For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A register is a distinctive part of a vocal or instrumental range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Consider: The United States has been instrumental in the overthrow of truly genocidal dictatorships. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “She’s sixty-six, and her memory is better than mine and she looks young and healthy. She has more of her teeth than those who were instrumental in sending her to the institution.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From 4 P.M. into the evening, I was lectured on military science by Colonel Tadesse, who was also assistant commissioner of police and had been instrumental in foiling a recent coup attempt against the emperor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s name, reader, was Miggery Sow And though she did not yet know it, she would be instrumental in helping the rat work his revenge. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was in honor of the two men on the board of the Welberg Foundation who had been instrumental in getting her husband the grant. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Asserting that he had been instrumental in writing it, Welles wanted control of its future use. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was instrumental in 12’s destruction. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Another critical factor was that it was not only the Alice Pauls and other upper-middle-class women who were instrumental in women gaining the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Like how he used to make beats, and sell instrumental tapes to aspiring rappers and singers in the neighborhood. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

We cannot expect an exception for the instrumental conditioning of autonomic functions. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Practice describing different timbres of music—play different types of music on Pandora, for example, and try to describe the timbres you hear, including the vocal timbre of the singer or instrumental timbres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He also regarded as suspect the instrumental nature, and murky methods, of rhetorical persuasion—which, by contrast with the strict logic of philosophical inquiry, they are. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After Tristran's death, there were those who claimed that he was a member of the Fellowship of the Castle, and was instrumental in breaking the power of the Unseelie Court. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The essence of that originality was to take what composers normally did in symphonies - long, abstract, streams of ‘pure’ instrumental music - and turn it into a sung drama on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most important* relationships, and damage another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To emphasise the intended awe and majesty of the occasion, Louis XIV’s long, mythological ballets would begin with a self-contained instrumental introduction, or opening. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Aristotle sought to rescue rhetoric from its place as a purely instrumental art: the highest rhetorical accomplishment, for Aristotle, was an expression of arete, or virtue. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Thus the Ballet Comique de la Reine can be viewed as a significant landmark not just in the history of ballet, but also in that of instrumental music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I bet Coach Johnson was instrumental in convincing Will to turn in his girlfriend. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In effect, Jay’s Treaty was a repudiation of the Franco-American alliance of 1778, which had been so instrumental in gaining French military assistance for the winning of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most music for large instrumental groups such as bands or orchestras is contrapuntal at least some of the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t say Papa was one of the leaders of the Movement or that he was instrumental in getting Garvey out of jail for supposed mail fraud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Multi-part performance in either the vocal or instrumental milieu is cognitively beneficial, and will increase a child’s musical competence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He beat-boxes the instrumental and pops his chest and booty to the rhythm. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

An instrumental version of “Monster Mash” filled the elevator for an awkward moment until they reached the seventh floor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I know this because I can smell their microwave popcorn, andI can hear the tire-screeching noises and instrumental sound effects and gunfire. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The natural rhythms inherent in rhyming can become the basis for exploration, improvisation, vocalizations, and instrumental creativity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The first half was instrumental, with only a horn playing the melody, and then a woman started singing along in the second half. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It sounded like that instrumental old-folks stuff played in doctor’s office waiting rooms. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Every night there was some kind of performance, including classical concerts performed by instrumental students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So it became imperative to establish design templates for instrumental music, even if the template was hidden beneath the surface of the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

An instrumental version of “Monster Mash” filled the elevator for an awkward moment until they reached the seventh floor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Verbal and operant responses of young children to vocal versus instrumental song performances. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So, perhaps, was music, both vocal and instrumental; excavating Caral, Shady discovered thirty-two flutes made of pelican wingbones tucked into a recess in the main temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They sang without instrumental accompaniment—or, more accurately in their case, without any interference. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The experimental psychologists have recently found that visceral organs can be taught to do various things, as easily as a boy learns to ride a bicycle, by the instrumental techniques of operant conditioning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the last three years alone, his lordship has been crucially instrumental in establishing links between Berlin and over sixty of the most influential citizens of this country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The band treated the Kennedy Center crowd precisely the same, even giving shouts and yips in Spanish during the instrumental interludes. Pedrito Martinez gets Kennedy Center crowd’s appreciation to appear in its feet 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

But in between he went instrumental, layering the steady beat with Minimalist arpeggios and percussion textures, revealing tiers of pulse and syncopation, blurring and focusing sounds to carry the music into a wilderness of rhythms. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field 2013-05-19T22:05:31Z

My problems were exacerbated by the absence of gloves — my hands were growing numb from the cold — and by my mounting performance anxiety, since each instrumental group would be given a solo at some point. Solstice Serenades in New York City for Make Music Winter 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

For the lawyer, fiction writing is clearly useless, and it certainly has no instrumental value for Jongsu’s father. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

He claimed he was instrumental in creating the band's sound and their success. Keeping Bob Marley's Legend alive 2013-09-25T14:22:50Z

Craven offered some notes but was not an instrumental force. Creators of MTV's 'Scream' aim to scare up new glory with fresh blood 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Black militias were instrumental in repelling the invaders, a role some scholars argue was silenced in historiography, diminishing the role of black Puerto Ricans in the island’s narrative. This Puerto Rican Sculptor Meets Disaster With Spirit 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Wagner said she thought “I Am Jane Doe” would be instrumental in “helping drive this bill across the finish line.” A movie about online sex-trafficking might actually get laws changed 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

He was instrumental in helping the company lay claims in Palestine, “except there was a key detail in all this that Socony saw no reason to trouble the Turks with,” Mr. Anderson writes. Books of The Times: Scott Anderson’s ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ Revisits Legends 2013-09-08T20:10:15Z

Letterman would later become instrumental in popularizing Waits’ newer — and much more eclectic — sound off his 1985 concept album “Rain Dogs.” This tender Tom Waits tribute to David Letterman will make you weep 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Jurowski positioned the soloists behind the instrumentalists; it more or less worked in Pierrot Lunaire, where the voice is sometimes one strand of the instrumental argument, but not in the Four Last Songs. LPO/Jurowski 2010-06-16T21:00:00Z

To decipher some of the more cryptic aspects of the archive, Ms. Olinghouse turned to Carolyn Lucas, the company’s associate artistic director, who was instrumental in documenting Brown’s work. Watching a Choreographer Build: Trisha Brown’s Unusual Archive 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

That Ginastera’s variations are not performed more often is a shame: with their engaging instrumental solos they offer a delightful alternative to introductory works like Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.” Music Review: Riverside Symphony at Alice Tully Hall 2013-06-07T21:20:02Z

Most of his instrumental works bear descriptive titles, many drawn from Greek drama. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z

In an hour and a half, he had built what could easily be a song’s middle section or an album’s instrumental interlude. Tame Impala Makes Music for Loners. But Now Kevin Parker Plays the World’s Biggest Stages. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

He's somebody I've been seeing for 15 years — he triggered the whole instrumental hip-hop rebellion that led to people like J. Dilla, Flying Lotus. Ten picks for beginners and experts at Decibel Festival 2012 2012-09-20T17:01:04Z

As well as all the incredible songs, he wrote so much amazing instrumental film music. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z

Among its tracks is an instrumental version of the traditional spiritual “City Called Heaven,” with a stark, commanding prelude on solo violin. John Blake Jr., Versatile Jazz Violinist, Dies at 67 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Foals started as an instrumental group and lyrics were something he "just tagged on". Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z

Also picking up multiple awards was Appalachian Road Show, which won best new artist and instrumental group of the year. Billy Strings wins bluegrass entertainer of the year award 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

He has a commanding though gentle presence, a rich baritone that arches over the lush instrumental patterns laid down by the band and complimented by fine harmonies. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Their sense of ensemble brings to mind the precision and cohesion of such legendary instrumental groups as the Budapest String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. Review | Chanticleer shows the power of music 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

He is instrumental to the tear-jerking third act of “CODA,” and he has a personal narrative every bit as compelling as what you see on the screen. Oscars 2022 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s my dream to write a hit instrumental song that people will always remember,” he says. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

“She was instrumental in recruiting the U.S. business leaders who participated, as well as thinking through the agenda,” the official said. Is Ivanka Trump building bridges — or walking a tightrope? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Some team — I’m not even sure what team it was — years ago asked to license an instrumental piece of music that I’d done, a pretty obscure piece of music, too. David Byrne discusses his new documentary “Contemporary Color”: “Whoever decided what culture is, has kind of overlooked this” 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

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

Lisa Bellanger, executive director of the National American Indian Movement and Benton-Banai’s former assistant, said he was instrumental in the group’s work using treaties to protect the rights of Indigenous people. Benton-Banai, co-founder of American Indian Movement, dies 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Yet it has many striking moments that Garry Clarke, five vocal soloists and the instrumental group of 20 nimbly and colorfully set before us. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z

The aesthetic now, he added, is “about instrumental beats and letting it ride on its own, and a guy that can get up there with only a laptop and tear the room apart.” MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

Meanwhile, Fox News was instrumental in pulling the news industry rightward, catering to alienated right-wing news consumers while insisting their competitors didn't respect conservative principles and weren't delivering the full truth. The late night rise of "Gutfeld!" is telling us something. It isn't funny, but that doesn't matter 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

Now he needed to figure out something smaller but crucial: how to apply the organ stings, ominous monotones and other instrumental plot thickeners that would underline the satire and keep the audience on track. Where Do Theater Artists Go to Ask Questions? Poughkeepsie. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

In its most famous recording — a rendition by the great Louis Armstrong — we get both the instrumental treat, with Satchmo’s signature trumpet on the intro, and the stargazing reverie of the vocals. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

The project was instrumental in achieving two goals simultaneously. In Chesapeake Bay, Poplar Island is a man-made miracle 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

It wasn't ever about being led by a frontman, it was always about being driven from the back, instrumentally, rather than the front. Battles: 'Our music is?supposed to be fun' 2011-08-06T23:05:35Z

Despite this, Yorke said he could never imagine making an instrumental album. Radiohead's Thom Yorke: I'll sue David Cameron if he uses our music 2013-01-17T10:41:38Z

The same goes for any musical performance, instrumental or otherwise, that’s been rendered in a proper studio—although interestingly, with just a handful of exceptions, the isolated-track wormhole echoes only with disembodied human voices. The Power of the Isolated Vocal Track 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Britten's early, ambitiously serious concerto gave the young players an exercise in finding eerie instrumental complements to a fleet soloist. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

All animals may be equal, to borrow from Orwell, but only because of their instrumental value to humans. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fulmer’s piece was one of several that used an electronic track, though a fairly subtle one built of conventional instrumental sounds. Critic?s Notebook: The New and the Newer; Hold the Preconceptions 2011-08-09T22:58:14Z

The album is a mostly instrumental suite of warm and dreamy synthetic soundscapes that occasionally breaks into pulsating techno or, when he exercises his vocal chords, gentle and melodic electro-pop. Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Charnas also clarifies the story around “Donuts,” an instrumental album that Stones Throw Records released right before Dilla’s death that has become a key entry point for new generations of fans. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

In addition, Mr. Lichtenstein was instrumental in helping the choreographer Mark Morris acquire a derelict state-owned building a block away from the academy in 1998. Harvey Lichtenstein, Who Led Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rebirth, Dies at 87 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

He won most recently in 2006 in the category of best country instrumental performance for his playing on "Whiskey Before Breakfast." North Carolina folk artist Doc Watson dies at age 89 2012-05-30T00:45:43Z

Paul Shaffer recorded a jaunty instrumental for the animated theme, which seems to be the show’s lone nod to Letterman’s old format. Review | Letterman sits down with Obama, but both men seem rusty and off their game 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Now 77, he has made a freewheeling new instrumental album, “Who’s Calling.” SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Still, Matheuz brought an immediacy to fleshy instrumental passages and kept the performance on unerring rhythmic footing. Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

His mother taught instrumental music, and his father was an educator and later a public defender. Lance Reddick, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ Dies at 60 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Photograph: AP/Canadian Press Tangerine Dream's lovely instrumental Breath Kissing Matter's Mouth suggests the burgeoning and multiplying of life on Earth, the incredible fecundity of nature. Readers recommend: songs about breathing – results 2013-05-02T13:00:06Z

Although the text is always front and center in Bach’s church music, its impact is pointed and enhanced by the composer’s imaginative instrumental accompaniments. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

The Warhol retinue was instrumental in paving the way for what would later become L.G.B.T.Q. visibility. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the producer said his next project will be The Planets, an instrumental album he has been working on "for a long time". Dr Dre says Detox will be his final album 2010-11-23T11:56:00Z

Debussy wrote his short cello sonata in 1915, the first of a planned series of six works for diverse instrumental combinations; he finished only three. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

"We're convinced Grand Avenue is where it's at," Broad said at the unveiling held at the nearby Walt Disney Concert Hall, a Frank Gehry-designed structure that Broad was instrumental in helping fund. Billionaire unveils design of downtown LA museum 2011-01-07T00:07:09Z

The jesting instrumental writing in this nearly 20-minute section adds a new dimension to the opera’s presentation of the Dionysian cult, which is otherwise characterized with terrifying, destructive timbres. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

I considered an instrumental track to be finished, whereas now, I need to know what the song is about in my mind at least, before I consider it presentable to the rest of the band. Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The instrumental ensemble led by Simone was accomplished, too; an experience for musicians and audience alike. Dido and Aeneas – review 2013-04-01T15:01:19Z

The soundworld of instrumental rattlings and rustlings is still there, with many textures poised on the boundary between defined pitches and what many would regard as noise, but the musical journey is clear to follow. Lachenmann weekend - review 2010-10-25T21:29:00Z

Three of the scores were vocal, three instrumental. Music Review: Roaming Freely (and Magically) in a Musical Universe 2011-05-02T22:23:55Z

On record there are confines and boundaries, but onstage there aren’t, and whatever concision Cloud Nothings achieved on this album was often threatened by its interest in extended, ineffectual instrumental passages. Music Review: Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall 2012-01-28T02:24:57Z

Fortunately the songs are instrumental, since it’d be, well, different to coo to a baby, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” or “I fell into a burning ring of fire.” Style Invitational Week 1278: Colt following 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

She played an instrumental role in the development of postwar American art, championing pop art, minimalism, ­language-based and conceptual work, and land art. A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Sheeran built most of the songs on instrumental tracks by Dessner: sparse piano or guitar chords leading to stately choruses, often burnished with somber string arrangements. Ed Sheeran Lets His Tears Flow on ‘-’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

There are few easier marks than Kenny G, the living symbol of simpering instrumental pop. Music Review: Garage a Trois, a Jazzy Jam Band, at Maxwell?s 2010-07-11T21:52:00Z

He made the instrumental colors of Puccini’s orchestral writing sparkle. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

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

But the instrumental colors and spiraling melodic lines held your interest. Music Review: ?Resonances of the Kugo,? Part of Music From Japan at Merkin 2012-02-19T19:53:15Z

Simon, the Paley curator, admits that streamers overeager to hide problematic material might inadvertently damage content instrumental to “the arc of television history.” What Actually Happens When a TV Episode Gets Pulled? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

It's always nice to start an album with a single, or perhaps a short instrumental to ease the listener in. New music: Gang Gang Dance ? Glass Jar 2011-03-03T15:10:00Z

The latest outing of the ageing Transformers franchise was saved by its popularity in China, which was also instrumental in driving The Fate of the Furious over the $1bn mark globally. 2017: the sequel … seven lessons for Hollywood after summer’s disasters 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

The composer of "Invisible Cities," the opera that created a sensation in 2013 when staged at Union Station, Cerrone began his song cycle in an otherworldly manner not unlike his opera's undulating instrumental style. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

The ensemble’s lineup adds a few guest players here to meet the composer’s instrumental requirements. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

For the most part that means discrete boosting without interfering with the instrumental balances created by the conductor. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Gina Duncan, an advocate with Equality Florida, said Planned Parenthood’s affiliates in Florida have been instrumental in pushing other providers to acquire the knowledge to care for trans patients. How defunding Planned Parenthood could wipe out transgender healthcare 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

After receiving Carlos’s email, they were all, one hopes, instrumental in Nicole and Carlos getting together. ‘Nicole From Last Night’: how one man’s quest for love led to a surprising sisterhood 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The instrumental music used in the trend is a track called “Obituary” by Alexandre Desplat, a French composer, which was part of the soundtrack to Mr. Anderson’s film “The French Dispatch.” How to Make Your Life Into a Wes Anderson Film 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Upstage in plain view, Todd Reynolds conducted Newspeak, Mr. Little’s instrumental ensemble, in a performance that aptly balanced precision, nuance and impact. Music Review: ‘Soldier Songs’ at Pace University 2013-01-14T22:39:57Z

From the sweeping opening notes of the overture to “Rodelinda,” Juilliard415 played the three instrumental works on the program with vigor and accompanied the singers with crisp sensitivity. Music Review: From Two Stars, Handel?s Sober Side 2011-04-04T21:52:01Z

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

These programs — theatrical as well as musical, vocal as well as instrumental — have taken on the reliability of holiday gatherings. Review: ‘Density’ Keeps Expanding the Flute’s Universe 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Burning Question: Kerry was instrumental in key diplomatic advances including the Paris agreement and the Iran deal. Is Everyone in Politics Writing a Tell-all? Yes. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Tyler Childers, a bluegrass-informed country artist whose largely instrumental protest album “Long Violent History” is nominated for best folk album, is among them. Brandi Carlile is Americana’s latest transcendent star. And she hasn’t forgotten her roots 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

One goal of the “Vivaldi Project” is to bridge the gap between fans of instrumental and vocal music. Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Most of all, the organ is the single most direct instrumental conduit to the ego. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Their instrumental contributions, prerecorded and played through speakers with meticulous spatial design, betray the emotions behind the straightforward singing. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

The instrumental contributions from the English   Concert under Harry Bicket are nicely done, but the disc as a whole is a   disappointment. Bach: Cantatas and Arias ? review 2011-03-10T21:30:00Z

Wonkiest instrumental of the week Party With Children. From iPad skateboards to Poster Boy, this week's winners and losers 2010-05-14T23:38:00Z

The title track, the group's a cappella original, is a highlight for its showcase of the unadulterated human voice; so is the instrumentally spare rendition of "Frozen's" runaway hit "Let It Go." Holiday music: Seth MacFarlane, Downton Abbey, Idina Menzel, more 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Voices are given prominence, orchestration restrained except in pivotal instrumental outbursts. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z

Three pieces were instrumental compositions commissioned for the occasion, and Adams conducted fervently sturdy performances with the L.A. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

As a recorded instrumental version of Burt Bacharach’s “Don’t Make Me Over” plays, she pulls on armor in the form of a silver beaded headdress and a shoulder harness, by Sera-Kim Huenergard. Dance Review: Taking the Audience Up Close and Personal, and Beyond Skin Deep 2011-05-13T22:33:10Z

It was impeccable instinct rather than the wisdom of age that characterised Nelsons's handling of the work, and the detail of the instrumental writing emerged to powerful and unifying effect. CBSO/Nelsons 2010-09-20T21:15:00Z

Odabella, despite her Amazonian nature and thirst for vengeance over Attila, introduces herself with an aria whose accompaniment is deliciously impressionistic in its instrumental delicacy and variety. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Different instrumental colors become strange goings-on capable of stirring the imagination. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Of the two works the Britten was the more successful realization, its prismatic colors and haunting spirit aptly conveyed by a splendid instrumental ensemble stationed in two corners of the room. Music Review: Juilliard Opera’s ‘Curlew River’ and ‘Riders to the Sea’ 2012-12-10T22:47:15Z

Mr. Shorter was the instrumental voice out front in Weather Report, and second only to Mr. Zawinul as an engine of original material. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

A long free-flowing instrumental section went nowhere after the promising start of "Playing in the Band." Grateful Dead pays slack tribute to legacy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Originally from Detroit, Johnny O’Neal is a jazz singer and pianist, whose sets run through Fats Waller, Bill Evans and Blue Mitchell, sometimes putting words to instrumental compositions. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z

Yet there is something weirdly celestial about the instrumental colors. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z

It's hard to overstate how instrumental Starbucks was to the flavored latte's rise. The extremely '90s history of the flavored latte 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The orchestra, based in New York, explores music made at the intersection of classical and contemporary instrumental music. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

A septet of low instruments would provide instrumental material held constant, as electronics, percussion, a high septet and then voices and more were added. Chaya Czernowin’s ‘Wintersongs’ at Miller Theater 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Would this be a May/Iommi instrumental LP, with vocals to be improvised by fans at home with their iPods? Brian May and Tony Iommi plan 'riffs album' 2013-02-15T11:46:24Z

Mysterious stretches of rumbling percussion segue into ritualized stretches with repetitive instrumental riffs and overlapping strands of melodic fragments. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

This is instrumental power-trio prog-rock for those who never had time for Rush and find the Mars Volta a bridge to nowhere; it’s greasy and physical and incredibly loud. Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z

And at the start and end of the long instrumental bridge — or whatever it is — Ms. Butcher, her voice echoed-up and edgeless, sings a single note that slowly rises high and disappears. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z

Michael Dorf, a music producer and the founder of City Winery, said he worries that klezmer, a strain of instrumental Eastern European folk music, is a fading language. Have Your Brunch and Listen to It, Too 2010-08-26T22:44:00Z

Little is perhaps best and deservedly known for his operas, including “Dog Days” and “JFK,” so this composer portrait is a welcome opportunity to hear some of his instrumental music. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The overall program was titled “Heart & Breath,” after a short instrumental duo by Richard Reed Parry, of the indie-rock group Arcade Fire, that opened a set of four works presented before the intermission. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The quartet absorb and explore new elements to blend complex instrumental sounds from contrasting emotions - manic or quiet, warm or cold. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z

Palmer was instrumental in changing that, but never mind. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The instrumental combo, conducted by the music director Emily Senturia, includes a fiddle, guitars, keyboards and drums, but the style is mainstream Broadway. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

And “Plath Heart” — with concise vocal phrases threaded through a maze of leaping, stop-start instrumental lines — envisions giving birth. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z

A coruscating parable of emigration, discrimination and violence, the work whips between ethereal choral chants and pummeling roars and shrieks, both instrumental and vocal. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

The Icelandic composer, who lives in Brooklyn, relied on irregularly timed long notes, the instrumental tones subtly altered by electronics. wasteLAnd and rest of new music scene in L.A. is thriving with a lowercase T 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

He was chairman of English Heritage and she was on the board of the Royal Opera House, which she was instrumental in rebuilding. Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z

It would all be so sinister, so savagely instrumental, if it weren’t so effective. Travis Scott Meets McDonald’s (It’s Lit!) 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

While colorfully scored, with vivid instrumental underpinnings, the work has moments that veer toward the saccharine and even the hokey, like the prerecorded voice in “Transformations,” the third section. Music Review: Divine Life Force, Please Meet Truth and Existence 2011-04-01T23:02:39Z

Rock was interviewed for the New Yorker profile on Jones because of his instrumental role in helping the road comedian finally land her big break onSNL. Chris Rock Criticized Jennifer Lawrence's Wage Gap Essay 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Which books were most instrumental to you in writing your new book? Michiko Kakutani: By the Book 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

But the steel drums, handclaps, maracas and pan pipes suggest an impressive instrumental and compositional range. New band of the day ? No 941: Beat Connection 2011-01-07T17:18:06Z

The program began with an instrumental interlude and recitative from Lully’s “Ballet de la Revente des Habits.” Music Review: ?Le Jardin de Monsieur Lully,? at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2011-09-26T21:49:55Z

But he was instrumental behind the scenes in getting Diane into the firm, and hence, in getting Maia in the door as well. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I had basically become a closeted Christian,” said Jim Augustine, 32, a member of Marble Collegiate Church who was instrumental in bringing Mr. Vines there to speak in August. Matthew Vines Won’t Rest in Defending Gay Christians 2012-09-14T22:53:06Z

Pearl trusts no one, but he comes to see Snow as instrumental to God’s final plans. Lost in the woods 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

A fair chunk of the sweeping Gershwin instrumental score wound up there, too. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-07T21:40:41Z

That recognition came from Held on the Tips of Fingers, an instrumental record which saw them reap some crossover success. Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Later, the evocatively titled “10,000 Scorpions” builds an instrumental patch of bass rumbles and twirling synth into the clip-clop shivers of “Faraway Lightning”. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

But when the band reached “March of the S.O.D.,” a furious instrumental by its side project Stormtroopers of Death, bodies began to fly across the room. Anthrax Is Still Here and Still Rocking 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Sometimes fraught exchanges between singers are prodded along by stubbornly repetitive instrumental riffs. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Mogwai, the Scottish band slated for Showbox at the Market on Saturday, plays almost exclusively instrumental music, yet a unique personality shines through its wildly dynamic, dramatic songs. Powerful Scottish instrumental band Mogwai at Showbox 2011-05-05T18:05:04Z

Arguably Mandel's most famous tune, it wasn't meant to be a song at all, at first, but an instrumental theme for the film "The Sandpiper." Songwriter Johnny Mandel to conduct at Jazz Port Townsend 2012-07-26T18:01:04Z

They ate Ethiopian food and listened to African jazz during the 10 days in September when they wrote and recorded instrumental tracks at Mr. Auerbach’s studio, Easy Eye Sound. Dr. John?s New Album ?Locked Down? and BAM Residency 2012-03-29T22:22:02Z

“Sometimes just communicating a mood is sufficient, all an instrumental piece needs to do,” Johnson said. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

That might not be a proper term, but no proper term suits the ensuing gestural weirdness, instrumental weirdness, vocal weirdness, electronic weirdness and poetic weirdness. Monday Evening Concerts is back with a bang, whimper, whistle, click and clang in 'Sideshow' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

When he played me the instrumental for Killer, I instinctively sang some verses I'd written over the funky introduction – but something was missing. How we made Killer, by Seal and Adamski 2013-03-11T19:30:01Z

A Chinese instrumental version of “Let It Go” from “Frozen” played on the sound system. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

In addition to ironing out discrepancies between the scores, he composed when he had to, supplying instrumental accompaniments, a missing song, an overture and other music to keep the work flowing. Colonial Roots at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C. 2010-05-30T22:11:00Z

The second half of the program featured selections from “Mercy,” “Impermanence” and “On Behalf of Nature,” all recent works written for a combination of vocal ensemble and instrumental accompaniment. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

He was instrumental in establishing the National Museum of Art of Mozambique in Maputo, the capital, and undertook several large public mural projects. Malangatana Ngwenya Dies at 74; Mozambican Painter 2011-01-09T02:26:09Z

It is largely a matter of instrumental and vocal colour: everything from Ensemble Elyma's fiesta of castanets, tambourines and guitars to the four-voice austerity of Ensemble Le Sans-Pareil's musical journey from Lisbon to Rio. Latin American Vespers 2010-08-24T15:08:00Z

But every day since 2017, Goldberg’s jazzy instrumental, “My Time to Fly,” has been served up to countless callers who are put on hold by the customer service lines of businesses large and small. The Jazzy Tune You Heard on Hold? This Part-Time Musician Made It. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

Land of CanAan's best moments are the most straightforward: the simpler, driven Try My Best, which combines dramatic strings and tinkling piano, the ethereally beautiful Find Your Way Back or sublime instrumental Repetition. Marques Toliver: Land of CanAan – review 2013-05-16T21:20:01Z

Should the Wisconsin Innocence Project, instrumental in his 2003 exoneration — but which subsequently declined to help him overturn his murder conviction — get involved again? ‘Making a Murderer’: Watched It All? Let’s Talk About It 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

It's a terrific tour de force for soprano, the feisty Piia Komsi in this recording, whose lines vaporise the texts into syllables and weave them into the microtonal webs of instrumental sound. Chin: Fantasie M?canique; Xi; Akrotischon-Wortspiel; Double Concerto - review 2011-03-24T21:45:00Z

Structurally, Savall composed the program as a sequence of instrumental and vocal pieces interspersed with narrated texts. ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Among works to be performed are "Cowboy Bob," "Night Flights," an instrumental rendition of Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Race You For It." Classical roundup: Bernstein at symphony and men's, women's chorus 2010-06-24T19:31:00Z

The set’s peaks were its instrumental passages: in the bell-toned surges of “Amazing Journey” and “Sparks” from “Tommy,” in the vehement funk of “Eminence Front,” in the jittery buildup of “Baba O’Riley.” Review: The Who Celebrate 50 Years Together by Going on Tour 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Heller, 40, was instrumental in getting Hanks involved in the first place. 'Everyone said: Don't ruin my childhood': director Marielle Heller on how her Mr Rogers film finally got made 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Though Soundgarden was instrumental in grunge becoming visible outside the Seattle clubs where it was honed, the band never really felt exactly of the genre for me: it was too dominant, too gutsy, too solid. Chris Cornell Had an Unforgettable Vulnerability 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Strozzi uses the voice to create four different moods, capturing in print what was then the common practice of improvising over an instrumental accompaniment. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The two solo movements pair the singers with specific instrumental colours. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

Mr. Rodenkirchen, who made some of the arrangements here, also performed a handful of instrumental works on flutes of various sizes. Music Review: Benjamin Bagby and Sequentia at the Morgan Library 2012-03-08T00:17:59Z

Get this album As of Dec. 1, the instrumental tune “Sleigh Ride” was the most played song of the holiday season, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Top 10 Overplayed Holiday Songs 2011-12-19T01:09:22Z

Large auditoriums brought in whole instrumental ensembles, working from cue sheets provided by the studios with specific titles keyed to moments in the film. Music Review: Keaton?s ?Sherlock, Jr.? With Stephen Prutsman Score - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:27Z

“Personally, I don’t like air guitar, air piano, air drums,” Harvard says about interpreting instrumental sounds. New staging of ‘Tommy’ to include Russell Harvard and Monica Lijewski 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

As Ray’s ambition grows, he also grows more self-interested, adapting a purely instrumental approach to other people that seeps into his home life. Review: ‘The Founder,’ the Story of a Supersize Businessman 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

This 30-minute piece comprises 10 instrumental excerpts from the 90-minute “Surrogate Cities,” completed in 1994, a work for large orchestra, mezzo-soprano and digital sounds that grappled with the phenomenon of the city. Music Review: A Musical Discourse On War and Cities 2011-03-20T22:08:36Z

One of their original compositions, an instrumental called “Catapult,” wound up in the trailer for “Wonder Woman,” from 2017. How the Cover Song Conquered Movie Trailers 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Invocation,” the first section, began with wild and unearthly recorded vocals, with Ms. Rivera singing with radiant conviction over the turbulent instrumental canvas. Music Review: Divine Life Force, Please Meet Truth and Existence 2011-04-01T23:02:39Z

As Craig Jenkins wrote for Vulture, "Nipsey was getting better at his craft, becoming a more pointed storyteller without sacrificing the subtle, unpolished, conversational tone that made him an instrumental voice in Los Angeles rap." Nipsey Hussle's remarkable legacy: Acclaimed rapper never stopped giving back to South L.A. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

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

I heard a performance of her impressive recent immersive work, “Le Encantadas,” in which the audience was surrounded by instrumental groups and electronic music from loudspeakers. Why does L.A. need its own summer classical music festival? For answers, look 6,000 miles away 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

And that the “new doors” that theater keeps opening have been instrumental in forging new paths of intellectual discovery.  Theater Talkback: Doing Your Homework 2010-07-22T16:31:00Z

You frequently see soloists conducting from the keyboard or with violin in hand, joining a long tradition but not quite freeing themselves from their instrumental origins. Soloist-turned-conductor impresses with NSO’s Mahler 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

By the time the American Civil War broke out in the 1860s, Tubman served as an instrumental spy for the Union Army. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

That’s the contrast I like — bringing something really, really heavy in the instrumental, and then there’s this somewhat lighter layer of the feminine over it. Kingdom Rises From the Underground With Off-Kilter R&B 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

At his best, Jarvis wonderfully recaptures the antic, convivial spirit of “The Pickwick Papers” while illuminating its sources and paying eloquent tribute to the gifted, conflicted man who played an instrumental role in its creation. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

These efforts paid off significantly, for the orchestra sounded more lush than before, but also more intriguing in its instrumental character. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z

He was instrumental in getting certain fillers approved by the F.D.A., and he found new methods of using them, such as injecting Botox to tighten the neck. Dr. Brandt, the Lonely Showman 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

He conducted himself, from the harpsichord, a five-piece instrumental ensemble, and he kept many of the da capo arias complete, with an eye to musical rather than dramatic integrity. Review | The In Series adapts an opera about a crazy, juvenile ruler to the standards of our time 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

In a lengthy statement on his website, McCartney said Martin was “like a second father” who played an instrumental role in the band’s career. Celebrities React to Death of Beatles Producer George Martin 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

That's what happened Wednesday night at the Woodland Park Zoo concerts when Norman Leyden, former pops-program director for the Seattle Symphony and Oregon Symphony, let loose on Pink Martini's instrumental jam-session, "The Flying Squirrel." Pink Martini gets a big lift from clarinetist Norman Leyden 2012-08-16T18:12:03Z

This time, Mitchell offered wordless vocals of her own, her sinuous lines woven carefully into the instrumental fabric. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z

The group, which performed at Roulette in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening, cast its net impressively wide for its New York City debut, presenting both vocal and instrumental works, early music and modern fare. Music Review: Cantata Profana at Roulette 2013-05-24T21:04:28Z

