Rising and falling, complex in harmony, uncertain in pitch, but constant in the recitative of pain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vast, fluid space creates an atmosphere of quiet harmony while actively shaping our experience by determining how art shall be displayed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Descants are also a type of harmony, but are instead placed above the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

To keep themselves warm during the inevitable longueurs, visitors sing songs of peace and harmony in several languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He selected you for a space mission? He’s learning to play ‘Heart and Soul’ on the piano and needs you to play the harmony?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They worked side by side in perfect harmony. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The musical forms, phrases, harmonies and the poetic structure reveal a great deal of material apart from the content of the lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He and his followers believed that numbers were the ruling principle of the universe, and that musical harmonies were a basic expression of the mathematical laws of the universe. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

No one doubted that it would be a bloody sort of harmony. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I said that just as the American Jew is in political, economic, and cultural harmony with world Jewry, I was convinced that it was time for all Afro-Americans to join the world’s Pan-Africanists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singing in harmony is quite a bit more challenging than partner songs or rounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It is funded by the European Union, and we hope to try to reforest the hills and mountains along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, helping the people to live in better harmony with nature. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“He selected you for a space mission? He’s learning to play ‘Heart and Soul’ on the piano and needs you to play the harmony?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But as soon as there is more than one pitch sounding at a time, you have harmony. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They used harmony as an additional layer of subtlety and effect, even by using discords to intensify the meaning of texts conveying suffering, loss or anguish. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So a composer may very well prefer to write an E sharp, because that makes the note's place in the harmonies of a piece more clear to the performer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“She was the one who sang my harmony last night. She had a lovely voice and I was hoping to find her so we could do a little singing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pet was a loud secret in her, a wrong note in the usual harmony of her house, making it discordant, guilty. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a very strong affinity for them. They’re my parents, I mean, and we’re all part of each other’s harmony and everything,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Olanna laughed and noticed that they were both walking at a leisurely pace and that their steps were in harmony, their slippers coated in brown dust. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Princess Shireen gave a shriek, and three of the queen’s knights gasped in harmony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When a good choir sings in harmony without instruments, they will tune without even thinking about it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Many cultures have their own styles of arrangement, but adding piano chords or vocal harmony particularly for Asian music, is not typical. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

From commercial music—pop and rock to jazz, from folk songs to national songs, religious and holiday songs, and multicultural music—children hear the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that make up their musical environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Two of his women joined their voices to his own to make a sweet harmony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the name implies, atonal music treats all notes and harmonies as equal and in fact tries to avoid melodies and harmonies that will make the piece sound tonal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Their model of the universe involved the "celestial spheres" creating a kind of harmony as they moved in circles dictated by the same arithmetical relationships as musical harmonies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And there was my grandfather, adding his low baritone in sad, sweet harmony to the music, his long beard glinting in the firelight. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I heard voices, among them my own, chanting harmonies in an ancient hall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“People who live in harmony with the laws of this world instead of twisting them for their own gain.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The music sounded impromptu, full of hundreds of interweaving melodies with almost no harmonies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In singing, there are two types of basic part-singing appropriate for children: polyphony and harmony. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This term is an old one going all the way back to when harmonies first began to be added to medieval chant. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She would experience harmony of being in the midst of the changes and unrest that life inevitably brings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The harmony is in meltdown because Wagner has used chromaticism, the promiscuous use of all the subdivisions in the scale, to put you in an unsettling place. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She was not pretty, her facial features created no harmony, but she carried herself as though she was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were places in nineteenth-century America where people lived in harmony. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So it was logical to hope that since the buildings and the Deans and the curriculum could achieve this, I could achieve, perhaps unknowingly already had achieved, this growth and harmony myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not speak of the joys of having a new baby; she talked about a heaviness around her, about things being out of balance, not in harmony with one another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Order—and regulation, the father of order—had been the Shakers’ key to harmony. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They would find harmony under their pillows the way that children, New Year’s morning, found chestnuts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harmony of the monochord was the harmony of mathematics—and the harmony of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Older children appreciate and are capable of singing complex songs, particularly those that include multiple parts and simple harmony. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Warbling moans echoed on the breeze, groaning in different pitches, forming eerie, discordant harmonies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The lifelong quest of Johannes Kepler, to understand the motions of the planets, to seek a harmony in the heavens, culminated thirty-six years after his death, in the work of Isaac Newton. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I therefore conclude that, since Fortune varies and men remain obstinate in their ways, men prosper when the two are in harmony and fail to prosper when they are not in accord. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then the teammates belted out the chorus in four-part harmony. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or was their tenure somewhat less cynical, more a matter of improvisation, motivated by the distant but vague object of forging a lasting harmony between Greek and Egyptian? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The answer came very quickly and in perfect harmony. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him in and try to remember to move my arms and legs in harmony with my breath. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Composers immediately sensed that something transformative had happened; all of a sudden their harmony started obeying laws of attraction and repulsion, whether they liked it or not. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Face expressionless, pale eyes fixed on Mo, Capricorn sat there waiting: waiting for the clink of coins amidst the harmony of the words, for chests of damp wood heavy with gold and silver. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The way Lev's eyes twinkle reminds me of Papa's smiling eyes, Maria's raspy laugh, the harmonies of choir children. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They sang as they worked, sometimes in harmony, sometimes all singing melody. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether he could conjure up a vision of blacks and whites living together in harmony at some unspecified time in the future remains unclear. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For a full minute, the class practiced rising and sitting in unison as she pressed the lever of her cricket and appraised the harmony of ebb and augmentation of her new charges. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like other designed objects, it comes about not by accident but by drafting a blueprint, attending to details, and maintaining a sense of harmony and balance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

For more advanced practice, look for music theory books that focus entirely on harmony or that spend plenty of time analyzing harmonies in real music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Boy21 was quoting verbatim whoever was announcing the launch on the YouTube clip—all the talk about harmony for the heavens and gateways. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disturbing emotions were conjured up in Liszt’s harmonies; flashy set pieces thrilled and terrified a sensation-seeking public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Find a teacher who is willing and able to teach you specifically about harmony and typical chord progressions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Shadrach struck a few chords on the guitar and seemed to study their harmony closely before he replied. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left was a phoenix, its tail feathers curling toward its beak, wings extended: the sign of harmony. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Note: In order for the harmony to work with the song, the pitches for “gu-li gu-li” need to be changed in measures 3 and 7 to a “Bb” rather than “A.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

These two doctrines existed in uneasy harmony, although I did not then see them as antagonistic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of these beings formed a complicated whole that shifted and changed in order to maintain that harmony. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Was not all of creation an expression of the harmonies in the mind of God? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, again—and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The saxophone is the star of this nameless song, with the drums and piano blending with it in perfect harmony. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The revolutions in both notation and harmony during this period had been hundreds of years in the making, but once they were in place the pace of innovation accelerated rapidly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Even with nearly six decades between the two Byrds, Clayton and Cool Papa had what Cool Papa called “harmony.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Sierra could hear the spirits still humming their sacred harmonies, calling out her brand-new name. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I’m talking high notes, low notes, harmonies, solos. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the song was being done properly, with both a man and a woman alternating the verses, the song was further complicated by the female’s counter harmony in the refrains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A guy with a beard plays guitar while two girls sing along in harmony. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Never a quarrel, no angry faces, perfect harmony, etc., etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But that did not mean that harmony was restored, for harmony is never achieved through murder. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a few, she had indicated some harmony, and in one, counterpoint. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He started to snore in harmony with Hazel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A chord is a combination of musical notes; it has an h, for “harmony,” which is what chords can produce. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is that it sounds quite bare compared to later harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, “We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I play the rondeau again, and I am Amelia, fifth-grade trombonist, harmony to Madge’s melody, a mouse with a megaphone, shouting, I AM HERE! Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

But in the interest of harmony, we advised Terror not to lodge a complaint. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Gardar Sverrisson, Bobby talked with him about the transformation of society by creating harmony with one another, and then professed that he thought “the only hope for the world is through Catholicism.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was very clear that all was not harmony in the Jongwe household. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices of Edna’s disbanding guests jarred like a discordant note upon the quiet harmony of the night. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor can improvise harmonies, and I guess we're all warmed up from singing the Oliver! songs, because it just sounds really amazing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The women who were older and more experienced not only clapped several times before they caught their pestles but also made elaborate “thank you” gestures, all in harmony with the songs they sang. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘We will create a virtual world of order and harmony.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But some melodies don't imply any harmony; they are not meant to be played with harmony, and don't need it to be legitimate music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They pick up the simple phrase and bounce it back and forth between them in sweet harmony. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Some modern Non-Western music traditions, which have a very different approach to melody and harmony, still base their tuning on the perfect fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I don’t know the melody well enough. I sing harmony, remember?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would fall to later composers to take more daring liberties with harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pax remembered that his humans were most linked together on those evenings, and with their harmony he could let down his guard. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pitch information includes the related concepts of intervals, melody, and harmony. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva’s old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

One such technique is his use of fragments of melody, or rhythm, or harmony, as calling cards of a character, a place, an idea, an object or a memory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was real music—chords, harmonies, tunes, and all the rest of it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

To her, it sounded like melody and harmony. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a deliberate attempt to make harmony sound unstable and more exotic in flavour. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Being able to think about two disparate things at once, aside from being wonderfully efficient, was roughly akin to being able to sing harmony with yourself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seeking all ethnic types; must have experience keeping close barbershop harmonies. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Music does not have to have harmony, however, and some music doesn't even have melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The melody notes are usually the highest notes, with the harmony supporting underneath. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Indian classical music, for example, does not contain harmony, but only the three textures of a melody, rhythm, and a drone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, the village of El Puerto is small. We have lived there a long time, and we have lived in harmony with the good and the bad. We have not passed judgment on anyone.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beings of thought, of land, and of air lived in harmony with the beings of water for an age. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As we left the Temperant tent, the quartet was singing, in close harmony: . A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In tonal music, just about any melody is allowed, as long as it fits into the harmonies as they wander away from and then head back to their home base. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The green light of the forest was strangely at odds with the adolescent laughter, too murky and ominous to be in harmony with the light banter around me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even after he left, the room was filled with the harmony they had made, and the singing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never stop being amazed that these eighty-eight slices of ivory and ebony can combine to create harmonies. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. I don’t have to tell you that.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Switching from field to field to field, swidden farmers live in the forest without destroying the ecosystems they depend on: a supple, balanced harmony. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t like conflict. You want everything and everyone to be in perfect harmony.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Orthus jumped in the front seat next to Geryon and began barking happily in two-part harmony. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I’d been happy. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some others know the melody, a few words, and add harmonies. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The crying and clashing of the harmonies were an obsession in the melted bowels. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for Josquin, chordal harmony was too useful a tool in illuminating the text to worry about its effect on the modes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It hummed in harmony with every tiny filament of matter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His feet pounded the floor, the bells jingling in perfect harmony with the beat of the tabla. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the timelessness of it and I remained a long time alone in the darkened chapel— not praying, simply resting in the warmth where all senses are ordered into harmony, where hatred cannot penetrate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plantagenet teased out all the harmonies, between a buttock’s curve and a fender’s, between corset and upholstery pleats, between garter belts and fan belts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Though it was intended merely as a time-saving tool, its use began to change the way composers and keyboard players manipulated chords, changing the sound of harmony along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I shared a common belief that the horrors of war would bring our various leaders to their senses and usher in a period of peace and harmony,” Hall said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken all together, the moving planets made a “harmony of the spheres,” and the heavens are a beautiful mathematical orchestra. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But because coordination phrases are headless, the harmony is not a requirement of our intuitive grammar, and few of us can consistently pull it off. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Familiarity, in this case, would not breed contempt, but understanding, and even, eventually, harmony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When singing harmony, one voice usually has the melody and is dominant, while the harmony parts take a “back seat” so to speak. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Every muscle, tendon, and ligament in their bodies was burning with pain, but they were rowing beyond pain, rowing in perfect, flawless harmony. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If their prayer is like plainsong, chanted in unison, their work is like harmony, a bright medley of voices. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After a second his son joined in, and their rough voices made a simple harmony that set something inside me aching as I remembered other wagons, different songs, a half-forgotten home. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The thought of turning my ideas into an actual song, with a melody and harmonies, and the lyrics I’ve been working on, sounds exactly like what I’ve been dreaming about for weeks now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A majestic green mountain sat in harmony with the deepening blue sky, the sun spreading its light for the last time before it set. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It would diminish Hunt’s building and in so doing diminish Hunt and disrupt the harmony of the other structures on the Grand Court. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The other two guys passed gas in harmony. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Pythagorean fascination with whole-number ratios in musical harmonies seems clearly to be based on observation, or even experiment on the sounds issued from plucked strings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hell could be no more lonely or hopeless, no more agonizingly estranged from the world of order and harmony. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his favorite, with its powerful, deep harmonies—he was a little sorry to be missing it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody is singing harmony; they are all singing the same pitch — the same frequency — for each note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When they had all talked a little while in harmony of the weather and Mrs. Weston, she found herself abruptly addressed with, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

These new layered sound effects, built on plainsong tunes, were edging very close to what today we would call ‘harmony’ - that is, the existence and exploitation of simultaneous clusters of notes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It would seem that these two theories could live in harmony together, each dictating the rules of physics for different aspects of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When two people talk, they don’t just fall into physical and aural harmony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were embarrassed by the earthy harmonies they sang, but since the visitors were awed we dared not laugh at the crude, high, plaintively animal sounds Jim Trueblood made as he led the quartet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alpha male strives to maintain social harmony within his troop. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls, roofs, domes, and arches could rise far higher, but by establishing this one point of commonality the architects ensured a fundamental harmony among the fair’s most imposing structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Nemesis mentioned something similar,” Leo said; “She talked about an old score that had to be settled—” “The one thing that might bring the gods’ two natures into harmony,” Hazel recalled. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s amazing. It’s a terribly difficult harmony. And to remember all the lyrics ” I marveled silently for a moment, shaking my head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we took this decision, and subsequently formulated our plans, the ANC heritage of nonviolence and racial harmony was very much with us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a devout Christian, he was the perfect person to discuss how the ANC had sincerely strived for racial harmony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the plants, animal life, too, was evolving in harmony with the searching requirements of the land. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

To our ears, accustomed to the subsequent six hundred years of harmony, there’s something missing that accounts for the bareness of sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the form of lovely youths and maidens they peopled the woodland, the forest, the rivers, the sea, in harmony with the fair earth and the bright waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ill or well, she would always be plain. The grace and harmony of beauty are quite wanting in those features.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yet the assumption that Lawrence and Teller would work together in unalloyed harmony turned out to be an instance of hope triumphing over reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They moved in harmony, bending and flowing, twisting and breathing, as if connected. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But the universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Fowey, we hear distantly a choir of seamen singing a Jubilate in harmony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Hicks began shooting bullets into the chest of the recruit, firing in a calm synchronized salvo that had a violent harmony to it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harmonies penetrated even the walls of heavy stone. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Selby chose the songs, arranged the harmonies, selected the soloists, and conducted the performance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, she was content enough, and they lived in harmony together. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their voices bounced off the walls and ceiling of this ancient hall and fell into a glorious harmony the likes of which I’d never heard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby, her father slept, gathering strength to return with his newfound daughter to the village where healing people lived in harmony. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tne little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember, only one or two sounds should be played at a time, with a lots of silence in between, no harmony or melody or steady pulse should emerge. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Grover Underwood and a team of satyrs danced around with their panpipes, playing harmonies so dissonant that the earthen-shelled ghosts cracked apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The voices ranged from low and mournful to high and exultant; they blended together in rising and falling harmonies that filled the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A teacher who understands harmony can help tremendously with this particular skill. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To blacks he promised happier days ahead; to whites he spoke soothingly of limited incremental changes, of the need for racial harmony and the maintenance of “social standards.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In bebop, whole tracks were devoted to helter-skeltering instruments, sometimes solo, sometimes in coordinated groups, tumbling across notes at high speed, wilfully oblivious of the harmonies to which they once belonged. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the matchmaker speak about our birthdates and harmony and fertility. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Material profit. Increase of knowledge. The augmentation of the complexity and intensity of the field of intelligent life. The enrichment of harmony and the greater glory of God. Curiosity. Adventure. Delight.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indian classical forms more than make up for an absence of harmony with highly complex and intricate melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In other words, the melody can be constructed so that it strongly suggests a harmony that could accompany it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The hope was that all of us would mingle in heterogeneous harmony, deepening the quality of student life across the board. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In a country of free speech and press, they starved him out for expressing views not in harmony with their prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

All of these musics have long traditions that are very different from the familiar major-minor tonal system, and usually also have a different approach to harmony, rhythm, and performance practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the morning he would inspect the northern half to bring the operation in harmony with how things were done in the southern half. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That afternoon lapsed in peace and harmony; and in the evening Bessie told me some of her most enchanting stories, and sang me some of her sweetest songs. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Life on the bus alternated between moments of harmony and moments of chaos. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I gulp in a large dose of oxygen and join her in harmony. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I work hard at it, always trying to find the right melodies and harmonies. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It meant living in harmony with nature instead of trying to control it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Garfield was respected for his ability to work with those of different viewpoints, and he had given the delegates a stirring address calling for party harmony. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, the common harmonic tradition that includes everything from Baroque counterpoint to modern rock is often called triadic harmony. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And this change of attitude and mood is audible in the musical style of the period, particularly within the harmony that supported melody. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The founder had been careful to select a sturdy building that had good wind and water vibrations, a phrase that meant it was in harmony with the rest of the universe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a string quartet on this track that makes my hair stand on end, and some of the melodies and harmonies are so rich, my eyes literally prickle with tears. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The singularity in my stomach was back, pulsing and writhing in sympathetic harmony with the one I knew lived deep inside Babou. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The two of them yelled the missing boy’s name over and over, their voices doubling in the strange harmony that made it impossible to tell them apart. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is the beauty of small areas of order—a large yard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses—living together in contentious harmony. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari wondered how she could explain the need to work in harmony with the natural world. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all confused by the two-part harmony of the Young Pioneers’ Anthem. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s that the timing of stops and starts of each person’s micromovements — the jump and shifts of body and face — were perfectly in harmony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not bringing harmony to my home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The whole point is that there was no common score, no assigned instruments, no blended harmonies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But now that noise seemed in harmony with what she was feeling inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more weight composers gave to the junior notes and lesser chords, the more they allowed the harmony to lose its sense of familiarity, reassurance and comfort. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The weeping had an accidentally contrapuntal harmony, a symphony of grief in the blood-stained kitchen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds they made had a rich inner harmony. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For songs that you do know the chords to, try playing them in an unfamiliar key, or see if you can change or add chords to make a new harmony that still fits the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To change this, he promoted simplified harmonies that made the melody the most prominent aspect of the music, and downgraded the importance of the other vocal parts to support the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

However, harmony is present in India’s popular music, such as Bollywood’s film music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Pass the time with a bit of harmony. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, entertaining company, Desdemona heard her son’s clarinet and, as if orchestrating a harmony, let out a long sigh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I apologize to Dr. Katz in my head, but there’s no way I’m brushing my teeth and taking a shower and doing harmony on a screeching rendition of a Blondie song. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the matter of school desegregation, Durham’s reputation for tolerance, racial harmony, and liberal politics once again proved sadly overrated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It means total harmony, but it was an occasion for the teacher to criticize students for what they had done wrong the previous day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Kepler was both inspired in his search for the harmony of planetary motion and delayed for more than a decade by the attractions of Pythagorean doctrine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the banquet was the exultation, the harmony, the acceptance of physical frailty, joy in the termination of misery. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything must be in harmony to welcome the New Year. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Tom Gau and I sat across from each other in his office, then, we almost immediately fell into physical and conversational harmony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the newly defined role of the bass line altered how composers viewed the shape of harmony for hundreds of years, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They almost sound professional, except the vocals are strange and random, like the lower part of a harmony. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barris returns to his drafting table, scratching pencil and ticking clock in harmony once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He exiled him and his officials from the city and harmony returned. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Like, we could add a harmony line to the lead vocals, or maybe even rework our set list to include some duets. And, obviously, he could play guitar.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It creates the perfect harmony preferred by the Goddess of Beauty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Within Hildegard’s lifetime a group of younger composers working at Notre-Dame in Paris had become known for their radical approach to harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The old ladies took up the hymn and shared it in tight harmony. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s pretty easy. You open the synthesizer and record a melody. Then you add background chords and harmonies. And then you mix in other instruments.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The reformation of scales and harmonies that he introduced offered a daringly new palette of aural possibilities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Armed with harmony, rhythm, a large palette of chords, and most importandy the ability to write all of these down, its most innovative sounds expanded rapidly throughout Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ferula abhorred the moment when her brother returned from the country and filled the house with his presence, breaking the harmony they had established while he was away. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, all is not total harmony, in every instance, between associates and their servant-leaders. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned to prefer peace to war, cleverness to stupidity, love to hate, sensitivity to stoicism, humility to pomposity, reconciliation to hostility, harmony to strife, patience to rashness, gregariousness to misanthropy, creation to annihilation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would have to hear it yourself to believe the perfect pitch, the harmony parts, how the volume rolled up and down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it did, in England in around 1400, it took musical harmony on to a radical new plane, and altered the way music sounded for ever. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Many Ionians believed the underlying harmony of the universe to be accessible through observation and experiment, the method that dominates science today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the city’s defensive walls, built in a harmonious oval, but the harmony was broken. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As the notes overlap, they compliment one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Diminishing and augmenting chords Wagner may have made his own, but they are all over Liszt’s daring, dark harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And so: into the harmony of their suffering entered discord. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Good Grief” refigures the band through ecstatic overkill — the harmonies that were once the group’s anchor are set upon by all manner of production. Review: Lucius, a Band Willing to Test Itself 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

It nonetheless achieves sonorities, harmonies and melodies that are sometimes individual and unusually atmospheric. Review: ‘Othello’ Is Performed by the American Ballet Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“So where are the strong? And who are the trusted? And where is the harmony?” Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Balanchine’s version contains one of his supreme pas de deux, in the second-act divertissement, seeming to sum up both the Platonic ideal of love and an image of Renaissance harmony that transcends the plot. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z

So she conceded, providing an ending of reconciliation and racial harmony, even though she maintained that it was unrealistic. Alice Childress Finally Gets to Make ‘Trouble’ on Broadway 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Some musicians experience synesthesia, associating certain colors with particular harmonies or sounds. Antoine Tamestit Plays Concert for Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Everything overlayed and more layers kept piling on, with initial melodies later revealed to be harmonies to more important melodies. SXSW 2011 post #11: Mount Kimbie, Sharon Van Etten, Odd Future 2011-03-20T22:46:03Z

“You don’t need to give up, that’s the beginning of the end,” PJ Morton sings, a chorus of falsetto harmonies flickering around him. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Pointed Protest, and 8 More New Songs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Ida’s songs are hushed and intricate, with high vocal harmonies: two women, one man, floating above undulating Minimalist patterns on piano or guitar, or perhaps the drone of a harmonium. Music Review: Golden Palominos, With Lianne Smith and Lori Carson 2012-12-31T22:51:39Z

When the component parts are great, this simple assemblage yields beautiful harmony. Why do I cook like a Sicilian? 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z

It's all about the record: From Me To You remains an authentic distillation of sheer euphoria, with powerful harmonies, strange chords, tricksy changes, bluesy vocals and the first appearance of those startling, camp "ooh"s. The best No 1 records: the Beatles – From Me To You 2012-05-31T20:50:00Z

The dissonant humor and beauty of the sculptor Erwin Wurm’s biomorphic riffs are also present in his home, where blue-chip art, grand architectural space and his own whimsical work create an odd harmony. T Magazine: The Shape Shifter 2014-03-06T21:30:52Z

When Daisy and Violet raise their voices in urgent harmony, they radiate a strength that’s powerfully affecting, because we know that even in their loneliness, unlike the rest of us, they will never be alone. ‘Side Show’ in a New Production at the Kennedy Center 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

But as the blur of notes is prolonged, the elemental harmony within comes into relief, the musical equivalent of focusing a camera lens. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

After all, even in an age of violent conflicts, harmony was what he understood best. Muslims, Christians and Mozart: Seeking Harmony at the Met Opera 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Symmetry is a constant design motif, evident in the pervasive harmony of proportions, color and balance. James Hayward's monochromatic installation delivers contemplative bliss 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Chris Jennings, the Shakespeare Theatre’s executive director, says that he believes the organization has been successful, too, in choosing musicals in harmony with the mission of a company that mines historical traditions. Perspective | Sure Lancelot is dreamy, but  ‘Camelot’ owes its success to a wistful audience 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere the string body supported Mr. Tomter’s more lyrical effusions with urgent overlapping lines or glassy harmonies. Music Review: Music for Seaside Village, But Hold the Salt Cod 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z

For classic American gospel revelation, the Blind Boys of Alabama serve up their Christmas show, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," a full musical meal of soulful thumping and swooning harmonies. Christmas with Selena Gomez, Blind Boys 2011-12-15T21:00:11Z

The dialogue is full of stylized harmonies and dissonances; plots and characters operate in counterpoint. Theater Review: ‘The Awake,’ by Ken Urban, With Consciousness in Limbo 2013-08-30T22:36:00Z

These different items coexist without harmony or delight. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Some have even called it atonal because, while its harmonies consist essentially of chords, the startling relationships between them defy normal practice. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z

Their kids—Katie, age eleven, and Annie, age seven—sing in harmony around the house, and record demos for their parents whenever a child’s voice is called for. How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In between were four Hollenbeck originals, all from the new album, each one doused in citrusy, corrugated harmonies, with currents that built big circles around crescent-shaped melodies. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

As a boy, he first practiced singing harmony in an echoey storm drain that he found while fishing in the Bronx River. By Day, Richie Weeks Sorted Mail. At Night, He Was a Disco Mastermind. 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

They hew to a stylistic whole, imploring and bittersweet, with suggestions of ecclesiastical harmony. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z

Each member of the Willis brood is involved in some way, from guitars to dancing to the three lovely daughters, who have harmonies that would impress even the best of them. TLC May Have Found A Modern Day Von Trapp Family With 'The Willis Clan' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

But while they haven’t been making much in the way of beautiful music together, Streep and Jones are in lovely harmony, each bringing understated desperation and vulnerability to their roles. Hope Springs: Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are In Treatment 2012-08-07T17:07:24Z

The music Mr. Lang wrote for the gifted Mr. Tao in this haunting scene is no Bach pastiche, but a cosmic rumination, with melodic fragments, circling inner voices and hazy harmonies. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's got more than a whiff of the Walkmen's The Rat in its highly strung tension and release, with the pair's harmonies on the sky-scraping chorus a thing of wonder. New music: Slow Club ? The Dog 2012-02-09T14:38:00Z

"Aufwind" also needed no weatherman, with thick harmonies in great gusts up and down the keyboard. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

We risk losing the “bristling harmonies,” the “cutting yowls” and “multidimensional textures” of classical music at its best when we think of it only as an invention “to address a yawn shortage,” Gersten writes. Perspective | What your wine choices say about the way you think 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Her recent “A Clarion Call” is packed with haunted harmonies and riotous humor that Ives might well have admired. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

I try to ignore the ugly things those I love say because trying to comprehend the discordant harmony in another person erodes the easy labels we prescribe to our friends and family. Reading Harper Lee in the wake of Charleston: Shame, defeat and the real tragedy of “Go Set a Watchman” 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.” Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

They all are implied in the piece’s nine sections — effectively made 11 by two “Ascension” interludes with the rich harmony of a chorale and the serene lyricism of a hymn. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Fiorentino locked in with him, pushing her bass to the forefront of the band’s engine room, and chipping in with lots of harmony vocals that took the edge off Corgan’s nasal tone. Smashing Pumpkins pummel the Riviera 2011-10-15T07:22:00Z

He detailed how the knees push levers that bend strings, how the feet trigger pedals that stretch them, how the hands work in constant harmony. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The audience was completely hushed, awaiting each fiddle line or banjo lick, each unexpected harmonic turn, each precise swell of three-part harmony. In Its Own Quiet Way, I’m With Her Is a Supergroup 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Kubrick greeted the 1970s with this massive howl of rage: a boiling, combative screed as different as humanly possible from 2001’s paean to cosmic harmony which preceded it. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Or imagine his harmonies as a 3-D object, with four or six or eight sides depending, the light hitting each chord differently. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

I am not the kind of man who believes that harmony and unity produce the best results. Thierry Mugler, a Designer Transformed 2010-04-30T20:00:00Z

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

Opener Where Did She Go, with a reedy organ line wobbling over bashed guitar and wide-eyed harmonies, is one of the pop excursions – See Emily Play perhaps. The Sufis: S.U.F.I. – review 2012-07-05T21:00:02Z

These ladies sing most of their words, in eerie, enrapt harmonies and primal chants that seem alternately celestial and bestial. London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's too varied to say really, taking in psychedelia, sun-bleached pop, fuzzy electronics and vocal harmonies. McGee on music: The Osmonds were vocal harmony greats 2010-04-27T10:55:00Z

The score contains some striking passages, but the pace is uneven; the orchestral writing tends to be overblown, and the mix of modally inflected harmony and Vaughan Williams-like themes lacks potency. Glanville-Hicks: Sappho – review 2012-12-19T16:22:10Z

The Chicagoan Andrew Bird built cascading melodies and harmonies on his violin, and was joined by his band the Hands of Glory to update vintage country and suggest joyous new avenues for American vernacular music. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Who doesn’t love a high school kid singing in perfect harmony and wheelchair-dancing to “Proud Mary”? Sure, Artie of “Glee” was a delight. How the Sitcom ‘Speechless’ Understands Families Like Mine 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

With stores few and far between and cellphone coverage chronically iffy, well-heeled New York holidaymakers, organic farmers and lobstermen coexist in rustic harmony. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

At the age of 12 he formed a harmony group with two schoolfriends but their audition at a local talent show, Vere Johns' Opportunity Hour, was unsuccessful. Glen Adams obituary 2011-01-06T18:30:23Z

Virginia’s draws on piano and an ornamental language befitting an earlier time in the English countryside, but with a winding harmony that, he hopes, evokes Woolf’s writing. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

