| 单词 | overture |
| 例句 | Sigh not for jealousy, Mrs. Fruhling—she cast no eye upon me, and I made no overtures to that imperious individual, being of far too plain and low a stature for Her Highness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Props are missing and people wander around partially in costume, and the various Creekwood music prodigies are in the orchestra pit running through the overture. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The overture begins, and my whole body sighs. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z There was one other girl, who made no overtures of friendship to Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Privately, Eisenhower began to dread what might happen if the U-2 program were exposed to the world, or the impact such a revelation might have on his new overtures to the Soviet leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He started his campaign auspiciously enough with an overture to James Conant, who visited Berkeley in May to deliver the keynote address at Charter Day, the university’s annual founding celebration. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Prison officials responded much better to private overtures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned away, and met all my subsequent overtures with silence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had no choice; one did not turn down such an overture from the regent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, and thank you for coming. I’d worried that after last night’s incident my overture came too late, but it looks like we still have a little time.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It wasn’t easy to always be the one making the overtures of friendship, since I was, after all, the new member on the team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Kashdan responded to Bobby’s overture and later commented: “I had no real problem with him. All he wants to do is to play chess. He is a tremendous player.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer rejected the overture on the spot, though the encounter would create a political problem for him down the line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Although I did not respond to these overtures, the mere fact that they were talking rather than attacking could be seen as a prelude to genuine negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of this first dream, the overture, he remembered only the climate, which had been like the climate of his day—heavy, with danger everywhere, Satan at his shoulder trying to bring him down. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The stage was dark for a moment, and silent; then suddenly, with a burst of golden light and an orchestral overture from the CD player behind the curtain, Angel stepped onto the stage. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no written record that Lawrence replied to the overture, although around the same time, he registered a private opinion of the federation—and of scientific activism in general—in a letter to Weaver. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She looked up when the musical overture ended, and in its place an anticipatory silence weighted the air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was not afraid, only deeply offended—never in his long life had human beings reacted in such a way to his friendly overtures. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it was useful to have warders who were well disposed toward us, I often asked certain men to make overtures to selected warders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad takes his seat at his spot at the head of the table, for the moment oblivious to Mom’s irritated overtures, and begins making incisions in his ham. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They played a duet from “Zampa,” and at the earnest solicitation of every one present followed it with the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z So the capture of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry served as quite a neat overture for all that followed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The light rain went on falling on the hills above Gettysburg, but it was only the overture to the great storm to come. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With Lawrence’s careful guidance, he explained that he meant he would report the overture to Lawrence as a security breach, not as an invitation to espionage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The University of California’s medical school faculty, housed across the bay in San Francisco, was especially dismissive of Ernest’s overtures. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The houselights start to dim, and the first notes of the overture rise up from the pit. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z When its badinage was completed, we picked up our instruments and began to play the overture for The Blockade of Boston. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And all through the bustle and pep talks and swelling of the overture, my mind is stuck on Blue Blue Blue. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z On that night in the late fall, after their daughter’s gymnastics practice, she approached Jackie and made an overture that set in motion a cascade. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A surprising number of them responded favorably to the Klansman's overtures. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His “Red Riding” opens with an audiovisual overture of actual and fabricated radio and television reports of the crimes combined with recreated photos of victims. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z She quickly became unhappy with him and made overtures to reconcile with me — do you detect a pattern? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Telling your ex’s fiance about her cheating isn’t you best idea ever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z "Sextet" opens with an overture of pitch-blackness, and the sound of dissonant strings. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z Yet the tricky syncopations of the Brahms overture emerged cleanly. Music Review: In Different Hands, an Assortment of Moods 2010-10-04T21:42:00Z Alexander sensibly left the curtain down almost throughout the overture, of which Wedow led one of the best performances I can remember. 'The Magic Flute': Beautiful fun at Seattle Opera 2011-05-09T20:32:05Z But all of this is just an overture to the main show — the 1,900-foot sidewalk, which dead-ends at the Arizona side. Journeys: In Nevada, the Viewing Has Begun From the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge 2011-01-28T19:55:00Z With the help of a well-connected friend, he made overtures to some of its leading creators in hopes of securing one of them to make a video. Sturgill Simpson Leaves His Old Sound (and the Spotlight) in the Rear View 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Brace asked Straub, then studying musical composition at Howard University, to write an overture. From a single tune to a folk opera, ‘Hangtown Dancehall’ comes to Birchmere The overture to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride” begins with unassuming courtliness and swiftly ramps up to seething passion. ‘The Tsar’s Bride,’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The “Superstar” overture alone — surely one of the most unsettling rock record openers, let alone musical overtures — features harrowing electric guitar, synth, strings, boisterous brass, and a choir dropped in from a horror movie. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z From the overture — the harmonies for the brass instruments playing quietly, the sweeping, rainbowlike melody for the strings — it was evident that this would be a singularly vivid account. New York City Ballet Is in Limbo, but in Bloom 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The album begins with an orchestral interlude, arranged by composer Davide Rossi, that merges Middle Eastern and Western elements as an overture, of sorts, to the album's thematic intentions. Coldplay attacks social and political unrest with hope on "Everyday Life" 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The fizzy 1956 work fused a distinctly Chinese lyricism to a robust exuberance familiar from countless Romantic overtures. Music Review: New York Philharmonic?s Chinese New Year Gala 2012-01-25T22:49:50Z The overture, which runs about 15 minutes, is unabashedly patriotic, featuring Russian folk songs and a volley of cannon fire set to the former Russian national anthem, “God Save the Czar.” Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Haimovitz requested overtures in classically operatic fashion, and each of six composers took the commission in a different direction. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z It involved an overture to the nation, a physical attack on Americans, and a Bible. ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It was clear from the overture that lyrical gracefulness was the aim here. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The pianist Denis Matsuev dazzled with jazz encores and Plácido Domingo took the podium well after midnight to lead a Verdi overture. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Iolanta’ at the New Mariinsky II in Russia 2013-05-05T19:20:13Z The music begins with a five-minute recorded overture, played in complete darkness. Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z There needed to be a no-fingerprints, totally deniable approach to the overture. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “When you have a work that just sits on a program with a Beethoven symphony and an overture,” he said, “that makes it hard for the audience to understand why it’s even there.” Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Heralding their entrance is an overture of sorts, sung by the sound director Sophia Brous and other voices that seem to come from the audience or backstage. Review: On Faye Driscoll’s Life Raft, Spinning Toward the Unknown 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The score can be employed just as successfully as an actual overture. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The violins played long notes on high, not unlike the angelic overture to Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” as the horns droned down below. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z An early verse, sung by a chipper young woman in a yellow dress, is a kind of overture, hinting at the theme of the bittersweet fairy tale to follow. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Also gone are large chunks of Mozart’s overture and both act finales, plus another half-dozen arias and ensembles altogether. A ‘comedy’ about a seducer? Seattle Opera tackles new version of ‘Don Giovanni’ with skill and caution 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Like Schubert's tuneful overture, it was smoothly and expertly played. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z Schumann’s moody overture to his incidental music for Byron’s “Manfred” was the opener. National Philharmonic brings its unique touch to a vintage lineup 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z She claimed there was a “quid pro quo” environment where she was being sexualised and when she would turn down his overtures, he became “meaner and meaner”. On the Record: the music industry #MeToo doc that caused Oprah to turn away 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The question of whether to perform the overture has put arts leaders, largely unaccustomed to handling geopolitical matters, in an uncomfortable position. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z “How did you get to be here?” the show’s first song inquires after the tantalizing overture. After another brave attempt, Sondheim-Furth musical 'Merrily We Roll Along' remains a rutted road 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Scott followed the more common practice of retaining the overture, then going directly into the remaining two sections, “Exodus” and “Moses’ Song.” Review: St. Thomas Choir and Concert Royal Perform Handel 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z His early overtures to literary agents brought rejections. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Mary’s boss, in a weak romantic overture, invites her on a road trip to Los Angeles, mecca of movies, artifice and plastic surgery. Movie Review: ‘American Mary,’ by Jen and Sylvia Soska 2013-05-30T21:50:47Z During the overture the sound was warm and full-bodied but a little indistinct. Critic’s Notebook: Weill Hall at Sonoma State University 2012-10-02T22:15:15Z He started with an inspirational performance of Berlioz's Les Francs-Juges overture – I had forgotten how wonderful that piece was and immediately started programming it. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z The timpani played by Nicholas Stoup in both the Mozart overture and Beethoven's symphony were small period instruments that made a stinging whip-crack of a sound rather than the boom of the bigger modern instruments. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Dudamel opened the program with Mozart's overture to his comic Turkish opera, "The Abduction from the Seraglio." With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z This overture only burnishes the epic visual symphony on which it rests. Best graphic novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Perhaps propelled by nervous energy in his Met debut, he drove the orchestra hard in the overture and elsewhere, and it didn’t always keep up; attacks were often laggard in rhythm and imprecise in pitch. Music Review: An Underworld Rescue With Dancers and Chorus 2011-05-01T21:23:02Z The film is so wildly unconvincing at all levels that it is simply weird: two different attractive, sensitive young women suddenly make massively unlikely overtures to scary, strange men they have never met. 360 – review 2012-08-09T20:45:01Z She accepted the overtures of Mr. Blomstedt’s predecessor, Edo de Waart, who was eager to bring her to his new ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra. Jorja Fleezanis, Violinist and Pioneering Concertmaster, Dies at 70 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The cellos and double-basses were incisive at the start of Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture, and the violins achieved gossamer delicacy as the love theme surged and flowed. Prom 32: EUYO/Bamert 2010-08-10T11:11:00Z The long overture has breezy grace, rather like a Broadway take on Gilbert and Sullivan. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z But Rossini salvaged the music much as you would dismantle a junked car; the overture found new life at the start of one of opera’s best-loved comedies, “The Barber of Seville.” Heard of ‘Aureliano in Palmira’? You Probably Know the Overture 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The performance of the Beethoven overture, though solid and vigorous, lacked some tension and drama. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z The Four Shakespeare Preludes, concert overtures in effect, are much more interesting. Raff: Symphony No 2; Four Shakespeare Preludes – review 2013-02-21T21:50:01Z The front curtain goes up, an overture is played and you see what is essentially a vast painting. Picasso's largest work descends for Ballets Russes exhibition 2010-08-05T17:54:00Z The famous overture is trimmed and verses are cut throughout along with some arias. Met gives `Barber' a cut in English version 2012-12-28T17:38:08Z Stage productions don't tend to opt for this 19th-century Romantic response to the text, while Mendelssohn's music has survived as a truncated concert suite, chiefly celebrated for its overture and, of course, that wedding march. