| 单词 | idiom |
| 例句 | “But Response was good,” Chacko prompted, trying to speak in the same idiom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Forget it,” he said, but I knew his quick answer, if anything, was just an American convention, an easy idiom. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The idioms, the figures of speech that make language rich and full of the poetry of place and time must go. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The idiom brings to mind the menacing gape of a predator, reinforcing our gratitude for being alive: to come into existence we narrowly escaped a mortal threat, namely the high odds against it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This was the first time in almost seven years that Zooey had, in the ready-made dramatic idiom, “set foot” in Seymour’s and Buddy’s old room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z In the first part of the 1986 article, Joseph H. Greenberg, a linguist at Stanford, proclaimed that the profusion of idioms was more apparent than real. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Dasch was a real talker, enjoying the sound of his voice and peppering his conversations with American slang and idioms, such as "scram" and "sight for sore eyes." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And her English was a mishmash of mixed-up idioms and sayings that showed she was "green behind the ears," as she called it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She was drawing up idioms in the list, visions of me in the whitest raw light, instant snapshots of the difficult truths native to our time together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The idioms for revenge are “report a crime” and “report to five families.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was mastering Creole “like a rat,” in the Haitian idiom, and he stopped to talk to peasants whenever he could, soaking up information. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z By then we had been joined by Francis’ close friend, the logician George Kreisel, whose unwashed appearance and idiom did not fit into my picture of the English philosopher. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Though there are similarities in their idioms, particularly when it came to sacred music, they chose quite different career paths, which inevitably transformed their styles. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As it becomes a public expression, the ghetto idiom loses its sound—its message of public separateness and strident intimacy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We will learn every lesson of accent and idiom, we will dismantle every last pretense and practice you hold, noble as well as ruinous. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They seize upon the idioms of the black ghetto. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was true that idioms and nuances and dialects often eluded him in Igbo, but the directorate was always too prompt in sending interpreters. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "Oh, some one took her home. Not a bad-looking girl. Wonderful command of the idiom. Do stay and have a drink." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Countless idioms, word senses, and grammatical constructions have been coined and circulated by the universe of English speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z NOTE.—This suffix, except when signifying an idiom, is found only in words of Greek origin. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an idiomatic piece of the language. That means—” “I know what an idiom is,” Wilem interrupted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He is credited with deftly combining these folk idioms with European craftsmanship in his piano works, which abound in Lisztian difficulties but also anticipate ragtime and stride. Classical Playlist: Bach, Biber, Gottschalk and More 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z And yet the central subject is ballet classicism, or rather simply dancing, and, less simply, the way that classical ballet can absorb other idioms. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z The shoes proclaim power but also an eagerness to demonstrate fluency in a specific idiom of youth culture. The Normcore Opulence of Preachers Wearing Four-Figure Sneakers 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The next 15 years were ones of slow maturing, revealed in a trying-out of various idioms that to the world must have seemed oddly tentative. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z I spent a lot of time listing his idioms and fretting over exactly which concepts he would understand, but it wasn’t hard, just painstaking. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Emma Donoghue 2011-02-04T16:42:55Z The suite’s evocation of black American musical idioms delighted audiences. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Pei worked within an idiom that produced some impressive buildings, admirable spaces, clean, functional forms that got the job done. Perspective | The best way to honor I.M. Pei? Spend some time at the National Gallery of Art. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Lauper isn't a natural in this idiom, but she chose her material with care and affection. Cyndi Lauper will be singing the blues at Woodland Park Zoo 2010-08-31T20:58:00Z The stretch leather jeans, the hand-stained suede jackets, the shearlings and motorbike jackets fell well within the design idiom on which Mr. Varvatos has built a successful career and thriving business. A Look at Noteworthy Milan Men’s Collections 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And if you like rap, the dominant idiom of popular song in this century, these Grammys are still not for you. Perspective | You’ll never guess who leads this year’s Grammy noms! (Just kidding, it’s Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.) 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Coming events include an exploration of Carnatic music, the idiom of southern India, on Tuesday, March 29, and, on April 13, a lineup mixing Cuban rhythms with raga melodies. A Raga Renaissance Flowers in Brooklyn 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z By the end of Moonlight, everyday idioms – "That's no skin off my nose" – no longer seem innocuous. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z Blake’s jazz songs and fast syncopation “altered the form” of the early American musical, Wolfe explained, as it introduced African American idioms to Broadway. George C. Wolfe: A theater man on a mission to do a forgotten show justice 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Assayas’s ear for the idioms and the music of the time is impressive, as is his eye for the telling detail. Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air,’ directed by Olivier Assayas 2013-05-02T23:51:05Z When we identify talent, we say that we’ve found “the real deal,” a flimsy idiom for a solid belief—that, although talent as an entity may be undefinable, it’s still provable. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The idioms varied from solos to group numbers, from comic absurdity to nature sketches, from studies in spatial complexity to sustained close-contact male-female duets. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z “No living Southern writer captures the spoken idioms of the South as artfully as Portis does,” Mississippi native Donna Tartt wrote in an afterword for a 2005 reissue of the novel. ‘True Grit’ novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Philip Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the naked human body for painting, and who found a persuasive modern idiom for the portrait genre, died on Saturday morning in Manhattan. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z He prefers to translate the tale, which originates in a novel by Michael Morpurgo, into a fully cinematic idiom. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z Did they appreciate how a country girl mastered the Pablum pop idiom of the early 1950s and set it gently aflame? Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z Sometimes he sinks into the kind of syncopated six-beat groove that he and Jones had made into an idiom of its own with the Coltrane quartet. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z He worked mainly in timber in a finely detailed, unmistakably English idiom. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z Zhou, who used to work as a photographer for the state-run Xinhua News Agency, described the Chinese documentary scene as "a hundred flowers bloom," using a Chinese idiom. China documentary directors say they enjoy freedom 2011-07-02T13:16:05Z But the idiom of wartime is food: cannon fodder, carnage, slaughterhouse. Books of The Times: Culinary Comfort in a Tumultuous Middle East 2011-02-06T18:07:19Z The other night it was impossible not to look with pity on its players, who, having devoted their careers to mastering the classical idioms of European music, were reduced to performing this. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z There are entertainers, who introduce idioms exotic, acrobatic and comic. She Rotates, She Floats, She Glides on Her Toes 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Waarts, playing commandingly from memory, balanced passages that evolve in the halting dance idiom of the chaconne with rhapsodic stretches that in this gripping account seemed somberly ruminative. Stephen Waarts Debuts at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z But inasmuch as Mr. Mitchell’s images conjure fantasy, they’re an update of fashion imagery’s prevailing one, based on an idiom of thin white bodies. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z In order to lash us to his own sickness-induced metaphors, he writes in as demotic an American idiom as possible: “like” as a filler, “w/r/t.” David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z In 1914, when the war began, classical music was a far more popular idiom than it is today. Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z He knew that it would take time for his readers to become accustomed to the new idiom: at first, the novel would leave them feeling frayed and disoriented. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Whether its subject is kids from New Jersey, adolescent mothers or commercial fisherman, reality TV has discovered new faces, new idioms, new modes of being. Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z But general audiences have never taken his idiom to heart. Another Tale, or Two, Of That Operatic Figaro 2011-06-03T18:19:59Z He was painting synagogues, Christmas trees and brides in an idiom that drew on Soutine, Rouault, Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet, but that still seemed entirely original. Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Especially one treated as sacred tribal idiom by so many. Hello, Paris Fashion! Couture Returns With Pieter Mulier’s Alaïa Debut 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z One of the joys of this exhibition is watching the artist convert his awkward, blockish manner of drawing into a supple, expansive and vibrant idiom that works a lot like his handling of color. Review | Vincent van Gogh’s early work was mediocre. This exhibition shows how he became great. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Russell delved into various idioms over the next decades, mostly recording for independent labels. Leon Russell, Hit Maker and Musicians’ Musician, Dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Their degree of difficulty surely has something to do with his inexperience in the idiom. Music Review: The Joel Harrison 19, a Big Band, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2013-07-17T20:24:01Z “Lean in” is the idiom of the moment for headline writers, the Twitterati and New Yorker cartoonists. Noted: Making a Word Meme 2013-05-17T21:36:38Z Martin Taylor performs his own suite of pieces devoted to the idiom and to French culture – with the help of the Spirit Of Django ensemble, and an orchestra under Guy Barker. This week's new live music 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z It is not an exaggeration to say that satire is the political idiom of many voters in the U.S., especially young ones. Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Emily Wilson’s landmark translation of the “Odyssey” matches the original’s line count while drawing on a spare, simple and direct idiom. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Likewise, a closing set by Mr. Threadgill and his current sextet, Zooid, eradicated boundaries among musical idioms. Music Review: Roulette Opens in Brooklyn With Camilla Hoitenga - Review 2011-09-16T23:40:28Z At any rate, this poised and delicate account showed Blumine's freshness and charm as part of an overall reading with an absolute identification with the material, demonstrating Jurowski's flair for Mahler's ultra-complex idiom. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z His omnivorous 14-member band handled a profusion of instruments — button accordion, oboe, Brazilian cuica — and a remarkable spectrum of idioms and fusions. For Paul Simon and Joan Baez, Farewells Reckon With Past and Present 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z But she is a very polished entertainer who approaches the blues idiom with respect. Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z Showcase founder Joe Segal long ago made his club a temple for bop, and though the institution presents a range of musical idioms, Segal to this day calls bebop "the music of the future." Saxophonist Donald Harrison goes back to bop 2011-01-21T15:36:28Z It’s a version that has been widely praised for its lyricism and use of contemporary idiom, made even more vibrant here through the voice of Danes. New & Noteworthy 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Chávez wove the tunes of folk songs like “La Cucaracha” through a modernist idiom in a work for solo piano, and altered a traditional song chromatically in his Sonatina for Violin and Piano. Review: Bard Festival Salutes Carlos Chávez 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Well, grownups should be able to count to two, a fine French idiom insists, and this is a case in which counting to two is essential. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Unlike those choreographers, who initially rejected dance technique, Ms. Meehan insisted that highly trained dancers execute her own nonballetic idiom with refined precision. Nancy Meehan, a Dance Choreographer, Dies at 85 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Philips isn't uniformly successful at inhabiting these different idioms, but the best of his music is strikingly effective, and Richard Marlow and his Trinity College Choir respond impressively in those highlights. Philips: Cantiones Sacrae 1612 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z Another of Poirot's trademarks is his occasional struggle to find the correct English word or idiom. Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z She may be the first New York-based painter to have fully transformed Hans Hofmann's thinking, a generation after the fabled teacher's death, into an inescapably American idiom. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Fermi, who loved American idioms, called his creation a “pile.” A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z He sorts through idioms and contractions, and impresses a dinner companion from Hong Kong by sucking “the dimpled skin off a chicken’s foot, leaving only the twiggy bones.” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ couldn’t come at a better time 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s never bad to hear De Niro’s voice, or Burt Lancaster’s, though you also might miss the music of Italian in its various idioms. A Five-Hour Crash Course in Italian History That’s Also Great Filmmaking 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z He turns bureaucratic procedure into a kind of poetry, and finds both comedy and profundity in the banal idioms of governance. 10 Great Movies at the New York Film Festival You Can (Mostly) See Online 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Two songs by Michael Nyman, composed for the score of a 1995 film, put these ancient instruments into a pleasing pop-ballad idiom, contrasted with a more operatic idiom in arrangements of Handel arias. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: Max Jones Files/Redferns There were no Guggenheim fellowships or MacArthur awards for the musicians of the immediate post-war era, a time when their idiom was arguably at its most vital and inventive. The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild – review 2012-06-01T21:52:01Z It also speaks with a fearless directness that bypasses musical tradition and becomes its own idiom. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z A scientist is part of what the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck called a “thought collective”: a group of people exchanging ideas in a mutually comprehensible idiom. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “He saw himself as an extension of great artists of the past, using their compositional techniques, idioms, instruments and aesthetics — and his love of Beethoven and Romantic-era composers,” Gregory Walker said. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s baffling to see how Mr. Neenan switches between musical idioms and situations, and yet his stage world grows and deepens. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Though it was mostly pure dance, with each couple moving in a different ballroom idiom, you responded to the dancers as characters and to their situations as drama. Dance: Sinatra, Focused on Sex and Sizzle 2010-03-26T23:19:00Z Beyond Mullah Nasruddeen stories, mullah idioms are merciless and plentiful in Iran. He’s as one-sided as a mullah’s coin hardly needs translation, though I did change it a bit. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z There are obvious features in which Mr. Gordon’s dance vocabulary borrows from ballet, and yet his idiom is largely elaborate pedestrianism. Dance Review: David Gordon?s ?Dancing Henry Five? - Review 2011-10-08T00:39:12Z It’s both flashy — clearing the copyrights took around nine months and $50,000 — and purposeful, speaking in the idiom of the youthful, culturally omnivorous listeners around which Tenderfoot hopes to build a new-media powerhouse. A U.F.O. Podcast Zooms Past the Competition 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z As an idiom and an approach, Afrofuturism is restricted neither to Africans, Americans nor African-Americans. ‘Space Is the Place’ Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Niebuhr's theological idiom is part of his appeal to the American political class, part of what enables him to challenge some of the enduring conceits of American imperialism. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z Rival warlords aligned to block Wu's ascendancy and, the narration adds in a switch to pulp-magazine idiom, "All hell was about to break loose." 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z Nowhere is this more interestingly done than in Alt Lit, a movement that adopts the idiom of chatroom speak while supporting a community of writers. Looking for a great self-published book? Here's where to find it 2012-11-19T13:09:17Z The Cunningham of that era often seemed to be conducting a private dialogue with the two choreographers who influenced him most, and from whose idioms he departed most strongly: Martha Graham and George Balanchine. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The vocabulary and idiom were exactly those attributed to Isadora Duncan: running, skipping, twirling, with dramatic gestures. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival Dots Lower Manhattan 2013-08-13T21:41:40Z The letter is no more than a string of charming idioms translated clumsily and verbatim, one after another, with no explanation or context. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z Only he "speaks" this idiom; only stand-up comedians imitate it. Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z The Adagio Molto begins with a few eerie, harmonically unstable measures, in keeping with the chromatic idiom often used in Baroque sacred music to represent Jesus’ suffering. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z As a writer, she possesses an enviable ear for the profane, polyphonic music of New York speech in its various idioms. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Groups make their own idioms, and one of the pleasures of “The Year She Left Us” is the exuberance of the Whackadoodles’ expressions, like “Gotcha Day” and “forever families.”But there are forbidden words too. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Their brief stories are laced with magic realism, uncanny coincidences, metaphors taken literally and idioms come to life. Balancing sweet and tart, it's an 'Almost' happy holiday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z African-American dance idioms from shuffle and soft-shoe tap, exhilarating hip-hop and break dancing are quoted. Going green in black America at heart of Marc Bamuthi Joseph work 2012-05-31T23:32:14Z As the title denotes, “Poultrygeist” contains a lot of wordplay, which can require vocabulary and idiom explanations for young readers. Fright Lite 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Though each solo has its own movement idiom, all become artful studies in dynamics. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z But the real special effect was her music: her piano and voice in all their transformations, distilling classical, traditional and pop idioms down to their sorrow and rage, harnessing them to poets’ words. Review: Diamanda Galás Has Dark Moments and Gallows Humor 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The show’s dialogue is also rife with American idioms, and allusions to U.S. regionalism abound, as in one episode featuring a tribe of swamp-based water-benders who sound like they’ve been transplanted from the Deep South. ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Imagines a World Free of Whiteness 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Militants often framed their demands in the idiom of black male honor, which could be met only by recognition from white men and deference from black women. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Making use of amplification and electronic techniques, incorporating techniques of jazz and world music, Glass created an idiom reliant upon repetitive structures. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “It is a learned idiom. It’s like me singing in Italian. If I’d been doing that for 50 years, you wouldn’t ask me, ‘How do you feel about singing in Italian?’ The Rolling Stones Paint It Blue on Their New Album 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Nor are we quite so anxious to dismiss as "derivative" works that hone to perfection an idiom well established elsewhere. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z They mixed and matched musical idioms with conversational ease, from the reggae treatment of Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line” to the West African feel of the guitars in “Come to Me.” Concert review: Bonnie Raitt at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-20T06:10:00Z Since the interpreters are by necessity hearing, an interpretation left entirely in their hands might not contain the nuances and idioms of deaf culture. How sign-language interpreters convey the raw emotion of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z It was only around then, he said, that he felt confident enough to fuse his inheritance in spirituals and gospel with classical forms and idioms. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Occasionally the work’s modernist tropes, which peak with the use of a loudspeaker, are pierced by stylistic interjections: a fiddling folk song, Eastern idioms. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z It was more like a moment-by-moment fusion of dance idioms — from the pedestrian to the balletic — matched excitingly with Sinatra’s suave pop jazz. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Marx composed more than 100 songs in the early 20th century in an eclectic style that blended late Romantic and Impressionist idioms. Music Review: Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-11T22:22:47Z Dance in America today abounds in examples of inventive, ebullient African-American dance idioms — Memphis jookin and Detroit Jit are just two — but you won’t find the best aspects of this modernity in the Ailey repertory. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Its style is so commanding that it permeated the idiom of those for whom it was daily bread, and made churches resistant to the idea of new translation. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Here, to a Duke Ellington score, Ailey’s sheer professional skill is evident, with changes of idiom, striking stage spacing, marvelously textured coordination of upper and lower body. Dance Review: A Physical Choreography, Turning Women Into Targets 2010-12-16T23:06:06Z Mr. Crash’s unconventional operas blend spoken dialogue; meditative, surrealist scores; surrealist dramatic elements; and experimental vocal idioms. Classical & Opera Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Since recording “Lysandre,” Mr. Owens apparently hasn’t added any material of his own to his chosen period idiom. Music Review: Christopher Owens at the Bowery Ballroom 2013-01-22T22:15:24Z Though experts in authentic Spanish idioms might shudder, it’s good to see fresh evidence of the old Bolshoi ardor in national dances, much needed after the wretchedly etiolated versions in Yuri Grigorovich’s “Swan Lake.” Bolshoi Ballet Performs ‘Don Quixote’ With a Smile 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z On Tuesday night the “NOW: Premieres” program included no fewer than seven new creations: The idioms included flamenco, Memphis jookin, ballet and barefoot modern dance. Review: Vail International Dance Festival Celebrates Meter 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z At Café Carlyle, Molly Ringwald, whose 2013 debut album, “Except Sometimes,” is a collection of standards in a light pop-jazz idiom, sung with an ingenuous charm, plays her first New York cabaret engagement. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The film-maker tweeted back 12 times, boosting the performance of his one-man show, mimicking the Trumpian idiom and attacking the president in terms similar to those he used onstage. 'Not at all presidential': Trump swipe at Michael Moore provokes Twitter tirade 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Though prismatic, it feels carefully woven as it touches on gospel and jazz traditions as well as contemporary idioms. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z At one stroke, she freed herself from both narrative and musical constraints, moving toward the hybrid idiom that would become her signature. When Pina Bausch Made Tanz Into Tanztheater 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “Not because of the piece itself. It’s more because of musicians not being comfortable with the idioms.” With ‘Zodiac,’ Mary Lou Williams Spanned Classical and Jazz 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z It fluently covers a spectrum of dance idioms: jazz arm gestures, Cuban hip motion and the intricate petite batterie of ballet jumps are just three of the most unmistakable. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-07T22:26:02Z He has similarly provided inspiration for musicians working in idioms from jazz to improvisation to new music to rock. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z In light of Azalea’s ascent, Houston hero Scarface predicted that hip-hop would follow the arc of rock-and-roll, eventually transforming into a musical idiom performed predominantly by and for whites. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Maurice Arnold, another black student, showed Dvorak his attempt at writing an orchestral piece using black idioms. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z As a stylist, Ms. Tollman’s idiom leaned toward vintage styles and form-fitting silhouettes, a look derived from her tastes and appearance. Annabel Tollman: the Calm Amid Fashion’s Storm 2013-06-12T18:59:24Z There are thousands of idioms in English, and some of those become clichés. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Representing those trying new tools is the painter Julien Nguyen, who has a reputation for applying Renaissance methods to contemporary idioms. Computers and Painting’s Identity Crisis 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Every style idiom needs to adapt and change. The Making of Black Ivy Style 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Drawn from her childhood in Kentucky, this piece combines classical and bluegrass idioms more naturally than the work of her mentor, Mark O’Connor. Review | At the Phillips Collection, 2 young performers make for a dynamic combination 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Interestingly, while Brandt Brauer Frick choose to use tubas and bass clarinets, they are clearly working in an identifiable minimal techno idiom. Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z It’s everywhere these days—business jargon, marketing catch phrases, sports mantras, and the idioms of religion and self-help. Going All In on “All In” 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z "Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift / Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars, / Beading thy path – condense eternity: / And we have seen night lifted in thine arms". John Mullan's 10 of the best: bridges 2012-07-13T21:55:04Z The voyage into new idioms is one experienced by this ballerina and audience alike. Dance Review: Wendy Whelan Embraces Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-08-18T22:05:35Z Pictures, costumes and designs make us speculate on the idioms of lost ballets. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z His point was that, especially at such moments, imprecision and easy idiom in public language carry political stakes. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Middle Eastern and Indian idioms also flavored “Rhapsody on a Theme by Bach” by Mike Block, the group’s cellist. Music Review | Absolute Ensemble: New Look at Bach, 21st-Century Composer 2010-02-23T23:33:00Z The film argues that both folk and classical idioms were derived, over some 2,000 years, from tribal music and the celebration of nature and the cycles of life. Mani Kaul obituary 2011-07-14T17:33:24Z The theme of Sunday’s concert was folk stories and the folk idiom as reimagined by contemporary composers. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z Maegawa’s tribute to cooked eggs was inspired by her discovery of the term “sunny side up,” which the D.C. artist prefers to “fried eyeball,” the idiom in Japanese, her original language. Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Today, a handful of traditional Paris brasseries still serve good food, and with Mr. Frechon reimagining the idiom, these lively places look set for a comeback. Choice Tables: At Paris Brasseries, Cuisine to Match the Scene 2013-12-12T16:42:39Z Mr. Welser-Möst’s feel for Bruckner’s sound and idiom was evident in lucid balances, well-judged tempos and a keen sense of how to shape phrases naturally. Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z Not only did his work herald a new age of Christianity, one where the church's iron grip was significantly loosened, but without the simple idioms that litter his translation, modern English would be immeasurably poorer. TV highlights 06/06/2013 2013-06-06T06:00:02Z Deaf to the innovations of his newest opera, critics became obsessed with the “inauthenticity” of everything from the singers’ gestures and makeup to the alleged misuse of American verbal locutions and musical idioms. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z But Mr. Dodin elicits almost universally good work from his actors, whose comfort in the distinctive idiom of Chekhov easily transmits itself through the barrier of language. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z These pieces, too, benefited from Fung’s thoughtfulness and touchingly immediate way with phrasing, and he was fully inside the Russian composer’s idiom. Review | Subtle, understated, or simply muted? Pianist offers restrained beauty in WPA debut. 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z I modified many of the idioms in my novel this way, making them accessible to an English audience, and for the sake of my own enjoyment. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z This allowed him to play with Irish idiom, he said. You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Tesori’s score for “Blizzard,” which also folds in jazzy bits and Broadway idioms, is in some ways the opposite of Mr. Musto’s. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z Mr. Ratmansky’s production is a rare achievement, bringing a historic dance idiom to life. ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Royalist Ballet or Harmonious Ideal? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The intriguing score is a curious combination of brutal Russian folk idioms and Neo-Classical formalities. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z His music never settled into any idiom for long. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But most of the characters are trying to navigate culture, idioms and relationships to find a place or connection in the world. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Despite the contrast in musical idioms, each section flows naturally into the next. Ronald K. Brown Choreographs a Love Letter to Alvin Ailey 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z But when Copland’s music graced a CBS broadcast a half-century ago, it was in an entirely different idiom. Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The particulars of time, place and idiom may be lost on those unfamiliar with the regional idiosyncrasies of Mr. Kinevane’s home country. Theater Review | 'Forgotten': Conjuring Up Elders, With Their Secrets and Surprises Intact 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z Elements of the intensely emotional Italian opera idiom of the mid-19th century are juxtaposed with strands of lighter, wryly comic scenes common in French grand opera of the period. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z Her move to the U.S. didn't stem from a wholesale conversion to Western musical idiom. Pianist Margaret Leng Tan brings her musical 'sorcery' to Seattle 2011-05-18T23:17:12Z All families are their own countries, with their own idioms, rites and taboos. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The trumpet soloist sings a song with the orchestra rather than against it, and the allusions to previously existing musics are seamlessly connected with the idiom that Neuwirth's own music creates. A guide to Olga Neuwirth's music 2012-08-07T13:53:21Z McInerney writes an energetic, profane prose laced with the vibrant idiom of Cork street life. ‘The Glorious Heresies’: A nasty world of faith and vice in 21st-century Ireland 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z They used their feet and legs more vividly than any other modern dancers, and tilted their backs to an extent rare in any dance idiom. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z But it’s intensely theatrical, sometimes stepping over into conventional cuteness, elsewhere creating what has felt like a new idiom of movement drama. Dance Review: Pilobolus Puts 4 Decades of Dance on Display 2013-07-10T21:43:59Z “Cloud River Mountain” combines Chinese folk, pop and contemporary music idioms with Bang on a Can’s trademark elements of minimalism and other postmodern and avant-garde styles. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z These idioms are so engrained in my native language that we don’t even think about them. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z There are limits to every rewriting, of course, to how far a revision riffs on the idioms, ideas and forms of its influences. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Then Mr. Ferreri strikes up a conversation about the dance with young New Victory staff members and leads a brief dance class based in that episode’s idiom. The Vail All-Stars, San Francisco Dreaming and Black Lives Matter 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z It would be many years more before I realized the problem with my mother, with my whole family in fact, went much further than a misunderstanding of common idioms. Coming out as an artist: I tried to be normal, but my creative side couldn’t stay hidden 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The two works here, however, are relentlessly optimistic and unmistakably rooted in Czech folk idioms. Fibich: Symphony No 1; Impressions from the Countryside – review 2013-04-11T20:15:01Z A rehearsal pianist needs patience and precision; a class pianist relies more on observation, intuition and the ability to draw on a vast range of musical idioms. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z As its name implies, the student ensemble, directed by David Ludwig, specializes in contemporary music, so its mastery of Ms. Tower’s relatively conservative idiom was no surprise. Music Review: Joan Tower Is Showcased at Miller Theater 2014-04-20T20:29:13Z It can be much harder to recognize the boldness of a composer who adheres to a specific style and idiom. Critic's Notebook: Classical Music?s ?Genius? Grant Recipients Pause to Reflect 2011-10-03T15:54:59Z But those bookends are clues to both her defiant independence of spirit and her versatility within the pop idiom, and show precisely why she should be treasured. Robyn: Body Talk Pt 1 2010-06-11T00:15:00Z It's a path previously trodden by the Hold Steady, another 30-something bar band transplanted from the midwest to Brooklyn, trying to say grown-up things in a fundamentally puerile idiom. The National ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z In a very literal interpretation of the idiom “finding a needle in a haystack,” performance artist Sven Sacselber tries to do exact that. Performance Artist Searches for an Actual Needle in an Actual Haystack 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Many people are saying — to borrow another of his idioms — the words of Mr. Trump, whether or not we like him. What We Talk About When We Talk About and Exactly Like Trump 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Here, he invites a trio led by the pianist Marcus Roberts to help with improvisations and the swinging American idiom. What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The original language is packed with American metaphors and idioms that just don’t translate. Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Written in a late Romantic, chromatic idiom, Respighi’s sonata shows the influence of Brahms, Debussy and Franck; but the aimless piece lacks the cohesion and immediate appeal of his colorful tone poems. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Gar inhabits its idioms even before he goes. Brian Friel: trapped in silence 2012-08-10T21:55:09Z As a choreographer, however, she used her own more lyrical version of the Graham dance idiom. Kazuko Hirabayashi, Choreographer and Dancers’ Mentor, Dies at 82 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In the classical idiom the two sounds never quite meshed. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z Pam Tanowitz, a choreographer known for putting a postmodern spin on classical dance idioms and collaborating with composers and visual artists, is this year’s recipient of the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Cage Cunningham Fellowship. Baryshnikov Arts Center Prize Goes to Pam Tanowitz 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Expanding his horizons to incorporate musical idioms from Cuba, the Caribbean and South America, Gillespie could also lay claim to being one of the first and most important champions of so-called “world music.” Dizzy Gillespie: Remembering a Jazz Legend 2013-10-21T17:01:15Z In 1994 Ms. Dickens became the first woman to receive the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Merit Award for contributions to the idiom. Hazel Dickens, Folk Singer, Dies at 75 2011-04-23T01:56:56Z But the folklórico idiom, which often reverted to adorable waltzes and rumbas, is a poor one for conveying serious political content. Dance Review: A World Tour With San Francisco Ethnic Dance 2010-06-14T22:29:00Z We speak in the idioms of the Smiths and Morrissey, swapping lyrics like lovers’ letters or fighters’ fists. You Look Like a Morrissey Fan 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z As can easily happen when choice is demanded, the worst possible result is compromise that rinses out everything that might make either idiom compelling. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z A Times review of the Old Globe production concluded that the musical "retreats from the challenge of its own material and hasn't found a consistent focus, tone or musical idiom." George Takei boldly going to Broadway with 'Allegiance' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Hamblett effectively juggles the tonal potential of acoustic piano, electric keys and guitarist Munk's pedal effects, and like many accomplished graduates of the present era, the players effortlessly ease between time signatures and idioms. Dave Hamblett Group: Light At Night – review 2013-02-21T22:59:01Z But at crucial points a different musical idiom asserts itself. The Oscars: A. O. Scott on the Musical Movement of ?The Tree of Life? 2011-12-31T02:20:50Z Officers and non-coms alike share a common idiom which is varied and animated by the racial and cultural make-up of the army. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z He had bizarre, silly traditions and garbled American idioms with an exaggerated, mysterious accent. ’90s Sitcoms Shaped Me as an Immigrant Child. What if They Hadn’t? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z These three artists exemplify the qualities that have often made Odissi seem the most sensuously poetic of all dance idioms. Odissi Stars at a Dance Festival in Chennai, India 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z But Mr. Harris is a hip-hop artist, the most profound choreographer of that idiom. Review: Alvin Ailey Troupe Dances ‘Exodus’ at Koch Theater 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Saadiq has always bent time-tested pop idioms into supple, modern shapes. Raphael Saadiq Finally Put His Past on the Record 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The band – created by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago – is back with its next program, "Black Prism," the program encompassing jazz, classical and other idioms. Auctioning Chicago history: DJ Dick Buckley's collection 2011-02-14T14:51:00Z There is still a green thread of pastoralism, with Delius, Butterworth and Bax all represented, and Mr. Elder seems most comfortable in that idiom. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “Incoherent, rambling, unintelligible, folksy idioms — she’s not speaking at a political event,” Stewart stated. Jon Stewart mocks Sarah Palin’s “rambling” and “incoherent” Iowa Freedom Summit speech 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The problem, he says, was one of authority; he hadn't read enough, then, to feel he had a right to contribute, or any sense of what idiom his contribution might take. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z And second, most of the idioms don't originate in the King James version at all. The King James Bible's language lessons 2011-02-18T12:59:49Z Consisting of 11 movements for a cappella choir, it is on a scale with the great sacred works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, though in a slightly more advanced idiom, and is quite simply beautiful. Classical Playlist: Carlos Kalmar, Alexander Lingas and More 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z If Western popular culture has a common idiom, a force that binds us all, the stories contained in Marvel comics are probably it. He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Many readers, I’m sure, would disagree about my occasional use of idioms and slang. Perspective | Ask Amy: Not-quite-divorced couple enjoys ‘meeting up’ 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z This phrase is one of many cricketing idioms in regular use in English. 5 everyday sayings that you may be using incorrectly 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z And the popular idiom is also resourcefully used to characterize satirically the prosecutor in Selma’s trial. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z Thursday’s entertainment is Robbi K and Friends, who offer tunes in jazz, pop and world music idioms. Spare Times: For Children, for July 12-18 2013-07-11T22:26:49Z The idiom is organized in terms of chivalry around female glory: men in black tunics and tights serve principally as cavaliers and as background to women who are resplendent in white tutus. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z While never easy on the ear, it finds originality in familiar idiom and ends in a comforting C major. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The “influence” of the documentary’s title is musical, not pharmaceutical, as Mr. Richards recalls all the idioms he has absorbed, among them flamenco and jazz. Keith Richards on ‘Crosseyed Heart’: It’s Solo Rock ’n’ Roll, but He Likes It 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z And so she found her artistic voice: the wisdom of the spoken, the sung, the whispered; of rumor and folklore; of idioms passed down through generations. At Tate Britain, Celebrating a Mischievous, Subversive Talent 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z And at times they move in a way that is far from any folk idiom. Dance Review: The Essence of the Kibbutz, From ZviDance, at Musa! 2013-06-19T20:32:18Z Frustrated with the state of modern winespeak, some academics, sommeliers, and critics are attempting to rein in tasting notes and develop new idioms that convey quality more concretely. Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Michael, who speaks in the conversational idioms of Ruth’s generation, is just as wry, self-conscious and understated as she is. Review: In ‘Lace Crater,’ Regretting That Tryst With a Ghost 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Besides deploying the key elements of his architectural idiom — flat planes, saturated colors, falling water, light and shadow manipulated with godlike ease — it also engaged his fascination with landscape design and lifelong love of horses. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Were you at all self-conscious about being white kids working in the rap idiom? The Beastie Boys Put Down the Mic and Pick Up the Pen 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Converse wrote mostly in a deceptively straightforward folk idiom that hasn’t aged one bit. Review: A Lost Folk Musician’s Haunted Dreamland in ‘A Star Has Burnt My Eye’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Its physical idiom is often angular, closed, knotted, where that of “Barocco” is clean and outstretched. Dance Review: Balanchine Evening Ignites City Ballet Winter Season 2014-01-22T22:40:35Z Starting in March, “Restless Creature” will travel to nine cities, including New York and London; it’s a given that Ms. Whelan’s comprehension of these new idioms is likely to progress as the tour proceeds. Dance Review: Wendy Whelan Embraces Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-08-18T22:05:35Z So by the time she arrived on the stage of the Met this fall to sing “Anna Bolena,” she sounded like a singer who was comfortable with the idiom. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z I have had to learn to shorten my sentences and avoid certain word and idioms since living here. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Confident in our familiarity with the dynamics of the Roy family, and our fluency in their idiom, “Succession” has more notes to play. The Second Season of “Succession” Digs Into the Characters’ Self-Loathing 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The idiom is cabaret piano ballad with electronic reinforcement. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z On May 22, "The Mighty Five" offers a grouping of composers drawing on Russian folk idiom, including Balakirev, Cui, Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z This “Sun Also” creates an overall idiom that’s as much silent movie as ballet, vividly so. Dance Review: ‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,’ by the Washington Ballet 2013-05-12T22:15:22Z And though he writes in an unabashedly atonal idiom, Mr. Wuorinen often structures his music in such a way that particular notes are frequently reiterated, providing the ear with subtle guideposts. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The statement, which Tomkins quotes in his profile, speaks to Bearden’s favored idiom of collage — the layering of one thing over another. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z His early sonatas were inspired by Mozart and Haydn, but his final works in the genre break from tradition with a bold synthesis of Baroque idioms and revolutionary forms and ideas. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z Mr. Huang’s music blends Western classical idioms with Chinese traditions into a distinctive style that is characterized by a strong dramatic bent and a great sense of pacing. ‘Dr. Sun Yat-sen’ in the American Premiere at Santa Fe Opera 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z This is the free spirit who cuts her cottage's TV cable with a pair of scissors; so it's a puzzle where she gets her idiom. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z To adopt the contemporary idiom, Hitler was indeed a great music lover – get over it! The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z You also couldn’t miss the fluent spectrum of musical styles, from African worklike meters to rock music, with spirituals and other idioms in between. Review: At American Dance Platform, Charm and Structure Without Flight 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Christian Curnyn, the conductor, led a buoyant, stylish performance that showed the orchestra’s estimable feel for Handel’s idiom. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z Masters of reinvention, they slip from era to era, land to land, changing idioms, adapting styles, heedless of labels. Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ defies easy categorization 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The choreographer’s sureness with 1930s dance idioms and the fluency of his groupings bring one pleasure after another. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z Thoroughly fluent in the idioms, history and conventions of the medium, they set most of that assumed knowledge aside and improvise, avidly courting chance and accident. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “Write the way you speak,” Brown admonished, and for better or worse, both Hauser and Hirshey use prose strongly inflected — you might even say infected — with Brown’s own idioms and idiosyncrasies. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Even his pioneering electronic music is steeped in familiar idioms. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Rich retrofitted the American lyric idiom to the exploration of trauma. The Best Books of Poetry from 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z I’ve heard the phrase “it don’t mean nothing” from multiple quarters as part of the idiom of soldiers and marines in Vietnam. Salvatore Scibona on the Difference Between Fiction and History 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Here, Bernstein proves a master of different musical idioms; and Dudamel does the same in the recording sessions for the soundtrack, which was made, fittingly, with both the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Li said, “You miss a lot of idioms, cultural things,” if you don’t go to middle school or high school in the language. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z Language — the idioms, cadences and signature jargon of spoken American English — is central to Mr. Ashley’s idiosyncratic conception. Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z She has studied traditions of narrative performance in East Timor, Indonesia, Korea and Taiwan and created an original, flowing piece of work, rendered in new jazz-related musical idioms, but rooted in old symbols and rituals. Jazz Listings for Sept. 18-24 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Everyone's judgmental and drink is more of a charged thing, whereas at home, I think stopping at the end of a day for a glass of wine and a pint is part of our idiom. Nick Hornby gave up record stores for Spotify, cigarettes for vaping, and adapting his own books 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The folks on their home planet, realistically enough, speak more than one language, so Koa and Mills — whose native idiom is English — can’t communicate very well. ‘65’ Review: What on Earth? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The work was three times the combined length of the three other pieces on the program, all of which, like “Swing Symphony,” explored the conjunction of classical music and American popular idioms. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-06-02T20:37:30Z It also illuminates the essential freedom that only performance affords in such a strict idiom as ballet. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z Krasnow’s vibrant abstract paintings from the final decades of his life offer up those traditional patterns of celebratory ritual — revised, remade and reinvented in a thoroughly modern idiom. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The rhythms of Link's storytelling evoke some very old cadence patterns, but always operate in a modern idiom. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z Back arched and pelvis pushed, his torso slumped into an almost jazzy syncopation, emphasizing Balanchine’s persistent preoccupation with American dance and music idioms. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Albert Evans Gives Farewell Performance 2010-06-21T22:33:00Z Every idiom, the musicality of it, is perfect. A ‘Menagerie’ That Fulfills a London Dream 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Contrary to what ambitious young artists were doing at the time, she threw herself into the artistic idiom. Shahzia Sikander’s Exquisite, Entangled Worlds 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Since Charell was a “stranger to our native idiom,” as a preview in The New York Times put it, he enrolled as co-writer the American critic Gilbert Seldes, an early champion of popular culture. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In the spirit of sanity—though perhaps not in the genre-defying mood of our times—I am limiting my best-of choices to commercially released full-length records that exist in or near the pop idiom. The Best Music of 2019 and the Best Music of the Decade 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Critically lambasted at the time, it is Penn’s attempt to translate the French New Wave into an American idiom. The Week Ahead: Nov. 28-Dec. 4 2010-11-28T08:00:00Z In his chapter on sculpture in the Greek manner, Guilhem Scherf says as much, remarking that the “Neo-Classical idiom used by the English sculptors replicates the formulation adopted by Louis XIV for himself.” Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z These elements certainly have a place in this movie, as does the director’s evident affection for the music and idioms of the South. | 'Footloose': ?Footloose? Remake, With Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid 2011-10-13T15:43:03Z Slim Twig — the Canadian songwriter Max Turnbull — melts down idioms in his own ways. Rodeo, Rockabilly And Ample Mixing 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z No other work has gone so far in its idiom of unbroken poetic adagio and flowing lines, suggesting impersonal rituals of movement in unbounded space. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Snark, sarcasm and satire have literally become a key part of our political idiom. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Whether you call Renoir an Impressionist or, in Mr. Bailey’s words, “a figure painter working in an Impressionist idiom,” he is at the height of his powers in these full-length, fashion-forward paintings. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z Just as any great pianist would provide the requisite lilt to a Bach gavotte, yMusic delivers a necessary jolt of rhythmic energy to a generation of composers steeped in nonclassical idioms. yMusic to Bring Its Versatility to Ecstatic Music Festival 2012-02-03T17:45:10Z His work in this idiom was once unsparing in its aggression, but there’s now more room for delicacy. Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Saddest idiom of the day: "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"... at least not in the case of Weston Cage, who was arrested with his wife on domestic battery charges over the weekend. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-07-05T21:06:00Z You did do “Downton Abbey,” in a manner befitting your own particular idiom, and no one was lying. ArtsBeat: The Day Diddy Did Do ‘Downton Abbey’ 2013-05-16T12:44:59Z No fan of extreme atonality, he praises composers now working in warmer idioms, and singles out Thomas Adès. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z I was thinking about the way that she, like so many other British singers going way back in pop history, plays with American idioms and American accents. Did the Internet kill Amy Winehouse? The director of a heartbreaking new documentary on the rise and fall of a “digital girl” 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The concert concluded on a vivacious note with a dynamic reading of Debussy’s exuberant “Ibéria,” which reflects the fascination of French composers of the period with the Spanish idiom. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:53:31Z In “My Way,” all seven couples co-existed brilliantly in the same space, each still dancing in its own idiom but now showing certain features in common. Dance: Sinatra, Focused on Sex and Sizzle 2010-03-26T23:19:00Z We seem to be watching a deconstruction of an Indian dance idiom. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z The most unexpectedly delightful feature is the three-member band of stage musicians — playing a saxophone, an accordion and a tangy violin — that adds vibrant improvised interjections in different folkloric idioms. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z And from the very beginning of her career she treated musical idioms as if they simply did not exist, back when that was far from common practice. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z He is slowly creating his own idiom, though, somewhere between abstract and figurative painting, sculpture and installation. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z On “Bugs,” Evans also demonstrated a deep knowledge of jazz’s folk idiom: His solo spilled without fuss into sublime blues work. Review | The Bad Plus 2.0 sounds as sublime as the 1.0 version 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Up next is “Take Ballet to the Streets,” in which the Brooklyn Ballet Company and its youth ensemble will marry classical idioms and hip-hop for an evening of diverse dance. Spare Times for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z His new “Why am I not where you are” — though obviously evoking the ballroom idiom of Balanchine’s ballet “La Valse” — is an essay in Powell-and-Pressburger neo-Romanticism. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z Both contemplative and comic, it nails every opportunity for big laughs as its English-learning characters struggle with accents and idioms. Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z At the end, the band plays a convoluted “Twelve More Bars to Go” with one of the greatest recorded tenor-saxophone solos in the blues idiom. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The work was not produced, but in 1982 Mr. Babbitt published three of its songs, which showed a firm command of the idiom and considerable charm. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z His bold yet refined buildings that often recall nature fuse old-world Chinese and modern idioms, using inexpensive materials, like recycled bricks and tiles, as building material. Architecture: Wang Shu of China Advocates Sustainable Architecture 2012-08-09T15:29:52Z Like Hicks and Jonas, she has carved out a genuinely original idiom. These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z But as a chemistry major at Queens College he met a freshman, Carol Klein, who was a budding composer in the pop idiom. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z In this life of the pop composer who was called “American music,” Kaplan argues that Berlin’s work represented “modernism on the hoof: startling formal innovation smuggled into a seemingly banal idiom.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The idiom aside, neuroscientific hypothesis No. 1 gets the boot solely on the basis of Dr. Alexander’s conviction that his recollections are inexplicably robust. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z Over all, however, the production came across as tentative, as if Ms. Stroman were struggling to find a balance between respecting the idiom of the work and charging it with fresh theatricality. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Shrink-wrap it further in a musical idiom so trite that all intention is sapped inexorably from the material, and even the hardiest existentialist would abandon the will to abandon the will to live. Old Earth – review 2012-06-17T15:46:45Z If nothing else, it’s fascinating to hear an ’80s interpretation of a ’30s musical idiom in Chris Walker’s orchestrations; the strings and the winds often seem to be on opposite teams in a frisky scrimmage. Review: A Multiple-Exposure ‘Me and My Girl’ at Encores! 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Sculthorpe's idiom is traditional yet personal in its adaptation of standard modes and gestures. Sculthorpe Requiem ? review 2011-07-06T18:45:00Z It proved a truly American platform, too, with idioms including Hawaiian hula, Irish footwork, Spanish dance, tap, Lindy, ballet and modern. A Pan-American Dance Sampler at the Joyce 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z White composers frequently earned praise for their music’s engagement with these idioms, which often included direct quotation. Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, contemporary British slang dictionaries define “shiksa” as an American idiom. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z On his new album, “Have We Met,” the idiom he chose is the reverberant, electronics-enhanced, early MTV tone of confidence with hidden misgivings. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The Escher also offered a committed performance of Berg’s “Lyric Suite,” which meshes a modernist, 12-tone idiom with lyrical and romantic gestures. Music Review: A Violinist and Novelist, and, Yes, Composer 2011-02-04T22:32:02Z The deep, spacious fourth positions they hold at the end of the Dawn solo are especially striking: another sign of the spreading openness of the Balanchine idiom. ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ to Air ‘Curtain Up’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z It is as if Shakespeare were driven to invent a whole new idiom to express what he had discovered in a familiar story. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. McCrum refers to some particularly wacky idioms as “the fuzzy end of the linguistic lollipop.” Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z Thursday’s opening program brought four works, each made during this century in a separate idiom: modern dance, Memphis jookin’, postmodern dance and ballet. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-28T23:41:39Z Ms. Vergara teeters on high heels, threatens to burst the seams of her dress and mangles common English idioms. Review: In ‘Hot Pursuit,’ Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon on the Run 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z His productions metamorphose as they unfold, restlessly shifting among idioms; his lyrics refuse easy comforts. Bartees Strange Ponders Success in Dire Times 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Other stretches had an earthy twang redolent of East Asian folk-music idioms. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z Then the dialogue switches to English, and to an idiom of upbeat management boilerplate captured with devastating accuracy. | 'Love Crime': ?Love Crime,? by Alain Corneau - Review 2011-09-01T22:11:12Z Mullins, a tornado of aggression whose favorite idioms are both anatomically precise and anatomically impossible, terrorizes suspects and supervisors alike. Movie Review: ‘The Heat’ Is a Buddy Movie Without Any Guys 2013-06-27T16:22:35Z Now, however, it often seems astoundingly vital: No dance idiom is more overwhelmingly sensuous. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z There’s improvising on a song within an idiom, like Sonny Stitt playing “I Got Rhythm,” or within a form or language, like raga or blues. Music Review: Darius Jones, Ryan Sawyer and Shahzad Ismaily at the Stone 2012-07-04T21:38:09Z To elaborate, some of the artists engaged by the composer Judd Greenstein, the festival’s curator, are fellow composers whose music partakes of sounds and styles derived from Minimalism and popular-music idioms. Critic?s Notebook: Festival Where Boundary-Defying Musicians Mix and Mingle 2011-01-18T23:29:03Z There were, of course, exceptions: “I’m going up the boohai in a matchbox to shoot pukekos” was an idiom lost on me no matter how many times Bob explained it. Discovering Auckland’s Charms (and Idioms) 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z And who knew that George Steel, the former director of the Miller Theater and New York City Opera, was a dab hand with the idiom? NYFOS Next Features a New Work by Juantio Becenti 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z One could write a dissertation -- indeed, I bet somebody has -- about why the sardonic, satirical mode of British comedy often translates so poorly into the Amurkin idiom. "Arthur": Russell Brand as Dudley Moore, from Mars 2011-04-08T01:01:00Z This talk is sometimes interesting, sometimes exasperating, and impressively true to the rhythms and idioms of actual speech. Movie Review: ‘Before Midnight,’ With Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 2013-05-23T16:15:43Z He meshed those idioms with other traditions like Macedonian dances and Georgian folk rhythms to create the electric “Niggunim” for piano and violin. Music Review: Jewish Melodies, Traditional and Not 2011-04-17T20:47:36Z That was nothing, though, next to the eye-watering virtuosity of his first encore, an arrangement of a Bulgarian folk tune that zoomed among folk, rock and contemporary-music idioms with breathtaking fluidity. Review: Avi Avital and the Venice Baroque, in Sizzling Communion 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z That is the native idiom of romantic fiction, both the kind Mavis writes and the genre she appears, at first glance, to inhabit. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z Mr. Eaton, 75, a winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant, has an intriguing compositional voice that blends a microtonal harmonic idiom, elements of pastiche and quotations from popular songs, dances, marches and whatnot. Music Review: ?Benjamin Button,? the Opera, at Symphony Space 2010-06-16T21:11:00Z I frequently look up words or idioms you use in your column. Perspective | Ask Amy: Not-quite-divorced couple enjoys ‘meeting up’ 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z His program note said that this idiom was not usual for him, but that’s no reason for him to stop pursuing the line of thought in future pieces; the result on Saturday was transporting. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z With the help of scholars , I selected 12 images from around the world that are “true” in the way they translate local idioms and sensibilities into the universal ethos Christianity strives to represent. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Its versatility serves not only unclassifiable composers like Mr. Lott but also more conventional ones who weave pop idioms into their music. yMusic to Bring Its Versatility to Ecstatic Music Festival 2012-02-03T17:45:10Z That background came in really handy with “Whiplash,” being able to actually read the score and conduct; I just had to translate what I knew into the jazz idiom. For these guys, it's about finding that rhythm 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z He can declaim, slowly and with great precision, about the visual idiom of seemingly any architectural period. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Now 18, the Juilliard-trained Mr. Greenberg has undeniable technique, though the works of his that I know are written in a thickly chromatic, Neo-Romantic idiom that lacks profile. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z It’s easy now to see that Balanchine, Tudor, et al. excelled in both idioms. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z The way the women’s somewhat faster, lighter idioms weave in and out of these dances gives “Newark” a rich musical texture. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z His music here, which embraces a total chromatic idiom, is skillfully crafted and impresses as the product of a man with a good ear. Review: The New Opera 'Metanoia' Goes On, but Without Its Provocateur 2010-10-12T13:30:00Z Mr. Awlaki’s fluency in American idioms explains some of his charisma — he pushed his ideas amid winking references to Michael Jackson and other icons of global popular culture. Review: Scott Shane’s ‘Objective Troy,’ on Killing the American Jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The chapter headings, such as "Move to Where the Money Is", borrow from Chengyu – Chinese idioms of parental advice – that have been hijacked within contemporary culture to serve a ruthless self-advancement. Tash Aw: a life in writing 2013-03-15T08:00:27Z The idioms have changed, slightly, but the passions have not, as we were reminded this election year. Essay: John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’ and White Working-Class Angst 2012-11-08T14:00:00Z I think that there is a certain singer-songwriter voice that’s easy to fall into if you are playing in this American folk idiom. A Word With: David Wax and Suz Slezak: David Wax and Suz Slezak on Their Music’s Mexican Influence 2012-09-04T22:13:59Z Wallace is the strongest comparator in terms of his high/low vamping – the way nuggets of erudition coexist with a studiously offhand idiom. Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan - review 2012-07-26T07:00:06Z The mariachi musical idiom is run through with supple, animated rhythmic riffs. Review: A Mariachi Opera Addresses Roiling Issues of Immigration 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Cline’s idiom is earnestness punctuated by millennial cool — but nothing too fussy, everything in just the right place. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Though Weill’s Theater Project work did not directly inspire “Gabriel’s Guide,” Mr. Kahane’s musical idiom is indebted to Weill’s style, combining witty populism with a modernist edge. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z Mr. Russell’s music borrowed liberally from blues, gospel, jazz and country — musical idioms all native to his home state of Oklahoma. Leon Russell, musician and hit songwriter, dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The idiom of the classic cocktail is just the launching pad. | Windy City Speakeasy 2011-03-28T16:28:05Z In his final decades, he developed a more geometric idiom, creating paintings that were framed to look like portals, as if opening into a hidden, shrine-like space remote from everyday reality. Paul Feiler obituary 2013-07-22T11:06:28Z Here, his irrepressible zest exemplified the kind of Massine caricature idiom that I had assumed was gone from the world. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z As early as graduate school she was mingling African and Western idioms. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Her loyalty is more to aura than to lyric or, for that matter, idiom: she slips from jazz to country easily. Music Review | Norah Jones: Norah Jones?s Moody Notes at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-29T04:45:00Z The concerto seeks to reconcile in its single long span an introverted, blues-inflected expressiveness with a freer, unselfconsciously flowing idiom. Bangor New Music festival | Classical review 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z The adaptation, by the National associate director Ben Power, updates the language to modern idiom but dispenses with some of the nuances of other versions. Modern 'Medea' in London stars Potter film's Helen McCrory 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Songs require heightened language, but the pair trade in an earthbound idiom, and their funniest numbers are marooned between music and hair-splitting chat. Flight of the Conchords 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z Now, 30 years later, Tyson is still one of the underrated vocalists of the idiom. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Is “Perseverance” a new dance using traditional idioms? Dance Review: DanceAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-28T21:08:02Z How Mr. Moran, once anointed as an operatic trailblazer, came to his present idiom is a story often retold. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z But tonal structures and popular idioms coexist with serial ones in his music in a totality that, for all the apparent simplicity of some of its parts, is very far from simple-minded. Masterful maverick HK Gruber leads thrilling program | Classical review 2013-04-19T16:44:35Z When announcing the next season, Mr. Morlot made a rare jumble of an English idiom. Critic?s Notebook: Ludovic Morlot Stands Out at the Seattle Symphony 2012-01-28T00:08:01Z A cliché, similar to slang and idioms, has an audience-focused definition, as it is a word or phrase used so often that it annoys the audience. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z But what language doesn’t include a few colorful idioms? ArtsBeat Blog: Rosetta Throne: Learn to Speak Dothraki 2011-12-11T23:41:52Z Mr. Scott, who has already incorporated the McDonald’s logo into his idiom, presented a collection that unabashedly celebrated consumption. At London Men’s Fashion Week, Designers Fly the Flag for Individuality 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z 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 You could blame the fact that his idiom — neo-expressionism — came in and out of fashion in the 1980s and never convincingly re-emerged. Review | Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him — but you don’t have to. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Hernandez-Valdez conducted with the incisive clarity of someone born to the idiom. An early Cinco de Mayo celebration with the New Orchestra of Washington 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The style is mainly European, a touch of Monteverdi mixed with a folk-tinged idiom. Carmina Latina – review 2013-05-18T23:04:09Z In Christian Blackwood’s “Nik and Murray,” Nikolais recalls how after World War II painters and sculptors began to move beyond their specific idioms. 2010-01-29T04:40:00Z Palin must have been referring to Billy Wayne Ruddick, Jr., Ph.D., one among a new assortment of usefully idiotic disguises, each with his own funny voice and noisy idiom. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z LA has not dented his use of south London idioms, nor induced airs about acting. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The range of idioms employed here veers between the cool objectivity of spoken docudrama and the intensely lyrical extremes of quasi-operatic mad scenes. Review: Making Eloquent Theater From Bleak Facts 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Currents of motion pass through the bodies with sensuous fluidity, exemplifying the Brown idiom, which she once memorably called “the path of least resistance.” Review: ‘Balanchine and Beyond,’ and Going Beyond Isn’t Easy 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Electrified in Chicago, it presaged hip-hop as an idiom designed to express black urban hardship at high decibels. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z I asked the singer El Perro Del Mar to sing it with me, because I'm a huge fan of her lyrics – they're full of idioms and life lessons, some of them very bleak. Waxing Lyrical: Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals 2011-02-24T14:32:51Z Pinker’s insistence that written language loosen to reflect natural American idiom is parochial: there’s too wide a range of idiom to be captured in one style. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z I was on the subway, watching a teenager text on his smartphone, when I realized that the idiom “all thumbs” might be doomed. When ‘All Thumbs’ Becomes a Compliment 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z With his own ensemble, Company XIV — whose popular “Nutcracker Rouge” is currently playing in the East Village — Mr. McCormick works in a racy, extravagant Baroque-burlesque idiom. Juilliard Students Star in ‘New Dances: Edition 2014’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z He was stunned to discover, though, that an idiom rooted in rejecting conventions was dominated by people who resembled elected officials. The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z It may sound like it's been recorded with one ear on America, but the vocabulary and idioms are defiantly British. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z Through it all, he talks and talks and talks, mangling idioms and missing the point in an exaggerated drawl that would make even the cast of “Hee-Haw” wince. | 'Cars 2': Tow Truck Takes the Lead on a Second Lap 2011-06-23T12:00:00Z Best line Pick any of the lines from the aforementioned scene or just pat Robert on the back for reviving the old idiom: “You have no more chance than a cat in hell without claws.” ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 5: A Shock to the System 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The vivid interpretation of three dances from Smetana’s “Bartered Bride,” a comic opera that reflects the composer’s interest in traditional Bohemian dance forms and folk idioms, was equally rewarding. Music Review: Lola Astanova With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2013-01-26T01:04:56Z Anyone who baulked at recent anomalies in The Hour, when modern idioms slipped into the 50s drama, will once again be reaching for their etymological dictionaries. Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next 2011-08-29T21:00:00Z For “Miss Fortune,” Ms. Weir, an experienced opera composer who is conversant in folk idioms, fitted a Sicilian folk story with a modern setting. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z “Gilded Cage” continues that idiom, even as it relies on prefab metal instead of found materials. From China’s Artist-Activist, a Citywide Great Wall 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z That, combined with Eastern musical idioms, “takes on a wonderful quality.” Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The program is perhaps most notable for the rare performance of the music of Othmar Schoeck, a Swiss composer working in the latest of late Romantic idioms. 4 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “It seems that in contact with the piano Debussy could write freely, exploring the implications of his unique idiom in a completely uninhibited way,” Walsh writes. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Surrealism started in the 1920s as a notorious boys’ club, but later generations of women working in this dreamy idiom stole the show. The Art Show at the Armory: Blue-Chip Brands Show Their Best 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z And like Amy et al, she uses classic idioms – folk, blues, jazz, country, soul – to sing about all manner of classic, or, to be less generous, predictable stuff. New band of the day ? No 773: Kirsty Almeida 2010-04-26T14:43:00Z Perhaps it is the urgency with which he tackled the unknown, went beyond known musical idioms and clichés, and thus found something both unique and universal. With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z She droned on the straightaways and slipped with practiced ease into the creek-like tumbles of the folk idiom between phrases. Dawn Landes, Barefoot at Lincoln Center 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z She then riffs on the various Spanish and Chilean idioms for sex. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Scriabin’s near-atonal idiom came through in some of the first piece. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Countless bands across the idioms were to be inspired by this exultant sound, and still are. Great moments in jazz: Weather Report and the orchestration of fusion 2011-02-25T14:49:29Z Each of the four musical sections is in a strikingly different idiom: one is light jazz; another, for strings only, might have been by the young Benjamin Britten. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z Hunter's way with words has earned him a place in the American idiom. Grateful Dead songwriter hits the road for rare tour 2013-09-16T10:05:02Z “How can you be more than happy to help?” he wondered, of the idiom thrust upon him in a store by a particularly eager salesman. Gad Elmaleh’s Translated Comedy 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z "The Flight Attendant" demonstrates why "it's a lot" is a favorite idiom of mine. "The Flight Attendant" returns with double the baggage and showcase for Kaley Cuoco 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But they got the essential logic and clarity of Haydn’s idiom as well as the quiet ecstatic glow of Duruflé’s just right, no mean feat. National Philharmonic Chorale brings two hefty works to the stage 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z From “Carousel” to “Hello, Dolly!” to “Hamilton,” we see style and content changing dramatically, even as the tools for conveying new ideas and new musical idioms remain generally the same. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Charming though they are, these films do feel rather dated today, and their musical accompaniment, richly scored in a late Romantic idiom, does too. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Part of engaging people is asking contemporary questions, speaking in a contemporary idiom. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z Mr. Penderecki eventually abandoned the startling tone clusters and imaginative timbres of his early works and adopted a more conservative idiom, sometimes combining experimental and traditional forms. Music Review: Penderecki Conducts His Work at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-02T20:59:00Z Musicians tried dialogue and simultaneity, drone and dissonance, deference and competition, empathy and obliviousness; idioms mattered, but were permeable. Music Review: Round-Robin Duets at Brooklyn Masonic Temple 2013-05-02T21:52:58Z It is a rare dancer who can serve idioms so opposed with equal skill. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z But it’s an exciting idiom that changes your view of the city. Detroit Jit, a ’70s Street Dance Reborn and Revved Up 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Most of the “Rebel Heart” songs tend to check off at least two idioms per track. 6 Songs Offer Preview of ‘Rebel Heart’ Album 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z We'll take thick orchestral textures and render them for three instruments and one voice, a distilled idiom. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z Whether this is an unfamiliar Spanish idiom or simply a metaphor that appeals to him I am not sure, but I think it translates as "I have a cold." A "Biutiful" chat with Javier Bardem 2010-12-30T00:01:00Z It was a crucial institution for American dance: Not only did the company tour extensively, but Denishawn idioms were also taught from coast to coast. In the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Archives, a Magical Past and Present Unite 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The range of that “anything” is on display in the exhibition, which covers a marvelously entertaining range of idiom and thought. ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: An Exhibition At the Walker Arts Center 2011-11-23T19:27:06Z More recently, he has ventured into the worlds of Western classical and tango, composing and arranging ambitious third-stream works that play around with those idioms. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Her musical language, inflected with Balkan and klezmer idioms, is vivid and free of clichés. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z Not only do they exemplify the modest good manners that are so touching an element of this idiom, but they also show high technical command. Royal Danish Ballet Performs Works by August Bournonville 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z He wanted to learn more English slang and idioms and made us explain whenever we said something such as “It’s a wrap.” In Guatemala, a treacherous hike to one of the world’s most active volcanoes 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z And in his eyes, I was a nerdy, light-skinned girl who spoke English with the proper resonance and idioms for seamless assimilation into white-dominated spaces. When a Summer Hookup Lasts 12 Years, It’s Time to Reassess 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z The gently appealing Mr. Fischer plays Dottie, a lonely-hearts columnist, whose letters from readers offer punctuation between the production numbers, light parodies of rap, Weimar cabaret and vaudeville, among many other idioms. Theater Review: ‘Til Divorce Do Us Part,’ a Musical Based on Real Life 2014-02-20T23:44:04Z She’s Australian, and at this point I no longer know which idioms are American or Australian anymore. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z Back in the days of vaudeville, the label “eccentric dancing” was accepted for a wide range of idioms, not least tap. BalletX Flaunts Its Seriously Absurd Style 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But Cardew’s bigger idea, that an improviser can build a language out of anything without relying on an established sound or idiom, was the night’s guiding principle. Music Review: Keith Rowe With Graham Lambkin and Michael Pisaro at Temp 2013-01-17T21:33:05Z The original premise was that the main lodge would be built in a log cabin idiom. Into the West 2010-05-01T04:00:00Z Dvorak was initially inspired by the folk music of Moravia and Bohemia and later, when he lived in the United States, by American Indian and African-American idioms. Music Review: The Folkways That Led to Dvorak and Bartok 2010-10-20T21:18:00Z Synthesizing all these within a coherent idiom that was both authentically contemporary and authentically American – but without obvious American pictorialisms – would prove agonisingly hard. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Fosse changed movies and Broadway forever, inventing an original American dance idiom: syncopated, tiny, isolated movements with shades of burlesque and showbiz with a capital S. Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It's got a disputatious bent, some strong political points and a salty 21st-century idiom. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z This grandiloquent action, an archetypal example of ballet classicism, is a crucial transaction within supported adagio, that singularly momentous idiom: With the man’s assistance, a female dancer blooms all the more fully. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Herein were possible sources for a new African American idiom, connected both to contemporary art currents and authentic African culture. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z What sets Prince apart from other hip-hop choreographers is the genius with which she uses the idiom to define character. Some Like It Hip Hop – review 2012-09-29T23:05:24Z But Mr. Adams practices a gentler, more ingratiating — an over all more American — form of eclecticism than does the Dutch Mr. Andriessen, whose idiom is generally harder-edged, even when he’s quoting pop standards or tango. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s refreshing to see a choreographer who, while showing a wide command of the ballet vocabulary, isn’t haunted by the idioms of Balanchine and doesn’t rely on high lifts or acrobatic extensions. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z The result is an idiom of great spareness and simplicity: A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Zorn’s idiom of juxtaposed dissonance and ethereality threatened to become too familiar by the end of Wednesday’s program, on a Miller stage that regularly presents work by a newer avant-garde. Review: John Zorn’s Spirit of Restless Invention Flows Forth 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z But there was a dialogue between traditions when Mr. McCoury’s bluegrass band shared songs with Preservation Hall; clarinet and fiddle traded solos that stayed true to their own idioms, while the rhythm meshed. Music Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-08T23:16:20Z They're at the center of the age-old question, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" and the classic idiom, "Egg someone on." Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The idiom of “2,” though even more athletic in its demands, is stranger, above all in its highly unpredictable rhythm. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z But, at the end of the concert, after the Brahms symphony, Mr. Jansons offered a perfect encore: a rollicking early Ligeti piece, “Concert Romanesc,” awash in Hungarian folk music idioms yet spiked with modernist wildness. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z It is both modern, in its setting and idioms, and unapologetically old-fashioned in concept, choreography and lighting. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Here’s what else it means: That rap music is the most significant pop idiom of our time. Perspective | Kendrick Lamar deserves his Pulitzer. Rap is the most significant music of our time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the most alluring work is the local premiere of Daniil Trifonov’s Piano Concerto, a wonderfully over-the-top piece in the idiom of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff played by the pianist himself. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Blending jazz, ballet and Israeli folk dance idioms, this evening-length piece unfolds to a blend of Turkish and Israeli music with Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel. Dance Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The theater, reopened this year after restoration, is a 1920s gem — baroque not in idiom but in theatricality and illusionism. ArtsBeat: 'The Nutcracker' Chronicles: In Virginia, a Nutcracker for Every State 2010-12-28T17:05:53Z This landmark translation matches the original’s line count while drawing on a spare, simple and direct idiom that strips away formulaic language to let the characters take center stage. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z As Bartók matured, however, he began forging a more modern, striking idiom. Book review: Musician Béla Bartók was pride of two nations 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Dominik, who wrote “Killing Them Softly,” carefully transfers the novelist’s pungent idiom to the screen. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z Mr. Eotvos’s haunting score, which folds hints of pop and jazz into a Modernist idiom and boldly combines sung and spoken lines, gets at the emotions coursing within the characters and beneath the politics. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Though there are few films of Southeast Asian dance before the 1960s, here is a 1933 one of a Balinese dancer, bare-breasted, not performing a formal dance but demonstrating the exercise technique for the idiom. Pavlova’s Shoes, Nijinsky’s Diary, and Other Dance Treasures From the Public Library 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Brown, a gently but memorably witty woman, simply described her own idiom as “the line of least resistance.” Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Out of these and other influences, she has fused the musical idiom for her score, which unfolds mostly in chants and ensembles, punctuated by spoken narrative. New opera celebrates imprisoned Maori hero 2012-03-16T10:01:06Z Most of Robbins’s early ballets show just how right for Broadway his talent was: They have fabulous cartoon vitality, a natural mastery of vernacular idioms and wonderful contrasts of tone. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Their originals are steeped in the idiom, too. James Carter Organ Trio ? review 2011-07-24T16:31:00Z But that’s only because her previous albums have already encompassed so many idioms and ideas. On a Surprise Album, Santigold Returns with Blithe Pop and Big Ideas 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z A lesser choreographer might use the ballet idiom to indicate the conformism from which these eight young characters keep breaking away. Dance Review: Smuin Ballet Performs ‘Oh, Inverted World’ at the Joyce 2012-08-15T22:30:56Z In America the sharp lines, clean textures and assertive rhythms of neo-Classicism allude more strongly to the construction of a still-young country and a native idiom. 2010-02-15T05:07:00Z Its characters are drawn with insight, sympathy and a refreshing lack of condescension, despite the plentiful use of colorful local idioms. Theater Review: ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ at La Jolla Playhouse 2012-06-05T22:12:18Z It’s a relationship so stereotypically fraught that it birthed its own idioms: getting along like, fighting like. In this vicious world, guess who became best friends? Cats and dogs. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z There were also more traditional expressions of the jazz idiom, meaning not just the revivalist bounce of the Ghost Train Orchestra at the Django, but also streamlined bop, Afro-Latin churn and smart, self-aware fusion. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z He goes on to extol the ameliorative efforts of companies like Facebook, which use artificial intelligence to detect posts that mention suicide and other idioms of self-harm. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Lieberson, who studied with the modernists Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen, wrote early works in the 12-tone idiom and was also influenced by late Stravinsky, Minimalism, jazz and musical theater. ?Peter Lieberson: 'Red Garuda,' Rilke Songs, Bagatelles, Piano Quintet? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z Line by line, they discussed grammar, idioms, tone, style. No Longer Driving a Cab, a Syrian Writer in America Focusses on His Fiction 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Her cadenzas lifted Mozart’s themes and gently prodded them into different idioms, refracting their scales through a contemporary prism into different, darkling keys. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart Others are seasoned fighters of American Indians, and nearly all of them speak in a casually racist idiom that serves less to demonize them than to pin them to their historical context. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z Lutoslawski wrote in the 20th-century modernist idiom, with extreme craftsmanship and polish that sometimes makes his pieces seem a bit distant or, at other times, deeply gloomy. Conductor Salonen dashes from Frank Zappa to Stravinsky 2013-04-04T09:30:14Z The intersection of Coltrane’s music and spirituality reflected her personal journey to a life driven by divine purpose and her role in birthing an idiom of liturgical jazz. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Pop is social—a common idiom, readily accessible, relatable, and debatable. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z Posner goes for the laziest jokes all evening, the sort that trigger mere reflex giggles in an audience relieved of the chore of fully grasping Shakespeare’s idioms. Review | ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as a sitcom? Call it ‘The Bardy Bunch.’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Azalea is working in a very different idiom and projecting a very different image. Please keep your hands off Iggy Azaela 2014-04-23T18:36:00Z The unforeseen wrinkle was that the translator spoke only Farsi and Spanish, the first language of most of my students and, of course, the idiom of the country where we all happened to be. How Abbas Kiarostami Had Me Thinking in Persian 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Like Bang on a Can, the Music of Now Marathon featured composers and performers representing a broad range of idioms and styles. Music Review: Fernando Otero in Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space 2012-02-07T23:33:12Z “Here we had all these grown men in a macho idiom like jazz, in the studio, ‘Let’s hit it’ and all this machismo,” Mr. Leduc said in an interview Tuesday. Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63 2011-04-14T02:43:25Z Their four children are, to use another slightly anachronistic idiom in reference to a story set mostly in the ’60s and ’70s, decidedly free range. Review: Woody Harrelson as a Wild and Crazy Dad in ‘The Glass Castle’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z But Modelinia.com’s cool new T-shirts are emblazoned with model-related catchphrases that riff on well-known idioms and logos. T Magazine: The Medium Size Is the Message 2011-02-18T18:30:02Z The plot has legs, and Locke’s blues-infused idiom lends a strain of melancholy to her lyrical style. The Best Crime Novels of 2017 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z A song such as the devastating "Twenty Long Weeks" clangs with classic folk idiom grief at the death of a child. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Whatever the idiom and however unlovely or anti-bravura, the point is always its showiness. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z Jason Franey, who arrived from New York City’s Eleven Madison Park as executive chef in 2008, revamped the menu in a modernist idiom: more artful plating, with more crumbs, foams and emulsions. Canlis Hires Its First Female Executive Chef 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z But Brubeck emerged a decade later, after the more cerebral and exploratory modernist idiom of bebop had profoundly influenced the music. Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z To Mormon detractors, Steinberg notes, it’s a telling verbal tic that strongly suggests “a weak ventriloquism of biblical idiom.” The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z And they conflict with Frank’s score, which belongs more to her own sound world than any Mexican idiom. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He'll use idioms, from "in point of fact" to "a hale fellow well met." Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Bringing J. Peterman home to meet the folks 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z I wonder how much of an idiom that is. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z This time, he does so with the Württemberg players, who navigate this idiom well; in the two concert overtures that kick off this set, Price’s quotations of spirituals come across strongly. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z As to your larger question, I don't think this music sounded pastoral to 17th-century audiences; it was the current popular idiom, interpolated as part of an evening's entertainment. Review | Two critics debate a rare rehashing of a revised ‘Macbeth,’ singing witches and all 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The program suggested a thematic link among these works: Each score draws upon folk idioms. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Her familiarity with this concerto showed in the ease with which she performed it and her comfort with its idioms. British flag flies high at Seattle Symphony 2011-11-18T18:22:03Z Once Kidjo relaxes into what is surely a strange musical idiom for her, the subsequent performance on Sunday will likely sound more lived-in and vocally seductive. With world premiere of his thrilling 12th Symphony, Philip Glass continues to intrigue 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z From a remote Oklahoman town, Other Lives are a band whose music is, spiritually, many miles from the back-to-basics communion of musician and folk idiom. This week's new live music 2011-08-12T23:07:43Z But she’s also clearly working within the idiom of the classic art film, including through her deployment of narrative and character ambiguity. Review: In Angelina Jolie Pitt’s ‘By the Sea,’ an Unhappy Ménage and Tear-Streaked Mascara 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I especially admire Bad Saint’s refusal to translate Filipino food into the European-derived idioms of fine dining. Filipino Food Worth the Wait at Bad Saint in Washington 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In some ways, the 1978 broadcast showed a company more at home in this idiom than today’s, which gives us a relatively prettified account. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z In an essay about Joan Didion Roiphe analyzes the degree to which the rhythms and idioms that characterize Didion’s prose style have been borrowed, if not outright ripped off, by younger writers. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z In terms of technique and cinematic idiom, Somewhere reconfirms Sofia Coppola as an accomplished and distinctive film-maker. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-09T15:00:00Z Mr. Sewell took that as the jumping-off point for his ballet — but he decided to switch the idiom. Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z They covered a range of idioms: running, walking, jumping, partnering, gestures. Silas Riener and Michael Ingle Dance Tere O’Connor’s Vision 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “They are taking European ideas and finding the local idiom,” explains Bleichmar. A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Has working in these idioms changed you as dancers? A Star Ballet Couple Take a Contemporary Turn 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The music shifts between a modernist, atonal idiom and a more lyrical romanticism, and Mr. Wheeldon responds with a similar choreographic range. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z Beyond that, he’s a composer in several idioms, a bandleader for groups of many sizes, and a setter of texts to music. Music Review: Unconscious Lessons of a Jazzman 2011-05-09T22:19:36Z While Pharrell’s breezy tune is steeped in the idioms of American hip-hop and dance culture, the video for “It Girl” comes from the world of Japanese otaku—obsessive fans of anime, manga, and video games. Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Schwarz drew a lovely, warm sound in Brahms' typically Romantic idiom from both the orchestra and the Seattle Symphony Chorale. Live, lyrical and loud: Seattle Symphony program delivers supercharged sound 2011-04-01T17:35:03Z On Saturday she brought a big, silvery voice to an ambitious program focused on the lush post-Romantic idiom in which she seems most comfortable. Music Review: Isn?t It Post-Romantic (and Lush, Too)? 2011-02-06T22:23:34Z He watched countless 1940s films, and the book analyzes how ’40s moviemakers “emphasized a parallel between neon signs and various idioms of urban vice, particularly alcohol.” Antiques: Vintage Neon Signs and the Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2012-10-18T22:11:06Z In Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, the composer purposefully tried to rein in his natural inclination to meld folk music idioms into his language. Music Review: The Met Orchestra Ends Its Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-12T22:37:50Z H. K. Gruber, a composer and conductor widely considered one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Weill, said that while Schoenberg was introducing his 12-tone technique, Weill “found his own way remaining in the tonal idiom.” Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But the childlike idiom – Miłosz called it "a naif poem" – was a deliberate artistic ploy that drew on William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and scenes from an idealised childhood Lithuania. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z Whether because of his long-limbed physical comedy style, his command of the idiom of irony or George Harrison’s mother’s fancy, Mr. Spinetti was invited by the Beatles to be in all their movies. Victor Spinetti Dies at 82; Actor in All 3 Beatles’ Films 2012-06-20T03:42:37Z Set to Rossini’s music of the same name, it’s a series of intensely stylish pastiches of early-19th-century idioms: the sylph-and-poet romance, the tarantella and others. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z Schmidt’s lush idiom, like Zemlinsky’s, was deemed dowdy in early-20th-century Vienna, and Schmidt’s reputation was later tainted by his support for the Nazis. Music Review: ?Notre Dame,? Franz Schmidt?s Opera, at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-20T21:34:19Z Each faced condemnation, but the harm to their careers was brief, surprising especially because all three work in traditionally Black idioms. The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Simon’s songwriting has long treated pop as a force of inclusion and adaptation, learning constantly from different idioms and discovering where they can overlap or coalesce. Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z We eavesdrop not only to figure out what’s happening, but also to attend to idioms and rhythms, to the musical qualities of speech. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z His work was stubbornly, unfashionably tonal, and frequently witty; he pursued neither the pastoral idioms that obsessed Vaughan Williams, nor the serial techniques that burst onto the scene in the 1960s. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Instead, she has worked with playwrights to shape not only her show’s scripts but bracingly original songs as well, in idioms and character voices as wide-ranging as the musical genres she references. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Still, it takes maturity and a strong sense of mission for a composer to absorb such influences and distill them into a fluent personal idiom. Review: American Composers Orchestra Concert Tilts Eastward 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Vocalists are woefully underrated in the “avant-garde” or “free jazz” idiom, which tends to favor instrumental shredders in a not-so-subtly patriarchal way. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The ensuing decades found the brothers returning to a more traditional approach to bluegrass while consolidating their reputation as one of the premier ensembles in the history of the idiom. Jesse McReynolds, Lead Singer in Long-Running Bluegrass Duo, Dies at 93 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Still, his assurance in the idiom speaks to long experience. At Salzburg Festival, Musicians Tap Their Inner Mozarts and Schuberts 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Though some are more vague and oblique than others, what these idioms have in common is an implied attitude that at their worst, mullahs represent stupidity, blind dogma, moral superiority, repression, and greed. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z It's more majestic than modern translations, easier to follow than Shakespeare, has enlivened English by translating Hebrew idiom literally, and is the genesis of 257 phrases that you use every day. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Performing well alongside Mr. Sorey — one of the most masterful player-composers of this era, in any idiom — requires a deep repository of strategies. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z They gush forth in a rush and are similarly exhilarating though they’re wildly different in tone, idiom and design. The Jerome Robbins revolution: He found his angels on the Manhattan streets 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms. De Keersmaeker said she had always been interested in American dance idioms and traditions. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z There had long been movies based on great plays like “A Streetcar Named Desire” that fully translated theater into the idiom of cinema. Edie Landau, Film Producer Who Was Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z They have been for centuries and so they appear often in the oldest idioms. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z In one issue, Brown describes Cosmo as a practical guide to seducing men — speaking in the idiom of conquest. Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012 2012-08-13T20:07:00Z He gets a crash course in tradecraft, West German idioms and the life story of Moritz Stamm, the actual young man whose identity he’s assuming. Review: In Deutschland 83, East Meets West Germany 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. McCartney was encyclopedic, demonstrating his mastery of multitudinous idioms and applying all his charm and skill to hits and non-hits alike. Review: Paul McCartney and Neil Young Share a Bill, and Some Songs 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Ford, a fashion lifer with past lives at Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci, where he helped pioneer provocation as a contemporary fashion idiom, believes in setting a mood, thickly applied. Tom Ford, Where the Rich and Famous Go to Look Rich and Famous 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z 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 Sandy waxes lyrical in parlour-song idiom about a romantic love idyll that also turns out to enclose a dark secret he would prefer to forget. The Lighthouse – review 2012-10-12T17:10:14Z Within their postmodern idiom, the pavilions also contain design references to the Arts and Industries Building and the Freer Gallery. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The movement idiom or idioms suggest a playful dialogue with other dance genres. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor Dance at New York Live Arts 2012-11-28T23:05:30Z Berger aims to illuminate how Ellington elevated folk idioms like the blues into fine art. Obsessed with Duke Ellington, one man is determined to illuminate the jazz composer’s stunning output 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z All of the actors conduct themselves skillfully — hitting their marks and tearing through the sometimes awkward idioms of a translated script — without being entirely convincing. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z But no Cunningham work ever belongs to one idiom alone. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Sign language is a complex system of communication, with its own accents and inflections, idioms and dialects, capable of conveying endless shades of meaning. Deaf rapper Sean Forbes makes himself joyfully heard on the hip-hop scene 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The project is only the latest to recast the entire Shakespeare canon in a modern idiom. Theater to Commission 38 Modern Riffs on Shakespeare 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z I don’t mean that “Rodeo” matches “Apollo” or “Serenade,” or that it implies any criticism of Balanchine’s idiom by Mr. Peck. A Lesson for New York City Ballet: The Past Is Always Present 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z And the movement, choreographed in collaboration with the cast, borrows from Graham’s high-drama idiom. Review: In ‘Herstory of the Universe,’ Ancient Myths Are Brought to Life 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Menotti was seldom one to challenge an audience musically, and the idiom here goes little beyond Stravinsky’s Neo-Classical mode, still fresh at the time. ArtsBeat: Spoleto Festival USA: Wading In 2011-06-02T19:05:43Z “Remembering that your people had ways, they had a science, they had ways of talking about the creator, had other idioms and metaphors. And it’s in the words that the remembering comes.” Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Even the most diehard secularist would find himself hard-pressed to expunge religious idioms from his speech. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z Yet he also captured, as well as any writer who’s ever lived, the sweetness, intelligence and grace in both idioms. Review: Albert Murray’s Symphonic Elegance Sings in a New Anthology 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z They are, instead, expanding the fundamental influences within solo guitar, incorporating idioms sometimes deemed verboten in what was once a homogenized scene. The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Drawing compositional inspiration from black musical idioms was also nothing new. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The concerto’s chugging rhythms make Ginastera’s lively atonal idiom feel accessible, understandable. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z This wasn’t an issue in the more balanced Program B. Each piece was distinct from the others in look, style, idiom and intent. Review | Sleek modernism in the San Francisco Ballet’s new works 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z She had always struggled to memorize elaborate classical pieces, so the idiom offered an escape hatch. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z He’s always tackling idioms, scores, subjects that extend him in new directions. Dance Review: Wild and Tamed in Wheeldon?s ?Estancia? at City Ballet 2010-05-30T22:21:00Z It’s very easy to fall into Ms. Walls’s country idiom while reading her. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z More regular than “Exodus” in its crisscrossing of groups, “Toccata” is fatally burdened by an antiquated idiom. Review: Alvin Ailey Troupe Dances ‘Exodus’ at Koch Theater 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Lennart Anderson, one of the most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom, died on Thursday at his home in Brooklyn. Lennart Anderson, Painter Who Put Modern Twist on the Masters, Dies at 87 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Whatever détournements it makes are folded into a very spare, straightforward seeming idiom and form. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s the sound of a familiar, age-old musical story: cherished genres translated into new idioms, young visionaries butting up against someone else’s constraints. How Video Games Changed Popular Music 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The few identifiable songs are in a pop idiom. How Young Singers Get Used to ‘Dust’ in Their Mouths 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The ordinariness of the metaphor is signalled by the first line, which deploys a well-worn idiom. Guardian book club: Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 2013-01-18T20:00:00Z “On the one hand,” the New York Times critic Robert Palmer wrote in 1980, the four vocalists “are genuine aficionados of pop music’s many vocal-group idioms.” Tim Hauser, the Founder of the Manhattan Transfer, Dies at 72 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Even though there are all these great British pop stars, 95 percent of them sing in American accents, and they all sing in an American idiom. Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z Composer Redler’s triumph was to strike a near-ideal balance, in setting Dye’s text, between tuneful immediacy and preserving the naturalistic speech idiom of the interviewees’ monologues. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Falling and the Rising’ powerfully tells soldiers’ stories 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Yet though language may be headed in an international direction, an increasing number of German chefs are cooking with a more native idiom, sometimes combining it with other cuisines in intriguing ways. Bites: Restaurant Report: L’Escalier in Cologne, Germany 2013-05-28T21:29:37Z Most Americans take a less dogmatic view, and Ms. Alvin works in both idioms. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z It could probably be adapted into most idioms and cultures without radical rewriting. Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z You hear the power and possibility of this idiom right at the start of “The Tempest,” in Mr. Adès’s realization of Prospero’s magical storm. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z In the critical idiom of Marxism in which he was educated, a "revolution from above" could mean many things. Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z At first Carter thought it might be achieved through the pert, lean, unsentimental neo-classical idiom then in fashion. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z Upon my visit, I settled into the dining room, decorated with exposed brick walls, Edison bulbs and an open kitchen — which is to say, all of the recurring visual idioms of the modern Oslo bistro. New New Nordic Cuisine Takes Hold in Oslo 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The dominant dance idiom of “Nice Work” is the Charleston, of “Evita” the tango. Critic’s Notebook: The Choreography of Tony Nominees 2012-05-28T21:35:24Z Let's go back to the "kick the bucket" idiom, which means "to die" for many people and not actually to strike a container with your foot. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z They conjure a modern social world, mixed in race and moving in the democratic idioms of dance postmodernism. Dance Review: ‘A Rite’ Riffs on Stravinsky at Chapel Hill, N.C. 2013-01-27T23:15:40Z His booze- and pill-addled odyssey takes him to the hinterlands of Transylvania, where Bartok recorded the peasant works that furnished his modernist compositions with the rich idiom of folklore. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z What ensues is a kind of euphoric, if melodramatic, resurrection conveyed through the fleet-footed idiom of house dance. Review: Alvin Ailey’s ‘Awakening’ Projects a Sense of Fight-or-Flight 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z An idiom is a word or phrase that has a meaning different from the composition of its parts, like "kick the bucket." Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Eventually he came up with Anna, and it seemed like the right fit for his approach to composition, which is steeped in jazz and the whole idiom of contemporary American music.” Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z All of this is rendered in a style rich in idioms and poetic allusions, which have always been the greatest challenge to Murasaki’s translators. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z She got rid of the cat people when she hit puberty, but kept the language she’d made for them — including an ornate script, a grammar, syntax, idioms, poems and short prayers. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Ever attentive to tone and cadence of everyday speech, Salinger mimics American slang persistently, yet hardly ever to the same effect as in the fiercely idiosyncratic idiom of Holden Caulfield. JD Salinger is best revealed in his work 2011-01-31T13:08:28Z As this sonata made clear, his music combined Jewish musical idioms with avant-garde style in the manner of Bartok. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z There is a consistent theme throughout Mr. Train’s seemingly disparate books: fondness for the elements of everyday life that may be overlooked — names, idioms, common fruits — and a demand for vigilance to appreciate them. John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z No other ballet school remains so firmly identified with the stylistic idiom of one ballet master. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z The synergy of guitars, amplifiers and effects spawned new idioms, while manufacturers’ profits rose and fell with hit makers’ equipment choices. Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “Epic” belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The “Awakening” kids sing in a modern idiom as a manifestation of rebelliousness; why the villagers in a hidebound Polish shtetl do is far less satisfactorily justified. ‘Yentl’: Pop music in the shtetl Pärt ’s idiom here is what you would expect from this composer — solemn, unhurried, evoking the Renaissance and the minimalists but with a radiance all his own. Dudamel leads a dark and satisfying dose of Mozart and Pärt 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z When it comes to identifying what these words and phrases are, there are three terms that bump into one another a lot: idiom, slang and cliché. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The idiom often resembles, or borrows from, hip-hop style, with isolated movements of limbs and muscles passing like currents through the body. Alvin Ailey Dancers Return Like Conquering Heroes 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Of the various idioms meant to explain away all manner of toddler outbursts, these are the milder examples. We call them ‘terrible twos’ (and worse), but toddlers are just learning how to be people 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Its cocktail of catchy, demotic idiom and serene grief, together with the ordering of its four-in-one movements, paired well with the Mahler. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z There’s an original score by Adam Crystal, contemporary-classical in idiom, with aspects of minimalism and melody. Review: Washington Ballet Scales New Heights via the Classics 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z When in Vail, though, what you see is how these returning artists extend themselves here — tackling new idioms, developing new partnerships, working on choreographic premieres — as nowhere else. At Vail Festival, Dance Artists Renew and Extend Themselves 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The exercise of trying to make the idiom work in English, to provoke precisely the same emotion, brought my native language to life for me. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z Better still, his approach to each idiom influences the others. Fiery flamenco meets smoldering jazz in Chano Dominguez's pianism 2011-02-23T16:08:00Z The program revealed the ensemble’s familiarity with folk idioms: Some of its core members perform with the Silk Road Ensemble and regularly play — and improvise — in a number of ethnic traditions. The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Whatever the idiom, it sounds as if the band means it. South by Southwest Music Festival: 17 Acts That Stood Out 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Wisely, Mr. Huang taps this musical idiom judiciously in “Dr. Sun Yat-sen.” Opera Review: Hong Kong, Not Beijing, Sees an Opera Laced With Revolutionary Zeal 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z Next week’s lineup: On Tuesday Alastair Moock and Friends, who combine folk music with comedy, and on Thursday Robbi K & Friends, who offer tunes in jazz, pop and world music idioms. Spare Times for Children for June 15-21 2012-06-14T22:46:48Z Mr. Hyla, a popular figure whose efforts to meld rock and jazz with classical idioms had a structural exactitude, died last year in Chicago at 61. Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays a Tribute Concert for Lee Hyla 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Roumain skillfully folds gospel, funk, jazz and contemporary classical idioms into the score. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Some of our shows revisit history in contemporary terms by looking at new idioms as a fresh way to explore historical figures or canonical texts. Alex Timbers and Les Freres Corbusier Do History as Mash-Up 2010-04-04T02:53:00Z It also was funny, engaging and appealing, embracing a wide range of musical styles and successfully blending operatic tradition — it takes off from Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” — with a contemporary musical idiom. An opera revisited, on a new scale 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Which reflects both the intelligence of adopting an easily accessible, everyday color as an idiom of opposition and how hard it will be to combat. The Color of Protest 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z You could feel how precise — and often how complex — the musicality of the various idioms is. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The idiom, though covering a range of moods and tempos, is generally classical-playful. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z The man was from a Tamil Nadu folk-dancing family of a completely different idiom; the woman was American, of a family of Sri Lankan extraction. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z Like other recent adaptations, “What If They Went to Moscow?” retains Chekhov’s characters and structure, while modernizing circumstances and idiom. ‘What If They Went to Moscow?’ Review: Chekhov, Sliced and Spliced 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The band mixed and matched musical idioms with conversational ease, from the reggae treatment of Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line” to the West African feel of the guitars in “Come to Me.” Concert review: Bonnie Raitt at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-20T06:10:00Z Although Dvorak hadn’t originated the concept, his endorsement of incorporating these melodies and idioms into “classical” music spurred a vigorous, racism-laced debate. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z While not a Spaniard, Rimsky-Korsakov caught much of that country's idiom in his Capriccio espagnol, and here the performance pulsated with colorful exuberance. Symphony, soloist shine in short-notice program change 2012-06-08T17:52:03Z It would fuse classical leitmotifs with the African-American gospel, folk and jazz idioms that had fueled much of his show music and his great "Rhapsody in Blue." Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z These little quirks of idiom not only give the poem force and freshness, they seem to suggest the assimilations that the speakers are already sharing. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z “On one hand, they are steeped in Western idioms,” she said. Review: Art Shaped by Thailand's Changing Landscape 2010-11-22T12:09:00Z His fine new album, “The Time Verses,” balances urgency and poise; you hear his decades of exploration across idioms washing up onshore. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The English idiom was authentically slightly off, but would a Parisian obstetrician really use so many emoticons? Isn’t it plain good manners to reply to my text after our first date? 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Aronofsky certainly creates a mood of paranoia and incipient madness, embellishing the traditional horror-movie idiom of tracking shots and shock cuts with eerie sound effects and digital tricks. The Oscars: Natalie Portman Embraces Monster and Victim 2010-12-31T20:48:10Z If her way of absorbing native musical elements into Western classical idioms calls to mind similar multi-cultural explorations by Osvaldo Golijov, Frank's music avoids the populist slickness that sometimes undermines his scores. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z She doesn’t stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z Ueno’s score — for the two performers and electronics — is an analogue to code switching, with faux classical and traditional Korean music, along with ’70s pop and contemporary avant-garde idioms. Two Musicians of Color Are Creating Their Own Space 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The instruments are hand-played, the vocals are scratchy growls, and the songs revisit Mr. Richards’s favorite idioms — blues, country, reggae, Stonesy rock — for some scrappy storytelling. The album was recorded on analog tape. Keith Richards on ‘Crosseyed Heart’: It’s Solo Rock ’n’ Roll, but He Likes It 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The name translates as “north,” a reference to the Spanish idiom meaning “losing the north,” or acting in an erratic or misguided manner. The New Minimalism: How to Marie Kondo Your Wardrobe 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z His “Sea of Sorrows” choreography is a skillful imitation of the idiom widely established by Jiri Kyliàn: There’s little human individuality, since everyone onstage is homogenized by the same emotion — in this case, inexplicable grief. Review: Marcelo Gomes Returns to Honor Frederick Ashton 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Still, Ms. Beiser’s performance was riveting and thoroughly wedded to the idiom, just as her earlier rock-outs and reverential meditations had been. Review: Maya Beiser Offers a Concert of Both Rock and Reverence 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z And I love Rash’s precise use of the Appalachian idiom, never “regional” in any limiting sense, but always authentic. ‘Above the Waterfall’ review: A powerful tale of modern Appalachia 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Price’s engagement with Black folk idioms in her symphonies and chamber music has also entered the spotlight as listeners have encountered these works for the first time. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The Leontovych Society had found a corollary in the Association for Contemporary Music, an organization based in Moscow that sought to merge modernist idioms with revolutionary ideals. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z |
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