“There are some low notes that aren’t really for a tenor, like B flat. But they’re mostly in the harmony. The lowest when he sings alone is a C, which is very central.” A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

A double-faced wool coat featuring the unexpected harmony of black and brown, a big color combo this season, was the ultimately versatile piece. | The Top Five Fall/Winter 2014 Men’s Wear Shows in Milan 2014-01-15T20:29:19Z

Berg’s musical language in the opera is an extraordinary blend of old and new — with some tonal harmony, bursts of Expressionist angst and stretches of atonality. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

On “Prairie Burn,” she issues rugged, two-handed counterpoint; dense smashes of harmony; and simmering blues improvisation. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Patty, the youngest, was a soprano and sang lead; Maxene handled the high harmony; and LaVerne, the oldest, took the low notes. Patty Andrews, Singer With the Andrews Sisters, Dies at 94 2013-01-31T01:28:16Z

A placid opening sequence doubled as raw material, the regularly paced, mostly consonant piano chords providing receptacles that Mr. Stone refilled with wobbly, warbling tones and voices to create harmony and counterpoint. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z

After a cursory attempt at harmony in which the sweethearts invite Nadine to join them at a party, then abandon her to play beer pong, she insists Krista choose between them. Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ Takes Teenage Movies to a Higher Place 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Giornetti designed the collection in shades of pale stone inspired by the building within which they would be showcased "because I wanted the palette to be in harmony with the Louvre and with Paris". Salvatore Ferragamo Louvre show pushes case for fashion as high art 2012-06-13T16:03:30Z

I heard and saw everything — the planets, cosmos and harmony of life — in this song. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

With its outpouring of musical styles and counterpoint numbers, Willson’s score is brilliantly designed to push different worldviews into proximity and sometimes into harmony. Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

He brought uncommon breadth to the opening of the spacious first movement, with its arching theme and dreamy harmonies. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“The Hamlet Zone” is a place in which words are broken up, transferred and shared, and in which the voice of one character is woven together, in both harmony and dissonance, with that of another. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

It begins mysteriously: a lacy piano line traces a strange ascending arpeggio enshrouded by exotic orchestral harmonies. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z

The overlaps create unpredictable harmonies that can make your hair stand on end. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The chorus, bolstered by hearty male harmonies, is instantly memorable — “You never held it at the right angle” — yet no less enigmatic. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z

Even with his limited voice of today to work with, Wilson invests considerable melancholy and sweetness into his performance, and his rich harmonies, of course, are characteristically gorgeous. 'The Art of McCartney' tribute album only traces the surface 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

ON a recent Sunday night at Smalls, the Greenwich Village basement club, Johnny O’Neal sat at the piano drawing lush clumps of harmony from the keys as he shouted a blues standard. After Vanishing, Johnny O’Neal Has a New York Following Again 2014-05-01T23:30:47Z

The rhythm section fills them out, and Beck finds a way to sing in them, draping his groggy lead voice over the words, echoing up the vocal harmonies for backgrounds and choruses. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z

Rather, they were the genesis of his greatest contribution to classical music: the liberation of harmony from the straitjacket of tonic-dominant attraction. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“It’s a place of sanctuary, harmony, quiet and joy.” The Exquisite Details of a Fifth Avenue Apartment Renovation 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The structure, counterpoint and harmony of the sonata allude to Beethoven, Bach and Hindemith; the percussive drive shows the influence of Prokofiev. Classical Recordings: Sebastian Currier: Piano Sonata, Other Works ? CD Review 2011-12-22T15:26:52Z

The musical episode is wonderful, although some of the songs' time changes and discordant "harmonies" left my partner and I, both with musical theatre training, confused. An abusive reckoning for "Buffy," a badass, occasionally feminist show created by a monstrous man 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

The hilarious “Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer” is a celebration of liberation, while “The Warden” offers a darker perspective on prison in lovely five-part harmony. Review: ‘Remedy’ offers 7-part harmony and more 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

You were made aware of the tremendous force with which Mahler's harmonies push against the limits of tonality, foreshadowing the brave new world of Schoenberg and his school. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z

But harmony and being agreeable did not save you when you were too young to resist. Am I boring? 2013-05-31T00:00:00Z

One Wisconsin singer named Justin was hired to record “ethereal” harmony vocals. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

Surrounded by supporting vocal harmonies from the reunited Dixie Chicks, Swift sounds as if she’s holding her acoustic guitar more tightly than ever before. Taylor Swift's 'Lover' album review: The pop star keeps getting older without growing up - The Washington Post 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The bare-bones arrangements were all they needed; their vocal harmonies, accompanied or barely so, were beacons of sharing and solidarity. Review: Ibeyi, Twin Sisters and a Duo, Uses Songs to Show Roots 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

And on almost every track there’s a richness of musical detail: the multitracked vocal harmonies, the shrewdly off-kilter grooves, all those spidery bass arpeggios. New Music: Albums From Thundercat and Buika 2013-06-10T21:43:39Z

It’s indicative of a company cracking a difficult code, of being able to marry the elements of storytelling through design and gesture, and finding harmony. Review | Even the gargoyles dance in Synetic’s fierce ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

She layers her vocals with a loop machine, singing underlying motifs before adding the melody and then a harmony line above. Kimbra?s Road From New Zealand Leads to a U.S. Tour 2012-05-21T16:29:26Z

The juxtaposition drew an arc between the searching harmonies of Gesualdo, an Italian Renaissance composer, and those of Beethoven’s “Holy Song of Thanks From a Convalescent to the Divinity.” Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

After the work’s dizzying range of moods and harmonies the players pulled back thrillingly for the final movement’s swift dance, almost Baroque in its courtliness. Music Review: The Knights Chamber Orchestra at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-18T21:30:07Z

“It might seem that this tableau is a kind of utopian wish fulfillment, the naïve projection of a longed-for harmony that does not yet exist,” A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The second, ungainly duo disrupts the harmony established by the first, illuminating just how sublime that harmony was. Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Werner, the officer, is a musician who talks volubly of his dream of international harmony. The Silence of the Sea – review 2013-01-15T17:51:48Z

“Arena” begins with bustling figures, hazy harmonies amid a mood of breathless agitation. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z

Now, Plant – the greatest frontman in rock'n'roll – is also singing close harmony and backing vocals. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

Parsons sings in a strained, weary voice bolstered by Emmylou Harris's harmonies on this highlight from his first solo album, “GP.” Enough About Gram Parsons’s Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

The first song, “Sometimes the Moon Sat in the Well at Night,” followed a stark introductory set of piano chords with a vocal line dotted with exotic touches: dusky harmonies and curlicues of ornamentation. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

As he tramps through the snow on his way to school, you have a piercing sense of a young man in harmony with nature. Review: In ‘Being 17,’ 2 Boys Teeter Between Animosity and Attraction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

I’m interested in a modern theatrical language, but only in a complete harmony with the music making. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

And on the familiar “Adagio — attaca,” they found, in the layered harmonies and rising motifs, stray poignant hesitations as if the whole intensifying tissue of sound were about to falter. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

In this teeming, vividly orchestrated symphony, Bernstein boldly draws from diverse styles, including episodes of wide-spaced, poignant harmonies evocative of Copland, and hurtling moments that screech with modernist intensity and break into 12-tone shards. Review: Son Confronts Father to End a Leonard Bernstein Festival 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

But if Monroe perfected the instrumental side of bluegrass, it was Carter and Ralph who perfected the vocal side: the close-interval harmony singing that was soon and accurately labeled “high and lonesome.” Bluegrass great Ralph Stanley was one of our last links to an old America 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Here, in “Calculus,” that edgy harmony is displayed: Poetry review: Christian Wiman’s ‘Once in the West’ and Mary Oliver’s ‘Blue Horses’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Robinson sometimes imparted brief harmonies with deep vibes chords; Noble made twanging jaws-harp noises with the edge of a small cymbal; and episodes of almost laid-back shuffling periodically decelerated the generally hell-driving momentum. Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith – review 2012-08-29T14:31:43Z

Quite apart from the quality of the musicianship, Plant had entered a new – well, different – vocal soundscape: intense but restrained, with understated close harmonies. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

After racing through “All Aboard,” a quicksilver original with a locomotive theme, they eased into an old blues standard, “Trouble in Mind,” with three fiddles blending in sweet, buttery harmony. The Time Jumpers, Country Swing Standard Bearers, Thrive in Nashville 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

But the slight coolness and clarity of the playing also revealed Mahler’s intricate contrapuntal writing, the boldness of his chromatic harmonies. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Brings Mahler to Carnegie, Ever So Coolly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Then, an hour and a half later, this: “Didn’t find any useful photos, but just for a moment we fell into three-part harmony on a few lines of ‘Fair and Tender Maidens.’ ” Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z

Wordless harmonies give the hooks a little more oomph. Album review: Bob Mould, 'Silver Age' 2012-08-31T17:46:00Z

She tosses cold splashes of harmony, sketches out little countermelodies at a downward angle, opens up pockets of silence. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

As the track expands from simple piano chords to surround him with Jacob Collier’s elaborate vocal harmonies, Stormzy’s voice stays modest, as if he’s still amazed to have found his “angel.” Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

They brought the lush, precisely swooping harmonies of South African tradition, which were especially striking when they joined Ms. Kidjo for a cappella passages. Angélique Kidjo’s Tribute to Miriam Makeba 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Samy Moussa's strikingly original "Crimson" revealed a young composer and conductor from Montreal with a gleeful sense for metallic orchestral color and shocking harmony. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Instead of bringing more polish and guile, it is full of hisses and noises framing close harmonies and spare, idiosyncratic instrumentation, with a pervasive sense of elegy. Music: Echoes of Another Time and Place 2011-02-18T20:45:34Z

A few ringers add fiddle and female harmony vocals that evoke the Celtic and Scottish folk melodies in Thompson’s musical DNA. Album review: Richard Thompson, 'Electric' 2013-02-05T05:34:00Z

“The more notes you have, the more you’re dictating the harmony, and I don’t want to do that,” he said. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

In “Five,” the harmonies were a touch more daring but the overriding quality, as in the other works, was one of stasis and calm. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The curtain-raising title track takes flight with Queen-ish blasts of a cappella harmony, then follows acoustic guitars and banjos as they run from a tidal wave of artificial bass. Review | New name. New sound. But the Chicks still sound like the truth. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Dancers show not just the music’s changing rhythms and energies but also its melodies and harmonies. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

She still sounds best when her harmonies are processed to an uncanny edge. Lorde gets the Greek on her team at her sold-out show 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

He politely dissents from the cardinal’s vision of civic harmony, arguing that the paper should stand alone. Review: In ‘Spotlight,’ The Boston Globe Digs Up the Catholic Church’s Dirt 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

It tells a story, through this harmony, an emotional story. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Dramatizing one of those reawakenings felt in harmony with canon to us and potentially delicious. ‘The Rings of Power’: The Showrunners Unpack That Twisty Finale 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

This short song pushes chromatic harmony into fleeting moments of ambiguity. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z

Picture her working out the phrasing, the rhythm and harmonies just as she always did; and then singing it, in perfect silence, to the only listener who ever mattered. Linda Ronstadt never stopped singing 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Whole stretches are accompanied mostly by strange, sustained organ harmonies. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

But the string quartet and backup vocals added convolutions: harmonies leaning toward polytonality, staggered vocals that gently concealed the beat. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z

Generally though, in Creed’s universe, intra-ethnic harmony is the order of the day. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Miroku is the Japanese name given to the last reincarnation of Buddha, who appears when the world achieves harmony. Dance Review: Saburo Teshigawara?s ?Miroku? at Lincoln Center 2010-07-12T21:58:00Z

It can mean wildly extended harmony, blues inflections, odd-metered cadences, unconventional instrumental pairings. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

What resulted was a heightened appreciation of Rossi’s innovative spirit, which combined the elegant shifting harmonies of the Italian early Baroque with a careful attention to textual detail. Music Review: Clarion Music Society at the Five Borough Music Festival 2012-11-27T22:51:16Z

That vision coalesced in Mr. Harris’s original anthem “I Do Believe,” a hymn to American unity and cooperation as stalwartly upbeat as “The House I Live In,” Frank Sinatra’s ode to harmony in diversity. Music Review: Allan Harris Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2010-04-06T22:27:00Z

Originally written as a violin solo, “Flow” was here crosshatched with close harmonies, which at times made the string quartet sound like a harmonica. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z

As suites, and in some aspects of arrangement and harmony, they contained the spirit and substance of Duke Ellington. Music Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Offers 2 Works by Orchestra Members 2012-05-21T04:13:57Z

Yet when they cut loose for Mr. Jones’s centerpiece dance number, a stylized mix of shoulder-shaking swing and jive, everyone melts into an ecstatic harmony. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

In his singing and playing, Baker, who was called “the James Dean of jazz,” personified the West Coast style of cool jazz that was later echoed in the harmonies of the Beach Boys. Review: ‘Born to Be Blue,’ Portrait of a Trumpeter as a Heroin Addict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

On Friday, his vocal harmonies were strong and sure, and his bass playing was agile enough to slip between Alex’s stampeding kick drums and Eddie’s slaloming guitar leads. Concert review: Van Halen at the United Center 2012-02-25T07:25:00Z

Tiny atomic beads of harmony or timbre bump against each other but remain discrete, never melding into a wash of sound. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z

Even if they weren’t all skillful singers and dancers, they would be fun to have around: They banter pleasantly between numbers, share the job of lead singer and back each other up in tight harmony. Good times roll at Ebony Repertory's 'Five Guys Named Moe' 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Oddballs and misfits found passing moments of harmony. Review: Barnard/Columbia Dances at the Miller Theater 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

One day she found I was not only duplicating her singing but also adding harmonies and ornaments. Nobuyuki Tsujii to play in Seattle recital, ‘Celebrate Asia’ 2013-01-17T22:09:46Z

Unless you somehow can cross the great alkaline planes and reach shelter in the cave of harmony. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z

Collaborators from bands such as Beirut, Wye Oak and the Walkmen came and went, adding a drum part here, a harmony vocal there. Sharon Van Etten learns how to share 2012-02-08T22:14:00Z

Does this mean that a new age is upon us, one where all colors live in harmony and are appreciated equally? Place Your Bets on the New Millennial Pink 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

It is very much a product of its time – a little shaggy, with its four-part harmonies, backward guitar, spoken word – even some autoharp, if I’m not mistaken. You Must Hear This! The New Tweedy Brothers 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

First he goes to see Andrew Lloyd Webber, because ALW knows a thing or two about melodies and harmonies, and maybe because he looks a bit like Queen Victoria. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z

This is the current advertising mantra of the food industry- breakfast food as the pathway to family harmony. Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sunshine put them right to work, assigning vocal lines and harmonies to create a wall of sound behind her solos on an extended gospel song. Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z

They are involved with maintaining the action’s momentum, but they also move with a vocabulary that is sometimes in harmony with scenes across time, like spirits. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Giving an immediate impression of grace and elegance, it soon shows itself as seething with invention, full of tugging chromaticisms and deviant harmonies held firm by ostinato bass lines or other repeated structures. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

The Starbucks Chorus is a four-part harmony a cappella group of volunteer employees. Homeless will benefit from Starbucks Chorus ‘Street Requiem’ performance 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Out of them pours music sounding like part of a rock opera, filling the gallery with physically palpable sound and transporting symphonic harmonies. Chelsea Galleries, Like a Box of Chocolates 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“The harmony that you walk into and the space he creates for you as an actor is a rare, rare thing.” An unlikely harmony for Eastwood in ‘Jersey Boys’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

The flute’s skittish riffs and winding lyrical lines sometimes ignite agitated orchestral responses; at other times they are cushioned by subdued, sustained harmonies. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

How does a rural community live in harmony with nature? Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In truth, the Jonas Brothers were as worthy as any American rock band of the 2000s, reflecting both their peppy harmonies and sticky choruses, as well as the general decline in the competition. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Most of the songs on this album are Lady Antebellum manqué, from the tightly clenched harmonies to the notionally frisky subject matter. New Music: Gloriana, Farm Inc. and Christian Scott Release New Music 2012-07-30T21:47:21Z

The early Minimalism of Glass is there, too, in the score’s vast expanses of shifting harmonies and repeating rhythms. A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

There is much about the rooftop concert that is magical: Lennon, McCartney and Harrison singing three-part harmony on the chorus of “Don’t Let Me Down” always stands out. Get Back: The Beatles rocked the rooftop 50 years ago 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Singer Robin Pecknold acknowledged his anxiety on and on stage, but the set was a total success, with the group's dazzling harmonies now joined to a more forceful and expansive instrumental dynamic. Wolf gang grins, but doesn't flinch 2011-07-17T23:23:00Z

Family harmony, as brought to you by the literary world. Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z

For that matter, this tale of a big-hearted operator at a telephone answering service who rearranges the unhappy lives of her clients into giddy harmony, struck reviewers as dated even in the 1950s. Theater Review: It Was Love At First Sound 2010-11-19T20:42:00Z

“Yes, that’s me right there,” he said, walking her over to the case about group harmony, featuring Gladys Knight and the Pips. Anecdotes from the African American Museum’s grand opening 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The presence of harmonies that sound like a stoned Swingle Singers and Green Garden's unlikely subject matter might suggest there's something more intriguing about Mvula than the advance publicity implies. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon – review 2013-02-28T15:29:02Z

Cooke’s voice, backed by the ethereal harmonies of his gospel group, the Soul Stirrers, pulsated along the curved walls of acoustic tiles from a surround-sound system. The Museum of the Bible: The last place in D.C. you might expect to hear Queen, Kanye and the Clash 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Kitt’s music has a generic pop sound that sometimes works, as in “Drum Circle,” a Disney-esque tune chock-full of lively, layered percussion; and “Heart in Your Hands,” a rather maudlin song with angelic harmonies. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

But progressive white people seem to be using these services in a different way: as methods for performing racial harmony and assuaging white guilt. The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

The piano plays an angular melody as the quartet offers a wistful tonal accompaniment, as if regretting the decline of harmony. Review: Despite being interrupted by cellphones — twice! — Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival kicked off its second half with a remarkable concert 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

“I still can’t stand the sound of those 1950s harmonies — like a drink you got drunk on as a teenager, just the smell of it brings back the nausea.” A Memoir by Viv Albertine, Punk Rocker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

There's very little percussion here and plenty of high harmony, yet there's nothing soft about "Sigh No More." 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

“Composers learn the principles of harmony, counterpoint, technique, and choreography is no different.” New Leaders at Paris Opera Unveil an Ambitious Future 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Mixing shrimp with two varieties of celery, the more bitter and self-assured Chinese and the sweeter, shyer Western kind, and using both stalks and leaves, she builds exhilarating harmonies. Restaurant Review: Dumpling Galaxy in Queens 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The story is about a straight-laced, conformist boys' prep school whose harmony is disturbed when Keating arrives to teach English. Jason Sudeikis will lead stage play of 'Dead Poets Society' 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

For if secularism resulted in moral deterioration, then highly secular societies would be decaying bastions of crime and misery, while the strongly religious would be shining beacons of liberty and harmony. The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn't destroy society or moral order 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Martin and Hilda are both unmarried, avowed Christians who have cohabitated happily for their adult lives and are so comfortably woven together that they even sigh in harmony. | 'Neighbourhood Watch' : ?Neighbourhood Watch? by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-08T03:17:19Z

The trend for leading conductors to live longer has also been put down to the upper body exercise involved, increasing circulation to the brain, and to the result of an artistic concentration on harmony. Age shall not wither us: why great art isn't the sole preserve of the young 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

She sings her own background harmony vocals, a Destiny’s Child of one. Review: Meghan Trainor and Mike Posner, Taking Stabs at Pop Stardom 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Five of Post­Classical Ensemble’s principal musicians played the gorgeous “Souvenirs de Voyage,” a quintet for clarinet and strings in lush late romantic harmony. Ensemble shines spotlight on Herrmann’s film scores, and for good reason 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

His compositions are full of demanding, musicianly convolutions: leaping melodies, meter shifts, mutating chromatic harmonies and dissonances. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z

There are periodic pauses, but as the solo gains momentum, Huxley, with the camera swirling around him and the stage, maintains his pristine placement and seamless harmony. Review: Sofia Coppola Brings New York City Ballet Back to Life 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

But that’s their task: in an Apollonian art that requires purity of line, precision of execution and harmony of appearance, dancers with less than ideal shapes must bring other qualities to bear. Critic?s Notebook: Judging The Bodies In Ballet 2010-12-04T00:15:00Z

The Blind Boys of Alabama brought hearty gospel harmonies. Music Review: Dr. John at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-04-06T22:31:59Z

The compositions hurl notes with maniacal relentlessness, the harmonies bristle with dissonance, and the lyrics, when they occasionally appear, are bleak. King Crimson Plays at the Best Buy Theater 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

His harmonies, like those of Ives, defy expectation even as they maintain a sociable approachability. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

When asked in an interview about his artistic credo, Carter, who did not like talking about such things, suggested that his music was like an ideal of American democracy, with “dissenting independent voices creating harmony.” Music Review: Elliott Carter Memorial at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-01-15T22:48:02Z

The symbolic meaning of the string quartet, the most perfect ensemble, is that of harmony raised high. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Apple sprinkles in some piano and eventually adds vocal harmonies on refrains like “A field of sunflowers with their backs toward me/I’m on the train.” Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Mix, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Toward the end of the night, Alejandro Iñárritu, the Best Director winner, found himself in the awkward position of delivering a plea for racial harmony with Wagner galloping in the background. A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Joy Williams, from the Civil Wars, brought out the theological odyssey of “The Sound of Silence” with a meticulous arrangement that moved from a violin drone to folk-rock to stark a cappella harmonies. Music Review: Tuneful Paul Simon Tribute Bridges Decades 2014-04-01T22:19:25Z

On “King,” Belly’s second album, each song unfolds at its own pace, with Ms. Donelly’s high-pitched harmonies always in the lead. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Critics lauded the ensemble for weaving an agile harmony of pastel and harsh moods in performing Mr. Lee’s folk operas at Town Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the Newport Jazz Festival. Bill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Composer, Is Dead at 94 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Amid the exuberant abuse of keyboards and such and the jolly three-part harmonies, there's a sorrow here connoting a longing for the carefree fun of youth – hence the past tense. We Were Evergreen 2012-05-22T16:57:39Z

Especially today, in the age of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the message of “Star Trek” — openness, harmony and the spirit of exploration — feels more applicable than ever. “Star Trek” in the age of Trump: Why we need to embrace its 50-year mission now more than ever 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

What were those harmonies, the chords that the rippling figure was tracing? Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Hints of ancient modal harmony combine with jazzy chords and fractured rhythms. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z

She played saxophone in the school jazz band and piano at home, experience that shows in her phrasing and her sense of harmony. Kali Uchis Is a Complicated Musician. She Plans to Stay That Way. 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

I’m jealous of the members of that crowd: The vibrating harmonies of the Mazmur Chorale, impressive even over laptop speakers, must be mighty in person. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

By the end of the song, they’re groaning in harmony, the only thing left they have in common. Weezer’s Rock ’n’ Roll Nostalgia Trip, and 10 More New Songs 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

No African-American jazz master loved European harmony more than Davis. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Penderecki was most widely known for choral compositions evoking Poland’s ardent Catholicism and history of foreign domination, and for his early experimental works, with their massive tone clusters and disregard for melody and harmony. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Five musicians, including her brother, the vocalist Aditya Prakash, joined her onstage, and from the first moment, music and dance worked together in trance-inducing harmony. Review: Mythili Prakash Is Fiery at Dancing the Gods Festival 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

The melody note will be repeated but the bass and harmony will change. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

One is a paradoxically upbeat surf-rocker with big harmony choruses; the other is a hidden track that closes the album. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z

And the pages of “Moon Man” are still shocking, in their deep use of blue and black; it is a dark book, literally, that reeks of ingenuity and crafty harmony and charm. Tomi Ungerer’s Triumphant Return 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

This time, as the speeches of local authorities proclaim unity and harmony, the editing splinters the action into a series of discrete, disjunctive shots. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Rundell has been working with Shorter for close to a decade, and he peppered his instructions with awe-struck asides about how marvelously “Wayne” all these shifting harmonies were. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The first violins play a goading, syncopated refrain as the harmony lurches underneath, slithering to a resolution before launching into grand second subject. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

His voice is honeyed and mournful, and many of the tracks leave it bravely exposed: just a lightly strummed guitar, brushes on the drums, perhaps a distant piano or a harmony vocal. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z

According to music director Charles Johnson, Landless has been able to massage harmonies and meter, but not the tunes. Attend the tale, and turn it up: New prog metal ‘Todd’ premieres in D.C.

Though the echoes of distant celestial symphonies must ripple through the very fabric of reality, Einstein thought their ethereal harmonies were destined to remain eternally unheard. Albert Einstein’s vision realized: The future of gravitational wave astronomy is here 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

The Polish composer cooks the same meal as Paganini but adds a pinch of spice to each course, transforming the plain harmonies into piquant, exotic flavours. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z

During a late night of writing, his harmonies became a solid checkpoint, an excuse to push ahead for another hour or so. The Tree Man Outside My Window 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

While he gradually moved away from regular tonality in favor of a richer harmony, he maintained a powerful sense of direction. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z

Graced by gospel harmonies, “Disappearing” offers caveat emptor for the kind of tortured artists who might try dipping into the Mississippi. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

The band paraded onstage and made its final exit singing harmonies and playing percussion, tapping out meticulous rhythms that flickered with changing patterns of three against two, six against four. Music Review: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Plays Funk 2010-07-12T21:54:00Z

The piano continues to twist and turn, with dreamy harmonies segueing into frenetic, toccata-like eruptions. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The melancholy harmonies of American Meccano retained the eloquence of the OC DC album performance, even without that session's star vocal guest, Robert Wyatt. Get the Blessing – review 2013-03-20T18:35:29Z

Its members are just trying their best to find, as a collective force, some harmony and beauty in the rough, often ugly natural ingredients of daily life. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

That release featured “Billie Holiday,” a haunting slice of rural melancholia, full of devastating, sad harmonies and still one of this group’s standout songs. Music Review: Aquatic and Narcotic, Propelled by the Drummer 2010-12-05T22:17:00Z

In lighter scenes, Dvorak evokes Polish music with lilting, mazurka-infused choral music; he draws upon Slavic modal harmonies to suggest Russian idioms and character. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Against calmly conventional harmony in the strings, a solo trumpet playing in a different key repeatedly poses what Ives called "the perennial question of existence", which it continues to repeat. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs 2010-05-10T21:05:00Z

Remodeled over centuries, the abbey melds architectural styles but exudes harmony and calm. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

“Serreau evokes a foreign utopian planet with ecological lifestyles, spiritual harmony, zero carbon technologies and equality,” she says. Brave new worlds: what can we learn from film's utopian visions? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

No, my job was one in which I was very happy, which was to play bass, write songs and sing background harmonies. R.E.M.?s Mike Mills on Saying Goodbye After Three Decades 2011-11-14T12:00:31Z

But a few of them — notably “Standing Owl” — attain a canny harmony of primal subject and primitivist style. In the galleries: Showcasing an artist’s exploration and influence 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

He complained several times that he spent too much time writing music and not enough time writing treatises, about harmony especially. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z

His menace is usually rendered instead by creepy harmonies from a trio of horns. Music Review: ‘Peter & the Wolf,’ at Guggenheim Museum 2013-12-15T22:23:25Z

When he orchestrates the denouements of “Twelfth Night” and “As You Like It,” it’s with a full awareness of how unlikely these states of sudden, blissful harmony are. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Shakespeare's Comedies Draw Tears 2011-02-24T20:24:53Z

But you cannot resist Gould’s mastery of orchestration, keen ear for harmony and ability to fold myriad styles into his own voice. Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z

Albers’s overall aim was to create an impression of effortless, inevitable harmony, which, of course, demands hard work. Art Review: ‘Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,’ at the Morgan 2012-07-26T23:09:42Z

He, of course, appropriated native music refashioning it with European harmonies and in the European symphonic ways he knew. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The 10 songs blow past in less than 33 minutes, with robust melodies resolving in arms-wide-open choruses augmented by wordless “sha-la-la” vocal harmonies. Album review: Redd Kross, 'Researching the Blues' 2012-08-07T04:24:00Z

Her painterly eye informs her every image, whether she’s sweeping over the natural world or closing in on characters arranged with the physical reserve, spatial harmony and otherworldly aura of an old master group portrait. ‘Archipelago,’ a Drama by Joanna Hogg 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to forget, given the museum that survives, how exciting its creation must have been, with new pieces constantly arriving, sending ripples, fresh harmonies and ever more intricate cross-references through the ensemble. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

And then there’s that voice, youthful, pure, with layers of perfect harmony. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Cue Wagner, who developed a language of complex chromatic harmony and elongated phrasing that was perfect for revealing intimate sentiment. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

The sublime 25th Variation, a slow, achingly lyrical rumination with passages that explore bold realms of chromatic harmony, invites a performer to play with brooding expressivity. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

The difficult past is always present in Van Etten’s music, a mesmerizing catalog that somehow combines the venom of P J Harvey with a choir loft full of Emmylou Harrises singing harmony. The Rough Harmonies of Sharon Van Etten 2012-02-05T04:55:45Z

What filled the gaps were visuals, bright displays of animated characters and trippy light arrangements programmed in perfect harmony with the music. Critic?s Notebook: Electronic Music That Plays to the Senses, Both Sound and Sight 2011-10-11T21:56:21Z

The work shows the main influences in Bartok’s youth: the thematic development echoing Liszt, the opulent harmonies and emotive swirls redolent of Strauss, and the thick textures reflecting Brahms’s chamber music. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z

The harmonies of “30/90” recall “What You Own.” How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Plenty of brides flaunt their ink, but some, for reasons of aesthetics, religion or family harmony, find the look at odds with their wedding-day image. Field Notes: How Brides Are Choosing to Hide Their Tattoos 2012-12-14T01:35:34Z