Atim said she believed that “Halle’s wealth of experience as an actor was instrumental in fueling her instincts as a director.” Halle Berry’s Fight for the Director’s Chair 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

That’s why vocal music, especially contemporary vocal music, is more direct than purely instrumental music. Alice, all grown up: Barbara Hannigan on singing in a new Wonderland 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Polls indicate that one demographic slice instrumental in electing Donald Trump was white women. Not sticking together: Why did women ignore the hate speech against Hillary Clinton? 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

The inner voices tended to recede into the sometimes complex vocal and instrumental textures. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z

Chatty and relaxed in sport coat and jeans, the 66-year-old, bald-pated singer-songwriter delivered an expertly paced show, mixing old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, vocals and instrumental jams. James Taylor performs at the Key — and how sweet it is 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

He was indeed a master of Baroque instrumental music. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z

His father responds — through instrumental music — on “Dear Dad/Response.” Getting up Close with Glenn and Ted Nash, new duo in jazz 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Working with Sally Field was instrumental in helping me, pushing me and really encouraging me in that direction, giving me a sense of some confidence about that. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

But this colorful, restless score drew me in, with its passages of overlapping cyclic riffs, slowly heaving instrumental expanses and episodes of darting fragments, like some mystical dance. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

Francois will be instrumental in a plan hatched by then-recently elected President Nelson Mandela, played here by the aggressively noble Morgan Freeman. 2009-12-11T03:16:00Z

Her father would later become a citizen of the world, but his time in Dyess was instrumental in shaping his sound and his world view. Cash's 80th birthday, legacy to be celebrated 2012-02-07T11:25:08Z

The three purely instrumental works are less vivid, but still finely crafted; there's a real, distinctive musical mind at work in all of them. Gervasoni: Least Bee; Eyeing; Godspell; In Nomine R; Dal Belvedere di non Ritorno – review 2013-05-16T21:01:05Z

The track opens with a meandering two-and-a-half minute instrumental introduction, slowly building from a breathy synthesizer drone to the disorienting sound of numerous ticking clocks. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

“The explanation for my career was that I was instrumental for those few filmmakers who had a social conscience,” he later wrote. Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Before he became Nick Cave’s trusted sidekick in the Bad Seeds, Warren Ellis was crafting acclaimed instrumental albums with his trio, the Dirty Three. Album review: Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun' 2012-02-27T18:49:00Z

His greatest strength as a composer is as an orchestrator: he not only selects and combines instrumental colors in a precise and radiant manner but deploys them with enormous physical energy. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

They are instrumental in protecting indigenous customs by helping to create the Xingu national park, Brazil's largest. Shock of the new: cinema's fascination with indigenous peoples 2012-06-27T08:57:10Z

“Those first three months of his life are instrumental in the bonding process for the baby.” Surrogates left holding the baby as coronavirus rules strand parents 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Love and Quintero will each sing three songs associated with Anderson and Jones, respectively, accompanied by the SSO and the Garfield band, which will also perform three instrumental arrangements by Jones. Seattle Symphony’s Sonic Evolution returns, saluting Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

As was his brilliant contemporary, the late Davey Graham, Renbourn is fascinated by a wide range of styles, and this instrumental collection proves his playing and range are as remarkable as ever. John Renbourn: Palermo Snow ? review 2011-02-24T22:49:00Z

Now chairman of Disney, Mr. Iger was, by all accounts, instrumental in deciding that Mr. Kimmel was now producing such a show. Jimmy Kimmel’s New Time Slot May Seal Fate of ‘Nightline’ 2012-08-26T22:15:15Z

She played a key role in establishing the Center for Urban Horticulture, was instrumental in greening the Washington State Convention Center and founded the Northwest Horticultural Society. Celebrating a force of nature: Elisabeth Miller 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Her “Orlando” covers several hundred years over three hours, with a score of smoothly fleeting stylistic shifts and disorientingly fuzzy instrumental distinctions — what Neuwirth has described as a kind of androgyny in sound. Genre-Blurring, Politically Charged Opera Wins Top Music Prize 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

While the number of instrumental classical crossover artists seems to be growing, it’s not a new phenomenon. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

He blends her a cappella singing with sophisticated mixes of instrumental fragments and beats gleaned, without permission, from the YouTube videos of other amateur musicians. Review: ‘Presenting Princess Shaw,’ a YouTube Star in-the-Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Though the production uses a new critical edition of the score, the creative team took a playful liberty by interpolating Vivaldi instrumental music during a made-up scene depicting the actual competition. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z

When people lament the loss of instrumental music among youth, they are not lamenting the passing of a style so much as the changed circumstances of music-making. Bringing Tito Puente’s Fire to a New Generation 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

The program this weekend is a celebration dedicated to the memory of Diane Wolkstein, the author and storyteller who was instrumental in founding the series. Spare Times for Children Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Its absence in favor of a cranking instrumental build-up, in the version played at the Isle of Wight in 1969, was one of the reasons for that performance often being tagged as lifeless. The sadism, compassion and sheer liberated joy of “Like a Rolling Stone” 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

“We were on tour together, and while his band played an instrumental break, he leaned over and said, ‘Let’s make a record together.’ “I’m a blue guy in a red state”: John Mellencamp and the search for an American soul 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

She says Mara was instrumental in developing a paid internship program to help people break into the music business, and a high school music-business career day that included stars like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. KEXP executive director to retire after building the Seattle radio station into a global institution 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

And stadium public-address systems were designed for announcements and a bit of organ music, not for the pounding beat and rich instrumental textures of a rock band. Critic?s Notebook: McCartney at the Plate 2011-07-14T22:39:33Z

A beautiful and strange instrumental, building its guitar structures slowly, evoking a hot day at county level, and lasting about as long as it takes to sip a pint in the sun. Readers recommend: songs about cricket – results 2013-07-25T14:52:05Z

Media reports say that the court case is likely to be based on allegations that the famous Stairway to Heaven opening guitar riff loosely resembles guitar work on an instrumental called Taurus. Led Zeppelin face copyright fight 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Did I like it because of some biological truth about being female — something one might assume from Gottlieb’s article  – or because my socialization and beliefs are instrumental in defining my taboos? The truth about sex and equality 2014-02-09T01:00:00Z

Flamingo is a synthesized instrumental that sounds like the music for a ride in a World's Fair of an indeterminate era. Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z

Although much of Eno’s solo catalog is instrumental — soundtracks, ambient albums, video and multimedia projects — he is no stranger to songs. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

But a meditative quality suffuses even his purely instrumental works. Diverse Disciples Flock to an Arvo Pärt Tribute 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

But even as the museum tries to become a kind of musical Smithsonian, the nation’s home for instrumental history, it can’t quite shake its old name. The National Music Museum, an Unlikely Eden in South Dakota 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Despite the titular exclamation mark, it was their most mature record to date, opening with a sombre piano instrumental, and taking melodic flights of fancy on the hit single Blue Savannah. 1,000 Number ones: A chart history 2013-11-23T00:50:59Z

They named an instrumental after Chess’s address, “2120 South Michigan Avenue.” Phil Chess, co-founder of music label that brought blues to the world, dies at 95 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

She worked as a city official on behalf of two mayors; for one — Edward I. Koch — she was instrumental in helping get elected. Remembering Bess Myerson’s Turbulent Public Life 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The symphony says Gregory was instrumental in establishing Utah as a performing arts center. Former Utah Symphony leader, 90, is dead 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

And Jones’ horn section, which had brayed in the instrumental break of “It’s My Party,” modulated with no sweat into a triumphant fanfare. Remembering Lesley Gore, a '60s Queen of Teen Angst 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Devil Wears Prada director Frankel was instrumental in ushering in the joyous new era of the people’s Streep, in which the actress was revealed to be as wickedly funny as she was dazzlingly dramatic. Hope Springs: Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are In Treatment 2012-08-07T17:07:24Z

Altogether, then, both vocally and instrumentally, this was a reading of the so-called "Resurrection" Symphony that was well worth resurrecting. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z

The quicksilver lyricism of Mr. Andres’s playing cleared a path from the narrative instrumental genius of a selection from Schumann’s “Waldszenen” to the uncompromising but freely communicative music of Thomas Adès’s Three Mazurkas. Review: Timo Andres and Gabriel Kahane Redefine Mixtape in Moving Concert 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

It sounds really rickety, as though the band are playing at the limit of their abilities, but the vocal and melody are so endearing they more than make up for any instrumental shortcomings. New band of the day ? No 1,058: Razika 2011-07-08T15:22:50Z

The Garfield High School Band I dominated the AAA high School Band category and was named the festival's overall outstanding high school instrumental ensemble. Seattle jazz singers and players score in Reno 2011-04-12T16:32:04Z

What stings more is that his sole nomination was for his instrumental performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and not an original song. They are musical icons, but they’ve never won a Grammy Award 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

The musicians are two classically trained Croatian cellists who perform as 2Cellos, and their genre is instrumental classical crossover — a small but surging subset of classical and pop music. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

One revelation among the session tracks is the original instrumental track of “Rain,” the B-side of the single that was recorded during the “Revolver” sessions and released before the album. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Another critic mentions the band’s “gang-war instrumental break,” and another that “the band doesn’t exactly look like they jumped out of Modern Romance magazine.” Review | How Steely Dan made its mark on music — and shaped an American cool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

In the second section, “O King,” a slightly earlier work repurposed by Berio, the singers softly, unintelligibly enunciate the phonemes of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name, punctuated by instrumental stabs. Review: The Philharmonic Points a Trippy Kaleidoscope at the Past 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

It was understandable why Taraji P. Henson called “Hidden Figures” important at a media event for that film, about a group of African American mathematicians — all female — who were instrumental in NASA’s early space programs. Fall is the season for Important Movies. But must issues trump excellence? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“We are citizens of our language, we don’t just sort of speak them instrumentally, we inhabit them.” Out Loud: Translation and Untranslatables 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

These purely instrumental works — “studies for operas,” Mr. Little suggested in an onstage interview — nevertheless tell stories. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

The cast’s instrumental skills also have influenced the orchestration. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The music, performed by a fine roster of singers and actors against a now sparse, now seething instrumental accompaniment shows this composer at his most inventive. Classical Playlist: David Lang, 'Fiamma del Belcanto' and More 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Wavering masses of sound are jarred with squiggly instrumental riffs. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

The music is the brief instrumental intro to Cantata 106, “God’s Time Is the Best of All Times.” CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

It's a performance full of air and lightness; the instrumental textures have a springing, dancing vitality, the voices are perfectly focused, and agile. Bach: Mass in B minor 2010-07-22T21:35:00Z

Amplification is needed for the outdoors, and the instrumental ensemble, which is off to the side and capably conducted by Kristof Van Grysperre, doesn’t have the presence it needs. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allom: We recorded the band’s instrumental tracks for “Paranoid,” and Ozzy’s scatting at Regent, where I worked as a staff engineer. ‘What Does Paranoid Mean?’ The Story Behind the Black Sabbath Hit 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Then a jazz-flute melody builds off of that buzz, and into a smooth R&B instrumental. James Blake Is As Crazy As Ever On His New EP 2011-12-20T18:10:45Z

Surely it's not beyond the wit of Henley and the coalition to devise a scheme where richer parents pay more for instrumental lessons, and poorer families pay less, or nothing? What's happening to the future of music education? 2011-01-14T15:45:35Z

Their last album was a poetry-and-music set, dominated by the writing of the late Mahmoud Darwish and aimed largely at the Arab world, but this recording displays their instrumental work at its best. Le Trio Joubran: AsF?r ? review 2011-03-24T23:20:01Z

And the giving Carnegie sonics allowed Muti to shape textures, adjust dynamics and balances, and bring out instrumental color in finer degrees. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z

His score is extraordinarily fluent: the vocal lines are perfectly judged and the instrumental writing full of wonderful touches, with marching band, jazz trio, solo harp and erhu players on stage. Kommilitonen! ? review 2011-03-21T18:28:49Z

His global appeal hit new heights in 1968 when his instrumental single “Grazin’ in the Grass” went to number one in the U.S. charts. Father of South African jazz Hugh Masekela dies aged 78 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

His instrumental album, Solo Piano, followed, drawing comparisons with Erik Satie, before a soft rock record titled Soft Power. 'Chilly' Gonzales: 'I like to be married to lots of people' 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

He says the music he heard in the dream gave him a missing instrumental line for “Sow in Tears.” The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stemme, singing with her distinctive darkly hued soprano and finely tuned theatrical instincts, became an active participant even in the purely instrumental numbers. Music Review: Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nina Stemme at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-26T22:53:14Z

It came in the slow section of “Tehillim,” Reich’s joyous 1981 setting of Hebrew Psalm texts for four solo, angelically high and pure-voiced women’s voices and a small instrumental ensemble with plenty of percussion. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Without a staging, the performance focused squarely on Wagner’s innovative instrumental sonorities; it was a revelation made possible by the pared-down format. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

The two Grammy nominations for “Axiom” boost Adjuah’s total to five, and he has now earned three consecutive in the best contemporary instrumental album category, following nods for “The Emancipation Procrastination” and “Ancestral Recall.” Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah was one of the last musicians to perform in a New York club. The resulting album could win him a Grammy. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Richardson is divinely droll, but the character feels wedged in for pacing purposes, even though Castle was in fact instrumental in helping the female workers at Dagenham fulfill their goals. 'Made in Dagenham' Review: Sally Hawkins Asserts Women's Rights 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z

For two of the instrumental figures in bringing the Avengers saga to its most recent wrap-up point, the answer seems to be: Not with a multiverse. "Avengers: Endgame" writers aren’t crazy about bringing more multiverse stories to the MCU 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

The Teddy Bears' Picnic spent the first 25 years of its existence as an instrumental, before lyrics were added in the Henry Hall recording of 1932. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z

There is something unrequited in his pursuit of Joe Biden, and then finally there is a kind of disillusionment, the realization that it’s an entirely instrumental relationship. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z

It is full of wonderfully teasing sounds, strangely tuned harmonies and moments of magical stillness, as though Abrahmsen was conjuring music of almost Wagnerian breadth and richness from the slenderest instrumental resources. Proms 27 & 28: Hall?/Elder; BCMG/Volkov 2010-08-07T12:03:00Z

Viewers unfamiliar with Martin's odd hobbies may share Oliver and Mabel's opinion that Charles' instrumental contribution is a little much. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

The lyrics are cool, dry, almost sexless, and six of the eleven tracks are instrumental. “Low”: Bowie’s crowning moment 2012-06-16T15:00:00Z

My Lonesome starts like a Tornados instrumental with a Hawaiian guitar highlighting the poignancy of the inconsolable protagonist's plight. New band of the day ? No 937: Two Wounded Birds 2010-12-23T17:08:23Z

The texture is thin, meaning individual instrumental lines are exposed, and the orchestra will be playing for the first time in the revealing Disney Hall acoustic. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

As she speaks, synths hum, bass rumbles and the occasional beats shuffle past: the effect sounds like the 1990s, specifically Massive Attack instrumental offcuts. Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! – review 2012-08-05T17:57:31Z

Lee’s “Last Mile” is most alluring in its otherworldly opening and closing instrumental effects. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

True to form, Van der Aa's instrumental writing held one's interest throughout, fast moving in contrast to the unvaried writing for voice. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

This 5/4 time instrumental finds them at their most inscrutable yet beguiling. The F&M playlist 2011-07-07T20:37:01Z

Her clarinet-mellow voice provided the spine of the evening in eight arias, divided into four sets of two, with three instrumental interludes. Review: At Carnegie, Going Beyond the Rapid-Fire Vivaldi 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Campbell’s strings suggest distant waves moving across the horizon on the opening instrumental “Cycle,” a swoon-worthy set-up for the undulating “Morning.” Beck 'Morning Phase' review 2014-02-25T00:11:00Z

Playlists will include popular classical and instrumental music, as well as a number of English-language and international artists. Hymns replace pop on Radio Cymru 2013-01-01T11:35:28Z

Also from the archives: selected dance music from the 18th century that constitutes "the earliest written evidence of purely instrumental music in Peru." 'Caminos del Inka' brings 'hidden' music of South America to Seattle Symphony 2010-10-21T20:20:00Z

His instrumental contributions were limited to a pair of brief piano-plus-vocal moments, which were affecting in their vulnerability but a touch too tentative to come across as secure. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

An avid experimenter with musical styles and instrumental combinations, he also collaborated with the virtuoso accordionist Tommy Gumina in the 1960s. Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Many songs follow the same pattern, his deep, relaxed voice matched by sturdy riffs and a swirl of overdubbed instrumental work. Hassan Erraji: Awal Mara 2010-09-02T21:45:00Z

One counterpart might be the frail music of Salvatore Sciarrino, the Italian composer who uses extended instrumental techniques to create delicate sounds that often stay at the pianissimo level. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

Mr. Zorn is perhaps underrated in his sensitivity to different instrumental groupings. A John Zorn Weekend — 10-Hour Marathon Concert Included 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The truth: Less sweat, please, more jazzy complexity and instrumental chops. New band of the day ? No 771: Tweak Bird 2010-04-22T14:04:00Z

Much of his music, with its glittering instrumental palette, can certainly have a synesthetic effect on the listener. At Mostly Mozart, a Menagerie of Bird-Related Works 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

The program also features several instrumental excerpts by Handel. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z

Her liberal father encouraged her writing and one of her brothers, Henry, was instrumental in launching her literary career. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

She and the society were instrumental in getting Roth to celebrate his birthday in Newark. Roth's 80th cause for Newark, NJ, celebration 2013-03-20T11:51:11Z

It has the CD debut of “Beat City” and “I’m Afraid,” vocal and instrumental, as well as Newborn’s score, including music written for but not used in the film. Secrets of the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” soundtrack: “When you can hear the vocals, you say, ‘Oh my God, this song is about Cameron'” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Unlike opera composers whose orchestral music reflects both the conscious and unconscious emotions of the characters, Sciarrino writes instrumental parts that summon their environment. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

He was instrumental in sending Essex on doomed foreign missions. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The late seafood guru Jon Rowley was instrumental in developing the restaurant’s oyster program 25 years ago — the resulting annual Oyster Riot is one of the social season’s hottest tickets. Review | Old Ebbitt Grill remains a mouthwatering monument in D.C. 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Much of the music — about nine hours’ worth for the typical novel — is instrumental or ambient noise. Bells and Whistles for a Few E-Books 2011-08-23T21:59:39Z

The exhibition opens with work by the two artists most instrumental in shaping the school. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

She has also been instrumental in getting legislation passed that regulates the sale of acid and gets compensation for the victims. Acid attack survivors take the catwalk in London fashion show 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Adventurous programming, as ever, is on offer from this vocal and instrumental ensemble, this time exploring so-called ancient groove music and the evolution of dance music, from Machaut and Monteverdi to Reich and Gorecki. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The score evolves in a flow, sometimes barely audible, of isolated instrumental gestures and fragments against a near-continuous backdrop of rumbles, hums and pedal tones. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

Before 1914, wars were not typically considered pointless, gratuitously violent enterprises; they could be foolish or misguided, but they were generally considered instrumental exercises of political power. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

The instrumental music was vital and fresh as performed by a terrific onstage band led by Christopher Youstra; but the songs hewed close to Bizet’s originals. A jazzed-up ‘Carmen’ goes where Carmens have gone before 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Better to leave that to the experts, and who better than Weird Al to perform parody lyrics set to our favorite instrumental show themes? Weird Al’s Emmys parody reveals that he doesn’t watch TV 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Originally wordless with piano accompaniment, Clein and Drake show how easily they transform into charming instrumental miniatures. Kod?ly: Sonata Op 8; Sonatina; 9 Epigrams; etc 2010-05-27T21:04:00Z

And he was instrumental in bringing Ms. Rutter to the center to succeed Michael M. Kaiser as president. She’s Putting Her Mark on the Kennedy Center 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Podcasts were instrumental in radicalizing and galvanizing that movement,” he said. On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Muti brought out instrumental details almost every other conductor glosses over or ignores. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z

Comden, Green and Bernstein spent those weeks in a hotel room, smoking and pounding out songs and instrumental passages. Seattle Symphony to perform ‘Wonderful Town’ in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

But the versions heard on Tuesday were instrumental. Music Review: ‘Fats Waller’ Opens the Jazz in July Series 2013-07-17T20:19:04Z

Mr. van Zweden began with a boldly unconventional piece by a young American: Ashley’s Fure’s dark, strange, exploratory “Filament” for orchestra, three instrumental soloists and a chorus that moves around the space. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

His translation is literal — he responds to the five colors on Mondrian’s canvas with five vocal and instrumental groupings — and yet not derivative. When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage

Epstein was instrumental in the rise of the Fab Four only to die at the age of 32 at the height of their success. Cumberbatch 'lands Epstein role' 2012-11-01T09:59:08Z

The program will alternate sections of songs with interludes of instrumental music. Gallery Concerts’ ‘Strike the Viol’ presents two concerts of English music from the 1580s to the 1680s 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Their starkly contrasting moods are conveyed with chromatic instrumental writing and Sprechstimme vocal lines, which were effectively delivered by Ms. Shelton. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z

A renaissance of sorts got underway, an upwelling of pride that became ever more energized as the canoe’s navigational achievements and successes — all still performed with no instrumental help — accumulated. How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

We go back to the folk genre next and a wonderful instrumental by Anne Briggs. Readers recommend: songs about rabbits – results 2012-08-23T14:39:00Z

The writing is evocative yet elusive as it addresses cultural milestones, shared passions and instrumental places, notably Alabama. National Book Award finalists for poetry

Usual textures abound in Ms. Saariaho’s writing; each part of the features different instrumental combinations. Dance Review: Moving Preciously to the Music, Sometimes Stealing Away With It 2010-09-23T21:53:00Z

“Ten x Ten,” for example, is a series of screenprints made by collaborative pairs of artists and keyed to an album of modernist instrumental music — cool on Side A, warm on the flip. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, its popularity not only obscured its authentic character but also caused Handel’s “wider musical achievement in the field of opera, church music, chamber cantatas and instrumental compositions” to be overshadowed. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

While the instrumental doubling adds color and zest, it also tends to obscure the text. Together, the Sebastians and Tenet Perform Motets 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Knight as Chad Griffin, the political strategist instrumental in spearheading advocacy efforts that led to the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in June of 2013. With “When We Rise,” ABC gives viewers a noble if uneven portrait of the ongoing struggle for LGBT rights 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

In that post, Vasconcelos was instrumental in making a fateful decision: There would be murals — public murals, funded by the state and painted on community walls as an educational tool. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Through most of this brief album — just eight songs in 38 minutes, one of them an instrumental — Mr. Yorke mixes elegy and irritant as he questions and undermines song forms. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

One of Floyd’s earliest tunes, this upbeat instrumental rocker clocks in at close to 10 minutes on their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Why Doctor Strange shares its psychedelic DNA with Pink Floyd 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

She also notes that Wyeth was instrumental in launching the career of Horace Pippin, a major African American artist who lived in nearby West Chester, Pa. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

A strong quintet of vocal soloists compensated for some uneven instrumental solos. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center

Conducting from memory, he showed exquisite sensitivity to text and to Orff's magical instrumental textures. Spring bursts to life in Dudamel-conducted 'Carmina Burana' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

With a brief running time and modest scale, it is nonetheless dense, with thick textures emerging from its all-string ensemble and an affecting ambivalence in the final section of instrumental darkness and vocal ecstasy. Review: An Orchestra Offers a Novel View of Music History 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Just two female conductors appear on the schedules of New York’s major instrumental concert programs this season, according to WQXR. Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

A conductor could interpret the music as Classical, but Rizzi has been working with the Met Orchestra to bring out the mercurial tumult that courses through Cherubini’s instrumental writing. The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

Unlike the rhythmic exuberant Indian instrumental music so popular here several decades ago, this music, while full of beautifully sung ornamentation, was harder to warm up to at first hearing. ‘Serenade!’ vocal ensemble festival showcases the sounds of the world 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

Springsteen sustains a croon, backed by a pedal steel guitar, a cottony bass line and a string section; there’s a meditative instrumental outro. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Seattle Shakes could not afford the larger orchestration, and one misses the textures and colors of Weill's wider instrumental palette. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z

The exhibition also has a soundtrack that will be familiar to fans — it’s a reorchestrated instrumental version of the show’s score, recorded in a Los Angeles studio by a 27-piece band. A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

The British Council report rightly argues for a "move from short-term transactional and instrumental thinking to long-term relationship building". Britain's soft power is greater than Gangnam Style – so appreciate it 2013-06-19T10:14:55Z

Titled “Projector,” it’s packed with spiny guitar riffs, angsty, psychedelic musings and plenty of indulgent instrumental breaks. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

US Ambassador to Italy David Thorne's letter to her was "instrumental" in bringing her to Rome, Mrs Clinton said. US envoy 'sealed Lady Gaga deal' 2011-06-28T16:47:42Z

What instrumental classical crossover has surely done, though, is opened up the possibilities for classically trained musicians to find homes in a variety of spaces, from orchestra halls to underground clubs. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Both live or die on precision, not only of instrumental rhythm and articulation, but also of the purity of sound among the vocalists. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

This close attention to accurate detail is instrumental to the artistry of the scenes. The Making of the American Museum of Natural History’s Wildlife Dioramas 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

And there are passages of needlessly awkward instrumental writing, with woodwinds, for example, asked to play breathless repetitive motifs. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

The orchestra also took center stage in Gershwin instrumental medleys, the “Lullaby” for strings and — a timely way to ring out an eventful year — the “Cuban Overture.” New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

The vocal writing is often generic, and some of his most effective instrumental effects are reminiscent of the finest dramatic film scores. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

He co-founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which was instrumental in overturning the ban on same-sex marriage in California. 'I want everyone to be happy': how Rob Reiner became a great director – and a political hero 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Some of this is necessarily Ms. Graham’s own invention, because Hartmann’s score includes long episodes of purely instrumental music with no clear instructions about what the audience is meant to see. Review: An Anti-Nazi Protest in the Guise of Opera 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The work moves between these emotional poles with smart instrumental writing, including some ferocious yet melodically supple passages in rhythmic unison. Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Those people we trained were instrumental in fighting Ebola because they were leading the effort on the ground, looking at daily cases and running that response within those communities,” she said. How to Stop a Disease From Crossing Borders 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

A minute-long instrumental intro sticks to syncopated bass and dub-echoed drums, in a 10-bar pattern that threatens to trip up unwary dancers as it seems to switch between 4/4 and waltz. glaive Showcases His Less Hyper Pop, and 13 More New Songs 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Apparently he was tightening songs up, filling them out and enriching each instrumental sound. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Daniel Ulbricht, leaping and turning with his usual dazzle, was no more than instrumental as Pierrot. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Returns to New York City Ballet 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless many glorious instrumental solos and lovely, pointed continuo playing carried the evening, even if the whole left one hungry. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z

It’s a set of 12 midtempo, clear-cut, guitar-driven songs and a closing instrumental, usually with just three or four chords, in the style that was once mainstream and is now called classic rock. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z

The individual sections take their character largely from instrumental color and harmony. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Thursday’s first of three performances was gratifyingly good: strong leadership from Morlot, impressive singing from the soloists and chorus, virtuoso instrumental performances from the orchestra. Seattle Symphony and Chorale’s performance of Bach’s ‘Mass in B Minor’ is gratifyingly good 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Gibbons’ voice still pierced through veils of hair, and she shyly turned her back to the audience during instrumental interludes. Portishead at the Aragon: The wait was worth it 2011-10-13T05:07:00Z

The two, best known as touring members of Arcade Fire, offered back-to-back instrumental sets that fused jazz, contemporary classical and avant rock into an unclassifiable evening. Essential tracks: Sarah Neufeld-Colin Stetson: mysterious, moody collaboration 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Storer’s choral groups and instrumental ensembles were its pride and glory — and a major fundraising source. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

After the subtlety of the instrumental chamber works, this was a radical shift in energy. Review: Matthew Welch Offers Ethereal Chamber Music at the Stone 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In fact, it’s not a stretch to say that younger generations have come around to Toto’s meticulous, sonically pristine approach to classic rock, which combines studio finesse, instrumental technique and onstage charisma and chemistry. “I’m not ready for the dirt nap yet”: How Toto outlasted the haters, took back their career and won over a new generation 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Virgin signed Mr. Knuckles to a record deal, and he did two albums for the label, the first of which contained “The Whistle Song,” an eight-minute disco-ey house instrumental built around a flute solo. Postscript: Frankie Knuckles Ruled the Club Floor 2014-04-04T23:00:28Z

As a founder of Anthology Film Archives, Mr. Mekas was instrumental in having “A Simple Story” included in its canon of “essential cinema.” Plot? Put That Aside in the Films of Marcel Hanoun 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Upton, after learning of the plight of Romanian orphans, publicized the brutal conditions and was instrumental in bringing an estimated two dozen orphans to America for medical care and adoption. Filmmaker who rescued Romanian orphans is killed 2013-03-30T03:31:05Z

Sunday’s rant wasn’t Trump’s first against Fox, which was instrumental in turning the reality-TV-show host into a viable political contender. Trump’s love-hate relationship with Fox News just turned to hate again. What’s that about? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

These films were instrumental in challenging the sclerotic Soviet rule and supplying some of the cultural energy which was to dislodge the first brick in the Berlin Wall. Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart | Peter Bradshaw 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

“She and the other celebrities have been instrumental in rallying national support for restoration of our beaches, wetlands and Gulf Coast environment.” Sandra Bullock to Remain Part of Oil-Spill Campaign 2010-08-11T14:21:00Z

Coleridge was instrumental in his initial rediscovery, but his reputation was only firmly reestablished by Eliot. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury

The exit is disheartening not only because the genuine laughs will be missed, but because Colbert’s satirical work has been instrumental in spearheading progressive arguments and critiques for years. Conservatives just aren’t funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen Colbert 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

For every passage of lyricism that emerges from instrumental dialogue, there is a phrase with the uncanny exactitude of Messiaen: a piccolo call, an agitated piano flutter. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The structures are elaborate, with vocal chorales and counterpoint blossoming while instrumental timbres transmute from acoustic realism to a psychedelic shimmer and back. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z

Del Barrio said the role was personally instrumental, helping them realize their own identity, which they had been questioning for years. 2021 was an extraordinary year of making the nonbinary ordinary 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

The work is full of stark color contrasts and instances of tone painting, with the instrumental ensemble sometime isolating the soprano’s voice, sometimes engulfing it in dense harmonies. Finding Beauty in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Darkness 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

In large measure, this was because of Lewis’s instrumental writing for the chamber group. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Strange made numerous recordings under his own name, including instrumental versions of “The James Bond Theme” and the theme from the movie “Goldfinger.” Billy Strange, ?60s Session Guitarist, Dies at 81 2012-02-25T03:50:42Z

Half of “Tears in the Club” is still instrumental. Kingdom Rises From the Underground With Off-Kilter R&B 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

"The Feeling" is the trio's masterwork so far, nine slow, slamming rock songs with ghostly singing, interspersed with instrumental music beamed in from some dusty cinema intermission. Seattle summer albums by Father John Misty and more 2012-05-18T13:13:59Z

“I don’t really get it. It’s instrumental to primarily instrumental, with a band name that nobody can pronounce. It’s still really bizarre.” ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

“I prefer dancing, or even just let me watch the performer on stage. When they’re doing lyrics, absolutely: interpret. But I know some deaf people like those aspects. They want to know what’s happening instrumentally.” New staging of ‘Tommy’ to include Russell Harvard and Monica Lijewski 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the 1930s, before the founding of Israel and in preparation for a possible Jewish state, he was instrumental in purchasing land that Palestinians lived on. ‘Blue Box’ Review: Grappling With an Ancestor’s Impact 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, he opted for gems such as “Queen of the Slipstream,” “So Quiet in Here,” the instrumental “Celtic Swing” and “Whenever God Shines His Light.” Van Morrison takes his music home with concert near Belfast 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

This is a ramshackle instrumental workout from Macca's debut solo album, which has rightly received so much acclaim in recent years that it's surely time to stop calling it "underrated". Readers recommend: Mr and Mrs songs ? results 2011-04-07T11:23:48Z

The group has been created for maximum bankability, familiarity and relatability, and to that instrumental end, it delivers exactly what you expect of it and not a single thing, idea or beat more. ‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Chicago threesome’s instrumental metal is brooding and intense, marrying heavy breakdowns with fastidious atmospherics. Your week in Seattle music: Patti Smith, E-40 and more 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

And the group as a whole won instrumental group of the year for the fourth straight time. Dailey & Vincent win entertainer of the year 2010-10-01T03:44:00Z

Poling, who retired in 1994, was instrumental in turning around Ford’s North American operations in the early 1980s when Japanese competitors were clobbering domestic carmakers. Former Ford CEO Red Poling is dead at 86 2012-05-15T17:17:02Z

Then it suddenly changes course, turning into an instrumental waltz-time interlude, and you hear Mr. Smith’s talking voice. Review: Estelle, Adam Birnbaum, and Sonny and the Sunsets Release New Albums 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The case of "Squid Game" has been instrumental in bringing discussions about translation to the fore. "Squid Game": Why you shouldn’t be too hard on translators 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Between them, the pair have been instrumental in opening up the west to the torrent of African music, particularly from Mali, that has now reached critical mass. Toumani Diabat?: Mali's modest maestro 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