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z Here’s what happened, though: That overture segues directly into the work’s opening chorus, which is set in a church and which in the opera house always sounds anticlimactic after the overture’s majesty. Two contrasting concerts show best face of D.C. choral scene 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Others, eager to show solidarity with Ukraine, have added renditions of the Ukrainian national anthem to their programs to counter the overture’s exaltation of czarist Russia. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Mueller The other day, someone pointed out the lack of overtures now. Hearing From the Women Who Made the Year’s Musicals Sing 2014-05-07T12:00:19Z The program opens with Samuel Barber’s dynamic overture to “The School for Scandal,” written when the composer was 21. Superstar soprano singing Björk? Welcome to Seattle Symphony’s season opener 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Emma evidently responds well to this overture, and after he wakes up butt-naked on her sofa, all is well until the fateful and inevitable day arrives when one of them wants something more. "No Strings Attached": Ashton and Natalie do the "hookup generation" 2011-01-20T01:30:00Z And although there’s no bagpipe in the orchestra, the overture’s rippling counterpoint is ignited by wind figures suggestive of the instrument. An Opera Rarity Reclaims Its Spot in the Repertory 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It starts with Britten’s relatively spare, elegant composition — no overtures, no chorus, and only 13 musicians in the pit. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And when he starts hungering for stimulating conversation, maybe that’s time for a healing overture to Sarah Bunting. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: The Crawleys Should Have Sent Their Regrets 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z After that, Ms. Secrest said, Mr. Sondheim strived to maintain “a safe psychic distance” from women making overtures, “imagined or real.” Put Down Your Phone! It’s Patti LuPone. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z The other pieces were coarser: the Carnival overture jolly and lusty; the Symphonie fantastique broadly limned, rhetorically detailed and lasting a very long time. NSO, Barto show that “pleasing new German concerto” is not an oxymoron in new Rihm work 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The third piece on the program, the opener, was all Muti’s: an overture by Giuseppe Verdi, the composer who more than any other he has made his own. Review | Romantic tropes for the 21st century: the Chicago Symphony on tour 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The overture does not depict events in the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, as immortalized in the Edmond Rostand play, but rather portrays his character. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s hardly surprising that DiSalvo’s comments, with its overtures that ladies must be emotional and pretty, drew criticism from both the animation community and . Do Animated Female Characters Need to Be ‘Pretty’? 2013-10-14T18:43:30Z Leonard Bernstein is the most famous; he’s represented by the overture to “Candide.” Classical Music Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The Salzburg “overture,” the first in a projected annual series, is to feature a different faith each year. Critic’s Notebook: Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is on the Program 2012-07-26T02:37:36Z Schiff’s most characterful work, though, was in the Rondo finale, in which he rendered the cadenza as a grander conclusion, interjecting the “Don Giovanni” chords, then layering the overture and the concerto in clever counterpoint. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z “My idea for the overture was to introduce every ingredient that I could think of within the musical palette we were going to hear through the rest of the recording.” ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z For what it’s worth, it sounds as if such an overture would be destabilizing for you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Holiday won’t be happy with this parent. Should she visit anyway? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The arc of it is already in the first measure of the overture. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z They start the show seated, facing the audience, and then during the overture break off, one by one, to form a garden for the first scene, complete with statuary, fountain and benches. Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Usually in a movie any pronounced overture of being wounded usually means a character is going to croak. Star Trek Beyond: 13 reasons to get excited about the new trailer 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Ten minutes into the opera and we’ve had an overture and two arias. Music Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Met 2012-12-23T22:31:35Z She has never lived anywhere except L.A., despite overtures from other companies. L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z What followed were surging tides of accusations and recriminations, romantic overtures and hesitant withdrawals, heated rejections and a feverish, graphic recollection of a physical liaison. | 'Drawn and Quartered': A Palette of Wine, Blood and Sex 2011-06-16T21:36:16Z Here he offers Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony along with the overture to Victor Hugo’s play “Ruy Blas” and the concert overture “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.” Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Haydn, Steve Reich and More 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It is only after she sees through his crude overtures and calls his bluff that she and Armando unexpectedly fall in love. | 'Love Ranch': Attraction and Possibility When Sex Is Just Business 2010-06-29T22:43:00Z When the overture broke into the breathless, sensual, shimmering music of the Venusberg, the performance gained more profile and character. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Her classical selections included the overture to Mozart's Magic Flute and the Largo movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony, which she first heard in New York. Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs 2013-01-27T14:12:00Z Time Warner Cable has so far resisted Charter's overtures, but Charter has vowed to take the bid directly to shareholders if needed. Cable merger future-proofs against Internet's rise 2014-02-04T13:38:57Z Jeffery Watson took on the piano part, which sounded difficult but was generally beguiling, and Ryan Brown, the company’s founder and artistic director, conducted — even the solo piano overture, which patently didn’t need it. An evanescent French rarity by Chabrier returns to the stage 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Asher Fisch's powerful and detailed conducting gave the production both propulsive excitement and detailed artistry — from the vivid overture to the joyous finale, which packs the punch of Beethoven's Ninth. A brilliant new voice gleams in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-10-15T00:36:04Z Nézet-Séguin is a gifted Mozart conductor, and his treatment of the finale — witty and nimble — could have been the overture to one of that composer’s operas. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The overture brims with promise, as Nézet-Séguin enforces sprightly rhythms and brings out delightful contrasts of color and articulation. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z As a result, many of the works exhibited at the Hayward land somewhere between joy and grief, with jubilance and the macabre meeting in a soaring, melancholy overture. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" overture was dashed off with apt sparkle. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z Tchaikovsky’s overture — with instruments playing high, fast and bouncy — is on the miniature scale of childhood itself, with passages of rhythmic syncopation that embody the excitement of a child’s eager anticipation. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z He has refused overtures from the city to help stabilize the museum and has driven away trustees who resent his high-handed and confrontational manner. Finances Could Sink Seaport Museum 2011-02-19T00:36:26Z Singer added that in a 2002 interview, Dickinson said that Cosby "blew her off" after she spurned a romantic overture from him. Bill Cosby is in role of outcast after sexual assault allegations 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z She asks the kids to call her Ma, but her maternal overtures mask a sinister plan to right past high school traumas of her own. For Mother’s Day, Movies All About ‘Mother’ 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z It was the slightest of the three, a chaotic, funkily layered overture to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. The Proms, BBC’s Classical Music Festival, Is All the More Important as Austerity Looms 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Plenty of conductors fill out the concerts with an overture or two, but which ones? Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Alessi had made statues look hyperactive up to this point, but he began a revealing weave on the ensuing Thelonious Monk feature, which he introduced as a nimbly skipping unaccompanied overture. Jim Hart/Ralph Alessi 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z Here it’s the silent era that comes to life, with Bartoli as a diva whose experience is winked at in a rundown of her pictures, from Joan of Arc to pirates, projected during the overture. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z There are musical sketches of Lisbon and Algiers that Saint-Säens wrote on his many travels, along with the recently discovered Spartacus overture, which sounds like a trial run for the still popular Third Symphony. Saint-Säens: Orchestral Works – review 2012-06-06T21:10:01Z Then as the overture from Wagner’s Tannhäuser blasts around the room, thousands of images are set in motion. Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The movie that follows this bold overture has no intention of following through on this declaration of imperfection, at least not with any sincerity. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z All three of the programs feature an overture, a symphony and a concerto — two concertos on the first program on Friday and Saturday, with three NSO principals. Review | At the Forever Mozart mini-festival, beloved composer makes everyone look good 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z This extravaganza served as a grand overture to usher in two sculptures at the heart of the most extraordinary rediscovery made in the past five decades. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z Conjured by Mendelssohn’s overture, it is hushed and gossamer, full of the magic that children know. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z One of Lambert’s operatic overtures, he told me, reminds him of “a cross between Scott Joplin and Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ overture,” while later compositions sound more like the expressionistic language of Paul Hindemith. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z From opening titles presented in the style of a classic Hollywood film during the overture, Mr. Strassberger and his team provide a near-ceaseless barrage of sight gags, amusing diversions and outright distractions. Music Review: ‘Le Roi Malgré Lui’ at Fisher Center for the Performing Arts 2012-07-30T21:52:59Z Rossini’s perfect overture is disfigured, tossed off in less than two minutes. Music Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Met 2012-12-23T22:31:35Z After a too-breathless overture, Rizzi — experienced and vibrant at the Met in the Italian repertory — settled into a performance responsive to both the score’s savage drama and its aching sentiment. Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The piece, crackling with energy and affection, has endured, taking its place beside the opera overtures of Rossini and Weber. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Before the overture is over, video projections bring us into an online chat among the Oprichnik-executives, who propose the need to invent a fake czar. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z There's the rage still hanging on inside of an old flame who rejected BoJack's sexual overtures, only to find him in a compromising position with her adolescent daughter. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z He continued to do so in the closing set, an overture and three dances from Smetana’s opera “The Bartered Bride.” Despite fabulous soloist, NSO gala flops 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Danilo Pérez began his early set at the Jazz Standard on Thursday night with a busily efficient overture, laying out many of his themes and protocols for the ensuing hour. Music Review: Danilo Pérez Celebrates Panama at Jazz Standard 2014-02-07T21:55:14Z Once the VIPs had found their seats, the cast wandered on to the raked stage, and The Magic Flute began, the overture played on six African xylophones. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The performance was dedicated to Colin Davis, COG's first conductor, and preceded by the overture to Mozart's Don Giovanni, played in his memory. Alzira – review 2013-06-04T17:20:40Z Yes, this overture looks ugly to anyone who feels antagonism and regression radiating from Trump’s promise to “make America great again.” Perspective | Is Trump sending a message by awarding the Medal of Freedom to Elvis? Yes. 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Listen to that marvelous overture and pick out the Sondheim in it. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z An overture, powered by distorted electric guitar and staccato strings, accompanies this sooty B-movie-style image. Review: A B-Movie Starlet Becomes an Opera Diva in ‘Acquanetta’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z When the lights go up on Mr. Major’s production, during a moody overture, the characters are seen as visitors to a gallery displaying the Hopper works. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z Above all, Antoni Wit is a profoundly idiomatic Schumann conductor, presenting his credentials in a superb account of the overture, and bringing the same dramatic sweep to all the choral numbers that follow. Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust ? review 2011-02-17T22:00:00Z Expect the suite from Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” the overture to Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and two works by Beethoven: the Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G and the Triple Concerto. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z From the haunting muted introduction to Weber’s “Oberon” overture onward, you noticed sensitive gradations of string sound again and again. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-12-06T21:56:27Z Schumann, an unstable man who attempted suicide and died in an insane asylum, composed the overture as music for Lord Byron’s dramatic poem about a transcendence-seeking, Faust-like sorcerer. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z That jarring realization serves as the overture for this complicated story that delivers a series of unsettling revelations as it moves along two alternating timelines. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z And by the start of the second half, in the overture to Rameau’s opera “Naïs,” Mr. Christie had a tightly knit unit to work with. Music Review: Very Old Instruments Embraced by the Young 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z Also, the busyness onstage took my attention from the lithe, effortless playing of the overture. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z And if we weren’t arbitrary about it, but chose a piece that was more like an overture that thematically spelled out the episode to come before the curtain went up, could that work? Damon Lindelof on the ‘Leftovers’ Finale, Mark Linn-Baker and Preserving the Mystery 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z But though conductor Nicholas Chalmers launched the overture with momentum and purpose, it took a while for the performance to catch fire dramatically. The Flying Dutchman – review 2013-02-19T15:23:00Z Crest, Procter & Gamble Co's dental brand, will no longer be offering pink mouth guards to NFL players, the company said on Friday, the first sponsor to publicly withdraw from the NFL's signature overture to women. As NFL tries to reassure women, sponsor Crest is first to retreat 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The curtain raiser, Elgar's concert overture "In the South," was energized in such a way as to celebrate its roast-beefy opulence of orchestration. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z From the familiar overture to the sparkling finale, conductor Giacomo Sagripanti sustained the show’s forward momentum with speedy transitions and deft support of the singers. Seattle Opera offers an action-packed ‘Barber of Seville’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The cheers began with the first bars of the show’s overture, the most infectious and conventionally stirring that Mr. Sondheim wrote, its shiny, brass-borne melodies gleaming with promises you hope will be fulfilled. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z But his penchant for extremity makes for gripping drama and fervent passion in his account of the “Romeo and Juliet” fantasy overture with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The overture is over, the curtain is about to rise. “Breaking Bad,” Season five, episode one: The end begins 2012-07-16T11:15:00Z In the decade that followed, Disney made repeated overtures to acquire film rights to “Mary Poppins,” but Travers kept putting him off because she worried that he planned to make an extended cartoon. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Davis has done some tightening, too: Now the overture leads directly into the “Africa for Africans” material for chorus. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z As the overture begins, a topless young woman scurries across the stage as she tries to stumble back into her servant’s uniform, the Count in hot pursuit. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Nothing’s more exciting than to come rising out of that orchestra pit on those hydraulic lifts and playing an overture at Radio City in front of 6,000 people,” he told The News-Sentinel. Donald Pippin, Conductor on Broadway and Beyond, Dies at 95 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The overture proved a delicate and rather wonderful thing. Beijing Symphony Orchestra/LPO/Tan – review 2012-08-02T15:39:45Z “The movie is built out of all these little sequences, these multiple overtures,” he said. David Lowery Directs ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ 2013-08-09T19:06:44Z It opens with an overture featuring the only electronic music in her catalog, which introduces the work’s postapocalyptic atmosphere. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z Ms. Thoms’s more guarded Veronica at first resists Hogan’s amicable overtures. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z First there was Weber's Oberon overture, its misty opening coalescing into an allegro that whizzed by in a flurry of graceful virtuosity. Prom 6: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-20T09:48:43Z The filler, meanwhile, is a selection of Rossini overtures recorded in Paris in 1957, done with bags of energy and impeccable wit. Verdi: Requiem; Rossini: Overtures – review 2012-07-12T21:12:01Z Mr. Langrée opened the program with a vivacious reading of the last work’s overture. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z But the organ's associations with sanctity also robbed the central section of the Tannhäuser overture of its profanity, while Tristan, as improvised by Marshall, acquired some of the religious sweetness of Fauré. Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle 2010-08-02T12:44:00Z Mr. Shorter joined the second Miles Davis Quintet in 1964, after deflecting Davis’s overtures for several years out of loyalty to Blakey. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It was clear from the first notes of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” overture that David Afkham, leading the Seattle Symphony for the first time on Thursday evening, is the real thing. David Afkham’s SSO debut uncommonly impressive | Classical review 2013-03-22T16:52:26Z The baritone Massimo Cavalletti was vocally robust and fittingly short-tempered as Ford, who foolishly suspects his wife is actually interested in Falstaff’s overtures. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z After the opening “Scene Zero,” in which we hear Mr. Turnage’s breathless “three-bar overture,” as the librettist dubs its, the chorus of reporters introduce the story by singing sputtered vocal lines in crunchy block chords. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z The concert was rounded off with Bernstein's Candide overture, by which time my son was more than ready to leave. Prom 59: The Children's Prom 2010-08-31T12:18:00Z Still, the Texan band reliably produces LPs filled with a formal grandeur - all overtures and interludes - presumably bankrolled by their mystifying periods spent on major labels. This week's new live music 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z Its seamless integration, curiously, also called to mind a more familiar tradition: the old-fashioned operatic overture. Music Review: A Soundtrack to a Collaboration That Never Was 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z I never cared about playing the overture of some opera. A Blacksmith?s Touch Makes Music Light 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z But her diplomatic overtures — which often strike a chord of independence, as much as graciousness — have not been without missteps. Amid uproar, Melania Trump placates as her husband provokes 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Greta instantly befriends Frances, who welcomes the overture, and they begin to spend much time together. The Most Disturbing Aspect of “Greta” 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z But those paying attention will realize that Kamala was capable of rebellion and passion all along, especialy when it comes to taking risks in her romantic life, inspired by the bold overtures of "Riverdale." "Never Have I Ever" star identifies with having to dress up in a "cringe-worthy" costume for a job 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z And though Zehetmair rarely ventures into the theatrical realm, the only downside to the inclusion of the overture from the Magic Flute was that the rest of the opera didn't follow. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair - review 2011-01-31T18:11:20Z But the regal “Tannhäuser” overture, cinematic “Götterdämmerung” passages and fervid “Tristan” prelude make you long for documents of Klemperer steering complete Wagner operas at his prime, and no “Siegfried Idyll” has more plain-spoken charm. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z Though a pleasant scene setter for the opera, this overture, unlike others by Mozart, does not carry much drama of its own and is thus not the most effective concert piece. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z Mr. Thomas led a crackling account of the stormy Wagner overture. Music Review: A Voyage of Discovery As a New Hall Sets Sail 2011-01-27T20:55:02Z A new revue, conceived by Jack Viertel and running Feb. 7-11, it features a collection of overtures and other excerpts, from shows like “Mack & Mabel” and “Wildcat,” that Encores! has yet to revive. The New Season of Theater: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The fashion world has also made overtures—most notably the American designer Marc Jacobs, who featured P-Orridge in a campaign that aired earlier this month. The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z In addition, the program offered the overture and two arias from Mozart’s final opera, “La Clemenza di Tito,” proposing here a hopeful vision of peace through forgiveness. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z For the first five minutes, the band plays the equivalent of an abstract overture, throwing sounds around — Mr. Clayton’s jangling ostinatos; Mr. Lage’s bright, streaky lines; Mr. Lloyd’s restless, wriggling tenor — without coming together. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Dudamel conducted the overture convincingly enough to make it sound like Mozart’s best orchestral music. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The treatment of the overture said it all. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Metropolitan Opera House 2012-11-29T22:30:37Z This medieval romance is saddled with a creaky libretto, but musically it is full of treasures, hinted at in the popular overture. Russell Platt: Classical Music This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The set opened as the album does, with the chiming overture “IN9-1881,” which fades into a swinging set piece called “The Search.” Review: John Patitucci Takes His Electric Bass to the Iridium 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z When The Catastrophic Theatre made another overture about the adaptation recently—this time, Rich Levy, a member of the advisory board, approached Barthelme’s daughter Katharine—they got a more enthusiastic reply. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z There is no one way to play or think about these suites, each a big overture followed by a collection of Baroque dance movements. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Think of this not as a correction, but as an overture long overdue. Carolyn Hax: What’s in a nickname? Plenty of annoyance. 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z I think Chuck’s mental turmoil in the aftermath of Jimmy’s peace overture leaves him conscience-stricken and ready to die in a blaze of his own making. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Finale Recap: Adios 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Listen to the way Beethoven begins many of his overtures: "Pay attention: you are going to listen to me." Mark-Anthony Turnage: how I composed a fanfare for the Proms 2012-07-12T19:59:02Z The LPO and its principal conductor made a strong case, too, for Wagner's overture. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z He conducted squarely and without much vigor, missing some of the humor in the overture and the warmth in the variations. Review: A Brash Wunderkind, Now 37, Meets an August Ensemble 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z His accounts of the overture In the South, the Introduction and Allegro for strings, and the symphonic study Falstaff are also hard to beat. Adrian Boult: Complete EMI Elgar Recordings – review 2013-06-20T19:15:01Z Lockhart said that in a time of war, the overture could serve as a reminder of the perils of aggression. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The overture to The Marriage of Figaro brought scurrility and grandeur into collision, with often unnerving effect. OAE/Cohen review 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z As an encore, the ensemble offered a joyous performance of the exuberant overture from Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro.” Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads the Royal Philharmonic 2014-01-13T22:59:38Z But even though the orchestra sounded muddy, there was something appropriately cosmic about hearing this overture in this space. The Philharmonic’s Free Concert at St. John the Divine 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z And if there are no exact quotations from the symphonies, Mr. Widmann’s overture is run through with Beethovenian riffs, flourishes and humor. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z Some academics see such overtures as attempts to scapegoat Truvada with high-minded moralizing. Truvada and the truth: is HIV prevention propelling the STI epidemic? 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z This collection is made up of overtures and excerpts taken from studio sessions and concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the 1940s and 50s. Toscanini Conducts Wagner – review 2013-06-20T17:30:00Z Vijay Iyer wrote the longest overture in “Run,” a piece that builds on the C-major harmonic series as an extension of Bach’s piece in that key, the “home key” of the cello’s tuning. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z This is the inadequate strategy that has been applied to “Candide” — a shame, because as the evening begins, under Nézet-Séguin’s baton, the orchestra’s command of Bernstein’s overture betokens a production of exuberantly excavated riches. Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The idea of adding introductions to the Bach suites may seem superfluous, since the pieces already open with a prelude, but each of three overtures added an intriguing flavor. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z It began with an overture, Dvorák's Carnival, and ended with a symphony, Tchaikovsky's Fifth, both excitable, heart-on-sleeve performances, and a violin concerto was sandwiched in between. BBCSO/Bringuier ? review 2012-02-13T17:51:34Z Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” is the main event, with the overture to Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” also on the bill. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The movie arrangers created a new overture, doubled the size of the opening dance prologue, moved scenes around and added musical overlays to the two-and-a-half-hour movie. ?West Side Story? Score to Be Played by Philharmonic 2011-09-06T21:53:07Z The overture opens with a soft section for cello solo, though, during which the melancholy sound of David Hardy’s instrument set an unexpected and delicious tone for an outdoor concert. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap Her overtures frequently seem to include some form of housing: to help lure a dancer friend from Indiana, she built a dance studio next to the import shop. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z She made mistakes, misconstruing luncheon invitations as friendly overtures that held out the promise of work. Garance Doré, the Style Blogger, Snatches the Spotlight 2014-05-07T21:18:59Z Once the overture began, however, he and most of the children showed an immediate sense of how to behave in a theater. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Shh, the Puppets Are About to Dance 2010-12-07T12:00:00Z A thrill of fear emanated from Rossini's overture to The Thieving Magpie, with its antiphonally placed side-drums and percussion artillery restoring the original sense of alarm to a piece now often considered charming. RLPO/Ottavio Dantone/D?sir?e Rancatore ? review 2011-01-14T21:46:00Z In El Paso, small office-supply businesses desperately try to beat back the overtures of Amazon Marketplace, which dangles the possibility of expanding their customer base but decimates their slender margins by taking a cut. In ‘Fulfillment,’ One-Click Shopping Is Cheap, Easy and Economically Unsustainable 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z I would concur from the one concert in the cycle I was able to attend, featuring the Second and Fifth Symphonies as well as the seldom-played “Leonore No. 1” overture. Classical Music This Week: Beethoven Reviewed and Birthdays 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The program opened with a richly textured, vibrant account of Schumann’s impetuous overture to “Genoveva,” his only opera. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z He said he and his father had resisted overtures from museums over the years, out of fear that the press would be consigned to storage. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z This time, he does so with the Württemberg players, who navigate this idiom well; in the two concert overtures that kick off this set, Price’s quotations of spirituals come across strongly. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In a pre-recorded interview played at a press conference announcing the performances, Huang says he adapted elements of an overture in Puccini’s Butterfly. Santa Fe Opera announces plans to stage world premieres 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Wagner infuriated them by making his ballet a bacchanal that immediately follows the overture. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z I enjoyed comedy rapper Doc Brown's orchestrated homage to David Attenborough's narrative skills and The Boy with Tape on His Face's mime routine to the William Tell overture, racing hand-held horses on sticks. Prom 40: BBC Concert Orchestra/Minchin/The Boy with Tape on His Face etc ? review 2011-08-14T12:27:59Z For instance, one could argue that, in her own way, Gwyneth is now making direct overtures to the survivalist elements of Trump’s base. Why Donald Trump’s victory is a gift for Gwyneth Paltrow 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z As Rossinians might complain, the overture to William Tell has always been far more popular than the opera it precedes. Prom 2: William Tell - review 2011-07-17T11:22:29Z A surviving scrap of an early, failed dramatic work, the overture is scarcely top-shelf Berlioz. Music Review: Philharmonic?s French Flavors With Tangy Seasoning 2010-06-04T22:36:00Z Romance took a sunnier turn after intermission with a Strauss overture and some lighthearted Franz Lehar songs. Music Review: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, in Some of Its Many Variations 2011-02-15T22:29:38Z O’Hara When we did “South Pacific,” they did eight minutes of overture with 40 pieces, and people loved it. Hearing From the Women Who Made the Year’s Musicals Sing 2014-05-07T12:00:19Z “Mornings in the office like an insipid overture that led into lazy evenings of crosswords and coffees.” Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The courts found it acceptable for police informants to purchase and peddle illicit substances and to use deceptive tactics, including sexual overtures, to entrap young people. Pot: Not just for losers! 2012-08-15T11:44:00Z One of the headliners of the New York Philharmonic’s fall gala last month was Leonard Bernstein, leading his old orchestra in the overture to “Candide.” With No Tickets to Sell, Arts Groups Appeal to Donors to Survive 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Armatrading layers on vocals that wrangle and interweave with warnings, accusations, apologies and overtures: “Let’s try hard to work things out.” Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Last year's "Dune," a similar science fiction epic, has clear colonial overtures, and since 9/11, many American cinematic adventures have played on how the U.S. waged it's imperialistic war on terror. "Avatar: The Way of the Water": Tired climate clichés distract from James Cameron’s vision 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z But the overture is long, and the episode turns stagy and exaggerated. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z A sort of inverted deus ex machina, more overture than resolution, “Mosaic” is a fitting coda to Reines’s Exodus, reminding that all stories, all times, are simultaneously unique and common, discrete and continuous. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z And his blundering overtures to the tormented Istvan provide the play with one of its more bizarrely poignant scenes. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z "When I sat down, he gave one of the most thrilling, impromptu dissertations on why the overture to `Gypsy' is one of the most seminal pieces of American theater music," Wright recalls. How Phish's Trey Anastasio wooed Doug Wright 2013-03-14T16:19:10Z From the crisp, energetic overture, Mr. Wedow led a fleet, lithe orchestral performance, aptly complemented by the buoyant singing of the chorus. Music Review: ‘Messiah,’ From New York Philharmonic 2012-12-19T21:39:18Z For the Walton suite, and for the Tchaikovsky “Romeo and Juliet” overture that concluded the program, the NSO brought in actors. NSO starts season with a new face in Shakespeare 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z From the first measures of Weber's overture to "Der Freischütz," Robertson highlighted the interplay of contrasting moods among low cellos, agitated strings, noble horns and joyous violins building an expressive portrayal. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z Mr. Gilbert began with a crisp, stirring performance of Beethoven’s overture to “Fidelio,” an opera about a woman who rescues her husband, a political prisoner. Review: The New York Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Orlando 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Nearly always my overtures are reciprocated; I believe they are genuinely glad to hear from me. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Why is she the friend who initiates everything? Don’t get her started! 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z It isn’t until 2021 that the New York Times reported he had made online sexual overtures to a number of young men while offering help with their careers in politics. Analysis | Seven bleak takeaways from Showtime’s ‘The Lincoln Project’ miniseries 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He summoned up spry performances of Rossini's Silken Ladder and Il Signor Bruschino overtures, lacking nothing in characterful wit or dynamic momentum. Britten Sinfonia/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-12-01T22:29:00Z Strauss’s overture to “Die Fledermaus” had bite and snap, an evocative swoon to its waltz and a rampaging glee in its coda. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z At the time, with its full overture and closing music, producer David O. Selznick’s 1939 adaption of Margaret Mitchell’s beloved novel was, at 2 minutes shy of four hours, the longest movie ever made. Which is the Better Best Picture, Gone With the Wind or Sound of Music? 2012-02-08T13:59:50Z By its fifth season, though, the orchestra had performed only one such work: an overture by George F. Bristow, its concertmaster. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Maybe due to their platform placement, the strings of the BBC Concert Orchestra didn't always cut through; the resplendent overture lost some of its richness. Prom 49: The Yeomen of the Guard – review 2012-08-20T11:30:57Z The orchestra overture depicts the “Representation of Chaos” in the cosmos through daring music that at times evades stable harmonic zones and is run through with passing dissonance, like stray motifs in search of cohesion. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z Rossini’s overture is the work of a composer with a sly poker face. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He procrastinated for an age, writing four superb and wholly different overtures before he was satisfied. Mark-Anthony Turnage: how I composed a fanfare for the Proms 2012-07-12T19:59:02Z Daniel Lanois’ new album, “Flesh and Machine,” opens with a short overture called “Rocco,” which casts a powerful spell almost instantaneously. Daniel Lanois: “It’s a good drug-taking record. It’s the headphone-listening, drug-taking record of the decade” 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z He’s gradually shrugged off that reticence, and the “Dutchman” overture introduces a heady mixture of painted elements, video and dance that continues throughout the intermissionless performance: “It’s like in a dream,” Ms. Kampe said. The Met Opera’s ‘Dutchman’ Sails Into Port With a New Star 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But Armstrong's agile staging flies — from the delightful overture dispatched with gusto by Joel Fram and orchestra, to the exhilarating choral capper, "Make Our Garden Grow." Review: A soaring, witty 'Candide' at 5th Avenue 2010-05-28T21:42:00Z Predictably, he got good press — too good for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, a zealous media hog who declined Ness’ overture to join the bureau. ‘Eliot Ness:’ biography of an indefatigable crime fighter 2014-04-30T20:00:24Z At its holiday concert, an onstage narrator usually recounts the history of the overture, including its origins as a commemoration of the Russian victory against the French. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z I think before the overture was over, there were already chat rooms. ‘The Addams Family’ Musical Was Panned. Then It Became a Hit. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In Theater 9/12's delightfully absurd new production, the scene is set before the play begins, with "Cherish," "Downtown," "Happy Together" and other '60s pop songs providing an overture that revives memories of the period. 'Everything in the Garden': Theatre 9/12 examines the cost of keeping up 2011-07-28T18:48:05Z And we played — unplanned — the overture to Lysenko’s great Ukrainian opera “Taras Bulba,” one of our old war horses. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Then he ambles to a place in front of the players, and the overture begins. Music Review: ‘Figaro,’ From Budapest Orchestra, Has Silly Touches 2013-08-12T22:01:58Z Elgar's overture was scaled down from the usual swagger, with Norrington making it sound almost dreamlike. First Night of the Proms 2012-07-13T23:36:30Z Nevertheless, he ran into a little resistance when he made his overture to Washington’s premier hat lady. Portraits of the hat lady: An artist captures a ‘living legend’ of D.C. on canvas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Desmond's friends say that the mogul is keen to spend heavily to try and get the guests he wants – but the public overtures are often highly optimistic. Big Brother will be back this year, Channel 5 confirms 2011-04-05T17:50:10Z The Wallace inauguration serves as an overture, a thunderous rehearsal of themes, in the opening pages of “Freedom’s Dominion,” Jefferson Cowie’s important, deeply affecting — and regrettably relevant — new book. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The lights were dimming, the overture was starting — the choked crash cymbal, the kick drum, the keyboard imitating electric piano and glockenspiel. Mission Impawsible: How Much ‘Cats’ Can a Person Take? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Most male actors under 40 would leap at the chance, literally off a tall building if required, but he initially resisted the producers’ overtures. Daniel Craig: a reluctant Bond who has made the role his own 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “Jack rejected the sexual overtures, but not the friendship.” He Knew What Jackie Gave Up for the Kennedys. This Is His Story. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The overture’s quirky doodling emerged fast and clean, and the magical duet-turned-trio that ends Act II lilted, with Straussian wafts of pungent woodwinds. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Two of them, the alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs and the bass trombonist Bill Lowe, join him in a bleary overture before the rest of the band kicks in. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z The clearer homage is to French overtures, with dotted-note rhythms at the start. Megaphones Up, the Philharmonic Opens With Two Young Voices 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z So that was the faux pas: Your new neighbor made an overture of friendship, and you thanked her by trying to use her to advance your career! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You could use a friend like her, but should you? 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z It represents the Dutchman’s portrait, and as soon as the curtain rises during the overture we see another eye in the background and a dancer dressed in red who stands in for Senta. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Despite its overtures toward thought-provoking sci-fi, The Divergent Series, as Insurgent is prefaced in the advertisements, is actually more akin to Screen Gems franchises like Resident Evil or Underworld, only not as stylish. “Insurgent” is the “KFC Famous Bowl” of film: Critics agree the “Divergent” series is the poor woman’s “Hunger Games” 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Fischer and the orchestra preceded it with a strikingly fierce account of Cherubini's Beethovenian Medée overture, and a deft rendition of Schumann's charming Spring Symphony. Last night's Prom 2010-07-27T11:19:00Z Beethoven’s overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus” had a weighty breadth. Multi-Story Orchestra Turns a Parking Garage Into a Concert Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z While "Maybe Just Go Outside" is in no way amorous – and doesn't lead to any immediate romantic overtures – it does what these other consensual versions could not. Why this "Baby, It's Cold Outside" update works, where others have failed 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z On the disc, Yes returns to the signature epic structure of progressive rock, with five individual songs and an overture. Yes plays Ste. Michelle with new vocalist 2011-07-28T19:32:09Z But, no sooner had I reached the open meadows that are the overture to this carefully curated 300-acre landscape than my right hand brushed against the tall grass bending over the gravel path. Perspective | Glenstone opened as a connoisseur’s delight. It’s reopening as an oasis for everyone. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z I've never been comfortable receiving overtures from people I'm not close to or who never made the effort. Carolyn Hax: And baby makes ennui 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Some years ago in Israel, I was at a performance of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra when a cellphone — its ring tone set to the “Till Eulenspiegels” overture — went off in between movements. Critic’s Notebook: Maestro at Work: Hold That Cough 2013-12-31T22:27:31Z “No Way Out” begins with an ominous overture far from Alexandria, though. Walking Dead Recap: OMG This Show! 