Sometimes I pick a pitch and raise my voice to find a compatible harmony in its wide band of frequencies. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The window melded these five-pointed “American” stars along with the six-pointed Star of David, to symbolize the harmony of the old world and the new. New York City Museums Teach the History of Immigration 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Like Kingelez, he used cardboard and bright colors to imagine utopias of global harmony. The African Artist-Writer Who Mapped New Worlds 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The discerning bed down in what is touted as “discreet luxury and Oriental harmony” at a tranquil non-gaming haven. Where to find a respite from the neon in Las Vegas 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Both movies were about fixing what’s broken, and they provided that special fizzy catharsis that comes when problems are resolved through the harmonies of song and dance. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

His knack for melody and gorgeous harmonies coupled with his amazing sense of rhythm and virtuosity on acoustic guitar should make him a household name, no matter what language he's speaking. New band of the day (Ásgeir 1,553) 2013-07-15T15:17:37Z

He speaks a thoroughgoing blues language throughout, even as he’s sliding in and out of key, tearing his tones, improvising in cuts against the grain and suggesting alternatives to the harmony and the rhythm. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Sun Ra’s “Shadow World,” from a 1970 concert at Fondation Maeght in the south of France, sounds like a subway car barreling underground, its cascading drums and squealing horns coalescing in turbulent harmony. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Minimal in harmony — long patches of worrying a single note in multiple registers — it is maximal in drama, gathering great storms of sound. Review: A Mumbling Tribute to Dancers’ Misalignment 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Another, later, when two performers each play the same two instruments at the same time in perfect harmony. Micro 2010-04-14T21:05:00Z

"Once you're in harmony with the weight of the ocean, then you're never going to drown," is not an unusual statement. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z

Perhaps art and life are finally approaching harmony. The American dream 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

But within them is an intractable despair, something that can’t be alleviated by a neatly placed vocal harmony or a poised chorus. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Now playing: The roots-pop of "Mr. Sad Clown" is full of bright, comfortable guitar wrapped with sincere lyrics and sweet harmonies. Rock, pop and soul in the grass at Mountain Music Fest 2010-08-13T01:01:00Z

But there were limits, especially in the realm of harmony and, over time, in the realm of song craft. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z

As always, Rawlings is a very capable foil, and their harmonies on "Hard Times" are chilling. Americana cavalcade ? Neko Case, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss 2011-06-29T23:36:04Z

Garfunkel helps build the tension, his harmony lines veering gradually away from the main melody before both singers snap back into lockstep for the final refrain. Old music: Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man 2012-12-20T09:00:00Z

In three effusive movements, Adams embraced catchy repetitions while also exploring long passages of moody harmonies and rich drones in which colors and textures slowly changed without pulse. After 32 years, 'Available Light' brighter than ever 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

The thundering weight of the bass line not only conjured the illusion of the organ's pedal notes, but resonated right up through the instrument to maximise the impact of the chromatic harmony. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z

However subtly, he distinctly choreographs each episode, using the camera and staging to underscore eddies of harmony and dissonance, shifting moods and awareness. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

And of course there was no shortage of the vocal harmonies that were and continue to be Wilson's gift to music. An assertive Brian Wilson surveys beloved hits at Greek Theatre 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

She went on to express support for Hillary Clinton, calling for harmony within her party. Sarah Silverman on Bernie or Bust, and the Joke She Didn’t Tell 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

He radicalized harmony and form with a complex, shockingly assertive 20 minutes of the newest music for a new century. The Music Academy of the West's grand adventure 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

With its subtly shifting differences of texture, harmony, and attack, "The Four Quarters" made an utterly beguiling impression in a performance of spellbinding intensity. Emerson, 'Four Quarters' a beguiling start to UW season 2012-10-03T16:55:04Z

Controlling synthesizer functions with microprocessors, it could play five notes at once, allowing harmonies. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Love is an emotion in action,” the eminent saxophonist, poet and visual artist Oliver Lake, 79, recites over the Sonic Liberation Singers’ suspended, open-vowel harmonies. SZA’s ‘Ctrl’ Bonus, and 8 More New Songs 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Throughout this show, Creed's appetite for lumpen reality collides with a longing for harmony, the harmony of the musical scale. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

With varying degrees of success he turns the melodies into post-Beach Boys pop with stacked harmonies performed in a barbershop tradition that erases vocal individuality for the sake of a creamy harmonic blend. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

The pianist Jacob Sacks is what you might call an inner-workings musician, drawn to the subtler, deeper mechanics of harmony and form. Jacob Sacks and Friends in Concert at Weill Recital Hall 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

He began with Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, its harmonies resplendent and the contrapuntal lines voiced with clarity. Thomas Trotter 2010-05-09T21:45:00Z

Together these good people sing a lovely chorale, their individual voices in harmony with the whole. Review: The Chaos Beneath the Chorale in ‘The Lucky Ones’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

Once the chant became the foundation for writing large-scale, multi-part Masses and motets in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, composers were given a laboratory for developing what became modern harmony, counterpoint and rhythm. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Jason has become one of the best writers in the country,” said David Crosby, who sings harmonies on “What’ve I Done to Help?” the opening track on “Reunions.” Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

In 2005, Jonathan Coulton released a folksy cover of “Baby Got Back,” bringing harmonies and acoustic guitars to the hip-hop classic. Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Hoping for harmony … Go Away you Bomb dates from Bob Dylan's politically active period in New York during the early 60s. Dylan's anti-bomb lyrics on sale 2013-05-03T11:44:38Z

It's an unusual show of harmony in a business where studios jostle and elbow one another for the right to proclaim in ads: "The No. 1 movie in America!" AP Essay: Will anyone really miss the box office? 2012-07-22T11:31:05Z

Someone will sing a line of poetry, or a three-note tune, or a vocal drone, and everyone will just join in, improvising, singing in harmonies. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

The phrasing, the relaxed pace and flexibility, the harmonies and the way melody is arranged between piano and bass all suggest the past. Playlist: Albums From George Cables and Zara McFarlane 2014-01-24T19:33:17Z

He wants to make changes to his career — and life — as he tries to find harmony beyond a troubled past. Rapper Mystikal breaks silence on dropped rape charge 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

We would go through Scriabin’s First Symphony, and then we would analyze it and check the harmonies and play it. A Lifelong Friendship’s Latest Chapter: A Concerto Premiere 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Jazz — with its complicated rhythms, surprising harmonies and gear-shifting melodies — was a huge influence on Thompson’s creative process. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to know where things will go; if you go, steel yourself for a wide variety of musical textures and temperaments, most of them liberated from standard time and harmony. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

This show was all plush vocal harmonies and sweetly twanging guitars; their "cosmic Scouser" phase now long behind them, they're in thrall to Buffalo Springfield and the Everly Brothers these days. The Coral 2010-07-15T21:15:00Z

Two “Orphic Hymns,” by Louis Karchin, represented a more conventional singing style, with elegant vocal lines and skillfully layered harmonies. Music Review: The Ensemble Ekmeles at Roulette in Brooklyn 2013-01-25T22:12:21Z

Between the two fundamental rhythms of life and death is the story of the struggle of the people of Treme to restore harmony to their city and among themselves. TV review: Treme 2011-02-18T19:19:26Z

Over minimalist percussion and an insistent guitar vamp, her voice spins ahead of the beat with a jumble of words, then drags behind with a lazy drawl, occasionally fleshing out into stacked harmonies. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

"Our favorite thing in the whole world was to sing together, sing harmonies and kick on our distortion pedals," Gordon said. Veruca Salt reunites to tell story of breakup, recovery in 'Ghost Notes' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Debut album Utopia was released last month, with lead track Mannequin and its addictive harmonies and melody lines serving as the perfect introduction to the band. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

Diffuse pungent orchestral harmonies, with pitches that split and chords that slide, cushion the tender vocal writing. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The Beatles' "Yesterday" launched an attractive piece of faux Rachmaninov, complete with rich harmonies and throbbing lyricism. Pianist Gabriela Montero combines classical improv with a spicy Latin beat 2011-02-05T15:53:00Z

The scene plays out against a chamber brass ensemble, in somber classical harmony — until the song swerves hard into guitar-driven incantation, accumulating layers in a proggish 7/8 meter. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z

The Sonata Andina, both soulful and vibrant, incorporates allusions to the rhythms and harmonies of the Peruvian mountains in the opening “Scherzo Serrano.” Music Review: ‘Happy Birthday, Ursula!,’ a Tribute at Symphony Space 2014-03-11T22:07:11Z

He recruited her to sing harmony on the two solo albums he completed before dying of a drug overdose 40 years ago, at the age of 26. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z

I would love to see the Mariinsky Ballet's Swan Lake at Covent Garden, just to witness the famous chorus of Russian swans all moving in hypnotic harmony through the ice-blue light. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z

But then it gets confusing because Rowsell is the one in charge of harmonies, while Oddie is the fan of hardcore. New band of the day (Wolf Alice No 1,510) 2013-05-10T16:41:22Z

Eventually, the alphornists got to play upward scales of notes and even conventional harmonies. The real headliner of the concert: alphorns, blowing a whirlwind of dark emotion through Disney Hall 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Several songs require the singers to sustain ethereal, high harmonies spiked with dissonant intervals. Bryce Dessner Debuts 'Black Mountain Songs' at BAM 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The conductor Bertrand de Billy refined the score’s occasionally astringent harmonies and piquant climaxes. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Vierne's life was one of hardship, disappointment, handicap and horror, all expressed in his murky organ music full of sickly harmonies and saturnine sonorities. L.A. Philharmonic's organ series opener a celebration of firsts 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

But the best choreography is for the jugglers alone: A simple knee bend added into a juggling pattern adjusts its visual harmony like a change in bass note or a fresh color on those rings. Review: Gandini Juggling’s Drab ‘Spring’ Mixes It Up With Dancers 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The official talk is of art and nature in harmony, but in truth, both the art and the landscaping are trying to outmuscle nature, rework it, master it. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

When three roll in one direction and Mr. Gonzalez rolls in the other, he rolls toward Mr. White, and that sweet transition sets off a beautiful series of unexpected harmonies. Dance Review: Vanessa Anspaugh’s ‘we were an island’ at Danspace Project 2014-02-23T21:49:16Z

What I really wanted, however, was something that truly captured the vibe, the harmony and the tension. Barbenheimer cheesecake brownies are the darkest, pinkest treat of the summer 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Neu!’s music channeled the improvisations of psychedelia through rigorous Minimalistic constraints: an unswerving beat, limited harmonies and determinedly terse melodies. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z

Wine lovers can go on ad nauseam discussing the subject, debating what constitutes balance and harmony. What Makes a Wine Great? It’s Not Just Old and Complex. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Songs clearly spill from Dwyer – there are 16 here, just two of them covers – and his skill with melody and harmony only grows. Thee Oh Sees: Castlemania ? review 2011-07-14T22:00:01Z

Sometimes, he blends in and out of harmony with the other band members, bending his pitch just slightly. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

After a short gesture of rising harmonies in the orchestra, the chorus sings “alleluia” in soft block chords. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

It was a physical expression of the spirit that energizes all of Springsteen’s music – a spirit of community, harmony, and unity. Dear straight Springsteen fans: If you’re shocked that Bruce canceled his North Carolina show, you haven’t been paying attention 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Seurat’s invocation of “design, composition, balance, light and harmony” felt like the perfect summing up of why art matters more than ever in times of tumult. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Instead we get mischievous and sinister images, perhaps befitting an age in which the interface between animal nature and human nature is more fraught with tension than graced with back-to-nature harmony. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

The music is dreamy and delicate, with alluring tonal harmonies flecked with pungently dissonant details. Music Review: Pianists Embracing the New 2011-05-25T21:52:25Z

His music also used the harmonies and phrasing of jazz guitar and an occasional hint of flamenco, and he studied the sitar and the shakuhachi, the Japanese wooden flute. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

It's all sung a cappella, with occasional minimal percussion and magnificent harmonies throughout. Coope, Boyes and Simpson: As if ... 2010-05-27T21:45:00Z

"But I believe cocktails can pair with food better than wine because the chef and the bartender work together to create a harmony of flavors they could never achieve with a finished product like wine." The Cocktail Hangout That's Shaking Up Sydney 2012-04-19T12:40:00Z

"Like music, wine has multiple notes in it, and you have a harmony of different flavors that come together and create, not necessarily a song, but they synergize and create different rhythms," she says. Wine, Women and Song offers a few hours of indulgence 2010-06-23T23:45:00Z

Charles Daniels' high tenor going up into falsetto range – as Purcell describes the deities' approval of Cecilia's bestowing of universal harmony – was just one example of conductor Paul McCreesh's meticulous approach to authentic practice. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

Leaning on a hippie vibe and following no direct course, the collective subscribes to a peace, love and harmony aesthetic. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

While the peace-loving Alliance tried to live in harmony with nature, the Crusaders all but destroyed and depopulated their own lands; their attempt to move tectonic plates using nuclear devices resulted in catastrophic volcanic eruptions. Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman – review 2013-06-05T12:54:39Z

The suite opens with instrumental flickers that outline tangy harmonies. Music Review: Philharmonic’s ‘Symphonic Sondheim’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-30T23:29:07Z

The beat, if there is one, might be a glitchy bit of static; the harmony keeps its distance, with sustained synthesizer tones, a treated guitar or a music-box glimmer. Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

Chockfull with 30 songs, The White Album made for an intentionally unsettling marriage of opposites: beauty and crudity, sublimity and blankness, harmony and cacophony. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

After solemn, almost medieval harmonies, the ending is a glittering ice storm of bells. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

"We need to learn to live in peace and harmony with each other," she said. UN chief enlists DiCaprio and other stars to plead for peace 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

But 1967’s “Headquarters,” the first album on which the Monkees “called the musical shots,” as Nesmith put it to Guitar World, shows off the group’s lovely harmonies, gift for arrangements and song selection. Year of the Monkees: How the once-maligned “Pre-fab Four” came out on top — and cemented their legacy 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

He popularized the use of piano, conga drums and multiple trumpets and also adopted new, more complicated rhythms and harmonies. Musical Dialogue Beyond Embargoes 2011-03-24T21:55:35Z

A quartet in silence, it is its own music, the connections and ricochets between the dancers making its harmonies marvelous. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Their two guitars share fingerpicked patterns reminiscent of the British folk-jazz group Pentangle, and their two voices move in close harmonies, with timbres blending almost like sisters. Music Review: Laura Marling Brings Folk Traditions to City Winery 2010-05-16T22:35:00Z

Here a delicate melody is accompanied by a tinkling piano that suggests an heirloom music box, but with slightly off harmonies and hypnotic spiraling riffs. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z

His voice drifts in and out of a dream-like atmosphere of twinkling keyboards, disembodied guitars and wordless vocal harmonies. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z

His right hand could zip and add bright dashes of color, or join the left in thick rhythmic smudges of harmony. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

“I love singing harmony on duets,” he said. Tony Bennett and Diana Krall Croon and Contrast on New Duet Album 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

With “Paperback Writer” on the A-side — an unlikely pop premise, a surging riff, a profusion of vocal harmonies — the single affirmed the Beatles’ mastery while forecasting change. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

The harmonies are labyrinthine, the melodies uplifting, the production both chameleonic and playful — endless possibility with the musicianship to back it up. The Playlist: Desiigner and Fergie Aren’t Done Just Yet 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

When Broemel added his own high, wordless harmonies, the sound was otherworldly – like a choir punching through to an alternative universe. My Morning Jacket builds its alternative universe of southern surrealism 2011-06-19T07:00:00Z

The language is essentially tonal, with lush, thick chromatic harmony and more austere modal passages that evoke the heritage of sacred music. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z

The gospel legend was the oldest of the three singing Barrett Sisters, who electrified audiences worldwide with their powerful harmonies. Gospel singer Delois Barrett Campbell dies at 85 2011-08-03T12:08:10Z

Hong’s investigation of this question illuminates why the concept of nunchi – with its emphasis on unity, relationship building, and collective harmony – may be particularly relevant at a cultural and political moment characterized by divisiveness. What is 'nunchi', the Korean secret to happiness? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

There’s both harmony and drama in the whole stage picture. Review | “Layla and Majnun”: An Azerbaijani dance opera for the ages 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Floating on a Boat, Four Hands on the Piano The composer Morton Feldman wrote vast works of whisper-soft chords and eerie harmonies that unfold with glacial, regal slowness. Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous 2012-02-21T22:52:30Z

On ground level, a rebellion is afoot and, only after the audience is assaulted with chains, weapons and water, and fireballs have been spun and fireworks exploded, is harmony restored. Mutatis Mutandis 2010-08-02T21:16:00Z

“I personally subscribe to Dr. King’s definition of an unjust law as being ‘out of harmony with the moral law.’ This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Didn’t Care” revels in an unexpected romance with a euphoric blend of Afro-pop guitars, Balkan choral harmonies and bubbly synthesizers. Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Yet perhaps most striking was the vivid highlighting of Grieg's imaginative textures and harmonies. Royal String Quartet 2010-07-20T20:30:00Z

In his view, only six words are necessary to evaluate a bottle’s essential attributes: “harmony,” “texture,” “layers,” “finesse,” “surprise,” and “nuance.” Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

I always see melodic lines, and counterbalancing forces, and weight, and harmony.” Fine-art photographer Johsel Namkung dies 2013-07-27T22:29:36Z

If their two-part harmonies sometimes wavered, their mutual affection overrode the technical glitches. Music Review: K T Sullivan and Larry Woodard at Laurie Beechman Theater 2012-06-21T21:51:41Z

Listen closely and you’ll hear that the brasses have an unusually, if still subtly, prominent place in the harmonies, giving the piece a golden glow. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

This is not a project that feeds the mythology of a band as a single, hovering intelligence, with its members guided into automatic harmony. Review: The Serene, Funk-Drenched Sound of the Internet’s “Hive Mind” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Collective Presence,” by Mr. Simon, and “Triple Threat,” by Mr. Penman, each featured a processional cadence and noble harmony, with careful interplay among the horns. Music Review: Jazz With Updates on the Past and Eyes on the Future 2010-10-26T22:32:00Z

The former punches hard with blinding urgency, busying itself with a carousel of sounds, from the dolphin-esque harmonies to the digital accents that wouldn’t be out of place on Dance Dance Revolution. There's Nothing Light About Passion Pit's Gossamer 2012-07-23T18:09:47Z

The track’s hazy sounds have a similar appeal: Over a background of gently spinning harmonies, a small corps of trumpets restates its part over and over, warped a little differently each time. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

“All I Ever Wanted,” the final song written for the record, with stacks of harmonies and a glowing string arrangement, came together in just a few days. The Secret to Yebba’s Debut Album? A Big Voice and Lots of Time. 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

This is emphatically not the case today, where the complex harmonies and diffracted textures and rhythms of modern orchestral writing are utterly incompatible with piano writing. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

“It was less about song forms and melody and harmony and some of the things you usually think about when producing, and more about the story.” Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

As they changed, he fed them with percussive playing, delicate harmonies and clusters played carefully with a flat hand or a forearm. Music Review: David Virelles Continuum, at the Village Vanguard 2013-02-01T23:04:26Z

Once again, the music features acoustic guitars, yearning choruses and five-part vocal harmonies. Fleet Foxes announce new album 2011-02-01T10:12:46Z

Do you have any suggestions on how to restore harmony? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your 6-year-old melts down, learn how to discipline (yourself) 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Only a rose for my darling,” the two sang together in gospel harmony, but the next lines — “she was my pride and joy/she was my everything” — implied that she’d never be receiving it. Music Review: Once Cruel to Be Kind, Now Soft to Be True 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z

Age-old Afro-Cuban rhythms, brassy big-band dance music, modern jazz harmonies and hints of funk all show up in her songs, and her voice — low, rich, agile and irrepressible — ricochets off them all. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

The finest singing she did was in the three love duets with Brownlee, one in each act, where their voices blended together beautifully in quiet harmony. Review: Fleming, 6 tenors lead rare Rossini at Met 2010-04-13T14:31:00Z

From the Anglo-Saxon “hale,” meaning “whole,” true health brings self-evident harmony to your body, from tip to toe. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Sankaram’s music is an enchanting blend of Indian styles, especially from the Carnatic tradition, with Western harmonies, cyclic rhythms, inventive instrumental colors and tender, snappy vocal writing. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s about the texture of the harmonies, the rhythms, the quotations, the Stravinskian drive, the klezmer and Jewish melodic style. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Also, to feel harmony between the inner self and the self presented to the world. Critical Shopper: Vintage Streetwear - Critical Shopper 2012-01-11T22:31:26Z

Yet for all his loyalty to classical forms and tonal harmonies, the same prickliness injects a certain asperity into even his most lyrical moments. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

He could fill the role of a pianist in terms of melody and harmony and also play percussively with a driving rhythmic attack. Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bell, singing in Russian, soared over keening harmonies by the Yehudim singers and expressive embellishments from Andrea Lee, a cellist. Music Review: Skipping Through Russia, Lingering in a Biblical Age 2011-03-04T21:18:36Z

This works to the band’s advantage, as the harmonies on Band of Horses’ records are sometimes overlooked in favor of the slow build-transition-noisy nature of their instrumentation. Band of Horses Captures Magic of a Live Show on New Acoustic Album 2014-02-13T22:31:14Z

This latest escapade for the duo has them determined to write the song that will be "the nexus point to bring humanity into rhythm and harmony." Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted "aren't playing Van Halen riffs" anymore 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

His pop-gospel ingredients aren’t so unusual: upward key changes, syncopated and synchronized horn lines, the introduction of new melodic strains, the gradual swelling of volume and harmony. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

It is a slow romantic ode to pop radio, showing off the group’s famous five-part harmonies and syrupy sentiments.  ArtsBeat: Beach Boys Release New Single 2012-04-25T15:27:30Z

As the chain continues, we see the power and harmony that builds from dancing bodies in Julianna Swaney’s illustrations, which glide across the page lending innocence to lightness, effervescence to urgency. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Neither image suits Ms. Spiegel, who grew up playing banjo music and singing folk songs in three-part harmony with her sisters in rural Illinois. Rediscovering the Electronic Music Godmothers 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z

Judith Weir compresses both the melody and harmony of Bach/Stölzel into bright, staccato chords, interspersed with a punching bass motif. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

It’s an engrossing tale of commercial expansion, industrial innovation and cultural harmony even in times, like the Civil Rights era, when that kind of unison seems tough to fathom. ‘The Automat’ Review: Put a Nickel in the Slot for Nostalgia 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

With piano rather than horns up front, Ms. Allen brought out both the angularity and the warmth of Mr. Shorter’s harmonies. Music Review: Wayne Shorter’s 80th Birthday and Legacy of Perpetual Flux 2013-06-30T21:30:21Z

In fact, while obviously respectful of tradition, she's also keen to bend the rules, for instance using vocal harmonies in her songs, which is rare for Malian singers. New music: Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa 2013-01-31T14:34:47Z

Typically featuring Charlie on guitar and lead vocals, and Ira, his older brother, on mandolin and high tenor harmonies, the Louvins’ music also left its mark on the country-rock of the Byrds and others. ArtsBeat: Charlie Louvin, Country Musician, Dies at 83 2011-01-26T16:25:36Z

Mr. Tsujii played it with flair here, lingering on the bluesy harmonies of the opening section and darting up and down the keyboard with panache in the lightning-fast runs that come later. Music Review: Nobuyuki Tsujii in Piano Debut at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-13T22:43:26Z

On “Holding Cell,” a highlight, voices harmonize over swarming violins, cello and electric bass; the harmony shifts tensely around them as they sing: “Holding cell/I can’t get well while you hold me.” Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Despite persistent criticism over its “white savior” narrative and storytelling liberties, this warm comedy-drama has appealed to many with its optimistic vision of racial harmony against a hostile backdrop. Where to Stream ‘Green Book,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Other Big Oscar Winners 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Last year, he released “My Dream Duets,” a dubious endeavor that wedged his vocals into harmony with such dearly departed folks as Marilyn Monroe, Whitney Houston and Frankie Lymon. Pop and Rock Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Raphael is a welcome antidote, particularly because his world is a world of harmony and peaceful forms.” For Britain’s National Gallery, a Raphael Show Comes at the Right Time 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

As sung with spectral sound by Mr. Bostridge and played by Mr. Adès with attentiveness to wayward harmonies and flecks of dissonance, the music seemed at once old and new. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z

Buyers looking for rhythmic harmony in abstract art at affordable prices may succumb. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

During the first scene, a tiff between a husband and wife is occasionally interrupted by a trio of voices, whose harmonies are meant to evoke radio advertisements. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

But this time the supportive harmonies are thick with intensifying intervals and pungent bits. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Miss Manners therefore appreciates that your sibling is intending to put harmony first in this case. Perspective | Miss Manners: Maintaining compassion during sibling’s messy divorce 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Loux suggests experience; Mr. Vinson, naïveté; but they’re more in harmony than contrasted, and it’s in their interaction with the group that Mr. Morris’s gift for geometry as drama touches on the mysteriously sublime. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Muzijevic played with subtle beauty, allowing the piercing dissonances in Schumann’s chromatic harmonies to emerge without any sense of making points or underlining complexities. Music Review: Schumann?s Poetic Side, Poured Richly Into Songs 2010-03-01T22:28:00Z

The theme is like a subdued song for chorus, with curiously murky harmonies. Noted Pianist Piotr Anderszewski Takes a Break From His Career 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

When we’re young, we take up choral music uncritically, as if by instinct; later, a closer, more attentive kind of listening is required to achieve harmony. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

The use of a cappella harmonies is exquisite, as is the gradual emergence of Celie’s individual voice. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z

If I sing with Emmy, I’m trying to ride right on her, to follow her shape exactly by singing harmony. Linda Ronstadt, Retired From Singing, Is Still a Glorious Voice 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s a quest for harmony, but where, what, how …” Mohamed El Bachiri: ‘Terrorists killed my wife: this is my jihad for love’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Now playing: Dylan's new release, "Women and Country," is a no-frills, subtly rich folk/roots album bolstered by harmonies from Neko Case and Kelly Hogan. Rock, pop and soul in the grass at Mountain Music Fest 2010-08-13T01:01:00Z

SAPPRFT, which is directly controlled by China’s Cabinet, is intended to maintain Chinese media's squeaky-clean image of morality, political stability and social harmony. Chinese TV censor's conviction points to 'common' bribery problem 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

His is a distinctive voice, spiked by cluster-like harmonies, at once piercing and ethereal, and squiggly rhythmic riffs. Review: The Rare Problem of a New Opera That’s Too Short 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

“We all lived in such harmony, and for so long, until the divorce and the disruption.” Jane Hawking: ‘There were four of us in our marriage’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Vocal harmonies abound, burnished to modern studio precision. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z

The set was also grounded in gospel music, from its opening harmonies to the way its closer, “Land of Hope and Glory” became a gospel-train medley with “This Train” and “People Get Ready.” ArtsBeat: At SXSW Springsteen Draws an All-Star Guest List 2012-03-16T16:46:09Z

The bond between the Lyons, whether they are manipulating each other, saying downright evil, abhorrent things to each other or singing in pitch perfect harmony, is utterly unbreakable. 'We are not the Brady Bunch': Empire and the power of black family 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

His approach to curating is similar to putting together a fashion collection, he said, of assembling disparate elements and trying “to create harmony between all” of them. The Anti-Power Couple: Duro Olowu and Thelma Golden 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

But on “ACE,” the steady, cyclical harmonies deliver just the right level of understated grace. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The beauty and the storytelling of the melodies combined with extremely haunting, interesting, painful harmonies. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Julian Schnabel, the artist and filmmaker who has been a Mr. Chow regular since around 1980, said that sense of harmony can be felt from the moment you pass through the front door. Sky-High Prices? Bad Reviews? No Matter: Mr. Chow Powers On 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Freedom is so central to the United States, harmony to China,” said Daniel A. Bell, a Canadian political scientist at Tsinghua who is serving as the Berggruen philosophy center’s director. Nicolas Berggruen Wants to Bridge the East-West Gap 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

As performed by a chamber ensemble and a small, gifted cast, the musical score was alluring and nuanced, with intricate ensemble numbers and long-lined melodic writing cushioned by lush orchestral harmonies and rippling figurations. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

Cage always liked to say he had no gift for harmony, and here he hit home. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Four songs in, the group played one of its hits, “Dream All Day,” the harmonies bolstered by Auer’s inspired guitar riffs, ripping and jolting the room. Posies make Neptune crowd feel young again 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Spare to the point of vanishing, his works suspend fragile harmonies above stretches of percussive rustling and spells of silence. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the finale, the beguiling theme pierced through the hazy harmonies of Mr. Andsnes’s fluid, graceful arpeggios. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z

Dr. King’s initial vision for the civil rights movement was one of racial harmony; blacks and whites working together to achieve equal lives for all. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

That sort of thing is stressful on a normal day, but makes a mockery of the idea of familial love and harmony. How Donald Trump ruined Christmas: I won't celebrate this year, and he's why 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

They forged a tandem style that became known as “folk-baroque,” full of gnarled harmonies, spiky counterpoint and melodic filigree. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Bicket wrote out a vocal score, filling in the harmonies that Monteverdi left out, noting where chords could be restated or shift in other ways. Nico Muhly Modernizes Monteverdi With ‘Irreverent Veneration’ 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Either way, a singer starts as one person and ends up as somebody else, aiming for some approximate harmony with whatever he used to be. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

The pauses to remember the words during “The Little Things You Do Together” helped underline the relentless drift from marital harmony to bitter discord over the song’s long haul. Music Review: Elaine Stritch at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2011-09-14T21:45:11Z

Shetty, who is chairman of the Temple Coordination Committee, said: "The UAE is a great example of religious tolerance with people of different nationalities living in harmony here." First Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi ready by end 2017: businessman 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

So naturally they recruited her to sing with them on “The Lonely Side of Town,” melding the group’s backing harmonies with Knight’s smooth vocals. New this week: Documentaries on Bieber, Fauci and ‘Buried’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

In “Change,” her slowed-down voice, singing out of harmony, floats over the groove. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z

Some of the most magical moments in musical history are when Davis picks up his trumpet and responds helplessly and hopelessly to gorgeous post-Debussy and Ravel harmony supplied by Gil or Bill Evans. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

But it is a far richer and stranger work when it shows you how attuned to Erik Satie’s harmonies and rhythms it sometimes is. Dance Review: An Accomplished Premiere, Served Along With Other Flourishes 2011-05-15T22:27:01Z