On at least one cut, the Beatles are not heard at all instrumentally. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Historically, crop insurance and disaster relief programs have been instrumental in protecting farmers from financial loss because of natural causes. Farmers are reckoning with a harsh new climate reality 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

The instrumental writing reflects both Mr. Carter’s longstanding interests and his recent stylistic shift more fully. Music Review: Axiom at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-13T23:30:15Z

Douglas Boyd, a top oboist as well as a conductor, brought a player's sensibility to instrumental detail and chose unrushed, sympathetic tempi in a fresh interpretation that will deepen. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Norberto Lobo’s pieces, instrumental except for a bit of wordless singing, seem to move through country blues, Tin Pan Alley ballads, experimental drones and minimalism. Albums From Jesse Stacken and Norberto Lobo 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

It’s unclear whether the concept of an all-female cast was entirely Murray’s brainchild by the sounds of this interview, but the actor hinted at being instrumental in green-lighting the cast. This Bill Murray interview has fans going crazy about the chance of a return to “Ghostbusters” 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Currier's mastery of instrumental colour proved just as dynamic on the larger orchestral canvas in the concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Richard Baker. Vale of Glamorgan festival – review 2013-05-16T14:54:15Z

The album featured a haunting instrumental penned by Green, "The Supernatural," which prefigured his similarly impressionistic work with Fleetwood Mac. Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac founder, dies at 73 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

An instrumental dance for Caesar’s would-be first wife, “Cossutia’s Despair,” features unpredictable blasts from the wider ensemble that project her dejection, while a later aria for Nicomedes — “Take Your Chances, Gaius” — has seductive power. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Working in her bedroom studio, she also built increasingly elaborate string arrangements, bringing a new orchestral richness to some songs and placing abstract instrumental transitions between album tracks. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

It was Morris who would be instrumental in putting the balls on Definitely Maybe. REVIEW: Reissue of Definitely Maybe Is (Definitely) a Reminder of Oasis' Greatness 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

The elder Smith reads fragments of what are apparently Nico’s last poems, over minimal instrumental sounds and ambient natural-world audio from that arid island: the sound of unforgiving summer heat. The Playlist: Miranda Lambert Bounces Back and Michelle Obama Sings the Hits 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

A Civil War segment looks southward with the instrumental ditty “Dixie’s Land” and the song “Maryland, My Maryland.” Complex Pleasures Rooted in Love, Delight and Song 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

The four solo voices – Anna Dennis, Tim Mead, Stuart Jackson and George Humphreys – emulated that lilt in their phrasing, with the timbre of Mead's countertenor in particular blending well with the instrumental obbligatos. OAE/Butt – review 2013-03-26T18:19:20Z

The forthcoming instrumental set reinterprets PE's 1988 classic, "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back." Public Enemy's Chuck D still fighting the power 2010-03-13T03:02:00Z

They play joropo, the music of cattle-rearing descendants of Spaniards, African slaves and indigenous Colombians, and they matched furious songs and wild dance routines with subtle instrumental work. Cimarr?n | World music review 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z

Paavo Arhinmäki, Finnish culture minister and leader of the Left Alliance party that was instrumental in the alliance of Socialists and Greens that blocked the original proposal, continues to oppose it. Why a Welsh Guggenheim makes sense 2013-06-10T11:25:52Z

In the 19th century, Mendelssohn wrote collections of short piano pieces, more for the parlour than the concert hall; "Songs without words" he called them, as if purely instrumental music required an apology. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

Best of the remaining bunch are California indie-pop band Best Coast, epic instrumental specialists Explosions in the Sky, and Brits Arctic Monkeys, a huge hit at the festival in 2009.Verdict: Lollapalooza day-by-day: Which day is the best if you can only do 1? 2011-06-07T13:03:44Z

It’s an interesting comparison: Smeagol/Gollum was a dual character like Walt/Heisenberg, and he too ended The Lord of the Rings not redeemed–indeed, villainous–yet instrumental in defeating a larger evil nonetheless. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z

Cream played their own tunes and a mix of traditional blues songs, with long, often improvised instrumental breaks. Jack Bruce, bassist with 1960s British rock group Cream, dies at 71

Then he notices the implicit criticism of lengthy solo instrumental excursions. Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z

I would say he was very instrumental in my final decision to go. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

Sidmouth's festival – which takes over the whole town with instrumental workshops, massed dance displays, packed pub sessions and wild late-night ceilidhs – held plenty of other delights. Sidmouth folk festival 2010-08-10T20:45:00Z

“Right off the top of the heads,” Brown, 73, said of group’s early years, when it was making instrumental tracks influenced by both James Moody and James Brown. Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

Most critical will be the outcome of an investigation by the Los Angeles Opera, which Mr. Domingo was instrumental in founding in 1986. Accusations Against Plácido Domingo Divide the Opera World 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Brittell was instrumental in the development and stewardship of the department’s 33 wildlife areas across the state. Celebrate Sinlahekin Wildlife Area's 75th anniversary on Saturday with special events 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

But in the past — notably on his 2013 album, “Mirage” — he often composed music for chamber-jazz ensembles, cushioning his instrumental voice within the luxurious texture of his orchestration. Review: Brian Landrus Trio’s ‘The Deep Below’ Is All About the Bass End 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Commissioned by the National Child Labor Committee, his images of appalling factory conditions spread in the press and were instrumental in instigating reforms. In Transit Blog: Lewis Hine Spotlighted in Paris Photo Show 2011-09-13T10:00:41Z

His band's song, "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite for Ellington," is also nominated for best instrumental arrangement; the nomination goes to arranger Michael Philip Mossman. Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria feels like a winner 2012-12-20T20:31:05Z

Black Emperor performed at Coachella last year Canadian instrumental rock group Godspeed You! Godspeed! give away music prize 2013-09-24T16:53:13Z

“Van Cleef was so instrumental in teaching me about all the layers underneath the beautiful objects,” she says. For Many New York Jewelry Designers, There’s No Place Like Home 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

He also continued to write instrumental pieces large and small, including “String Symphony.” Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Starring the reggae stalwart Jimmy Cliff, the movie was directed by Perry Henzell; Chris Blackwell, whose Island Records was instrumental in introducing reggae to the United States and Britain, was a producer. ‘No Place Like Home’ Review: Self-Discovery in Jamaica 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Battles, an instrumental trio that had some guest vocals on video, pummeled its way through complex, visceral math-rock. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Festival, With Radiohead, Phish and D’Angelo 2012-06-11T22:47:19Z

If you think of it as a tension between conventionally gendered states of mind — between compartmentalizing, instrumental reason and organic, holistic intuition — it makes good sense. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z

Chung lost all of his instrumental snippets and experiments, ripe to be explored, expanded on or licensed for lucrative video game, television and film use. Jason Chung shows there's no such thing as giving up 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

They were instrumental in helping launch Presley's career with such songs as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock." Jerry Leiber, Rock ?n? Roll Songwriter, Dies at 78 2011-08-22T23:15:06Z

At a time when so much pop speaks of constriction — with narrow singsong melodies, metronomic beats and desiccated instrumental tones — La Havas is determinedly expansive, and anything but mechanical. Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

They crest and then fall away, often with a lingering instrumental coda, ending up no more fulfilled than they were as they began. Music Review: Codeine, With Stephen Immerwahr, at Bell House 2012-07-01T22:06:02Z

Yet the rich instrumental variety and supreme artistry of the performances precluded any danger of boredom for the packed and highly responsive Town Hall audience. Brilliance from Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI 2014-03-01T18:10:04Z

Textural complexity was balanced by tremendous grace of phrasing and the instrumental solos were often exquisitely played. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z

His bluesy introduction and slurring instrumental commentary lent a tragicomic note to Mr. Haggard’s boozy 1966 smash, “The Bottle Let Me Down.” Ralph Mooney, Master of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 82 2011-03-27T00:58:42Z

An instrumental sextet — violin, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, prominent accordion and piano — sound just right, be it one minute Mexican, the next Stravinskian. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Conductors are the big draw, the hot ticket in instrumental classical music. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

The band extends the run through the intermission instrumental "Dusty Blue," with its shimmery keys and breathy woodwinds. Review: Charles Bradley turns up fuzz on latest CD 2013-04-01T14:05:12Z

This is a jazz instrumental – later released on Songs in the Key of Life – that he'd not even released at this stage. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

But I wondered whether there was not room for a similarly calculated freedom in situations where an instrumental soloist plays against a bass line. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

Enter Muse, which recorded the instrumental track "Isolated System" for the movie. Pitt says Muse provides perfect soundtrack to film 2013-06-03T20:20:12Z

The emphasis is more on her vocal than instrumental work, but the range is still remarkable. Eliza Carthy: Wayward Daughter – review 2013-05-30T20:30:02Z

Both operas used a five-piece instrumental ensemble to support the singers, all expertly conducted by UrbanArias founder and general director Robert Wood. UrbanArias visits Baker, Stein and Picasso in Paris, and beyond 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Listeners will marvel at the quality of instrumental definition afforded by the edition's remix. John Lennon’s brilliant "Gimme Some Truth" is an urgent plea for 2020, too 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Patients are given an eye mask and headphones to play spoken word meditations and instrumental music by Deuter, a German new age instrumentalist, that blends Eastern and Western musical elements. A Ketamine Clinic Treads the Line Between Health Care and a ‘Spa Day for Your Brain’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

A labor union representing musicians is challenging David Byrne’s next Broadway show, “Here Lies Love,” saying it opposes plans to stage the production with recorded instrumental tracks instead of a live band. Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

During his tenure as music director, he was instrumental in the creation of Orchestra Hall, the orchestra’s home in downtown Minneapolis that opened in 1974. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who led Minnesota Orchestra for 19 years, dies at 93 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

There is little doubt that facial capture technology played an instrumental role in “Rogue One,” tying the story together, and creating a link with “A New Hope” in ways that would have been implausible previously. The Women of ‘Star Wars.’ (It’s Not Who You Think.) 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Another album, “See You There,” containing tracks Mr. Campbell had recorded informally during the “Ghost” sessions — including stripped-down versions of many of his old hits — with sparse instrumental accompaniment overdubbed, was released two years later. Glen Campbell, Whose Hit Songs Bridged Country and Pop, Dies at 81 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Many of Mr. Norman’s contemporaries focus on the orchestra’s sonic palette, making subtle narratives that emphasize combinations of instrumental color. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Not just that, but the trend of instrumental hooks, that started with “Talk Dirty” as well. Jason Derulo: Meghan Trainor 'Insisted' on Singing My Name 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The instrumental New York power trio is, along with the Atlas Moth, the closest thing to metal fans will hear this year, as organizers again shortchange the genre. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

Things moved pretty quickly and after Miller played Krauss some instrumental tracks they started recording almost immediately. Sleigh Bells shaken to life by MIA 2010-12-16T22:31:00Z

People who study complaints divide them into two categories, instrumental and expressive. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Paying close attention were another set of Northern boys, Liam and Noel Gallagher, who have often cited the Roses as being an instrumental part of Oasis’s existence. They Wanna Be Adored: The Stone Roses to Reunite for Tour 2011-10-18T15:55:37Z

It established art’s primary value as moral, not monetary; instrumental, not formal. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z

National exposure came the following April when “Twin Peaks” premiered on ABC, with an instrumental version of “Falling” serving as its theme. Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Cole was instrumental in setting up the Penny Post letter-delivery system in 1840 and imagining the first Christmas card, which sold for a shilling. World's first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Then there's a final verse and chorus before a long instrumental section built on the verse riff leads to the final fade out. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

She thought it would be all lotus petals and instrumental music. Mom-Coms Latch On to the Raw Reality of New Motherhood 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

He sincerely believed that the book could be instrumental in healing a divided nation through its recognition of the enormous contribution of Black Americans to America. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Even in the purely instrumental movements of the Ninth, there appeared to be words encrypted in the music, so declamatory and speechlike were some phrases. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z

Even when I was doing purely instrumental work, I always thought of the melodies and the form as a kind of interplay between characters. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

This included highly wrought confessional lyrics, long polysyllabic song titles, and the conjunction of hard, even thrash-derived sounds like a screamed chorus with much softer instrumental passages. Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

On later albums for Columbia, Impulse and Verve, Mr. Silver returned to a primarily instrumental approach. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Two years later, the composer and poet surrounded this "Wichita Vortex" setting with other texts from Ginsberg's poems to create a music theater piece for six singers and Glass' instrumental ensemble. 'Hydrogen Jukebox' a timely illumination of the American experience 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

For me, a good blasting of Shakespearean insults sung dramatically to an instrumental accompaniment wakes up any sluggish brains. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z

A Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano is one of only a few instrumental works by Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed dozens of operas and musical theater and choral works. Music Review: ChamberFest Lets Juilliard Students Show Off Skills 2014-01-14T22:32:14Z

It was the instrumental score from the 2000 Disney film “Remember the Titans.” Not just a football movie: How ‘Remember the Titans’ became a hit and inspired a nation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Church of the Epiphany’s noontime Tuesday Concert Series is pretty much the only one in Washington that operates over the summer, a varied feast of vocal and instrumental offerings. Strings Avenue Trio provides midday pick-me-up 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

While the movie is controversial in the US over the suggestion that the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques were instrumental in nabbing Bin Laden, in Pakistan the film is an unwelcome reminder of a past humiliation. Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z

“Their experience will be instrumental as we work through our vision to enhance the Rock Hall,” he said. Rock Hall of Fame Reveals Plan for Expansion 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The organ-bass-drums trio showed impressive flexibility moving from intense punk thrash to jazz- and blues-tinged instrumental excursions that exemplified punk’s original defining attitude: anything goes. X and The Blasters rekindle those '80s punk rock memories in O.C. 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

At a time when the discussion of education is locked into sterile, strident and instrumental debates about "reform," his radical humanism, at once romantic and common-sensical, would be more than welcome. 'Paul Goodman Changed My Life': Gadfly gets his due 2011-12-01T21:53:07Z

For most people, the term fugue evokes a very sober, complex form of contrapuntal instrumental music. Theater Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ Is Performed as a Benefit for Carnegie Hall 2014-04-04T22:08:20Z

The town of Holland, a half-hour drive from Grand Rapids, and his experience at Holland Christian High School were instrumental to the athlete Cousins has become. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Raspy instrumental sounds do return at the end, but they become natural, no longer illness sonified. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Guns N’ Roses prefaced its grandiose hit ballad “November Rain” with the instrumental second half of “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos, the obvious model for the former song’s guitar-hero finale. Review: Guns N’ Roses, Partly Reunited, in Its First Arena Performance 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

With toy instruments, sleigh bells, cracking whips and a stirring instrumental setting of the hymn “Adeste Fideles,” “Santa Claus” was an innovative, seamless single-movement narrative, in the vein of Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

He not only is the lead of the show, but he also is so instrumental in setting the tone and the stories of the show. Max Greenfield on why "The Neighborhood" endures and how Schmidt helped "New Girl" break rules 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

It too became a mini-drama, this time of quicksilver changeability, full of furious instrumental incident. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Rabit is one of a number of producers making a style of electronic music known most commonly as instrumental grime. Rabit and the Resurgence of Grime 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the instrumental playing was bright and punchy in the flamboyant sections, neat and delicate in the softer airs. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z

Mr. Metheny, 58, is a guitarist whose music has resonated broadly throughout jazz and instrumental pop, a dazzling virtuoso with a warm human touch. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z

Campbell believes that the city running their market was instrumental in making the market resilient. Unknown number of farmers' markets expected to permanently close due to pandemic hardships 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

"Ah've worked with the best musicians in the world and these guys are the best," urges Eddy, between instrumental guitar duels with "Shez" Sheridan, while the band gaze at him with awe. Duane Eddy – review 2012-05-28T17:16:28Z

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

You can virtually feel Wright's interest in the project draining away into an instrumental cynicism that Snyder's "Sucker Punch," for all its crazy stupidity, never displays. "Hanna": A ruthless, arty "Sucker Punch" 2011-04-07T20:03:00Z

The music is suddenly exuberant and crazed, with spiraling riffs and cyclic instrumental figures, and manic bursts of syllables and sputtering from the chorus. Music Review: ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-16T22:03:03Z

When he got around to his more widely circulated songs, he reworked them ruthlessly: stripping away pop enticements like intros and instrumental hooks, magnifying dynamic ups and downs, illuminating each lyric anew. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

You can hear an altogether more straightforward kind of ambition than that which presumably fuels the desire to record an 18-minute agrarian doom-clod-plod instrumental. The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro: Deluxe Edition 2010-07-15T14:29:00Z

Combs says the early instrumental demos sounded like Krautrock, but with vocals added, sounded like pop. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Webern's transcription breaks up single melodic lines between different instruments, modernizing Bach not by changing notes or rhythms but with sonic juxtapositions of instrumental colors. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Exchanging ideas and understanding each other's Muslim and Jewish faiths were instrumental in building the bonds that still serve us. We need diverse influences: Artist Shahzia Sikander on her multicultural past and our future 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Her book provides extensive background for the Horner story: Among the many people she tracks down are one of Horner’s nieces and a neighbor who was instrumental in Sally’s rescue. Behind the Kidnapping Case That Inspired ‘Lolita’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

In Las Vegas, he has been instrumental in mounting "Jersey Boys,"  "Rock of Ages" and "Phantom -- The Las Vegas Spectacular." With 'The Wiz,' Cirque du Soleil looks to leap onto Broadway 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Breathtakingly organic, their rendition wove detail and instrumental inflection into a seamlessly compelling whole. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Harsh, angular lines and abrasive textures cede to wistful melodies and touches of hymnody; unorthodox instrumental techniques enhance mood without distracting. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z

The climaxes, if there are any, are instrumental. Review | Amen Dunes’s 9:30 Club show wasn’t dramatic. But it had a mighty sound. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The campaign was seen as instrumental in establishing Marlboro as the top-selling cigarette brand in the United States and internationally, said Tom Glynn, director of cancer science and trends for the American Cancer Society. 'Marlboro Man' who later warned against smoking dies of lung disease 2014-01-28T02:09:33Z

Mr. Dylan is now a full participant in instrumental passages, too, framing songs with his piano parts or picking insistent guitar lines. Music Review: A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theatre 2012-09-05T11:35:10Z

Pointillistic sections, rich in interplay among the five instrumental lines, are interspersed among chordal writing or more conventional counterpoint. 2010-02-15T00:46:00Z

The show was instrumental in shifting the popular landscape genre away from romanticized grandeur, typified by Ansel Adams, and toward matter-of-fact vernacular truth. Frank Gohlke photographs vernacular truths in 'Texas Memories' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Pappano continues to draw out some astonishing instrumental detail, but coordination came unstuck as Siegfried strode up to the Valkyries' Rock, taking the magic and fire out of one of the opera's climaxes. Siegfried – review 2012-09-30T16:15:01Z

Orchestrated by Mr. Tunick, it comprises instrumental versions of several songs and ensembles, including “Pretty Lady” and the musically subtle and emotionally complex “Someone in a Tree.” Music Review: Philharmonic’s ‘Symphonic Sondheim’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-30T23:29:07Z

Renowned for their otherworldly vocal harmonies and an instrumental style that was more soulful than showy, the Stanleys were the most traditional-sounding of the three. Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The battle tone is neatly set by martial drums in the opening instrumental build and resolved through a progressive melody colored by O’Riordan’s assertive vocal. The Cranberries' Roses Picks Up Where the Band Left Off 2012-02-21T19:37:06Z

After recent discs of Ian Wilson's string quartets and works for string orchestra, this strikingly well‑performed collection shows the northern Irishman working with a much more vivid instrumental palette. Wilson: Man-o'-War; Winter Finding; Licht/ung; etc 2010-08-26T21:18:00Z

It was engaging, natural, instrumental and made you want to hear more. Concert designed to blend best of pop and classical offers neither 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Born in Angers in 1916, he was a prolific composer of predominantly instrumental works, including symphonies and orchestral pieces. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z

The film, which won a grand jury prize at Sundance last year, has been instrumental in catalysing again urgent debates around mass incarceration, capital punishment and race. Alfre Woodard: 'We want all those with a stake in the death row business to see this film' 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

The Times Square Alliance says Clark "was instrumental in making New Year's Eve at the Crossroads of the World what it is today." Times Square 'fan confetti' to honor Dick Clark 2012-04-20T15:48:08Z

And the chorus “Glory be to the Father” in “Jubilate,” like the coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest,” follows an instrumental introduction with supercharged chordal proclamations from the chorus. CD Reviews: Praising Peace and Ignoring Calendar Details 2010-08-19T15:31:00Z

The effect, appropriately, is rather like instrumental improvisation. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Despite the presence of plenty of virtuoso musicians, there is little or no self-indulgent showboating for it's own sake; all the solos and instrumental passages fit the song and never outstay their welcomes. Readers' reviews: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Riversea 2012-08-29T14:07:29Z

A grinding synth line and tactile thump give way to the instrumental pièce de résistance: an organ springy enough to conjure bouncing balls. Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ and the Long Tail of ‘Show Me Love’ 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Their walkout was instrumental in the Equal Pay Act being passed. Dagenham women take centre stage 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

“We must support and promote the intrinsic value of documentary as much as its instrumental value.” In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Certain objects were, indeed, intended to be politically instrumental. ‘Carpeaux Recast’: A Sculptural Gem With a Knotty Back Story 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Merrill Markoe was instrumental in forging the groundbreaking structure of "Late Night with David Letterman," including creating "Stupid Pet Tricks" and its oddball field segments. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Underground Resistance was founded in the late 1980s by Mr. Banks and Jeff Mills, musicians instrumental in giving Detroit techno its sound. Underground Resistance Speaks of Music and Politics 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

This unusual extended instrumental introduction destabilizes a listener's expectation of musical time and demands greater attention to the moment-by-moment sensations of its passing. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

They may be surprised to hear more detail and more of the content of what’s in Beethoven’s score, as the different strands of the instrumental lines emerge with an enhanced clarity. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Later this year, Grupo's mostly instrumental alter ego, Brownout, whose lineup is drawn from the larger band, will release its third album. 2nd Grammy trip for Grupo Fantasma 2011-02-12T03:46:09Z

The overall level of technical proficiency in instrumental playing, especially on the piano, has increased steadily over time. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

He envisioned a career as a concert pianist and made his debut in 1945 at Town Hall in New York, as the first black instrumental soloist there. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The settings atomise the texts and surround them with an array of instrumental sounds, but the effect is decorative rather than substantial. Leonard/Hind/BCMG - review 2010-10-12T22:00:00Z

He has also recorded much of Bach's instrumental music.  Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Parnassus Project will handle Williams' "Fantasia on Greensleeves" as an instrumental. Byrd Ensemble opens holidays with 'What Sweeter Music' at Trinity Parish Church 2012-11-21T22:36:05Z

The song was composed as an instrumental piece by Duke Ellington, who introduced it on record in 1933; the lyricist Mitchell Parish later added the words. In Performance: T. Oliver Reid 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The album begins with a tour de force: seven connected songs, separated from the second half of the album by an instrumental interlude. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z

Tendinitis Sidelines a Royal Opera Conductor The occupational health problems of instrumental musicians are known -- nervous system problems that lead to unresponsive fingers, tendinitis, blown-out lip muscles. ArtsBeat: Tendinitis Sidelines a Royal Opera Conductor 2012-11-12T20:44:18Z

Still, its episodic structure, bustling energy and brilliant instrumental vocabulary are unmistakably Mr. Zorn’s, and the work’s pensive epilogue is among his most unabashedly beautiful creations. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z

Frances McDormand, who was instrumental in bringing the novel to the small screen, stars as the title character and delivers a performance as good as or better than her finest work on the movie screen. In HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ the power of negative thinking

The sheer range of music gathered under its umbrella — detailed compositions as well as top-to-bottom improvisations, in all manner of instrumental lineups — suggests a house policy of ecumenicalism. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z

"Medea" is a virtual compendium of vocal and instrumental forms of the period, with long stretches of accompanied recitative giving way to ariosos, laments, choruses, orchestral dance music and the like. French Baroque treasure rescued in stormy 'Medea' 2011-04-24T22:52:00Z

In 2010, the year a special plaque was unveiled in his honour in central London, Black said he had been "instrumental in changing all our lives with his vision, generosity and dedication". Cumberbatch 'lands Epstein role' 2012-11-01T09:59:08Z

As the New York Times critic Jon Pareles observed in his review, “The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches.” 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a short instrumental for finale episodes that embodies “a bittersweet sense of sadness,” said Ms. Levine. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

For her latest journey, she constructed a 58-minute instrumental piece of “new age ancient futuristic medicine music” for the meditation app Headspace. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Hopkins had been instrumental in projects such as the Green Grid, a plan to connect existing parks and open spaces together with crucial "stitches" to form a walkable green network. John Hopkins 2013-01-28T17:16:23Z

Casement was instrumental in giving Conrad a much more realistic idea of what was going on. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

Weston was instrumental in overthrowing Pictorialism in photography, which manipulated camera images to look like European paintings. At new Whitney Museum site, a show is shrouded in parochialism 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

The label concentrated on instrumental music, and there was an artistic point to that emphasis. A Blue Note Founder’s View of Jazz Music’s Private Side 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

Below the surface, as always, Ms. Saariaho’s music teems with jagged lines, astringent sonorities and uncanny instrumental effects. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z

Mr. Schuller wrote for unusual instrumental combinations, such as four double basses or four cellos. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Judging by a few preliminary listens, Seattle duo Beat Connection 's new "Surf Noir" EP is mostly instrumental synthesizer/programmed drums headphone music sometimes overlayed with indie pop vocals. Download this: local act Beat Connection's "Surf Noir" EP 2010-07-13T21:13:00Z

Histories commonly observe that National Review, through the efforts of Buckley and editor Frank Meyer, was instrumental in articulating a conception of conservatism capable of bridging some of these divides and enabling coalition building. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z

Whispered and more boldly enunciated fragments of Mr. Auster’s autobiographical stories were layered surrealistically in the opening section, heralding a narrative that unfolded amid alluring instrumental sonorities and electronics. Music in Review: OLGA NEUWIRTH 2012-12-09T23:10:24Z

Depending on how you see the similarities between the song and an instrumental called “Taurus” from the band Spirit, the decision could either endorse the stealing of songs or chill musical expression. The Led Zeppelin “Stairway” trial is a Cameron Crowe movie just waiting to be made 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

By that fall, a single appeared that featured some young New Jersey vocalists, called the Sugarhill Gang, delivering rhyming verse in sing-song voices over instrumental sections lifted from “Good Times.” Nile Rodgers — defender of disco 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

On Sunday the lineup features instrumental works by Haydn, Janacek, Schumann and Haydn duets for soprano and tenor. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Bass player Missy Raines won instrumental recording of the year and bass player of the year, while Sister Sadie won vocal group of the year, their first win that category. Winners announced at International Bluegrass Music Awards 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Houlihan credits her strong mentors as an instrumental part of her success. 'We bring the same skills as men': US running needs more female coaches 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Working though the nonprofit organization Creative Commons, he makes his instrumental pieces available either for a one-time fee, or free. ‘Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod’ Review: Into the Spotlight 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Despite its German text and certain stylistic qualities, such as finely wrought instrumental effects, “Die Heimkehr” reveals its Italian origins at nearly every turn, not that that is anything to be ashamed of. Opera Review: Caught Between Two Men 2011-02-15T12:00:07Z

Mama’s Kitchen is one of several venues featuring different jazz styles — from swing to acoustic, instrumental to free jazz — that have sprung up in the Ethiopian capital in recent years. In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

There’s a whole lot of twanging going on, vocal and instrumental. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Brooklynites instrumental in the abolition of slavery are the focus of “Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom,” an interactive exhibition of manuscripts, paintings and maps. Spare Times for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-17T00:04:32Z

But now it extends to a man with a patch of facial topiary best described as a "flavour saver" sampling its overbite-inducingly perfect riff over a happy hardcore-meets-polka instrumental. This week's new tracks 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

They were also instrumental in expanding the park system, shooting from airplanes and systematically walking neighborhoods in search of potential new park spaces. The Underseen History of New York City’s Parks 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The sound of this intimate instrumental ensemble nicely matched the voices of our cast, which sounded like the choirs Virgil had grown up with in Kansas City, Mo. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

He was absolutely instrumental in creating punk rock and was the reason people like me, Bobby Gillespie and Noel Gallagher ever got into music. How I got Malcolm McLaren to stand for mayor of London 2010-04-09T09:13:00Z

The instrumental solos that track the dreamer's progress were exquisitely done, while the string lullaby that binds the work together took us into shifting emotional territory with each repetition. Britten Sinfonia/Bostridge – review 2013-05-06T16:12:25Z

The trio of vaunted hometown rock bands bolstered a Western Washington contingent that already included prolific instrumental surf-rockers The Ventures and music icons Quincy Jones, Ray Charles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Soundgarden is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We break down why the band should make the cut — and why it might not.  2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Then there's the Eno-like instrumental Meet Me in the Basement which sounds like a call to arms for a certain type of pallid T-shirt-wearing music fan. Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record 2010-04-29T22:30:00Z

"When I was young I was just exploding all the time, whenever there was an instrumental, I never thought of letting the guitar player take a solo – I used to hammer every song." Tom Jones 2010-07-28T17:18:00Z

From his involvement in ACT-UP and Queer Nation to his instrumental contributions to the first OutWrite conferences, he exhibits a particular comfort with holding the edges of things. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

She has been instrumental, Peck said, to the creation of its hybridized dance language. A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Brad Wells conducted the small instrumental ensemble from the back of the bare stage, where it was sometimes difficult to coordinate with the singers. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Many of these artists, like this Documenta as a whole, use art instrumentally, sociologically, to political ends. Documenta Kassel: Using Art as Their Witness 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

“I had nothing else to do during the instrumental part of the song,” he said. Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Especially instrumental music is really purely about the relationships between different wavelengths of energy: sound energy, sound waves. Tiny Art Show: Ingrid Matthews Olson 2011-11-25T14:31:06Z

They were instrumental in her decision to go on the record in 2017 and in helping her reframe how this experience had affected her life. ‘She Said’ Filmmakers and Weinstein Victims: An Emotional Collaboration 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

They're as into Spacemen 3 as they are the Supremes, and they want to invoke the melodic spirit of Brian Wilson as well as the instrumental finesse of the Wrecking Crew. New band of the day – No 1,284: Chains of Love 2012-06-08T08:00:03Z

More germane was a spirit of compromise, with instrumental complements shaped as much by practical and economical concerns as by artistic ideals. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Throughout the set — actually, two mini-sets with a 10-minute offstage break for Ms. Franklin while the band played an instrumental — her voice was fearlessly and rightfully exposed. Music Review: A Fount of Soul, Full Throttle and Unbowed 2011-07-28T21:30:10Z

The program also featured three purely instrumental works. Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble Pays Homage to a Central Figure of the Avant-Garde 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

On “Attica!,” released in May, romantic strain is scrutinized with gusto and punctuated by sensitive instrumental breaks. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Corbett was instrumental to the development of Abstract Expressionism, though he is far less well-known than he should be. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Alongside Space's Magic Fly, the stunning Supernature by Cerrone was instrumental in shaping the next 30 years of dance music, inspiring everything from the glittering house of Cassius and Daft Punk to David Guetta. Sounds of France - day one: a history of French pop in 10 songs 2012-05-28T10:32:14Z

The Chinese orchestra included the familiar instrumental families of strings, brass, winds and percussion, with some Western instruments among them. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z

And Gray Matter is a glistening instrumental with a pristine beat, and a twinkling synth providing the topline melody instead of a vocal. New band of the day – Poindexter (No 1,393) 2012-11-12T17:17:50Z

The anniversary set’s second disc includes 19 demos, many of them acoustic and some of them instrumental. Peter Buck sounds off: Looking back at R.E.M’s “Out of Time” and “Losing Our Religion” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

At the time, they were only the second instrumental backup group in history to receive that honor. Wayne Jackson, trumpeter of the Memphis Horns, dies at 74 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

While some may think this lacks direction, Mr. Ko said he thinks it is instrumental to expanding the community of art collectors. Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Are these instrumental parts to discarded tracks, or to “Jenny Death”? Are any of these the right questions? Albums From Art Hirahara and Death Grips 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

That boldness owes in part, Marling says, to Mills’s acknowledged instrumental skill: If you’re that good as a player, what do you need to prove? How Blake Mills became good at everything 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Echoes abounded and most songs were instrumental, with Devin Welch's shattering surf guitar the lead singer. Capitol Hill Block Party day three notables: Flexions, Mad Rad, Blue Scholars, Truckasuaras 2010-07-26T22:01:00Z

The instrumental accompaniment trailed off, leaving just a few brave voices singing this ancient tune in the darkened music room like a ghostly echo. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

What starts as an instrumental that could easily fit on Joy Division's 1978 debut, Unknown Pleasures, suddenly fades at 1.45; the tight, sharp electro that follows is utterly thrilling, like new life coming into being. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order 2011-08-08T13:38:25Z

The music builds from those meditative verses to an instrumental crescendo, accompanying one last highlight reel: dunks, triumphant fist pumps, hoisting the championship trophy and weeping in disbelief. How Pearl Jam’s ‘Present Tense’ became the final song on ESPN’s Michael Jordan documentary ‘The Last Dance’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

