasia upon her idol's head, "perhaps I might be induced to confide to you a piece of genuine Secret Intelligence." The Dop Doctor Having preluded and played a fantasia, which lasted a good half-hour, Mozart rose; but the stormy and outrageous applause of his Bohemian audience was not to be appeased, and he again sat down. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. His extempore fantasias are mentioned by Gerber, in his Lexicon, as having excited the admiration of the most accomplished musicians of the time. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 It is a wild mad thing, this poem—a fantasia upon a melancholy and terrible truth—but it has the power of launching one's mind down long and perilous tides of speculation. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Sonata, bravura, fantasia, rondo; a crash and whirl—rapid, swift, sweet, brilliant, cold; no feeling, no pathos. The Diamond Coterie Of the Mozart fantasia there is not room to speak in detail. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Duke’s tail performed quite a fantasia now, and he uttered a low whine and licked at the great, fat, friendly hand which patted his head. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure She was drumming with her fingers on the edge of an empty flower pot as if she were playing a very rapid fantasia on the piano. Lalage's Lovers The sonata is quasi fantasia, and begins strongly with an evident intention to make use of negro-tone. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Months afterwards a copy of an undergraduate paper, containing a fantasia on the events that I have recorded, reached me. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Nevertheless, the "Rigoletto" fantasia can not have been written prior to 1851, for it was in this year that the opera was first produced. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations He executed a fantasia on his horn of plenty that brought a shower of silver on the stage. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel "The Merry Men," as "a fantasia or vision of the sea," is excellent; the poor negro never was, to myself, "convincing." The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Now this fantasia is the outward and sure expression of a change in Mr. Whiting's way of musical thinking, and the change is decidedly for the better. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions As a practical playwright he would be beneath contempt; but what he aimed at was something peculiar to himself, a sort of spectral dramatic fantasia. Figures of Several Centuries This is a very remarkable work indeed, the fantasia being full of chromatic changes and very expressive and thoroughly modern modulations and sequences. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Then, taking up the wooden shoe, he commenced a descriptive fantasia. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians There's the piano, still open—a fantasia lies, you see, on the music-stand. A Hungarian Nabob Here is a fantasia in the true sense of the term; form is here subservient to fancy. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions There was much feasting, with music and strange dances in Tahar's tent at night, and outside, fantasia for the douar in honour of the wedding; sheep roasted whole, and "powder play." A Soldier of the Legion Yet of all the Schumann piano works this one probably is oftenest played, the immortal fantasia in C not excepted. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations A fantasia for piano and orchestra was given at the London Philharmonic Concerts in 1892, the first instance of a woman's composition being given by that orchestra. Woman's Work in Music Do they know the witchery of the withering Berlin night as it plays out its wild fantasia in the leaves of the Linden trees? Europe After 8:15 The overture, which is not Indian, is full of good things, withal too lengthy in the free fantasia. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The second part of the fantasia is occupied by a succession of recitatives of an extremely graphic and poetic character. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present This is illustrated, perhaps better than elsewhere, in his enormously difficult fantasia upon melodies from Bellini's "Sonnambula," which for several years was one of his own concert pieces. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Among her important works are dramatic, concert, and festival overtures, and a fantasia for piano and orchestra, all given at various English festivals. Woman's Work in Music When the footmen of the quality had done with playing fantasias upon his doorknocker, the duns took their turn, and brought less pleasant music out of it. Art in England Notes and Studies Liszt began with machine-made fantasias on faded Italian operas—not, however, faded in his time. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques One of his earliest compositions was a fantasia for four hands, having about thirteen movements of different character, occupying about thirty-two pages of fine writing. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present After the double bar comes the second chapter, which is an elaboration or free fantasia on the material of the first part. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The discord was a sort of free fantasia, sometimes in several dialects. Woman's Work in Music Handel's largo, the overture to Tannhauser, and a fantasia on British airs,—each brought forth a different series of gestures. On the Fringe of the Great Fight Ehlert speaks of the twilight that is beginning to steal over certain of the nocturnes, valses, and fantasias. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques During the same year there were the sixth and seventh symphonies, the choral fantasia and portions of the mass in C, and the overture to "Coriolanus," of Beethoven. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The fantasia opens with a very serious subject, which is carried through a variety of delightful changes, in a manner indicating a poetic intention. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Bach extemporised on each of the instruments, and then Frederick gave him a theme which he reproduced as a fantasia, to the astonishment of all present. Story-Lives of Great Musicians It might be described as a bird fantasia—the notes covered a wide range of sounds and the effect was beautiful. On the Fringe of the Great Fight Is it any wonder that as Mendelssohn relates, the Liszt audience always stood on the seats to watch him dance through the Lucia fantasia? Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques His first composition in the style which he afterward made so famous was the fantasia on themes from "Euryanthe," which was published in 1828. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present This carries us to the double bar, after which a free fantasia follows upon the same material. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations There was not a song in all her collection that did not bring the anguish of some recollection of him, so she only played brilliant new, soulless fantasias, that were as empty as her heart. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Now, with Frances promised to him, Gilbert could enjoy everything properly, could execute, verbally at least, a wild fantasia. Gilbert Keith Chesterton And the new critics, who never heard Thalberg, have the impertinence to flout him, to make merry at his fantasias. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques In the fantasia in C, Schumann's fancy takes on a more serious mood. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Upon these two elements the first part of the fantasia is constructed. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Sartor Resartus is an admirable fantasia; The French Revolution is, with all its faults, a really fine piece of history; the lectures on Heroes contain some masterly sketches of personalities. The Victorian Age in Literature Don Quixote is a fantasia about the future: in which the study of heraldry leads to the discovery of England and the centuries of her happiness and of her faith. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The E-flat piano Quintet will live and also the piano concerto—originally a fantasia in one movement. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Of the operatic fantasias there are perhaps a hundred or more. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present After the recitatives, at measure 76, a coda begins, which brings the fantasia to an end. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations And regarding the fantasia on Polish airs he says that it completely missed its mark: "There was indeed some applause by the audience, but obviously only to show the pianist that they were not bored." Chopin and Other Musical Essays In 1905 came The Club of Queer Trades—least good of the fantasia—and even admirers have begun to wonder if too many fields are being tried; in 1906, Dickens and Heretics. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The last night before reaching Keneh, the town forty miles north of Luxor, my men held a grand fantasia on the bank. Letters from Egypt Light gleamed from every cabin window, and the crew had not only the daraboukkeh but the pipes on board, and were making the fantasia. Bella Donna A Novel The introduction carries out the emotional spirit of the Bach fantasia, as also does the work itself. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Technically this part is called the "free fantasia" in English, and the Durchführung—"working out"—in German. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art A striking example of this is shown in the fantasias he composed on the different operas, a form of writing which reached its perfection in him. Great Violinists And Pianists I am afraid Janet may be bored by all the people’s civility; they will insist on making great dinners and fantasias for her I am sure. Letters from Egypt And in the evening the sailors could be heard in the distance "making the fantasia." Bella Donna A Novel The free fantasia extends to two measures of whole notes, thirty-six measures in all, where the original theme returns and the first part is recalled in different keys. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The works by which Emanuel Bach is best known are the six collections of sonatas, rondos, and fantasias published at Leipzig between 1779-1787. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development It was this characteristic which made his fantasias so unique and interesting, in spite of their lack of originality of motive, as compositions. Great Violinists And Pianists On Christmas day I was at Esneh, it was warm and fine, and I made fantasia and had the girls to dance. Letters from Egypt During the election at Eatanswill the crier performed two concertos on his bell, and shortly afterwards followed them up with a fantasia on the same instrument. Charles Dickens and Music Even the whistling p. 101of the metropolitan trains may, perhaps, be borne with if the drivers are not too ambitious artists, and do not attempt fantasias and variations on their powerful instrument. Lost Leaders The Weber sonatas have been described by Dr. P. Spitta as "fantasias in sonata-form," and this admirably expresses the character of these works. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development He had heard Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, so, taking Goethe's Laune des Verliebten, he started a kind of fantasia, concocting words and music together. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas There will be all the fantasia possible for him here. Letters from Egypt The ride through the forest lasted some twenty minutes, and I soon beheld the brilliant fantasia debouching pell-mell from the portal. Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume What horrid stuff that fantasia is; don't you think so? Prince Fortunatus During this visit to London he appeared in public only once, at Mapleson's benefit at the Crystal Palace, when he played a fantasia on themes from the "Huguenots." Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday The beautiful fantasia In a Gondola was directly inspired by a picture of his friend Maclise. Robert Browning September 13.