To set the texts — largely secular poems — with luminous clarity and to shape the music to the mood were the main goals, which d’India achieved with unexpected harmonies and startling evocations of emotional extremity. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The concert of the title is the name of one of Imogen’s films, but it also serves as a metaphor for Buckley’s novel: “a constellation of moments” searching for harmony. Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the demo, the bridge continued to ride the groove; in the new version, it’s a churchy, paradisiacal chorus, a brief refuge in harmony and rich strings. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

Amid these brisk entrances and exits is an utter commitment to form: a wild, full-bodied harmony, in which rhythm has no choice but to be ignited from the inside out. Review: Dancing the Night Away With Brazil’s Cia Suave 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

I worked with a man who was told as a child he was tone deaf but, when I heard him sing along with songs on the radio, I realized he actually was singing harmony. Can't sing, won't sing? 2011-01-10T10:31:10Z

The music becomes bogged down with intricacy, jagged phrases and weighty harmonies. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Scrubbing, tickling, spreading thick jazz harmonies or jabbing hints of the blues, it was structure as sheer elation. Review: Duran Duran, Seriously Light in Brooklyn 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

With Mary Stolper and Frank playing a version of "Suenos" for soprano flute, alto flute and piano, the earthy sounds of Peruvian folk instruments were transformed into wistful melodies, jazzily jaunty rhythms and pungent harmonies. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z

The music was an alluring blend of tart, slightly Asian-sounding harmonies, pummeling percussion, volleys of dancing marimba riffs, frenetic bursts of patter, and echoes of Americana. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories,’ at Zankel Hall 2014-04-23T21:25:46Z

The harmony of Frank's singing best friends group will never be the same. The Most Shocking Revelations From House of Cards Season 5 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Haim, a group led by three sisters, sang poppy, upbeat advice with strong harmonies and a hint of 1970s Southern California, then segued their chiming choruses into grand guitar crescendos. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z

Lady Antebellum, whose name refers to pre-Civil War America, closed with the wistful, romantic "Need You Now," featuring beautiful harmony vocals by Kelley and Scott. KeyArena crowd found a good time with Lady Antebellum 2012-03-21T18:09:29Z

Those delicate harmonies were at their richest when, after praising the Moore’s acoustics, the trio unplugged for an arresting, unamplified run through porchswinging oldie “Cannonball” — the most memorable moment of the night. Brandi Carlile, in high spirits, delights hometown crowd at Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

The difficult orchestra part erupts with obsessive accompaniment riffs, swirling inner voices and astringent sustained harmonies. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z

Their dialogue grows more complex as instrumental music kicks in, layered with the sounds of their shoes — or, in Guha’s case, bare feet below bell-clad ankles — slapping and drumming the floor, locking into rhythmic harmony. Review: Radiant Artists, With a Percussive Bond 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

His arrangements weren’t perfunctory, or there to class up the funk; they had rich harmony and tonal range and pulsation. Music Review: Erykah Badu at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-09T21:45:40Z

“We show how solid we are with them after they’ve been through this tragedy. We pray that people of all colors will be able to live together in peace and harmony.” Paul McCartney’s Charleston tribute will have you in tears 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

A full chorus in the original version was reduced to a vocal quartet that chimed in with floating, crystalline harmonies. Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The harmonies are often Beach Boys-worthy, while the jazzy/reggae flavor of some numbers recalls Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy." Avant-garde a cappella high jinks at Chapel Performance Space, and the sour-jazzy musings of Professor Gall at The Pink Door 2010-07-07T21:07:00Z

But at her best, she is a thoughtful musician with an ear for color, texture and harmony. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z

Though “Little Talks” and “Mountain Sound” were the moments captured on cellphone video, “King and Lionheart” was also a highlight for the harmony singing. Concert Review: Of Monsters and Men charms Seattle fans 2013-05-15T19:00:35Z

Brasser's son, Jim, added bass harmonies to the family tunes and so the distinctive Copper Family style began to emerge – carefully arranged and pitched with a tuning fork, reminiscent of a medieval organum. Great dynasties of the world: The Copper Family 2011-08-05T23:06:30Z

Case leaned into the microphone and told the story without fuss or tears, shaded by Kelly Hogan’s harmonies. Neko Case, Mavis Staples captivating at Hideout 2013-09-07T05:25:00Z

These ballads in the raw are rough, tragic things – Geordie is hung for his crimes, there's a drowning in Clyde Waters – that lose their impact when pretty harmonies smother them. Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads – review 2013-02-07T22:30:01Z

Zimmer’s cue begins with high wispy figures, and then the organ and orchestra begin to roar, in harmonies that waver between major and minor. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Here, the Tristan Chord laments that in his youth, restless for harmonic novelty, he created a chord that erased the rules of harmony. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

At one point, to demonstrate how microtonal language can create precise harmony, Jay Campbell, the cellist, played a D, with which I tried to harmonize by playing a B flat. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Wagner was represented by two of his "Wesendonck-Lieder," whose chromatic harmonies hint strongly at "Tristan." Nina Stemme ignites Houston's 'Tristan' 2013-04-28T15:11:09Z

I like admitting that my feminism and my femininity are not fully formed or in perfect harmony. The Bride in Her Head 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

We are aware that with a great effort of attentiveness, formulating and reformulating, listening closely to our own voice, modulating it into more tuneful harmonies, we might do something not just good, but perfect. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z

His voice rises into a stressed high range, and harmonies in the orchestra offer little comfort as he acknowledges that advancing age will not strew a single consoling flower. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

I don't think everyone in creative partnerships enjoys this kind of harmony. AlunaGeorge: the musical fling that continues to blossom 2013-07-06T23:07:17Z

It is good, though: dark in colour, with some surprising harmonies, feisty strings, stately outer movements and a silvery, lyrical slow movement. La Serenissima ? review 2011-01-27T21:45:01Z

The quintet already shows the beginnings of Sibelius’s mature style, the folky harmonies and sometimes bewildering rhythmic ambiguity, the sense of careening from chaos to rhapsody. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z

To hear Mr. Lawrence upshift through his improvisations, honoring a song’s rhythm and harmony and then breaking free of it, is one of jazz’s current thrills, and he understands this music as well as anyone. Revisiting 1964 Coltrane 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

The concerto's mixture of feisty, acid-edged harmonies, propulsive rhythms and bouts of jazzy yearning – the slow movement is a set of variations on the standard Sweet Lorraine – still suits MacGregor perfectly. Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review 2012-07-27T11:11:44Z

He appreciated it as both science and art: acutely he revealed both fine details of technique and the transcendent beauties of physical harmony. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z

Now the song has been updated as a superstar alliance, bringing on Taylor Swift to trade verses and share harmonies. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Up the Ante, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Credit to the other three girls for performing regardless – they're sincerely apologetic, and carry lopsided dance routines and harmonies professionally enough. Little Mix – review 2013-02-03T18:57:39Z

“It’s not some romantic thing where one guy starts playing ‘Uptown Girl’ on a street corner and the others start singing the harmony.” Music: A New Dawn Breaks for the Gaslight Anthem 2010-06-18T18:03:00Z

“After the divorce, all she wanted was some harmony in her life.” Style Invitational Week 1241: Less taste, more fill-in— our not-crossword 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

“I hope that harmony and peace will also continue in this new era,” she said. Japan’s new era called ‘Reiwa,’ for the pursuit of harmony 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship and emotion. Michael Bublé, singer – portrait of the artist 2013-04-09T13:03:54Z

The harmonies were shaky at first but as the song progressed they fell in tune, face to face, inches apart. ArtsBeat: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Apollo Theater in New York 2012-03-10T09:43:47Z

No. 4 might be the most beautiful, its bittersweet tune unfolding in Roe’s pearly runs with crepuscular harmonies. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

I miss the sound of voices singing together in spontaneous harmony. 'Without it, I’d be lost': the unexpected joy of Zoom Shabbat 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Townshend wasn’t able to provide the high harmonies on “Pictures of Lily” or “I Can See for Miles.” Pete Townshend has a cold. But the Who still thrilled Verizon Center. 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

There’s still the closeness of familial harmonies in an intricately arranged a cappella, “O Holy Night.” Making Merry With Music 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

“A whole note could represent four bars, eight bars, 12 bars, 16 bars,” but the “glue has to be harmonic” — “has to be spinning out the triad and spinning out the harmony.” Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

At that moment the strings in the orchestra enter, tentatively supporting his tender melodic line with cushioning harmonies. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

And when they sing together, their harmonies are perfectly matched. Once strangers, now self-proclaimed sisters, Chasing Jane makes beautiful music together 2010-03-31T21:16:00Z

The music isn’t far from the Dixie Chicks’ blend of folk-pop, bluegrass and country, though it trades Ms. Maines’s tangy voice for Ms. Robison’s gentler leads and the sisters’ close harmonies. Two Dixie Chicks Form Court Yard Hounds 2010-04-24T02:45:00Z

It’s a gorgeous, lofty waltz, with synthesizers billowing around acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies, as Wasner sings an enigmatic reverie about “losing the old for the new, like so much desire.” Beyoncé’s Surprise Juneteenth Anthem, and 12 More New Songs 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Then, at a certain magical point, chaos turns into harmony. Review: ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ Offers an Exhilarating Sanctuary 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Bach's chromatic harmonies, so prickly when heard on a delicately plucked string, became monumental and modern. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

The songs are based on traditional tunes, with lyrics praising the project, and the powerful, hypnotic vocal harmonies are backed by vizumba trumpets and percussion. Umoza: Tumbuka Voices – review 2012-06-28T21:15:06Z

The piece is delicately strange, with an irregular rocking gait and celestial, chiming atonal harmonies. Music Review: Helmut Lachenmann?s Pursuit of Delicate and Eerie Sounds 2010-04-02T22:16:00Z

Ali says in a news release that he hopes CONGO14 will support growth and harmony in the African country and beyond. Ali concert to mark 40 years since Foreman fight 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

With his band, which included several future stars, he abandoned the traditional structure of jazz rhythm and harmony to create an unorthodox aesthetic of musical freedom. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

One silent type, plus one or two louder counterparts, usually equals a kind of humble harmony. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

“The Wheel” — a waltz with much of its rhythm and harmony defined by chopped, sampled voices — considers death and reincarnation. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z

Will it be all harmony and happiness, or daggers drawn and a disaster? This week's new theatre 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

Short on conventional harmony and heavy on complex rhythms, Birtwistle’s music was often described as having an abrasive quality. Groundbreaking composer Harrison Birtwistle dies at 87 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

The orchestra under Andrew Davis fairly reveled in Puccini's opulent, sophisticated scoring, innovative harmonies and seductive surges of melody tinged with Debussyan whole-tone scales. Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z

Arrangements are often just a bunch of drums with a touch of bass and harmony. At the Fonda, tUnE-yArDs gets primal 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

And "Dreamers Are Waiting" is especially notable for its beautiful harmonies, courtesy of the Finn family; "Show Me The Way" in particular piles on frothy, dreamy vocal layers. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Simultaneously ludicrous and tough, sloppy and hard, vicious and tender – just listen to those soaring, girl-group harmonies – Trash was, along with Jet Boy, the Dolls' big pop move. The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time 2013-02-01T07:00:00Z

The result was the evocation of the natural world in a variety of soundscapes, of layers of harmony translating the visual to the aural.  LPO Music in the Courtyard - introduction by Timothy Walker 2012-08-29T21:53:14Z

Tunes such as “To Tide Us Over” and “Now Know” were presented like pop songs, but with complex, chromatic harmonies and convoluted melodies not easily accessed. Esperanza Spalding says goodbye to song-driven shows 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

“I just have a totally different idea, and we miss very often the fundamental of the harmony. Whenever it’s a little bit longer and richer and with more vibrato, it changes completely the aural spectrum.” The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

The other one, the one with world peace, justice, racial harmony, art, literature, music and language that shows us how to be free wrapped in it. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

From there, Muggenburg unleashed her art collection, layering the rooms with a lifetime of antiques and objects in a way that suggests chaos but, in fact, is her method of building tension and harmony. T Magazine: A Fine Mess 2012-11-30T18:26:48Z

From them it variously draws chord changes, exuberant vocal harmonies, rootsy Americana and familiar instrumental sounds. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z

His prophetic “The Boy in the Bubble,” with its weighty Sotho-style African accordion riff, envisioned technological advances coupled with constant surveillance; the band lingered, in vocal harmony, over the phrase, “Don’t cry.” Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

And so there was a lot of harmony and diversity in the racial makeup of my friend group when I was younger. Q&A with Daniel Dae Kim: Keeping the secrets on ‘Lost,’ taking a stand on ‘Hawaii Five-O’ and working to protect Asian Americans 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

"One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone," Murakami writes. Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' paints haunting picture 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Throughout, the innocent eyes of the son – played with precise harmony by Rostami, who is deaf in real life – reveal more than just care and submission; they warn of an impending crisis. Iranian film-maker Mohammad Shirvani takes aim at weighty issues 2013-04-23T15:31:08Z

On the new album, Khalid embraces a fuller sound that often harks back to the 1980s and 1990s, with pillowy synthesizers, tickling guitars and multiple layers of his own vocal harmonies. Khalid Has Fresh Insecurities and a New Set of Musical Tricks on ‘Free Spirit’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Wilson lends his signature vocal harmonies to the bouncy “Falling Apart,” softening Wyatt’s accusations as the latter wonders, “How did you get so cold?” Emile Haynie tells his own story on 'We Fall' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The contrast between structure and spontaneity provides tension and a sort of harmony. In the galleries: This art is begging to be touched, even licked 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

These ladies sing most of their words, in eerie, rapt harmonies and primal chants that seem alternately celestial and bestial. Ben Brantley on London Theater, Where Characters Drink to Dull the Pain of Life 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

I look around me so the landscape might transmit some of its peace and harmony to me. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

An all-female ensemble sang the kaleidoscopic close harmonies and intricate rhythms with eerie precision and purity. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z

I asked him to play it again and found myself singing a harmony line almost immediately. Family life 2013-02-16T07:14:01Z

The ’10 Lafite was fresh and understated, though rich, with fine tannins, great harmony and a scent of violets. A 150-Year-Old Wine and Its Descendants Reveal Their Secrets 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

A lot of the stuff in the choir was really dissonant, and she’ll do that — the harmony will be in a totally different key. Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz Adds Pop Hooks to the Band’s Sharp Edges 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

It features helium-high vocals, but something about them suggests not facetiousness but its benign cousin, playfulness, as though Frank Zappa's mordant humour had been tempered by Brian Wilson's knack for harmony. New band of the day ? No 895: ANR 2010-10-26T15:39:00Z

She proved an endless font of invention, bending melodies, harmonies and rhythms to new shapes without ever falsifying the spirit or mood of the original. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

And “Wintered Debt” is a beautiful piece that begins as a quiet and subdued as a lullaby, layers on some elegant harmonies and then explodes into truly raucous baroque orchestral pop. Of Montreal's Paralytic Stalks is Really Weird. We Like It That Way. 2012-02-14T16:00:30Z

It will be a happy day when racial harmony rules in the land. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

The tenors and sopranos shied away from the swiftly moving harmonies, reflecting a general timidity among all the choristers when they didn’t have a clear melody to sing. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

He recognized that his views may not be welcomed by clerics, but called for greater harmony between the world’s great religions and those who profess no faith. Collective consciousness to replace God: author Dan Brown 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The second movement is thick with hazy, chromatic harmonies and a piano melody that evolves in spiraling fragments. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z

We become newly aware not only of the harmonies of people making Rodgers-style music together, but also of the dissonances within. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

A well-calibrated harmony between earnestness and irony powered the engine that made 30 Rock go, and the old bucket still runs like a dream after all these years. 30 Rock: is the quarantine reunion worth the wait? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Just listen to the lush and dissonant harmonies of gothic church music and you realise that even in a strict religious context such as 13th-century Europe his advice went unheeded. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

At this sold-out performance, when Ms. Laessig and Ms. Wolfe hit a particularly athletic, flexible harmony at loud volume, they were greeted with roars, as if they’d just executed an unlikely slam dunk. Review: Lucius, a Band Willing to Test Itself 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

This acting harmony is lost, however, when the play shifts gears after Max and Lola’s mentally ill daughter turns up unexpectedly in the middle of the night. In 'Model Apartment' at the Geffen, family scars are skin deep — and to the bone 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

MON Music and readings of personal stories of King and Gandhi and their messages of social justice, harmony and cooperation, 7 p.m. Community calendar: Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events, fairs, festivals 2013-01-19T00:13:52Z

They were probably unemployed musical theater actors hired to sing basic harmonies while wearing velvet costumes. Shooing Carolers Away for a Love That Stays 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

As Walpole noted: “Great effects may be produced by the disposition of a house & by studying light and shades, and by attending to a harmony of colors.” Special Report: Museums: The Gothic Pioneer Horace Walpole Finally Gets His Due 2011-03-22T17:00:08Z

He took harmony classes taught by Olivier Messiaen, at which Pierre Boulez was a fellow student. Pierre Henry, Composer Who Found the Music in Sounds, Dies at 89 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Well attuned to each other, they were a model of harmony. Countdown to Fashion Week: At Veronica Beard, Meeting in the Middle 2013-08-07T20:40:05Z

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul who understood vocal harmony and phrasing perhaps better than any of her female pop and soul contemporaries, died Thursday. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, Dies 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Restoring internal harmony will be an important part of Ms. Jarrar’s job at Lanvin, which fell into some chaos after the ouster of Mr. Elbaz, to the point that the workers’ council sued the management. Lanvin Names Bouchra Jarrar as Artistic Director of Women’s Collections 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

In their native Iran, Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat are best known for their soaring voices, flawless harmonies and dedication to the art of singing in the face of tough restrictions on public performances by women. World music fest adds the actual taste of what people hear 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Each night, representatives of ballet, modern dance and non-Western traditions will gather in choreographic harmony. An Olympics of Spirit at the Battery Dance Festival 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

There’s a delicate dissonance in the multiple-part songs, which are all the more affecting for their implicit yearning for harmony. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

As is typical of his group, there are affecting male harmonies throughout the song, partnered here with arrangements that verge on uproarious Southern gospel. New Music: Albums From Zac Brown Band and George Colligan 2013-12-23T22:34:00Z

Gibb, one of three brothers who comprised the singing trio known for its soaring harmonies, died May 20 at the age of 62 after a long battle with cancer. Crowds line streets to bid farewell to Robin Gibb 2012-06-08T14:36:08Z

And racial harmony can be as easily attainable as refraining from calling groups of people “eggplants” and “jungle bunnies,” and sharing a bucket of KFC with a fancy black man. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Both are known for strong vocals, harmonies and hard-charging guitar riffs. Heart, Def Leppard rock hard at White River 2011-09-16T20:27:03Z

Since her dad was absent, MacColl could sing along to her brother Hamish's singles, apparently teaching herself the vocal harmony parts to the Beach Boys's Good Vibrations when she was seven. Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due 2012-09-29T23:05:11Z

His melodies always imply the harmony behind them. ‘The Cool Guy’: Pop and Theater Stars Celebrate the Composer of ‘Hair’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Yet for radical experiments in harmony, this passage does not rival what Schoenberg was up to even earlier. Radical Music: Sometimes Shocking, Sometimes Subtle 2012-09-18T17:43:03Z

Yet they obdurately refuse to obey the rules of the day, and flashes of pure Schubert, as we think of him, burst out every few bars: unexpected harmonies, impassioned, bow-shuddering flurries, song-like melodies. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

Yet the harmony lingered, and the pungency of the clashing notes was strangely beautiful, almost comforting. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

His enthusiasm for cross-cultural harmony is genuine and attractive; his populist style, less so; something in me died when he apologised for using the highbrow word "nonchalant". Imran Yusuf – review 2012-11-12T18:27:59Z

The paintings teeter between order and chaos, harmony and dissonance, beauty and ugliness. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z

Actor Don Cheadle celebrated her continued work on social issues: “The message of truth, in pitch-perfect harmony, demonstrates the power of art to change.” The Kennedy Center Honors: How sweet it is to be loved by the nation 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

“She’s a terrific singer, able to hit all these crazy harmonies, so we needed her to dumb it down,” the drummer says with a laugh. Lumineers specialize in audience participation 2012-04-12T16:09:00Z

"And we need to learn to live in peace and harmony with mother nature." UN chief enlists DiCaprio and other stars to plead for peace 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

If a four-part harmony version of the Rolling Stones' I Am Waiting hits a comparatively weak note, it's only because the rest – especially their own oeuvre – has such depth. Olabelle 2010-06-17T11:27:00Z

Brothers Mark and Aaron Gutierrez provided the one true bright spot of the show, with a soulful rendition of "Lean on Me" in two-part harmony. 'American Idol' judges come down to earth in the City of Angels 2011-02-04T06:46:04Z

Her playing on the concert and bass flutes is undoubtedly beautiful and at times ethereal, but also fiery and complex, challenging traditional harmonies. Flutes are for ‘cloud and angel music’? Jamie Baum doesn’t think so. 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

He’s still known for his unsurpassed responsiveness to melody and harmony, but here you could see his brilliance of rhythm, sometimes creating a dense interplay of three dance meters in the same ensemble. Review: Washington Ballet Scales New Heights via the Classics 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Anyone seeking a prescription for racial harmony will not find it in this play. Grey area 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Known for their burnished tight harmonies, sophisticated if nontraditional arrangements and witty onstage banter, the Limeliters were wildly successful. Glenn Yarbrough, Folk Singer With the Limeliters, Dies at 86 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The voices were meditating on the subject of time, while the choral voices were occupied with sophisticated harmonies and some antiphonal face-offs. L.A. Master Chorale finds more magic in 'Lux Aeterna' 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

But with “Outcry,” the next part, the music becomes tumultuous: all jagged bursts, gnashing harmonies and hurtling rhythms. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Steven Stucky’s Symphony 2012-11-30T21:46:43Z

Musically, this is a journey from clashing orchestral sections, driving rhythms and tough harmonies to uneasy quietude. Dudamel and the L.A. Philharmonic deliver a riotous 'Spring' 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Still, the city’s reputation for pluralist harmony may be inflated. See Ancient Trade Route Treasures at the Met 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Heroes and Villains” melted into intricate, multi-part harmonies that brought smiles to the faces of the participants as Wilson waved his arms with uncharacteristic vigor. Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-22T06:54:00Z

Their vocal harmonies are far too pretty to account for secondhand carcinogens inhaled in “Burn Out.” Review | An underwear model and his pals just dropped the year’s best country album 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Rameau’s orchestration and harmony were both revolutionary and controversial. An Ode to Jean-Philippe Rameau 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Lee was particularly struck by the brothers' strong two-part harmonies. Great dynasties of the world: The Copper Family 2011-08-05T23:06:30Z

Luckily, the girls and their harmonies were gorgeous, and in early 1968, having spent the night on Temmer's grandmother's sofa, they hitchhiked, stoned, to Sunset Boulevard for an audition with singer and producer Lee Hazlewood. Honey Ltd: 'After 45 years, we're finally going to get copies of our own record' 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

If you enjoy lovely harmonies and soothing acoustic pop, this might be the show for you. Listen: From Mary Lambert to Jason Mraz and more, a playlist of songs by musicians playing in Seattle Nov. 8-14 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Robison told her sister she was thinking of offering songs to other singers; in the Dixie Chicks the sisters had always sung harmonies, not lead. Two Dixie Chicks Form Court Yard Hounds 2010-04-24T02:45:00Z

But what Mr. Ellis and his cast achieve is a sense of narcissists making sweet music together; they all blow their own horns and somehow, miraculously, there’s harmony where there should be cacophony. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

His backup was two female singers, who cooed harmonies with him but got the last word. Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z

“When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used ... one microphone,” he said of performing solo. Charlie Louvin, Country Singer, Dies at 83 2011-01-26T17:23:00Z

The harmonies are extraordinary, as is the complexity of the counterpoint. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Doggedly, he really does want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z

“Good Vibrations,” with its plush harmonies and outer-space sound effects still sounded futuristic. Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-22T06:54:00Z

When he found out the truth, a lifelong suspicion of the rules of Western harmony and musical notation began. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

An ensemble of actors bound together, sharing the screen, internally and externally in sync, in concert, in harmony. SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' yes, but 'Theory'? Cast nominations a puzzle 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

The piece is monumental, stark and uncompromising, foregrounding the tension created by fugal structure, in which musical themes are alternately presented by different instruments, while the others play contrapuntal harmonies and rhythms. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The open harmonies, spacious textures, and sense of suspended time seemed to evoke a certain northern atmosphere. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Strife and violence find expression in webs of lurching counterpoint, astringent harmonies and searing orchestral blasts. Music Review: Strife of ?64, in Somber Tones 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z

But Larsen died last December at the age of 93, and this fall, the harmony of the retreat he created has been shattered by bitterness and recriminations. Donors Withhold Gifts to Protest Changes at Hamptons Sculpture Garden 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

Drums putter, background vocalists create a dense tapestry of harmony, guitars weave oblique lines. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

Finally comes “harmony,” a plush, grounded E-flat chord with an enriching F folded in. Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Sees the Light,” the second album by her band La Sera, was as fearlessly contradictory as the group’s self-titled debut; its surf-punk sheen crashed into aggressive distortion and its girl-group harmonies cooed of crushing isolation. Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z

His artistic peak, though, came with Big Star, the early-’70s band that exemplified power pop’s ideal of stringing together crystalline guitar hooks and creamy harmonies in the context of profound emotional darkness. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Peel yourself off the floor and ask in harmony with us: How?! Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal are over 2011-01-05T03:16:14Z

Woodstock marked only the second live public performance by folk rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash, who opened their set with their acoustic, close harmony hit single “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Remembering Woodstock: Naked men, bounced checks and LSD 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Here, over slow, groaning production by the Haxan Cloak, he sings high, tender and insistent, then breaks out into ecstatic harmonies à la Jodeci that resolve into church solemnity. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

But the chords come across as arresting, note-packed yet somehow lucid harmonies, not just dense clusters. Music Review: JACK Quartet in Pop Up! Concert at Miller Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:09Z

For Manhattan interior designer Nina Blair, the green-gray sweep reflects a renewed appreciation for the outdoors, specifically the sense of harmony and relief it brings. Normally a study in contrasts, paint companies’ 2022 colors of the year are pretty much the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Coltrane himself, after going all the way to the fastest, most intellectual harmonic jazz, in 1959, with “Giant Steps,” backed off relentless changing harmony to seek more space and blues. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

In one of the stronger moments, Mr. Newmyer and Ms. Meringolo sang “Falling Slowly,” from the movie and Broadway show “Once,” in impeccable two-part harmonies. Marieann Meringolo Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

He also stretched boundaries while writing for players of other genres, exploring his ideas about harmony and structure outside the jazz sphere. Review: Malcolm Goldstein Offers a Freespirited Salute to Ornette Coleman 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Bonnie Brown, one of three siblings whose smooth harmonies as the Browns influenced generations of singers, died on Saturday in Little Rock, Ark. She was 77. Bonnie Brown, Part of Sibling Country Trio, Dies at 77 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

In a sense, Petit h is about finding harmony between two opposing values — those of perfection and imperfection. T Magazine: Waste Not, Want It 2011-09-29T22:07:11Z

The Bee Gees were prolific and often masterly songwriters, and they sang three-part harmony as only siblings can. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

This means they get to live in harmony and throw awesome Caucasian dinner parties and invent miraculous technological devices and pay for everything with shiny gold coins. “Atlas Shrugged III”: Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck in a bizarre Ayn Rand fever dream 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

There is a swing and drive to the harmonica playing and the harmonies that belie the impression of tentativeness. Love Me Do: the Beatles' first hit is 50 2012-10-05T06:00:00Z

“Breaking Fun” flirts with a disco beat and twists it into something far more sinister, Adele’s wordless harmonies like distant laughter that feeds the disgust of Paterson’s narrator. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z

As for the musical composition, performed by an orchestra of six, “Oratorio” layers myriad genres — gospel, jazz, Baroque and a range of pop styles — to create harmony where cacophony might otherwise exist. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

This gem of text from the Hindu hymns of the Rig Veda — “There was neither nonexistence nor existence then” — rises through unrelated but pleasingly consonant parallel harmonies, familiar from minimalism, but with an earworm catchiness. Review | A giant meditation on creation fills the Kennedy Center Concert Hall 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Offering grace initially felt like stupidity, and now it’s harmony. Gabrielle Union wants to talk about the tough stuff. You ready? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Written and recorded in a matter of hours, the three-minute-and-nine-second demo for “Love and Trust” is a sketch; Harper on guitar, the band on harmonies. How Mavis Staples’s New Record Got Made 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It is even more guitar driven — Mr. Miller discovered a model, the Jackson USA Soloist, that he loves — and more narrative and lyrical, with a crisper focus on arrangements and harmony over beats. Music: The Indie Band Sleigh Bells? New Album, ?Reign of Terror? 2012-02-14T12:00:01Z

The gleaming, finely balanced harmonies drew a sizable crowd away from the T-shirt vendors and stalls selling Statue of Liberty hats and selfie sticks. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

A leading composer and pianist in jazz since the 1970s, Brackeen has a piano style based in neatly angled patterns and harmonies, and darting melodicism. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

In his Nativity that hangs next to it, this same harmony is communicated by angels with lutes and mouths open in silent – but we intuit, deeply tuneful and ethereal – song. Baby, it's cold outside: art's best nativity scenes 2012-12-24T08:00:04Z

I loved the story of this traveling family and the way they live parallel to the settled community, but there’s very little harmony between the two communities. Michael Fassbender Talks Box Office Setbacks and Criminal Enterprises 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

A seemingly dreamy though still tense section segues into a wondrous movement of chiming, sustained harmonies. Music Review: Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee Performed Days Before Marriage 2013-09-04T18:56:21Z

Sproatly Smith's Rosebuds in June matches fine, drifting harmony vocals against a quirky backing. Various Artists – Weirdlore: Notes from the Folk Underground – review 2012-06-07T21:53:01Z

And immersion in these patient, seemingly minimal musical responses likewise reveals unexpected densities, whorls, colors, confrontations, uneasy harmonies. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