What is perhaps most striking is his remarkable understanding of exactly when to use vocal or instrumental numbers to heighten the emotional effect and when to let speech carry the drama alone. BBCSO/Minkowski – review 2012-12-18T20:00:25Z

It may have seemed like a foolish endeavour at first, but The Beaver was instrumental in repairing Mel Gibson's reputation and family ties and the general state of his mental and emotional wellbeing. Mel Gibson leaves it to The Beaver 2010-12-08T11:44:00Z

Would that the same could be said of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in C minor, in which patchy instrumental intonation blemished an otherwise sturdy account. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z

These restaurants are partaking in “a new and expanded telling” of the history of New Orleans cuisine, said Jessica B. Harris, whose books have been instrumental in tracing the food’s African roots. In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

The new release collects 70 tracks, including 40 tracks of unreleased demos, rehearsals, live performances, B-sides, and a recently unearthed, never-before-heard Nirvana instrumental spread out over three CDs and a DVD. Fall 2013 Music Preview 2013-09-06T09:45:57Z

As Knussen's performance with the ensemble Asko Schönberg demonstrates, every detail in the instrumental writing is precisely judged and the piece is assembled with such care that it's totally absorbing, and never remotely frivolous. Zuidam: McGonagall-Lieder – review 2013-06-26T16:44:35Z

The juxtaposition of instrumental solos, chamber ensemble and orchestral textures created moments of memorable freshness and color. Review: An Orchestral Season That’s (Almost) Entirely Female 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Abetted by Evans, Pearl Jam lets its songs billow outward with neo-psychedelic richness: clouds of vocal harmony or guitar tones, subtle bulwarks of keyboard, impulsive instrumental passages, playgrounds of percussion. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Back then, total serialism was the reigning ideology; now it is the cult of extreme sounds, both electronic and instrumental, of which the undisputed leader is the German composer Helmut Lachenmann. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The Carnegie Corporation, which was instrumental in the founding of public television, gave Mr. Moyers a lead gift of $2 million for the new show. Television: Bill Moyers Returns to TV, but Not With PBS 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

My great uncle was ensconced in an office next to Lie's in the organization's new headquarters, a blue glass modernist gem on First Avenue that Abe had been instrumental in building. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

He found the logistics involved in traveling to concerts and dealing with the complex instrumental setups required by many pieces too taxing. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Only a handful of moodier pieces – “Waiting for a Sign,” the instrumental “Dead Nature,” the nightmarish jazz-spiked nocturne “Marshal Dear” – break the break-neck momentum. Album review: Savages. 'Silence Yourself' 2013-05-06T15:28:00Z

He was also instrumental in setting up ITV regional licensee Yorkshire Television. Alan Whicker dies aged 87 2013-07-12T12:06:38Z

She closed the set, intriguingly, with an instrumental titled “Lament for K. B.” Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

With the remix, Harrison’s song enjoys even greater dramatic proportions, with the song’s enhanced instrumental definition affording it with new textures and a previously unrealized, even startling sense of power. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Amplification helped smooth over balance issues between voices and with the instrumental ensemble, here playing the enlarged version that Gordon created in 2003. A ‘Van Gogh’ opera without the video 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Now on national tour to promote their new album "Homage," which was released this past Tuesday, the collective aims to challenge the conventions of their instrumental classification. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

“The first thing I did was an instrumental, ‘On That Morning,’ an old gospel song by an unknown artist. Electric guitarist Robben Ford brings it home 2013-02-21T23:22:06Z

His extended passages of instrumental bravura clearly had an enthusiastic audience on the edge of its seats. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z

In any case, Mr. Lovick had been instrumental in A-12 research, and he did much more than relate his story. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z

People don’t know this, but Dr. Dre had a real instrumental role in helping me to develop this. Baron Davis Directs Now. If There’s a ‘Space Jam 3,’ He Wants In. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

In between are a pair of fabulous instrumental covers of compositions from Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — the flowing, billowy “Skating” and “Christmas is Coming,” which is jazzy and partly whistled. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

The album’s finale is “Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse,” a shimmering instrumental anthem at beginning and end, sandwiching a burst of despair from Mr. Drew: Broken Social Scene Pits Creativity Against Collapse on ‘Hug of Thunder’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

But other aspects of the gig felt more like his infamous "aftershow" parties, with extended instrumental jams featuring an athletic seven-piece band. Prince performs first UK festival 2011-07-04T03:48:45Z

But thanks to his sui generis charisma and style, he’s been instrumental in bringing Latin trap to audiences far beyond the genre’s roots. Bad Bunny, the Inexhaustible Pop Recalibrator, Lights Up Madison Square Garden 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

The trio avoided customary pop-song structures in favor of an instrumental torrent that nearly swamped the voices. Flasher and Puff Pieces: Two standouts in D.C.’s lively punk scene 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The version of Afro Blue is a classic, maintaining a clarity and solemnity over the formal dance of its instrumental riff. Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010-05-20T21:01:00Z

According to Variety, Witherspoon was instrumental in securing rights to Lee's life story, having met with her granddaughter, Holly Foster-Wells, to express her interest. Reese Witherspoon set to play Peggy Lee in Nora Ephron's biopic 2010-08-10T10:47:00Z

Described in fascinating liner notes as "instrumental reinventions" of standards arranged and improvised by the two, their first recorded collaboration offers breathtaking synchronized sound. Sharon Van Etten sings of a toxic relationship on 'Are We There' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

The instrumental solos meander, several songs go on too long and Snider doesn't even bother with a retake when he flubs a line on Walker's best-known composition, "Mr. Bojangles." Review: Snider too loose on tribute to Walker 2012-04-24T18:34:10Z

And some moments of highest drama smack of the overkill that mars the film, as when the threat of Woolf’s devastating headaches is marked by pummeling darkness, yawning brasses and instrumental screams. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

I praised the considerable beauties of its instrumental music and set pieces but complained about the protracted recitatives, the “long, arid patches of spoken narration” and the “precious, self-indulgent libretto by Robert Gordon.” Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

This was more purely instrumental Handel: the Musette from the Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 6 Complex, but with a dominant mood of wistful solemnity, it fitted the occasion perfectly. OAE/Christie – review 2013-06-05T17:39:34Z

The LDS Church’s financial support was instrumental in passing Prop 8, but many Mormons saw the Church’s advocacy on the issue as a massive public relations blunder. Gay Mormons challenge church 2012-06-11T19:45:00Z

Ms. Sloan maintains a playlist of instrumental music that she encounters in the wild on TV and in movies, so the symphony had an obvious home in her Spotify account. Mahler’s Having a Moment. He’s Got Lydia Tár to Thank for It. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Russian Circles works in a relatively esoteric area – an instrumental trio that finds the sweet spot at the intersection of metal, hard rock, progressive and experimental music. Band runs Russian Circles around cliches 2014-03-13T15:03:11Z

Later, Riley takes Ellie’s hand to lead her to a working carousel, which plays what sounds like an instrumental version of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 7: Secret Origins 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

They say we're a bit like Hot Chip - maybe a live instrumental version of Hot Chip. The artful sound of Django Django 2012-09-09T23:48:34Z

Up Down Up Down is a repetitive and mesmeric instrumental. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z

Parthenia opened the evening with a “Renaissance Songbook,” instrumental and vocal works, mostly English, with Ryland Angel delivering the texts either as countertenor or in his natural voice range. Music Review: Sounds Both Skin Deep and Soul-Piercing 2010-09-24T21:57:00Z

Farrell's yowling vocals, Navarro's overblown riffs, the aimless instrumental detours — they all felt cripplingly old-fashioned, a bloated holdover from the days when chest-beating bad boys ruled the Roxy and the Whisky. Looking forward, looking back at Sunset Strip Music Festival 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

Benjamin Britten fussed over the details of his operas, working hard to get every vocal line, pungent chord and instrumental color exactly as he wanted. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Isango Ensemble’s South African Setting 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The flow of these parts isn’t easy to predict, but the first of them, the longest, uses a clear strategy: a constant buildup of instrumental parts, as well as intensity. New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z

Of his 20 operatic works, 12 are of the pocket variety, scored for a small cast and a small instrumental ensemble. Music Review: ?Benjamin Button,? the Opera, at Symphony Space 2010-06-16T21:11:00Z

People of color were instrumental in establishing the French stand-up scene, which is far younger than in the United States or Britain. Exploring the Diversity, and Precariousness, of French Stand-Up 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

In the ’90s, he made agitated instrumental rock with his band, Spatula, in a moment when it was hardly fashionable. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Her friend Whoopi Goldberg was instrumental in getting her the wacky comedy Jumpin’ Jack Flash, in which Goldberg’s bank teller somehow gets involved in an espionage conspiracy. Penny Marshall: a Hollywood power player and comedy connoisseur 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Ferocious climaxes, composed of complex, raw instrumental textures, were too compelling to dull. Evening of tangerine dreams as wild Up makes its Santa Barbara debut 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Roger L. Mayer, a film executive who was instrumental in preserving and restoring countless classic movies and who also courted controversy by coloring some black-and-white ones, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Roger L. Mayer, Pioneer of Film Preservation, Dies at 88 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Long drones underlie most of the tracks, echoing ancient traditions of mystical music; most of the instrumental sounds seem to arrive from great echoey distances. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Little shifts of harmony or fleeting pileups of instrumental sounds seem major musical events. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z

Like Mr. Gets, these ladies make music, both vocally and instrumentally, in ways that often sound sweet but feel sour, or vice versa. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z

Each concert paired excerpts from an opera with a programmatic piece, an inherently dramatic form that depicts a story or a character using instrumental forces. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the pulse is often unpredictable — even the one-minute instrumental “The Clock” skips a beat at the end. Music Review: The groove’s still the thing for Paul Simon 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

He was considered instrumental in developing the Cuban style of ballet, which seeks to imbue classical rigor with the physicality of Latin dance. Fernando Alonso, a Founder of Cuban Ballet, Dies at 98 2013-08-03T01:42:20Z

With so many delicate hands working instruments with grace, touch and emotion, the band seemed to connect not only instrumentally but also at times astrally. The Grateful Dead jam in mostly perfect harmony in Santa Clara 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

In the instrumental music that sets the scene, the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” pokes through, though it is fragmented, given contrapuntal twists and harmonized with “wrong note” chords. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Portrayed by actor and director Clark Gregg, the quiet if not charmingly witty agent works alongside Fury and was instrumental in bringing together the Avengers. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5 Things You Need to Know 2013-09-24T09:45:09Z

What follows in the next 40 minutes is a beautiful frenzy: Stringed instrumental music flits frantically in the background as Alicia and her cohorts scramble to take control of their files. Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

But they have joined forces to fight for FDA trials on the use of psilocybin to treat PTSD, which is what's found in mushrooms, and that has been hugely instrumental in my own journey. "Intersex is a beautiful thing": Despite having surgery forced upon her, this activist found healing 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sanborn is best known for his long reign in the changeable realm of instrumental pop, and his related output as a session man. Music Review: Frank and Personal Don?t Rule Out Commercial 2010-10-15T22:53:00Z

In a certain light, on “Interventions,” the Baltimore quartet’s invigorating third album, this is an instrumental dance band — guitar, bass, drums, alto saxophone — with a lining of post-punk energy. Review: ‘Interventions,’ the Horse Lords’ Daring and Energetic Third Album 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

A listener might expect some outright jamming here, but that never happens: when the electronic sound is at its most ornate, the instrumental writing is at its least ear-catching. Music Review: Joel Sachs Takes New Juilliard Ensemble to MoMA 2010-07-26T23:43:00Z

After three instrumental albums akin to other experimental German rock of the era, Kraftwerk reinvented itself with the coolly electronic 1974 album “Autobahn,” which began the retrospective. Talking to Ralf H?tter of Kraftwerk 2012-04-15T21:15:41Z

The other major school of contemporary chart-pop songwriting—although they sometimes overlap—starts with an instrumental groove and arrangement, then adds hooks, “top line” melodies and lyrics, often each by a specialist. One Direction’s Songwriters: They’re What Make the Boy Band Beautiful 2012-11-13T15:10:25Z

His often undistinctive instrumental works, which will fill a program by Juilliard Baroque on Nov. 2, are a staple of classical radio. Review: American Classical Orchestra Revives a Rarely Heard Telemann Masterpiece 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The arts were seen as particularly instrumental in clarifying the ideals of Greek society. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Dudamel went for an instrumental sound that honored the crispness of 18th century fashion but still allowed for a more modern sense of beauty. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s dense music; the singing is fairly intricate, and so is some of the instrumental stuff. Playlist: David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors on the New Album 2012-07-02T12:00:00Z

Rebel Woman demonstrated Chiwoniso's gently powerful but easygoing vocal style and the strength of her instrumental work. Chiwoniso obituary 2013-07-26T18:08:38Z

He thought of himself as brilliant but has been more accurately described as having “viewed other people in instrumental terms, was a compulsive liar, and seemed to have a limited understanding of cause and effect.” "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

As the album’s producer and chief instrumental multitasker, Mr. Leventhal creates a series of tasteful backdrops, softening and mellowing most of the songs. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z

Others, like New Order’s epic instrumental for Ian Curtis Elegia, were songs that played on dual emotional levels mirroring the visible world and the other, the Upside Down. The best TV soundtracks of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Blessed with ample rehearsal time, Bychkov, helped by a fresh and open recording acoustic, does a wonderful job of treating the orchestra’s different instrumental departments as equal colleagues, bringing distinctive gifts to a common effort. Tchaikovsky for Christmas 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Parts of her original composition “The Time Is Now,” from her 1997 album, “Impulsive!” was an elaborate instrumental duet for piano and drums in which Ms. Elias moved toward avant-garde territory. Music Review: Eliane Elias at Birdland 2013-05-29T21:42:52Z

Family members say he has been instrumental in making new care arrangements for Cindy. The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

This piece is an hourlong song cycle for tenor, guitar and eight other instruments that alternates vocal settings of six feverish, strangely haunting German poems by Friedrich Hölderlin with seven instrumental interludes. Review: Cantata Profana Revives a Henze Cycle Inspired by German Poems 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

“North Hero” is Mr. Morrissey’s second instrumental jazz release, and at times — as on a track like “Hands Crystals Anderson,” with its throbbing bass line and motorik beat — it does call indie-rockish energies to mind. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z

Bridges brings his soulful voice and the mostly instrumental trio offer everything from reggae to surf rock, especially on the funky, ultra-cool “B-Side.” New this week: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Kanye and ‘From’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Miller was also known for her instrumental role in ensuring that architect Frank Gehry completed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, THR reports. Walt Disney’s Daughter, Diane Disney Miller, Dies 2013-11-20T02:12:43Z

So the instrumental crowd now tries the third movement. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Because figuring out how to feel about Bill Clinton seems instrumental in figuring out how to process the current moment, and the discussions always get slippery. Perspective | The enduring Bill Clinton dilemma 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

He did the vocals himself but, for the first time in his long career, left all the instrumental work to others. ArtsBeat Blog: New McCartney Album a Trip Down Memory Lane 2011-12-19T17:55:42Z

Much media coverage has noted that Zelenskyy's history as a performer, especially a comedian, has been instrumental to building his image and creating his aura of integrity in the midst of the Russian invasion. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

This structure is repeated, followed by an instrumental version of the chorus. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

His group recorded several instrumental hits as well as “Hit and Miss,” the theme song for the popular television program “Juke Box Jury.” John Barry Dies at 77; Composed for Bond Films 2011-02-01T06:39:31Z

Last started his music career in the 1960s with instrumental music recordings with his orchestra James Last & His Orchestra, a big band with strings and choir added. James Last announces final tour 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

It also treats Kenny being gay much like it does the race of the Huangs or the Johnsons, as something instrumental to who they are but not entirely defining their identity. The Real O’Neals: gay Catholic sitcom has more than a prayer 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

In a typical Noh play two actors take on several roles to relay myths, ghost stories or morality tales, with instrumental accompaniment and interjections from a chorus. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

And more than ever, Björk places her voice within a teeming musical ecosystem that’s likely to include a tangle of instrumental polyphony and layered vocals, with every element of the mix insisting on multiplicity. On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

As a skilled instrumental composer, Vivaldi accompanies the arias with vivid, intricate orchestral music. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z

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

The Unthanks Last Rabble Rouser The Unthanks experiment continues, with an album of gentle melancholia that matches their most elaborate instrumental arrangements to date with a reworking of a startling variety of songs. The Unthanks: Last - review 2011-03-10T23:07:00Z

He is straightforward in calling his work “visual propaganda,” though not all the political art in the show is as bluntly instrumental. Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

In short, they approached art as politically instrumental and found ways to put it into popular circulation. Honoring Latinx Art, Personal and Political 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Neil Young’s first album, released earlier that year, had an instrumental track called “The Emperor of Wyoming.” My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

The 40-minute Piano Quintet is even more remarkable: it's an attempt to translate the experience of war into abstract instrumental music. Koechlin: Piano Quintet Op 80; Quartet No 3 – review 2013-06-05T15:08:25Z

It’s more than fitting that his testimonial to benevolent parentage echoes Stevie Wonder in vocal gusto and instrumental tones; Mr. Lidell knows his forebears. The Playlist: Katy Perry’s Limp Olympics Anthem and Justice’s Grooving Return 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Throughout the ’70s he worked on “songbirdsongs,” a cycle that translates his own field observations into crystalline instrumental miniatures for flutes and percussion. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

The excellent violist Hanna Weinmeister, whether because of the hall’s acoustics or her comparatively introverted style, often vanished into the instrumental textures. Music Review: Yesterday?s Shocks, Sounding Lyrical Today 2011-04-12T23:56:11Z

A rival school of thought offers a more instrumental cause. I spit on your grave, but that's about it 2011-01-24T13:50:06Z

Calling a restaurant’s owner the next day to say that you waited an hour for dessert and don’t intend to come back is an instrumental complaint. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

For a few years after its first recording, in 1927, the piece was a jaunty and danceable instrumental song. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Dr. Robert Spitzer, who played an instrumental role in developing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, even conducted his own study to question Ms. Slater’s re-creation of a 1973 experiment. Whiteboard? Check. Lab Rats? They’re the Actors. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Almost no words were audible but the instrumental ensemble sounded delicate and sensuous, complemented by beguiling noises off: trickling thermal waters, city bells and the unmistakable crash of a delivery of bottles. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

Most are accompanied solely by strings, and accordingly lack instrumental variety. Music Review: On Paris Stages, Intriguing Vivaldi and Novel Wagner 2011-03-15T12:30:07Z

Scene setting was exacting in every application of instrumental color. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

The instrumental work that followed, Courtney Bryan’s “The Hard Way,” was oddly and, I think, overly gentle after those tough words, with an easygoing clarinet solo for Mark Dover. Review: Good Music, but Julia Bullock Makes It Great 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

For unity, Pichon organizes the program with an ear for instrumental timbres. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s, John Szarkowski, the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, was instrumental in elevating photography to an art form. Time Capsule of ’70s Los Angeles Beaches from Tod Papageorge 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

I imagine the filmmakers thought this charming, though they’re also clearly fumbling toward some greater awareness about animals beyond the purely instrumental. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Blending blues and country influences in his vocal and instrumental intonations, he was rock’s most persuasive black ambassador to the white kids who were just getting into that miscegenated musical form. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Two short instrumental works preceded the performance of the opera. 'Emperor of Atlantis': An opera salvaged from the Holocaust 2012-11-17T17:13:03Z

Melissa Rivers was instrumental in deciding that "Fashion Police" should carry on with Griffin. Kathy Griffin to step into Joan Rivers' high heels on 'Fashion Police' 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

And I'm starting my own production company so that I can be a little more instrumental in the whole process. Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

During the instrumental interlude, she seemed on the verge of tears, and it looked for a moment as if she might not go on. Karaoke Singers Live the Dream at the Illinois State Fair 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

But women were instrumental in many of the movies which defined that era, and few more so than Polly Platt, who has died aged 72 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Polly Platt obituary 2011-08-07T17:12:18Z

His other compositions include “The Wolfman,” for tape and amplified voice, and the instrumental works “In Memoriam ... Kit Carson” and “String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies.” Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z

They begin in the pit, where Richard Farnes delivers an account of the score that is compellingly vivid, making instrumental detail count in an almost expressionist way. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z

Seventies groups such as Yes and Pink Floyd tried to do the same thing and express big ideas in instrumental sections on concept albums. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

“It’s really important to understand how instrumental Amy was in developing the signature Florentine style,” he said. Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

When casting “Some Like It Hot,” the show’s director, Casey Nicholaw, said that Ghee was his clear choice and that the actor became instrumental in bringing the character to life. In ‘Some Like It Hot,’ J. Harrison Ghee Brings Their Whole Self 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

The instrumental selections were actually composed for viol consort. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

They’re both excellent records, but I prefer the instrumental one, to focus better on what drummers are doing collectively: it’s the heart of the project, its treat and its constant surprise. Playlist: Music by Nicole Mitchell, Anna von Hausswolf and Jeri-Jeri 2013-06-14T20:39:53Z

His dazzling “Synchronisms” were yet to be written, but they would soon be regarded as classic examples of how to combine electroacoustic and instrumental resources. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z

But it's her instrumental interpretation of Leonard Cohen's Joan of Arc that sums up Calvi's particular brand of scary force and beautiful restraint. Anna Calvi ? review 2011-01-28T18:36:02Z

The central idea of “Su” was to create variations, since the sheng is suited to every instrumental group in the orchestra. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

For the uninitiated, that means analog synthesizers, instrumental hip-hop and electro beats. New local music by Truckasauras, Nacho Picasso and more 2012-06-01T02:31:17Z

This is the first time, though, that he's taken a still-living person for a character – George Mitchell, instrumental in brokering the Good Friday agreement and a man McCann regards, unreservedly, as a hero. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z

This was all worth mulling over on Saturday and Sunday, throughout the course of this prestigious competition, which changes its instrumental focus from one year to the next. Critic’s Notebook: Jamison Ross Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2012-09-24T22:05:15Z

Is Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” plagiarized from an obscure instrumental by the band Spirit? If Zeppelin did steal “Stairway”: “It would be like finding out the Beatles didn’t write ‘Sgt. Pepper’” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Tiffany & Company was instrumental in promoting Southern California’s gem industry in 1903, when it introduced a pinkish-purplish variety of spodumene to the world. Gems Made in the U.S.A. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

But set against that is the inner detail of all the textures, and especially Koopman's fond treatment of the two slow movements, beautifully judged and full of carefully moulded instrumental lines. Haydn: Symphonies 97 & 98 2010-06-24T20:52:00Z

The event raised $1 million to promote instrumental music education in public schools. Experimental Arts on Fire Island, and Music in the Hamptons 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Presiding with warm serenity over her small onstage family — she is a delightfully acute, watchful listener — Ms. Bullock brought together spoken texts, instrumental selections and songs, delivered by her and others. Review: Exploring Langston Hughes in Song, Locally 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The new disc "So Beautiful or So What" began with Simon at his home studio writing two ballads and an instrumental. Simon goes back to way old methods for new disc 2011-04-13T12:06:18Z

The music plays against his ghostly presence with thorax blows and facial uppercuts, then goes back into the netherworld with soothing instrumental interludes — a Naomi Punk hallmark. Naomi Punk's ‘Television Man' totally uncompromising | New recordings 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

At a time when the discussion of education is locked into sterile, strident and instrumental debates about “reform,” his radical humanism, at once romantic and commonsensical, would be more than welcome. | 'Paul Goodman Changed My Life': ?Paul Goodman Changed My Life,? Directed by Jonathan Lee - Review 2011-10-18T21:22:40Z

Radian, an Austrian instrumental trio that played Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday night as part of a rare United States tour, sets most of those aside. Music Review: Knocking, Twitching, Buzzing, Rasping 2011-06-09T21:45:27Z

The band’s music harks back to the Grateful Dead era of jam bands; it’s Americana warped, fused and stretched with instrumental excursions, extrapolating from Mr. Genauer’s surreal story-songs. Pop Music Choices for New Year?s Eve 2011-12-29T23:59:04Z

He's a spectacularly gifted musician, shifting with ease from a slide-guitar instrumental to dynamic, soaring solos. Shuggie Otis – review 2012-11-21T14:04:27Z

There are varied instrumental colorings in this arrangement, which includes parts for piano, harmonium and percussion. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Tamara Mumford in ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ 2012-11-05T23:29:47Z

The knowledge that I have gained over the last 10 years was instrumental in helping me to do this. How to eat like a Vermont farmer — starting with this luscious burrata salad 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

Only a few other instrumental sounds appear: gauzy chords that often cut off abruptly, a pattering programmed high-hat, sporadic bass tones. Review: ‘Me,’ by Empress Of, Has Cool Assurance and Jumpy Lines 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

By now it’s no surprise — but should still be celebrated — that the school’s historical-performance program, founded not quite 10 years ago, produces work on a credibly professional level, even with singers-in-training and some instrumental hiccups. Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

There's nothing fancy going on here, either: The emphasis is usually placed on a voice echoing out with a plucky guitar and little other instrumental accompaniment. Indie musicians help movie soundtracks hit right emotional note 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The instrumental trio’s success meant jazz-based music became popular in the European mainstream. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

And in the 1990s she was instrumental in mobilizing the fashion industry’s campaign to fight AIDS. For Anna Wintour, Power Is Always in Vogue 2012-06-15T22:24:08Z

“He was such an instrumental part of our success,” Douglas said. Fun, foul-mouthed reunion for Turner, Douglas on ‘Kominsky’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Women in the neighborhood gossip, and a practiced flirt steals Pete away—perhaps they are instrumental. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

But where "Settle" complemented the vocal tunes with a handful of instrumental club tracks, this album contains none of the latter. Disclosure looks beyond EDM for 'Caracal': 'We've got a lot more to give' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The twins took the stage and dove into their opener, “Top Gun Anthem,” the instrumental theme to the 1986 film and its recent sequel. ‘Ready to Rock, You Guys?’ The Winklevoss Twins Play Amagansett. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

The band offers bluesy pop original songs on its studio albums and recently won a Grammy for best arrangement, instrumental or a cappella for its “Daft Punk” medley. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Williams' 1955 hit "Autumn Leaves" was the only piano instrumental to reach number one on the Billboard pop charts. Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87 2011-10-09T00:01:04Z

The challenges lie in the juxtaposition of complex rhythms and in the endless repetition of segments, which caused at least one moment of confusion in the long instrumental introduction to the “Arles” movement. A ‘Van Gogh’ opera without the video 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

But his voice is backed by questioning, almost needling, high sustained instrumental sonorities that suggest this innocent is, at best, naïve. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

And yet the emotional sweep, sonic sensuousness and instrumental virtuosity of Mazurek's magnum opus remain unmistakable. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z

On “Volunteer,” the group incorporates instrumental textures like pedal steel and electric guitar here and there that weren’t as prominent on past recordings. Old Crow Medicine Show Looks to the Future While Picking at the Past 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The result is a delicate, haunting and atmospheric selection of instrumental pieces. The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I ? review 2011-08-11T21:46:01Z

Some of the Collegium’s instrumental playing seemed understated, especially that of the trumpeters, ideally among the stars of the oratorio, who proved undistinguished at best. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

Ms. Portuondo is not a superwoman; she took a breather while the band played an instrumental near the end of her set. Music Review: Flowering in the Present, but With Deep Roots in the Past 2010-03-01T23:00:00Z

The music for the instrumental five-movement “Sadat” is more colorful and rhythmically alive than “Audenesque,” a song cycle performed elegantly by the mezzo Kate Lindsey but lacking something of an emotional edge. Classical Playlist: Haydn, Poul Ruders, Vaughan Williams and More 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Guitar Boogie,” an instrumental with a deft solo released in the late 1940s, was his first major hit, recorded when he was 24 and serving in the Navy. Arthur Smith Dies at 93; Wrote ‘Dueling Banjos’ 2014-04-09T00:54:44Z

“It was exciting; I’d never heard anything like that before. And I tried to translate the feeling that I got from those afternoons to an instrumental that a friend of mine had written.” Herb Alpert to play 3-night stint at the Triple Door 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

In the rare moments artists feel safe to listen, they now prefer ambient or instrumental music to their previous diet of club tracks. For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Murray was clearly an instrumental part in ensuring this was the case. Hannah Murray rewrote her "Game of Thrones" sex scene to add more of Gilly’s perspective 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Babbitt varied the instrumental combinations to indicate the poem’s formal boundaries; vocal lines wrinkled and leapt over a constant rustle that could be interpreted as unconscious fitfulness. 2010-01-12T07:08:00Z

The two works seemed to complement the spare, stark gestures of Morton Feldman’s “The Viola in My Life” No. 3, part of a series he began in 1970 for viola with different instrumental combinations. At the Stone, the Flux Quartet Flexes Its Muscles 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

I especially liked the differentiation of instrumental voices: this was a living, moving Bruckner, not a faceless monument. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

That's why I go more to instrumental music than vocal music these days. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

Take the title track, for example, which benefits from greater instrumental separation, rendering Harrison's timeless musings about life's transitory nature even more heartrending. "All Things Must Pass" is peak George Harrison: 50th anniversary edition serves a feast for the ears 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

The searching instrumental introduction and troubled harmonies hint at cracks in Mr. Pärt’s otherwise beguiling composure. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Arvo Pärt and Gorczycki 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Putney's own Four Tet is similarly entranced by the emotional pull and push of instrumental sounds and textures, and his wonderful 2003 record Slow Jam is suitably garlanded with squeaks, shudders and sighs. Readers recommend: songs with sound effects ? the results 2010-03-25T22:00:00Z

Vivaldi, best known for his instrumental music, wrote nearly 50 operas and considered the genre central to his work. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z

However, the juxtaposition of earthy noises with ringing bells and instrumental tones worked well to create an abstract landscape vista. Music in the American Wild plays mockingbird 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Tempos were bouncy, phrasing shapely and the instrumental textures beautifully balanced. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does the Bach family proud 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

“I should’ve saved that title actually,” says Dean, the top aide whose congressional testimony was instrumental in taking down the Nixon presidency. John Dean experienced Watergate from inside. He’s watching Donald Trump closely. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The warm acoustics and beautiful interior of the church were ideal for the concert, which included instrumental interludes. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-10-25T22:00:50Z

This week in Seattle beats: Chocolate Chuck, Keyboard Kid Seattle is awash in quality instrumental hip-hop right now, or music that starts there and branches outward. This week in Seattle beats: Chocolate Chuck, Keyboard Kid 2012-10-15T17:14:18Z

Just as Beethoven’s Nine elevated the symphony into what one contemporary called “the highest genre of instrumental music,” performing them all, together and intensively, has always held a special allure. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Freed – along with plenty of other pioneers including Ruth Brown, Little Richard and Berry Gordy -- were instrumental in moving those boundaries. Alan Freed or Beyonce? False debate rages around Rock Hall 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The vitality of instrumental details enhances, rather than distracts from, the coherence of the drama. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

But federal prosecutor James Preston said Myrie was instrumental to what took place and lied in court about his role in the drug deal. Reggae singer Banton gets 10-year prison sentence 2011-06-23T15:12:03Z

Similarly, his vocalese – the art of applying original lyrics to already conceived instrumental solos – marked Elling as an artist with something freshly original to say. Kurt Elling: The thrill is gone 2011-02-12T15:14:00Z

“As in his instrumental works, his language here is thickly chromatic with whiffs of serial techniques,” Anthony Tommasini wrote in The Times of the 1997 premiere at the Santa Fe Opera. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

In addition to her instrumental mastery and beautiful sound, she is a musician with ideas. Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing without the usual partners 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Portland, Oregon native arrived on stage and sat in the dark to the side in a large armchair, sipping red wine, as her six musicians played an instrumental introduction. Esperanza Spalding brings Grammy-winning jazz to Europe 2011-03-31T13:46:03Z

“The quality that really confounded me about Aaron’s instrumental tracks is that to me, they were immediately, intensely visual,” Swift wrote in an email. How Aaron Dessner Found His Voice (With an Assist From Taylor Swift) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Stop on by — I’ll make you a cup of coffee,” Mr. DeMarco, a mischievous singer and songwriter, said on a whim at the end of “My House by the Water,” an instrumental track from 2015. How Mac DeMarco Became the Lovable Laid-Back Prince of Indie Rock 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Loadbang’s unusual instrumental and vocal combination poses a challenge for composers. Loadbang and the Mivos Quartet at Symphony Space 2014-05-06T15:10:36Z

They play obscure post-rock songs with long instrumental movements and intense dynamics and atmospherics. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

Instead, he had to extract musical contents from a complex mesh of instrumental and vocal lines and shape them into an entirely new symphonic creature. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

The indomitable Jones held her ground against a swarm of bigots on Twitter — and in the process wound up being instrumental in getting Milo Yiannopoulos deservedly booted from the platform. Best of 2016: A salute to the women who made a bad year a whole lot better 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Often it felt faintly dutiful, in stark contrast to the urgency and unpredictability of the band’s instrumental outflow. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z

They later became instrumental in wooing the Swiss-based Art Basel fair to begin a Miami edition. Art Basel Miami, Where Big Money Meets Bigger Money 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

But the guileless instrumental accompaniment here had a tendency to take the edge off the discomfort, which makes Ms. Monk’s best music so compelling as it teeters on the spidery line between alienation and revelation. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

He will rely on the pipe organ to fill in the missing instrumental parts. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