—Omar is crazy with delight at the idea of Maurice’s arrival, and Reis Mohammed is planning what men to take who can make fantasia, and not ask too much wages. Letters from Egypt The mainspring of sin beats in it as drums beat in a Soudanese fantasia, as blood beats in a heart. Flames The story of Griselda's unbounded submissiveness can scarcely be said to be psychologically right, though it has its artistic rightness as an elaborate fantasia on this theme justified by its conclusion. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women The whole scene indeed, seriousness apart, might be regarded as a fantasia for barbers; for the different ways of dressing the hair would alone serve as symbols of different races and religions. The New Jerusalem Bach improvised on each and the King gave a theme which he treated as a fantasia, to the astonishment of all. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians We have bought a tambourine and a tarabouka, and are on the look-out for a man who can sing well, so as to have fantasia on board. Letters from Egypt A spirited fantasia is organized by the guests of the agha on returning to Akbou. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 It would appear to be a purely psychic fantasia founded on the elementary physical fact that restraint of emotion, like suspension, produces a heightening of emotion. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Our ability to follow Stevenson in his fantasias depends very largely upon how far our imaginations and our sentimental interests are dissociated from our interest in real life. Emerson and Other Essays One of his works of this time was a fantasia for four hands, in twelve movements. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians They all made me promise to see them again on my return and dine at their houses, and Wassef wanted to make a fantasia and have dancing girls. Letters from Egypt Overtures of a more intimate nature are greeted either with stony silence or another fantasia on the bell. The First Hundred Thousand She had danced the very same fantasia many a time out of sheer exuberance of spirits, and the love of dancing itself. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion "Richard Feverel," which had been preceded by a book of poems, the fantasia "The Shaving of Shagpat" and an historical novelette "Farina," was the first book that announced the arrival of a great novelist. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Then she wandered restlessly back to the great dim drawing-room and played amateurish fantasias on the melancholy Polish melodies of her childhood till Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goldsmith returned. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People On the fourth night I went to tea in Lord Hopetoun’s boat and their sailors gave a grand fantasia excessively like a Christmas pantomime. Letters from Egypt His whimsicalities, his love of fun, and many other points of his character, are sometimes curiously exemplified in his fantasias. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831 Further speech was cut short by a punctual fantasia from the gun in question. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The Americans have a well-known expression about 'swelled-head' as a description of self-approval, and the other day I heard a remarkable fantasia upon this air. The Defendant There the men meet the most disconcerting situations--as, for example, the problem of spending a night in a flooded meadow occupied by a thunderstorm--with irrelevant songs or fantasias on the mouth-organ. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War Mr. Thayer, the American Consul-General, gives me letters to every consular agent depending on him; and two Coptic merchants whom I met at the fantasia have already begged me to ‘honour their houses.’ Letters from Egypt In later years, it was almost the only composition of his that she would praise; it was a fantasia on the "Huguenots." The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Madam Birch herself did the honors of whatever sort, while Chip played a fantasia solo at the table d'hôte. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 A sprightly tramp promised greater difficulty, and nothing but some ferocious pantomime and a shilling persuaded him to forego a choice fantasia of cockney humour. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance My lady's piano was open, covered with scattered sheets of music and exquisitely-bound collections of scenas and fantasias which no master need have disdained to study. Lady Audley's Secret For a fortnight everyone who had a horse and could ride came and ‘made fantasia’ every afternoon for two hours before sunset; and very pretty it was. Letters from Egypt Gradually certain faces among them became familiar—certain personages grew into coherence, as embodiments of those few types of character which had struck me the most, and played an analogous part in every fresh fantasia. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography He played me something else, which he said was very fine,—a fantasia in E flat, I think it was; but I did not care for it. Melody : the Story of a Child Then with others she plays the great music, concerted Bach or Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, or Wagner, Weber or Mendelssohn; now an old gavotte, now a quaint fantasia, and why not a toccata of Galuppi Baldassero? From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 The first Ode of the Fourth Book is a beautiful fantasia on a similar theme. Horace Mustapha intends to give you a grand fantasia if you come, and to have the best dancing girls down from Esneh for you; but I am consternated to hear that you can’t come till December. Letters from Egypt The auspicious day of course ended with a fantasia. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 And she strolled away to the bonfire to listen to the fantasia the Arabs were making in honour of the soldiers. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction Thus in one of his great fantasias, that from Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the sentiment of the whole opera was reproduced. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 Some critics object to such a boisterous play, but they should remember that it is intended to be an extravagant peasant fantasia. Halleck's New English Literature Then there was fantasia on horseback, and all the notables to meet the boat, and general welcome and jubilation. Letters from Egypt The day ended with a sudden trembling of the ship, as if straining at anchor; but the crew was again performing fantasia, and the earthquake or sea-quake rolled unheededly away. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Every song is, technically speaking, a fantasia constructed upon this theme, from which none of the species ever departs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 But it was impossible to hear him play his fantasia from "Don Giovanni," for instance, without perceiving all the passion of the original. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 The bird produced a grotesque fantasia in his efforts to imitate her. A Romance of the Republic What I liked best was shooting the Cataract in a small boat; it was fine fantasia. Letters from Egypt Its possessor had watched with interest his progress, interrupted with entanglements, and had listened to the music of his march, the canine fantasia, staccato, affettuoso! A Man and His Money She played a selection of old-fashioned airs that were more appreciated than the most brilliant fantasia or classic opera. Marguerite Verne But even this, though it was a reminder of war, seemed to those who watched rather part of the setting of a dramatic fantasia of the sky than a real cannonade. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography It was such a lively fantasia, that it made Mr. Percival laugh, while Mrs. Delano's face was illuminated by a quiet smile. A Romance of the Republic It may be something—it may be nothing; but, at any rate, it was peg enough to hang a fantasia upon. Philistia Anything was possible, I thought—anything was probable—with this dreamer whom the trump of Fame, executing a whimsical fantasia, proclaimed a man of science! The Guest of Quesnay When they arrived, the excitement of the fantasia rose to madness. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Without accompaniment he played the little song, "Beware," that Patty had sung, and, improvising, he made a fantasia of the air. Patty's Suitors It was just after one of these stormy scenes that Krespel fled to Angela's country seat to try and forget in playing fantasias on his Cremona violin the annoyances of the day. Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 I know where you got that fantasia from as well as if I'd seen you getting it. Philistia The dry study of harmony disgusted me more and more, though I continued to conceive fantasias, sonatas, and overtures, and work them out by myself. My Life — Volume 1 I saw something else at Boghar which was not so depressing—another fantasia, a huge one, performed by thousands of Arabs, who had hastened in from all quarters. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville His youthful expansiveness finds a fair field in these variations, rondos and fantasias. Chopin : the Man and His Music And he went on with his mirthful fantasia. Denzil Quarrier A first theme, a development, a second in a related key and its development, the free fantasia, the recapitulation, and so on, and over again. Essays Before a Sonata He hears the tomtoms beating, and distant cries as if there were a fantasia. The Garden of Allah Then came a grotesque imitation of the fantasia, performed by the colonial militia, all drunk, who fired their pistols off under my nose and blackened my face with powder. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville You are not a slave when you fight in the fantasias. Under Two Flags As if someone had known how stupid men could be, and been playing a fantasia on that stupidity. The Country House Moiseney descended to the hotel salon, and, espying a piano, she opened it and played a fantasia by Schumann; she was a tolerably good musician. Samuel Brohl and Company "Nothing!" said the Prophet, losing his head under the influence of the guitars, which were now getting under way in a fantasia on "Carmen." The Prophet of Berkeley Square It was a reception after the local fashion, which had been prepared for me: over three thousand dancing natives doing a sort of Arab fantasia on foot. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville He had seen a great many fantasias since he came to Egypt, and they were no longer a novelty to him. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Then, suddenly, at a signal, all the lights of the fantasia were extinguished, the dances ceased, and the performers disappeared. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar It will be said that this is a frank fantasia and that no sociologists suggest such follies. What's Wrong with the World The conversation of Rupert Grant had two great elements of interest—first, the long fantasias of detective deduction in which he was engaged, and, second, his genuine romantic interest in the life of London. The Club of Queer Trades Whence came the fantasia? and whence the life that danced thereto? Lilith, a romance Then he began to wonder what Amos was doing at the fantasia, and why he was so interested in the boy. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) A fantasia on the corpse of a representative of the people!... The Crystal Stopper Levin asked timidly, forgetting that the fantasia was supposed to represent King Lear. Anna Karenina One was a fantasia, King Lear; the other was a quartette dedicated to the memory of Bach. Anna Karenina But the more he listened to the fantasia of King Lear the further he felt from forming any definite opinion of it. Anna Karenina Only then Levin recollected the title of the fantasia, and made haste to read in the Russian translation the lines from Shakespeare that were printed on the back of the program. Anna Karenina |
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