He bought the Bee Gees’ first album because of the harmonies, said Ms. Etchingham, and Handel’s “Messiah” when he learned of the Brook Street connection. Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum’s Strange Bedfellows 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The performances on Thursday were all too human, a parade of sensitive young songwriters reaching for introspective illumination in their lyrics and unusual harmonies on their flattop guitars. ArtsBeat Blog: Staying Undefined at the Antifolk Festival, and That's Fine 2011-09-23T07:40:41Z

It wasn’t just loud and clear; it was inclusive, tracing large areas of rhythm, harmony, feeling and even subject matter. Music Review: ‘The Genius of Coltrane’ at the Rose Theater 2012-10-28T21:50:06Z

Mostly the additional players maintained supporting roles, thickening harmonies and providing propulsive rhythms, as the primary quartet handled melodies. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z

The vocal harmonies hew closely to the original, as do the cadence and some of the lyrics. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z

Ambient recordings of global places highlight the natural harmony of sight and sound. Even when you can’t travel, you can still bring the sounds of a far-off city to you. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

No one does a number from beginning to end as a solo, and the cast often sings in multipart harmony. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z

It was a 10-seconds-at-a-time Olympics opening ceremony, a digital treaty of global harmony. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Guitarist Johnson was similarly formidable, with a clear tone and a master’s ear for harmony, also understated but used to great effect on the “Game of Thrones” theme. Ambitious and rewarding show from jazz sextet Dial 251 honors two music legends 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Much of the piece is pleasantly meditative, yet a strand of clashing harmonies keeps it from becoming a New Age dreamscape, something unimaginable in Mr. Wuorinen’s catalog. Music Review: Peter Serkin at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-11T22:25:52Z

Ambling back to the lake, I encountered a young violinist and violist indulging in the dulcet harmonies of Mozart, their bows frolicking across the strings with the skill of seasoned musicians. In the heart of Madrid, a park for all seasons 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

At that point he had moved away from writing in complex, Fibonacci-like patterns of harmony; studying spiritual music, especially from India and Africa, he’d redoubled his commitment to structural simplicity. A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

Despite pulling back in a few spots, “The Joke” was nearly the vocal stunner it is on record, while heart-stopping harmonies with the Hanseroth twins marked gentle acoustic number “The Eye.” Brandi Carlile, in high spirits, delights hometown crowd at Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

To restore household harmony, Shay eventually turns to Bertine la Grande, a servant who becomes her close friend and who introduces her to a shaman capable of dispelling the bad juju. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

“You have this element, and this element, and this element, and you put them together; they make harmony.” Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

All this makes for a lively and rustic cross-border mix: lonesome Appalachian harmonies over mariachi horn lines and rhythms you might hear at a rural dance in Veracruz or San Luis Potosí. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z

Erivo and Hudson realize in song what their characters can only tentatively achieve in life: perfect harmony. 'Color Purple' musical on Broadway has a divine, moving spirit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

In harmony, they wail, “What about the economy!” When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

And so “Predatory Headlights,” Tenement’s first album in four years, expands his central talent — bright punk songs with counterintuitive lyric phrasing, jangling harmonies and effectively contrasting bridges — into other areas. Review: ‘Predatory Headlights,’ a Bright Double Album From Tenement 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Both men and women chastise her for her supposed irresponsibility and suggest brazenly that she marry one of her rapists to restore her “honor” and the village’s harmony. ‘To Kill a Tiger’ Review: The Survivor Who Refused to Be Shamed 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

We’re both pathologically prompt and that leads to harmony for us.” On Top of the Happiness Racket 2010-02-26T23:31:00Z

Not the high-energy riff between my mom and me, but the harmony of two easy riders. Ari Graynor: The First Time I Road-Tripped With My Dad 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

"I found my voice singing harmony with Gram," Harris says. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z

“It’s all about de-escalating,” Mann says of keeping organizations in harmony. Theater J names new artistic director: Adam Immerwahr 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

There are moments of respite in paused, sustained harmonies, but Carlile is all scars and fury, as elemental as she has ever been. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Referring to the “Torch Song,” which is sung by Pleasure and Idleness, she said, “The harmony speaks to medieval music; but the way it’s set gives a jazz feel.” An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

While film publicity usually focuses on the hand-holding harmony achieved on set, the campaign for The Revenant has seemed doggedly insistent on proving just how hard-going it was. Avoid the soup – and don’t glue your eyes together: how to survive a movie shoot 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

After a nearly a cappella opening — showing off spot-on three-part harmonies — the band laid into one barnburner after another. Country. Rock. Stars. Lady Antebellum thrills WaMu audience 2010-10-26T18:53:00Z

She can create hovering nimbus clouds of harmony with the best of them. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

At times, the music is plush with crystalline colorings and melting harmonies, which Mr. Hochman played gorgeously. Music Review: Benjamin Hochman’s Deep Dive Into Contemporary Work 2014-03-11T20:53:37Z

She doesn’t want a rupture; as the production ascends from a modest folk-rock strum to a big harmony chorus, she only hopes honesty will clear the air, so “I can love you better.” A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

While Canto V opens in lush tonal harmony, the frequency of dissonance is heightened, until in the last four minutes, the violins soar together in an arching series of chromatic clusters. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a wildly playful album, full of risky production and arrangements — skittering aquatic beats, odd filigrees, punchy power harmonies. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

But in both songs, the music swells behind him, with churchy organ and robust major chords, pealing guitar and gospelly choir harmonies. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

The first collection — “a harmony of opposites, such as mixing leather and lace, and playing with lengths” — comprises suits, dresses, skirts, fur and knits. | Meet Kevork Kiledjian 2011-02-13T09:00:02Z

McGlaughlin talks about classical music with unpretentious enthusiasm, highlighting beautiful melodies, illustrating harmonies on the piano and telling good yarns about composers. Three things we love this week, Nov. 11-17, 2012 2012-11-07T23:11:12Z

Thanks to the admirable clarity of Mr. Sheppard’s conducting — himself a trumpeter — entrances were always precise and harmonies perfectly voiced. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z

The Punch Brothers in session for the Guardian Link to video: The Punch Brothers: Movement and Location live session Sean plays guitar on the record and his soulful harmonies are also a key ingredient. Sara Watkins: 'I wanted to leave my comfort zone' 2013-01-30T17:13:17Z

In this elaborate miniature, an eerie chorale of vocal harmonies carries the names of places in France; then guitar counterpoint takes over, sketching a melody just once before letting it fall away. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

What the print does not show is precisely what the gorgeously patterned fabric is doing: intermingling, twisting, twining, sheathing, in a sort of liquid harmony. Kitagawa Utamaro 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

There were some ragged stretches, careless entrances and out-of-tune sustained harmonies. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The Mass is written for a choir, four soloists and a small wind ensemble, and the slim, angular instruments twine with agile precision around the warm harmonies of the voices. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

They kept listening, admiring the ways in which fusion keyboardist Duke and his band so succinctly conveyed so much melody, harmony and rhythm. Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

They struck gold immediately with “Would I Lie to You?,” an uplifting track powered by crisp snares, crunchy guitars and their own honeyed harmonies. Eddie Chacon, a Fleeting ’90s Neo Soul Star, Returns as an Old Soul 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

One peppy number, “Ship of Love,” was something Jones had co-written with a friend, Earl “Peanutt” Montgomery, and Johnny Paycheck, who sang harmony and played bass with the band. Drugs, Planes, Bail: The Wild Story of George Jones’s Lost Recordings 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Those houses pretended that all was well, that Los Angeles was capable of bringing its diverse and mushrooming postwar population into something resembling harmony. For the late L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, national honor overlaps with a bleak anniversary 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

This is a tweaked version of the recipe that ran in The Washington Post in 1936 — perhaps the first in print to join the words “pumpkin” and “spice” in modern harmony. I used every pumpkin spice product I could find for a week. Now my armpits smell like nutmeg. 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

After languishing for a time in gleaming, early-music harmonies, the 20-minute composition moved with careful deliberation into some surprising new structures — embracing chattering, antiphonal complexity in some moments, and steadier Minimalist-inspired processes in others. Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s all part of the act,” he joked while tweaking tones across the dozen strings for a few minutes, ringing each note until, with an angel-heralding strum, they hummed in sweet harmony. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

What about the acoustic sounds, rhythms and harmony do we love? Max Mathews, Pioneer in Making Computer Music, Dies at 84 2011-04-23T23:56:38Z

But he said that he believes there is relative “mask harmony” among operagoers. To Mask, or Not to Mask: Theaters and Concert Halls Face a Dilemma 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The latter mainly provided wordless vocals in harmony with the horns but took the lead on Washington’s sweet closer, “The Rhythm Changes,” and a hip-hop-inflected arrangement of the bebop standard “Cherokee.” An emotionally charged performance from Kamasi Washington 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Most of the time, though, from what we've heard, they keep their folk tunes and their skanking ones separate, but when the elements do combine it's reggae-folk with Latin American harmonies and flavour. New band of the day ? No 844: Melodica, Melody + Me 2010-08-10T16:30:00Z

Played right, each passing harmony feels rich enough to last an entire song. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

At one point, Nelson strained to push his rasp high enough to meet Musgraves in harmony. Perspective | Women aren’t the future of country music. They’re the present. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

His melodies are direct and often plangent, his harmonies and rhythms sturdy and repetitious. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

An ultraslow ballad about closeness and intimacy, “Braid,” concludes with Mr. Hadreas’s voice braided into close harmonies, singing, “Every harm is lovingly washed away.” Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Rebelling and fitting in are not quite incompatible in this film’s view, but rather part of the endless tension between self-assertion and social harmony. | 'I Was Born, but...': Yasujiro Ozu?s Silent Tale of New Kids on the Block 2010-06-24T23:03:00Z

Here, bronze Balinese gongs are hit by motorized mallets creating complex rhythms and subtle harmonies. Governors Island Art Fair Fills Colonels’ Row 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

But what surrounds the musicians, and how they move through it, tilts the performance, modestly but precisely, toward the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk, in which the disparate arts and senses are synthesized into hypnotic harmony. Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Ambassador,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The advice included within Eve Rodsky’s book “Fair Play,” a guide to sharing domestic labor and achieving harmony in the home, won’t blow your mind. ‘Fair Play’ Review: Casting a Floodlight on Invisible Labor 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, a short lyrical line from Beethoven begets a transfigured passage of hazy harmonies. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

He ended up recording harmonies on the band’s Warner Brothers début album, and he brought the Del Fuegos with him on tour. What It Was Like Writing Tom Petty’s Life Story 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

But even those who lack understanding of the rudiments of harmony would surely enjoy it, while also learning something in the most entertaining way. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

A Brazilian pianist of richly shaded harmonies, Ms. Elias is equally influenced by Bill Evans and bossa nova. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony is suffused with the breadth, lyricism and wayward approach to harmony of his hero, Brahms. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Playing these roles in harmony remains the goal. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

It's very much an album of whispered, close harmonies and hushed melodies, specifically on album highlight Bloom. Pascal Pinon – Bloom: New music 2013-05-07T06:00:00Z

Two songs address his close relationship with his sister, Martha Wainwright, to whom the album is dedicated, and who appeared after intermission to sing some harmony vocals. Music Review: The Dark Lady and Judy Garland Play the Muses 2010-12-07T22:15:00Z

Bernstein’s music balances wistful contemplation with skilled handling of voice leading and harmony. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s also the one that seems most right for its theater and its audience; everything’s in harmony. ArtsBeat: 'The Nutcracker' Chronicles: In Virginia, a Nutcracker for Every State 2010-12-28T17:05:53Z

All his musical styles are audible in this rhapsodic score, from the serenity of Greensleeves to the tugging, modal harmonies of the Fifth Symphony, to the solo viola melancholy and ethereal chorus of Flos Campi. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

In the interests of marital harmony, I stopped tormenting him with further samples. You swore off tequila for good. Here’s how to enjoy the alcohol that once betrayed you. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Yet for all the gnashing harmonies and splintered phrases, the music is run through with hints of Kurt Weill cabaret. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The music builds in depth and intensity to gnashing, enveloping harmonies played by the full strings. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z

Vocally and instrumentally, it uses both Chinese and Western approaches to timbre, melody and harmony, oscillating between the styles and combining them with dazzling fluidity. Music Review: New Works Enliven Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-04T22:14:32Z

The hypnotic “White Winter Hymnal” consists of a single wintery verse, sung in harmony and repeated over and over, invoking coats, scarves, and white snow turning “red as strawberries in summertime.” Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

There would be no overtly sentimental show of harmony Wednesday on the curtain-lined stage, done up like an elegant ballroom. Review: Heart’s comeback roar echoes through Tacoma Dome during all-star Love Alive tour stop 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the textures gradually grow complex, the harmonies dissonant. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Plays at Vienna: City of Dreams Festival 2014-03-04T20:25:35Z

The wistful, chromatic harmonies of “Important Things,” the gentle third movement, suggested more solemn youthful moments. Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z

But I would look at the Pavane at the end, the way he starts to lay harmonies on top of each other. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Something about this broody track — its slowish, insistent beat, its close harmonies, its combination of fuzzy and bright synths — stops short of despair. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

He begins “Paintings in D” with a chiming oscillation between chords then drifts into a passage that almost swings, the energy rising and the harmony falling. The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

In the Brahms itself, the music’s 19th-century harmonies are tempered by Schoenberg’s overtly modernist brass and percussion touches. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z

It’s a touch that creates harmony between the dancers and the beautiful voices of Trinity Choir. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Opera House 2012-03-03T00:04:35Z

In the manner of Ligeti, sustained, mostly subdued chords kept going out of focus, with pitches slipping into piercing clusters, then slipping back into shimmering tonal harmonies. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Look at the color coding of a bee — yellow and black stripes — or of a cardinal with different shades of red. “It is rare that nature is in color harmony,” he continued. Pete Turner, Photographer, Dies at 83; Used Rich Color to Alter Reality 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Both took their power from the way the opening and closing harmonies evoke the human breath. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

Thomas, communicating with the most economical of arm gestures, made those internal transitions of mood and harmony seamless, their logic unstintingly clear. Michael Tilson Thomas Revels in the Present With the New York Phil 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

It shows that if these kids can come together on the dance floor maybe they can find harmony off it. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Three countertenors function as narrator, singing in gorgeous overlapping harmonies. John Adams' staged `Gospel' has NY premiere 2013-03-29T13:55:09Z

A 12-piece orchestra, including strings, clarinet, piano and horn, creates an intimate texture filled with dissonant harmonies. New opera celebrates imprisoned Maori hero 2012-03-16T10:01:06Z

There are instances of something like choral speaking, too, in which members of an ensemble of voices intone a text on different pitches, forming distinct — if still talk-like — harmonies. How Young Singers Get Used to ‘Dust’ in Their Mouths 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The simpler the recipe, that is, the fewer the ingredients, the easier it is to find that beautiful harmony. How to Pair Food and Wine 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

For the sake of family harmony, let me just clarify that Ms. Biddle adores her parents and practically drips with gratitude for all of the opportunities that they’ve made available to her. Motherlode Blog: A Daughter, Her Dad, and the Debate Over Pricey Teen Volunteer Trips 2014-03-06T14:37:07Z

There’s no way I could have them sing and not have me sing harmony. Linda Ronstadt, Retired From Singing, Is Still a Glorious Voice 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

"The Bee Gees from our era were quite important, especially the harmonies," Starr said Monday. Late Bee Gee Robin Gibb hailed in native Britain 2012-05-21T13:11:10Z

Because whatever clashes and harmonies this city creates, what matters most is that right now, the winter is over, the sun is out, there’s music playing – and Montreal is up for a good time. Montreal city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and music 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

But on this day, something goes awry: robot Dee Zero Tee develops a glitch of some sort, and one rebellious machine threatens to shatter the harmony of a perfectly ordered world. Perspective | Pointless Theatre looks inspirationally to the past, and thrillingly sees the future 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Mars and Paak take turns delivering gritty, acrobatic lead vocals and layering on elaborate backups: creamy supportive harmonies, eager call-and-response, perky falsetto oohs. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Revisit Vintage Luxury as Silk Sonic 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

“It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I’ve never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn’t be imitated.” Jim Ed Brown, Smooth Voice on ‘The Three Bells’ and Other Hits, Dies at 81 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

But this harmony is creating a kind of indirect melody. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Adherents of the Baha’i faith, they sought to make a calmer brand of music, mixing folk, bluegrass, country and jazz influences and delivering their lyrics in close harmony. Jim Seals, Half of a Popular 1970s Soft-Rock Duo, Dies at 79 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Two big scars held the body of the dove together, but the plate maintained an elegant, disjointed harmony. The Art of Mending 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Still, when the anxiety of their music subsides, the band's harmonies fleetingly suggest that on occasion, they could reach the heart rather than just the head. This week's new live music 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Her debut album, “No Saint,” is set for March 15, and it surrounds her most bitter tidings with gleaming guitars and bright harmonies. 10 Artists to Watch in 2019 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

There’s the Hispanic lode, pretty much mined out and, by this time, so predictable in its harmonies, rhythms and emotional vapors, and posturing. Jason Vieaux avoids the cliches of classical-guitar concerts 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Bourbon and peaches have a natural harmony; when you swirl them up with ice cream, they morph into a perfect treat for a hot summer afternoon. When ice cream meets booze, what could go wrong? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Caroline Sullivan The Complete Short Stories Value the One You Love This unsigned north London seven-piece blend folk-styled female vocal harmonies with the rousing indie stomp of Arcade Fire. F&M playlist 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z

Sinking your spoon into the plastic cup delivers ebony and ivory in perfect harmony. Review | Taqueria Xochi serves mouthwatering Mexican food from a tiny U Street storefront 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Most numbers are slowed down and set to harmonies that morph from quiet lyricism to frayed dissonances, with Mr. Sorey’s subtle percussion work adding a nervous sheen. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

With a Chicago home base, the Staple Singers toured to spread gospel and gospel-inspired protest songs, filling sanctuaries with Pops' influential guitar work, rich with an electrified tremolo tone, and the family's pitch-perfect harmonies. Sound of civil rights rings out in resurrected Staple Singers records 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The rest of the work flowed more smoothly, and at the beginning of the Andante, Mr. Thibaudet’s soft textures and subtle coloration made Brahms’s harmonies and gestures sound fleetingly Ravelian. | Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Infusing Ravel Nuances With Romantic Oomph 2009-12-17T06:00:00Z

Guitars, strings, keyboards, mellotrons and particularly inventive rhythms move in harmony. New Jason Isbell, old Bernard Fevre resonate on different wavelengths 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

It was music that sounded strangely similar to Debussy and Olivier Messiaen in its harmonies and textures, yet very different in its effect. A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music 2013-02-11T17:12:00Z

We really wanted to bring four-part harmonies into garage rock, which is kind of a contrast, but that’s partly why we found it exciting. Beatlemania and the Bangles: Susanna Hoffs explains how “our obsession with the Beatles” brought the iconic ’80s group together 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

“In my music, harmony with nature is vital, but violence and nature is something we never really considered.” Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

You don't try to put a harmony over it. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard are country kin on 'Django and Jimmie' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

But when the agave and wood are in harmony, there’s nothing quite like the taste. Picking an Extra Añejo Tequila Takes Extra Care 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

And when I say composition, looking at all of the secondary ingredients on a plate and make sure that they're all in harmony. As "Top Chef" goes global, Tom Colicchio reflects on the competition's recipe for success 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Under the eye of the choreographer Donald Frison, a couple dozen performers strutted, stomped, glided and sang out in bright warm harmonies. For This Theater Leader, a Mission That Goes Beyond the Stage 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

This restless piece begins with fidgety block chords of crunchy harmonies until the instruments break into a burst of every-which-way individual lines. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2013-05-31T22:04:08Z

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Everly and his brother, Don, molded rock 'n' roll with their high harmony while their poignant lyrics captured the restlessness and energy of a generation of young people. Phil Everly, half of pioneer rock duo, dies at 74 2014-01-04T03:31:17Z

Its harmonies sounded almost prudish after such a decadent evening. Music Review: Stirring the Late Romantics? Libido 2010-02-18T00:40:00Z

The Beach Boys are known for sunny harmonies in such songs as “California Girls,” I Get Around,” “Fun Fun Fun,” “Good Vibrations” and “Kokomo.” No good vibrations for Beach Boys, split by hunting concert 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

“To me, it describes the whole effort to bring the natural world and the man-made world into harmony; to bring order, usefulness and delight to our whole environment.” Beneath Her Decorous Demeanor, ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ Was a Political Force 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Again and again, he also dangles by a single, sweat-slicked Hitchcockian hand as all of Hong Kong anxiously watches his escapades below or on TV, oohing and ahhing in presumptive harmony with the movie’s audience. Review: In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson Scales a Tower of Clichés 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

“In both of these ballets, the sophisticated use of harmony and rhythm foreshadows the stuff to come,” Gil Rose, the group’s artistic director and conductor, said in a recent interview. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

There is a passing similarity – horn-rimmed glasses, engaging harmonies – but it's negated by the acidity of their world view. The Candle Thieves: Sunshine and Other Misfortunes | CD review 2010-04-01T22:15:00Z

The songs — redolent with high male harmonies and driven by the thrum of multiple, reverbed guitars — swept into the hall like a great tide. Fleet Foxes enchant an ecstatic Moore Theatre crowd 2011-05-03T18:38:06Z

The harmonies have become for me a kind of obsession.” In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

His improvisations were innovative, limitless, freeing, bold, boundary-pushing and unapologetically groundbreaking in the way he transcended all preconceived understanding of western harmony. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The group is singing now, in harmony, a song with the chorus "You are just like God", and each time, they add the name of a circle member. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

We live in what the critic Simon Reynolds calls “retromania”; soft rock keeps experiencing little revivals, and its harmonies inspire bands like Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes. Books of The Times: Why 1970 Deserves Its 15 Minutes of Fame 2011-06-23T21:59:42Z

It’s a tribute to Nisenbaum’s generosity — and to her skills with composition — that it all inhabits a single room in harmony. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Drone harmonies make it meditative, even as the rhythms and guitar lines streak ahead. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Friedman had a crisp, fluid technique and an adventurous approach to harmony, which made him a desirable sideman over a career that lasted more than 60 years. Don Friedman, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

On New Genesis, humanoids have learned to release their inner superpowers and achieve celestial harmony. Reading irresponsibly with Jack Kirby 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Any danceability is achieved by the rhythmic propulsion of the drums and bass, and any quasi-religious atmosphere is enhanced by the choral harmonies. New band of the day: Tokolosh (No 1,487) 2013-04-08T16:06:47Z

The piece is like a series of overlapping musical events in the process of disintegration: Brass riffs fragment; melodic lines turn diffuse; piercing sustained harmonies morph into hazy clusters; pulsing rhythms falter and fade. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

This well-made music is essentially late Romantic in style, with just occasional passages in which the harmonies loosen their grip on tonality, such as Reger or early Schoenberg. Mendelssohn: String Quartets Opp 67 and 83 – review 2013-01-17T22:01:01Z

Q: Is peace and harmony a fair standard? Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

There never was much stylistic difference between introspective New York folkies and laid-back Southern California dudes whose close harmonies in guitar-based arrangements were marginally less rural in sound and attitude than modern country music. Music Review: Kenny Loggins and Blue Sky Riders at Feinstein’s 2012-09-27T21:37:59Z

An all-female group called the Kaladjoula Band, seven singers and instrumentalists from southern Mali, got the crowd rocking, with lively harmonies and dance moves. Along the Niger River, the Beat of the Sahel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

You will hear instead imitation Civil War songs, some belted and some crooned in nice harmony, but nearly all set to an easy-listening beat. Cast makes the best of entertaining but generic tune of ‘Freedom’s Song’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

In some pieces Satie’s beguiling, lucid piano chords were enhanced with modernist, hazy harmonies. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z

“In our church, there was no choir — everybody played guitars and sang harmony,” she said. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z

These delirious Californians have made a career out of extolling the superiority of their home state, proving it with irresistible pop harmonies and catchy New Wave beats. 31 best bets at Bumbershoot 2012 — plus ticket info 2012-08-30T19:01:05Z

Mr. Adams stacks up tones to create wondrously strange and alluring harmonies. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

As a person with highly developed ears, I was interested in harmony and melody. Why I tried to be a punk 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Atonal music was pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg, an Austrian composer who in the early 1900s looked to move away from traditional music that relied on conventional harmonies. Will Jarring Music Drive Drug Users From a German Train Station? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

If you’re going to improvise in jazz, your knowledge of harmony and theory has to be even deeper than that of a classical player. ‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Halfway through, the piece obsessively explores frenetic riffs and rhythms, settling into grooves for long stretches, though passages of eerie harmonies lend a touch at once angelic and fearsome. Review: Revisiting a Throbbing Classic of Electronic Music 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

In the old town, these groups lived in relative harmony, a state which the local architecture reflected and reinforced. Trapped in Homs, Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

During one section the sopranos soared over a rumbling bass pedal point; in another, high dissonant harmonies proved striking. Arvo Pärt’s ‘Kanon Pokajanen,’ at the Met 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

It’s there on “December 11th,” named for the day she died, and on “The Eternal Stillness,” on which a tired yawn of lissome, high-pitched saxophone harmony leads to a restive, sparring exchange. Marta Sánchez Finds Beauty in Loss With a Refreshed Quintet 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

“It touches on each of my records, in that they’re hooky pop songs driven by pianos, guitars, harmonies and melodies,” Mr. Kweller said. Texas Monthly: Ben Kweller Takes Charge of His Own Career 2012-01-29T03:43:15Z

What it needs are more voices of harmony. At 83, Harry Belafonte still sings of justice 2011-01-22T21:02:04Z

There are some nice moments, such as a guest appearance by guitarist Earl Klugh for their song This Time, and his backing band do great harmony vocals. Al Jarreau ? review 2011-07-05T18:30:01Z

As for syncing up harmonies between two of the most idiosyncratic singers in all of pop music, Haggard shrugged off any perceived challenges. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard are country kin on 'Django and Jimmie' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The harmonies produced are raw and archaic, the pace unrelenting and the dynamic range fixed between loud and louder still. Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

At times Mr. Tepfer recasts the harmony, tending to mood and hue; elsewhere he goes in for faintly comic departures, making a sport of transposition. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

“It sounds ridiculous. Mangoes don’t grow in Italy, do they? But it comes together with such harmony. It’s delicious.” Peter Gordon's six delicious salad recipes 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

With a warm, inviting acoustic sound polished off with vocal harmonies and duets, the band offers a slice of local music flavor outside of the ordinary or expected. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Nov. 30-Dec. 6: Bon Iver, Debutones and more 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Stockhausen's message – that melody, rhythm, harmony and tone colour were all aspects of vibration – held enormous appeal for him. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

Mr. Mengelberg’s dissonant harmonies and unorthodox phrasing were reminiscent of Thelonious Monk, an acknowledged influence. Misha Mengelberg, Bold and Spirited Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The harmonies subtly thicken and thin; the emotions remain ambiguous, the mood meditative. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

A wall text explains that he wants us to contemplate "a way of life that is traditional and in harmony with nature". Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z

Our music is pretty unique because of Brian’s incredible talent at structuring harmonies. ArtsBeat: A Few Words With the Beach Boys 2012-02-17T22:54:34Z

In his cookbook “Cuisine of the Sun,” he extolled “marrying natural products with one another, of finding simple harmonies and enhancing the flavor of each ingredient by contact with another with a complementary flavor.” Roger Vergé, French chef who championed nouvelle cuisine, dies at 85 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

"It is so beautiful that more and more people attend, especially to see parents dancing together with their small children. You feel harmony and love." Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

They played pizzica, a style said to cure snake bites, thanks to the pounding, hypnotic effect of the insistent frame drum, matched with fiddle, bagpipes, accordion and five-part harmonies. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z

Eya focused on the music of Europe’s medieval centuries, when plagues and illiteracy reigned, along with hallow-sounding harmonies and old rhythmic systems. D.C. trio Eya presents a buffet of early music for lunchtime concert series 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The progression allows a musician to play three chords in constant rotation — the one, four and five chords — to create a steady harmony. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

Multitracked trumpets, flutes, keyboards and voices cascade across the drummer’s light, ever-shifting beat, building chromatic harmonies that continually elude resolution — a structure of endless longing. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

In boozy harmony with the wood-fired foods, smoky mezcal dominates the cocktail menu. At Leña Brava in Chicago, Rick Bayless Sings Song of Baja 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

But more often, Mr. Mendoza let the beat melt into washes of harmony, trusting Ms. Chapin’s sturdy melodies to hold the songs together. Music Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter Performs Her Latest Songs in Concert 2014-03-02T23:26:25Z

Haynes respects the art too much to idealize the artists, or to impose retrospective harmony on their dissonances. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

And at 91, Ms. Carroll plays with an impeccable technique in which harmonies burst into flower. Review: Barbara Carroll Sustains a Profound Jazz Symbiosis 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

What they sing is appropriate to the action: the drawn-out harmony of the opening to the madrigal, "Moro, lasso!" The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z

His later designs for the Wilshire Grand, or the interfaith chapel at Chapman University, contain echoes of what he deemed essential: function, community, a harmony between the public and private space. L.A. architect David C. Martin's unusual Mexico travel journal 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Only among the trees and foliage is she an Ariel of the tropics, all laughter and animation, playing hide-and-seek, warbling in her own strange language, completely in harmony with the natural wonders that surround her. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Don’t quit before you get to Part 2; Monk’s solo is a seminar in his language of chiming dissonance, off-the-cliff arpeggios and fistfuls of clanking harmony. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

All the records he made were beautiful examples of musicianship with melody, harmony and bass lines all there. Jeff Beck's mission to 'blow people away' 2011-03-31T15:37:05Z

Cage subtracts some notes from two hymns by the early American composer William Billings, and extends the duration of some that remain, creating an eerily pure, serene suggestion of 18th-century harmonies. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The lineup includes the Lone Bellow, an Americana group from Nashville by way of Brooklyn, known for close-knit, three-part harmonies and emotionally invigorating performances. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

And the entire group built the piece upward by degrees, consolidating itself and moving forward, increasing a sense of emergency as the pitch rose, or the moving harmony diverged in wider patterns. Review: Glenn Branca’s Symphonies Resound With the Power of the Here and Now 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Here, the music unraveling slowly into silence, he and Mr. Kissin finally evoked a new narrative, one of delicate harmony. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z