Joined by his gleaming, vibrant instrumental ensemble and a cast endowed with the brilliant agility that Vivaldian style requires, Mr. Savall serves both the glitter and the emotion of a work unheard for centuries. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

The business of soundtracks dominated by songs instead of instrumental scores really began with “American Graffiti” in the early 1970s and Martin Scorsese’s movies where he liked to use a lot of pop music. Secrets of the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” soundtrack: “When you can hear the vocals, you say, ‘Oh my God, this song is about Cameron'” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Recorded moments from Mr. Dillon’s first two triptychs were incorporated almost unrecognizably into the instrumental textures, and in the final section a recording of Marcel Duchamp crept out, a haunting murmur. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z

The show includes amusing recitations of Dorothy Parker verses and of a Porter lyric, and an instrumental suite of Edith Piaf songs played in Mr. Ross’s emphatically martial society-piano style. Music Review: Return to Civility, With Wit and Rhyme 2011-01-20T22:47:11Z

Even singers with perfect pitch depend on instrumental accompaniment to orient their pitches, so a cappella opera poses daunting challenges. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z

Davis's name was still down as president for another set-up dear to his heart: the Hattori Foundation which supports young instrumental soloists and ensembles aged 15 to 27. Juan Diego Flórez and friends; Ksenija Sidorova and Thomas Gould – review 2013-04-27T23:07:16Z

Several women interviewed for this story say Kelly was instrumental in getting them to tell their own stories to the investigator. Who brought down Roger Ailes? A new movie stirs up an argument over former Fox News stars. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect him to come up with something like that. When I heard it instrumentally, I was like, ‘This is Dr. Dre meets Band of Gypsys.’ Gary Clark Jr. was supposed to save the blues. But the guitarist would rather channel Curtis Mayfield. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

He could focus instead on “pure” instrumental music, like the “Brandenburg” Concertos, today’s holiday-season standbys. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

He's been involved with live act Sensu and also been instrumental in introducing an African vibe into local clubbing culture. Clubs picks of the week 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

We weren't sure how else to label this furious melee of folky, chanted unison warbles and epic instrumental passages, this mad cross-breed of serious intensity and joyous release. New band of the day ? No 763: Fang Island 2010-04-09T13:26:00Z

They also performed other popular songs from the era like Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock" and the Shadows' instrumental "Apache." A Minute With: Jeff Beck revisits rock's glory days 2011-03-09T11:04:21Z

But now, instead of piling up countless layers, he continuously tweaks fewer tracks; the timbres keep changing on vocals, drums and instrumental lines, smudging each one just so. Review: Tame Impala’s New Album Clears the Haze 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

In turn, the lure of Pilchuck, and the teaching that has taken place there, has been instrumental in building the Pacific Northwest as a dominant force in glassmaking around the world. Pilchuck at 40: world-class glass 2011-08-26T23:49:50Z

These late-afternoon shows, with recorded music, are separated from midday vocal and instrumental presentations, but when Ms. Srinivasan dances solo on Friday night, the music will be live. Review: Indian Dance Amid a Luxury Store Backdrop 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Melodic and frenetically detailed, for @sukeyyy, "it's got to be their ultimate instrumental, showing off Trent's less abrasive, more relaxed and groovy side." Nine Inch Nails: a beginner's guide 2013-07-08T13:52:00Z

The sound of the solo singers, the chorus and instrumental ensemble of Les Arts Florissants came through on Friday with clarity, presence and bloom. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Better still, the program summoned the vast choral resources of the Christ Universal Temple Ensemble and the instrumental exhortations of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, based at Columbia College Chicago. A flawed celebration of Mahalia Jackson's centennial 2011-05-21T14:55:00Z

The work's four instrumental groups – woodwind, brass, strings and percussion – echo and react to each other as though in a latter-day Gabrieli canzona. Birtwistle portrait – review 2012-05-25T15:42:59Z

“He’s starting to understand that he’s going to be instrumental in that.” 'The Strain' recap: The Master, crispy around the edges, still lives 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

In 2010, Scruggs was instrumental in launching “The Second City Comedy Desk,” a feature that appears periodically in the Tribune’s Talk pages. Mary Scruggs, head of writing and education at Second City, dies at 46 2011-01-12T17:08:46Z

Their impressively slick and apparently effortless vocal and instrumental work was aided by a batch of original songs – many touching on their troubled family history – and by Rebecca's contagious enthusiasm. Larkin Poe/Georgia Ruth – review 2013-07-24T18:08:39Z

“We knew the work of a conservator would be instrumental in answering the key question: Whether the Michelangelo was right or not.” She’s one of the top conservators in the country, but she likes to be anonymous 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Barchitta more than for her friend, the dancing was instrumental to the meaning she took away — but not necessarily in a good way. Admit One: ‘Here Lies Love’ and the Era of Audience Participation 2013-07-11T21:22:46Z

This is a great idea, and a touching tribute to the show’s instrumental and intensely loyal fanbase. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 10: Send in the clowns 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Lotic — flanked by dancing fans onstage — was sparser and crisply kinetic, using programmed variants on carnival and hip-hop beats under a quick-changing assortment of vocal and instrumental samples. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Zamora's public struggle with the illness prompted a supportive phone call from President Clinton and was instrumental in shaping the views of millennials, who subsequently became strong supporters of the movement to legalize same-sex marriage. Years before court ruling, pop culture shaped same-sex marriage debate 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

He powers the cinematic instrumental “Space Chase” with a flurry of toms. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t a big decision to do an instrumental record, put it that way, because I love playing instrumentals so much. Q&A with Peter Frampton: His new instrumental album, getting invited to join the Who, and why he wants to get out on the road again 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Moreover, it is a mashup of styles and instrumental and vocal configurations that somehow comes together as a unified, if lengthy, whole. Gaechinger Cantorey brings a new name and spellbinding sound to Disney Hall 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

That song’s instrumental break worked just fine at the Anthem, as did a rhythm section breakdown during “You’re Still a Mystery.” Indie-pop impresario Jack Antonoff and his band Bleachers wow the crowd at a sold-out Anthem 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Apart from singing the unaccompanied lines, the voice is treated instrumentally to create sections that Davies calls "dreaming" around Blake's words. Williams/Doric Quartet 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z

Mr. Lake was instrumental in bringing classical influences, epic length, mythic scope and 1970s excess into rock-and-roll, winning millions of fans before punk swept in and spoiled the party. Greg Lake, who co-founded rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Laden with steamy pavement pounders and deep-grooving cool-downs that hit like a summer spritz, the instrumental trio’s sophomore album topped Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart upon its February release, knocking off genre heavyweight Norah Jones. 15 of the best Seattle albums of 2021 (so far) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

For the first hour, Chin often seems to be finding her operatic footing, relying on her gift for illuminating complexity with shimmering, nearly tactile instrumental color to also supply theater. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

An instrumental album composed entirely on modular synthesizers, the 15 pieces within hum with oddly soothing tones and rhythms, like New Age music swimming through mystical Roger Dean-esque topographic oceans. 'At Long Last ASAP Rocky' a psychedelic trip through grief 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

With his vocal and instrumental chops, good looks and a decade of performing under his belt, Ballard is clearly in the game for the long haul. Bluegrass and country alert — Hot Rize, Frankie Ballard play Neptune | Concert preview 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s an instrumental with a vaguely Asian keyboard motif, drum syncopations that clarify and recede into quiet thuds, one-syllable vocal snippets, rhythmic breathing and a constantly recalibrated sense of tension. The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

One other, a nasty R&B instrumental called “Title 5,” came from a tape box marked “1969,” though Mr. Was suspects it was made earlier. Music: Revisiting ?Main St.,? Rethinking the Myth 2010-05-20T03:39:00Z

The Four Nations program, at the end, was the most straightforward, consisting of small-scale instrumental works by François Francoeur and by Georg Philipp Telemann, also in a French vein. Music Review: Sounds Both Skin Deep and Soul-Piercing 2010-09-24T21:57:00Z

Lattimore went on to record an album of discursive duets with her neighbor in Los Angeles, the fellow Philadelphia expatriate Paul Sukeena, and two luminous drones with the instrumental duo Growing. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

It was kind of a race to get the first rap record out, and the SugarHill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" both used that same instrumental piece from the "Good Times" theme. Hip-hop stays current by mining Internet memes 2011-08-16T19:17:00Z

Best known of his scant instrumental catalog is the charming “Italian Serenade” for string quartet, which he later arranged for string orchestra. Music Review: Devoted to Echoes of a Composer?s Brief Career 2011-03-27T23:07:15Z

The arrangement, influenced by New Age music, came out of early Turtle Island recordings on the independent, instrumental acoustic label Windham Hill. Turtle Island Quartet brings its eclectic tastes and passion for discovery to Seattle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The rollicking “How Mountain Girls Can Love” and Mr. Stanley’s vibrant instrumental showcase “Hard Times” showed their up-tempo side. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

I thought the question was a quirk of the place—a city where most writers are screenwriters and lots of people are paid to read novels instrumentally, with an eye to adaptation. The Unadaptable Me 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Martin's mother, who was instrumental in bringing the case to the public's attention, said she hopes Zimmerman is remorseful and she believes the shooting was not intentional. Shooter of Trayvon Martin faces hearing 2012-04-12T16:31:00Z

Uniting musicians from such different artistic backgrounds, never establishing a standard ensemble size, Ms. Davis forced the group members to listen to one another harder, and to place their traditional instrumental roles into question. Kris Davis, a Pianist Fighting for Fringe Music 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

During the best of times of the Derek Trucks Band’s run, he was front and center, an instrumental vocalist who played the solos and sang the melodies through his guitar. The Tedeschi-Trucks dream, still unfulfilled | Concert preview 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Few could forget the misfortunes that befell a homeless young couple and their children in Cathy Come Home, a programme that shocked the nation and was instrumental in the formation of the charity Shelter. Tony Imi obituary 2010-04-26T17:30:00Z

The sound radiated and rose, surged and spread — it felt instrumental, a conductible energy summoned by the hands of strangers in the dark and out of frame. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Each verse gets a different instrumental track, and within verses, the flow changes again and again: slow and fast, long lines and punchy short ones, vehement sincerity and cutting sarcasm. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

I figured I could come in and make my voice an instrument; make people basically listen to a four-minute instrumental. Q&A: T-Pain attempts to restart his career with a new album 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

To me their peak to date is Change, the all but instrumental on their Rough Trade single, which comes at you like a juggernaut in the night, a kind of crushing dance music. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z

Belafonte would be an instrumental presence in the nation’s mourning of both men, and in efforts to try to keep the peace. Review | Peacock’s ‘The Sit-In’ recounts the amazing week in 1968 that Harry Belafonte took Johnny Carson’s place 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Cleveland, which his band Flamekeeper, won instrumental recorded performance of the year for "Goin' Up Dry Branch" and won Cleveland won his sixth straight fiddle player of the year award and ninth overall. Steve Martin gets bluegrass award, injects comedy 2011-09-30T11:31:04Z

These are both critical factors in the exquisite instrumental balances on this recording. CD review: An enlightened new recording of de Lalande 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

In retrospect, he says, he wishes he’d played an instrumental version of Sam Cooke’s song “What a Wonderful World” as Bachmann entered. Books of The Times: Questlove Publishes His Memoir, ‘Mo’ Meta Blues’ 2013-06-25T22:04:39Z

My sister was instrumental in helping me recreate the recipes of our youth into healthier, vegan versions and showing others how to do the same. Go lean this summer with an elevated spin on a Sloppy Joe and coleslaw from “The 40-Year-Old Ve... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Taraji P. Henson, one of the stars of “Hidden Figures,” about the African American women who were instrumental in the success of the country’s space program, was dressed by Alberta Ferretti. Perspective | The most eye-catching red carpet look at the Oscars wasn’t a dress. It was a blue ACLU ribbon. 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

"It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks," she said. Pink Floyd album 'out in October' 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Grim density flows into shining expanses, but this composer’s changeability and the creativity of his instrumental combinations keep it from ever sounding saccharine or sodden. Review: A Concerto Conjures the Creation, With Video 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

She wrote tunes for voice and instrumental accompaniment that display a gift for embodying words in sound: Words about desire reverberate with unresolved tension, words about anger feel like a quickened pulse. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

When she finally arrived on the last day, they cut the instrumental “Sugar Kiss.” Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

The Guggenheim has not had an artist on its board since its founding director, Hilla Rebay, who was instrumental in hiring Frank Lloyd Wright to design the building. Kanye West Will Perform at a Benefit for the Watermill Center 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

You may not fully realize, as you stream “Hamilton” into your home, that you are also listening to the work of a maestro of instrumental embellishment. Perspective | As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

It's still, however, music that may as well be instrumental. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Yet she was also instrumental in encouraging Eliot to write poetry; she was an early reader of “The Waste Land”, inserting a line of her own in it and scribbling praise in the margins. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Early music” is an umbrella term for all sorts of vocal and instrumental works. D.C. trio Eya presents a buffet of early music for lunchtime concert series 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The singers turn to the relevant page in their hymn books and, with no instrumental accompaniment to guide them, beginning humming to establish a pitch. Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

The results are almost entirely instrumental, structured as four “sides” or movements, an effort that Mr. Gilmour insists will be the final music released under the name Pink Floyd. Fresh Releases by Pink Floyd and Queen 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Here, with the different instrumental colors, it was easy to keep the voices clear in your mind. Music Review: Windscape and Orion String Quartet at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-09T22:45:52Z

Mr. Delligatti, who also played an instrumental role in the creation of McDonald’s breakfast menu, did not receive a financial windfall from the Big Mac. Jim Delligatti, who gave the world the Big Mac sandwich, dies at 98 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Yes, the opera is daunting, with high-flown lines that push vocalists to extremes and rich instrumental writing suited to the finest of orchestras. Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z

Richardson is divinely droll, but the character feels wedged in for pacing purposes, even though Castle was in fact instrumental in helping the women workers at Dagenham fulfill their goals. Review: Sally Hawkins Shines in Made in Dagenham 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Much like the 8-bit calypso tune that is Mario and Luigi’s constant companion as they dart through their vivid environs, the tinkling, sashaying instrumental leitmotif that accompanies “The Real Housewives” is their trademark. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

The album generated a Grammy for Beck last year when he won for his instrumental cover of "A Day in the Life." Jeff Beck hopes to make a "Commotion" at Grammys 2011-02-11T17:47:32Z

She said the sessions had been instrumental in helping her navigate the stresses related to her 8-month-old daughter. Children’s Museums Are Growing Intellectually and Emotionally 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

It begins with a hushed instrumental chorus of wails, yawns, sighs and whistles. Music Review: Conjuring Up Wondrous Sounds 2010-11-21T22:44:00Z

The standout "News 4 You" closed the set with a frenetic instrumental section. Fitz and the Tantrums throw down at the Showbox 2012-01-22T02:00:06Z

“Ssss” is a modest, genially impersonal effort: 10 instrumental tracks that don’t flaunt their authorship. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z

The nearly 24 minutes of footage includes the new president and first lady entering the venue — not to “Hail to the Chief” but to “Soul Finger,” a greasy instrumental classic from 1967. George Bush, Soul Man? Footage From an Inauguration Concert Is Restored 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Music has previously been instrumental in tackling other outbreaks in Uganda. Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine records song to beat coronavirus 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

They move on to the tribal pluck of “Chief Taghkanic,” an original instrumental. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

On his new single, “America,” Tone touches on such topics as health care, jobs and race relations in punk-style jeers over a rock-and-roll-infused instrumental. Tone P was behind some of Wale’s earliest hits. But can he actually make it as a rapper? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Like Wagner’s instrumental works from around that time, it doesn’t need to be taken out of the curio cabinet except for the occasional dusting. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

A stark seriousness of mood came through, but not enough of Mr. Mincek’s florid instrumental imagination — which meant that the Alarm Will Sound players were too often sidelined. At This New-Music Festival, You Can Count on Variety 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

“It was really quite instrumental to my healing. The arts community, the people, the friendships, great things happened for me there, even during all the craziness, it was just gentler. America is pretty savage.” Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

In parts of the Ouverture, instrumental dialogues were often more than a simple shift of focus within the full ensemble. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z

He fails to mention—or perhaps forgot—that this procession consists, for the most part, of the same theme, over and over, in various keys, phrasings, and instrumental guises. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

With more than 100 million records sold, the Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time. Don Wilson, guitarist with The Ventures, dies in Tacoma at 88 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

The new youth orchestra is closed to college-level conservatory students and instrumental performance majors, who presumably have other opportunities to play in talent-rich orchestras. Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra in 2013 2012-01-11T21:00:13Z

But the work as a whole, a study in instrumental color, was less consistently compelling than Mr. Brook’s. JACK Quartet and Argento Riff on Mahler’s Ninth 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Later on, Ali was instrumental in offering changes to dialogue. Peter Farrelly made some pretty ‘dumb’ movies. So how did he end up directing a smart drama about racism? 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Then, over a mournful instrumental, a monologue began—a man’s voice, reading the words of the Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou, written to his wife, Sarah, in July of 1861. Swooning to the Strangeness of Bon Iver 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Of course, there's Glee, which I quite liked: even though I'd like to hear the songs without the instrumental backing, it's certainly enthused a whole generation of high-school kids about vocal music. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

Unabashedly atonal and teeming with multilayered instrumental writing, “Life Is a Dream” is also a workout for the orchestra. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z

There have been, at minimum, dozens of operas, song cycles, instrumental works and ballets based on the tragic romance between the Greek musician Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice. Seattle Opera's 'Orpheus' is a love story for all time 2012-02-15T23:05:03Z

“Babel” expands on the sound of “Sigh No More” with heftier arrangements and longer instrumental passages; it’s the sound of a band collaborating more closely and growing used to bigger venues. Pop: For Mumford & Sons, the Road Is Like Home 2012-09-23T03:03:11Z

Color plays an instrumental role in the movie, which Mr. Hou shot on film. 'The Assassin' Director on Long Takes, Fast Edits and a Warrior in the Shadows 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

When instrumental groups decide to start singing, it can be risky — especially for those with a penchant for technical, nonlinear songcraft. Tera Melos' math rock not by numbers | Concert preview 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Romance” offers an engaging overview of her style as an instrumental composer, starting with a warmly personal account of her Piano Concerto — the one Ms. Downes played — which Clara wrote as a teenager. Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

“Soma,” an instrumental sextet inspired by Ms. Fure’s grandmother’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease, became a powerful reflection on misdirected gestures and disorientation. Review: Ashley Fure Highlighted in a Composer Portrait at Columbia 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Atop and around the many direct instrumental mirrors of Mr. Dennett’s voice is a greater musical landscape that’s sometimes lyrical and lush and sometimes frisky and peppy. ‘Mind Out of Matter,’ From the Composer Scott Johnson 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

But Helena Williams, who still speaks to her grandson three times a day from her home in Greenville, “was instrumental in me saying my piece,” he said. A Broadway Couple Says ‘I Do’ to Great Applause 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

The academy's science and technical awards chairman, Erland holds a patent for the Blue-Max flux projector, a traveling matte process, and was instrumental in establishing visual effects as a separate branch of the Academy. Oscar organizers honor film science, technology 2012-02-12T10:20:54Z

The orchestra sounded energised and mercurial, both in their instrumental pieces and when accompanying three rising-star singers in arias from works on which Hunt Lieberson put her stamp. OAE/Christie – review 2013-06-05T17:39:34Z

What followed was the band’s version of “Warszawa,” an elegiac, mostly instrumental track from Mr. Bowie’s 1977 album “Low.” Review: Donny McCaslin’s Quartet, Fresh Off the Release of Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

A collaboration with trombonist Willie Colón, the opera was also full of instrumental experiments as well as formal and theatrical and poetic ones, including the first time Blades worked with strings. Ruben Blades, Gustavo Dudamel can't quite connect with Bowl 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

That the page of “More about CNN’s ‘The Hunt’” is quite tonally off is predictable but still something; there’s a promotional video showing various fugitives from the law set to pulse-pounding instrumental country music. CNN uses news coverage of fugitive’s death to promotes its show “The Hunt” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

In my recitals and full shows, I am breaking down the barriers between what is classical and what is pop, what is instrumental and what is vocal. Violinist Hahn-Bin at home with Bowie, Tchaikovsky 2012-02-23T22:13:23Z

Stephen Ward, an osteopath and socialite, was instrumental in the , which threatened to topple the Conservative government in 1963. Mixed reviews for sex scandal show 2013-12-20T14:42:24Z

But while celebrity patronage has been instrumental in elevating the brand, diversity and representation are more important to the designer. Jewelry designer Suhani Parekh’s Misho continues to attract a global following among stylists and celebrities 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Kuroda’s work is important to him, Mr. Murakami said, because he was instrumental in the development of art education in Japan and the founding of Tokyo University of the Arts, where Mr. Murakami studied. Inside Art: Showing Two Painters, Three Centuries Apart 2011-06-30T21:30:54Z

The new composition by Mr. Abrams, called “Float Rumble Rest,” is an instrumental work a little longer than eight minutes long. ‘Float Rumble Rest,’ a Hometown Tribute to Ali 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

For 15 years she worked closely with Menotti, producing events and raising funds, and she was instrumental in bringing its sister festival to the United States. Priscilla Morgan, Cultural Matchmaker, Dies at 94 2014-04-03T05:01:14Z

Every backbeat, vocal harmony, keyboard countermelody and instrumental bridge is in place. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The report also said that Epstein was instrumental in “obtaining a potential advisory opinion from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance regarding a contemplated transaction involving Black’s art.” A Donor’s Ties to Epstein Are Criticized at MoMA and Dartmouth 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The instrumental music whips endlessly from a vaporous, stormy fog of sound to harsh crashes. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

At the reception, Ms. Reardon also sang a rendition of “Everlasting Love,” an instrumental version of which played as they exited the ceremony as a married couple. A Mermaid Finds Her Captain 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Unlike Ben-Haim, whose music was somewhat retrogressive in style, Kopytman incorporated dissonance and extended instrumental techniques familiar from the work of Bartok, and the strident brutality played to the Ariel’s strengths. Ariel Quartet pays tribute to Israeli composers and folk music 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

His other compositions include a wide array of instrumental works and “Songs of Perfect Propriety,” vocal settings of poems by Dorothy Parker. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Their nearly three-hour-long set was replete with rich melodies and intense, sustained instrumental explosions worthy of any arena band. My Morning Jacket fits Paramount audience perfectly 2011-06-27T18:45:04Z

That credit is typically reserved for top actors, studio executives, financiers and others who are instrumental in getting a film made, but not a major part in the months of planning or production. Hilary Swank film draws ire of victim's family 2010-10-15T00:21:00Z

There is a hint of nostalgia in the instrumental style, but also just enough unpredictability to create a sense of freshness. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

This hourlong work for 12 singers has no instrumental accompaniment: Ms. Auerbach calls the work an a cappella opera. Music Review: Lera Auerbach’s Opera ‘The Blind’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T18:30:40Z

At some point during the song's instrumental interlude, McCarthy pulled a flute out of her sleeve. Melissa McCarthy's star power helps her go out on a limb with 'Tammy' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The playing is vivid — strings lush and articulate, winds restrained, brasses secure — with a precision and transparency that emphasize Puccini’s debt to the adventurous instrumental textures, harmonies and gauzy exoticism of Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

In aging women, inactivity seems to be more instrumental in fat gain than hormonal changes, Miller says. Why spot reduction doesn’t work 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Casella championed Stravinsky and Schoenberg and later became instrumental in the Vivaldi revival. Music Review: Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Plays at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-09T00:38:00Z

The hyoid is instrumental in the howler’s ability to project its voice about two miles. Can Data Make Life Better? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Jewish refugees were instrumental in establishing chocolate companies in America, and before that, they were chocolatiers in France, Austria and other countries. A Connection Beyond Hanukkah Gelt 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Using the music as a rhythm movement for the movie was really key and helped instrumentally in the tone of the film. "The last thing we wanted to do was start a fire!": Peter Facinelli on his wildfire survival film 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z

As a work, though, the piano transcription loses something without the instrumental colors of the orchestral version. Khatia Buniatishvili: a recital of skill, sensitivity 2013-03-07T19:03:24Z

Over the years, the band’s solution has been to create shifting instrumental shapes and colors just beneath the vocals. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

Starting in the mid-1980s, he devoted himself increasingly to instrumental and ensemble works. Alvin Lucier, Probing Composer of Soundscapes, Is Dead at 90 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

For better or for worse, it was instrumental in the democratization of fashion as we know it. Where Fashion Blogging Began 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Accompanied by music from Kanye West’s latest album, “Ye,” and a live performance by the instrumental band BadBadNotGood, models began unveiling crocodile totes, sheer shirts and white leather coats. Playboi Carti Conquers the Paris Runway 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

A single player, comparably, was allocated to each instrumental part. St John Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T23:00:00Z

“Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom,” an interactive exhibition of manuscripts, paintings and maps, tells the story of Brooklynites who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery. Spare Times for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:03:54Z

The only instrumental on the playlist is Transe Eastern Blues by Abaji. This track for me had a spiritual quality of accepting a situation but without surrendering hope. Readers recommend: songs about homelessness – results 2013-01-17T14:00:00Z

At the peak of the silent-film era movie theaters provided nonstop work for instrumental musicians in America. Music Review: Keaton?s ?Sherlock, Jr.? With Stephen Prutsman Score - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:27Z

While the pianist thrashes away at a collection of pitches, her mobiles and their shadows twist calmly in front of the lights, creating a potent contrast with the instrumental ferocity. Six Hours and 24 Minutes Later, a Minimalism Classic Is Back 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Frankly, I'd be shocked if it wasn't instrumental in landing Johnson his "Star Wars" gig. Toxic nerds are making “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” criticism impossible 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

This sample-heavy instrumental hip-hop that you helped pioneer was pretty cutting edge in the 1990s. ArtsBeat Blog: DJ Shadow Talks About His Latest Sonic Collages 2011-10-04T15:59:54Z

Mr. Krell’s voice has moved upfront, and instrumental sounds, physical and synthetic, are no longer drowned in echoes and noise. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

During his busy years in Leipzig, Germany, Bach often recycled existing movements from instrumental pieces into large sacred scores, Labadie explained. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

To show off the tonal variety of the organ by playing different musical sections with diverse instrumental colors, Mr. Carpenter took this breathless overture at a somewhat restrained tempo. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Performs on His Touring Instrument 2014-03-10T20:12:51Z

That's a rarity in modern Nashville, where stars typically lay down their vocals after a song's instrumental backing has been recorded with help from a stand-in singer. Lee Ann Womack takes an introspective path to the Grammy Awards 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Even in their mightiest solos, the brasses seemed to be contributing to the instrumental textures rather than standing above them. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

He had maintained relationships with the Gates and Agee families, and he says the killings, and their dreadful aftermath, were instrumental in making him want to look at the violence plaguing the African-American community. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

How instrumental was getting the song heard on MySpace to its success? Firefly guy 2010-02-26T11:09:00Z

A resident of the Tribeca neighborhood that housed the World Trade Center, De Niro was instrumental in starting the Tribeca Film Festival, which brought business back to the devastated area. De Niro back to NYC from Toronto premiere for 9/11 2011-09-11T09:31:04Z

From Verlaine’s 1992 album, “Warm and Cool,” the instrumental “Spiritual” suspends his lead guitar line above a drone. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

In recent years, at recitals and chamber music programs at the Juilliard School and elsewhere, particularly with contemporary-music ensembles, I have repeatedly been struck by the sheer level of instrumental expertise that seems a given. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

However, Vahdat’s tour de force conclusion cut through the fabric of decorum implied by the instrumental accompaniment, and seared the heart. Review | Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

James Connelly, vice president of projects and strategic growth at International Living Future Institute, was instrumental in guiding Etsy’s vetting process for safe building materials. Far from a cubicle farm, Etsy’s stylish headquarters is full of design ideas worth bringing home 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The song was replaced by instrumental music at the 2013 pageant in January after the widow of the songwriter filed a licensing lawsuit in federal court in California in 2012. 'Miss America' song cut from pageant over dispute 2013-05-08T12:42:08Z

“Gruppen” is an organic piece with dazzling instrumental colors, craggy rhythmic energy and astringent sonorities — both dissonant and beautiful. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z

"He was instrumental in reviving Chinese literary language after the Cultural Revolution," said Abrahamsen. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z

“When Summer Comes Again” is an instrumental track—just fiddle and guitar, though it sounds remarkably rich, like an entire town of players has gathered together, started circling. Song of Summer: “When Summer Comes Again,” by the Lewis Brothers 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

“And those things mean so much to me because those people have been so instrumental to me as an actor.” The Carpetbagger: Lupita Nyong’o Is Red-Carpet Savvy and Has Awards to Match 2014-01-22T22:45:51Z

So too are members of the 26-piece instrumental ensemble, the aim being that all the sounds occur within the same "space". Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

This piece requires a performer to intersperse instrumental music with discretionary nonmusical actions and sounds. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

He was also instrumental in remaking a US version of House of Cards for Netflix, winning an Emmy award and helping spark a revolution in TV production for subscription-only services. Utopia series set for US remake 2014-02-13T13:48:59Z

Musically, he’s credited with being instrumental in Britain’s revival of grime music, and he was the first solo Black British artist to headline Glastonbury Festival. How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

Sy, who is also credited as executive producer, was instrumental in getting the series rolling when he floated the idea of Lupin as a dream role. The Musée d’Orsay and Stanley Kubrick: What ‘Lupin’ Is Made Of 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Her father was an actor who was instrumental in the creation of Coventry's Belgrade theatre, and her mother had been a dancer. Caroline John obituary 2012-06-21T18:03:05Z

Don Quijote was instrumental in lobbying for that change, arguing it was a powerful way to attract tourists. Don Quijote leads Japan tourism push to rake in sales 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

This “Rosenkavalier” will be performed in a chamber version called “Someone Younger,” cut by about one-third and arranged for a small instrumental ensemble. Opera as midlife crisis: A new company takes a fresh look at a classic. 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

In a few pieces, both instrumental and vocal, there were signs of lack of rehearsal, misalignments or false entrances that were righted eventually, although not without some white knuckles. ‘A Renaissance Christmas’ at the Folger 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The individual instrumental lines often seem to melt together: strings sound like woodwinds; marimba and piano timbres are inextricable and exotic blends become impossible to parse. Music Review: Celebrating Steve Reich, a Bit Early 2010-12-12T22:18:00Z

Portland's the Decemberists give an earnest if unexciting account of the Bob Dylan anthem "When the Ship Comes In," redeemed by an ennobling instrumental bridge. New CDs: The Chieftains celebrate 50 years with 'Voice of Ages' 2012-02-18T00:31:13Z

First at Mercury Records and then at Columbia, he helped define American popular music in the postwar, pre-rock era, carefully matching singers with songs and choosing often unorthodox but almost always catchy instrumental accompaniment. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

Mr. Dibbits was responsible for the re-installation of the museum’s collections and was instrumental in developing the museum’s digital strategy, which has made high-resolution images of its art works available free to the public. Rijksmuseum Names Taco Dibbits as New Director 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Known for their quiet-loud-louder dynamic with instrumental guitars and defined bass riffs making layers of moody melodies, they enjoy a cult-like status among fans. Mogwai still pushing boundaries 2014-01-20T10:48:27Z

Critic Graham Straehle praised the sung parts as "languid, voluptuous and constantly evolving," while the instrumental passages conveyed "a deep, sinister presence with elegiac interludes and chilling silences that mark the trajectory to doom." 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The label says the 35-year-old was instrumental in launching the careers of several reggae stars. Music producer killed by gunmen in Jamaica 2011-08-17T22:35:08Z

“You want to take the turns as fast as possible. You want to do what you could never do before, now that you have the brain power and the instrumental prowess.” The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

For me, the instrumental recitatives that follow are much more interesting than what the baritone sings later on. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

“The Catholic lobby and other ‘right-to-life’ groups were instrumental in drafting these statutes, and insisted that a pregnancy exclusion be included.” Another Marlise Munoz? Why one family’s tragedy could be only the beginning 2014-01-30T12:44:00Z

It proved a particularly fruitful period – Mackerras stayed in the post until 1977 – as he exercised a firm control on the style and content of productions and was instrumental in broadening the repertory. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z

“Sea Creatures,” is followed by a second instrumental that’s full of strings. Soak’s Mature Teen Spirit 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The skill to stand in front of a sea of players and pick out every note in every instrumental line in rehearsal is overwhelming. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

The staple was infectious, instrumental dance music based on the three chords of the blues — slow or fast. Musician Kent Morrill's bandmates throw a party in his memory 2011-04-29T21:13:05Z

Karabits's interpretation was taut, mercurial and sharply focused, with a subtle sense of dynamic gradation and a telling but discreet emphasis on Tchaikovsky's shifting instrumental colours. RPO/Karabits – review 2013-03-21T18:17:23Z

For Riley, his instrumental virtuosity and his compositional imagination are the gateways to the exploration of a global musical consciousness. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z

Hunjan explains that the London Tattoo Convention, now in its eighth year, was instrumental in forming a network of female artists. Female tattoo artists make their mark 2012-10-05T10:28:00Z

She generates bursts of blindingly bright instrumental colors. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

There’s a gospel standard, and an instrumental showcasing Mr. Paisley’s fearsome picking. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