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Initially, he appeared to be open to the overture. Commitment Issues and Fraught Hometown Visits as ‘Bachelorette’ Nears End 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Also important is to target overtures to companies who are relevant to a portfolio rather than a random blitz of a business directory. How do I become … an illustrator 2013-01-29T12:48:36Z Ms. Dougan’s brief time in Hollywood was marred by a number of unwelcome overtures from famous men, which she routinely rebuffed. What Happened to Vikki Dougan? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z He followed the same format for “Meistersinger” but concentrating only on Act 3 and not playing the famous overture. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z That’s when a production that has seemed to be down for the count since the opening bars of its overture suddenly acquires a pulse. Theater Review: ‘Rocky,’ the Musical, Brings Songs to a Film Story 2014-03-14T02:00:03Z The concert opened with Beethoven’s “Egmont” overture and the Britten “Four Sea Interludes.” The Philadelphia Orchestra’s stirring Beethoven’s Ninth As an “overture” to Make-Believe’s first season, he posted an interview about the power of stories with the star Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel. A Podcast Reaches Across Chicago’s Cultural Divides 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I’m like a closet ‘Phantom’ fan — the chandelier, the overture. The First Role for Many Actors: Waiter 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “The separations usually last one or two months, and so far Charlene has made the first overtures to come back; you can quote me on that,” Mr. Nederlander told The Times in 1983. James Nederlander, Theater Owner Known as Broadway’s Last Patriarch, Dies at 94 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z On this excerpt of the suite’s overture, “New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718,” you hear the deep focus in their rapport; it’s an accurate reflection of the mood sustained throughout the work. The Playlist: Pusha T Spurns the Doubters and Kendrick Lamar Tempts the Critics 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In no way was it an overture, but it was a nice touch. A little seasoned straight talk adds plenty of spice to their dinner 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z And the overture is not for the whole orchestra; it’s for the upper strings. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z There were a couple of musical lapses on opening night: Lee's high notes were pressured; Conductor Maurizio Benini took an age to settle after an uncharacteristically poor account of the overture. Il Turco in Italia | Opera review 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z Programs began to resemble the standard format we know today with an overture and a concerto separated by an intermission from the second half’s symphony. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z Nonetheless, with the exception of George W. Bush, whose administration spurned Iranian overtures after Sept. Books of The Times: ‘The Twilight War,’ by David Crist 2012-07-30T22:09:06Z After a short, quizzical overture, we meet Orpheus and Eurydice, dressed for fun at the beach. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Some 150 14- to 20-year-olds squeezed on to the Festival Hall stage and played Bernstein's short, glittering overture to Candide as if it were the best piece of music ever written. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z Charles Newell’s production began with a bizarre staging of the overture that was narratively muddled and, with its big, overdramatic, empty gestures, set the tone for the evening. Zambello’s Glimmerglass festival: strong parts looking for a greater whole The overture came alive with stormy eddies and pulsating vigor, even as video projections of a maelstrom and cracks of lightning felt redundant. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Having resisted the overtures of men for all of her adult life, Haza advanced towards her 40th year unsure who she would settle down with. Ofra Haza: Madonna of the dark soul 2010-12-09T21:20:00Z An encore of the final section of Rossini’s overture to “Guillaume Tell” was another testament to the discipline instilled in the musicians by Pontzious. Review | Asian Youth Orchestra, Chang play favorites to sound of crickets 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z For decades, the superhero genre hasn't exactly been big on feminist overtures, saturated with male leads and the occasional, one-off, bikini-clad female sidekick. "Shang-Chi" crafted a fantastic, badass fighter – too bad the movie was all about her brother 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z This is a vulgar hotpotch of the Walton and Glinka overtures, with a bit of Broadway and Copland thrown in. Mark-Anthony Turnage: how I composed a fanfare for the Proms 2012-07-12T19:59:02Z He felt vindicated by audience reactions to the opening weekend of the overture, he said. Critic’s Notebook: Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is on the Program 2012-07-26T02:37:36Z Cartier Williams, a young and emphatic virtuoso, represented solo tap, charming the crowd with a galloping allusion to the “William Tell” overture. Dance Review: New York City Tap Festival Climax at World Financial Center 2012-07-15T21:07:43Z Some will be loners, but others likely just haven’t been absorbed by any particular group, for whatever reason, and will appreciate friendly overtures. Carolyn Hax: A younger stepmom getsfrozen out by the 40-somethings 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z “This is a signature piece from Vienna,” he says of the “Fledermaus” overture. Perspective | A world-famous conductor performed in a D.C. public school. The result? Mixed marks. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Where “Star Wars” begins with fanfare and a brassy overture, Mr. Spielberg’s movie doesn’t open with any sort of memorable theme. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z One pal joked, “Oh, yeah, try it,” suggesting that for men, any sexual overture is welcome. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z In three mini-concerts, spaced at regular intervals throughout the afternoon, he combined one of Bach’s solo cello suites with a new “overture” by a living composer. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z This almost deviously funny overture is followed by a close-up of Beth wearing a sheen of sweat and no visible makeup, the image stamped “Day 2.” | Contagion': ?Contagion,? Steven Soderbergh?s Plague Paranoia - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:14Z He ignores the loss of his wife's love, views the overtures of an adoring widow with amused disdain and scarcely notices that his sister, Liza, is edging towards madness. Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z But the overture is delightful and there are winning passages elsewhere. A to Z of Wagner: F is for Die Feen 2013-04-04T16:57:47Z A fine conductor in his own right, Mr. Adès also takes the podium for the overture to Berlioz’s “Les Francs-juges,” and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In his play Anne Boleyn, Howard Brenton dramatises the way Henry's second queen alerted him to Tyndale's congenial opinions on the royal supremacy, and overtures were made for Tyndale's return to England. The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z 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 costume drama element of the production begins during the bustling overture. Music Review: ‘Figaro,’ From Budapest Orchestra, Has Silly Touches 2013-08-12T22:01:58Z In the band’s early years, its slow-building anthems and vague overtures toward Satanism in its lyrics earned them ridicule from mainstream critics and audiences while mobilizing a growing underground fan base. Goodbye, for Good, to Black Sabbath 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Time Warner's board rejected the overture, but the offer drove Time Warner stock up 16% to $82.53 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Time Warner stock surges after rebuffed Fox offer 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But he has thus far resisted such overtures, because he’s quite happy where he is, due in no small part to the fact that the Sennheiser audio system makes his job easier and more creative. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Hear! Hear! 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It should have been the perfect overture: A passionate opera fan meets a star tenor at a glamorous cast party. An Operatic Love Story Starts Off on a Sour Note 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z They, chastened and embarrassed, would admit they went too far and make inclusive overtures of toward you. Accidental eavesdropper gets an earful — about herself 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But then, he said, “I started exploring the artwork idea,” after local advertisers rejected his overtures to showcase their brands that way. Chicago News Cooperative: What to Do With an Empty Storefront? A Makeshift Art Gallery 2010-03-12T05:09:00Z What themes does this minor key overture seem to be setting up? “Breaking Bad,” Season five, episode one: The end begins 2012-07-16T11:15:00Z Preferring to choose pieces for an exhibition purely by quality, he declined the gallery’s overture. Curators Straddle the Museum-Gallery Divide 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And though their friendship was well established by then and both were single, Mr. Loigman’s initial romantic overture was inviting Ms. Porter to a sports bar to watch a football game. Conservative and a Vegan in New York. Wait! You Are, Too? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The description of the “second symphony” matches the overture of the opera. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The concert began no less admirably with the overture to “Don Giovanni,” with both fast and slow tempos pushed to extremes. No signs of dissent in BSO at Strathmore 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z For now, though, Noel has disappeared, and neither camp shows much interest in making overtures to the other. After Oasis, Beady Eye begin their journey 2011-02-17T21:31:00Z The overture begins with haunting bells and slippery melodies whose glissandos render them distant memories of unplaceable tunes. Review: Marina Abramovic Summons Maria Callas in ‘7 Deaths’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z "Hard Choices," a chronicle of her years as secretary of State, is thought to be an overture for a possible presidential run. How to get Hillary Rodham Clinton to sign her book for you in L.A. 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The band falls in behind him, grooving now, but the feeling of scattered friction that it established in the overture still reigns. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z In the early stages of his campaign, then-senator Obama was making tentative overtures to hip-hop, noting in particular his appreciation of, and interest in, rap music. How hip-hop fell out of love with Obama 2012-08-23T19:00:01Z I enjoyed the overture being used to show us the magician Drosselmeyer at work on his four dolls. Review: E Pluribus ‘Nutcracker,’ as a British Critic Signs Off 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z For her fourth overture, she changed course, asking a nurse colleague at the hospital to draw some blood from her arm, and to divide it up into three vials. The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Hooray for an overture, but if you binge the show, you hear that overture six times, at which point it’s just a theme song. Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Instead, it turns out to be the overture in a long and complex saga — five substantial episodes that take us, in long leaps, from the Blitz to the age of smartphones. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z And the whole thing was supported by vital conducting by Christopher Allen, as well as an orchestra still bearing traces of its Wagner triumph last spring in the solid brass solos in the overture. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opera debut brings relevance to WNO 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z First, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran in 1941 and deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi, worried about his overtures to Adolf Hitler in Germany. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z So you have to build the overture so that people understand. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Two of the eight songs were part of an all-Bernstein evening that included the Second Symphony, the overture "Slava!" and excerpts from Bernstein's most popular theater scores. Carl St.Clair leads Pacific Symphony in Leonard Bernstein ode 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He makes no open overtures to win converts. Exalting the Sacred, Wooing the Secular 2013-07-09T21:37:07Z Joplin is once again on the program, in the form of the lively overture to his 1910 opera “Treemonisha,” which was first staged in 1972 and for which he was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Broadway Meets the Avant-Garde in a Juilliard Music Festival 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The program also includes the overture to Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It's a very convincing early romantic symphony that's well worth a place in the repertoire, while the overture is striking enough to suggest that the whole of the opera would be well worth investigating. Dobrzyński: Overture to Monbar; Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 – review 2013-07-11T16:58:46Z Another was the better-known “Carnival” overture, with which the NSO opened its gala a few weeks ago. The playing’s the thing: NSO shines despite, not because of, Shakespeare gimmick 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z While Tchaikovsky was not particularly fond of his overture when it debuted in Moscow in 1882, it has since become one of classical music’s best known pieces. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z After the friend made a few spurned overtures — and after some awkward conversations about why Ms. Brunner was always too busy to get together — the friend got the hint. It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z During the overture, in an invented silent scene, Mr. Hughes is seen seated at a writing table just outside his front door, absorbed in a book and taking notes with a quill. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z After the overture — which includes a passage from Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” that repeats throughout — “Melancholia” turns to the sisters. Critic?s Notebook: A Provocateur Steals Cannes Spotlight 2011-05-19T21:38:11Z This languor fits the tempo of Elio and Oliver’s relationship, which evolves over meals, drowsy idylls, a little work and a spontaneous piano recital that becomes an overture to seduction. Review: A Boy’s Own Desire in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z A spokesman for Disney Theatricals declined to comment on Thursday about the overtures from the theater owners. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Newsies' Catches Broadway's Attention 2011-09-29T23:47:16Z But when Chapuys presumes to make direct overtures to Henry, our man-boy king sniffs a different kind of coup and goes mental on Cromwell. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Henry Is All Heat, Fury and Menace 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z No complaints either about the works themselves – the whole of the Marriage of Figaro, the Clarinet Concerto, the Flute Concerto No 2 and the overture to Don Giovanni. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z One big change is an Act 2 overture in place of the young children who usually play Angels. In Miami, Sugarplum Dreams Under the Palm Trees 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The overture was followed by “The Storm,” which Haydn wrote in tacit response to a London critic who said he hadn’t yet shown his prowess as a composer for voices. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The program was framed around Leonard Bernstein, opening with the overture to "West Side Story" and closing with a visit from American Ballet Theatre, which brought considerable élan to the composer's early ballet "Fancy Free." Audra McDonald captivates a Bowl audience, but she's meant for more 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The expressions double as musical overture, the whole movie previewed right there in one face but not given completely away. ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Review: A Tangled Web of Human Impulse 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The orchestra started its overture as lights on the scrim revealed a tableau at Covent Garden. At First Performance of ‘My Fair Lady,’ the Drama Was Offstage 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The highest notes of his solo in an opera overture were, in fact, a transposition of the opening motif of the piece. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Here's what you'll hear: • The first item on the program is Beethoven's "Consecration of the House" overture. Symphony opens season with Beethoven, Gershwin, Gulda 2011-08-31T20:58:04Z They, chastened and embarrassed, would admit they went too far and make inclusive overtures toward you. Carolyn Hax: Wife’s dilemma: Disposing of in-laws’ trash talk Morricone's score takes center stage from the outset, in the overture Tarantino uses to kick off his throwback western. 'Hateful Eight' puts veteran Ennio Morricone's score center stage 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform the overture, but it will add a statement before the concert discussing the piece’s history and expressing solidarity with Ukraine. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z But all of this investment in the future — emotional and financial — makes it hard not to get antsy in your seat, wondering if this overture will ever end. The Met is betting on a blockbuster lineup to make up for this canceled year. The future of opera may depend on it. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The orchestra sounded polished for her, weighty without being too heavy, the winds beautifully present in the textures from the overture on, the singers never covered. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Bringuier opened with Berlioz's vibrant Corsair overture, not perhaps immaculate in execution but suffused with a clear Mediterranean light. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z One only wishes that the orchestra hadn’t been on fast-forward through the famous overture, as if rushed to get on with the show. Wait, wait ... It’s opera at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z “In such a dark story, the overture starts with this moment in major tones. We were like: How can we transmit this with images?” Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z There’s a sudden departure in Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Andante for Strings, adapted from her String Quartet — composed at the beginning of the 1930s, like Barber’s overture, yet wholeheartedly modernist. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z There followed Dvorak’s “Othello” overture, one of three overtures written right before the composer went to the United States. The playing’s the thing: NSO shines despite, not because of, Shakespeare gimmick 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The overture, “Glass,” opens in dreamy quietude, with bowed bass and pinging guitar harmonics; Mr. Malaby appears only after several minutes, projecting his soprano in a strong, focused beam. Review: Tony Malaby, Weaving Spells With Paloma Recio 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Bychkov, currently conducting Verdi’s “Otello” at the Met, led an involving, surely paced account of the overture, bringing breadth and solemnity to the music of the Pilgrims’ Chorus that opens this work. Music Review: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Conducted by Semyon Bychkov 2012-10-15T22:03:59Z Forget nerves; Mack had just one thought as the overture began. The Washington Ballet let Brooklyn Mack go. He landed at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The short overture bubbled exuberantly, strings soaring upward in glee. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z I was not swept away by the performance of the “Tannhäuser” overture. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The first entrance applause occurs before even the overture begins. Review: ‘Finding Neverland,’ a Broadway Musical With Matthew Morrison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Once the glass lays him out she loses all interest, responding to his sexual overtures after the fact by suggesting he go home, take a bath and wrap himself in a blanket to "get cozy." Between "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Succession," TV presents the fall (and rise) of old white guys 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s normal in such situations to open with a shot across the bow, though on paper the overture to Rossini’s “The Thieving Magpie” looked more like froth than the tightrope act it was to become. Review | A Bernstein protege stirs up the NSO 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Imagine my mortification to find that, on the contrary, it is a perfectly tuned overture to the story that follows. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 6: A Tale of Two Cities 2012-01-31T18:00:47Z Here, that was manifest in the Dutchman’s origin story, recounted in a series of vignettes during the overture. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z It's only propaganda, but the leaflets infuriate Pyongyang and threaten to scuttle negotiations between the two Koreas after the North's biggest peace overture in several years. Airborne leaflets torment North Korea; jeopardize talks with South 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z He didn’t quite sound so idiomatic in the “Candide” overture, the program’s opener. Review | New music director promises NSO a real new beginning 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Umbrellas went up during the storm section of the famous overture. Opera Review: Zurich Opera's 'Guillaume Tell' Is Tripped Up by Gimmickry 2010-11-23T12:40:00Z Here in New York, which is experiencing its own migrant crisis, the show’s overtures for shelter and asylum have had similar poignancy. My Unexpected Love Affair With ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The shrewd handling of Mozart’s overture propels an audience headlong into Isango’s aesthetic. South Africa’s Isango Ensemble beautifully remolds ‘The Magic Flute’ As the show’s peerless overture was being played, by eight musicians, I thought I was going to miss having a full orchestra. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stripped of Illusions, but Still Glittering and Gay 2014-01-23T17:10:33Z That such faith is not misplaced is confirmed by the audience’s clapping and snapping along with the first strains of the overture, which appropriates the catchy television theme song. | 'The Addams Family': Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth on Broadway 2010-04-09T02:29:00Z Mr. Allen later said that “Manhattan” had been inspired by the music, and particularly by a recording of Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic in Gershwin overtures. The Philharmonic Accompanies ‘Manhattan,’ Just as It Did in 1979 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z At the beginning of the overture, a video projected onstage shows the medieval fortress in sweeping drone footage fit for a tourism commercial. Review: A New ‘Tannhäuser’ Brings Burger King to Bayreuth 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z This overture, taken with the fact that the narrator’s about to visit an old friend succumbing to cancer, may baffle readers for its impenetrable bleakness — apt as that may be for our present straits. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But now they are barreling ahead with the radio promotions and overtures to foreign news media, while focusing particularly on the idea of the current director, Philip William McKinley, to add material. ?Spider-Man,? a Year After First Preview, Is on Solid Ground 2011-11-27T23:22:49Z In 2008 the young German composer Jörg Widmann wrote “Con Brio,” a concert overture, to open a program by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra that was to proceed to Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z The evening opened with a dark, vibrant account of “The Hebrides,” Mendelssohn’s concert overture. Music Review: New York String Orchestra, Conducted by Jaime Laredo, at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-31T21:05:36Z Mauceri led an orchestra and chorus in a new overture to the movie, sampling different motifs from the score. Danny Elfman concert at Hollywood Bowl brings out Tim Burton fans 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z “I was fascinated by the sound of the oboe on a record we had of the overture to Rossini’s opera ‘The Silken Ladder,’” Mr. Stacy recalled in a 1996 interview with The Associated Press. Thomas Stacy, Master of the English Horn, Dies at 84 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z They played with spirit and polish in the substantial overture, although as the long evening progressed there were intonation problems in the strings and some messy ensemble passages. Music Review: Handel’s ‘Rodrigo’ at Gershwin Hotel 2013-05-22T20:40:44Z But its overture quickly became popular among orchestras and remains so today. Stephen Hough fans, rejoice: He'll return to town for the Rach 3 2012-06-07T20:48:04Z Other ensembles, including the Boston Pops and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, which typically perform the overture before large audiences on live television spectacles, are planning to proceed with the piece this year. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z In Massachusetts, the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra faced questions from patrons about whether it was appropriate to play the overture at its holiday concert. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Segel claims that beginning last summer, Weinstein repeatedly asked her to dine alone with him and made romantic overtures despite her multiple refusals, according to Variety. Bob Weinstein accused of inappropriate behavior by female TV producer 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Monae said she wanted the song to serve as an overture to the film's score. En route to Amazon, 'Rio 2' explores Brazil's musical diversity 2014-04-09T12:40:32Z When the overture shifted to the shimmering, restless music associated with the Venusberg — the realm of the love goddess — the playing had nimble lightness and gossamer textures. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Tired of the old routines, of programs announced far in advance that run through an overture, a concerto and a symphony, Gaffigan is also bothered by orchestras that refuse to reckon with their whiteness. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Just One of Those Things was a languorous overture turning to rolling swing, driven by a catchy piano hook and trumpeter Rory Simmons's elegant variations. Jamie Cullum/Heritage Orchestra 2010-08-27T10:59:00Z We begin with Walt Whitman, with a soaring overture to America and a dream of national belonging — which the narrator methodically dismantles in the virtuosic chapters that follow. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z That’s what an overture used to do: People would come in, sit down, get acquainted with a little bit of each melody, so when they heard the melody again, they were engaged. Hearing From the Women Who Made the Year’s Musicals Sing 2014-05-07T12:00:19Z Gershwin’s inspired introductory music devolves into a standard medley-style Broadway overture. Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z But the British peace overture amounted mainly to the offer of a pardon “to such of our subjects as shall deserve Our Royal Mercy.” Revolutionary War Letters at Sotheby?s Show Gloom 2010-03-22T22:42:00Z It features that composer’s last symphony and his last piano concerto, and tacks on a Mendelssohn overture. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z After welcoming words from Clive Gillinson, Carnegie Hall’s executive and artistic director, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Mr. Gilbert began with a rousing account of Dvorak’s “Carnival,” a concert overture. Music Review: A Celebration With a Clock Ticking 2011-05-06T22:32:39Z This new app just eliminated the biggest obstacle for would-be cheaters who are already Facebook, that being the risk that your overtures to friends will be reported back to your spouse. Facebook broke democracy — now it's coming for your marriage 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Featuring Mozart’s overture to “La Clemenza di Tito” in addition to the Beethoven concerto and the Haydn symphony, the Christmas Eve show was cozy and compact, beginning at 7 p.m. and ending just after 8. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z What, then, about the theory that the coach wouldn't make such a blatant overture to someone who could potentially physically retaliate? Does Sugar Ray Leonard's sex abuse story hold up? 2011-06-13T22:01:00Z The overture of “Madama Butterfly” is very fast and energetic, in a minor key, that sounds very Western. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Subsequent efforts grew longer and included the full orchestra, and this sixth one is not really a “fanfare” at all, but basically a short, fully worked-out overture. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z 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 It's clear Beth is hoping for some romantic overture, and it appears she'll get her wish as they gaze into each other's eyes, getting closer and closer . . . until Townes' chatty boyfriend bursts into the room. The fluidity of "The Queen's Gambit" is its secret weapon 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z “I was thinking about an overture in contrast to the Beethoven piece,” says Afkham by phone from Tokyo, on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra. David Afkham, Gautier Capuçon will be part of March 21-23 SSO concerts 2013-03-14T21:00:36Z Before the overture, aerialists dressed in yet more nun habits twirl high above the audience, a reminder that this space spends much of its time as a circus school. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z But as the overture ends and the first scene begins, Euridice mysteriously dies in Orfeo’s arms and sinks slowly into an opening in the stage floor. Music Review: Muti Directs ?Orfei ed Euridice? at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-02T21:59:00Z The overture begins with restless exuberance and darting counterpoint, then segues into a restrained second theme that shows the young composer already able to ensnare you with a soulful melody, a skill he would perfect. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z William Tell Overture, Gioachino Rossini Rossini’s final opera was supposed to be a serious drama, but these days it’s mostly remembered for an overture used as the theme song to the “Lone Ranger.” 10 Pieces of Classical Music Your Toddler will Love 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z In addition to currently weaving about 16 songs from Mr. Prince’s past into an overture, he has reorchestrated the material throughout and written a forward-looking new finale, “Do the Work.” So Many Shows, So Many Hits: For ‘Prince of Broadway,’ the Challenge Is What to Leave Out 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Christie, a Yale alumnus, conducted a fleet, immaculate and vivid rendition of the overture. Music in Review: Yale in New York in an All-Handel Evening at Zankel HallMacedonian Pianist Simon Trpceski at Zankel Hall 2012-02-28T23:30:49Z Half a concert of overtures and arias in September, with the occasional snippet elsewhere, is all we get of his operas. Prom 12: Academy of Santa Cecilia/Pappano – review 2013-07-21T13:08:06Z Warner Brothers, a unit of Time Warner, made a last minute bid to keep the producer, according to a person with knowledge of the overture. Universal lures 'Dark Knight' producer Tull from Warner Brothers 2013-07-10T08:01:20Z The programme of Mozart and Brahms started with the overture to Don Giovanni, anticipating the autumn season opener in which Ticciati will conduct a concert performance of Mozart's opera. SCO/Ticciati 2010-06-21T21:46:00Z The report, written by a former Politico editor, said Thrush had made unwanted overtures toward four women — including the author — when he worked at Politico, typically after social events involving alcohol. Glenn Thrush is suspended and reassigned by the New York Times, but not fired 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The two come together intermittently over the years — Kayleen’s persistent rejection of Doug’s cautious overtures keeps romance at bay — yet they share the most profound bond of their lives. Emotional heft and humor at the heart of Rajiv Joseph's 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It was an overture in which 30 actors posed as a Balinese monkey chorus. Elizabeth Swados, Creator of Socially Conscious Musicals, Is Dead at 64 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z After a lukewarm overture, conductor Rory Macdonald does some good things, the impossibly quiet beginning of the storm interlude among them. Il Barbiere di Siviglia ? review 2011-01-19T18:17:23Z The overture begins with a somber yet stately introduction and segues into a rhythmically jagged allegro section full of spiraling triplet flourishes. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Carter's overture, though sharing some of Copland's upbeat diatonic flavour, had an admixture of Carter-ish contrapuntal complexity and dissonance. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z As the twisty, melodramatic thrills of "Impeachment" continue, a fat suit-clad Paulson hangs like a dark cloud over its otherwise commendable feminist overtures. "Impeachment" portraying Linda Tripp by an actress in a fat suit undermines the series' strengths 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Mozart never meant for it to be an overture for the Requiem, but on Wednesday the juxtaposition was seamless. Review: Mozart’s Requiem Gets a Fresh Spin at the Philharmonic 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The overture, "Assault and Battery", establishes a theme: Chadwick's drumfire, a cannonade that propels and impels the music throughout. Hawkwind plus Easter equals ... Hawkeaster! 2013-04-02T15:20:32Z During the overture, a troupe of bare-breasted Amazons shoots arrows toward a gigantic image of an eye looming at the back of the stage. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Then the overture begins, somehow bleaker and more focused in this context. Stefan Herheim's Wagner revolution 2010-04-29T15:23:00Z Dangerously violent characters and sex fascinated Steward, and his overtures and adventures frequently landed him in the hospital. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z Romano didn’t quite know what to make of it — was it a romantic overture, or a platonic request? College students are still finding romance in a pandemic, through Zoom crushes and actual dates 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Hero at first is mistrustful of this prisoner who keeps extending overtures of friendship, but he can't help feeling solidarity with a man who is even more constrained than himself. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' is an entrancingly intimate drama 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The voices are conversational, and more or less anonymous, despite a roll call in the piece’s overture. Albums by Neil Young, Bette Midler and Miguel Zenón 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z In his honor, Mr. Mehta conducted an overture arranged by Hamlisch, essentially a medley of that composer’s well-known tunes, played here with stylish flair. Music Review: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Visits Carnegie Hall 2014-03-21T21:42:06Z An unfortunate element of this tale was the apathy of the American government, which poured money into a different, failing machine and batted away the Wrights’ overtures. Heavens above 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z One of the first things we see onstage, during the overture, are a number of large silver cages occupied with extras decked-out in colorful plumes and wearing bird masks. Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Occasionally, one misses a touch of swagger, as in the overture movement of the Partita in D, a kind of French royal strut that felt constrained and too orderly. Review | British harpsichordist plays Bach with precision, clarity and finesse at Phillips Collection 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Sprinkled among the boldface names were tables featuring the exotic and rich ingredients providing an olfactory overture, especially the dried wood and musky nougatine that blended sweet and savory, providing the ideal segue into dinner. | Bulgari's Secret Garden 2011-03-10T21:11:07Z From the scrappy, combative strains of the overture — in which the music seems almost to give up on itself in disgust — you intuit that this is not an evening of ear candy. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z The overture is a short take on the title song that combines nostalgia for both mid-century song and the mythical sunny Southern California that the Beach Boys helped to invent. Bob Dylan’s Sinatra Album 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “It was not intended to be any type of a political overture on our part,” Marchionne said in an interview with WJR radio in Detroit. Eastwood ad sparks the discord it decries 2012-02-06T22:59:00Z The staging — about 65 minutes including a long musical overture — is visually beautiful. Review: From Mark Morris, a Tale of Love Refracted and Multiplied 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Glyndebourne's new production, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, began with a big bang: literally, in the form of the solemn opening chords of the overture. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Plus footage of the modern mortadella factory goes well accompanied by the overture to William Tell. Rick Stein's Food of the Italian Opera 2010-06-02T07:00:00Z Father Pfleger, after saying that it’s young black men killing young black men, closes the overture with a prayer: “Heaven help us all.” Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z When President Trump first moved into the White House, there were the traditional overtures extended to him and his administration to attend exclusive private dinners. Washington’s establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Serpentine yet tautly monothematic, Verdi's overture heaved with menace and excitement. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z The program opens with a Rossini overture and ends with Poulenc’s Sinfonietta. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z And there’s more: in addition to Saturday’s repeat performance, Zhang and the Symphony will reprise the overture and the Beethoven symphony at 7 p.m. Hilary Hahn brings youthful listeners to their feet in Seattle 2013-04-26T19:27:18Z Composer Ludwig van Beethoven: He lost his hearing, but his marvelous music is loved all over the world: overtures, sonatas, concertos — we treasure it all. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Mahler goes naturally enough with Schubert, whose "Rosamunde" overture ended the concert's first short half. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z On the program: the overture to “The Impresario,” the graceful oboe concerto with the soloist Liang Wang and the vivacious “Symphony No. 39.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “It was an overture,” said Peniel Joseph, professor of history at Tufts University and the author of “Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power.” Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z His “Figaro” started off with a lithe and shapely account of the overture. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Nozze di Figaro’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-28T21:12:53Z Following a two-piano Milhaud encore, Dudamel added the splash of the overture to “The Abduction From the Seraglio,” still early Mozart but by this point an opera great. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The following year he was in heady if duller company in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, playing Antoninus, the handsome slave who flees from the overtures of his master, Laurence Olivier. Tony Curtis obituary 2010-09-30T13:06:00Z Out of sight, they put down mobile phones, crime novels and copies of the Mirror and turn their scores to the overture. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z He is first seen playing the video game Halo on his computer terminal while blasting the “Marriage of Figaro” overture on headphones. Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene in a Blockbuster Movie 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Maybe, this performance suggested, there is more to this sprightly overture than we assume. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2013-02-01T22:33:56Z So there was a sprightly rather than grandly ceremonial account of the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger to begin, and an urgent and always purposeful one of Brahms's First Symphony, completing the season's Brahms cycle. Prom 51: BBCSO/Dausgaard ? review 2011-08-23T10:15:20Z 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 The start of the finale of the Concerto No. 17 was modest, propulsive, fluent: qualities that also characterized the Philharmonic’s performance, between the two concertos, of the overture to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z All the employees interviewed said that for many women, Mr. Friedman’s unwelcome sexual overtures, verbal and physical, were part of the daily routine at his New York restaurants, especially the small, intimate Spotted Pig. Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The State Opera and Ballet’s first United States visit comes as the Trump administration has been making overtures to Mr. Orban’s Hungary. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But then there’s the shimmering, labyrinthine title track, an overture of palpable ambition. 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z In this, as in the Dvorák and the opening blast of unreconstructed high spirits from Beethoven's Namensfeier overture, the Philharmonia showed themselves right on the money. Gerhardt/Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z The Bowl concerts will feature an overture and intermission number. Danny Elfman can relate to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' hero Jack Skellington 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The aspirations of this performance will be signaled from first notes of the overture. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Hearing the famous overture played by a chamber-size ensemble was but one highlight of a generally musically taut production. In Series conquers Beethoven’s only opera, ‘Fidelio’ 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The writer-director Noah Baumbach said he thought of the sequence “like an overture in a musical. It’s almost like we're establishing all the themes of the movie, before the movie begins.” What I Learned About Filmmaking From These Oscar Nominees 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Ambiguous and clenched, Emma struggles to respond to Cassandra's enthusiastic overtures. She Monkeys ? review 2012-05-17T20:22:01Z On “Drover,” the album’s cowboy overture, he used his lanky frame expressively, rocking left and right, stiff-legged, on his heels; marching exaggeratedly in place; knocking his knees after an emphatic lyric. Music Review: Bill Callahan Show at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-09T23:04:37Z Up to 130 children from the scheme will play a Beethoven overture under the direction of Dudamel - who is also director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Bolivars arrive for Big Concert 2012-06-18T00:11:20Z The most substantial piece of "serious music" on the program was Beethoven's "Consecration of the House" overture. Morlot debuts with charisma, substance 2011-09-18T18:59:45Z But because of the venue — which was not a gay bar — he was unsure how to interpret the overture. ‘Electricity’ That Led to Love 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Meister was most impressive with the orchestra, offering, in addition to the Mozart overture and the Haydn concerto, a compelling performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. Review: Mostly Mozart, Highlighted by Sol Gabetta’s Haunting Vocalise 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The legal strategy of claiming to have been enraged by a victim’s sexual overture was known as the homosexual-panic defense. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z As the filmmakers announce in the first scene, a moody overture set against a prettily darkening sky, they are too romantic, just not about horse racing. ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z His arrangement of the overture was in the honored tradition of Liszt’s piano fantasias on themes from opera. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-16T21:42:46Z The characters who populate “So We Can Glow” aren’t afraid to state plainly either their bold overtures or their fumbling missteps. Two Lies and a Truth: Story Collections Exploring the Spectrum of Human Honesty 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival” overture was piquant, Ravel’s “La Valse” lush and furious. Review: New York Philharmonic Goes Timeless in Central Park 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z As for his own subject, Du Bois, Gates said it would serve as a kind of introductory overture to Du Bois’s work, some of which is as long, dense and difficult as it is seminal. From Henry Louis Gates Jr., Another Scholarly Megaproject 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The overture seemed to last forever, he recalls: “Has there ever been such an agonizing wait for an executioner’s blow?” The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z “The whole point of this overture is to be violently on the beat,” Wilson said during a rehearsal of William Walton’s exceedingly rhythmic “Scapino.” The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z He wrote several possible overtures for it and reworked the score substantially over the course of a decade. Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Finest of all, perhaps, was the briefest: the Mozart overture, warm and propulsive, with dreamy colors. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z The overture, practically program music, greets the arrival of the returned captives with a rush of fanfares. Music Review: Unearthing A Charmer Predating Bastille Day 2011-02-11T21:54:28Z The program opened with an account of the mysterious, Greek-inspired “Helios” overture, an immediate show of Mr. Gilbert’s sympathetic mastery despite some initial passing concerns about horn intonation. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Continues an Exploration 2014-03-13T22:40:45Z Their fumbling overtures are preludes to the dawning realization that we pay for our childish loves with lifelong suffering. ‘An Innocent Fashion,’ by R.J. Hernández: The millennial fairy tale 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z For the concert at Strathmore, presented by Washington Performing Arts, Fischer offered a traditional repertory program: an overture and concerto by Mozart and the incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Felix Mendelssohn. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Sadly, our well-meaning soul mate is preparing their romantic overtures to a song about a stalker. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z That turned out to be just the overture. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Dutoit, who at 75 is still wiry, kinetic and commanding, began with a brisk, emphatic account of the exuberant Glinka overture. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Conducts Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z In this way and when performed with the right spirit, the overture is capable of creating exceptional expectations for a theatrical world about to be conjured up. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The orchestra opened with an unprogrammed rendition of the overture to Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” that sparkled and popped, and Mr. Bell’s physically all-out style of playing proved contagious across the excellent string section. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z That’s just an overture, really, to a symphony of hurtling, fairly ingenious fights and escapes. | 'Salt': Angelina Jolie as a Spy of Mysterious Allegiance 2010-07-22T16:43:00Z Thursday brings an even more eclectic program, with the violinist Lisa Batiashvili: the overture to Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and his Symphony No. 1 alongside Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:14:18Z In the Smetana overture, the volume proved more problematic at Mr. Tovey’s fast tempo, and a few passages that needed pinpoint articulation turned muddy. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Summer Host Beats the Cold 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z To judge from the slides, flourishes and a rhetorical hesitation in the overture, it seems determined to be different at all costs. Apollo?s Singers ?Handel: Messiah? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z Wagner's overture to Tannhäuser was very much a microcosm of the opera: the hurtling bacchanalian music was eclipsed by the godly opening chorale, which grew slowly into an impressive, sustained arc whenever it occurred. RPO/N?zet-S?guin 2010-08-22T11:40:00Z Anyone knowing just the famous overture will be surprised by the range and expansiveness of Rossini's writing throughout this high-minded hymn to freedom. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z During the wedding, though, the catastrophe, which has been foretold in a gorgeous, dreamlike overture, full of dark clouds and nightmarish images of doom, is not something the guests seem to be aware of. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z The Italianate overture, which begins with a ringing tambourine and festive percussion, isn’t recognizably Wagner. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z In the overture of the Boston recording, the rhythm section’s jazz-informed swing sounds of a piece with the lyrical-then-stark lines for strings, winds and brasses. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z There was more Schumann in the first half, in which his overture to Schiller's Die Braut von Messina preceded Beethoven's Triple Concerto. LPO/Eschenbach – review 2012-11-15T17:59:00Z The overture usually seems a spirited, if rather light, work. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2013-02-01T22:33:56Z In choppy, excited performances of a symphonic suite from “Sweeney Todd” and the overture to “Merrily We Roll Along” pep was the thing. Music Review: Isn?t It Rich? Isn?t It Loud? Xylophones for Sondheim 2010-11-21T22:51:00Z Harrison Hollingsworth, the ensemble’s assistant conductor, opened the program with an exciting rendition of the overture to Beethoven’s “Creatures of Prometheus,” notable for its polish, vigor and energy. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-28T21:07:40Z Wagner's Parsifal overture showcased some fantastically blended woodwind, but the first theme was made sluggish by a slight lag between instruments, and the music never quite hit its sublime stride. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle 2010-09-05T16:05:00Z Mendelssohn’s beloved overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” can be used two ways, both wondrous. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Three times a week on the radio, those words, juxtaposed with the galloping strains of Rossini’s “William Tell” overture, captivated generations of midcentury Americans. Fred Foy, ?Lone Ranger? Announcer, Dies at 89 2010-12-23T06:59:22Z The evening was devoted to the festival’s namesake, with performances of an overture, a popular piano concerto, some arias for tenor and the “Prague” Symphony. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z Yet Verdi’s comic sense is not all that bad, starting with a galumphing tune in the overture. 2010-02-03T04:38:00Z Lewis Carroll’s creepy overture to a young girl “starts to sound an awful lot like an invitation to a pool party at Roman Polanski’s.” Raising Kids Isn’t Easy. Parenting Advice Often Makes It Harder. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The teenager, who delights in the complex symphonies of Franz Schubert and overtures by Antonio Vivaldi, is the second of three siblings raised by two local schoolteachers. Teen violin star is Venezuela's youngest conductor 2012-06-26T16:39:59Z It opens with a protest that soon turns violent, an overture that sets the tense, fractious mood and telegraphs the story’s trajectory. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The form, with a festive, purely orchestral overture, and three movements, may seem traditional. The Pacific Symphony lives up to its name, with the help of India 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z To trim the score by a third, a few arias and duets were omitted, along with the overture; other arias and ensembles were shortened, although the surgery was sensitively done. Opera Review: Jane Glover Conducts ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2013-12-17T22:44:44Z Schiller's play broods on the natures of fate and free will, and the overture was suitably dark and malevolent. LPO/Eschenbach – review 2012-11-15T17:59:00Z Also on the list is Ives' Symphony No. 2 and Bernstein's "Candide" overture. 15 top entertainment picks for June 10-16, 2012 2012-06-06T21:30:08Z Damp and breathless, he settled into his seat during the middle of the overture, and something clicked. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z I sat outside it, listening to the overture and, underneath that, your steady breathing. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Copland was a house-guest during that summer and his ballet Appalachian Spring was written at the same kitchen table as Carter's overture. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z From the overture onward, Aucoin demonstrated his keen ability to navigate between the emotional worlds of the opera, veering from haunting evocations of loss and mourning into vertiginous episodes and even a clangorous dance party. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In place of the scheduled opening work, a Rossini overture, Mr. Gilbert conducted Barber’s solemnly beautiful Adagio for Strings. Review: The New York Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Orlando 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “Shimmering Islands” ends with the dancers handing each audience member a gold-painted twig, a winsome overture from an artist just beginning to develop his voice. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z Three years later, “Grey Gardens,” the HBO movie, debuted on television; in it, Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore provide an overture and back story to the documentary, with the Maysles brothers appearing as characters. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z In the “Clemenza” overture the forcefulness of the opening chords set the tone, though the connecting passages showed the orchestra’s strings to be just as convincing when the music is graceful and light. Music Review: Ax and Blythe Open Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center 2010-07-28T21:34:00Z The evening started with an energetic burst, the overture from Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro.” Review | Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony live — and work — for the present 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Still, Mr. Tang makes sure that his employees are prepared for the unexpected overture. Help Wanted: Someone to Soothe the Restaurant Line 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z For my money, though, it’s both the mot juste and an overture to a conversation that Hitchens was presumably eager to renew. Hitchens faces his mortality 2012-09-04T17:19:00Z The New York Philharmonic retreats this weekend into a program out of the 1950s: the overture to “Die Fledermaus,” Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z TransAtlantic opens in similarly McCannian fashion, with another airborne overture of grand historical significance. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-05-26T13:00:01Z It made a noisy overture to Ensemble 10/10's transatlantic programme in which a pair of stereoscopically-positioned percussionists engaged in an tinnitus-inducing round of cymbal tennis. Ensemble 10/10, Collon - review 2011-04-08T18:07:03Z To put up a camera that makes 1,000 frames a second and to do all the things in the overture to "Melancholia," that's easy. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z After a late start, he managed to get through the overture, before management ordered a pause to reestablish order in the audience. Madrid Opera Shut Down by Audience Angry at Crowding in Cheap Seats 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z So in 1971, at the Winter Garden Theater, in the dark, when the overture began for “Follies,” I was incredibly excited and, before long, slightly disturbed. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The "Figaro" overture was being filmed live for the opening episode of the series' second season on Amazon. L.A. Phil, Dudamel dive into the 'Mozart in the Jungle' act at the Bowl 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But the Met Orchestra’s playing lacked precision and crispness, especially during the bustling overture, which sounded somewhat wan and limp. Review: Mark Morris’s Dancing ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z She said that her overture, which she repeated in a Facebook message, received no response. How Civil Must America Be? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Both performances were finely detailed, with the woodwind very elegant in the overture, and the strings supremely rich and eloquent in the symphony. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z There’s a delightful audacity in prefacing the weighty Ninth with one of Beethoven’s slenderer works, the overture to “King Stephen,” which is built around an ingratiating little tune that sounds like a classical music box. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Typically it was Tom who was feeling more deprived, but a recurring problem for us was timing: inevitably, he made his overtures just after I had got our daughter to sleep, which was disastrous. Our ‘sexperiment’ and other methods of improving our sex life 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z It is performed each year by hundreds of ensembles in big cities and small towns; local governments often supply howitzers for the overture’s stirring conclusion. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z After an overture from her stepfather, she kept a knife under her pillow at night. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z Ms. Van de Vate’s skill as an orchestrator is evident from the opening measures of the eerie, brooding overture, whose gently dissonant arc built in tension to an apocalyptic climax. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in Its U.S. Premiere 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z And the work that began the program proper was one with aptly political overtones — Beethoven's "Leonora No. 3," an overture to an opera about a wife's heroism in rescuing her political-prisoner husband from his dungeon. Review: Israel Philharmonic plays familiar Mahler with unfamiliar lightness 2011-02-27T20:30:05Z Poised richness in the cellos and basses opened Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” overture. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Photograph: Patrick Redmond Using a simple three-note roar and plenty of fortissimo orchestral crashes, Wagner whips up harsh weather and bleak seas in the overture to The Flying Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z Smelling is the overture, eating is the main act, licking is the curtain call. Richard E Grant: ‘I can never be an arse, or someone will tweet it’ 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z During the overture – taped, very loud – we see Clara happy with her parents; but then her father retreats offstage, and we understand his wife is now a widow. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: The One Where Mom Is the Sugar Plum Fairy 2010-12-03T13:23:00Z There have been many settings of “Hamlet,” from full operas, to overtures, to incidental music. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Another potential problem for Constand is the fact that there had been some sexual overtures by Cosby before the night of the alleged assault. ‘He was sorry for what he did,’ says mother of Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z On paper, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s program — including favorites like Bernstein’s joyous overture to “Candide” and staples like Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony — seemed tilted toward an opening night’s traditional purpose as a crowd-pleasing fund-raising gala. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z On a recent October day, Chad Goodman, the orchestra’s current conducting fellow, was rehearsing the orchestra in Schumann’s overture to “The Bride of Messina” while MTT sat at a keyboard and kibitzed. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z |
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