Its harmonies are constantly swaying back and forth with subtle dissonances, a never-ending push and pull. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

But bursts of activity — riffs and arpeggios from the marimba, vibraphone and two pianos — keep jostling the bucolic harmonies. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z

"She plays very impressively, and is perfect in harmony and composition and plays with a lot of heart, something missing in a lot of flamenco guitarists who excel in technique." Spaniards say "Ole!" to woman on flamenco guitar 2011-03-09T11:11:09Z

Modality and untempered tuning, which result in the striking dissonances and harmonies of Georgian traditional singing, are ill suited for Western five-line notation. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

Social media, for all its initial promises of interpersonal harmony, has become an efficient machine for stoking rage, tearing people apart when it isn’t bringing extremists together. ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

So he had to put it onstage and use a musical language that would allow people to actually listen to each other and realize that they have to sing together in harmony. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

By that time the close harmony had turned to discord, and the sisters had been openly feuding. Patty Andrews of Andrews sisters dead at 94 2013-01-30T22:50:10Z

Though their close harmonies are rendered in a style associated with traditional country sibling groups, this Brooklyn-based duo is neither old-fashioned nor related. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Casting brunette models in black and blondes in white, he said, "was a metaphoric message" about "the perfect harmony of those two." Gurung at NY Fashion Week: From edgy to elegant 2012-02-11T21:31:15Z

But the haunting melodies and sublime three-part harmonies will go down wonderfully with a vintage wine – at which point those bottle-stoppers will come in handy. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang: The Wonder Show of the World | CD review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z

He believed in a culture of aesthetic and moral harmony that clearly did not exist in Germany. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z

For the sake of family harmony, I usually just ignore her and let my husband handle her. Ask Amy: Parents fret over daughter’s extreme change 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The opening track, Touching Down, opens with faint choral harmonies before Jacob's croon slowly takes over and then suddenly the whole thing segues into calypso-influenced synth-pop. New music: Therapies Son ? Touching Down 2011-03-15T14:24:00Z

In this product of two artists who loved each other's work, an uplifting harmony is miraculously achieved. Ballet Preljocaj: Helikopter/Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-23T16:52:38Z

All in all, the contrary-tension idea came through clearly in “Swift Arrow”; the harmony, less so. Review | At Kennedy Center’s ‘Evening of Jazz and Dance,’ glimmers of renewal 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

The other five dancers also now fell into patterns of spatial harmony. Dance Review: BodyCartography Project at American Realness Festival 2013-01-17T21:47:00Z

The greatest strength of The Head and the Heart is the harmony singing between Russell, Thielen and Josiah Johnson, in full effect all night. The Head and the Heart hailed warmly at homecoming show 2012-09-16T18:28:05Z

Every backbeat, vocal harmony, keyboard countermelody and instrumental bridge is in place. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Lillian’s first song starts by perfectly evoking the harmonies of its 1952 setting, and Carlos’s reminiscence about picking plums in the 1940s reflects that decade’s swing. ‘Los Otros’ Review: A Slow-Burning Tale of Melancholy 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Here, there’s old people and young people living in harmony. And it didn’t just happen yesterday; it goes 50 to 80 years back.” In Tokyo, a traditional neighborhood with a bohemian vibe

Cable news hangs on his every word, while he returns the favor by mimicking some of its worst talking points, often within enough minutes to create an unsettling semblance of harmony. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

And their acts have a pop lightness of touch, throwing breezy harmonies into the mix when you least expect. New band of the day ? No 1,092: Jonti 2011-08-25T16:00:12Z

In a recent interview, Mr. Dudamel said that the tender harmonies in the strings that usher in Desdemona’s “Ave Maria” prayer may be his favorite moment of the entire opera. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Delivers a Seething ‘Otello’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Their old tracks are lovely, drenched in harmony, pop and blissed-out psych interludes, but next to the new songs they sound almost insipid, or perhaps just overheard. Cloud Control at Vivid Live 2013 - review 2013-06-01T05:26:00Z

She’s consumed with thoughts of the baby boy she lost just months earlier, music that enfolds fragile vocal lines in subdued, trembling orchestral harmonies. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The group’s first single, with its bee-like guitar riff, propulsive beat and dissonant harmonies in the chorus, is about a woman who wakes up with her new husband and feels alienated and repulsed. Six Hopefuls Worth Watching at the CMJ Music Marathon 2012-10-15T21:47:30Z

The mélange of antic harmonies conjures the festive spirit of a drunken wedding reception in which pizza is served. A high-jinks-filled 'Twelfth Night' at the Wallis 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The playing is vivid — strings lush and articulate, winds restrained, brasses secure — with a precision and transparency that emphasize Puccini’s debt to the adventurous instrumental textures, harmonies and gauzy exoticism of Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The violin enters and calms things down with questioning melodic lines that skirt stable harmonies. Music Review: Conductor Makes Philharmonic Debut With Sufi Poetry and Celestial Yearnings 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z

Recipes vary from family to family, and while you can tease apart its elements, the way in which these components come together in harmony is what makes the dish special. Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

They live in harmony, figuratively and — when De Haas swoops over and around the melody — literally. Review: Finding Community in ‘As You Like It’ 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

The group, whose members wore matching orange collared shirts, fused mellifluous singing and shifting harmonies with a polished brass section. Cultured Traveler: Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet 2014-02-18T17:38:07Z

“I’d never heard harmony before, and I said, ‘What are you singing?’” he recalled. Kenny Rogers, Who Brought Country Music to a Pop Audience, Dies at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the ancient Greeks, neoclassical architecture speaks to some of Western civilization’s most noble ideals — notions of symmetry and harmony and principles of representative democracy. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

As the groove deepens, the reeds and brass of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band swarm around Somi’s voice, rendering it almost weightless, until finally, singing in wordless harmony with the flutes, it evaporates into air. Taylor Swift’s Heartbreak Dreamscape, and 9 More New Songs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

It begins with Bulgarian-style vocal harmonies and moves to four mournful piano chords as Stromae considers how “It’s crazy how many people have thought the same.” FKA twigs Seeks Angelic Intervention, and 10 More New Songs 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the second one, “The Last Spring,” every twist in the beguiling melody, at once poignant and consoling, is cushioned with Grieg’s plaintive chromatic harmonies. Malmo Symphony Plays Grieg ? Review 2012-01-13T16:26:56Z

When the finely latticed vocals overlap, creating a new depth of harmony, the sense of mutual support resounds clearly. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Her language is so distinctive, so rich with spectral colors, eerie glissandos and hazy harmonies that you cannot reduce it to tonal and atonal elements. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z

The musical equivalent is tunes and tonal harmonies written for conventional orchestral forces. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

Like all of Shakespeare’s comedies, “Much Ado” is about creating harmony out of the jangle and tangle of human desire. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

His harmonies, textures and formal schemes place him within a Classical style that was still in the process of forming. His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Noticing systems and patterns, such as musical harmony or the formation of geese in flight, can also be awe-inspiring. Awe might be our most undervalued emotion. Here’s how to help children find it. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

She contests almost everything that promises harmony between mind and body, self and world, God and universe. Is Our Obsession With Wellness Doing Us In? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Though spiked with lovely harmonies, the overstuffed and diffuse piece became wearying midway through. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Rather than protecting battered wives, the courts often looked the other way, reasoning that by doing so they were encouraging family harmony and protecting the “sacred” home from government intrusion. “The rape-your-wife privilege”: The horrifying modern legal history of marital rape 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

The practise of harmonising popular tunes by ear became popular throughout the 1920s in places where men met up regularly – in barbershops, for instance, although the style was also referred to as "kerbstone harmony". The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

He's celebrating with Germany's finest new-music group, Ensemble Modern, and a performance of his Music for 18 Musicians, that seductive, pulsing, life-affirming hour of rhythmic invention and slow-moving tectonic harmonies. Steve Reich at 75: the rebel who changed classical music 2011-08-09T14:47:23Z

There are squadrons of guitars, vocal harmonies and handclaps, harking back to 1970s glitter-rock. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Brad Wells conducted the superb Roomful of Teeth singers in a plush, enveloping performance with, when called for, precisely focused execution of Mr. Riley’s piercing, sustained harmonies. Review: Terry Riley Works at National Sawdust 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The new violinist’s solos in the second movement were strong, but the pace of the third movement was too harried to achieve the amorphous, organic growth of sound in the overlapping clustered harmonies. JACK Quartet tries to achieve cohesion amid dissonance 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

But the English taste for harmonies in thirds and sixths, consonant to our ears but considered dissonant by medieval theorists, was pervasive. Review | The Folger Consort welcomes Christmas with a messe 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

More recent pieces tend to be site-specific and to work in harmony with the natural environment. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Crosby always had great harmonies that he came up with on the spot. Neil Young: 'These people were our audience' 2012-10-04T19:00:04Z

This beautifully modest piece unfolds with a melody in steady notes and tender, pungent harmonies, almost like an Asian chorale. Review: Kronos Quartet Fosters Contemporary Works for Strings 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

With breezy vocal harmonies, “Broken Hearts Heal” reminisces about a childhood full of singing and laughing together. Review: Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Focuses on Love Outside the Bedroom 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

But for most fans, the duo harmonies and back-and-forth is what it’s all about. Last chorus for beloved Seattle folk duo Reilly & Maloney 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Scores of predators and prey move across the surfaces, right to left, in seeming harmony: wolves and elk, hawks and smaller fry. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The Bee Gees from our era were quite important, especially the harmonies. Gibb matriarch loses third son with Robin's death 2012-05-21T16:04:11Z

Just below the surface, the music sizzles with modernist harmonies, fractured phrases, gaggles of counterpoint and lyrical strands that keep breaking into skittish bits. Thomas Adès Brings Fresh Wildness to the Boston Symphony 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Her expression reflects every change of harmony; her body recoils, with a slight jolt, at each rhythmic accent. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He is freer and more confident than ever before, layering and sculpting improbable instruments and bewitching harmonies into songs that are at once exquisitely simple and astonishingly sophisticated. Review: ‘Love & Mercy’ Gets Inside Brian Wilson’s Head 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

"On a creative level we were always in harmony," said King. Stephen King's musical gets all-star singing cast 2012-11-19T11:11:37Z

The speech also appealed to reason, abstraction and logic, framed by binary oppositions: conflict and harmony; morality and power. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“If you build an environment based on details like that, you will create a harmony,” he said. Sky-High Prices? Bad Reviews? No Matter: Mr. Chow Powers On 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

And he comes closest to successfully Iyerizing an old piece of music on a version of Monk’s “Epistrophe,” on which he builds the song’s moving harmony into his flow without breaking pace. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

Last week producer Giles Martin, son of the Beatles’ original producer, George Martin, was observing the rehearsals and weighing in with advice periodically on song arrangements, melodies and harmonies. A ‘Salute to the Beatles,’ with a little help from musical friends 2014-02-04T19:53:18Z

Then the sopranos make their entrance, and the harmonies shift in surprising directions. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

In her review for The Times, Siobhan Burke highlights the ballet’s “thoughtful integration of movement” with its “handsome design elements,” adding that “this harmony stands out from the first, saintly image” of the performance. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Waco: The Aftermath’ and ‘The Hummingbird Effect’ 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

But one lesson of the Free Word debate is that when old and new are reconciled and work in harmony, the sky's the limit. Literature settles in to the electronic era 2010-10-05T13:22:00Z

He recycled harmonies, he relied on the scruff, and the songs pulled its punches. Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart 2012-01-24T17:59:07Z

A throng of commuters weave together, marching to a mysterious, excluding harmony. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

At a time when pioneering composers were abandoning tonality, Nielsen showed how to use clashing keys and disruptive harmonies to convey a different kind of modernism. New York Philharmonic Responds to Attacks in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Holly Herndon layered her voice into airy vocal harmonies that sailed above jagged, tricky percussion. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z

The music, which relies on White's dynamic guitar and soaring dual harmonies, is almost impossible to classify. Internet buzz helps The Civil Wars find success 2011-03-15T15:51:28Z

Nonetheless, there was a thrill to be had in watching three alpha musicians find a kind of harmony. Them Crooked Vultures | Pop review 2010-03-24T01:20:00Z

Audiences chased them through the park as they argued unintelligibly and a 30-member chorus sang harmonies seemingly based on search terms and automated comments. Review: With ‘Big Outdoor Site-Specific Stuff,’ Theater in Unlikely Locales 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

But these voices, distinct in tune but united in harmony, are singing shape-note music, a sacred form of choral music that dates back more than two centuries. Shape note singers keep American tradition alive 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cole sings elegantly complex vocal harmonies, but the central melody lines are shapeless. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-20T23:13:07Z

The album’s opener, “Pink City,” states — over gospelly organ and choirlike vocal harmonies — “It’s hard in the city, the city where I’m from” and resolves, “You can build you a city and call it home.” Pink Sweats Harnesses the Power of Niceness 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

A lumber company truck added some unexpected harmony with a high-pitched beep-beep-beep as it backed into a parking space down the street. Make Music New York in Review: One Day, a Thousand Concerts, to Celebrate Summer 2013-06-23T21:40:13Z

“They represent everything I love — they’re a combination of The Manhattan Transfer and the Marx Brothers, with complicated harmonies — and funny as hell,” said Manilow, who wrote the show’s music. ‘Harmony,’ a Manilow Musical Set Under Nazis, Is Broadway-Bound 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

They retreated to traditional forms and looked back to an imagined classical past — ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance — for images of wholeness and harmony. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z

“Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” is a wistful picture of a kind of ecological harmony that’s nearly extinct. Samin Nosrat’s Sensual, Compassionate Food Travels in “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

By All Means developed as a remarkable meditation which suggested that Webern's tone rows and Tudor harmonies may not be as far removed as they seem. Ensemble 10/10, Collon - review 2011-04-08T18:07:03Z

The cathedral, one of the greatest in Europe, is remarkable for its harmony and unity of style. Lovely summer evenings in Europe 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The student chorus, arranged in a circle around the periphery, sang a steady drone, getting louder and softer, cutting across the harmonies, creating strange new chords. ‘Licht’ Unleashes a Helicopter String Quartet 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

With catchy melodies and thrumming passages, Tarik O’Regan’s “Triptych” highlighted the chorale’s greatest strengths: a bold, rich sound and sonorous singing that revels in rhythms and diverging harmonies. Review | Washington Master Chorale shines in concert of works by 4 living composers 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

It’s my theory that people like to sing along, and they like to find their own harmony parts. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

"A good barbershop group will blend their voices so closely it creates the sensation of additional, phantom harmonies that aren't actually being sung," Allen explains. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

They also play musical instruments and sing gentle ballads of love’s waywardness in close harmony. Review: Mating-Season Mood Swings in ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Banished under Communism, the pilgrims are now free to perform dances, prayers, meditations and exercises which they say help create peace and harmony in the world and enhance physical and mental health. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In “Hey-nyo,” a lengthy ensemble number that was the evening’s centerpiece, Ms. Monk charted numerous routes between clashing semitones, unsettling microtonal swoops and gentler harmonies. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

With intense orchestration and complex harmonies, Lyatoshynsky’s music drew on the modernism of composers like Bartok and Berg while incorporating national idioms. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mozart's and Strauss's F's and G's are infinitely more impressive and compelling than these silly A's of Ades because of their contexts: rhythm, harmony, phrasing, etc. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

But there was another sound emanating from the Pacific Northwest that year — sweet, unabashed pop with harmonies that hearkened back to the 1960s British Invasion. The Posies still sound fresh | Concert preview 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

At no point does he sound like a drummer merely dabbling in melody and harmony — and yet his command of rhythm is as profound and inexplicable in this format as in any other. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

She organizes the space of each scene to emphasize harmony and order. Painters Fred Reichman and Eleanor Ray, attuned to the humble beauty of the everyday 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

“There’s a kaleidoscopic quality to hearing the harmonies change — the joy of certain pitches coming into the texture and then leaving and being replaced by others — and an ecstasy to the rhythm.” Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

But Elgar also pushes his means of expression, almost to a breaking point in the disrupted central section of the first movement, and with slightly unrooted, uneasy harmonies throughout. The Manhattan String Quartet, Presented by the Bohemians 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

This foursome is presented as a loving modern-family unit whose harmony is disrupted by Louis’s attempts to meddle in Joe’s life. Television Review: CBS’s ‘Partners’ From David Kohan and Max Mutchnick 2012-09-23T21:48:54Z

Passages of long, open harmony are common; sometimes those become lengthy stretches of collective improvisation, musicians conversing at a low simmer, resisting the typical urge to raise the temperature or set a course. Best Jazz Albums of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

It imagined mammals and computers living together in “mutually programming harmony,” freed from labor and “joined back to nature.” Review: ‘All Watched Over’ Contemplates Art’s Relationship to Technology 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

A few minutes later, three singers began a soft harmony of “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” and gradually nine others chimed in. Making Googly Eyes on a Rush-Hour Train 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Video images of cloud formations and gases were projected on scrims as the orchestra played Haydn’s grave music, surging slowly through passages of unmoored chromatic harmony. Review: A Dazzling ‘Creation’ Brings Light to Lincoln Center 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

And with its seismic chorus, booming percussion, gospel-y harmonies and life-affirming thesis, the title track has the makings of one achievement that the band has not yet nabbed: a hit single. The War on Drugs Can’t Stop Searching for Answers in the Music 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

The emphasis is on choral harmony, even when that chorus is just a couple of people in a room, seemingly singing into the same microphone. New Music Releases of the Season, From Jazz to Gospel 2012-11-22T20:23:16Z

Even the “bad” songs are actually pretty good: The harmonies are effective, the song structure is intact, and they’re catchy. Watched All of the ‘Gilmore Girls’ Revival? Let’s Talk About It 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

A few loud boos can be heard in the broadcast; perhaps these listeners perceived a lack of adventurousness in Frey’s harmony. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The tiny, evanescent scherzo and breathtaking prestissimo finale both introduce quarter-tones, giving a fuzzy strangeness to some of the harmonies. NYO/Bychkov 2010-08-08T11:33:00Z

He plays the piano with a poetic touch—his father is the distinguished pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane—and his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The men provide one captivating ensemble sequence, distinguished by its marching, stomping force — Naharin likes to inject beauty into hardness by means of choral harmony. Intensity, drive energize Hubbard dance program 2011-03-18T17:19:00Z

Perhaps the most instantly recognisable sounds of American classical music are the wide-open harmonies, hoe-downs and folk tunes of Aaron Copland. The Rest is Noise festival: America 1900-1950 2013-03-20T12:31:04Z

Even as the harmony develops and mutates, Stewart saunters along, his bass keeping the song in a steady rhythmic pocket. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

“He breaks melodies into short phrases and often adds double-stops that suggest modal harmonies.” Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z

The Misunderstood's darkly psychedelic Find a Hidden Door features thrilling interruptions to a killer guitar riff and unexpected layers of vocal harmony. Readers recommend: songs about doors – results 2012-07-05T12:08:58Z

Disclosure beefs up his harmonies into tightly-stacked Michael Jackson terrain, and the effect is less purely seductive than totally exultant. Your weekend dance jam: Usher's 'Good Kisser (Disclosure Remix)' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

When the lads of “The Choir of Man” launch into Adele’s “Hello” or the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset,” the harmonies hit the mark. Review | ‘The Choir of Man’ invites you into a pub for a sticky singalong 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Neo-Classicists like Piston wrote works that essentially hewed to tonal harmony, put a premium on textural clarity and utilized traditional forms. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

There’s no chordal instrument to tie the harmony together, and if Mr. Turner was calm before, he’s really calm now. Barbra Streisand’s ‘Partners’ Is a Duets Album 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Grant Green’s guitar style is one of jazz’s simple pleasures: stout and crisp; articulated in strong, single-note lines or little spinning helixes of harmony. The Playlist: Prince’s Own ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ and 12 More New Songs 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

And yet, quite unlike Cunningham, Mr. Andersen is continually fascinated in this work by symmetry and spatial harmony. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Everly and his brother Don molded rock ‘n’ roll with their high harmony while their poignant lyrics captured the restlessness and energy of a generation of young people. Phil Everly, Half of Pioneer Rock Duo, Dies at 74 2014-01-04T03:31:36Z

The instruments play wispy filigree and milky harmonies run through with hints of tunes. Review: New York Philharmonic Explores Israeli Musical Identity 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Even as someone enthralled with the austere work as written, I was fascinated to hear the filled-in harmonies and fleshed-out bits. Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

The thing that always mystified me about Ortega’s “High School Musical” phenomenon was how effectively it harnessed teen energy and harmony and how dull it was emotionally. A “Rocky Horror” for the “High School Musical” Generation 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

But just as there are still readers capable of being tempted by literature, so do some find bliss in the subtle harmonies of coloristic shades and light effects. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z

The tension between Ms. Davis’s cool, exotic plasticity and Mr. White’s surfer bum earthiness forges an unexpected harmony in their skating. Critic’s Notebook: In Olympic Figure Skating, ‘Compete’ Has Replaced ‘Perform’ 2014-02-18T22:52:26Z

Marrying piano pop with alt-country twang, the sextet nails exuberant harmonies and honest, simple lyrics. The Head and the Heart left town, came home famous 2011-04-28T20:14:13Z

The music suggests a wistful folk song, cushioned by plaintive harmonies and restless lines in the instruments. Review: A Whispered Opera Requests Your Close-Up Attention 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

At times they sang along quietly, unable to help themselves, lifting the cast up with the harmonies they still remembered. Parkland Survivors Get a Broadway Master Class in Healing 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

"I suppose in terms of three-part harmony, their blend is just amazing and it was always something that we listened to and looked up to," says Camilla. The Staves: making sweet music 2012-11-12T09:04:47Z

Other times you can feel these blues harmonies — with a deep religious underpinning. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

The more different wines you drink, the better your instinct becomes for which bottle to open, which ingredient to add to the meal to create a wonderful harmony. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Instead, humankind lives in harmony with nature and the seasons. Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, she sees a harmony between exploring the continent’s history and adapting her cuisine. Connecting With West Africa’s Plant-Based Past 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The most striking passages were those featuring the Nubian brothers, who are given eerily pure harmonies, akin to medieval plainchants, over shimmering accompaniment. ‘I Was Here I Was I,’ a Kate Soper Work 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl were also already a couple – becoming harmony duo the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger was, Lennon says, "us figuring out a way of spending all our time together". Til musical differences do us part 2011-02-10T21:29:00Z

But for one week, at least, Daryl kept caged the revenge-craving tiger inside him — note the apparent harmony with Shiva later — in order to let his friend hang on to her illusions. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 10: Carol Sees an Old Friend, Rick Makes a New One 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Skeksis rule because they long ago seized a giant crystal that kept Thra and its inhabitants in a state of harmony. ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’: There’s no better use of Netflix’s fortunes than this perfect revival - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

For “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Daniel Sullivan, Mr. Schreier’s music is thick textured and lush, with multiple overlapping elements: choralelike chords, melodic bits, hazy clouds of harmonies. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

Built by two German Catholic brothers for an Orthodox Jewish congregation from Eastern Europe, it is an ode to architectural, if not religious harmony, incorporating Moorish, Victorian, Gothic styles. New York City Museums Teach the History of Immigration 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Love in harmony and get that “Gift of the Magi” thing going and you’re golden. Modern Love: Modern Love: I Was Married, but Dancing by Myself 2012-11-30T16:31:33Z

It's not country like that but it's beautiful harmonies. Chic song to feature Elton and Miley 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Or the Fifth Dimension, their harmonies soaring ever higher on "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In." A revolution, finally televised: Questlove's "Summer of Soul" corrects pop fest history of the '60s 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Not only is breakfast eaten at home, but also eaten with family — the Chinese value family and harmony. What "Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings" gets right about Chinese food 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Toward the end he started containing the harmony and the dynamics, narrowing the music down, and he ended with a banged, two-handed cluster. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z

That the Nashville trio is country music's hottest new thing jives with McGraw's stated infatuation with novelty, though their catalog-model looks and edgeless harmonies are as safe as skim milk. Tim McGraw lifts KeyArena crowd with voice, songwriting, showmanship 2010-05-22T16:55:00Z

Individual string instruments increasingly join in, until the music evolves into an episode of free-seeming counterpoint, inflected with elements of modal harmony and a folk-music flavor. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z

I love harmonies and I love big hooks. Cheyenne Jackson strips down in 'The Performers' 2012-11-12T12:27:08Z

Shifting syncopations, bouncy guitar hooks and lazy floating harmonies all reference mid-1960s rock. What our writers love this week 2010-12-02T00:42:00Z

The simplest of Mr. Johnston’s quartets incorporate folk music set in clear harmonies that gain a rosy-cheeked innocence from the meticulously tuned intervals. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

And while King Hu certainly likes to move the camera — it sweeps, swoops and sometime breaks into a near-run — he also likes to linger on images as if encouraging you to admire their compositional harmony. Review: ‘Legend of the Mountain,’ a Magical Mystery Marathon in Ancient China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Yet the music is also impishly American, especially in the way phrases sometimes end with misbehaving lines and harmonies. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Whether it was a Wings track, recent solo material or any of the 20-plus Beatles songs, it was easy to hear the past half-century of popular music in the melodies and harmonies. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z

Over the last several months, Schools has heard Houser's guitar harmonies return to the stage "like a phantom." Widespread Panic savors different kind of success 2010-06-18T15:45:00Z

To maintain harmony in my household, I made one version pancetta-free and it, too, was delicious. If you’re looking to cut back on sugar, this quick bread is sweet news 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The music — with its hushed long chords, shiftingly gentle harmonies and prolonged expressive tension — is one of the compositions in which we are most aware of his addressing the sublime. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z

Only rarely was there a wisp of harmony in the texture. Peking Opera at Kennedy Center has the right moves, if not the best sounds

Mr. Sun played along with orchestral passages where no piano was called for, duplicating the harmonies to little audible effect, but adding an energy that was palpable. Review: All Beethoven, All Evening, on Period Instruments 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

In chaos and order, animalism and classical harmony, outer dysfunction and inner transcendence. Out of Context: For Pina 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z

War and peace, all this made abundantly clear, are also to be taken metaphorically as emotional states in a journey from discord to harmony, from chaos to serenity. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The Chuns in particular eschewed simple, folksy nostalgia in a program inflected with the tangy harmonies and dancing rhythms of Eastern European music. Music Review: Instrumentalists at an Exhibition 2011-06-02T22:03:15Z

His instrument needed a companion, a harmony to his melody. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

Album preview: MGMT's Congratulations More top stories Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after £1.8m corruption scandal Paul Morley showing off ... Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z

The Intermezzo for piano is a precocious student work, propelled by free, bluesy harmony and tinged with the influence of Debussy in the middle section. Pianist Daniel Schlosberg plays the works of Kurt Weill and Francis Poulenc at the National Gallery of Art 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

The sisters were known for their sweet harmonies and identical outfits and hairdos. Dorothy McGuire of McGuire Sisters dies at 84 2012-09-09T18:56:08Z

At Coachella, partyers in their 20s expressed a desire to move away from what they saw as the dark energy permeating the American psyche over the last six years, in favor of harmony and love. Searching for the ‘Vibe Shift’ at Coachella 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

“His demolition of a static order, the loss of harmony.” Old Patina Encircles Fresh Art in Venice 2011-06-05T21:15:27Z

He played dinky-sounding instruments — electric piano and melodica — with lines that cackled as they darted through the mazes of his harmonies. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z

Less so: a shoehorned moment of wisdom in which Tsukuru is finally able to accept everything that happened to him and grasp “what lies at the root of true harmony.” Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“I’m obsessed with harmony,” she said beforehand, and it showed in this piece for bass flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, piano and percussion. Review: The Philharmonic Focuses on Female Composers 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Ocean resumes crooning in the second verse, with dreamlike harmonies carrying the melody to its abrupt resolution. Listen to Frank Ocean's Atmospheric New Song "Memrise" 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Their shared pieces orchestrated the kamancheh’s bite, and its echoes of ancient melodies, with harmonies and arrangements that extend and stoke the drama. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Each of these processes work in a different tempo, at a different scale, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition, often with no obvious connection to one another. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z

This new version, which was recorded as a single, becomes a hoedown, paving over the emotional swamp of the original song with more harmony. Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

The songs use distinctive minor modes and diminished harmonies, long zigzagging melodies and a brooding, smoldering groove that often moves in six-beat rhythms rather than the 4/4 of American funk. Review: Feedel Band and the Libyans, African Sounds at the Global Beat Festival 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

With little more than ghostly vocal harmonies and a few notes from a distant piano, it’s both crystalline and eloquent. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Without so many hard reflective surfaces as St Mark's, or indeed most ecclesiastical acoustics, the hall itself offered an ample resonance, if not quite one allowing Monteverdi's harmonies to recede into sonic infinity. The Sixteen/Christophers – review 2013-02-13T17:54:10Z

A beautiful early-16th-century Flemish example and one with, exceptionally, two black figures, tenderly particularized, opens the Walters show on a utopian note, with a vision of multicultural harmony. Art Review: ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum 2012-11-08T20:30:57Z

Pasta dishes, at their core, strike a perfect harmony between sauce, pasta and garnishes. Beyond bolognese: A primer to 6 delectable, lesser-known pasta sauces that deserve some love 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

The program notes say the piece addresses “man’s struggle for harmony within a complex and sometimes horrifying universe,” and that seems about right. Cedar Lake hits notes both light and light and dark in Seattle | Dance review 2012-11-16T20:29:55Z

Before "Fever," the Bee Gees were best known as a harmony group that specialized in songs that mixed folk and pop. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Round fingertips: You desire harmony and avoid disapproval. What Your Fingers Say About You 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

And like my denim vest, jeans and t-shirt combo that day — an impeccable choice for the 75-degree high — the three worked in harmony. Making an almost-perfect Boulevardier is just the beginning 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

This song, “Almost Crimes,” is full of overtones and feedback and overlapping voices almost in harmony, but doesn’t sound like a ripoff of Sonic Youth of the British shoegazer bands. Happy Canada Day! Here are 6 great Canadian bands to get your party playlist started 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Her duet of rejoicing with her sister - one of the few times Strauss joins two voices in harmony in the opera - is a musical high point. Goerke stars in Lyric's blood-soaked 'Elektra' 2012-10-07T14:41:09Z