Thus far, my career highlights include interviewing bar scene jam bands and penning a painfully dull article about some instrumental Christian prog band running around town. The weirdest album to ever go platinum 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z

Highlights include the thought-provoking Is This What God Wants, and Falling Stars with it's great heavy neo-prog instrumental break featuring one of Eyre's few keyboard solos and an incredible guitar solo from by Adrian Jones. Readers' reviews: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Riversea 2012-08-29T14:07:29Z

Vocally and instrumentally, it uses both Chinese and Western approaches to timbre, melody and harmony, oscillating between the styles and combining them with dazzling fluidity. Music Review: New Works Enliven Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-04T22:14:32Z

His 1958 hit "Autumn Leaves" is the only instrumental song to reach number one on the Billboard pop charts. Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87 2011-10-08T17:35:15Z

They come from the estate of the Southern California collector Linda Riddell Hoffman, who “was instrumental in instigating the first meeting of national snuff bottle collectors in 1968,” the catalog notes. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z

Here the mostly slow-moving, prolonged vocal lines were set against a frenetic instrumental background. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z

Each was somewhat more forward looking than Bach in his instrumental works. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

On Saturday evening, after a battering and immaculately played opening instrumental, “No Words/No Thoughts,” Michael Gira, leader of Swans, barked at the seated crowd at the Paramount, a beautiful 1920s theater with raked seating. Critic?s Notebook: All Tomorrow?s Parties Festival at Asbury Park, N.J. 2011-10-03T22:40:06Z

The instrumental passages associated with each goddess are clearly and sensitively delineated: regal low strings for Juno, sprightlier violins and brasses for Pallas Athena and sensual winds for Venus. Music Review: Eccles’s ‘Judgment of Paris,’ at Washington Square Festival 2013-07-10T19:59:16Z

“At the Pershing: But Not for Me,” from 1958, became one of the best-selling instrumental records of its time. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

His intense, bass-heavy sets were instrumental in the foundation of a whole new genre that would be come to be known as dubstep. Disclosure and Zed Bias: dubplates, DJing and the sound of the suburbs 2013-02-15T14:00:00Z

The cinematographer Tony Imi, who has died aged 72, was instrumental in pioneering a new style of filming television drama in the 1960s, before he moved on to feature films. Tony Imi obituary 2010-04-26T17:30:00Z

And both make instrumental use of spoken words — words that can be misheard and repeated according to how they are pronounced, stretched out or shrunken. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Here it served as the centerpiece of a near-seamless span that mingled works from the classical tradition with instrumental pieces derived from or inspired by Eastern cultures, chiefly Armenian. Music Review: ‘Orientale’ From Gotham Chamber Orchestra at Poisson Rouge 2012-10-04T20:56:29Z

It, in turn, went country as it morphed into the instrumental "Wheels." Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z

December 6th and 10th: Meredith Monk’s “On Behalf of Nature,” at BAM, used song, dance, and instrumental composition to evoke the fragile immensity of the natural landscape. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

“The flatly sung vocals are slightly off-putting but quite minimal and as the piercing, insinuating instrumental intensifies, it draws you in like quicksand. Coldly spacey, but fascinating,” he wrote. The First Days of Disco 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Man on Fire,” which sets heartfelt working-class tales to immaculate bluegrass picking, features contributions from onetime Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain, jazz guitar ace Bill Frisell — who’s up for best instrumental album — and Dave Matthews. Forget Seattle. Rural Washington is ready to rock the Grammys 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Except that here the events in the distant past don't just shed light on a more recent story, they are instrumental in how it pans out. TV review: The Churchills; Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder – The Big Clear Out 2012-07-26T21:00:03Z

It has made instrumental music, except for a few songs that use words as tough little compositional elements. Music Review: Zs, With Extra Life and Wet Ink Ensemble, at 285 Kent 2012-08-30T21:51:33Z

Why juxtapose instrumental and vocal music on a chamber program? The agony and the ecstasy: an evening of gorgeous music by suffering composers 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, FGL surprised some listeners when it released “Simple,” which boasts a Mumford & Sons instrumental vibe and lyrics wistful for the days before technology took over. Florida Georgia Line could have been a one-hit wonder. Instead, they built an empire. 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

And he is the rare composer who understands how to create drama in music, even in wholly instrumental pieces. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

There were the lyrics he’s written for songs that were once purely instrumental, and the poetry he’s adapted for jazz. Music Review: Pivoting From Patter to Poetry 2011-03-03T21:46:39Z

Mr. Herndon is a member of Tortoise, the instrumental rock band that piles language on language: in 10 minutes of his playing you might hear jazz, funk, prog. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z

Ms. Scully focused on the latter, and under her tenure the magazine was instrumental in the emerging recognition of photography as art. Julia Scully, Influential Photography Editor and Memoirist, Dies at 94 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

Recently someone on social media posted the instrumental for “Single Ladies” and was like, how did someone sing over this? Songwriter or Star? The-Dream, Muni Long and Two Paths to the Grammys. 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

His mix of GQ-ready looks, instrumental virtuosity and a touch of incendiary politics has resonated over just a few EPs and a September major-label debut LP, and pop is better for that. Hozier takes a worshipful L.A. to an actual church 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

But with a static instrumental accompaniment and slow-moving vocal line, the piece nonetheless outstayed its welcome, offering little insight into the question. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Might it even be a better representation of Zeppelin's strengths than live shows in their heyday, when they might surrender half the set to lengthy solo instrumental excursions? Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z

They combine the tensely fluttering, flickering quality of his instrumental music with a remarkably varied approach to the human voice, sometimes speaking, sometimes keening, sometimes as pure-toned as a boy soprano. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I would like to think I was instrumental in helping her find her voice, confidence and words.” Kat Von D has a new album — and an explanation for everything else 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Cromwell was instrumental in bringing Anne to trial, which we saw in the second volume, “Bring Up the Bodies.” Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

But in each of these works the composers also took the opportunity to experiment with instrumental color and novel textures. Music Review: Riverside Symphony at Alice Tully Hall 2013-06-07T21:20:02Z

Now she’s looking for ways to translate some of these qualities into instrumental chamber music. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

The instrumental tracks and some vocals were recorded in Mr. Helm’s studio, known as the Barn in May 2011, a process recorded in a making-of video.  ArtsBeat: New Song to Benefit Amnesty International 2012-05-02T20:26:17Z

His own output included nine operas, eight symphonies and 12 instrumental concertos, as well as chamber music and choral works. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The concerto, Mozart's final instrumental work, was written for his friend Anton Stadler, a virtuoso on basset clarinet, which was capable of hitting much lower notes than today's more familiar clarinets. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z

For all the variety of the vocal part, which evokes instrumental writing in its virtuosity, it was hard to avoid trying to find some meaning in what Ms. Cooke was singing. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

He won the 1990 Grammy for best instrumental pop performance for the number, which was, according to the Allmusic website, “dark, cloying and obsessive — and one of the best scores ever written for television.” Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

When the soloists join the choirs for the final movement, they bring with them those instrumental colours, together with fragments of the texts they have sung. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson had his first gold record when he was still in high school, performing on the instrumental “Last Night” with the Mar-Keys. Wayne Jackson, Memphis Horns Trumpeter, Dies at 74 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

We would go get the single in the record store, just so we could have the instrumental and rap over it. J.Cole: "I Don't Want 'Beat Yeezus' On My Tombstone" 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

We've learned from experience that over mechanistic, usually instrumental, measurements do not begin to describe the true value of the arts. Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested 2011-03-31T17:09:17Z

Spirituals were sung “a cappella,” that is, without instrumental accompaniment. When gospel sermons came on the phonograph 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

There, he was instrumental in launching the American version of "The Office." Kevin Reilly nears deal to run TNT, TBS cable channels 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

But Schoeck’s work, for baritone and chamber orchestra, draws its power from a finely tuned command of instrumental color. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Page says he never heard the instrumental tune on Spirit's first album and didn't realize he owned a copy of it until he learned that comparisons with "Stairway" were cropping up online. 'Stairway to Heaven' creator faces questions of song origin 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

It is also painterly in its blending and contrasts of instrumental colors and sound qualities, natural and amplified. Argento at the Armory, With ‘Das Lied’ 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

It was unclear exactly which elements of “Heart on My Sleeve” — the lyrics, the instrumental beat, the melody, the vocals — were created by A.I. An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The work’s varied instrumental colors are still Technicolor in their projected brilliance. Review: A Sublime New Direction for Andrew Norman in Los Angeles 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches as if people are still willing to experience a whole album from start to finish. Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Many industry experts said that those advantages were instrumental in helping the movie eventually overtake Universal Pictures’ “Furious 7” to become China’s top-grossing film of all time. 'The Mermaid' Breaks Box-Office Records in China 1456-10-31T05:00:00Z

Carter continued composing until shortly before his death, his works ranging from ballets to vocal, instrumental, chamber and orchestral pieces. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

You’re blindfolded when you listen to those instrumental songs, you don’t know. A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z

Other composers at the time were writing similar “sound pieces,” as they were often called, that explored timbre and texture, using unconventional instrumental resources enhanced with electronics. Music Review: Avanti! Ensemble in Finnish Works at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-04T22:30:17Z

More than a decade later, Benedetti says their connection is less about instrumental performance and more centered around “common views about music’s power and how it lies within a grander context.” The challenge Nicola Benedetti threw down to get Wynton Marsalis to write a 'wild' violin concerto 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Missing in their account, obviously, was Varèse’s extraordinary instrumental palette with its heaving groans and desiccated chitters. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z

It became instrumental in the growth and development of improvisational and sketch comedy. Second City co-founder brought intellect to comedy 2013-06-17T21:59:11Z

Interweaving virtuoso instrumental solos with exactingly difficult ensembles and pulsing rhythmic monotones, this is music that rejects stillness and aspires to extraordinary exhilaration. Music of Today; Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-10-01T21:40:00Z

During an instrumental break there and elsewhere, the artist and his singers moved through loosely choreographed moves like the Pips on quaaludes. D'Angelo & the Vanguard thrill Club Nokia with lesson in raw funk 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Among the instrumental music, Harnoncourt goes back to his beginnings as a string player in the Cello Suites and the sonatas for viola da gamba, while Thomas Zehetmair plays the solo-violin works. The Complete Bach Edition on USB – review 2013-04-17T15:30:21Z

Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, "Black Messiah" is as vital as it is sublime. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Amayo, its songwriter and lead singer — in face paint and a flashy red-white-and-blue outfit — sang about “dirty money,” unity and respect for women, while the band’s instrumental buildups were a galvanizing message on their own. Sharon Jones Headlines Daptone’s Night of Soul 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

There are instrumental apologies, which are really just meant to bring an issue to some closure. Behind the celebrity apology: Why so many are so bad 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Certain creative choices proved popular, like beginning and ending within a circle of light and the use of dramatic instrumental music. Review: Roberto Villanueva’s BalaSole, a Kaleidoscope of Human Shapes 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

But the second bonus disc blows that idea apart, with new vocal tracks by Mr. Jagger over old instrumental tracks of “Exile”-related provenance, and other material that seems to come from the general era. Music: Revisiting ?Main St.,? Rethinking the Myth 2010-05-20T03:39:00Z

Skilled at eliciting variations of instrumental color with a bow, Mr. Wadud pioneered a pizzicato language on the cello that was sometimes subtle, sometimes booming. Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The gradual swelling of instrumental forces continued; on Saturday, this section contained a galvanic sense of swing, even through Threadgill’s successive, minute changes in tempo. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

My dad recorded everything on VHS, all the great Hollywood movies, so storytelling and the role that clothing played in that was pretty instrumental in terms of self-expression and character. Fashion superstar Zac Posen on his new career documentary: “What’s the point? To make people dream” 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Traditional figure skating music is often classical or instrumental — Boléro, Swan Lake, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 — or expansive movie scores from films like “Gladiator,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “Moulin Rouge.” Nathan Chen demonstrates new era of music in figure skating 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Facing financial ruin, Ms. Robinson got an inspiration when she heard Lovebug Starski rapping over the instrumental breaks in disco songs at the Harlem World nightclub. Sylvia Robinson, Pioneering Producer of Hip-Hop, Dies at 75 2011-09-30T04:57:17Z

Ms. Shaw knows how to surprise and add suspense with wordless vocal contributions, and how to change atmosphere by means of instrumental texture. At Vail, Tiler Peck Choreographs and Michelle Dorrance Wows 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

If it seemed a few of the music's rough edges were disappearing now and then within the honeyed harmonies, especially in instrumental numbers, Kozená's piquant singing kept things pointed. Magdalena Kozen?/Private Musicke - review 2011-02-06T17:54:11Z

All instrumental except for Little Dragon singer Yukimi Nagano's voice, snipped up by digital scissors. Review roundup: four Seattle rap/soul releases 2011-02-21T19:04:16Z

Even when she discovers her father was instrumental in the construction of the Death Star, that iconic weapon only appears fleetingly. Movie Trailers: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and the Franchise Challenge 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

She periodically left the stage, especially during the many instrumental numbers. Jeff Beck honors Les Paul with special club gig 2010-06-10T06:48:00Z

Organizers of the Hong Kong event said Friday that the 83-year-old filmmaker was "instrumental in making Asian cinema the global cinematic and box office force it is today." Chow to receive Asian Film Awards lifetime honor 2011-03-18T13:31:04Z

The question at the heart of the show, Fogelman said, is “What happens to a person or a group of people when they lose the key instrumental figure in their lives?” Perspective | How ‘This Is Us’ helped me process my dad’s death 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

I told him, ‘You are the greatest instrumental experimenter with melodies that I can think of, and that’s what we should concentrate on.’ 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z

For Colgan, who – by providing a site, local connections and support for promoters – has been instrumental in the growth of the scene, the explosion has still come as a surprise. Croatia cranks up the festival volume 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Bristling with virtuosic instrumental solos across the full range of the orchestral palette, it’s like a concerto grosso posing as a symphony. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

MySpace was instrumental in Nash's success, where she would showcase her music for new fans to listen for free. Nash bites back 2010-04-19T09:40:00Z

Women were overlooked professionally when they were not being instrumentally assessed, and often used or abused, for their sexual appeal. The Legacy of Robert Evans, a Vexing Hollywood Legend 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Closer to dance music than to rock, New Order doesn’t offer guitar solos; its instrumental passages simply spotlight individual components of the clockwork that drives the songs. Review: New Order, Still a Clockworks of Suppressed Emotion 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

While some individual moments of “Earth Echoes” are nicely done — that timpani part, for one — there is little character in the instrumental or the vocal lines. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-14T20:36:41Z

This meditative but constantly changing instrumental begins with the assembly of a steady-state percussion pattern on bells and hand drums. Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Brooklyn Historical Society: ‘Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom’ This interactive exhibition of manuscripts, paintings and maps tells the story of Brooklynites instrumental in the abolition of slavery. Spare Times for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:43:56Z

Bermel tends to build his music layer by layer, creating exhilaratingly complex instrumental textures, which Alarm Will Sound realise with great panache. Bermel: Canzonas Americanas; Natural Selection; Three Rivers, etc – review 2013-01-03T21:59:02Z

His administration was an instrumental force in metastasizing the right-wing conservatism and the influence of Fox News. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

It consists of two parts, each mostly a string of arias and recitatives in Italian with an instrumental introduction and a concluding chorus sung by the five characters. It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

But chorus director Christopher Bell explained how Schoenberg added instrumental accompaniment only to help singers manage the music's tricky chromaticism. Grant Park Orchestra captures rare Schoenberg with strong performance 2011-06-18T18:01:00Z

In February, MTV put an instrumental version of a song called "Contagious" in an episode of "Real World: Washington D.C." L.A. band tries to cash in with free monthly album 2010-03-22T15:46:00Z

Released in August, "Didn't It Rain" was recorded in L.A. under the same circumstances as "Let Them Talk," with production by Joe Henry and instrumental support from Henry's team of top-shelf players. Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Grohl became Jack Black for an instant, mimicking the riffs on Edgar Winter's"Frankenstein" as he explained how his first encounter with the instrumental hit turned him into a music obsessive in the '70s. SXSW 2013 keynote: Dave Grohl and the importance of 'voice' 2013-03-14T18:17:00Z

A 1962 instrumental album, Piano Sweet – Piano Wild, for the small Oriole label had been followed by the single Cast Your Fate to the Wind, a version of a US hit by Vince Guaraldi. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z

In 1934 she was instrumental in establishing the Bennington School of the Dance in Vermont, and she was founding director of the Juilliard dance division, holding that position for more than 30 years, until 1985. ‘Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter,’ Behind the Scenes With Martha Hill 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

But only the final section, with its gently cacophonous instrumental textures, evoked the alluring strangeness of much of her music. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

About 10 years ago, Jones invited the Truckers to join him for a rare solo album, all instrumental, with Neil Young on third guitar just for good measure. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

He’s also been instrumental in the release of “The Other Side of the Wind.” Review: ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Documents Orson Welles’s Last Film 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

And he was instrumental in orchestrating the 1963 march that drew a quarter million people to the National Mall demanding federal civil rights legislation. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

And not long before that passage comes a similarly jarring instrumental interlude with the bruising intensity of something out of Berg’s “Wozzeck.” Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

"He was instrumental in the creation of the British Film Industry in its current form," said Lord Puttnam. How Attenborough 'saved' British film 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

But the true musical star of the album is Harrison, who unveils a whole new instrumental persona based on the piquant, pining lyricism of his bottleneck-slide guitar. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

It’s described as consisting of “mainly ambient and instrumental music” based on 1993-94 recording sessions for the group’s last album, “The Division Bell.” Pink Floyd to release new album after 20-year gap 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

It was instrumental to my perspective to see different countries as a kid. Comedian Jim Gaffigan on How to Travel With Five Kids 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Handel’s instrumental and large-scale choral works were well known to Mozart and Beethoven, who admired Handel tremendously. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was instrumental in re-introducing his previously agnostic friend to Christianity while the pair were academics at Oxford prior to the second world war. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Opeth, Coheed & Cambria, then later Mastodon and the Mars Volta emerged, recording – yes – concept albums packed full of – yes, again – difficult time signatures and extraordinary instrumental virtuosity. Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z

In March 1963, “Jazz Samba” reached the top, the first and only time an instrumental jazz album has been No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart. Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C.

Accompanied by a bandmate, he tore into a giddy instrumental cover of Paramore’s “Misery Business,” a song in which a teenage girl brags about the boy she stole. Don’t Call Him Machine Gun Kelly 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

While the Soviet Union was instrumental in spreading classical music to other Communist Asian nations — like China and North Korea — it was obliged to start from square one in Mongolia. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z

Drones, rippling figures and squiggly inner voices ran through whole stretches of the instrumental writing. Review: Suzanne Farrin’s Imaginative ‘La Dolce Morte’ at the Met 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

What music influenced these and other innovative instrumental compositions by Bach? Classical Music Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Christopher Stephen Clark, the English musician who records as Clark, has built a huge, polymorphous catalog of instrumental music that ranges from stark, austere techno to exquisite chamber-music soundtracks. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

The final single included parts from several instrumental recordings, but somehow the out-of-tune horns stayed in the mix. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

For three years beginning in September, La Scala’s academy will run a conservatory for 600 6- to 10-year-olds in dance, choir and instrumental music, as well as a workshop on marketing and digital communications. Italy’s La Scala to run academy for Saudi girls and boys 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The second section of this powerful cycle, for voice and instrumental trio, is a setting of an 18th-century protest against longstanding French attempts to colonize Madagascar, voiced by a Malagasy. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

For the first time, instrumental pieces were employed as illustrations, with specific references outside of themselves. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z

The movie opens on a day seemingly like any other, although there’s a pronounced elegiac cast to the instrumental music and the piercing violin notes. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Here he brings the same electrifying energy to instrumental selections and vocal scenes from Rameau’s operas. Classical Playlist: Teodor Currentzis, Bach and Per Bloland 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“Chris Cornell Had an Unforgettable Vulnerability,” by Amanda Petrusich. Cornell was an instrumental figure in the grunge community of the early nineties, which has since been virtually annihilated by suicide and drug addiction. Weekly Culture Review: Feist, and Other Refuges from a Tornado of News 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

But heard live on Thursday, far too much instrumental detail failed to carry effectively into the house, and Davis’s scoring emerged variously as muddled, disjointed, fussy or over the top. Review | NSO presents a muddled ‘Messiah,’ but all is not lost 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, alongside its partner institutions, has been instrumental in delivering the highest quality, international artistic offer into a region of the UK not previously well known for its cultural credentials. Arts funding cuts 'dangerous' for north-east England 2010-07-27T12:58:00Z

In her haphazard new book “Grand Pursuit,” Ms. Nasar says she set out to tell that story through the lives of “protagonists who were instrumental in turning economics into an instrument of mastery.” Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z

There’s also this massive instrumental, “High Ball Stepper,” which was actually the first single released. Five Songs 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

He has cut two instrumental laments for his fallen friend, the first on Mandé Variations, the other a duet with Ali's son, Vieux, on the latter's debut album. Toumani Diabat?: Mali's modest maestro 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

The most ambitious instrumental hybrid filtered the Allman Brothers classic “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” through Wes Montgomery’s “Four on Six.” Music Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Caf? Carlyle 2011-11-06T22:50:23Z

The series, for ages 6 and older, continues this Saturday with tales and a celebration of the life of Diane Wolkstein, the storyteller and children’s author who was instrumental in establishing the program. Spare Times: For Children, for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

As a child, Mr. Pirog gobbled up their influence, but mixed it with an appetite for instrumental music. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Then the head of the department of fine and performing arts at the college, Jarvaise proved instrumental, encouraging Taylor to pursue art. The ‘Slow Burn’ That Is Henry Taylor 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Goodman was instrumental in getting the San Francisco show rolling. Francesca Woodman Retrospective 2011-12-04T05:07:15Z

Songs mostly yielded to instrumental workouts, and everyone except Faife seemed to be essentially a percussionist. Rumba artist Pedrito Martinez gets the party started at Kennedy Center Jazz Club

And in 1966 he helped organize the Trips Festival, a musical happening that was instrumental in establishing the San Francisco music scene. The Musical ‘The Demo’ at Stanford Recreates the Dawn of the Digital Age 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

More often than not, the instrumental choirs call and respond rather than blend. Music Review: Harry Connick Jr. Performs on Broadway 2010-07-16T21:19:00Z

Of those among us who are interested in emotions, some are altruistic, but many have instrumental motives: marketing, political leverage, or other forms of manipulation. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

In recent years she has worked with rhythm sections and samples; her music runs on lightness of touch and depth of groove, not large-scale instrumental arrangements. Music Review: Erykah Badu at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-09T21:45:40Z

The colorful, tactile instrumental writing added to the work’s stylistically free-spirited quality. Music Review: Signal, a New-Music Orchestra, Plays at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-05-28T21:45:00Z

Despite the song’s instrumental mirth, the chorus comes from the final text messages a friend sent before committing suicide. How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Freddie is certainly both a songwriter and a singer, but he’s also a persona from the start, whose elaborately crafted masquerades are as central to his creative personality as is his vocal and instrumental self-presentation. In “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddie Mercury Is More Interesting Than His Music 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Two vocal sections, sung live by three members of the Ekmeles vocal ensemble, bookend instrumental selections from both composers. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

The four vocal soloists sat on high stools in front of a scrim, with the instrumental ensemble, conducted by Mr. Hearne, behind it. Music Review: A Flood Of Songs Washing Over a City 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z

This is no attack on the charts – despite the presence of vocalists including Katy B, much of the album is instrumental – but Magnetic Man lacks dubstep's sense of unbounded experimentation. Magnetic Man: Magnetic Man 2010-10-07T22:40:00Z

In a call from New York, where he was hitting some comedy clubs before returning to Los Angeles, Pharoah talked about the people, places and things instrumental to that transformation. Jay Pharoah Is Ready to Play Superman 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Booker T. and the MGs, with Cropper, Dunn, Al Jackson and Jones, became the lead house band and scored a hit with the instrumental “Green Onions.” A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Because a live band exceeded the budget, the musical will use recorded instrumental tracks. Dapper as Ever, Kid Creole Dresses Up His Songs for a New Musical 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

These are many of the records that Herc used in the nascent days of hip-hop, where he began to experiment with isolating bass lines and other instrumental segments of songs, and segueing them together. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Did you spot Joey Ramone on last night’s episode? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Punctuated with haunting cello solos played here by David Geber, the school’s vice president for instrumental performance, the work aptly conveys the optimistic denial and racked realization of Whitman’s text. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z

Also interesting are the two “apothéoses” by Couperin that Rousset includes on the disk: instrumental tributes to two deceased composers he admired: Lully and Corelli. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Wilson was instrumental in keeping the film loyal to the live-streaming idea. Live-shooting with Woody Harrelson at 2am: 'There's something about the terror of it I love' 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

More lo-fi than jazz, “Totems II” is nevertheless infused with complex harmonic ideas and bizarre instrumental interludes. 3 new music releases you need this fall 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

This week Born Ruffians released its follow-up, "Say It," refining their vocal style while beefing up instrumentally. Poppy, peppy Born Ruffians can't shake sincerity 2010-06-03T22:23:00Z

The trust for the late Randy Wolfe failed to prove Led Zeppelin's songwriters lifted a passage from an obscure instrumental tune he wrote in the late 1960s. Led Zeppelin can't get 'Stairway' defense fees 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

It does, though less because of the hybrid musical style than the inclusion of long stretches of spoken text, accompanied by variously hazy, reflective and agitated stirrings in a seven-player instrumental ensemble. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

"And on a personal level, her books and ideas have been instrumental in helping me achieve success and happiness in life." Ayn Rand fan spells out appreciation in world's largest book ad 2010-08-23T12:24:00Z

In jazz, Chick Corea won two Grammys for “Forever,” his album with the bassist Stanley Clarke, taking best instrumental jazz album and best improved jazz solo for the track “500 Miles High.” Major Grammy Honors for Adele and Foo Fighters 2012-02-13T05:27:04Z

There are twangy surf guitars, menacing horns, and happily, for those familiar with Clark's vocals, it's an instrumental. Readers recommend: B-sides ? the results 2011-02-03T16:36:46Z

It’s affected my vocal writing, and my instrumental writing, too. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

The conclusion was William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast,” amiably bombastic, with the baritone Igor Vieira holding his own, though slightly anticlimactic in the big vocal and instrumental swirlings surrounding the story of a blasphemous biblical ruler. Review | Christopher Bell strikes soundly in his first D.C. outing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Add to that his talent for songful melody and weakness for instrumental shock, and you have a fine cocktail for modern grand opera. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

The instrumental track then turns into a gallant waltz on piano that would befit an old silent film. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

As we stood beneath the snowy mantle of maple and birch trees, I asked Mr. Brodhead, who was instrumental in developing the town-to-town Highland Lodge ski trail, about the origin of this unusual tour. Skiing Town to Town in a Magical Corner of Vermont 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The mood is dirge-like, yet gains a strange sensuality from alluring instrumental combinations: cello with flute, horn with plucks from the strings. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z

The old was the 1981 piece “Tehillim,” which sets Hebrew Psalm texts to the voice of four women and a small instrumental ensemble. Essential Arts & Culture: NEA threats, the Lucas museum vision, minimalist music and the return of Zubin Mehta 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s fitting that White teased his latest solo LP, “Lazaretto,” with an instrumental jam, “High Ball Stepper.” Jack White brings his unmistakable sound to Paramount | Concert preview 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

One of the best instrumental albums of last year was Nashville guitarist William Tyler's "The Impossible Truth." Throwbacks: Reissues from Cocteau Twins, Punk Rockers, more 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Mainly, though, “Happy End” is a roiling hour of instrumental and electronic music, dense in texture, ever changing like the sea is ever changing, mostly under the surface. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

As Gillan pointed out, his sense of humor, deft use of music and ability to create three-dimensional rogues are all instrumental to the success of the first two films. Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

These songs’ vocals were malleable instrumental color to enhance overall sonic expression and convey feelings such as alienation, or fear of modernity. In defense of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

But mostly, Ms. Du is in a world of her own, and the confident, high-energy theatricality that she brings to her vocal music is woven through her instrumental works just as vividly. Music Review: Du Yun at the 21st Century Schizoid Music Concerts 2010-06-29T20:58:00Z

This score, using the same instrumental and choral elements, also has atmospheric colorings and haziness, but much rhythmic spark and episodes of dancing. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Sometimes Mr. Dalbavie’s instrumental mist is a soft quiver, with the bows of the string players trembling almost imperceptibly. Salzburg Festival’s ‘Charlotte Salomon’ Falls Short on Drama 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The instrumental pieces, scattered through the program, were energetically played, and the ensemble was well balanced, with fine violin and vielle playing by Vita Wallace and agile lute and Baroque guitar accompaniments by Charles Weaver. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z

Above & Beyond was content to stay within one cozy style, and its instrumental passages grew routine. Review: Electric Zoo, a Menagerie Designed for Dancing 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Salah Benchegra, for instance, was instrumental in making “American Odyssey,” an NBC series that begins on Sunday, as good as it is. Review: ‘American Odyssey,’ a New NBC Series, Stars Anna Friel 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Throughout the work vocal and instrumental lines flow and curl with madrigalesque clarity. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z

There's not a lot of what critics call "noodling," the practice of long, often directionless instrumental solos that elicit epiphanies in some listeners and total exhaustion in others. My Morning Jacket fits Paramount audience perfectly 2011-06-27T18:45:04Z

Their part culminates in a powerful instrumental hook answering the vocal hook, "superstition ain't the way." Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Bloom” opens the album with loops of piano, drums and less identifiable instrumental tones. Critic?s Notebook: Radiohead Surprises With Early Release 2011-02-18T23:25:50Z

So I’ve long wondered why Mr. Sondheim has never composed an instrumental piece — a piano suite, say, or a work for small ensemble. Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

His explorations of instrumental byways have included a concerto for viola da gamba, a song for voice and baryton, and a duet for two lutes. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z

“Love Lies Bleeding,” with its instrumental introduction “Funeral for a Friend,” is a musician’s farewell to a lover who left, and “Daniel,” as a video revealed, is a farewell to a soldier lost in battle. Elton John Stays Flashy on the Long Road to Farewell 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

An 18th-century Tibetan manuscript is a mere scrap of paper, but one carrying a vocal and instrumental score for a Tantric serenade. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Wolfe's estate is suing Page, Plant and their record label for copyright infringement, alleging they lifted the riff for the song's introduction from the obscure 1968 instrumental "Taurus" by the band Spirit. Backstage pass to making of Led Zeppelin's epic 'Stairway' 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Oh, and the concert had a first half, too: an instrumental arrangement of Valentin Silvestrov’s tender choral “Prayer for Ukraine” and a rare, excellent rendition of Prokofiev’s Third Symphony, from the late 1920s. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Conversely, La Paulée has also been instrumental in exposing the vignerons to Burgundy lovers from around the world and, in the process, has transformed a number of respected but little-known winemakers into global superstars. A Vintage Bash for All Things Burgundy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Their discussions resulted in the four composers’ collaborating on “Cloud River Mountain,” a 70-minute cycle of 11 songs, each written by one of the composers, with all four combining in an instrumental interlude. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

His pieces are largely instrumental, and each part is performed with precision and vigor. Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Gilbert was instrumental in the development of the vaccine being manufactured by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, while Bingham has been widely lauded for the country’s successful vaccine procurement program. Queen Elizabeth honors key women in UK’s rapid vaccine drive 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

His “live score,” which he has performed before for public audiences in Los Angeles and Austin, Tex., consists of more than 50 instrumental tracks, beats and vocals. RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

A thick layer of organ fat replaced Stravinsky's lean instrumental style, and the thundering opening Oedipus theme was delivered with earthshaking power. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

During instrumental breaks he got on one knee and drank beer, looking voided. Music Review: Destroyer Performs at Brooklyn Masonic Temple 2012-06-19T22:01:41Z

He began making instrumental music to help him during his own meditation practice and to mentally prepare himself before taking psilocybin. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

The music is largely instrumental, but when there are vocals fully expect them to be of the wild and free variety. New band of the day: Melt Yourself Down (No 1,495) 2013-04-18T16:03:27Z

Its Renaissance flavor, with a rich polyphonic texture created by the instrumental combination, lingered in scores written in later centuries. Music Review: At 4x4 Baroque Music Festival, Five-Part Works Are the Stars 2013-07-31T22:05:04Z

During instrumental interludes we see touching flashbacks to the childhood of the two friends, with two children playing the boys gathered at Saul’s family table. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z

On the instrumental track “Bells Burp,” the album’s opener, a chorus of mellifluous default Ableton bells explode into propulsive waves of synthesizers. A Glimpse of Alternative Russia Through the Music of Kate NV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

How do the book and movie address another trauma of Henrietta’s legacy — that her cells were so instrumental to science, but she was virtually invisible in American history? Oprah Winfrey on the ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Lennon’s voice comes through with greater clarity and presence, and instrumental textures are more transparent too. Long After Death, Lennon Remains a Powerful Presence 2010-10-08T17:14:00Z

In part he was referring to the evening’s program, “La Dolce Vita,” a collection of popular arias and pleasant instrumental knickknacks gathered mostly from French and Italian operas. Music Review: At Avery Fisher, Philharmonic?s Gently Scrambled Opera 2010-07-07T22:43:00Z