He studies scores at the piano slowly, beginning with foundational inner voices and harmonies and working his way outward to melody. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

The strings continue their unspooling, repeating motif as the harmonies transform, sometimes taking on a touch of tang, sometimes shadowed by a dark cloud of dissonance. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Now she has a medium in which to explore color and the confrontation of colors across the spectrum while keeping everything in visual harmony. Review | For beloved D.C. artist Alma Thomas, beauty wasn’t just about art. It was essential to life, too. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Humboldt never visited the Everglades, but it is surely one of the best places on earth to observe nature’s complex harmony up close. Tears for the Magnificent and Shrinking Everglades, a ‘River of Grass’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

As the first charting interracial pop group of the era, the M.G.s were also expected to act out a vision of racial harmony. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The sound, the harmonies, can give the listener an incredible physical reaction that you don't get with the 'Ring.' Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

The ensemble, singing in close harmony, presented sacred and folk music displaying polyphonic devices ranging from simple drones to intricately interwoven melodies, which often crossed or combined to produce harmonies pungent to the Western ear. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z

A five-piece group whose vocal harmonies and hooks are as striking as they are memorable, Natives performed with compact and confident strokes songs from across its two albums, and many sang along. Moses Sumney, Lucinda Williams hit the pier at Way Over Yonder fest 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

The instruments sometimes cushion the vocal line with mystical, piercing harmonies, until emotions break loose and the music becomes fiendish. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

At one moment, the soprano voices were layered in a heavenly harmony. Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Without overelaborating Rodgers' harmonies or interfering with the tunes themselves, Kostal added a patina of Hollywood polish to the score that greatly enriches our listening experience. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z

Its songs are almost stubbornly simple, sometimes disturbingly so, owing loads to sun-baked Beach Boys harmonies. Critic?s Notebook: Indie Scene?s Uncomplicated Side 2010-10-18T22:02:00Z

She performed in a duo with Jordan Hunt on violin and occasional harmony vocals, while she played guitar, piano or harmonium. Review: Olivia Chaney, a Willfully Modern Singer of Folk 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Symphonic harmonies vibrate out of grand concert halls in San Francisco. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z

The allure of the archaic, the fantasy of a golden age of holistic harmony in the distant past, was the flip side of the euphoria of modern progress. ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy’ at the Met Is a Journey Back 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Simone is known for her husky tone and limited octave range, while Ledisi exudes warmth onstage and covers four octaves, easily adding exuberant hollers, sophisticated scats, sultry rasps or quiet harmonies. Nina Simone Saved Ledisi’s Life. Now She’s Paying Tribute on an Album. 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Not that Boots Riley, Spike Lee and Barry Jenkins represent a unified perspective on black life and American racism, or that they are in perfect political and imaginative harmony with one another. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

It really needed a low voice harmony and I just could not get down that low. The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on keeping it “fun” after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lydon’s vocals straddled speech and song: declaiming, bleating, chanting, hitting notes on the sharp and discordant side of their underlying harmonies. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z

Their new CD, “Biographies,” consists of song-portraits of 13 people, plus one autobiographical number, delivered in intricate harmonies accompanied by the Bobs’ trademark mouth percussion. The Bobs celebrate the holidays with song-length ‘Biographies’ 2013-12-24T22:35:30Z

Even the harmony, largely implied by a keyboard part hinting at Radiohead, never resolves. SZA’s Songs Face Desire in All Its Complications 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Sunrise” and “Sunset,” the enigmatic outer movements, unfolded with elusive gestures and Middle Eastern harmonies, a long, eerie melody unfurling on the viola in the final movement. Music Review: Avi Avital Helps Revive, and Grow, an Instrument 2014-01-19T22:08:54Z

They scan like diary entries, or meditations on readiness during a time of emergency, and don’t necessarily rhyme; they use oblique harmonies and repetitions. New Music: Mavis Staples and Andy Bey Release New Albums 2013-06-24T22:22:10Z

Evans's music depends on a delicate balance of spontaneous interpretation and tightly stacked harmonies, so it's hard for an impromptu group to just fall into the required mix of improv relaxation and punctilious attention. Mike Gibbs Band – review 2012-12-13T12:28:08Z

Plato may have railed against allowing musical harmony to be the vehicle for excitable emotions, but music down the centuries seems to offer only repeated snubs to his warnings. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

Daniel Thomas Davis’s “Three-Winged Wisdom” began with close harmony in short, archaic-sounding phrases that expanded to longer breaths and seemed at one point to burst onto a sunlit field with a bird symphony at dawn. Review | Vocal trio ModernMedieval melds old and new 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

“The choreography that Curtis did on those Impressions records was absolutely brilliant,” Ms. O’Connor noted, “and when you listen to reggae that’s what you hear mostly, especially in the harmonies of the backing vocals.” Recalling Curtis Mayfield, Soul’s ‘Genius of Gentleness’ 2012-07-19T21:57:14Z

The typical approach began with a rhythmic pattern or an atmospheric sound, well suited to both piano and koto, then added melody or smooth improvisation or lush harmonies. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

They were especially fascinated by the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, composed between 1903 and 1906, in which Mahler seemed to be pushing tonal harmony to its breaking point. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The rhythm-section duo also added expansive vocal harmonies, amplifying Stipe’s plush if often incomprehensible lead mumble. R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity 2011-09-21T21:46:00Z

Matisse is a great colourist throughout his work but in Jazz, with its flat, even toned colours, Matisse the draftsman and Matisse the colourist find their perfect harmony. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Still, he says the Beatles' music will always live on due to the harmonies and just being "smart." Ethan Russell on the Beatles’ final photos, why John Lennon liked him and his own unbeatable luck 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Strauss’s score is an irresistible mix of voluptuousness, bristling modern harmony, heaving orchestral intensity and high camp. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z

There was a lot more to them than all those overdubbed harmonies. Old music: 10cc – Somewhere in Hollywood 2012-07-04T12:31:00Z

Though Crosby Stills & Nash were hailed for their harmony vocals, Stills' guitar playing, whether in flamenco-accented acoustic mode or Hendrix-inspired electric storms, shouldn't be overlooked. Top box sets in rock, soul for 2013 2013-12-06T20:39:00Z

Their harmonies helped define the Motown sound of R&B and soul, but the Four Tops went beyond genre, often throwing in jazz and American standards in their shows. Duke Fakir details the Four Tops musical bond in new book 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

With melodious three-part harmony on its chorus, it has often been compared to anthems like Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” and Boston’s “More Than a Feeling.” John Wetton, Rocker With King Crimson and Asia, Dies at 67 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Swift Arrow,” deftly interpreted by Peck and Mejia, comes with an epigraph from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “The harmony of the ordered-world is one of contrary tensions, like that of the harp or bow.” Review | At Kennedy Center’s ‘Evening of Jazz and Dance,’ glimmers of renewal 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Those original harmonies and dynamics and arrangements and productions are meticulous; anybody wanting to honor them with some degree of artfulness, instead of just busking them, should think hard about it. Music Review: A SummerStage of Simon and Garfunkel Songs 2010-06-09T20:47:00Z

His instinct for the cut-and-thrust urgency as though in pursuit of the climatic moments was paramount, yet the ecstatic beauty of Wagner's score eluded him, its glorious harmonies glossed over. Tristan und Isolde – review 2012-05-22T11:57:52Z

The school friends from Victoria Falls performed in front of a Zimbabwean flag, and mixed rapid-fire dance songs and dance routines with a cappella harmony work that echoed South African township styles. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z

The pianist starts a looming octave chime in the upper register and the band fixes upon a sequence of obscured, sometimes-mucky harmonies, until he finally breaks out into a lyrical solo. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

There are chaste consonances that have all the qualities of warmth and comfort, yet so unpolluted are these harmonies that they convey great fragility and unease. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

When the piano dreamily enters with wistful, wandering lines spiked with flinty harmonies, Bernstein just listens, overcome. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

That was gracefully if fussily played, certainly, and in Mr. Serkin’s hands, four centuries of harmony seemed to speak in one compositional voice. Peter Serkin’s Peoples’ Symphony Concert 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

“Not everybody’s going to be in harmony with it,” Ms. Gray said. Television: ‘Dallas,’ With Larry Hagman’s J. R. Ewing, Returns 2012-06-07T15:15:53Z

In 'Boychoir' the focus is on voice, and the efforts of a traditionalist choirmaster played by Dustin Hoffman to bring harmony to the life of an angry, orphaned 11-year-old attending an exclusive boarding school. Music underpins eclectic array of Toronto film festival features 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Then the delicate I'm Not Stupid delivers a lovely surprise: a female choir appear in the balcony to add feathery harmonies. Cat's Eyes ? review 2011-03-21T18:26:59Z

The result is yet another prickly psychedelic folk classic from the Byrds, with airtight harmonies and riffs that unfurl with delicious, blurry tension. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Yet now the motif is weakened and halting, and it leads to quizzical, unresolved harmonies. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

At a time when so many new operas, especially by American composers, pander to audiences with accessible, tepid contemporary styles, Mr. Benjamin challenges listeners with dense harmonies, skittish lines and grating eruptions. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tyner’s playing on this track is disciplined and neatly contained, but you can easily spot the signature shadings of his harmonies and his trilling ostinatos. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

“We sang that song all the way home so we would not forget that type of harmony.” Bobby Osborne, Mandolinist Who Flouted Bluegrass Convention, Dies at 91 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

“When I do Voidz stuff, I’m kind of trying to push the limits as much as possible. When I’m back in The Strokes’ saddle, I’m like letting loose more with guilty pleasure harmonies.” The Strokes turn to a ‘unicorn figure’ and get Grammy love 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

The ecstasy of the peak boy-band era is due for a comeback — this has that, and also harmonies, and a sense of history. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

In “She May She Might,” Mr. Kaplan sings about a woman who wishes she could “get outside her mind” or simply run away, in a tangle of unresolved modal harmonies. Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Higher voices intrude, until there is a pileup of parts, and the music heaves with Expressionistic harmonies reminiscent of Berg, yet spiked with jazzy chords and piercing dissonance that somehow seem American and fresh. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z

The beguiling harmonies and descending chord progressions of the second section were beautiful. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Organs flicker like a mirage in the distance and the band’s wistful harmonies bolster the record’s mystique. Seattle expats La Luz channel their sunnier new home with ‘Floating Features’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

His left hand thrummed guitarlike chords, chased bass lines into the mud, leaped through harmonies like a stride pianist’s would. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Don’t lecture about racial harmony, just live it: love them. 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children​ ​who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

In that sense, the song sounds more like an ode to an interloper and the transient harmonies are as appealing and as the lights that inspired them. Cat Power Shines on Sun 2012-09-07T12:00:25Z

Between the Brahms works he inserts elliptical movements from Schoenberg’s Six Short Piano Pieces, and it is amazing how easily Brahms’s chromatic harmonies mingle with Schoenberg’s atonal writing. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

“Collage,” from her album “Black Acid Soul,” rides an acoustic bass vamp and modal jazz harmonies, enfolded in wind chimes and Mellotron “string” chords. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Much of that atmosphere comes from the songs, which savor the plush major-seventh chords and tiered vocal harmonies that Mr. Wilson introduced to rock in the Beach Boys’ 1960s hits. Review: Brian Wilson’s Nostalgic, Reflective ‘No Pier Pressure’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The duo went on to segue pattern into pattern, limpid and shimmering, lingering in one harmony a while and then darting together toward a new one; it was a marvel of affinity. Music Review: Round-Robin Duets at Brooklyn Masonic Temple 2013-05-02T21:52:58Z

“It is an expression of the human condition, dissonance, harmony — all of these different instruments playing off each other. In a good world, everybody gets a turn to stand up and play their bit.” Getting up Close with Glenn and Ted Nash, new duo in jazz 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The Movie” both contain peaceable-kingdom ensembles in which all the dancers seem to do their own things until patterns, coincidences and harmonies appear: the combination of independence and cooperation becomes a perfect image of democracy. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z

For Lady Antebellum, country is melodramatic pop full of sweet harmonies and guitars so plangent they practically melt. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Golden,’ by Lady Antebellum and ‘Annie Up’ by Pistol Annies 2013-05-10T22:06:38Z

The voices, loud and raw with effort, scrape and grind against each other, and the effect is the opposite of harmony. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z

Debussy, who revered Chopin and loved the milky harmonies and lush colorings of his piano music, prepared an edition of the composer’s works for the publisher Durand. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

But in those stretches when he’s waiting for the phone to ring about a possible gig, there are still moments of harmony. For D.C.’s older jazz artists, scarcity of gigs is a hard reality

The result is an audacious mix of raw R&B bass beats, baroque samples and daring vocal harmonies, a cross between TLC and Kraftwerk. Destiny's Child: 'We wear nothin' with our butt cheeks out, our boobs out' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-24T15:46:07Z

It was a cacophony of bodies performing disparate choreography, yet the bigger picture revealed a collective harmony. Review: Choreographic Skeletons From a Lost Pandemic Time 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Japanese society, known for its polite orderliness, is heavily dependent on unspoken understandings and behavior aimed at maintaining the “wa” — the idea of social harmony. A Few Etiquette Tips for Getting Around Japan 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

During the last 18 months, Deaton has grown the group into a strong, confident ensemble capable of executing complex harmonies with precision. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

From Domino's new signings, a wonderful LA happy-sad tune drenched in west coast harmonies. F&M playlist 2010-06-03T22:30:00Z

It's an approach that works wonders in the third book, in which form and harmony buckle and bend and tone becomes austere. Liszt: Ann?es de P?lerinage ? review 2011-04-07T21:15:00Z

Her melodic lines are at once regretful and wily, supported by slightly jazzy harmonies dominated by woodwinds that reminded me of Ellington’s orchestra writing. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hauser, a onetime advertising and marketing executive, formed the Manhattan Transfer in 1972 as a modern-day throwback to the intricate vocal harmonies of an earlier era. Tim Hauser, founder of the Grammy-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, dies at 72

Inspired by Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities," it's a meditation on the journey of Marco Polo, filled with gorgeous melodies, strange timbres and lush harmonies. A list of must-hear CDs from Amy Denio 2010-04-02T21:47:00Z

Regions that were known for extracting as much ripeness, power and fruitiness as possible in making their red wines were pulling back in the direction of harmony. Finding Harmony in Ribera del Duero 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Until events overtake them they live in harmony with local villagers, serving as both doctors and confidantes. O brother, we're arthouse: the monks taking France by storm 2010-12-02T12:17:00Z

The full-band electric set was raucous and inspiring and a testament to the group's fondness for pairing keening harmonies with jagged-glass guitars. The loudmouth at the concert: Why can’t people stop talking and listen to the music? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

In these songs, many layers of guitar form dissonant harmonies; sections grow and vary, never fully returning to where they started. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

“What is important is that there is harmony in the relationship.” Sexual Revolution Slowly Progressing in Russia 2010-07-14T21:08:00Z

What he does believe is that harmony is heightened when you have to work for it. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

But a truly great crumb cake — a tender, velvety bed with a blanket of shaggy nuggets on top — achieves harmony, each bite a balanced interplay of spices, butter and sandy brown sugar. What’s the Right Crumb Cake Ratio? This Recipe Tries to Find Out 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

A sense of harmony and oneness ran throughout Geometrie Variable’s routine, especially in that chin-ography bit, with its wacky, chummy connection between two men. What NBC’s ‘World of Dance’ gets right about dance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The heart of the Lone Bellow’s appeal is its close harmonies: three singers whose timbres meld seamlessly even at full volume. The Lone Bellow Releases a New Album 2013-01-21T22:28:54Z

The night’s central revelation was just how good Sting sounded as a harmony vocalist, his reedy voice blending beautifully with Simon’s more delicate, workmanlike phrasing on Sting’s “Fragile” and Simon’s eternal “The Boxer.” Paul Simon and Sting at the United Center 2014-02-26T06:48:00Z

Instead, it felt like an improvised harmony just to showcase that gorgeous voice again. Alice Smith wows at Howard Theatre

The only overdubs on the song, which is his latest to take on climate change, are the harmony vocals, with Young and Crazy Horse chanting “children of the fires and floods.” Neil Young made ‘Barn,’ his new album, in a barn 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

If his harmonies had been as conflict-seeking as his rhythms, he might be considered the most dissonant composer of the Romantic era. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Jersey Boys is a so-called "jukebox musical" that charts the origins of vocal harmony group the Four Seasons. Christopher Walken joins Jersey Boys 2013-07-24T08:40:33Z

The close harmonies of Rachel and Becky are the starting point in this extraordinary band. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z

Along similar lines, “Peaceful Morning” juxtaposes a banjo and acoustic bass with a raft of vocal harmonies evocative of Vampire Weekend. Review: Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Evoke Dreams and Ghosts 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

That means its performers assemble an arbitrary combination of unlikely elements into logic and harmony, on the spot and off the cuff. ‘Blank! The Musical’ Is a DIY Revue at New World Stages 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

It’s pretty terrific, a mix of sharp melodies, gauzy harmonies and ferocious guitar workouts. Wild Flag: 'It just sort of exploded' 2011-07-19T06:14:00Z

Banished under Communism, the pilgrims are now free to perform dances, prayers, meditations and exercises which they say help create peace and harmony in the world and enhance physical and mental health. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

The gloomy, late Romantic German's foggy, dense harmonies and tightly knotted counterpoint may have a history of a certain regard in German-speaking regions. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Buddy and Jim” puts two-part harmony singing at its core; through the album, in verses and choruses, Mr. Miller and Mr. Lauderdale rarely sing alone. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z

That story can be successfully told when there is a perfect harmony between the clothes and the music.” New York Fashion Week: D.J.?s Make the Music to Move Fashion Shows 2011-09-15T04:47:28Z

Pretty portents of sorrow fill “Kathryn Calder,” the self-titled album by the singer who is best known as the modest team player supplying harmony vocals in the New Pornographers. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

During the chorus — “Reunited, and it feels so good,” etc. — they blended in ersatz barbershop harmony, joined by one more original member, the bassist Brad Jones. Music Review: Not Exactly Your Top 40 ?Reunited? 2010-10-01T23:00:00Z

I won't mince words: I loved "The New Zoo Revue" and its depiction of a perfect utopian harmony between humans and life-sized animal puppets. "Everything Fab Four": Our new podcast about the life-changing power of the Beatles 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Their voices are untrained and their harmonies unostentatious. Review: Girlpool, in ‘Before the World Was Big,’ Grows Up and Loud 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

The living space is where Roberts's industrial aesthetic meets Cave's desire for "balance, harmony, relevancy, contentment." | Nick Cave 2012-10-05T19:47:57Z

Some sympathetically enveloping orchestra parts softly twist the harmony but don't betray an almost untouchable song. Colin Towns and the NDR Big Band: John Lennon ? In My Own Write - review 2011-02-10T23:13:01Z

The training in the rudiments of harmony and counterpoint was intense. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sacks stretched out his rubato phrases at will, making them skulk around over steady bass and drum grooves, turning most of his harmony a little dark and dissonant, and never using the sustain pedal. Music Review: Two Weeks, One Stage: The Forging of 40Twenty?s Sound 2010-08-02T22:17:00Z

Owners Mony and Jose Diaz run the grill, and their children and at least nine other relatives work the kitchen and the register in seeming harmony, which gives Mony’s its own familial feel. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Santa Barbara, Calif. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

This show and its town, from the early years to present day, is aimed firmly at projecting kindness, empathy and living in harmony. Clifford, everybody’s favorite big red dog, gets a reboot 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“It tells a lot about the permanent value of living together in harmony.” ?Intouchables? Is a Magnet for French Moviegoers 2011-12-07T16:27:43Z

There are these chugging harmonies, which are sometimes quite barrel-organy, but there's always something off about them, slightly sour, slightly barbed. Come to the Cabaret 2013-02-28T17:53:53Z

“Empty Cups,” which features tight harmonies from Morris, is an aching chronicle of a longtime couple drifting apart. Amanda Shires Isn’t Letting Nashville, or Her Marriage, Off the Hook 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The third movement, “Chaconne: Giulio’s Song,” written for an amateur cellist friend of the composer, pits searching cello lines against a backdrop of aching, pungent harmonies. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

January: As Stills and Nash argue over a single harmony note, Young leaves the session, vowing to never return. Stephen Stills: A classic rock Zelig 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

There are winding melodic lines of elegiac beauty, solemn progressions of melancholic harmony and tumultuous bursts of intensity. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z

Barber adhered to tried-and-true formal schemes and generic conventions from the 19th century, adding tangy harmonies and metrical sleights of ear to disguise, however thinly, the traditional harmonic and melodic organization of his compositions. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

It’s a waltz praising a beloved child: a lullaby in minor chords, cradled in acoustic guitar picking and vocal harmonies. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Portland sister act Joseph opened with a sharp collection of tunes that took advantage of what the trio calls “genetically perfect” harmonies. James Bay makes waves at Showbox SoDo 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The trio's vocal harmonies were riveting, though volume levels were painfully high in the opening moments. Crosby, Stills and Nash a special treat for boomers 2012-09-15T17:29:04Z

The men stare down at the carpet as though in search of dark patterns, two contrasting talents in harmony at last. Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

A chorus of sweet young voices in harmony replaced Cardi B’s signature confrontational Bronx sass. Kidz Bop is the go-to of tot music. But do we really need to replace ‘tattoo’ with ‘hairdo’? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

In the first gallery, nine tiny lithographs — each measuring 3 inches square, each in its own handmade frame, and all from 1949 or 1950 — combine the dissonance of collage with the harmony of resolved compositions. Frederick Hammersley at L.A. Louver: There's more than meets the eye 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Eventually there is not much left but hints of the melody, blurry inner harmonies and an increasingly pervasive and elemental pedal tone on the bass and lower strings. Music Review: ?Remembering September 11? With Wordless Music Orchestra 2011-09-12T23:25:05Z

De Silva, a newcomer to the festival but well-known in the field as a consummate collaborator, was in perfect harmony with Beilman. Chamber-music society magic continues in winter fest opening | Classical review 2014-01-25T18:53:43Z

In the opening of this engaging eight-minute piece the delicate bell-like sounds of the bowls are caressed by the orchestra in waves of shimmering colors and murky harmonies. Music Review: Young Talents With a Fondness for Applause 2011-05-23T21:42:39Z

Walsh ripped guitar solos known as well as many of the Eagles' lyrics while all of the members continued, 40 years on, to hit the high notes during their trademark harmonies. Eagles' Glenn Frey teaches songwriting; talks tour 2012-11-16T04:18:11Z

But the inaugural concert of World Peace Orchestra, an international youth ensemble, on Tuesday at Avery Fisher Hall felt more like a hostile takeover than like a lesson in harmony. Music Review: World Peace Orchestra Makes Its Debut 2013-09-11T20:03:29Z

Grease: Live” was directed like a Swiss watch, with every part moving in incredible harmony. “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Conflict and harmony become cartoonish as subtle gestures collapse and the conversations we have with our eyes are shut down. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

After that, “O Seu Amor,” a song penned by Gil that allowed father and sons to sing in telepathic, trapezoidal harmony — as if some impossible nano-breeze were suddenly swaying their DNA strands in perfect parallel. Review | Brazil is changing. Caetano Veloso is forever. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

What is fascinating about these evenings is their miscellaneous harmony. Anyone got a good story ? and the nerve to tell it? 2011-01-02T00:02:03Z

Is it the domain of no-holds-barred experimentalism, where standard ideas of harmony and rhythm have grown passé? The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

On one hand, there's something objective and even systematic about Adès's harmonies: there are some quasi-serial aspects to the way his chords work that could generate a virtually infinite ocean of musical possibilities. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z

“Louie” forces harmony from its many disparate elements—stand-up, sketch comedy, character drama, family sitcom. “Louie” returns, as hapless and sublime as ever 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Flaws builds beautifully to a crescendo layered with harmony and a wall of hazy guitars. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z

They have beautiful harmonies, pleasant melodies, and anodyne lyrics. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

As a child, Mr. Lieberson taught himself harmony by figuring out the voicings on recordings by the jazz pianist Bill Evans. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

Its final note, a faint halo of sound, led without pause into the sunset-rich harmonies of the Webern, played with a running thread of hysteria that made it seem a contemporary of Berio’s. Review: Cantata Profana’s Indefinable ‘Dreams and Visions’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The instruments respond with pungent backup music for woodwinds, and jarring, jazzy full orchestra harmonies. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Now, the group is bringing its harmonies stateside with the infectiously rhythmic "Everybody in Love." Billboard singles reviews: Eminem, Ozzy Osbourne 2010-05-14T23:56:00Z

As Love puts it, the Beach Boys — initially made up of three brothers, a cousin and a friend — were all about harmony on record but often about discordance outside the studio. Mike Love's memoir 'Good Vibrations' recalls the Beach Boys harmonies and strife 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

But when achieved by an artist, the feat employs mystery, shadowy harmony and — yes — plenty of embedded encouragement. Preview: Julia Massey trio at the Croc to showcase kids’ music for adults 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

But traditionalists wanted God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – not weirdo harmonies on In Dulci Jubilo that sounded like chimps strangling zebras. King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z

Even better, this is a place where people of all ages, races and genders live in harmony, with just enough gossip and misunderstanding to keep things interesting. Review: In a Blissful Musical ‘Twelfth Night’ in Central Park, Song Is Empathy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Yoga, for many practitioners, is a practice of finding spiritual and bodily harmony. The $1,000 yoga mat made of leather: 'We do draw fire from militant vegans' 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

The veneer of Midwestern stoicism, and the aura of trouble surrounding the gallery of characters, vanish as cast members erupt into all manner of harmony. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The arrival of Islam in the late 7th century was organic and peaceful, with Muslims and non-Muslims living in relative harmony for centuries. Review | The Met gives a long-overdue look at an African cultural powerhouse 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The interplay, a duet with sweet and eccentric harmonies, is fascinating to observe, even as it undermines the overall structure of the narrative. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“It’s a beautiful song, and it’s so typical of him. There’s a lot of great melodies, great harmonies, great background parts.” Kenny Rogers says he really isn’t bluffing — this is definitely his last tour 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

“The beauty and power of harmony is something we all really believe in,” Ms. Stark said. John C. Reilly’s Group in Lincoln Center Songbook Series 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

As the rest of the band felt light and volatile, playing hide-and-seek with harmony and rhythm, Mr. Dunn’s bass sound remained broad and deep and strong. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z

The production’s triumph is the fluid, splendidly balanced ensemble, which for harmony and power rivals any other cast seen in Washington this year. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

"You have to have melody, rhythm and harmony to make a complete music," he said. Quincy Jones talks music, life, love at ASCAP expo 2010-04-24T21:16:00Z

If ever there was a piece that epitomizes this, it’s Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians,” an hour of slowly-evolving layers of timbres, harmonies and rhythms anchored by an unrelenting beat. Great Noise Ensemble struggles to get its balances right

In Arsenyev's day the local people lived with the tigers in something resembling harmony and did not kill them. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Part of the set consisted of songs that Sharp collected, with Oates and Roberts providing exquisite harmonies on Barbara Allen, and Oates swapping vocals with Herring on different versions of Lover's Lament. Cecil Sharp Project ? review 2011-03-30T18:31:00Z

World Wide We: Oneness and harmony with all humankind. Style Invitational Week 1191: Mess With Our Heads 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was an old recording of Martha and I singing as children together, at 5 and 8, singing a Christmas song of just us in harmony, and my mom died at that moment. ArtsBeat: A Little More Family Time With the Wainwrights and Roches 2012-05-11T15:56:51Z

In a ruminative aria for James Meredith, the churning orchestra blends pentatonic phrases from a spiritual into subdued, restless atonal harmonies. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z

Their lush arrangements of guitar, keyboard, viola, other assorted instruments and random sound samples often eschew reliable melodies and vocal harmonies in favor of occasional passages of minimal drone or maximal sonic layerings. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z

Wine bottles rim the banquettes and vintage doodads hang in geometric harmony on the walls. Five Bistro in Edmonds offers some flavor excitement 2011-01-20T22:22:04Z

Only then does the song spin those words into vocal effects and intricate harmonies. Bryce Dessner Debuts 'Black Mountain Songs' at BAM 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The Monkees do a lush and delicate version, with beautiful harmonies. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

His playing tends to swirl, almost mistlike, with sprinkled melodic phrases, flickering harmonies and rolling arpeggios implying a groove rather than stating it. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s the final image — a prancing Robbins folk dance in which all the groups come together — that shows the harmony of the seasons. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Tribute to a Fast Train 2014-02-05T21:50:27Z

Interludes of a cappella vocal harmonies and church bells suggest some spiritual intent to “Aesthethica,” Liturgy’s second album, but mostly, it’s just a blast. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z

It is almost as though they were a single instrument, not four working in harmony. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Glenn Frey, primarily, wrote those creepy “Hotel California” lyrics; he was also the band’s charged-up taskmaster, co-writing the songs, pushing his band toward perfection and commercial success and ever more golden harmonies. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

We knew enough to mock it, but we also all loved it, and yes, God save me, on more than one occasion we spontaneously broke out in six-part harmony, unbidden, at a fast-food restaurant. Singing Together Again at a Broadway Reunion 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Like Mr. Young, Mr. Gundersen’s craft relies on yearning, raggedness and pinpoint harmonies. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Sheeran rounds into form when he uses his softness to his advantage, cocooning himself in layers of warm harmony and setting that slippery, surprisingly agile lyricism against slowly building arrangements. REVIEW: Ed Sheeran Multiplies His Appeal on x 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The resulting battle on my taste buds ended in a surprising harmony. A Warm Welcome in the Caucasus Mountains 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

At times, Miller cycles through harmonies around a fixed point, and Hargrove cuts into them at an angle, traveling in leaps. Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller’s Glorious Duets 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Back in 1968, this soul group from Dallas landed a minor hit with “I Ain’t Got to Love Nobody Else,” a tender ballad drenched in rich vocal harmony. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

But I am willing to split the cost for family harmony. Social Q’s: Social Q’s – An Unfit Friend on a Fitness Excursion 2012-09-06T21:32:48Z

Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson will be back in harmony in "Pitch Perfect 3." 'Pitch Perfect 3' is set for 2017; Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson will return 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bielawa’s work begins as a Neo-Romantic portrait in bittersweet melodies and plush harmonies, and gradually makes its way toward abstraction in a dark finale built of sustained and slowly sliding tones. Music Review: New-Music Benefit Becomes the Art Itself 2010-09-28T21:13:00Z

A run of hit singles peaked with the walking bass and heavenly harmonies of Stayin' Alive – much imitated, but never bettered. Readers recommend: songs with falsetto – results 2013-06-06T13:53:43Z

In “Dream Dream Away,” it takes nearly three minutes of contemplative, slowly strummed guitar and abstract reverberation before Mr. McNew muses, in choirlike vocal harmonies, “Why cry? Why try? It’s all the same.” Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

He began with a group of Nocturnes, in which an achilles heel quickly revealed itself; his pedalling was so careless that harmonies that need their own space regularly bled into one another. Yundi | Classical review 2010-03-18T23:00:00Z

The quartet’s blend of poppy melodies, lush harmonies and slick arrangements helped them sell more than 400 million records around the world. Feel old yet? 40 years since ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ 2014-04-08T18:51:49Z

At the end, the vocal harmonies that were so cutting when the song began return as tentative queries. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

He is blinded by comforting, inspiriting harmonies, a forceful but unseeing disturbance of the peace. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Obviously the harmonies bring to mind a band like Queen, so there’s a touch point for older listeners.” A Band Called Fun., With a Period 2012-03-10T00:25:53Z

On Saturday the two drums seemed always to be played in separate meters, and the lack of harmony struck me as unfortunate. Dance Review: Hindu Deities Conjure Magic in Movement Downtown 2010-08-18T21:55:00Z

In Mr. Mills’s own elegiac “4th Caprice Fantasy,” the focus was on rich harmonies and singing phrases. Music Review: Bargemusic Labor Day Festival Features Four Premieres 2013-08-30T23:22:02Z

But it would completely overwhelm “Svadba-Wedding,” Ana Sokolovic’s intimate a cappella work for six women, whose harmonies are only occasionally punctuated by glockenspiel or rain stick. San Francisco Joins the Growing World of Small Operas 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Those lines return later in “Ghosteen Speaks,” with soothing major chords cascading between keyboards and wordless vocal harmonies; Cave makes the same promise in full voice. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

And Tudor brings all nine dancers together in harmonies that, like everything about this work, extend our idea of this great choreographer. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z

She has a genius for harmony, reflecting an agility to listen, collaborate and adapt swiftly onstage. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Do the prickly post-punk guitar and harmony vocals in “The Mall & Misery” allude to Gang of Four and Talking Heads or to Yeasayer? Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z

And this is one of Puccini’s most complex and moving scores, with boldly modernist harmonies and hints of Debussy and Richard Strauss deftly folded into the composer’s own voice. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

As he traveled by scooter to various boroughs, he found many people unhappy with their interior lives and looking for guidance as to how to achieve domestic harmony. Apartment Therapy’s Maxwell Ryan shares 5 top design trends 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

But, as often happens in musical history, the generation after Bach stripped away much of the older composers' harmonic complexity, writing instead with a dramatically simpler palette of harmonies. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Q: You mentioned the Louvin Brothers, and there is this idea of blood harmonies. Q&A with Barry Gibb: Loving country music, the feeling before going onstage and why he can’t watch the Bee Gees documentary 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“Time” pulls together a lurching beat, a polytonal pileup of harmonies and a growled vocal that harks back to the Sly Stone of “Family Affair.” Prince Releases ‘Art Official Age’ and ‘PlectrumElectrum’ 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The front line set up oblique harmonies, and Murray — who celebrated his 60th birthday Feb. 19 — knifed through them with downward skewers on the bass clarinet, studded with meaty, gutbucket flavor. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The first movement begins with a hard-driving theme, like some pumped-up march that trumpets the dissonances embedded into its diatonic harmonies. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z

Lee dances with the whole of her body in seamless harmony; she evokes a world of ease and energy in exquisite balance. Review | Ambition and glamour in Washington Ballet’s ‘Balanchine, Ratmansky, Tharp’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

In the sequence, darker harmonies arise from the conflict of the composer's time-poor life with the power of his genius to re-make time on its own terms. Poem of the week: Schubertiad by Fiona Sampson 2010-08-02T10:49:00Z

I fell asleep that night to the sound of the trio singing harmonies beside the fire. In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

“There is a harmony, which I think is important,” she said, “a story to be told.” How a Dealer Prepares for the ‘Most Important’ Art Fair of the Year 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

So a gutsy treatment of Banks of the Nile is suddenly decorated with impressive harmonies, while Sartin provides a fine, thoughtful treatment of the bleak Captain's Apprentice. Faustus: Broken Down Gentlemen – review 2013-03-07T22:20:01Z

But here he states his own themes and commands his own space, letting the light of his major harmonies vie with the darkness of his blues. The Playlist: The Hold Steady Get Revved Up and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

YOU may have seen the famous 1970s Coca-Cola ad in which smiling young people of many nations gathered to sing about “perfect harmony.” Books of Style: Fashion’s Price, Hidden and Otherwise 2012-08-29T20:32:27Z

Rather than emphasizing the rhythmic drive of the repeated chord theme of the first movement, he took a restrained tempo and allowed the music to emerge in an eerie, slightly murky rumble of harmony. 2010-02-15T05:55:00Z

Ms. Anderson-Lopez added: “He truly believes that groups of people singing together creates goodness in the world. And at this moment in time, we really need that kind of harmony.” From ‘Pitch Perfect’ to Broadway, He’s Vocal About A Cappella 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

His strength lay in tightening and tweaking reality a little beyond the real, creating a sharp and exacting artifice that brought the decorative, the abstract and the natural into perfect harmony. Landscapes and Still Lifes of New Territories 2010-12-30T23:01:02Z

Eventually, the violin plays scratchy musings, as consoling strings cushion the soloist with mysterious harmonies. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

It’s run by a no-nonsense Rastafarian who seems to have found a happy harmony between the black traditions of pre-existing residents in this part of London and the new influx of clean food-loving hipsters. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The score begins with a glacial chord progression in the strings—a typical Frey array of off-kilter tonal harmonies, suitable for a transitional passage in a lied by Schubert or Schumann. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Then, in June, Ms. Spears shattered any perception of harmony among the parties. Judge Frees Spears From Father’s Control 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

A vision of ecological harmony or of genetically engineered apocalypse? ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review: Extinction Rebellion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

The recipe for modern family entertainment also calls for a dollop of strained sentimentality, here provided by challenges, internal and external, to Sherman and Mr. Peabody’s domestic harmony. Movie Review: ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ Reboots the Time Machine 2014-03-06T13:00:01Z

But the backdrop and underground textures are alive with fitful figurations, rhythmic shards and thick-textured, pungent harmonies. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z

He knows about gospel and moving harmony and compositional pacing and lush loneliness. Playlist: Sonic Stylings Dusted Off or Stripped Bare 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

This month, we focus on Ornette Coleman, the iconoclastic saxophonist and bandleader whose style prioritized atonal chords over traditional rhythm and harmony, which helped establish the subgenre of free jazz in the late 1950s. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

In whole stretches, the orchestra almost hugs each word with some piercing harmony, or doubles a vocal line with instruments. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

An episode of crazed runs for both instruments leads to the concluding Allegretto, which sounds like a frenzied peasant wedding dance, meshed with stinging Modernist harmonies and fractured rhythms. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

No one has figured out how to bring these plot elements into harmony, and new book writer Strong is, alas, not an exception. Review | ‘Chess’ has the best cast of any musical this season. But the show itself has issues. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Even so, Mr. Frost said, there is an element of melancholy in the music that is hard to pin down, given its predominantly placid harmonies. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The production opens up a hollow void between throbbing bass tones and just enough single notes to sketch the rhythm and harmony; Thorn’s voice fills it with melancholy longing. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

He considered himself self-taught as an arranger, having studied only harmony in school. Frank Foster, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Dies at 82 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z

The English critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers once suggested western musical structures mirrored that civilisation's impulse to appropriate and conquer, while southern Africa's represented harmony with its surroundings. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z

Things that were beautiful were understood to be orderly, in harmony, balanced, proportionate to themselves and generally integrated into a world that was either man-made or served man’s purposes. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

There’s a rhythmic structuring to that; there’s counterpart, harmony, and dissonance. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

As he stands out of the spotlight, huffing away on a harmonica or adding harmonies, he looks as if he's having the time of his life. Robert Plant 2010-09-03T21:01:00Z

The final movement began with a cosmic burst of eerie colors, diffuse melodic strands and hazy harmonies. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z

The influence of fame, drugs and money had had a corrosive effect on fraternal harmony. Robin Gibb obituary 2012-05-20T22:54:00Z

"Music could soon start transmitting things like PDFs, movies, text files etc as part of the fabric of the harmony," says Herbert. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

You have to address the same issues of scale, selection, composition, proportion, and harmony when you’re making a graph as you do when you’re painting a picture. The Bump and the Hollow of Thomas Hart Benton 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

But the men don’t just communicate with words; they also grunt, snort and chortle, and at times the wordless exclamations form their own harmony. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

It seems that the sparrow, the moon, the milky sky and "all that famous harmony of leaves", placed in such knowing juxtaposition, have overwhelmed human experience. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z

The program closed with Poulenc’s lovely Sinfonietta, from 1947, a work that glories in slightly off-kilter harmonies and rhythms and, near the end, threatens a complete breakdown, but just for an exhilarating moment. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Opens Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

But his voice, marked by sensuously handled harmony and color, was his own. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z

Scored for string instruments alone, sometimes played percussively, the 20-minute symphony shows heavy Turkish and Balkan influences, with bent tones, pungent harmonies and syncopated rhythms. Review: Fazil Say, Soloist, Composer and Even Conductor With Orpheus 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

A: Kurt just said to me, “I don’t think you realize how good a singer Dave is, but I hear him singing harmonies every night.” Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg waited 25 years to write his Kurt Cobain book. Here’s the Kurt he knew. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The music, drawing from several African traditions, is generic and lulling, but the moments when the drumming grows intense or voices open up in simple harmonies are the best moments in the show. Dance Review: ‘The Legend of Yauna’ Puts Its Hero Through Trials 2014-02-23T23:04:25Z

Ms. Saariaho’s music is rich with sustained sonorities, shimmering harmonies and slides. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

There’s no time to spare in our quest to garden in harmony with nature. Rewilding: Garden in harmony with nature 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Frequently clumsy and tirelessly self-indulgent, the work's most powerful evocation of its title consists not in a revelation of some cosmic harmony, but in its apparent indifference to its listeners. Danish NSO/Thomas Dausgaard 2010-08-12T10:40:00Z

Then there’s his way of lacing harmonies together, giving a subtle emphasis to a single note within each chord. Orrin Evans Has Been Playing Jazz for Years. So Why Is He a Rising Star? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

And “End of Time” was the high point, a martial stomp with flamboyant drums, keening vocals and electrifying harmonies. Music Review: Closer to Her Fans and Further Away From Her Past 2011-08-15T22:00:35Z

But then you reach these moments -- for instance, there's a natural harmony between a man and a woman and a child, when they're all in the same space with one another. Ryan Gosling on the violence of femininity 2011-05-23T17:01:00Z

The two concepts achieved unprecedented harmony in the 18th century as new means of craftsmanship became available, making multifunctionality far more achievable and desirable, and resulting in heirlooms we continue to cherish today. Masterpiece Antiques Go on Display at Versailles 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

No. These boys are all about bruised melancholy, layered vocal harmonies, warm electronica and guitars that veer from delicate to psychedelic. Why we're watching: Half Moon Run 2013-06-09T07:07:01Z

It “represents love,” he says, “represents the family, represents unity, represents beauty, peace and harmony, represents continuity, represents togetherness. All the good things.” Kevin Locke, Who Worked to Preserve Lakota Culture, Dies at 68 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Webb Sisters are still on board with soulful harmonies behind Cohen, but their presence is nowhere near as present as on his 2009 tour. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z

The two went on to use social media and community platforms to curate a picture of harmony, vitality and bliss. ‘Broken Harts’ Review: Examining a Family Tragedy 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, it delivers bright fruit that rings clear as a tuning fork, but not just a single note — as it slowly fades toward its finish, the harmony or a major chord echoes on the palate. This $15 red from Cotes du Rhone is the best value for this week’s patio (or stoop) sipping 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Bring open-minded attention to the results, and you get something like Confucian harmony in action. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

Noteworthy’s contribution to the scene: not just harmonies are important; put on a show. | Singing: A Cappellooza 2011-01-09T05:00:05Z

It was both entertaining ditty and allegory for something as profound as peace and harmony. Pure joy in toe shoes: Tiler Peck and the radiant dancing of 'BalletNow' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Many of the more than a dozen short dances were lovely, some were whimsical, and a feeling of lightness and harmony was evident throughout. ‘Body/Soul’ and heart, in dances of the many shades of love 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

No one would think the music of Bach lacking in feeling, even though it is just as obsessed with harmony and order as the paintings of Poussin. A passion for Nicolas Poussin 2011-02-14T16:09:31Z

“We found that there was not a lot of harmony between the different courses,” Ellis said. What Michelin gets wrong about D.C.’s dining scene — starting with Rasika 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Specifically, they sing their own phonetic sounds, and can be combined to make harmonies and tunes. The 50 best apps for children 2012-08-04T16:24:08Z

Case trilled the high notes on “Hold On, Hold On” while Hogan’s harmony slid underneath. Neko Case, Mavis Staples captivating at Hideout 2013-09-07T05:25:00Z

The addition of Ward's voice on "Baby" creates a beautiful harmony with Deschanel's tone, and an electric guitar riff adds a rock `n' roll spin to the record. Music Review: She & Him win again with 'Volume 3' 2013-05-09T17:15:15Z

The personal and public motives operate in harmony. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Drake played commandingly, including a piano solo depicting the consummation of this impulsive love — fitful music of hurtling chords and steely harmonies. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Between the traditional village architecture, and the scenes of women arranging flowers and a man painting a traditional English postbox, it’s a peaceful scene of a community in harmony. “Burn the witch”: With Radiohead’s eerie return, they’ve lost none of their strange magic 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The question “Kochland” raises is whether this “harmony of interest” results in a place where anyone without a few billion to spare would actually want to live. ‘Kochland’ Measures the Reach of a Politically Influential Corporate Giant 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

His first band, the Slightlys, played a couple of local shows with the Warped Tour; he and his sister had also spent years singing in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus — “harmony school,” Finneas called it. Finneas, a Pop Star’s Secret Weapon, Strides Into the Spotlight 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Levko Revutsky, another composer with the society, fused traditional melodies with innovations in craft — such as in his Second Symphony, from 1927, which sets folk songs into dialogue with sweeping, impressionistic harmonies. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

But I was more struck by the unusual clarity of the textures, the careful voicing of chords to highlight pungent harmonies. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Almost 200 years ago Thomas Jefferson produced a stripped-down gospel harmony styled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Religion is not really about ethics 2011-04-08T17:15:52Z

It’s squarely tonal music, not post-Schoenberg in the sense of avoiding functional harmony. | Brad Mehldau: Pianists, Yes, but a Jazz Singer and Deep Metal, Too 2011-02-25T19:44:54Z

George Gershwin never realised his ambition of studying harmony with Maurice Ravel. RLPO/Wilson – review 2013-04-08T16:27:14Z

The close harmony between the three in both trios is nonpareil. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

He’s not a powerful singer — so many times on this album, his vocals are thickened, bolstered with harmonies, and so on. Pharrell Williams Takes a Stand on Cheery Musical Ground 2014-02-26T18:08:14Z

It's an album of dreamy, psychedelic pop: Byrdsy harmonies, Fleet Foxes-type haziness and a hushed transcendence reminiscent of the Stone Roses' gentler moments. The Phoenix Foundation: Buffalo ? review 2011-01-06T23:40:00Z

The suggestion that women ought to emphasize harmony and unity over debate is a departure from Sandberg’s view of healthy corporate culture. This is how “Lean In” feminism evolves: By smashing that “special place in Hell” that keeps us silent 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

Its nickname refers to the opening violin melody, which soars above the sustained harmonies of the other strings. Music Review: Swirling Tensions, Surging Passions 2011-04-22T21:55:45Z

Jagger and Richards, in harmony on stage, discordant off stage, are more typical of rock partnerships than Bono and Edge. U2 and Apple Are Working On A New Digital Music Format 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Their music was the frame for the two dancers, whose harmony, in character and movement, achieved a riveting  wholeness. Dance Review: Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2014-05-04T19:26:22Z

Abetted by Evans, Pearl Jam lets its songs billow outward with neo-psychedelic richness: clouds of vocal harmony or guitar tones, subtle bulwarks of keyboard, impulsive instrumental passages, playgrounds of percussion. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin guided the positioning and form of the building, whose design invokes a sense of harmony between the man-made and the natural worlds. Restoring the Gardens at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mvula’s own musical instincts persist, with jagged, leaping melodic lines cantilevered over the beat, not-quite-dissonant counterpoint and unexpected blooms of vocal harmony. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

“I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.” Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

He also saw a family whose members looked deeply different from one another, but lived in harmony — without ever talking about how race affects their lives. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

The Messiaen unfolded in shifting musical episodes with blocks of thick harmonies; modal strands of overlapping plainchant; chorales spiked with dissonance yet awesomely angelic. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z

"Maybe the very best thing you can do for your marriage is believe that harmony in that partnership is not only possible, but easy to achieve." Virginia couple married for 30 years claim they've never argued 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

But the harmony in this system of 12 semitones is extremely coarse and disagreeable. Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010-06-29T12:03:00Z

There is the worst kind of economic exploitation going on around these industries that supposedly represent the people who are the most liberated and in harmony between what they do and how they survive. Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

The lament of a Confederate soldier standing in the ruins of the starving American South, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is made to sing around the campfire, high-lonesome harmonies and all. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

I think when I was writing some of these were songs I knew wouldn’t fit in with the band because they have a Teenage Fanclub harmony or they sound like Big Star. Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard on Striking Out on His Own 2012-10-16T12:00:54Z

Now and then Menotti digs down and comes up with pungent, colorfully orchestrated harmonies. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

Yet these tense sections often melt into something entirely different — modal, folksy melodies, refracted through lightly dissonant harmonies, for example, or unabashedly shimmering Romanticism. Music Review: Capturing Shifts Between Ecstasy and Anguish 2011-01-18T23:32:38Z

The music flies by in one joyous arc, with the linear melody and vertical harmony blurring into a single web of gossamer beauty. Review: Chris Thile Is the God of Small Sounds 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

On the surface the music is brash and brassy; the fractured rhythms and pointed harmonies rattle you. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z

Morello’s guitar solo brought home a scarifying “Ghost of Tom Joad” and Vedder’s harmony vocals accented the desperation just below the surface of a chilling “Atlantic City.” Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z

This new memorial is in harmony with that hope, and it focuses attention not just on sacrifice, but also on a far deeper and more essential question: What were these men and women fighting for? Review | New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Magnusson writes: “I know many people who can sit in a messy home and look as if they are happy and in harmony. To me they seem almost comical. I don’t understand them.” Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

He yearns to make sense of how “the laws of reason and the laws of magic . . . reached an easy harmony” in contemporary India. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

There is a beautiful harmony there between art, history and nature. | Matteo Corvino 2012-08-29T11:56:52Z

“It gets difficult to tell, with duo things like that, which is really the melody and which is really the harmony sometimes,” Ippolito says. At home with her memory 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

These harmonies do more than sweeten a melody. The Rough Harmonies of Sharon Van Etten 2012-02-05T04:55:45Z

Her paintings have an almost musical quality about them, in the way that they experiment with extremes of dissonance and harmony. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Yet while the music is sparse — just vocals, mostly Ms. Case a cappella — it’s also nearly free-form, with ghost-choir harmonies arriving at unexpected moments. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z

The ridiculous and the sublime exist in perfect harmony in “The Drag Seed,” David Cerda’s homage to the seminal 1956 film “The Bad Seed,” which turned an adorable Patty McCormack into a horror icon. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The harmonies of the opening measures of the first movement, startling to 18th-century ears, offended some listeners and critics. Music Review: All Mozart, by Emerson Quartet in Mostly Mozart 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z

But I don’t have the high tenor voice and we don’t have three-part harmony or consistent banjo. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

As the group began seasoning its country-blues-rock 'n' rollstew with soulful harmonies and R&B grooves, it left behind its more one-dimensional leader, who remained a devotee of Sun Records-style rockabilly. Levon Helm, drummer and singer for the Band, dies of cancer 2012-04-19T19:39:00Z

The music is a haunting combination of modernist harmonies, jazzy bursts and actual quotations of melancholic dances by the 17th-century English composer Matthew Locke. Music Review: A Musical Discourse On War and Cities 2011-03-20T22:08:36Z

And there is nothing quite like the feeling of hitting that high note or nailing the harmony perfectly. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parent wonders when to let young son roam 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

In everyday language, being “virtuous” can mean being uptight, in a juice-cleansing kind of way, but learning to be good is ultimately about being more in harmony with yourself. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

The apocalypse had come, but youths in all hues of literal and figurative rainbows were bravely persisting, in magical four-part harmony: After the Election, a ‘Whole Foods Democrat’ Returns to Church 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, they use their voices like percussion instruments, and create intricate patterns with their harmonies. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z

There are bitter, modernist harmonies as midnight strikes and hopes are dashed, and at times this was as chilling as it was enchanting. Philharmonia/Temirkanov 2010-07-01T21:30:00Z

While it’s sometimes advisable and necessary to push back against them, most of these contracts provide a valuable framework for day-to-day harmony. Why online "Kitchen Nightmares"-style restaurant drama is so engrossing 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Without a drumbeat — just guitars, bass, keyboards and stacked vocal harmonies that look back to the Beach Boys — Barrie pushes away unwanted advances with far more sweetness than they deserve. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

On purely musical grounds — the foundation of melodies, harmonies and lyrics — Beatles songs have thrived through half a century of remakes. Critic’s Notebook: CBS’s ‘Grammy Salute’ Belongs to McCartney and Starr 2014-02-10T10:19:55Z

But it also progresses toward solace, grounding its closing songs in steadfast melodies and consoling harmonies. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

In harmony with your years, and your desires. Nathalie Baye: 'Happiness is doing a job you love' 2011-08-04T21:20:01Z

“But his clothes were in constant harmony, perfectly well fit and classic, polished, nothing ever too loud or crazy.” The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

But in telling the story of Sherie, Ms. Scott embellishes, overstates, understates, bends and weaves the complexities and inconsistencies of one life into the whole-making harmonies of a musical fable. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z

Atmospheric synths, warm electronic production, skyscraping chorus hooks, and keening lead vocals and harmonies abound, led by the stunning "Rivers of Mercy" and the turbulent title track. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Corgan’s keyboard colors are especially vital to setting the album’s tone, as are his incorporation of vocal harmonies, featuring bassist Fiorentino.  Album review: Smashing Pumpkins, 'Oceania' 2012-06-18T14:57:00Z

I’m not comfortable taking a Darwinian approach to settling this matter, but I don’t see these parents creating a teachable moment for their children so then harmony with the Earth will reign, either. Carolyn Hax: Fight over neighborhood green space

The songs, which sneak Beach Boys harmonies into anodyne pop arrangements, all sound the same, despite being composed by a variety of writers. Television Review: ‘Teen Beach Movie’ Goes Back to the Future 2013-07-18T21:44:52Z

All those famous and beloved Full House catchphrases also made a return to TV, and the icing on the cake: the cast sang the theme song in harmony! Guess Who Plays Michelle in This 'Fuller House' Reunion Sketch 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Family is the high note in Sexton’s story, but gentrifying San Francisco provides bittersweet harmony. A Mom Plans. Her Daughters Do Their Own Things, as Daughters Do. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

This is jazz with bop, blues and gospel elements, oriented around standards and common-practice harmony, casual but wide awake. Playlist : New CDs: Jesse Davis, Cyrus Chestnut, Bobby Womack 2012-06-10T04:23:03Z

Green is a harmonically sophisticated performer who creatively strays in and out of a harmony without disrupting the flow, and Clarvis and Laurence are a delight to witness. This week's new live music 2012-12-01T00:05:58Z

Feldman’s slow-moving, whisper-soft chords; ambient surfaces; and eerie harmonies can certainly be rewarding in the much smaller doses of his shorter pieces. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z

The arrangements of these songs, with their jazzy harmonies and splashy riffs, set the mood perfectly for Ravel’s “Miroirs,” a French Impressionist masterpiece given a scintillating yet sensitive performance here. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Midway through Dark Star, a brassy, spiralling march that wouldn't sound out of place on the Drive soundtrack, an unexpected choral effect summons harmonies out of thin air. Poliça – review 2012-11-06T15:17:42Z

Those harmonies are present from the start — and how! — in the Apollo’s Fire version, which turns the piece into something of a production number, though an entertaining one. Complex Pleasures Rooted in Love, Delight and Song 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

He adored music and considered it the embodiment of the social harmony he advocated. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

Each Dreher volume arrives upholstered with a subtitle — “Benedict’s” is “A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation” — but they all boil down to “Rod’s search for existential meaning and harmony.” Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Schubert, No. 38 alphabetically, grabbed attention in an understated way, with a subtlety rare here, swaddling the theme in luxurious colors and harmonies. Review: Diabolical Diabelli at Rutgers, With New Variations 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

He literally wrote the book on harmony, a textbook still in use today. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

It rose quietly and carefully in four-square rhythm, constructing staggered, shifting layers of patterned harmony among guitars over Mr. Fox’s flow of powerful, swinging improvising over steady time. Review: Glenn Branca’s Symphonies Resound With the Power of the Here and Now 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

He’s one of the rare jazz composers who can load up a piece with rich harmony and real rhythmic pleasure, without feeling the need to tie things up neatly or deliver a clean payoff. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Messiaen experienced a type of synesthesia, sensing colors when he heard particular harmonies or sounds. At Mostly Mozart, a Menagerie of Bird-Related Works 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

Sure, the titanic 82-year-old composer, arranger and pianist writes unorthodox, complicated stuff, but her melodies and harmonies are rich, consonant and exquisite. Jazz legend Carla Bley delivers a night of beauty and magic at the Atlas 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Sometimes they contain great wasted promise: the guitar break in the bewitching “Savage Night at the Opera” really builds until the last bar, when it goes awry and loses track of harmony. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z

She excelled in the beautiful “Ballad of the King of Thule,” with its Renaissance-tinged modal harmonies. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z

The close harmony singers were visibly emotional as they thanked their families and fans for their support over the years. Backstreet Boys get Hollywood star ahead of world tour 2013-04-23T01:35:21Z

So it seems right, somehow, that Mr. Fuchs in time achieved a deeper harmony with the American Indian flutist R. Carlos Nakai. A Blacksmith?s Touch Makes Music Light 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

The sense of harmony is connected to a sense of courtesy. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Following the Dancers From Room to Room 2010-12-02T12:30:00Z

They hold your ear and eye as they create harmony and connection. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

He also layers his vocals into cascading, convoluted harmonies and brings in glimmers of lush string ensembles and subtle funk. Moses Sumney Does Not Sing Love Songs 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, the goofy, awkward optimism of the “Star Trek” franchise suggested, Aim forward into a future of cooperation and harmony. “Star Trek” in the age of Trump: Why we need to embrace its 50-year mission now more than ever 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

AM 'I'm definitely more of a throwback to melodies and harmonies … I'm an old soul, I suppose.' UK dance music is back – and this time it's going pop 2013-06-20T17:20:06Z

In the viciousness of the violence, this small village's traditional social structure and relative harmony is destroyed to a point where all sense of humanity is lost. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

It's a two-part time travel tale about social injustice in the past, and harmony in the future. Download this: "John DeLorean" by Seattle's Blue Scholars 2011-04-20T17:34:06Z

Soprano Lisa Perry, tenor Michael Dodge and baritone Andrew Sauvageau gave voice to the artist’s observations, sometimes in unison, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in solo moments. A ‘Van Gogh’ opera without the video 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

The record was a moderate success upon its release, but it has since been heralded as a weirdo classic, beloved by stoners and record geeks for its easy harmonies and pleasantly meandering melodies. David Crosby Celebrates His Ornery Self in the Documentary “Remember My Name” 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

If an expediter panics and breaks down, so does that harmony. The Quarterback of the Kitchen? It’s Not Always the Chef 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The Elements intone chantlike harmonies, and in the most inspired moments, the male quartet performs complex, pungent passages, with crisscrossing strands of dense yet lucid counterpoint. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

But even as its purveyors dismantle melody, harmony, meter and all the other stabilizing parameters of traditionally conceived music, noise also can inspire a powerful, visceral and unmistakably human resonance. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

This astonishing piece sounds like a prolonged, subdued mass of thick harmonies, just a few oscillating chords that keep shifting, overlapping and bleeding together. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z

When he spread out the arrangements across his large backing band on “Work Song,” the mix of spare, wide-open handclaps and precise vocal harmonies did the concert's sacred setting justice. Hozier takes a worshipful L.A. to an actual church 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

For an afternoon, the harmony of nature was not just an expression, but an experience, for players and listeners alike. Musicians harmonize with nature for outdoor audiences — including snakes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Individualism also asserted itself in the voicing of Ives’s unusual harmonies, where the inner parts asserted themselves in unexpected and revealing ways. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

To resolve this disruption to her otherwise perfect life, she hops in her pink Corvette and belts along to a track filled with strummed acoustic guitars and close harmonies. How the Indigo Girls Brought Barbie ‘Closer to Fine’ 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Luxuriant contemplation reigns; there is little plot, but passion surges in the restraint, with tastes of medieval harmonies and North African rhythms. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

Its glossy harmonies and sturdy musicianship certainly translate stateside, as well. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

He used to say that what he didn’t like about flowers was that they weren’t in harmony with the leaves — he wasn’t an Impressionist, in the sense that we use the word.” Art Review: John Singer Sargent, a Realist Who Tried Another Style 2010-12-01T07:45:00Z