“Dear Evan Hansen,” “Come From Away” and “Sweat” all had crucial lives in the District that were instrumental in their destinies on Broadway. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ wins the Tony Award for best musical 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

For what it was worth, the group played an instrumental version with an unassailable high-art pedigree — an arrangement by Thomas Adès. Music Review: Idiosyncratic Pairings on a Wide Playing Field 2011-03-23T22:27:32Z

An instrumental version of the tune plays on the soundtrack as Joel listens to the tapes he recorded as part of the erasure process. The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Effectively, it raises up a Borromini church in sound, especially in the first and third of its four seamless movements, which are purely instrumental but with graphic illustrative force. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z

A founding member of the Bang on a Can composer collective, Wolfe wrote the instrumental parts for the rocking Bang on a Can All-Stars sextet. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

Students may concentrate in areas like instrumental and vocal performance, composition, arranging and pedagogy. Leon Breeden, Jazz Educator, Dies at 88 2010-08-14T04:45:00Z

“Thelma was instrumental in making possible the whole rethinking of not just African-American art but American art.” The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The instrumental quintet Starebaby began performing “The Memory of My Memory” in ballad mode, easing into a swaying, dreamlike melody. Dan Weiss’s Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

She was instrumental in choosing Mr. Hollein as the institution’s new director earlier this year after Colin Bailey, her previous choice, stayed only two years. Powerful Board President Dede Wilsey Leaving Top Spot at Fine Arts Museums 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Clark’s hometown, with no outside producer; he played most of the instrumental parts himself and enlisted his sisters as background singers. Review: Gary Clark Jr. With Hometown Blues 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Recent pieces by the composer Andrew McIntosh have subtly folded into the instrumental textures field recordings he has made in the hiking wilds of California, where he lives. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

He also created purely instrumental works and, for a time, led an ensemble comprising three saxophonists, two electric guitarists, an electric bass guitarist and two drummers. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Tutti,” a work for large instrumental ensemble and electronic sounds, is hardly a “tonal” work, as American neo-Romantics would write, but it is deeply euphonic, drawing on a palette both traditional and exploratory. Classical Notes: Yan Maresz’s “Tutti” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Facebook has been instrumental in creating alt text so that users with impaired vision can access the platform’s imagery. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

An expert gardener and horticulturist, Mrs. Straus joined the board in 1966 and went on to recruit people who would be instrumental in the garden’s transformation. Beth Straus, Who Revamped New York Botanical Garden, Dies at 94 2010-12-12T03:39:00Z

In 1966 he recorded an album with the Free Spirits, a short-lived rock band that mixed radio-friendly melodies with adventurous stretches of instrumental improvisation. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The solos, vocal and instrumental, were more uneven. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

In this week’s episode, Maeve wakes up to an instrumental version “Fake Plastic Trees,” which continues as she walks to work, unfazed by the mundane spectacle of a bloody shootout on the streets behind her. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

When the band went off script, it was instrumental, and it was superfluous. Music Review: Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall 2012-01-28T02:24:57Z

Shiner, the lawyer so instrumental in bringing the case of Baha Mousa to light, has led the claim that Britain has a duty to find out why and how these violations were allowed to happen. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z

The remaining instrumental tracks showcase Santana's virtuoso guitar playing in a beautifully arranged and carefully paced album. Santana's soaring 'Shape Shifter' | CD review 2012-05-14T20:43:04Z

What follows is loopier than anything from Sly or Emerson: the instrumental theme to the late-seventies sitcom “Taxi,” over which CeeLo sings entirely new lyrics. CeeLo’s Strange New TV-Theme-Song Album 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

“He has in every case skillfully chosen the tools that are instrumental to the project instead of those that might only celebrate the architect as artist,” the jury said in its citation. David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

It was all the more remarkable considering that it was the show’s quietest number and included none of the instrumental fireworks that are a Pizzarelli specialty. Music Review: John Pizzarelli Quartet at Café Carlyle 2012-05-30T21:21:30Z

"I associate the instrumental with farce, with madcap high jinks," he said, "And I associate farce and madcap high jinks, sometimes, with failure." Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

He orchestrates aflame with instrumental color, producing such surprises as a prominent part for South American wooden flute. Hollywood Bowl's 'Noche de Cine' also a night of Gustavos 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

And it keeps pulling us out of Mr. Sorey’s hypnotic textures and tempos, making the piece — at 90 minutes already too long, with a particularly unwieldy, cloying late instrumental interlude — feel even longer. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

"They are instrumental to what I do, they're not going to change." McQueen saddened by US race protests 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

The piece is in no way a traditional concerto, showcasing pyrotechnical instrumental virtuosity, though Sorey did, in fact, write it with cellist and former Seattle Symphony artist-in-residence Seth Parker Woods specifically in mind. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

André Popp, a French composer whose instrumental “Love is Blue” became a 1960s standard and an easy listening hit in the United States, died on May 10 at his home in Puteaux, France. André Popp, French Composer of ‘Love Is Blue,’ Dies at 90 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Rossington and the others in the tribute group of 1987 gave their first concert, in Nashville, they played “Free Bird” as an instrumental, as Mr. Rossington had in his earlier group. Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

In later works Harvey took advantage of new digital-music technologies to bring live electronic transformation of instrumental sounds into his music. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

To record the album, producers brought in Colombian specialists to help bring authenticity to the rhythms and instrumental arrangements; most of the sessions, which took place last year, were conducted remotely. How the ‘Encanto’ Soundtrack Became a Smash 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

I wrote about “Totentanz” in advance of the Philharmonic performance; hearing it live, I registered even more strongly Adès’s command of instrumental theatre. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Costanzo was instrumental in bringing the New York Philharmonic back from its pandemic hiatus. Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

More to the point: What are you going to do when Truckasauras emails you an instrumental track? Concert review: Truckasauras' "Kevin Collabo" at Neumos 08/06/10 2010-08-07T20:16:00Z

Sturdy pop melodies meet slinky percussion and epic instrumental work from a three-piece brass section, and songs such as Harder Before It Gets Easier and Vivian are global crossover at its best. David Wax Museum: Knock Knock Get Up – review 2013-06-13T20:15:01Z

Byron Schenkman & Friends combine instrumental and vocal pieces in their program celebrating the multifaceted musical poetry of Robert and Clara Schumann. Byron Schenkman & Friends present the poetry of Schumann, played and sung 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

They’re echoed and stacked, with indistinct words, and the instrumental aspects of the music sound like voices, too: continuous tones in repeating patterns. Review: Julianna Barwick, Vaguely Renaissance and Very Now 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

“She’d captivate a whole room of metalheads with nothing but the power of instrumental cello improvisation. She is quite magical.” Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Not what you'd expect from the Born to be Wild - a groovy instrumental with an psychedelic explosion as an aftershock. Readers recommend: songs with false endings ? results 2011-07-21T15:26:44Z

The principal revelations are instrumental, with sinewy, acerbic textures steering us into a world closer to German expressionism than post-romanticism. Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn - review 2011-03-10T22:30:01Z

Intertwining those archival noises with electronic keyboards and instrumental lines, he has fabricated a citywide portrait of beautiful irresolution. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

The LP, he has said, is about “our narrowing, precarious future,” and it returns to songs with lyrics and vocals after more than a decade of primarily instrumental and ambient works. Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Two instrumental interpretations of Afghan folk songs were followed by the well-known Afghan tune, "Kataghani." Concert of Afghan traditional music at UW beautiful, mesmerizing 2012-04-25T20:12:05Z

The instrumental lineup — Ms. Franklin on piano backed by an organist — should have been a tipoff that deep gospel was in store. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Her advocacy of Russian art — photography in particular — and her work in gaining international exposure for it has been instrumental to the development of the scene.” Special Report: Art in Perspective: Russia's Photo Impresario 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

Most of his albums for the label were closer to instrumental pop than to traditional jazz, and the critics were unimpressed, but sales were healthy. Pete Fountain, Clarinetist Known for His High-Spirited New Orleans Jazz, Dies at 86 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

We loved The Ventures and Johnny and the Hurricanes, so Ray and I used to play a lot of instrumental duo stuff together. “He stabbed a fork into my hand”: Dave Davies on The Kinks’ brotherly love 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Gaming is key to instrumental grime’s aggressive, yet estranged, physicality—this is music made predominantly by young men recording at home. Rabit and the Resurgence of Grime 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer jury described the piece as “a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world.” Lynn Nottage on her Pulitzer win for drama: 'I’m representing for women' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The instrumental colors are so dazzling as to drive a synthesiast to distraction. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

The instrumental interlude is a bit of wake-up call, and it vanishes as quickly as it appeared. “It is so beautifully written, it sings itself”: The Beach Boys’ sublime “God Only Knows” 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

The initial instrumental sounds were subdued and mysterious, with echoes of distant whirling sirens, rustling winds, scattered plunks and volleys of pitches. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z

Here, Rivera, who is now in the early stage of working on a feature film about Chicano activist Reies Lopez Tijerina, shares with me some of the works that he considers instrumental to his practice: Border drones and labor-bots: Alex Rivera's prescient 'Sleep Dealer' 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Her six-member instrumental ensemble, ardently conducted by Samuel McCoy, uses violin, viola and flute because they are suitable for both Western and Indian uses. With 'Thumbprint,' witness an opera's power to empower women 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

The latter sounded as brazenly bombastic as usual, even though Jurowski sifted its instrumental colours. OAE/Jurowski ? review 2011-01-24T18:19:46Z

Entirely instrumental and designed for 3 a.m. dance floor epiphanies, the record is tuned to that period after midnight exuberance has faded and a gentler, more hypnotic vibe takes over. Essential tracks: John Carpenter's 'Lost Themes' gives off eerie, futuristic sounds 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

The one major song missing, the heartbreaking “No More,” alas, is heard only briefly as an instrumental. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

The producer Terry Melcher wasn’t sold on the instrumental prowess of the Byrds so it was the Wrecking Crew session team that anchored the song most responsible for the advent of “folk rock.” Hal Blaine: Listen to 12 Essential Songs 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

They have a quickly identifiable instrumental sound based on blues topped with Morrison's strong voice and lyrics. The Doors: 'You could call us erotic politicians' – a classic interview 2013-05-22T12:46:03Z

And Joe, who plays guitar in his spare time with an instrumental trio called Emerson, Smith & Bischoff, said he hopes to “get together with Don and do some collaborations on some new recordings.” At Home With Donnie and Joe Emerson: Touring the Farm Where the Emerson Brothers Recorded Their 1979 Album 2012-09-12T22:45:21Z

Beyond all this, Tankian says he'd someday like to score a film and record an instrumental jazz album, adding, "I want to try one of everything." System of a Down's Tankian explores new "Harmonies" 2010-08-21T01:04:00Z

If a vibration counts as percussive, then why not any sound, instrumental or otherwise? ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Johnson's original layouts are often instrumental to these meanings, and the 380-page volume reproduces each selection as an image, preserving the typography, illustrations and even the wrinkles in the paper. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Then again, from the way she strips for some late-night nuzzling, her get-up does appear to have instrumental value, even if one misstep and she or at least an ankle would be a goner. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z

Cesaretti, in an interview with the curator Aaron Rose, the book’s editor, says that his foreignness was instrumental to gaining the trust of the people he met. | An Italian Photographer Takes on East L.A. 2013-06-14T18:00:19Z

Their instrumental post-rock evokes the endless countryside that makes up most of Texas, illustrating the inherent warmth and beauty in a landscape that too many dismiss. Ovrld.com's Texas road trip playlist 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

A rapper, musician and director, Yauch was an immense talent and creative visionary, and an instrumental force in the group's career for more than three decades. Reaction to death of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys 2012-05-05T01:46:03Z

Unsurprisingly, it was H.E.R.’s star that shined brightest, as the Grammy-winning singer/guitarist traded soaring solos and even higher flying vocals, before a monstrous walk-off shot covering the instrumental crescendo to “Purple Rain” on Saturday. Review: Bumbershoot’s youth movement takes center stage during pivotal, rollercoaster year 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

He was instrumental in the start up of Walt Disney Home Entertainment and Disney Channel.  DreamWorks Animation hires ex-Disney executive Mark Zoradi as COO 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

The lyricism, gorgeous instrumental textures and affecting harmonies are not exactly easy listening but genially and spiritually alluring. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

He also managed Captain Beefheart for part of that time, before joining that band on guitar and gaining renown among guitar fanatics for his rendering of a notoriously difficult instrumental piece. Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

The label keeps repackaging albums, even as its parent company, the Verve Music Group, slouches away from instrumental jazz. Music Review: Big Bang?s Echoes, 50 Years Later 2011-04-22T21:52:51Z

One house that has been particularly instrumental in luring American directors across the pond is the Frankfurt Opera. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

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

“Congratulations to filmmaker Petra Costa on her nomination for best fiction and fantasy,” the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, which was instrumental in Rousseff’s impeachment process, said on Twitter. Brazil documentary gets Oscar nomination, exposes division 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Beck’s best-known ballad is an instrumental version of a Wonder song. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

What people will remember Mr. Abloh for above all is the structural changes he was instrumental in bringing into effect. Virgil Abloh Shocked the System 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Four sharply contrasted miniatures, posthumously collected together, they form a sequence in which Berio's magical way with instrumental colour and texture is crystallised into a glittering display; a perfect showcase for such a great ensemble. RCO/Jansons 2010-08-31T21:00:00Z

I'm enjoying his compressed mixture of soul, disco and instrumental hip-hop. Beats from Mercer Island: SwampmaN's disco soul-hop 2011-06-03T18:01:05Z

The instrumental writing for percussion, winds, keyboards, violin and horn feels more familiar, a mingling of Feldmanesque stasis and Reichian pulses. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The band riffs on Sufjan Stevens’ “Michigan” instrumental, tears it apart, and then pieces it back together for a heart-breaking string coda. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z

Wilson started her set with the solo instrumental “4 Edward,” played on the acoustic guitar, then was joined by her six-piece band for the title track from the new album, released last May. Review: Nancy Wilson plays her first live show in two years with Seattle Symphony 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

In another video, Amos looks like she’s lost in her own private universe as she picks out a grand and delicate instrumental interlude. “Because it’s fear, after all, that kills us”: Tori Amos released “Little Earthquakes” 25 years ago today 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Though the songs were built on instrumental and vocal repetition, the set was diverse, pivoting from 1960s pop to hip-hop to a ballad accompanied by harp arpeggios. Review: Panda Bear’s Bloops and Swirls Usher In Another CMJ Music Marathon 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The music flows in episodic waves, with sustained brassy harmonies that are like cosmic chorales, bursts of fitful instrumental writing, spans of jagged counterpoint, and — a Messiaen trademark — skittish birdcalls. Music Review: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette 2012-01-25T00:10:49Z

He was so instrumental in my career as well as all the other Motown acts and so many others in the recording business. Celebrities react to the death of Dick Clark 2012-04-19T01:45:09Z

In politics, hip-hop not only brought millions of otherwise alienated young people into the electoral process, but it was also instrumental in putting a black man into the White House. Russell Simmons: For Black Comedians, It’s ‘Hollywood So White’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Other prizes went to the Boxcars, whose four awards included those for emerging artist and instrumental group of the year. ArtsBeat Blog: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers Win Top Bluegrass Prize 2011-09-30T13:36:10Z

"Wally was instrumental in the development of live entertainment during the early years of both Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World Resort," Kalogridis said. Disney legends die within a day of each other 2011-06-05T20:54:07Z

It's a feat no instrumental has achieved since. TV theme songs that ruled the radio too 2010-04-23T20:26:00Z

In his two-decade association with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he proved himself a consummate composer of instrumental music. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Their instrumental settings gave the songs the far-reaching dimensions they deserved. Review: Betty Buckley Digs Deep for the Autumn in Her Soul 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

This 45-minute song — the first seven minutes are instrumental — merges a memoir of a life spent in indie-rock with philosophical musings. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Dirty Beaches gives the arriving crowd a false sense of security, beginning with a desert-baked instrumental mélange owing to meditation and relaxation. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

The term “classical music” is an inaccurate catchall for everything from solo piano works to Gregorian chant to contemporary instrumental sextets with electric guitar. Perspective | A beginner’s guide to enjoying classic music. No snobs allowed 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Every year, the University of Maryland’s School of Music hosts students and young professionals who form, over a month, one of the best instrumental ensembles in the Washington region. Classical music: A season of fine festivals 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

He only sat down once, and that was for the exquisite solo instrumental Distance, his finest kora performance of the night. Seckou Keita – review 2012-11-12T18:18:27Z

Each show represents a recent explosion in the creative opportunities for music supervisors, series where songs play integral roles, oftentimes roles that instrumental scoring has traditionally filled. And the Emmy goes to . . . music supervisor 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Following the war, Belgium was instrumental in reviving the agency, with its headquarters moving from Berlin to Paris. Red notice: 10 fascinating facts about Interpol 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

In 1948, Britten treated the tunes to arresting new arrangements, whose sparse and often incongruous instrumental combinations have a distancing effect, not unlike watching Sheridan performed in modern dress. The Beggar's Opera – review 2013-03-03T16:32:39Z

"Rain Coming," "Rain Spell" and many other of his rain-themed instrumental works would make for a good concert conjuring the delinquent El Niño. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

For the Echo Society’s inaugural concert, the instrumental palette was a 10-piece chamber ensemble; for the ambitious “V,” it will be an orchestra of 40. Behind the scenes on 'Compton' and 'Foxcatcher,' now these composers step into the spotlight 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

The tough, enigmatic instrumental version of Things That Dreams Are Made Of is the superior one. Take two: who has made the best 're-version' of their own record? 2010-08-05T14:00:00Z

Shankman says that as director, he was instrumental in making sure the character didn't fall into stereotypical territory. Taraji P. Henson in "What Men Want": Don't call it a remake of a Mel Gibson movie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

But the harmonies are staggered and jarring, and lacy instrumental lines thread gingerly through the quiet moments in between. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

This restriction quickly proved to be an opportunity, as the band played new arrangements for an instrumental palette including mandolin, melodica and lap steel guitar. Wilco Tinkers and Experiments at a Festival It’s Happy to Share 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

I'm sure they wondered all their lives had they been instrumental, or made it worse or better or no difference. William Golding's daughter reveals his 'darker side' in new book 2010-09-19T16:25:00Z

Neco died two years ago, so Das Neves is joined by a new guitarist, Jose Carlos, for a more patchy set that matches impressive vocal work against less distinctive, laid-back, brassy instrumental passages. Wilson Das Neves: Pra Gente Fazer Mais Um Samba.; The Ipanemas:Que Beleza 2010-07-01T21:46:00Z

He said that his years in Montana were instrumental in instilling the profound appreciation of nature and the changing seasons that later inspired his music. George Winston, Pianist With a Soothing ‘New Age’ Sound, Dies at 74 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

While he had his scraps with the press, Kennedy was known for embracing reporters, amusing and even befriending them, a communion that was instrumental in fostering his lasting, and in some eyes romanticized, legacy. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

It was a rich, warm bath of melody and fugal countermelody, an instrumental dialogue that got more dramatic and grand as it reached the peak in the middle of the first movement. The Romantic, the modern at Seattle chamber-music fest 2012-07-24T21:01:07Z

In the hypnotic instrumental “Fiddle Tune” Mr. Ellis tapped on the cello as Mr. Sollee evoked the euphoria of finding a comfortable groove while whizzing down the road. Music Review: Ben Sollee at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2013-04-21T21:09:07Z

There is, too, the extraordinary instrumental invention that so bemused the first audience. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z

The latter two singers perform on “Amazone”; Mr. Christie also joins for an instrumental work by French composer Louis Couperin. Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Connie Wolf, director of the Cantor Arts Center, called the museum “instrumental to the cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area.” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is Closed but Active 2014-03-25T19:01:01Z

The lawsuit names 50 Cent, along with the producer who created the instrumental beat for the 2007 hit song, "I Get Money," and a host of music industry companies. 50 Cent named in NY copyright infringement lawsuit 2010-12-16T04:01:06Z

Though this season contains notably fewer steamy scenes than the first, it still serves up plenty of juicy gossip, extravagant style and instrumental pop covers, as well as several nods to South Asian culture. Simone Ashley Didn’t Think Those Scenes Were Awkward 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

His global appeal hit new heights in 1968 when his instrumental single “Grazin’ in the Grass” went to number one in the U.S. charts. Father of South African jazz Hugh Masekela dies aged 78 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Particularly dubious was his explanation about the 1991 song cycle "The Poet in Exile" for solo baritone and instrumental ensemble. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

It was a large, loud, instrumental cooperative; double drums, triple guitars and electrified violin field recordings. New Music: Jason Aldean’s ‘Night Train’; Sky Ferreira’s ‘Ghost’ 2012-10-15T22:07:43Z

“He’s such a rhythmic creature, a lot of it feels instrumental,” Nally said, describing the writing. A Composer’s ‘Travel Guide’ to His Family’s Unspoken Past 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Throughout the evening Les Arts Florissants accompanied the singers and performed the instrumental interludes with its customary finesse and a joyous, buoyant and transparent approach. Music Review: ?Le Jardin de Monsieur Lully,? at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2011-09-26T21:49:55Z

Mr. Tignor’s bandmates — the violinist Ben Lively and the keyboardist Rob Collins complete the group — share instrumental arranging credits for three of the compositions. Hybrid Sounds by Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker 2010-04-16T19:52:00Z

“It has the perfect combination of whimsy and mystery, and as an instrumentalist I’ve always thought that it is the coolest instrumental jam that has ever been written.” ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

For sheer euphoria, duelling guitars & that swarming instrumental coda The Horrors formed in 2005 and took a couple of years to develop their sound. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z

Reaching the deaf community was an early priority at the Fountain, which was instrumental in the creation of Deaf West Theatre. Fountain Theatre celebrates its first 25 years as a vital, intimate L.A. stage 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

As its name suggests, Pallbearer’s music is heavy and funereal, a punishing offshoot of metal that aims to suffocate rather than dazzle with instrumental acuity. Your week in Seattle music: Bobby Brown and Ginuwine, tUnE-yArDs and more 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Harplike plinks and clicking percussion rise around her voice, enfolded in instrumental and vocal harmonies as she sings that “portals open as you slowly drift through/surrounded by our love.” PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Gerald Gross, a longtime book editor and publishing executive who was instrumental in bringing the memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s close associate Albert Speer to an English-speaking readership, died on Oct. Gerald Gross, Who Published Memoirs of a Hitler Associate, Is Dead at 94 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

With Danger Mouse as producer and songwriting collaborator, the instrumental sounds are often tweaked toward the unnatural, becoming warped memories of themselves. Jon Pareles’s Top 10 Albums of 2012 2012-12-12T13:55:53Z

But the instrumental writing shows Mr. Glass moving farther afield from the music of his early operas and symphonies, and embracing a broader harmonic palette. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Posting up: Composer Mike Post won twice for his theme for the TV series “Hill Street Blues,” picking up Grammys for both best instrumental composition and best pop instrumental performance. Grammy Awards 40 years later: How the 1982 nominees stack up today 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

The instrumental contributions here were top-notch across an expansive 100 minutes of music, with the trombone solo both prophetic in volume and, where needed, suave and polished. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra finds its Mahler groove 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The “Galánta” dances were this time more pointed and less lighthearted, sadder in the opening slow music, more aggressive in the fast dances and instrumental colors all the more vivid. Gustavo Dudamel's inner Hungarian returns 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Coming from two composers so sensitive to the subtleties of instrumental colour, they must have both been right, but it was Takemitsu's music that made the stronger impression on me. A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music 2013-02-11T17:12:00Z

What we said: "Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, 'Black Messiah' is as vital as it is sublime." Top 10 lists reveal harmony among Times pop music critics 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Prince Buster’s instrumental “Al Capone” was a Top 20 hit there in 1965. Prince Buster, Trailblazer of Ska, Dies at 78 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

This woozy instrumental seemed the principal source for pedal-steel guitarist Will Van Horn’s trio, which opened the show. Review | The Khruangbin trio makes a crowd-pleasing appearance at 9:30 Club 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

"That number just came to me from nowhere when I was making the last album," he says of "Fantasia", the instrumental he has just performed over four scintillating minutes in the Observer's studios. Toumani Diabat?: Mali's modest maestro 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

It’s the music that thrills, by inviting listeners to a close encounter with Czernowin’s otherworldly instrumental imagination. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The two were awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in February, only the second instrumental backup group in history to receive the honor. Saxophonist Love dies; part of Memphis Horns duo 2012-04-13T22:19:07Z

As one of the few Black people in Ternopil, Kehinde stood out, he recalled, but that proved instrumental to the band’s formation. Undaunted by Air Raids, a Ukrainian Duo Gets Ready for Eurovision 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

"The sounds I need to make to be 'instrumental' might be anything from a drum sound to a monkey screech." The Bobs, now Seattle-based, celebrate 30th birthday 2012-08-22T23:14:03Z

Gerald Levinson’s “Here of amazing most now,” miniatures written to honor George Crumb’s 70th birthday, also proved unwieldy, with ensemble members each reading text by various authors after brief instrumental snippets. Tanglewood’s Contemporary Music Fest Milks Many Sources 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

All of the most popular German bands sing in English, or otherwise they are known for making instrumental or electronic music. Barbara Morgenstern: 'German lyrics are still a bit exotic' 2012-06-27T16:04:00Z

He played the Bruch with the expressive conviction and full range of instrumental colour that the piece demands, with Noseda again a fully committed accompanist. Prom 37: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-08-15T11:58:00Z

This period culminated in the “Symphonies of Wind Instruments,” an instrumental work composed in 1920 in memory of Debussy, which mimicked the liturgy of the panikhida, or Russian Orthodox funeral rite. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z

The New Yorker calling himself Sabu began as a self-styled revolutionary and was instrumental in getting Anonymous to invade the Web sites of top government officials in Tunisia. Books of The Times: ‘We Are Anonymous’ by Parmy Olson 2012-05-31T22:17:52Z

The concert contained half of her recorded work, along with a few new songs — “I’m Your Doll,” “Glass & Patron” — and instrumental passages. Review: Movement Drives the Music at FKA twigs’s ‘Congregata’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

To the dismay of purists, many singers involved in fado’s resurgence also are fiddling with the instrumental lineup typical of the genre. Music: Carving Out a Bold Destiny for Fado 2011-03-25T19:38:43Z

None of the new album was written before they got to the barn; Khruangbin cobbled it together from grooves played during soundchecks and instrumental drafts recorded throughout the year while they were on tour. ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

The Homer clan was instrumental in developing this tiny community of 108 homes, and several Homer family descendants still have houses here. Journeys: In Maine, Walking Where Waves Moved Winslow Homer’s Brush 2012-09-07T17:06:13Z

But during reflective passages, searching vocal lines are backed by tremulous harmonies and delicate instrumental flecks. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

The piece begins with an instrumental — ominous strings — then offers some language apparently borrowed from E.P.A. For These Shows, Take a Hike 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps unwittingly, this answers Teachout's question about jazz's future, since his own book shows how serious instrumental jazz music was just one cause of the fame accrued by one of its best-known entities. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z

On June 8 at Automata, a gallery on Chung King Court, the Southland Ensemble will explore early instrumental and vocal pieces by Robert Ashley, the pioneering American opera composer who died this spring. Dog Star Orchestra ready to roam 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday she joins the English Concert, a noteworthy period instrument group directed by Harry Bicket, for a program including instrumental works by Vivaldi and songs and arias by Dowland, Monteverdi and Handel. The Week Ahead: Oct. 10 ? 16 2010-10-08T13:44:00Z

The pioneering center was instrumental in the careers of many nationally known African American artists at a time when few art galleries would show African American work. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

If you’re going to make an instrumental complaint, though, you still need to figure out whether the reasons you’re unhappy are subjective or objective. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

And for all the seeming density, lines come through with clarity and captivating instrumental colors. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Clock Strike Zero” sounds like a remixed instrumental from a lost Shuggie Otis session, with a ticktock shimmer in the background. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

A grave recitative leads to a consoling final aria, in which diffuse piano harmonies are surrounded by distant instrumental sounds, including tender harmonicas. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z

The Third Symphony was hardly less enjoyable, marrying vertical strength and horizontal sweep with pliant lyricism and refinement of instrumental detail, especially with respect to the woodwind choir. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z

While Martin’s instrumental pieces are occasionally heard in America, his choral music remains rare. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Causing Havoc lasts 55 seconds and, like a lot of hardcore, appears to start halfway through the track – no instrumental intros, lengthy solo interludes or protracted codas for this bunch. New band of the day ? No 798: Cerebral Ballzy 2010-06-01T16:01:00Z

James Brown is already covered with sweat as he dances across the Apollo’s stage to the instrumental break of “Think.” The flash and breakneck frenzy of James Brown’s “Live at the Apollo” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

The music burgeons and recedes, with different instrumental groups sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes in sync. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

We have a great partnership, along with Tom Rothman, who runs Sony and has been instrumental, a great leader with great ideas. Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal on the Future of ‘Spider-Man’ and the M.C.U. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

She said that having had the opportunity as an actress to work with women directors was definitely instrumental in her move behind the camera, and she hopes to inspire others. Women directors shine at Toronto film festival 2011-09-17T18:45:47Z

Over the course of the album, however, there's a tendency to throw in some ponderous instrumental interludes, mention "space" and "time" and assume that's enough. Midnight Juggernauts: The Crystal Axis 2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

This instrumental is from March 1942, but it might as well be yesterday. Readers recommend: songs about change 2010-12-17T00:01:03Z

Morley had been instrumental in the promotion in the early 80s of "the New Pop", a key fixture of which had been ABC's album The Lexicon of Love. We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z

Tai, 30, is a doctoral graduate of the University of Washington's instrumental conducting program. Julia Tai named music director of Philharmonia Northwest 2011-04-19T21:55:04Z

This is an example of music, text, expression, human voice and instrumental color blending together and truly elevating one another to generate such a powerful and emotional sensory experience. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Q On the new live album and DVD you also dig into '50s and early-'60s rockabilly, rock 'n' roll, surf and instrumental music. Jeff Beck's mission to 'blow people away' 2011-03-31T15:37:05Z

There was a close connection between music and text — the latter projected onto a screen — even in the instrumental passages, where Gabriel Cabezas’s cello underwent a number of sonic transformations. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z

There’s a vague sense of uplift that permeates a lot of instrumental- and post-rock music, chiming guitars and big crescendos that signify drama. Your week in Seattle music: Patti Smith, E-40 and more 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The enhanced clarity is a welcome turn, making it easier to hear Mr. Carter’s scintillating sonorities, myriad instrumental colors and complex rhythmic interplay. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

Two album-side-length instrumental compositions featuring percussion, flute, synthesizers and many untethered frequencies, “Visitations” is a soothing listen, but underneath the floating tones are ominous textures that add tension. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The instrumental textures are dark and weighty, yet remain dry and lucid. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Two contredanse movements with idiosyncratic rhythms and instrumental colorings — and exuberant foot stomping — revealed an unexpected kinship with the contemporary piece by Mr. Andres. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

This religious underpinning was the work’s connection to Bach, whose instrumental pieces are often as suffused with a sense of the sacred as his church works. Music Review: Gidon Kremer at White Light Festival at Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:15:05Z

Among the changes: elimination of some of the instrumental categories in pop, rock and country; traditional gospel; children's spoken-word album; Zydeco or Cajun music album; and best classical crossover album. AP Newsbreak: Jackson enters fray over Grammy cuts 2012-01-27T16:49:17Z

He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1983 and last year appeared on Marty Stuart’s “Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions,” an album that featured an instrumental remake of “Crazy Arms.” Ralph Mooney, Master of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 82 2011-03-27T00:58:42Z

No matter how alien Leaneagh sounds, though, there remains an emotional core to Poliça that is both irresistible and slightly overwhelming, a spiritual cousin to the deafening instrumental catharsis of Mogwai. Poliça – review 2012-11-06T15:17:42Z

Richards, along with his late wife, Mary Lea Johnson Richards, was instrumental in founding Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and Meals on Wheels. Broadway, film producer Martin Richards dies at 80 2012-11-27T16:57:08Z

As a Greenwich Village neighbor and new friend of Mr. Beard, he was instrumental in commissioning “The James Beard Cookbook,” the classic kitchen volume that was published, originally in paperback, in 1959. John Ferrone, Editor of Eclectic Stable of Writers, Dies at 91 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

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

Whereas when I was just playing guitar in people’s bands, or in my own band or the Smiths, when I’d done an instrumental backing track, I just considered that the song. Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

One of the many high points of “Grownup Songs” is that he broke out of that mold with a reflective, intricately textured instrumental rendition of “How High the Moon.” John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Café Carlyle 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Monk initially planned to feature at least one singer in the piece, but decided to focus on instrumental textures. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Rather like her character, it’s a performance that’s easy to dismiss without a closer look: Bong’s film isn’t morally one-sided in its class war, and her oddly sympathetic vacuity is instrumental to that tension. For your consideration: this season's most overlooked film performances 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Bates is a composer whose instrumental and vocal compositions are widely performed. Steve Jobs, the opera: Coming to Santa Fe in 2017 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Regardless, their set promises to be a loud, trance-y mesh of carefully crafted instrumental rock. Secret Chiefs 3's crazy-quilt of cultures is, at bottom, just hard rock 2012-02-02T21:16:11Z

There's occasional backing from accordion, harmonica and even a string section, but the album is dominated by Tilston's exquisite guitar work, and features two spirited solo instrumental tracks, including a suitably virtuosic tribute to Graham. Steve Tilston: The Reckoning ? review 2011-07-21T21:31:01Z

But there are also moments of strange lyricism and just plain instrumental weirdness. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The main speaker at Abe's funeral was his U.N. colleague Ralph Bunche, who had been instrumental in creating and adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

Certain instrumental lines unexpectedly stabbed out of the larger textures, like premonitions of the murder to come. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

After several memorable Mozart recordings, they take on the music of Rameau here, bringing the same startling zest for innovation and untamed dynamism to a dazzling selection of vocal and instrumental selections from his operas. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The instrumental writing is awkward, especially for the piano. New Recordings: Schubert Fantasie by Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich 2012-07-08T03:53:04Z

Music in Iran must be approved by the Ministry of Culture, which vets both lyrics and instrumental sections. Beating the ban 2010-03-25T08:04:00Z

“It is an instrumental part of how we view ourselves as we learn to navigate the world. For those in communities that have suffered from historic lack of representation, this is even more critical.” Golden Globe group gives $5.1 million in grants 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Amid all these projects, Madlib periodically released instrumental collections, usually as part of his “Beat Konducta” series, featuring more than 30 tracks, each of which rarely lasted more than two minutes. How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Meantime, our contemporary mania for abbreviated text updates—think Twitter, Facebook, and BlackBerrys—feels as if it stands in direct opposition to jazz's deliberate, instrumental abstractions. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z

The user scored the video to Hans Zimmer’s otherworldly instrumental track “Cornfield Chase” from the 2014 science fiction film “Interstellar,” adding to the ambience. A Human-Size Spider Web Is Getting a Boost From TikTok 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

I’ve been introduced to new ways of thinking about the brain, the mind, and even consciousness, and I’ve discovered why my case may play an instrumental role in the next generation of cutting-edge brain science. The brain injury that made me a math genius 2014-04-20T19:00:00Z

Much of the instrumental music rises and falls in singing cadences; more than once, though, Mr. Guo shows off an impressive assimilation of film-noir moodiness and jazzy swing. Music Review: ‘Feng Yi Ting’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-27T21:15:25Z

An instrumental arrangement by the French conductor Paul Mauriat reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop chart in January 1968 and retained the top spot for five weeks. André Popp, French Composer of ‘Love Is Blue,’ Dies at 90 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Unless you happen to be the electric bassist Marcus Miller, who was not only the album’s chief producer but also wrote almost all the music and played most of the instrumental tracks. Music Review: Marcus Miller Gets More From a Miles Davis Model 2010-06-23T21:09:00Z

At least Williams clears up one of the key mysteries of Chandler's life – showing how the author's hide-bound English schooling actually proved instrumental in seeding a new strain of American fiction. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

My parents were instrumental in the woman I became. Kathleen Turner: ‘Decades after Body Heat I am still a sexual icon’ 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Seals and his musical partner, Dash Crofts, were still teenagers when they were asked to join an instrumental group, the Champs, which had a No. 1 hit in 1958 with “Tequila.” Jim Seals, Half of a Popular 1970s Soft-Rock Duo, Dies at 79 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Loss and exile are central themes, even if they are distilled into purely instrumental music. A Violinist Questions the Musical Divide Between West and East 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

During that first chorus, the boy choristers stood in a row overlooking the stage as they sang the phrases of the gentle chorale tune that arise from the complex choral writing and instrumental busyness. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

In 1984, Mr. Bannister co-founded Earshot Jazz magazine, then produced Earshot's first three concert seasons and was instrumental in the development of its annual festival. Gary Bannister of Jazz Alley and Earshot Jazz dies at 61 2010-10-22T17:37:00Z

Here, in an array of instrumental objects borrowed from other Smithsonian museums, domestic meets cosmic, protective meets lethal, and past meets present. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Reopens 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Salonen's orchestral writing prepared for the instrumental spectacle of the coming Berlioz symphony. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Beck slowed things down with an instrumental "Brush With the Blues," as anticipation built for the arrival of Jagger, who did not disappoint. Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues 2012-02-22T13:28:08Z

A wonderfully deadpan homage to the American road, this 36-foot-long picture was created in 1967 by Mason Williams, who, the following year, would win three Grammy Awards for his guitar instrumental “Classical Gas.” ‘Double Standard,’ at Alden Projects, Takes a Photographic Trip to the Past 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Choral muwashshah are interwoven with instrumental and solo vocal improvisations to create the complex suites of music that are traditional in the Middle East, with a mood that is by turns exuberant and ecstatically devotional. Songs of the city 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Now he's re-introducing himself as an instrumental producer of airy hip-hop. Windblown future-soul from local rapper/producer Sax G 2011-11-22T21:16:05Z

The beginning of the early-music movement, he said, was “essentially an instrumental revival,” with string players especially keen to distance themselves from the prevalent use of continuous, generous vibrato. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

I even got into the “Rockabye Baby!” series, which “transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies.” Kidz Bop is the go-to of tot music. But do we really need to replace ‘tattoo’ with ‘hairdo’? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

She had originally developed the work using songs, but after the lighting designer Clifton Taylor introduced her to the society, she saw the potential in choreographing the fables to purely instrumental music. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The action claims Led Zeppelin lifted a passage from the instrumental song "Taurus" for the introduction to "Stairway." The Latest: Economist says Zeppelin songs earning millions 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I think Babacar had an instrumental part in keeping the museum alive.” Sexual Harassment Allegations Add to a Florida Museum’s Troubles 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Since then, she has been instrumental in transforming a local philanthropic event into the ultimate global celebrity/power cocktail. Everything You Need to Know About the Met Gala 2021 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The instrumental music is atmospheric and organic, with Impressionist colorings, pungently atonal harmonic writing, spectral textures and Asian-influenced melodic fragments. NY Phil Biennial Opens With ‘The Raven’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

You know, the one from the wedding on Friends, where they turned it into an emo instrumental? David Letterman live: the final Late Show - as it happened 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

For example, Stewart, himself, became a strong advocate for the health care needs of 9/11 first responders and was instrumental in getting a bill passed to support them. 25 years of "The Daily Show": Here’s 5 ways it permanently changed U.S. satire 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

And, you know, the only album I put out that I got a Grammy for was “Fingerprints,” which was an instrumental, too. Q&A with Peter Frampton: His new instrumental album, getting invited to join the Who, and why he wants to get out on the road again 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

The instrumental nothing is offers a frantic, hypnotic loop of guitars and drums. m b v – review 2013-02-04T18:22:24Z

The choral works, wedding to a text, are less mutable than the purely instrumental pieces, some of which, like “Fratres,” exist in many different forms. Arvo Pärt, sounding the depth of still waters

The symphony wanted to be, but instrumental balances were vague. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

His understanding of human desires, of consumers as well as co-workers, was both empathetic and chillingly instrumental. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Conceived in 2019, long before Daft Punk’s breakup, it is a 90-minute instrumental score for traditional symphony orchestra, with nary an electronic sound in the mix. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Heath’s arrangements are remarkable for their clarity, even in the most piled-up instrumental passages. Music Review: Jon Hendricks and Jimmy Heath at Rose Hall - Review 2011-09-25T22:00:26Z

Instead, “New Blue Sun,” due out Friday, “is an entirely instrumental album centered around woodwinds,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. André 3000 Announces Debut Solo Album (With No Rapping) 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

Public Service Broadcasting, an English duo, samples film dialogue and constructs surging instrumental tracks around it: full-bodied rock, dance-music pulses, funk grooves. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

The debasement of language is not only influential but instrumental in the decline of political and cultural standards of belief and behavior. “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Out of the hums and whirs came bright cascades of instrumental colors. S.F.'s Other Minds concerts create some otherworldly sounds 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The result was an instrumental blend of acoustic piano and synthesizer that provided a lush, pulsating accompaniment to the dramatic scene of young men in training. Hugh Hudson, Director of ‘Chariots of Fire,’ Dies at 86 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

If you were to compare just Mozart’s orchestral and instrumental music to Beethoven’s, that would be a pretty even match. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

The visual wealth of the play has perhaps been most instrumental in inspiring 15 years of multiple productions in the German-speaking world. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z

The instrumental writing is continually varied and wondrously strange. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

On three consecutive mornings, these hardy young souls were given a particular instrumental combination and general theme — “trombone, double bass, animal: Go!” — and had 24 hours to make something of them. Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Faeries are a contemporary instrumental dance band who match rapid-fire bagpipe, fiddle and whistle solos with guitar, keyboards and electronica, occasional brass, and an impressively confident rhythm section. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z

After a short, quizzical instrumental introduction, the opera introduces the sisterly wives in an extended quintet. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z

But the jump in style from Beethoven’s early to middle quartets was still obvious: the greater experimentation with combinations of instrumental textures, the increased structural expansiveness. Music Review: The Pacifica Quartet at Metropolitan Museum - Review 2012-01-08T22:23:19Z

His production company, Bryna Productions, was instrumental in developing what would arguably prove to be his two greatest pictures – Paths of Glory and Spartacus, both directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

And the kind of theater Intiman may become is instrumental to its success or failure. Analysis: What's the next act for Intiman Theatre? 2011-04-22T03:11:04Z

On Monday, he was slated to participate in various charity events and host what was billed as the world's largest "Tequila dance" to the tune of the 1958 instrumental by the Champs. Pee-wee adventures to big bike rally in S. Dakota 2010-08-09T22:17:00Z

They quickly worked out and rehearsed an instrumental arrangement. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Corea, who died of a rare form of cancer at age 79, won the trophy for best improvised jazz solo and best jazz instrumental album. Grammys’ in memoriam especially long, grim in pandemic year 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

Lacking opportunities to hear traditional instrumental music in Limerick, he recalled, he would travel to nearby County Clare to listen to tunes in pubs and record them so that he could learn them. Mick Moloney, Musician and Champion of Irish Culture, Dies at 77 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

One assumes that family ties were instrumental in securing Gore Vidal's patrician cameo as a Catholic priest in Igby Goes Down. Gore Vidal: not just about the books 2012-08-01T11:26:07Z

The actor and singer Josh Groban was relying on his iPad both to communicate with the producers on Zoom and to listen to the instrumental version of the track he was singing to. What Can You Do for People in Crisis? Put on a Seder Show 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Each of the seven songs and three instrumental interludes in Friday’s selection fitted a bit too neatly into one of two contrasting moods: ethereal iridescence or jittery aggression. Music Review: Songs of America, With Beauty and Gusto 2011-05-01T21:21:11Z

So the artwork here is not by Cattelan, who is merely instrumental in this game. Perspective | An art critic explains what the Guggenheim was really saying when it offered Trump a golden toilet 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The music toys with nostalgia, with the reassuring dependability of structure and instrumental arrangements. Review: Angel Olsen’s ‘My Woman’ Goes Fearlessly Retro 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

These two worlds — humdrum vocal expression and sensuously shifting instrumental impressions — didn’t always make sense together. Review: A ‘Phantom Opera’ Dreams Between Life and Death 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Rylance and van Kampen, in their first years together, founded the travelling acting troupe Phoebus Cart, and they were instrumental in the rebuilding of Shakespeare’s Globe, where she remains director of music. Mark Rylance Talks Poetry and Ice Fishing 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

His writing for a 23-piece instrumental ensemble, gorgeously colored and pulsating with ritualistic percussion, suits the milieu and the vocal complement; Corrado Rovaris, the company’s music director, elicited a fine account from his players. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z

The most potent symbol Mr. Biden has worn, of course, has been the protective mask that drew derision on the campaign trail but may have been instrumental in getting him elected. Some Notes on 100 Days of Biden Style 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

At first the instrumental music is mostly just slow, skittish, staccato notes. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

And Rattle propelled the score with transparent details and, in the final instrumental interlude, crushing Mahlerian pathos and grandeur. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Savall’s aim was to chart some of those international paths of influence, and also to showcase the development of the first instrumental music composed fully independent of dance or vocal precursors. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Stark harmonies in particular are made gut-wrenching in their surprising modernity without their swank instrumental colors. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

An instrumental version of “Gee, Officer Krupke” carried playfulness to the brink of comedy. Barbara Carroll Performs at Birdland 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Looking into the master’s sketches — over 100 instrumental fragments survive from his final decade — and how they fit in with the canonical works, Jones became fascinated. Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Midway through an instrumental blitz, the guy next to me hauled off and yelled, “WHOOOO!” “The Bells”: Lou Reed Out of Doors 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

“I knew Louisville was instrumental in the slave trade,” Drake, who was born in Colorado and can’t trace her own family history back more than two generations, told me recently. On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Listen for the way that the glitched-up instrumental “break glass” foreshadows its eventual percussive slap with an early, grainy low note for the cello. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

One synthesizer mimicked, distorted and chased instrumental lines played by flute, clarinet and violin soloists; another provided digital samples; and a mixing board in the audience swirled sounds around the hall through loudspeakers. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z

The lyric, which Rodgers delivers like the bludgeoning it threatens, is a warning to a would-be rival; after that comes a dramatically surging instrumental passage that might be the protagonist's victory dance. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Terrace never evinced the slightest concern for Nim's welfare beyond the instrumental goals of his experiment. Pick of the week: The chimp they tried to turn human 2011-07-08T01:01:00Z

This band segues from hauntingly lyrical solo passages to ornate instrumental counterpoint to translucent, other-worldly tones with hardly a hitch. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z

Rudin also has been instrumental behind the scenes over the past several months with Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Group, in efforts to put Broadway on a safe timetable for its return. Broadway producer Scott Rudin steps aside amid accusations of abusive behavior going back decades, apologizes for pain he caused 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

In their place is a sense of music coming into being, coming alive as it is being made, something that will become inevitably lost when instrumental polish becomes shinier. Dudamel brings his YOLA youth symphony's spirit, and message, to Oakland 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

An instrumental prologue was so cinematic you expected a credit roll. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

In selections from Ravel’s “Miroirs,” too, he demonstrated an affinity with the French repertory and its intense romance with instrumental timbre. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov Returns to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-07T22:28:20Z

Though I must admit it’s strange to look on Tart Noir with a nostalgic eye, since the website was very instrumental to my getting started in the crime fiction world. Love “Gone Girl”? Read these crime novels next 2012-07-09T19:35:00Z

“They were very instrumental in my life — very tough men, old school: Pull yourself together, man up, nothing touchy-feely,” he said gruffly. Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

One day, an engineer from the Manor rang me and said he'd heard this incredible instrumental demo tape by a teenager called Mike Oldfield. How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2013-05-20T16:44:32Z

"The Andantes ... were so instrumental to the foundation of the Motown sound," Rawls said. Motown's unsung female trio finally gets acclaim 2013-04-04T11:23:09Z

With her they make saturnine but identifiable pop; this record, slow and shimmery and entirely instrumental, functions differently. Playlist : Ambience, Doom and Other Strong Medicine 2011-07-09T04:15:26Z

Enough to say that Locke’s homophonic title, “Gilt,” alludes both to the gold paint with which his sculptures are covered and to the politically instrumental uses and misuses of art over centuries. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Those composers include some from Luther’s time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

But in collaboration with his wife, he balances the instrumental fireworks with a quiet introspection and a greater emphasis on lyrical content. Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey Compel at Café Carlyle 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

That would mean that in the Aka’s ongoing battle with worms, pot is “instrumental.” Why the world’s remaining hunter-gatherer societies are some of its biggest pot smokers 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

She didn’t like the suggestions, but they inspired her to add an instrumental version of “Mrs. Robinson” from “The Graduate.” What TikTok Taught One Stand-Up Comic 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

It was preceded by a performance of the protracted instrumental meditation, Child. David Lang 2010-05-04T20:45:00Z

The title track contains a dull instrumental preamble followed by a typical word salad: “Spray pesticide,” and “Self-entitled portrait,” and “Forever is for everyone else.” New Music: ‘Bankrupt,’ by Phoenix, and ‘The Beat,’ by Boney James 2013-04-22T22:07:35Z

His fingers were dexterous well into old age, as he showed on the track “Whiskey Before Breakfast,” recorded with the guitarist Bryan Sutton, which won a Grammy for best country instrumental performance in 2007. Doc Watson, Folk Musician, Dies at 89 2012-05-30T00:33:31Z

The scrupulous instrumental work isn't always helped by a dryish recording. Blow: Venus and Adonis ? review 2011-03-10T22:00:01Z

Videos submitted by instrumental soloists will be up for anyone to watch. AP: Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest 2012-02-09T17:55:10Z

“My only recourse was to seek out those who could still recall the vocal traditions from which the instrumental flute melodies are derived.” Kevin Locke, Who Worked to Preserve Lakota Culture, Dies at 68 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Each half of the program ended with a substantial instrumental work. Music Review: Tobias Picker at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-10-09T21:55:17Z

“Ride” is mostly a keyboard instrumental -- except when Sena occasionally interrupts to croon “the water ... the water ...”  or scat sing. Throwbacks: Summer reissues of strange surf music, gay proto-punk, 'Robocop' and more

Hoyle reminds us every time he picks up his trumpet, the high lyricism and blues-touched sensibility of his instrumental work a link to the Chicago bebop scene of the 1950s and after. From Mahalia tribute to Penn & Teller's pianist, a rich weekend in Chicago jazz 2011-05-19T11:40:00Z

The Bochner show, which drew national attention, also caught the eye of Ms. De Salvo, who was instrumental in bringing Mr. Rothkopf to the Whitney. For Scott Rothkopf, a Swift Ascendance in the Whitney Hierarchy 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

But, Foster observes, “oftentimes his stuff doesn’t lie particularly well instrumentally, in the way that Mozart always seems to lie fantastically, idiomatically.” Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

But it doesn’t feature Mr. Watson’s instrumental voice, always a force to be reckoned with. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z

Say farewell to prizes for best classical album, Hawaiian music album, Native American music album, zydeco or Cajun music album, country instrumental performance, and children's spoken word album. And the Grammy for best Hawaiian album goes to ... nobody 2011-04-07T09:38:06Z

Other woody plants work in a more supporting role but are instrumental in reordering the garden — creating enclosure, say, where there is now relentless lawn. Planning your 2020 garden? You’ll want to check out the year’s Gold Medal Plants. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

He was instrumental in mobilizing for civil rights with his participation in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, his nonviolent protest in Selma, Ala., and his speech from his March on Washington. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

The song was created by her producers and writers after she was presented with a series of short instrumental passages, the pop star testified. Katy Perry and record label hit with $2.7 million copyright judgment 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

De Man moved the language toward the instrumental and impersonal because he aimed to minimize and detoxify the accusation. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z

In the 1960s and 1970s, Sigma Sound helped create “The Sound of Philadelphia” — the funky soul sound characterized by lush instrumental arrangements often featuring strings and horns. College music department resurrects long-lost funk music 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

An interesting hybrid was an instrumental rendition of “Brazil,” in which Mr. Feinstein at the keyboard played what he called “a mini piano concerto” with the band. Michael Feinstein Salutes Sinatra at Birdland 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

When “The Breaks” couldn’t get clearance for a desired track that mattered, Mr. Charnas said, it would sometimes license the underlying, sampled song for an instrumental snippet. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

When the Stones first visited the United States in 1964, they made a pilgrimage to Chess’s studio in Chicago and recorded several tracks there, including an instrumental titled “2120 South Michigan Avenue” — the company’s address. Phil Chess, Whose Record Label Elevated Unknown Blues Musicians, Dies at 95 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

An expansive, at times breathtaking feat of production wizardry and instrumental and lyrical acumen, "You're Dead!" sucks the listener through a wormhole and into the realm of genre-free rhythm music. Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The concerts on July 6, 8, 13 and 15 will feature small numbers of artists on stage performing arias, instrumental selections and other pieces. La Scala plans 4 July concerts in post-lockdown reopening 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Most stimulating was the sustained sensitivity of Mr. Zorn’s instrumental writing. Review: John Zorn and Talea Ensemble Play at Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Among those who championed the quartets, Tharpe, the first gospel artist to sign with a major label, was instrumental in introducing her audience to groups like the Dixie Hummingbirds. ‘How They Got Over’ Review: How Gospel Begat Rock 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

So now Myers' "Little Squirrel" is heard first as an instrumental and then occupies the soundtrack spot of honor, playing in full over the end credits. Local musician lands on 'Hoodwinked Too!' soundtrack 2011-05-05T00:22:00Z

According to Ivan Bart, the president of IMG Models, “China was instrumental in teaching younger models, ‘Own yourself, own your beauty.’” China Machado: A Breakthrough Model Until the End 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

It's perhaps not surprising, but again worrying, that fathers are so instrumental in who their daughters end up with. The Biology of Dads and Mongrels and Special 1 TV 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z

An instrumental version of this album, which was expertly produced by the veteran Mark Bright, would be an apt fit for just about any Nashville singer. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z

The couple met at a public reading, and their relationship was "instrumental", the British Library said, in Auden's decision to become an American citizen. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z

Its style changes constantly: the vocal writing is often angular and tense, occasionally lyrical and sometimes spoken, and the instrumental scoring — for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet and harp — mirrors, punctuates and comments on it. Music Review: Signal, a New-Music Orchestra, Plays at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-05-28T21:45:00Z

That’s right, as the founder of the state’s first brewpub, Hickenlooper was instrumental in flooding the state with his beery drug of choice. Drug war hypocrite No. 1 2012-09-21T16:15:00Z

VandeHei, Allen and Kingsley shocked colleagues and political junkies in late January when they announced that they were leaving the site they had been instrumental in building. Politico’s senior managers are beating an early retreat 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

He works in acoustic drones; boiled-down folk ideas; distressed ragas; and hard, meditative electric-guitar soloing, in which the resonance of the note and the power of the gesture trump instrumental technique. New Music: CD’s by Trey Songz, Bloc Party and Six Organs of Admittance 2012-08-20T21:58:57Z

On that theory, apparently, Tenet presented an evening of Purcell, sizable vocal works separated by smaller instrumental numbers, not all of it Cecilia-related. Music Review: Tenet at Trinity Wall Street - Review 2011-11-25T23:32:29Z

The Hersholt award, academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said, is granted to those who are "instrumental in humanitarian causes" and who "bring a spotlight and public awareness to certain issues." Academy to honor Harry Belafonte for his activism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

As one of modern architecture’s biggest critics and the president of the National Civic Art Society, Shubow was instrumental in bringing the issue to Trump’s attention. Biden Revokes a Trump Order Seeking ‘Classical’ Civic Architecture 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

McCarthy also discovered that the dashing and theatrical maestro, who died in 1977, also was instrumental in an effort to build a new concert hall. Stokowski sleuth tracks past for Philly Orchestra 2012-12-21T16:25:17Z

Algebra come from Bucharest and just released their first album - a mix of post-rock, post-punk, noise and influences from several other genres translated into short instrumental tracks. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z

“The odds of students expressing a long-term identity were 2.6 times higher if they belonged to a school with an enriched, visible instrumental program,” the researchers write. How to motivate a young musician 2014-01-20T18:00:00Z

For better, two young players, rather than superstars, were selected as instrumental soloists. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

She credits her studio time with Kathleen Tracey, a City Ballet repertory director and former soloist, as being “very instrumental in getting me to where I am now with my technique,” Phelan said. What Is the Power of Unity Phelan’s Dancing? ‘I’m Clay.’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

That’s evident not only in his comic operas, such as “Lucrezia,” but also in the wild transitions embedded within his instrumental works. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

And I think David was really instrumental in that. | A History of Picture-Perfect Icons at DNA 2013-08-22T15:46:03Z

His stunning solos with those three bands basically introduced instrumental virtuosity to popular music. Eric Clapton: Still at the Crossroads 2013-04-12T20:18:12Z

Strauss underscored spoken dialogue with arch instrumental commentary, but the orchestra, at times hamstrung by his sumptuous style and parlando vocal lines, shifts its weight like an elephant in ballet shoes. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

Those today who view religion negatively sometimes go even further and view Bach’s church cantatas as essentially instrumental concertos, with the religious texts more or less extraneous. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s situated in the coveted Usonia community, which Resnick was instrumental in helping to develop under the direction of Frank Lloyd Wright. Tour a Midcentury-Modern Home in a Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Community 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Film star Daniel Radcliffe is to play civil engineer Washington Roebling, who was instrumental in building the Brooklyn Bridge, in his next film role. Radcliffe to build Brooklyn Bridge 2014-01-22T12:43:35Z

“It was instrumental in understanding how one talks about dance on a casual level,” he said. Luca Guadagnino Unleashes the Witchy Power of Modern Dance 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The music reveals his fondness for the melodic reach of the Beatles and David Bowie, for the abrupt sonic shifts of hip-hop and for the warped instrumental tones of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

For the most part, instrumental breaks aren't where it's time to whack. The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion 2013-05-16T17:00:00Z

Instead their foundation gives grants to Cuban artists and has been instrumental in connecting those who grew up in the special period with the outside world. Seize the day 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

The show of solidarity was instrumental to the orchestra reaching three-year deals with the Kennedy Center and the Washington National Opera, de Boor said. Kennedy Center stagehands authorize strike, putting ‘Hadestown’ and other scheduled shows in jeopardy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Best use of fog: The instrumental guitar-dance band Ratatat returned from an extended hiatus to fill the Sahara Tent on Saturday. The (highly biased) Coachella 2015 Awards: The best of the best 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

When there were no instrumental tracks, Riddle created beats by banging his hands on the table and simulated horns with his mouth. ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ Is Back, Silly Smarts Intact 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Later, Roosevelt would be instrumental in creating reserves for buffalo herds to replenish. With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

It was instrumental in the fortunes of the United States open and senior teams. Bridge: Bridge — Open Teams at Second World Mind Sports Games 2012-09-05T22:44:57Z

A decade ago, Byrd was instrumental in establishing Constitution Day when he attached an amendment designating the holiday to an appropriations bill. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket

But at least in the early hours Friday, everything seemed as pleasant and unthreatening as those lengthy instrumental runs Matthews and bandmates like to embark upon. Mild weather, mellow vibe as DMB Caravan begins 2011-07-08T22:21:00Z

Johnson is a practitioner of vocalese, a somewhat overlooked art form in which singers put lyrics to previously instrumental tunes and even to transcribed improvisations. George Johnson’s joyful jazz was a lifetime in the making 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Simon never planned to write a book; over the last few years, she's been focused on instrumental music because she is "slightly" losing her voice. A revealing interview with Carly Simon at her home in Martha's Vineyard about her new book, 'Boys in the Trees' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

I don’t mind the way a few musicians play parts of the music onstage; I do mind the way instrumental lines are transposed up or down, dynamics are altered and ensembles are distorted. Review: Joffrey Ballet’s New ‘Nutcracker’ Leaves Some Tradition Behind 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

His constant referring to instrumental pieces as “songs” is both irritating and incorrect. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

There is a marble statue here of a dying Indian warrior, Tecumseh, who had led his fighters into an alliance with the British and played an instrumental role in several early battles. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z

The natural and chatty approach of Biggie Smalls, in particular, drew her in: “If you took away his flow and instrumental, he could just be talking to you.” Little Simz’s Big Moment 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

He remained onstage for the “Choral Fantasy,” which Beethoven hastily wrote as a finale for the Akademie, utilizing all the instrumental and vocal forces of the program for a paean to art and music. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

This will include playing popular classical and instrumental music, as well as a number of English language and international artists. BBC Radio Wales cuts hours and introduces English songs in music row 2012-12-31T13:15:29Z

On the panel of a design prize last year, Heatherwick was instrumental in giving a special award to hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, who died this month. Thomas Heatherwick: the new Da Vinci of design 2012-05-18T09:00:00Z

In the recording, we get a look at Velour Vibes 5, and several of Top's famous blends, where he layers this artist's vocals over that artist's instrumental track. Download these: Seattle mixtapes by Stephanie, Topspin, Four Color Zack 2011-07-27T18:11:11Z

Green Mountain’s equitable sharing of vocal and instrumental solos makes it hard to single out performers. Early Music and Its Future 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Over 30 minutes, the work unfurls a fluid stream of instrumental colors, from shimmering filaments of sound to broad sighing gestures that build with unrelenting momentum into muscular blocks of dark matter. Scorched Silence, Fragile Rebirth, Award-Winning Music 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

He composed instrumental, solo vocal and choral works, and was a music faculty member at American University, George Washington University and the Washington National Cathedral’s college of church musicians. Norman Scribner, who founded D.C. Choral Arts Society, dies at 79 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Most of the album is instrumental, with tracks like “Roman Blue” that float on lush strings and the wordless cooing of a soprano. Weekend Listening: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi's Rome 2011-11-11T19:12:50Z

The jolly night visitor in the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” written by Pintard’s friend Clement Moore, became instrumental to a new, child-focussed conception of the holiday, centered on hearth, home, and quiet. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Earth Strange thing about Earth, the 20-year-old instrumental Seattle doom band: unlike most heavy-music acts it changed over time as human beings actually do. Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z

She said teaching a new generation of performers to meet Stockhausen’s demands, which emphasize the physical, performative aspect of instrumental playing more than many other composers, brought her joy. ‘Licht’ Unleashes a Helicopter String Quartet 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Rather than making it watered-down pop music,” he says, “why not make it extremely well-thought-out instrumental music that speaks to the time?” Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The richness of the instrumental sound becomes its own emotional content: The music is not telling you where to be or what to feel. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The duo's instrumental jams are based on R&B chord progressions, suggesting they were written on guitar or piano, like traditional singer-songwriter music. Late notice: Mount Kimbie at Baltic Room 3/30 2011-03-30T01:35:06Z

But Mark Felt, though almost nobody knew back in the ’70s, was undoubtedly instrumental in ending the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Review: In ‘Mark Felt,’ Liam Neeson Is the Man Known as Deep Throat 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

And we shouldn’t overlook the legitimacy and impact of scholarship that has been published in leading journals and ­presses and has been instrumental in overturning the longstanding interpretation of the Second Amendment. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Coffin’s strait-laced parents were also less than instrumental in inspiring or encouraging their son’s always good-humoured creative endeavours. Pierre Coffin: Me and my Minions 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The conductor Simon Rattle also discovered that while preparing a Henze piece bristling with dense instrumental passages. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z

With so many delicate hands working instruments with grace and deft touch, the band seemed to connect not only instrumentally, but at times astrally.  Grateful Dead in Santa Clara, Night 1: Rainbows, dancing bears and bliss 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Musicians paying tribute to the singer have included Jamaican rapper Shaggy, who tweeted: "We have lost a legend. Very instrumental part of our reggae history! You'll be missed." Reggae singer John Holt dies at 69 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Her teachers call these “combat linguistics,” but the titular linguist mages — including politicians, cult leaders and gaming executives — have competing ends in mind, and Isobel is instrumental to all of them. A Gamer Learns to Weaponize Sounds in This Genre-Bender 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Burns summarized it best in a post-performance discussion, saying that not only does the instrumental writing fail to support the singers, it poses “almost the antithesis of support.” Review: A 20th-Century Sequel to ‘Barber of Seville’ and ‘Figaro’ 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Because only through this kind of discipline can a conductor address the best orchestras in the world later. I know what they are going through, instrumentally speaking.” Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Parker, the guitarist in Tortoise, released the most ineffably soulful instrumental album of the summer: “The New Breed,” a convergence of loopy beats and melodic suggestion. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Swift's Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians are instrumental creations, the intent of which is overtly political and satiric. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

In these works, and in “Traveller,” you are often immersed in instrumental density — quick rhythmic accelerations and parched sound-production textures. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

“When I’m Sixty-Four,” with one speaker out, completely loses McCartney’s lead vocal and becomes an instrumental. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Christopher Rountree, Long Beach Opera’s music director, conducts an ensemble of nine, but often the instrumental textures are sparer than even those modest forces. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

We’re told that the Dalai Lama considered him instrumental in developing American Buddhism before naming him an abbot. ‘Monk With a Camera,’ About Nicholas Vreeland 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

I was very inspired by this idea to not portray things realistically, but to find an imaginative way to filter an idea and distill it using purely instrumental means. Scorched Silence, Fragile Rebirth, Award-Winning Music 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

But it's the instrumental textures Goehr places round them that are most intriguing. BCMG/Knussen – review 2012-10-02T17:12:31Z

How did you write the actual instrumental for the song? How Christine and the Queens Wrote One of the Best Songs of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The best moments were usually the most fleeting: Usher, alone in a spotlight, crooning over a stripped-down instrumental. Usher, R&B’s young elder statesman, flaunts showman skills at Verizon Center

Yet it maintains dramatic thrust for 35 minutes, with two instrumental interludes. Music Review: Avanti! Ensemble in Finnish Works at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-04T22:30:17Z

Yuto also sings but, for now, his vocals are no match for his instrumental skills. From Japan, the Heavy-Metal Kid 2010-10-20T11:24:00Z

And as a producer, he's played an instrumental role in the rise of Lena Dunham, whose character on "Girls" once laid down in the middle of a hike and started listening to "This American Life." Amy Schumer still surprised Judd Apatow cast her in her own movie 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

And yet some of the people involved in the debacle may be instrumental in deciding on security measures. Perspective | The danger of right-wing mobs is real. Fencing at the U.S. Capitol won’t help. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Many of the slow movements of his piano concertos can seem like instrumental evocations of an opera aria. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z