| 单词 | percussion |
| 例句 | At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The jarring percussion of drawers being opened and closed, dressers being shifted around, and beds being flipped over rattled through the quiet night and shook Mary’s nerves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Far off, the quiet percussion of an approaching plane resonated over the field. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z West African music also integrates literature, movement, body percussion, rhyme, and music, so the Orff approach is probably the most applicable teaching method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z All of us except for Fern waved furiously as the trumpets, trombones, tubas, flutes, and percussion instruments played the marching tune. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z For example, according to a 2008 study, girls are more likely to sing, while boys are more likely to play instruments such as bass guitar, trombone, and percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z My heart is still thumping in time with the percussion group, making my hands tremble, but I steel myself. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Right before I enter the mailroom, I hear the English-accented voice and a whole percussion section bursts to life in my chest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A gradual crescendo in the percussion section reached a climax that woke the audience. compare with/compare to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, Els. Ms. Khouri’s advanced percussion group is on Fridays. Got to practice if I’m going to be a rock legend.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Jimmy does a pirouette over the unaccompanied wild percussion that we’ve built up and lands on his knee: “How sweet it is!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Any rhyme can be made more complex by adding a body percussion pattern or simple instrument pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Explosions burst about his ears, the percussion punching him like unseen fists. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Our nights were punctuated by the deafening percussion of drunken ballads, clashing billiards, clinking glasses, and nightly brawls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Each voice faded out: keyboard, bass, percussion, blues harp, and blues guitar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “We have a very nice selection of percussion instruments.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It took only seconds for a thunderous percussion of goatskin drums to join the singing, and instinctively Koffi's own heart attuned to their pounding cadence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the percussion instruments layer on another set of patterns, African style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z NOTE: Although percussion specializes in "noise"-type sounds, even instruments like snare drums follow the basic physics rule of "bigger instrument makes longer wavelengths and lower sounds." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z An ostinato can be performed using body percussion, instruments or with the voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Each “mother” takes 8 beats to improvise using body percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Either the copper percussion cap might fail to spark, or the black powder in the barrel might fail to ignite because of dampness. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Without two drummers, I had to play crazy fast to make the percussion parts sound full enough. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Hector Santos kept the beat tight on percussion with two buckets, a brass hi-hat, and a snare drum. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z She was hiding behind a bass drum in the percussion section. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Body percussion can become increasingly challenging as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z An even more challenging and creative way to use body percussion is to create onomatopoeia in accordance with the lyrics, mimicking or relating to the sounds presented in the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The hammer fell and struck the percussion cap. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a leather pad called “the beat” that you’d strap to your palm, like a percussion instrument. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If you can, listen to a percussion player or section that is using snare drums, cymbals, or other percussion of the same type but different sizes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The Zimbabwean game song “Sorida” contains a melody accompanied by body percussion and hand clapping in pairs of partners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I jumped back from the percussion of his bellow. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “Our families are the strings family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z To African drums, the Cubans gradually added an array of percussion instruments that were native to the region, such as the claves and the maracas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Still—the closer she got to “Sarsaparilla” the more her heart carried on like the entire percussion section of a marching band doing “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z "I'm glad you're here, Star," he whispers under the percussion of the rain. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The organ thrums low as the percussion kicks in. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Can you think of some other percussion instruments that get particular pitches? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The soca music played on as she worked on another section of her hair, hectic steel pan and percussion thumping through the air, her spine prickling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Sitting with my feet on the soiled canvas I felt as though I had wandered into the percussion section of a symphony orchestra. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Since warriors always carried their weapons, Uncle Little Hawk had his black powder percussion rifle with him. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Long-range artillery, percussion and solid shot, every gun on the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cool Papa Byrd had said, “This is Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard, Big Mike on bass, and Hector Santos on percussion.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Er, can we stay behind and listen to Micah’s percussion group?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It included brass and wind instruments, percussion, and a whole gallimau&y of types of strings: plucked, stroked, strummed, keyed and bowed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Some percussion or wind instruments fit the bill as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As the pulsing percussion increased in volume and tempo, it was accompanied by chanting in a wailing language. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A good way to internalize the rhythm is to by first learning the rhyme, then adding the body percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There is no right or wrong way to add body percussion to enhance the rhyme; it is all in the ear of the beholder! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He wondered whether all the sounds he heard were made by wind and percussion, or whether there were tapes as well. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Playing a steady beat on the xylophone or other percussion instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z After a successful vocalization or body percussion, the next step is to assign instruments to the different lines. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If the body percussion is too complex, simply say the rhyme or clap to the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Everything is amplified — the hollow thwacks of percussion, the glimmering walls of synthesizers, Ms. Mayberry’s sweet pleas and deceptive darts. Chvrches Offer Hymns From the Altar of ’80s New Wave at SummerStage 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z You might not notice him at first unless you know to look out for him, standing by the percussion at the back. A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “Fragments” consists of brief phrases played on piano and percussion; the rhythmically driven “Bone Dance” featured exuberant passages on xylophone. | Washington Square Ensemble: Washington Square Ensemble Make Waves at Merkin Hall 2010-04-08T22:43:00Z After about three minutes and 18 seconds of straightforward, daydreaming pop, she says, “Break,” and the bottom falls out, leaving just the keyboard and percussion, and a new, primal energy takes over. Sorry, Ms. Jackson: You’re Underrated. ‘Control’ at 30 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Unlike traditional Brazilian samba, which teeters back and forth, tribal's percussion is in a continuous state of forward motion, its feet only just managing to catch up. Scene and heard: Tribal guarachero 2010-06-15T14:00:00Z Read more "Eclectic and beautiful, featuring voice, percussion, violin, piano, accordion, vibraphone, gu zheng and, above all, Hubbert's extraordinary guitar playing." Scottish Album of the Year Award – who should win? 2013-06-19T16:51:46Z The large percussion battery attacked their multifarious interventions with all the requisite panache. Prom 56: BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-08-28T14:44:08Z The two female singers up front, dancing and shaking assorted percussion instruments, were post-hippie celebrants in colorful dresses, wearing feathered headdresses above their own glittery masks. Goat, the Band, Brings Its Ritual to Webster Hall 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z During “Burn,” the bandleader arranged kinetic motifs for strings, percussion and bass clarinet alongside chattering vocal pyrotechnics — all while fostering a paradoxical sense of ease. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z His notes were warm, wide and quiet, disciplined into a kind of mellow percussion, landing in all kinds of places around the beat. Music Review: Kris Bowers at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-03T00:25:22Z With all the timbres of oil barrels and long iron sticks it sounded to me very much like a gigantic percussion orchestra! Ethiopia: sounds of the present, past and future 2012-11-09T10:22:03Z They didn’t play “Look Sharp!”—they played a sneaky version of “Steppin’ Out”: wispy, with cymbal percussion and a slower tempo, an arrangement that emphasized the song’s melody and its sense of longing. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The program ended with Mr. Langrée’s leading a spirited performance of Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony, a work that includes no unusual percussion other than the tried-and-true timpani. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Last week, in the instrument-crammed percussion room backstage at Benaroya Hall, the two men discussed both the challenges and pleasures of the piece. A Symphony presence in Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2013 Winter Festival 2013-01-10T00:09:18Z In general, there was looseness, with extra electronics here, extra percussion there, but it's all very nuanced and focused. 3 vinyl albums that may lure you to shop on Record Store Day 2012-04-20T17:02:03Z It opened with Alexander Mosolov’s “Iron Foundry,” a 1920s-vintage depiction of the sounds of a factory, bristling with brass and percussion and redolent of the oily energy of that period’s brave new world. Review | Maddeningly uneven orchestra excites range of reactions 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z For this concert, he fielded an ensemble of 25 players heavily weighted toward winds and percussion, and with this orchestral mix, the dance rhythms that infuse Latin American music’s DNA were irresistible. An early Cinco de Mayo celebration with the New Orchestra of Washington 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Easy-going, breezy vocals were matched against bursts of scat singing, and backing that veered from funk and dub percussion effects to slinky accordion work. C?u 2010-07-19T20:46:00Z Mr. Silver said he added percussion, but wanted the remix to be somewhat abstract and accentuate the percussive parts of the violin playing. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “Rothko Chapel” and “Monochromatic Light,” both spacious yet intimate, share a certain ritualistic sobriety, with a choir textlessly hovering over soft, somber beats of percussion. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z There was the rare opportunity to see and hear in action the elaborate, fanciful, South Seas-inspired percussion instruments made by the composer Harry Partch. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z It’s mostly just guitar picking and Lindsey Jordan’s voice, with little flickers of percussion and reticent lyrics: “Let’s find an out/We can start anew.” The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z As fun to watch as to activate, the devices constitute a semiautomatic percussion orchestra. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z When a white light was used, as on "Shelter," halfway through the set, it felt syncopated, as if the light were another percussion instrument. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z These are not exactly tonally nuanced instruments, so the emphasis was on percussion. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Still, we’re here for the music which builds from subtle, classroom-rattling percussion — imagine the sound of pencils clacking on retainers — to a Hype Williams homage filmed in a five-sided cube with a fisheye lens. ‘World’s Best’ Review: Straight Outta Calculus 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “As with other marginalized instruments, like percussion, low brass or classical guitar, there is always a bit of missionary work going on,” Mr. McAllister said. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z The distinctive tubular bell ringing, percussion jingling and low bass line rumbling as a character does something: usually, walk menacingly. The "Red Right Hand" of "Ted Lasso": How the song with a murder narrative fits Roy Kent 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Harplike plinks and clicking percussion rise around her voice, enfolded in instrumental and vocal harmonies as she sings that “portals open as you slowly drift through/surrounded by our love.” PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Roxburgh's work certainly puts all sections of the large orchestra, including a substantial percussion department, smartly through their paces, but without ever becoming the kind of showcase that the title "concerto for orchestra" usually implies. BBCSO/Andrew Davis 2010-10-11T22:01:00Z That same hybrid infuses Mr. Flinn’s score, which channels middle-of-the-road club music and chart toppers of the past few decades and inflects them with primal percussion and Broadway pizazz. | 'Lysistrata Jones': Happy Sweating and Singing 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z The record opens with “Master’s Hands,” a ballad full of tense guitar and banjo picking, clattering percussion and strings that dart and swoop. 2010-01-23T15:48:00Z Keyboards bounce around the stereo field; percussion gets stacked up like sandbags in a bunker. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Then, with the release of 2018’s “Melt,” more contrast was added with layered percussion and Lee starting to unravel her vocal range. Review | Shaed adds color but needs more depth at its D.C. homecoming show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The reimagining exhibits many of his trademarks: warm bass, inventive percussion and a contagious, almost hallucinatory air. Kaytranada’s world a contagious live experience 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Most numbers are slowed down and set to harmonies that morph from quiet lyricism to frayed dissonances, with Mr. Sorey’s subtle percussion work adding a nervous sheen. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Williams' falsetto swerves through a cushiony choir, the layers of backing vocals becoming another percussion instrument alongside the hand-claps during the bridge. Review: Pharrell Williams keeps it light with 'G I R L' 2014-03-03T16:24:00Z The music was an alluring blend of tart, slightly Asian-sounding harmonies, pummeling percussion, volleys of dancing marimba riffs, frenetic bursts of patter, and echoes of Americana. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories,’ at Zankel Hall 2014-04-23T21:25:46Z It has a chorus of "hold on to your memories and don't let go," courtesy of Ben, and a passionately cathartic percussion climax. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z For “Canto General,” three flutes, three guitars, a wide range of percussion, two pianos and a double bass will accompany the group. Seattle Peace Chorus to tackle Neruda’s ‘Canto General’ June 1 2013-05-31T18:51:22Z There’s a lot of percussion in the movement, too: snapping, slapping. Dance Review: Vicky Shick’s ‘Everything You See’ at Danspace Project 2013-04-19T20:20:37Z “In the beginning, he always told me I was very talented and better than everybody else at percussion,” she said in an interview. Bard College Music Student Sues School, Citing Instructor’s Conduct 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s a witty and wild ode to female friendship, featuring velvet gowns, headlamps, body percussion and a game show, among other unexpected devices. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z You'll search in vain for an underlying system or structure to explain what's happening in, say, Crippled Symmetry, another huge piece for flute, percussion and piano. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z She was backed by a crack band that provided keyboards, percussion and bass, and at times was joined by a male dancer. Review | As crowd roars, Robyn dances on her own at the Anthem 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The interplay between the layered percussion and Timberlake’s vocals becomes a dance in itself. Justin Timberlake, 'The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2' review 2013-09-30T05:20:00Z And a forest of percussion instruments, including shimmering tam-tam; curt wood blocks; and drums, both crisp and booming. Review: Jaap van Zweden Returns to a Changed Philharmonic 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z “I can’t say that I’m sorry when I don’t feel so wrong anymore,” Olsen sings atop light, clopping percussion and a lap steel that winks like it’s in a Steve Miller song. Angel Olsen Finds a New Gear in a Vintage Genre: Country 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z He’s also a master of shadowy, suspenseful, paranoia-stoking production, like the ticking percussion and staggered bits of melody he uses in “The Veil.” The Playlist: Lady Gaga Returns Lovelorn, and Zack de la Rocha Returns Furious 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Orchestra: a group of musicians containing string, woodwind, brass and percussion sections. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z He decided to give the sandwich a solo, accompanied by percussion. How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z David Lang -- whose new percussion concerto, “man made,” will open the Los Angeles Philharmonic season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in October -- is Carlsbad’s featured composer. Music Walk in Carlsbad and a 'Parade' at the Hammer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Using mostly acoustic guitar, accented by percussion, bass and occasional sprinklings of keyboards, he has refashioned most of the material as neo-folk songs with bare bones and blurred edges. Theater Review: ‘What’s It All About?’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-12-06T03:00:11Z Anticipating the cross-cultural fusions of later decades, he flavored his music with scales, drones and percussion effects borrowed from Asia and the Middle East. Yusef Lateef, Innovative Jazz Saxophonist and Flutist, Dies at 93 2013-12-24T19:55:27Z For several weeks, the group tweaked the main parts of the song, polishing the vocals, drums and bass, adding extra percussion parts, and trying to imagine what should occupy those long vamped sections. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The beat is waves of indistinct percussion static that swirl before or after the beat, it's hard to tell, and pull the listener closer like some mystical undertow. Music Monday: Lil B and White Rainbow, The Skins, Shabazz Palaces 2010-06-21T18:34:00Z The album's other tracks hew closely to the signature LCD sound: analog synthesizers, processed guitars, expertly programed beats and layers of live drums and percussion. LCD Soundsystem raises glass to "Drunk Girls" 2010-04-24T15:29:00Z Just as “Heldenleben” dies away at the end, there is a big fortissimo attack in the winds, brass and percussion. Zubin Mehta's L.A. return gives Shankar raga a proper home and makes Strauss hero's journey personal 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The percussion parts included some nearly impossible passages, and at one point players suggested altering a few notes. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Yeasayer’s nontraditional ideas about percussion flourish, from the electronic snap, crackle and pop of the opening “Fingers Never Bleed” through the metallic cling-clang that becomes the unexpected focal point of “Damaged Goods.” Album review: Yeasayer, 'Fragrant World' 2012-08-20T22:22:00Z Despite the title, the concerto is also written for percussion and double basses; nonetheless, it’s a gambit of orchestration, pitting a string soloist against an ensemble of much louder instruments. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Under the salvos of programmed percussion, new songs like “End of the Line,” “Comeback Kid” and “Leader of the Pack” were anthems of mourning and consolation. Music Review: Sleigh Bells? ?Reign of Terror? Tour at Terminal 5 2012-02-19T21:34:52Z No one left the hall prematurely during an account abetted by lush strings; lucid woodwind solos, burnished brass and horn chorales; scampering percussion; and passages of crystalline transparency. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall 2013-01-06T21:57:01Z They used an electronic keyboard known as a Mellotron, distorted guitars, hip-hop-style percussion and de-tuned instruments — including banjos and bass harmonicas — to give a modern effect to sounds from the period. What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “We engaged the percussion players from the New York Philharmonic, but it soon became clear that they could never master the rhythms,” Slonimsky wrote of the recording session in his memoir, “Perfect Pitch.” Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z The program includes the New York premiere of Mr. Hyla’s “Mother Popcorn Revisited” for piano trio, as well as his “Polish Folk Songs” for clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion. Classical & Opera Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The song is stacked full of sounds and movement, circular electric guitars played clean, echoing percussion, shuddering synthesizer. Music Monday: Sax G, USF, Michael Dean 2011-01-17T17:48:06Z A sixth performer, Mia Morris, 18, is the only regular at the showcase, adding beats to each song from atop the cajon, a box-shaped percussion instrument. Making the Rounds on Nashville’s Singer-Songwriter Circuit 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Tambuco, for instance, is a quintessential Latin percussion group, and probably the best. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The movements are suggestive and symbolic — every body gesture seemingly codified and choreographed, and set to percussion beats, gongs and high-pitched strings. Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The party, complete with fire dancers, a 15-member percussion band and a stilt walker, was billed to “thrill guests” and “wake the dead.” Perspective | Till death do us part: A voodoo-themed wedding celebration at Congressional Cemetery 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Scored for guitar and percussion, "Serenade" is alternately nimble, thorny and, in its slow movement, sumptuous. Lou Harrison's 'Serenade' tops varied bill in a recital by Michael Nicolella and Friends 2010-06-24T22:13:00Z Along with the guitars there were turntables, electronics, all sorts of hand percussion and an accordion. SXSW Music 2015: Sometimes a Band's Equipment Can Make You Stick Around 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In “metal,” the sounds of the harp and the melodic percussion instruments twinkled above the strings. Review | Shanghai Symphony Orchestra debuts at Wolf Trap 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Jonathan Haas, a prominent percussion soloist, serves on the New York University and Juilliard faculties and plays in the American Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra and other ensembles. Music Review | League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music: Fearless Players, Navigating a Sea of Instruments 2010-03-24T21:01:00Z Other composers wrote solely for percussion before Varèse composed “Ionisation” from 1929 to ’31, but none with his sophistication and subtlety. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z The frenzy subsides into the more delicately scored, gentle “Pulse 1,” whose yearning violin solo contrasts with the colorful percussion and bright woodwind underpinnings of the exuberant “Pulse 2.” Esa-Pekka Salonen With Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z Block Party is Shabazz Palaces' second Seattle concert ever, and its in-the-moment mix of Zimbabwean Shona percussion, skeleton sampler hip-hop beats, laptop atmospherics and imagistic poetry shards is not to be missed. Capitol Hill Block Party 2010: the preview 2010-07-20T18:37:00Z It’s a religious quiet-storm ballad, with percussion chimes and rustles and traces of wah-wah guitar, about the effect of a powerful unseen force. Playlist: New Music by Jason Nelson, Bob Brookmeyer and Wax Idols 2011-12-09T22:16:57Z A flute, hazy and lightly arpeggiated, introduced melody to the mix, which grew richer: percussion in the familiar falling interval of bird song in classical music, and harmonic runs in the strings. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Laurent Garnier, France’s king of multimedia disco will be playing the last show of his international album tour, “Tales of a Kleptomaniac,” mixing electro with live musicians on percussion, trumpets and bass. Paris's Grand Palais Goes Clubbing 2010-10-01T10:00:00Z Tambourines and assorted percussion instruments keep feet moving and heads bobbing across the lawn in front of the stage. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z The way the silicone percussion evaporates at the end even makes it feel like the opening credits, a pastiche that resurfaces on closing tracks “Come to Dust” and ”Semena Mertvykh.” Boards of Canada Create Moody Sci-Fi on Tomorrow’s Harvest 2013-06-11T12:00:51Z It begins on Saturday with the 10-hour “Day Trip,” a sound installation and performance by the composer Adrian Knight with the percussion ensemble Tigue. Classical Music Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Beyoncé angles for the synths and drum machines to frolic with all the horns, Latin percussion and credited use of a ney. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Students at an outdoor percussion class in Sarría, a barrio in Caracas. El Sistema, Venezuela?s Plan to Help Children Through Music 2012-02-15T23:42:27Z It is part of secular legend, too, as evinced by the notion in Drake's Drum that, by banging a particular piece of percussion, the hero of the Armada will return to protect these islands. Readers recommend resurrection songs: The results 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z It’s an open room with a church-high ceiling, tall windows and a woodland view, neatly set up to record any of his instruments — guitars, keyboards, drums, percussion — whenever an idea strikes. How Aaron Dessner Found His Voice (With an Assist From Taylor Swift) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z What grew from electric guitars, a yowling lap steel, bass and percussion evolved into a heaving mass, one that seemed to sway as it gained volume. Swans at the Roxy: Volume, harmony and rhythm yield profound beauty 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z To hear the prelude to the opera’s second scene, with its brass fanfares and insistent thwacks of deep percussion, you would think the characters were approaching Valhalla, not the modest town of Sant’Eufemia. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The title track is a hymn-like trance sketched over quietly snappy percussion. Moskus: Salmesykkel – review 2012-11-08T23:15:01Z Making it a bit more interesting, the group will collaborate with children enrolled in after-school and summer programs at Campos Plaza; the children will sing and play percussion. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z He spoke of the clave, the Afro-Cuban percussion rhythmic unit with three strokes on one side of each measure and two strokes on the other, as a process of tension and release. Music Review: Arturo O’Farrill Band at Ginny’s Supper Club in Harlem 2012-06-20T22:03:23Z But for the last year, a vintage percussion instrument has occupied pride of place in the singer-songwriter’s forest green home studio. Jenny Lewis Keeps Finding the Magic 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z I never hear it without wanting to jump into the orchestra pit and destroy the percussion. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Its songs, thickly layered with percussion and horns, could keep a dance floor shaking for 10 or 20 or 40 minutes at a time, but its lyrics were often explicitly political screeds or satires. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z In his alluring “Varied Quintet,” for violin, harp, harpsichord and percussion, Harrison let bells ring the way bells like to ring in all their sonic complexity. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z His 1983 percussion concerto, “Rough Music,” intersperses delicate lines on tuned instruments with explosions of rhythmic and dynamic high jinks, entertaining yet fraught with desperately serious undertones. Masterful maverick HK Gruber leads thrilling program | Classical review 2013-04-19T16:44:35Z These lines were often supported by clattering soundscapes of digitally fractured percussion. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Gives Voices Room to Breathe 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In the finale, while the strings continue to play more fluently, flute, percussion, harp and harpsichord engage in a series of marcato chimelike chords. Dance Review: Moving Preciously to the Music, Sometimes Stealing Away With It 2010-09-23T21:53:00Z “Echoi,” for clarinet, cello, percussion and piano, draws on the kind of chance strategies that John Cage had made increasingly famous through the 1950s. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Tovey’s was fairly straightforward, Major Dix’s faster, brighter and more assertive, with some odd touches, not least a reassignment of the piccolo line to pitched percussion. Music Review: Bright Uniforms and Brasses Perk Up a Stage 2011-07-03T21:38:54Z Regarding percussion, Mr. Adams quotes Mr. Schick as describing its essence as: “No instruments, only sticks.” Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The most obvious of those threads is the number seven: seven acoustic instruments — violin, viola, cello, flute, harp, percussion and harpsichord along with synthesizer, augmented by electronics — traverse seven movements, each cast in seven sections. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z An experimental infusion of tribal howls and progressive percussion- it kills me that more people haven't heard this album. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-23T16:08:00Z It's all sung a cappella, with occasional minimal percussion and magnificent harmonies throughout. Coope, Boyes and Simpson: As if ... 2010-05-27T21:45:00Z This one used the slow movement of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, which kept slipping incongruously into hyper-driven, infectious percussion textures. Music Review: ?Launching the Percussion Revolution? at Juilliard 2012-02-01T00:03:35Z But there was a definite Chinese influence to the singing style and the volume of the percussion. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z “Stam-Pede” offers a rollicking show of percussive dance from five troupes from around the world, including tap, Irish step and body percussion. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Those working in Zildjian’s shop produced cymbals for the mehter — monumental ensembles with double reeds, horns, drums and other metallic percussion that belonged to the empire’s elite janissary military corps. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The resulting style, champeta, is a clattering, insistent mix of chanting, percussion and guitar that veers between the hypnotic, the quirky and the infuriating. Various Artists: Palenque Palenque 2010-06-10T22:10:00Z Different percussion instruments — a gong, drums, castanets — accompany the music’s five sections and are answered onstage by different props for the dancer: hand bells, a long cylinder, a fan. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But in comparison with some other similarly long pieces for percussion, this one lost my interest after a while. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z Orchestral winds, strings and percussion all participate on this collection of compositions that often use Minimalism in anti-meditative ways: setting up urgent and dissonant patterns, revealing and repeating them, then knocking them wildly askew. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But small groups of percussion and other instruments are placed in areas to the left, right and rear of the audience; the score includes recordings of choral elements, not just singing but whispering and speaking. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Cage’s “Third Construction” from 1941 opened the final concert on Friday of “Trilogy,” an ambitious and dazzlingly colorful survey of music for percussion ensemble offered by So Percussion. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The concert opened with a visually mesmerizing percussion solo, “Quark — Intermezzi III.” Review: A Composer Inspired by Quarks and Chromosomes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Their songs are rhythmic, nearly mesmeric, but never feature percussion. The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Improvising freely, he then began remotely activating instruments that had been hidden behind him: a cabinet of bottles and jugs, an accordion, a glockenspiel, various other bits of percussion. Music Review: Pat Metheny at the Blue Note - Review 2011-10-14T23:15:27Z Mr. Langrée chose older works by Mozart and Lully that complemented Mr. Lang’s piece, scores that incorporate, for their time, exotic percussion instruments, including cymbals, triangle and tambourines to evoke Turkish locales. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z From there, the murk of keyboards, factory percussion and muffled voices grows only more oppressive. Album review: The Flaming Lips, 'The Terror' 2013-04-15T17:47:00Z Voices were blended over rhythms provided by clapping hands, stamping feet and makeshift percussion. When gospel sermons came on the phonograph 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z We wanted to ask Stephen," Cox says, "because unlike a lot of established composers, he really knows how to write for percussion. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z The brass, woodwind and percussion contributions, too, were immaculately realised and coalesced into a gloriously rich and finely balanced soundscape. LPO/Nodea 2010-04-18T21:00:00Z The final entry is an idea to use beatboxing - a form of vocal percussion - to approximate African instruments. iPhone app up for new music prize 2010-04-26T11:23:00Z The sound — from the side of the stadium at least — was so echoey that their voices were often lost in a cloud of reverb and the thunderous booming of bass and percussion. Day 2 of Bumbershoot sees more sunshine and ‘fun.’ 2013-09-02T02:18:27Z Excessive choral forces numbering over 300 voices and enlarged orchestras with added percussion and brass of the kind favored in England by Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Beecham were used. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Plinking percussion suggests gamelan by way of Steve Reich, drums flicker in crisp double time, sustained horns loom like gray clouds and her backup voices moan in confusion and loss. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z Now, in a band without piano or any extra percussion, the new music is less explicit about anything; it doesn’t need to be. 2010-02-06T05:45:00Z The orchestra’s brasses, often in the spotlight in these works, played with an exquisite combination of energy and precision, and the woodwinds, strings and percussion all seemed in superb shape as well. Music Review: The Music Was Wagner?s; The Stamina Was Levine?s 2010-10-03T16:32:00Z The younger Kuti’s group, Positive Force, featured nine musicians and three female dancers who occasionally sang or beat hand-held percussion instruments. Femi Kuti’s energy is as tireless as his message during 9:30 Club concert 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Imaginative writing for percussion and bustling rhythmic activity — long traits of Tower’s music — course through this restless, episodic score. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z “Factory” begins with percussion evoking the clattering sounds of sewing machines. Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z A bunch of percussion instruments sneak into the mix and mesh — check the stereo cowbells — while its raspy singer, Jhon Primera, gathers a rowdy chorus to answer him. Sonic Tomfoolery and Rhythmic Savvy From Systema Solar 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Critical consent holds second album Sound of Silver to be LCD's best, a collection that fuses disco sensibilities and bounteous percussion with lyrical explorations of loneliness and bereavement. My favourite album 2011-08-04T12:17:00Z This was a brilliant performance from all hands, especially the woodwind, brass and percussion players. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-12-10T00:25:30Z Their son was shy, however, and studied music — first piano, then percussion. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z The actor-musicians are proficient with their instruments, and the arrangements are powerful and exquisite — four or five guitars at once with accordion, fiddles, ukulele, percussion and, soaring angelically, a voice, or maybe 10. ‘Once’ again bares the soul of a Dublin busker, this time on stage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z A prolific artist deeply enmeshed in New York’s experimental jazz scene, Chase started the indie label Chaikin Records and worked on his solo project Drums and Drones, a meditation on percussion. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Vocals are the centerpiece; the accompanying fiddles and percussion seem to be paying their respects to it. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The percussion’s lingering final note was a reminder of how indebted music, or any sound, has always been to air. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The title track is a triumphant song of empowerment, with an all-women chorus soaring over thunderous percussions, swirling with joy, grief and resilience all at once. Y La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza continues exciting midcareer evolution with ‘Mujeres’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The choreography of the performers is an integral part of any percussion piece and the Third Coast members were a delight to watch, moving with a riveting blend of precision and fluidity. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Backyard’s version is faithful to the heartsick melodies of the original, but not to its ponderous mood — thanks almost entirely to the band’s cannonade percussion, which demands a very different physical response. What a viral cover of Adele’s ‘Hello’ means for go-go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z I find the most useful music to fall asleep to is melodious but minimal, with little to no percussion. Music to Sleep By 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z For instance, there’s a new solo in which Ms. Tomás will transform the traditional Spanish fan into a percussion instrument and use it to give visual punctuation to her dance phrases. The Week Ahead: Jan. 23 ? 29 2011-01-21T16:42:50Z From the clattering DIY percussion of opening track Easy to the giddy chug of Heaven, Micachu demonstrates her way with new sounds is as playful as ever. Micachu and the Shapes - Never: exclusive album stream 2012-07-17T11:26:55Z Metallic percussion instruments add tiny impulses that set off a downward flow of strings — in halting smooth waves at first, then gradually with growing insistence and confidence. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Akiho has written substantial works for steel pan, for percussion, for marimba and string quartet, for snare drum and sampled dog barking, and many other configurations — even a concerto for onstage Ping-Pong players and orchestra. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Finally, Far Eastern chimes and percussion beckoned from the Equrna Gallery, completing the evening’s unusual cultural odyssey. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z Both styles rely on booming, swinging, danceable percussion and call-and-response chants that celebrate history and survival. Music Review: New Orleans and Brazil Bring Beats to Lincoln Center 2013-08-04T20:34:34Z Her feelings may be indifferent, but the song itself is exuberant — a bright, hooky blast of lo-fi pop propelled by punchy percussion and a bouncy chorus. Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the L.A. bassist kept things fairly serene, opting for slow- to mid-tempo songs constructed around loose percussion and electric keys. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z It also taxes the band; brows furrow as they move into an offbeat percussion figure or sudden jazzy interlude. Matthew E White at Vivid Live 2013 2013-06-03T01:34:53Z Hear Hansen’s percussion at work in “Pirates of Penzance,” at 5th Avenue Theatre through Aug. 4, and “Secondhand Lions,” opening Sept. Percussionist Paul Hansen keeps the beat all over Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:03Z Mr. Kline’s work, for instance, is a G.P.S.-based computer program that triggers spoken-word pieces and percussion tracks for the listener as one walks through the campus. ArtsBeat: Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Returns for 42nd Year 2012-04-24T21:11:43Z The bow strokes range from a heavy, brutal martellato to a lighter spiccato so harsh and spiky as to turn the violin into a percussion instrument. Tchaikovsky for Christmas 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Heads down, arms flailing, they unleash a four-minute tsunami of percussion and hair. BBC Sound of 2013: Haim 2013-01-04T07:16:24Z Throughout much of the action percussion is played offstage but with no sustained meter and no evident connection to the movement or the music on view. Dance Review: Kabuki With Bando Kotoji at Japan Society 2012-04-01T21:13:38Z Instead of allowing the percussion to overwhelm, she extracted delicacy. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The Olney incarnation of “The Mikado” will feature actors playing guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, violin, flute, accordion, harmonica, percussion and toy piano. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The following ballet of bayadères is carried by lively rhythms on an array of exotic percussion instruments, here joined by the ankle bells of the dancers. Music Review: ‘Lalla Roukh,’ at the Rose Theater 2013-02-03T22:56:40Z Students had come for afternoon music instruction from elementary schools, most in Inglewood, and after snacks — bananas, apples, granola bars — they raced to their lessons in reading music, percussion and how to follow a conductor. From a Burger King to a Concert Hall, With Help From Frank Gehry 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z There were assorted guitars, keyboards and effects pedals for Mr. Droste and Mr. Rossen; basses and reed instruments for Christopher Taylor; and trap drums, percussion and sampler for Christopher Bear. Grizzly Bear Takes a New Approach on Its Album ‘Shield’ 2012-09-16T07:23:03Z Spirityouall has a smartly tailored aesthetic, but Mr. McFerrin complicates and provokes it — sounding shots of vocal percussion, modulating the flow, coaxing kinetics out of languor. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The big-band music is largely canned, apart from live percussion provided by two onstage drummers, and the emoting of some lounge-style pop singers. Review: 'Burn the Floor' at the Paramount is a passionate embrace of dance 2010-09-16T04:01:00Z With a massive sound from added brass and percussion at the start, this Five Pieces was less lightly playful and more Mahlerian — witty and ironic, but with martial heft. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Shifting, often rapid-fire riffs are accompanied by percussion and chanting vocals, and the result is furious, trance-like dance music that never lets up. The Karindula Sessions: Tradi-Modern Sounds from Southeast Congo ? review 2011-03-31T21:46:00Z Just being a new-music percussion ensemble is practically tantamount to knowing Cage. Music Review: ‘Where (we) Live,’ by So Percussion, at BAM 2012-12-20T23:15:46Z The whole remarkable venture combines memorable original themes with striking ensemble-writing for horns and strings, dramatic brass and percussion sounds, and a faintly disconsolate beauty that nonetheless avoids all the usual north-European, windswept- cliches. Verneri Pohjola: Aurora ? review 2011-02-17T21:32:01Z Three percussionists with identical instruments sat side by side, using percussion timbres, vocalizations and body gestures to produce a ritualistically choreographed work that packed as strong a punch visually as aurally. Music Review: Georges Aperghis Compositions at Miller Theater 2012-05-27T21:59:43Z Their work is inspired by Baltimore’s club music, and relies heavily on percussion and call and response. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z But the use of found percussion instruments is not new. From Heaps of Junk, a Melodious Clang 2010-10-04T21:33:00Z In their synchronized action, much of it rooted in Chinese martial arts, and their resounding percussion, with instruments ranging from delicate cymbals to thunderous taiko drums, their focus and precision run deep. Review: In ‘Beyond Time,’ U-Theater Dances and Drums With Precision 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z “Timber” by the composer Michael Gordon, of Bang on a Can, is an extended Minimalist percussion piece played on six two-by-fours. The Playlist: Kim Gordon Vents and the White Stripes Unleash an Outtake 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The concert’s highlights — the things that brought most energy to the stage — were two early percussion pieces by Christopher Rouse, played by a group that included three percussionists from the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. How one composer attempts to break the concert mold 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z In trying to repeat the formula, their second album rampages along with exuberant tunes underpinned by military-strength percussion. Fun: Some Nights – review 2012-05-24T20:30:01Z He nervously shuffles around the stage or gets worked into a frenzy — huffing and flailing with explosive bravado, seamlessly accompanied by Carpio’s percussion. ‘Medicine’ Review: One Dose Reality, Two Doses Absurdity 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Clever songs by Michael Wells are played — on percussion, plinky piano and ominous organ — by Teddy Lytle, Mr. Wells and Nicholas Williams. Theater Review: ?The Deepest Play Ever,? at the New Ohio Theater 2012-03-15T02:00:17Z Gaelic vocals on the track Fear Eile echo the island’s rich mythology and the hollow percussion on Morning Dew evokes memories of hanging mist and raindrops falling off ... well, everything! The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z She’s accompanied by intricate plucked patterns on harp, guitar and bass fiddle, sustained tones from brass and electronics and quiet metallic percussion. Weezer’s Rock ’n’ Roll Nostalgia Trip, and 10 More New Songs 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Naomi Díaz provides percussion on traditional instruments — the box-shaped cajón, the three batá drums used in Santería — and on a drum sampler. Review: Ibeyi, Twin Sisters and a Duo, Uses Songs to Show Roots 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In New York he collaborated with So Percussion, the Brooklyn quartet, on a long-form percussion piece at the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z Cage's earlier, more intuitive works — his spare and dreamy pieces for prepared piano, his high-energy "constructions" for percussion — appeal to me far more than his later chance-determined efforts. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z In a rarity, Mr. Graves reached back to his earliest percussion work: playing timbales in Afro-Cuban jazz groups. Music Review: Milton Graves at Center of Vision Festival’s Opening Night 2013-06-13T21:03:09Z In the central section, sliced thinly by frequent blackouts, they danced on the white squares to their own mouth sounds and body percussion, or to the rhythms and pitch contours of their spoken names. Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-05-23T21:55:51Z Over a crisp Afrobeats groove with hints of Middle Eastern modes, besieged by sudden salvos of percussion, the Nigerian songwriter Tiwa Savage suavely mocks corrupt, immoral politicians. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Written shortly after Varèse immigrated to New York in 1918, the score for huge orchestra with hoards of percussion and brass sounds like a brash Parisian modernist in Manhattan. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z And despite all the synthetic elements here, you hear the rattle of hand percussion, the light scrape of fingers on a fret board. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z She let the beat send her jittering across the stage, or added to it with her own percussion kit, facing all annoyances with brittle energy. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Wild Girls in Control 2012-06-08T00:45:55Z “Numerator,” accompanied by Harrison’s “Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussion,” plays with all of these qualities. Lou Harrison and Mark Morris: a grand partnership of music and movement 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z One is Count Ossie’s vocal and percussion group, playing the rhythms of nyabinghi — a rhythm arrangement he developed for Rasta gatherings in his various Rasta compounds in Kingston, Jamaica. CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Keyboards and percussion, not guitars, are in the foreground; somber marches and quasi-tribal beats largely replace hard rock. Music Review: Unafraid of Altering a Winning Formula 2011-02-06T22:43:51Z During choral scenes, the music breaks into passages with repetitive percussion riffs and rippling harp arpeggios. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z With an expanded ensemble — percussion, guitar, bass, reeds and voice — he summons a dreamy but vigilant journey. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z In Mr. Globokar’s “?Corporel,” Mr. Schick stripped to the waist — and took off his trademark horn-rimmed glasses — in order to turn his body into a percussion instrument, tapping and slapping different parts. Music Review: Steven Schick Plays Stockhausen at the Miller Theater 2014-02-03T22:38:14Z While he sings, percussion pecks at offbeats before settling into 4/4, while piano and pizzicato strings continue to pelt him with syncopation. Bruce Hornsby’s New Album Is Complex and Untrendy. That’s Why It’s So Good. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z By the mid-’80s, she had moved on to using only a rig of drum machines and samplers, with processors and effects allowing them to play pitches and tones as well as percussion. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “Pitch Perfect 3,” Universal’s a capella comedy that’s the latest in the series about female friendship and vocal percussion, opened Friday, also proving to be a strong holiday-weekend contender, earning $25.6 million this weekend. Jedi holiday magic: 'Star Wars' holds top spot on Christmas weekend 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z In the second of the three movements, snare drum rolls take over a listener's senses, magnificently magnifying Varèse's early percussion experiments. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Williams scores the scene’s extended monologue with a succession of anxious percussion beats and uneasy chords that together sound like pure musical paranoia. John Williams: Five underrated scores by the AFI-honored composer 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In addition to Bryan, the trio includes Rhydian Dafydd on bass and backing vocals and Matt Thomas on drums and percussion. A formidable British sound 2013-03-21T20:36:16Z Listen for the way a bright choral refrain — declaimed over slapping percussion in the second movement — reappears in a new guise midway through the following track as gloomier material for the guitarist. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Joshua Tillman orchestrated drums and various percussion nick-knacks into musical parts that shaded the lyrics and embellished the songs’ emotional colors. Concert review: Fleet Foxes at Chicago Theatre 2011-10-01T05:31:00Z “I give a lot of importance to percussion instruments,” she said. At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Jones’s turbulent drive on Farrell’s “13 Avenue B” and way-behind-the-beat lope during “On the Trail” demonstrate why many consider him jazz percussion’s all-time heavyweight champ. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z BrasilFest: Brazilian music, dance, workshops, children's activities, arts and crafts, exhibits, noon Sunday; percussion jam and parade from Mural Amphitheater to roof of Fisher Pavilion, 7 p.m. A Taste of Edmonds and other weekend community events 2011-08-12T20:27:08Z Distorted guitar riffs were a staple, but the best songs of the evening — the ominous “My Song No. 5” and hip-shaker “The Wire” — were propelled primarily by keyboard riffs and layered percussion. Haim causes sonic explosion at Paramount | Concert review 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z That effect was magnified in the program’s main work, “In the Light of Air,” which calls for viola, cello, piano, harp, percussion and electronics, as well as light elements. Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Music Wanders the Park Avenue Armory 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z On this absorbing album, partly inspired by anatomical terms of movement, he leads an improv-chamber group — woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, the whole deal — through oblique tangles of counterpoint. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But it’s the darker side that kicks off the album, with the opening track “Brenninsteinn” blending a distorted bass and heavy percussion. The Dark and Dreamy Rock of Sigur Rós 2013-06-18T15:18:52Z His catalog also includes works for percussion trio and quartet. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z This “philosophy-opera,” as The New Yorker critic Alex Ross called it, sets voice, violin, flute and percussion to texts by writers from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Lydia Davis and Jenny Holzer. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “Rain hits the window in fits and starts, as if it’s being flung in handfuls. . . . It’s getting dark, the air full of stars and the surging tidal percussion of crickets.” Mysteries review: Paula Hawkins’s ‘The Girl on the Train” and Harriet Lane’s ‘Her’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Rather than articulating individual notes, Young turned his trademark black guitar into a percussion instrument, physically evoking how "the new world" was shaped by blood and violence. Neil Young's one-man power play 2011-05-08T12:30:37Z The forlorn pianos and light percussion of Smith’s signature ballads have largely been swapped out for synthesizers and electronic beats. Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Included is the premiere of a new piece for percussion ensemble, as well as some of the classic works that have made him one of the most recognizable and beloved voices in contemporary music. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The Portuguese outlawed the percussion troupes of carnival but encouraged music in clubs in the townships, leading to the formation of the electric-guitar bands on the album. New Music: Albums From Moon Honey, Peter Walker and Angola Soundtrack 2013-12-30T22:16:58Z With the early violin and percussion pieces, “1st Concerto” and “Omnipotent Chair,” Harrison’s voice is already clear. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z For Philip Guston is scored for piano, flute and percussion; its gently dissonant chiming never reaches beyond a softly reverberant shimmer. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z He’s also been working on his beat-boxing skills, introducing elements of vocal percussion into his playing. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z VH1's donation included 11 clarinets, eight flutes, six trumpets, four trombones, three alto saxophones, and a ready-made percussion section with snare and bass drums, cymbals and marching bells. Foundation aims for new instruments across W.Va. 2011-01-29T16:35:08Z Electronic enhancement feeds wordless choral halos and shivers of percussion around the theater, amplifying shadowy, jazzy riffs, distantly reminiscent of Gershwin, and dusky slashes out of a Bernard Herrmann film score. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Talujon, an adventurous percussion group, arrives at Roulette in Brooklyn on Thursday, June 2, with a program of works inspired by the shimmering sound of the Indonesian gamelan. Inspired Adventures in Modern Music 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The sextet mixes sax, guitar, raw electronics, percussion and a few children's toys and cassette tapes. Shatner's Bassoon: Aquatic Ape Privilege – review 2013-02-07T23:45:01Z The second set began with a less enigmatic piano melody that was almost jazzy, over hissing, pattering percussion. The Necks 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z I'm quite drawn to making a record that's actually much more organic that might use more textures, colors, melodies and harmonies rather than percussion and drum sounds. Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know wins record of the year at Grammys 2013-02-11T07:28:00Z The percussion music’s effect is now subversive, now simply an enriching counterpoint. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z Mr. Lang has written a concerto in which unusual percussion instruments try to mingle with the orchestra, though the traditional instruments are initially baffled by the strange intruders. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “L” is a mellow saxophone; “ch” a clash of cymbals; and the small explosions “p,” “b” and “t” are percussion. Arthur Lessac, Holistic Vocal Coach, Dies at 101 2011-04-18T06:00:03Z Slonimsky's "Recitative, Aria and Burlesque" for flute, piano and percussion is the oldest work on the program and was commissioned for the Goodwill Arts Festival in Seattle in 1990. Paul Taub's 'Edge': local flutist explores periphery of Europe 2011-11-03T20:00:10Z He played percussion and keyboards on his first and only solo album, “Tambourine Man,” featuring Caribbean-style music, which was released in 2011. Bruce Langhorne, Guitarist Who Inspired ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ Dies at 78 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The first major work in Western music for percussion ensemble, Edgar Varèse's 1931 "Ionization" instigated the percussion revolution in modern music. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z On top of that he adds a vocal style that’s just as distinct, turning his mouth into a percussion instrument of its own. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The cocktail hour and reception were held at the Manhattan Penthouse, where guests were served hors d’oeuvres and listened to the soundtrack of a balafon, a percussion instrument that resembles a xylophone. To Win a Supermodel’s Hand, 4 Goats and a Cola Nut 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Fueled by an apocalyptic clatter of percussion and brass, Schmitt’s full-throated choral writing is perfectly suited to a chorus this size. Review | Choral Arts Society performs three rarely heard works 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The D.J. and his sound engineers equipped the basement with equalizers and black fabric baffles to modulate reverb, so that his rippling percussion and expansive rhythms leave your heart beating and your ears ringing. Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The score of “L’heure espagnole” opens with ticking noises from clock pendulums and the ringing of bells, part of a vast percussion section, including the curious sound of a musical spring. CD reviews: Slatkin turns to France; a Reich retrospective. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Instruments and source material for the day’s 13 free events, held outdoors in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, included West African percussion, Puerto Rican carols and an app that converts footsteps into a soundscape. Solstice Serenades in New York City for Make Music Winter 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Long stretches of working on demos at home were followed by brief bursts of studio sessions, just a few days at a time, bringing in strings, horns, keyboards and percussion alongside the band members. black midi’s Music Embraces the Extremes 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The piece stole the show, its agonizing drama of a dying child beautifully wrought by Bartoldus’s forces, who even engaged in multitasking — playing percussion instruments while singing. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Then it’s simultaneously cushioned and besieged, with chime and harp tones, otherworldly voices, ratcheting and rumbling percussion, staticky glitches and increasingly intrusive high-frequency beeps that eventually register as alarms. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z His large orchestra is deployed in two segments: chamber orchestra plus percussion are stationed in the pit and a wide array of other players are situated behind the stage. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z The piece opens with a clamorous burst of percussion that subsides into sparer, leaner textures; later sections move back and forth between density and lightness. BBCSO/Hrůša – review 2012-11-25T18:41:57Z The orchestra will play a major piece of Mr. Lindberg’s next season: “Kraft,” a raucous, amplified work for orchestra, solo instruments and junk metal percussion, with the players scattering throughout the hall. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z Scored for flute, alto flute, piano, two percussionists and four strings, the piece begins with eerily soft, sustained high string tones gently buttressed by chiming percussion chords. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The visionary composer and producer builds a “new instrument” out of percussion, strings and synthesizer, and then plays it. The best classical concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Responding to it with body percussion and tap, fitfully rising and sitting back down, they answered the noise with a mix of rhythmic sense and cacophony. Review: ‘Rhythm in Motion,’ a Tap Dance Showcase, at Theater at the 14th Street Y 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “Lenox Avenue Breakdown” featured tuba, electric bass, flute and assorted percussion and consisted of four giddy, hotfooting originals that opened up into extended improvisations. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Live, Rudd is a one-man band, handling guitar, percussion, didgeridoo and vocals. Your Week in Seattle Music: Ringo Starr, Wye Oak, The Fixx and more 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Cool little touches abound, from the chiming percussion that enhances the dusky “Dreaming My Life Away” to the waltz-time vocal coda in “Last Year.” Album review: Best Coast, 'The Only Place' 2012-05-14T17:54:00Z He keeps ballads eerily slow, makes the percussion thud or bristle and creates shadowy dark corners of reverb. New Music: Queens of the Stone Age and Mellencamp’s ‘Ghost Brothers’ 2013-06-03T22:05:09Z The track’s steady percussion is a heartbeat, and the cyclical turn of notes is nervous eyelashes fluttering. Our Favorite Songs of 2018 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Acoustic guitars and percussion set up an intricate mesh of syncopation, and in his gentle tenor, with hushed backup vocals overhead, Sessa sings, “To the sound of the drums I’ll consume you.” Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z There are also handclaps from a flamenco group — Mr. Simon recorded the whole group together and isolated the clapping, then slowed it down digitally — along with percussion and horns from Mr. Simon’s touring band. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Axial Flows pings and gleams in a playful trance, and Starlings is at first a darting exercise in dampened piano notes and pattering percussion, turning into a powerful, Cecil Tayloresque free- piano outburst. Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway: Affinities 2011-07-14T20:30:01Z Driven by a huge percussion section, with weird and wayward textures, vividly descriptive melodies and a shimmer of emotion, this is music that is not only sophisticated, but also danceable. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ? review 2011-03-01T01:50:25Z It recognizes him for his musical contribution both to the Beatles and since, as the rock’s first superstar drummer, whose innovative drumming and percussion work were integral parts of the Beatles’ musical and cultural revolution. Meet the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Five separate “choirs” of woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings and voices will perform outdoors at Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza, choreographed by Mark DeChiazza. Every Single Place Has Its Own Sound 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But that song is also sung by Rayna’s two daughters at a school talent show, the original’s dense pop arrangement forsworn for an acoustic treatment with a lone guitar and handclap percussion. Critic’s Notebook: The ‘Nashville’ Soundtrack as Co-Star 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z For the second half, a recent percussion concerto by an established French composer set the stage for Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z At their best, on tracks such as The Naughty Step, they start with bubbling electronica, sturdy percussion and a solid bass riff, then introduce hypnotic work-outs on pipe or fiddle. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z Ms. Li’s percussion playing was as deft as her singing was penetrating. Mei Lanfang Jingju Troupe Begins a Rare Tour 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “Stand by Me” opens with an acoustic bass playing the melody over light percussion accompaniment. Ben E. King, soul singer of ‘Stand by Me,’ dies at 76 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Unrest amid determination stirs as the music shifts into agitated episodes for percussion. Review: At Caramoor, a Concert Signals Return and Remembrance 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Oliver's music for both is startlingly original – microscopic in detail but broadly imaginative: the percussion requirements include bespoke clogs and a "balloon with pin". How Maurice Sendak helped me stage his operas 2012-05-28T17:49:15Z That was where I started to develop a love of percussion and also dance. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z These are works of enormous textural complexity, with string sections broken up into a multitude of individual voices and a packed cockpit of percussion instruments. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But the live music is centered on percussion, on drums, and in a climactic section called “Migration,” the African element gains force in communal dance like a spiritual explosion. A Storytelling Choreographer Who Listens to Her Audience 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Often, percussion sounds are spattered intermittently around a bass line, or they tick steadily like a suspense-film soundtrack — more haunted house than dance floor. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But the onetime Ornette Coleman collaborator also embraced other channels, often playing percussion and keyboards, and eventually leading large ensembles in spiritual excursions. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The current Arkestra, led by the saxophonist Marshall Allen, reclaims the song without words, as a leisurely bolero with saxophones or wordless voices carrying the succinct melody over Afro-Caribbean percussion. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Germino was a champion of contemporary music, including experimental works with percussion and electronics, when, a few years ago, she was diagnosed with a hearing condition that rendered her extremely sensitive to sound. The Philharmonic Takes New Music Beyond Geffen Hall 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Parker bowed in the drummer’s direction, then as the percussion dropped to barely above a whisper, the guitarist brought things roaring back to life with a wah-wah-pedal riff. Concert review: Tame Impala at the Vic 2013-03-07T05:58:00Z He must also speak against the background of Bobby Previte’s exquisitely unnerving sound design and music, which ranges from primal percussion to ear-scraping high-tech distortions. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Brisk and intricate, it has a leaping 5/4 beat, assorted global percussion and interlocking, celebratory groups of voices. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Other percussion sounds gradually emerge, leading into a short section called “The Sunken Gamelan,” with what sounds like muffled hammering, typing, or tapping, accompanied by gong and cymbal sounds and some bubbling noise. CD reviews: Noseda makes case for neglected Italian master 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z She sang the soaring melody as the orchestra backed her with swaying strings and glistening percussion. Review: The Philharmonic Invites, and the Audience Packs the House 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z At the same time, “Seven Pillars” begins with unpitched sounds but builds a progressively increasing palette by incorporating the tuned percussion instruments introduced in the first three solos. Metal pipes, a cigar box and more feature in ambitious multimedia concert of Northwest composer Andy Akiho 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The orchestra includes a huge battery of percussion — gongs and ancient Chinese chime-bells, along with more traditional Western instruments, including timpani and snare drums. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z She intersperses movements from her fifth, eighth and ninth string quartets with songs she has written over the last 50 years, mostly to Dickinson texts and inventively accompanied by piano, percussion and string quartet. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Scott-Heron, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap with his piercing social and political prose laid against the backdrop of minimalist percussion, flute and other instrumentation, died on Friday at age 62. Gil Scott-Heron, a godfather of rap, dies in NYC 2011-05-29T17:49:11Z Then, in Kibera, that famous Nairobi slum, he finds his percussion, the Slum Drummers, one of whom, Michael, is blind. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z He became interested in drums and percussion by watching local marching bands. Postscript: Maurice White, 1941–2016 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he later taught and led the percussion department for decades. Everett ‘Vic’ Firth, percussionist who manufactured drumsticks, dies at 85 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In original tunes from all three members, the role of percussion, melody and leadership blur. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The opening “Before Your Very Eyes …” set the tone, with parallel streams of percussion that raced side by side, then merged. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z Meanwhile, she has layered in more guitars and percussion; by the time the track ends, it struts like a samba. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Tomorrow – My White Bicycle A cracking tune with some innovative, shuffling percussion, tape looks, squalling guitar lines – ie everything you might hope for in a piece of UK psych. Readers recommend: hunting songs 2010-07-29T23:03:00Z With a style that is part breakdancing, part belly dancing, she moves like a stop-motion windup doll: whipping, jerking and gyrating her body in time with the metronomic percussion of her songs. At U.S. tour opener, rising star FKA Twigs vaults herself into impressive company Whether backed by Chip Taylor Smith's fiddle or accompanied only by bones percussion, his approach is always no-nonsense, rhythmic and gutsy. Spider John Koerner: What's Left of Spider John – review 2013-04-25T21:45:01Z But he added, “The only thing to do was to finish the arrangement on the song — what instruments would go in certain places, what percussion instruments, what sounds we wanted to add.” Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z The stage was already set up, however, for Mr. Norman’s piece, a percussion concerto, with dozens of instrument of all kinds arranged in two groups on either side of the conductor’s podium. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Backed only by percussion, Scott-Heron makes a strong argument for the plight of the poor while gobs of cash were fired into space by white politicians. First Man: Ryan Gosling's abstract Apollo mission – discuss with spoilers 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Rogers said he could hear Mateju on the recordings, occasionally yelling "strings" or "percussion," tipping him off as to what instruments would dominate in different sections. Czech-U.S. Internet connection: Zbynek Mateju-Raiford Rogers' 'Still Life' 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Later, in his neo-expressionist period, he used serialism and avant-garde techniques to reflect indigenous South American traditions, as in his rarely heard “Cantata Para América Mágica,” for soprano and percussion orchestra. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z The finale's halo of high flutes and percussion twinkled transcendentally. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-02-11T18:44:00Z That program, “Visualizing Music,” also included a piece for percussion and video art and an improvised performance that blended passages of medieval music with electronics, live computer-drawn visuals and tap dancing. Review: Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ With Video Tableaus 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Kitt’s music has a generic pop sound that sometimes works, as in “Drum Circle,” a Disney-esque tune chock-full of lively, layered percussion; and “Heart in Your Hands,” a rather maudlin song with angelic harmonies. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Tambours du Bronx, a French percussion group, at the Rock in Rio festival on Sunday. ArtsBeat Blog: Rock Returns to Rio With a Righteous Beat 2011-09-26T15:03:24Z The band then builds a storm cloud of percussion that grows black and thicker with each minute, finally resolving a gigantic guitar chords that crash like waves against a rocky shoreline. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z His falsetto, hiccuping vocals and rollicking, heavily layered percussion and guitars feel just right in their lovely imprecision. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z She began her career as a no-wave drummer but now works more often with computers, creating something between percussion and texture. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Written for six players and too many instruments to count, it was Carter's only work solely for percussion. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “The Devil You Know” pairs dark, psychedelic jazz with searing observations about America, and “Yemaya” centers upbeat, polyrhythmic percussion with words about the cleansing power of water. Aja Monet, a Musical Poet of Love 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Rather, she rapped as percussion and synths throbbed, "more like a dog on a lead, going mental." Rapper-poet Kate Tempest opens U.S. tour with memorable Echo set 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Packer, who was raised in Alaska, said she took up percussion as a child and later attended the Manhattan School of Music. Bard College Music Student Sues School, Citing Instructor’s Conduct 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The perky-reflective songs are played by a small combo of piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, cello and percussion, so the music can be driving or mellow, depending on the state of romantic confusion. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z A brisk, melodically exotic percussion figure, for example, sounded like a sped-up gamelan. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto at June in Buffalo Festival 2012-06-13T21:58:39Z On one song, "Downs," the percussion consists of a bouncing basketball instead of a snare drum. Big Star's third album finally gets star treatment 2011-03-23T22:16:48Z Working only with brass and percussion at the Philharmonic’s behest, he offered a ceaseless profusion of grunts, howls and percussive commotion. Music Review: Contact!, New York Philharmonic Series at Met Museum 2012-12-26T22:31:15Z Mr. Glass’s score mixes mildly angular vocal lines into his signature torrent of swirling woodwind figures and string arpeggios, and it relies more heavily than usual on varied, assertive percussion textures and rich choral writing. Music Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Kepler’ at Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-01T21:25:58Z The full weight of that intimidating percussion section was only rarely deployed, and then to focused effect. BBCSO/Yamada ? review 2011-03-09T19:15:01Z On Thursday, the orchestra showed off the clarity of fortissimo passages, layering percussion, brass and strings in handsome tiers. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Though his first three symphonies are written for full orchestra, the Fourth uses only strings, harp and percussion. CD Review: Arvo P?rt?s Fourth Symphony 2010-10-08T15:47:00Z Percussion concertos tend to sound like orchestra pieces with lots of percussion, Mr. Corigliano said. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z But the approach remains the same, with Middle Eastern themes matched against sturdy Arabic percussion and bass work from Bernard O'Neill, with Page adding guitar and keyboards. Syriana: The Road to Damascus 2010-09-16T22:00:00Z After the final refrain, Woods stagger into a dissonant jumble, noise and percussion colliding like pinballs. Woods Became David Berman’s Band. Then They Picked Up the Pieces. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes the steps look a bit Hungarian-folksy, at others they’re quite contemporary, and at times I glimpsed a little South Asian blend of softness and percussion. ‘The Winter’s Tale’ dazzles with its visual drama, choreography 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Ukulele, muted trumpet, guitar, light percussion and piano evoke a lotus-scented Never Never Land through which Ms. McKay happily romps like a child of nature. Music Review: Nellie McKay at Feinstein?s at Loews 2010-06-04T22:58:00Z As the music gained in density and variety, the larger elements of the piece were driven by a steady, rumbling 4/4 meter played on percussion. Review: A ‘Sonic Great Wall’ Breaks Down Musical Barriers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z What followed was a Southern preacher-style testimonial about getting money, complete with swelling percussion, before jumping into his celebratory “Cash Machine.” A joyous night with D.R.A.M. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z So Charlie Brown might get laser treatment, but Up in Flames – Martin on piano, accompanied by simple percussion and a falsetto chorus, is indisputably the better new song. Coldplay – review 2012-06-02T23:05:27Z The Juilliard musicians illuminated the many intriguing timbral touches in “Ceres,” including the ominous rumblings from the lower strings, the climactic percussion outbursts and deft use of clarinet and trombone. Music Review: The Juilliard School’s Focus! 2013 Festival 2013-02-04T23:28:52Z Once again, you can expect swinging percussion coming from the pit — in addition to improvising players threaded throughout the orchestra. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The opening percussion notes sounded particularly majestic on Monday, with the brass harmonies lingering in the air and meshing into a striking collage. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Visits Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 2010-06-01T23:41:00Z It’s quantized, minimal cyber-funk with a hopping bass line and one percussion sound highlighted at a time: triangle, bongos, handclaps, cowbell. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z But in Davido’s music, the programmed beats also mesh with African percussion, twisty guitar and keyboard lines and rhythms from across Africa and the Caribbean. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z And Boudreaux has plans for more; maybe a percussion album or an album with his son and grandson, says his manager Rueben Williams. Mardi Gras Indian chief prepares for Fat Tuesday and Grammys 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Wind and brass players not only treat their instruments as percussion but also have access to megaphones and wine glasses. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Over clamoring, syncopated percussion, she and a corps of backing vocalists sing of festivals and celebrations, hard labor on cocoa farms and resilient love. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Booming percussion and sustained electric guitar tones give her a spacious backdrop as she observes a partner who’s scaring her by “eyeing all the exits”; her reaction is to think about writing a country song. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He’s into field recordings, sine waves and percussion, unusually played. Playlist : Indie Sounds Abound: Some Playful, Some Pop 2011-08-12T19:13:35Z The full-length version was 17 minutes of Summer in paroxysms of arousal, accompanied by a hypnotic synth/percussion arrangement. Remember Donna Summer: listen now to five classic songs 2012-05-17T20:33:10Z Lady Rayne recently helped fund a charity called Good Vibrations, which takes Indonesian percussion instruments into prisons and other challenging environments. Terence Conran given arts medal 2012-12-18T14:47:49Z Mr. Laredo and his players, including winds, brass and percussion, were lithe and buoyant, if perhaps a shade more polite than the music urged. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-29T20:02:41Z “Scythian Suite” uses a huge orchestra with an enormous percussion section to create boisterous and novel effects. Boisterous, novel effects on Prokofiev by Baltimore Symphony programmer 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z He played piano, and learned violin from his mother, but he eventually settled on studying percussion seriously — mostly, the mallet instruments. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z They do so using guitars, banjo and Brazilian percussion, and their mostly upbeat, melodic songs include simple, rousing singalong pieces such as Empeche-Moi and Mon Ouragan. Moussu T e lei Jovents: Putan de Can?on 2010-09-16T22:15:00Z The soloists, including a cellist, a clarinetist and a pianist, are also drafted into playing the percussion instruments, many spread around the hall. From Heaps of Junk, a Melodious Clang 2010-10-04T21:33:00Z The trio performed a nearly hour-long improvisation whose wordless vocalese was accompanied primarily by violin and percussion, supplemented sparingly by keyboards and electronics. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Unanimous strings, affectionate woodwind phrasing, an impressively secure horn section and rousing work from percussion and heavy brass ensured a convincing and highly enjoyable account of both works. Review: Springtime Auburn gets a taste of Russian winter, courtesy of ASO 2010-04-11T16:36:00Z That sound was just drums, percussion, horns, vocals and bass; I wanted those massive horn lines. Melt Yourself Down make jazz you can mosh to 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z One of the reasons I wanted to compose the piece, in addition to writing for Cynthia, was that I have never really approached the kind of out-of-tune world you can get in percussion. Bates, Clyne bringing fresh vibe to CSO's new music series 2011-03-16T16:56:31Z The repertoire of major percussion pieces remains small and selective. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The room fills with the driving percussion of a drumline, and a half dozen actors begin to move with sharp athleticism. Olney’s smashmouth drama ‘Colossal’ tackles football, disability and sexuality Meanwhile, the busy percussion section looked particularly precarious on a high ledge, swapping scores and stations like a tag wrestling team. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-01-07T18:25:30Z The drums and other percussion joined in, giving zest and a shade of violence to the composition. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres Music will be provided by the Paul Rucker quintet, a group that incorporates the sounds of horns, percussion, strings and flute. Celebrate Earth Day at Kent's Earthworks 2010-04-21T19:47:00Z These later bands were, and remain, easily parodied, offering a combination of flamboyant melodies, furious percussion, and teen-age screams. The Rise of Emo Nostalgia 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z And then there was that master class in comic timing, the Nairobi Trio: three expressionless gorillas in long coats playing Robert Maxwell’s “Solfeggio,” an insipid tune that, to slow-burn frustration, invariably involved drumstick-to-cranium percussion. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z Songs were guitar and synthesizer pop with the percussion emphasized, rock drums on top of drum machines going at the same time. Concert review: CANT at the Triple Door 10/03/11 2011-10-04T17:21:06Z “Capture/Release,” a premiere by Daniel Wohl for strings, percussion and electronic keyboard, suggested the expanding and then overlapping waves after a pebble is dropped into a circular pool. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z The score by Woodkid, before it goes all Philip Glass, sets the scene with martial percussion. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z Others circulated constantly, approaching each percussion station as a new and distinctive trail marker on a picturesque nature hike. Music Review: Turning It Outside-In at Armory 2011-02-21T22:53:56Z The music is also live, performed by the Afiara Quartet and Kid Koala on keyboards, electric ukulele, turntables, percussion and sound effects. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The composer uses a familiar Western orchestra to accompany the sheng, but includes 37 different percussion instruments from around the world. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z But the song lifts off as her band joins in, surrounding her with rhythmic and melodic crosscurrents of percussion and guitars. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Training the performers, most of whom are not dancers, took time — the routine combines elements of vaudeville, tap and percussion. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z This weekend’s concert concentrates on percussion, with composers including Bach and Steve Reich. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The tune is recast in myriad ways, culminating in a great spasm of brass and percussion that here could have used a bit more oomph. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The music on “Stranger to Stranger” exults in percussion; four of the album’s first six tracks don’t use guitar at all. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It may have proved tougher than they expected, if only because Copland switches gears so frequently, putting supple string lines in the spotlight one moment, then shifting to ponderous wind and percussion figures the next. Music: Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood 2010-08-17T22:36:00Z This particular program is Bang’s favorite: it’s all about percussion. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 9-15 2012-11-08T23:27:07Z The albums bring in guest stars to sing and write concise songs aimed for radio play yet reassert Santana’s identity with vigorous Latin percussion and with the constant presence of Mr. Santana’s lead guitar. New Music: ‘Corazón,’ Santana’s New Mix of Latin Pop and Rock 2014-05-05T21:07:04Z There’s an easy but irresistible simplicity to the leadoff track from “Tattoo You,” a bare-bones Stones classic: two verse chords, that chunky little riff, steady but shuffling percussion. The Rolling Stones Played Old! They Played New! 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z But "Rococo" found the queasy anxiety at the heart of the album amid the rattle and shake of hand percussion and ghostly harmonies. Arcade Fire turns anxiety into sing-alongs 2011-04-24T13:39:08Z But there’s a 1982 letter, written when his music had changed completely, in which he says, “I remain a percussion composer whether I write for percussion instruments or not.” Review: John Cage’s Historical Niche, a Legacy in Letters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The highlight was “Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds,” an album recorded with her Black Earth Ensemble, an eight-piece band playing percussion, strings and reeds from traditions across the globe. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Sirens, percussion and the idea of "organised sound" were irresistible ideas for kids trying to work out what it meant to compose their own music. Edgard Var?se: in wait for the future 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z He shifted occasionally from the laptop to an array of keyboards and a turntable, creating textures and percussion from sampled records. Music: Nicolas Jaar, Electronic Musician and Student at Brown 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z The orchestra has many traditional Chinese stringed, reed and percussion instruments, though this one was fortified with quite a few Western strings. Mei Lanfang Jingju Troupe Begins a Rare Tour 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Sort of a fascinating, circular pattern in the vocal rhythms; incisive and destabilizing percussion; plenty of empty space that leaves room for shock. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Programmed beats, synthesizer swoops, bass drones and layers of percussion only make the track bristle more intensely. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z David T. Little proved most successful at capturing Buxtehude’s blend of pain and ecstasy in his “To the Feet,” which rose to a dark climax underscored by clanging percussion. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z There’s a harpsichord; there are eight guitars in the percussion section, tuned to open tuning. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Then, suddenly, we’re in Indonesia, piano and percussion leaping forward in music as puckish and energetic as anything Marshall ever wrote. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z He started playing more percussion and piano, and singing more. A Fresh Look at the ‘Organic Music’ of Moki and Don Cherry 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Much of the work is dissonant, there is little that's hummable, but it holds the interest with orchestral textures, harp and percussion accents and the ever-present cello soliloquizing above it all. A symphonic evening with Morlot and the French masters 2012-03-16T17:21:04Z “My goal with going to Bard College, I wanted to really be able to study all types of percussion,” she said. Bard College Music Student Sues School, Citing Instructor’s Conduct 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The commissioners may have expected something like my big, noisy percussion music in “Earth and the Great Weather” or “Strange and Sacred Noise.” Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The instrumental writing for percussion, winds, keyboards, violin and horn feels more familiar, a mingling of Feldmanesque stasis and Reichian pulses. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In the program notes, Mr. Adams, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music this year, writes that “more than any other family of instruments, percussion embodies touch.” Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The bride’s father is the director of percussion studies at N.Y.U. Jamie Haas, Adam Brown 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Ottoman military bands played authentic Turkish percussion to terrify the residents — the same percussion that Mozart later imitated for its entertainment value in “Abduction.” Muslims, Christians and Mozart: Seeking Harmony at the Met Opera 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The program also includes 20th-century percussion classics, including Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood.” Classical & Opera Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z With Rolf Hind as the dauntless soloist, it was a compelling experience, full of wonderful textures, extraordinary fusions of the solo piano with the tuned percussion in the orchestra and moments of stark, strange poetry. Lachenmann weekend - review 2010-10-25T21:29:00Z Performing that concerto requires assembling a battery of percussion, including some exotic instruments, which may account for its rarity in performance. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z SAT Entertainment for kids of all ages; magician Jamtown percussion ensemble, 10:30 a.m. Community calendar 2011-11-16T23:08:03Z The horns and percussion kept playing, the audience kept clapping its hands and dancing, and the chirps of the alarm fit perfectly into the groove. Music Review: Hailu Mergia Performs in Brooklyn 2013-12-20T23:17:50Z His 28-piece orchestra includes restless percussion and three pianos: one with standard tuning, one roughly half a tone lower, the other in between. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Confronted with D.J.-turntables, a megaphone and clicking metal frogs — not to mention three percussion stations — the soloist resorts to hitting a metal barrel with a giant hammer. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z There are varied instrumental colorings in this arrangement, which includes parts for piano, harmonium and percussion. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Tamara Mumford in ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ 2012-11-05T23:29:47Z Mr. Lowe, who enlarged the band from a duo several years ago, sketched around the outsides of the music with guitar and keyboard notes and percussion, and established his presence as a second voice. Music Review: Om Plays Its Rhythmic Drones at the Temple of Dendur 2013-07-21T22:05:27Z It’s set to a skulking bass line and percussion that wouldn’t wake the neighbors, enjoying the tease, the buildup and a nearly vanished 21st-century experience: privacy. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z She began with Lou Harrison’s Six Sonatas for Cembalo, written in 1943, which use the harpsichord like a modern West Coast percussion instrument, but which also allude to Baroque practices, particularly in tuning. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z At first it’s almost decorous, repeating a five-note pizzicato figure; then it’s buffeted by flurries of percussion and string trills. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura,’ From Deep Within 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In a directorial touch, white-clad figures wander by between scenes, playing handheld percussion and looking like acolytes of that Yoruba priest. Review | Lynn Nottage’s comic ‘Fabulation’ maps a slide down the social ladder 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The songs on Maria BC’s debut album, “Hyaline,” are reveries built around patiently picked guitar patterns and tranquil melodies, though they might sprout electronics, percussion or chamber-music orchestrations at any moment. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z David Mayoral's stash of percussion instruments includes tambourine and high tubular bells. Magdalena Kozen?/Private Musicke - review 2011-02-06T17:54:11Z Hooks are few and the accompaniment is spare, with the thrum of guitar interrupted by occasional spasms of percussion and woodwinds from Henry’s son, Levon, who merges the sounds of klezmer, New Orleans and Stravinsky. Review: Joe Henry weighs risks and rewards of love 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Many of the starting points are the same — 1960s rock, distortion, the sense of drama in the use of halting guitars and percussion. New Music: New Albums by Dum Dum Girls and the Bangles 2011-10-03T22:39:47Z O.K., cool” — before about a minute of acoustic guitar and what sounds like hand-played percussion. Review: Adele Holds Firm on ‘25,’ Even as Pop Shifts 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The orchestral variety is impressive, especially in the percussion writing. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z The most memorable sections of the piece were created when the musicians bowed percussion instruments like the marimba, which created a haunting, mellow drone over which unfolded rhythmic patterns of varying mood and urgency. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In the Islamic Gnawa musical tradition of West Africa, orbital and trancelike sounds spring from voices, metal percussion instruments and a stringed bass known as the gimbri. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z She said that the idea of using scissors as an instrument made her think of “The Typewriter,” a lighthearted Leroy Anderson orchestral piece that uses the clicks, clacks and bells of a typewriter as percussion. Arming a Chorus of Women with Scissors 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The low-camp theatricality of O Duo's performance – are they trying to become the percussion world's answer to Ant and Dec? – didn't help either, while the generalised energy of McNeff's orchestral writing was an ideas-free zone. BBCSO/David Robertson ? review 2010-10-24T21:46:00Z The orchestra kept standing and Mr. Vanska signaled the percussion section. Fire and Ice: Minnesotans Join Orquesta Aragón in Havana 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In a song like “Crazy On You,” the acoustic guitar is basically a percussion instrument, so it opened up more categories for the band, a bigger footprint. Nancy Wilson on leading Heart with her sister: “The guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that” 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In the 1940s the family moved to New York, where he taught himself to play accordion, violin, saxophone and clarinet and studied percussion at Juilliard. Johnny Pacheco, an idol in world of salsa, dies at age 85 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z But the international mix of woodwind, brass and percussion players shows the extent to which Japanese training in those instruments has been outstripped by the strings. Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox aim to avoid the pitfalls of the percussion concerto. Taking the knocks: the chequered history of the percussion concerto 2010-10-01T14:47:00Z The solo percussion piece, Dark Ground, performed by Joby Burgess, eschews stick-juggling mesmerism in favour of the layering of complex processes and contrasting timbres. Tansy Davies – review 2013-04-10T17:30:04Z The brass and winds were brilliant, and the percussion battery in its element. Violinist Gil Shaham leaves audience breathless during spellbinding NSO performance 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z I’ve been playing the drums since seventh grade and collecting world percussion instruments my whole adult life. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z "I'm thinking this song is really about the fast guitar line and percussion," says Ryan, mentally shaping the track. Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z His falsetto, hiccuping vocals, and rollicking, heavily layered percussion and guitars feel mindful and entirely content in their lovely imprecision. Pop and Rock Music Listings for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:08:11Z The music, which earned a local following in the Washington, D.C. area, was characterized by loud percussion and Brown's ability to stitch together songs and keep crowds dancing throughout performances. "Godfather of Go-Go"' Chuck Brown dies at 75 2012-05-16T23:21:55Z The score sprawled through big-band jazz, folk melodies and long passages of hovering, clanging percussion — a kind of relentless abstraction of bells tolling. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z For an LP led by a drummer, “Interpret It Well” is full of extended passages with no drumming; latent tension hangs where the percussion might have been. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z That bit of innocent percussion was not lost on Will Ferrell, who in 2000 wrote a “Saturday Night Live” sendup of “Behind the Music,” the VH1 nostalgia documentary series then saturating the airwaves. ‘(Don’t Fear) the Reaper’ Is a Creepy Tune, Even With the Cowbell 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Mysterious stretches of rumbling percussion segue into ritualized stretches with repetitive instrumental riffs and overlapping strands of melodic fragments. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Marley began his career as a child singing, dancing and playing percussion with his siblings in the group The Melody Makers. Bob Marley’s son, Stephen, to play at Detroit park 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The orchestration, played here by Don Walker, was heavy on the brass and percussion, to the detriment of the strings. From the NSO, a pops concert that fizzled 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z He and his lifelong partner, Bill Colvig, built sets of tuned percussion instruments that they called the American gamelan. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z He toys with sparseness, then a new pitched percussion chord leads to a subtle electric guitar declaration; it’s lightly distorted, yet not driven in an overly obvious way. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Her voice is airy and nonchalantly assured as it glides through meshes of percussion, programming and syncopated guitars — productions that carry hints of Brazilian tradition into vertiginous electronic spaces. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Rare Essence was part of the original wave of go-go bands that emerged in Washington in the 1970s, stringing together songs, chants and percussion workouts around the unhurried but steadily propulsive go-go beat. Review: At Globalfest, a World of Cultural Keepsakes With a Dance Beat 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Any band with the Dutch percussion legend Han Bennink in it exerts a magnetic attraction for anyone with even a passing awareness of Europe's and improv music over the past 40 years. This week's new live music 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Mr. Crumb’s deeply poignant “Journey Beyond Time” sets African-American spirituals in a musical hall of mirrors with delicate percussion sounds creating a shimmering aura around the singer’s voice. Review: ‘American Visions,’ a Graceful Take on Race, Patriotism and Longing 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Bringing percussion with some rock and roll melodies, a little bit of flavor of Latin in. Sheila E Reflects on Her 'Glamorous Life': 'It's Hard to Be That Popular' 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The ensemble let its hair down for a lighter second half, with arrangements more in the vein of university a cappella ensembles, complete with snapping fingers and imitations of percussion instruments. Calmus brings Christmas carols to Wolf Trap 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Stormy, dissonant and elemental, the orchestral “Amériques” shows Varèse’s debt to Debussy and Stravinsky, as well as his quick absorption of his adopted home in its steely contours, clattering percussion and wailing sirens. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z Its breezy melody is decorated with crisp guitar picking, and busy percussion finds O’Riordan in that smooth, effortless gear of hers. The Cranberries' Roses Picks Up Where the Band Left Off 2012-02-21T19:37:06Z That’s because the percussion parts don’t just underlie the other instruments but interlock with them in a highly dramatic manner. A Symphony presence in Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2013 Winter Festival 2013-01-10T00:09:18Z Robertson used Ravel's orchestrations of Mussorgsky's musical pictures to highlight a number of outstanding fluid wind solos, as well as to wonderfully exaggerate the effects of big strings, big brass and big percussion. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z "From the beginning, it was clear that there was a bit more room for different rhythms and different amounts of percussion," Scott said. Cut Copy breaks out of dance mold Tuesday at Showbox SoDo 2011-04-07T19:31:08Z The boys all chose percussion or brass; the girls chose woodwinds. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But of course she can: The song is unapologetically arrogant and pugnacious over trap percussion and nagging, dissonant chords. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z At the beginning, it wasn’t my primary instrument; I studied classical percussion, but you can’t really play alone as a drummer, whereas with an accordion you can, because it’s complete, an orchestra in itself.” Showing Off the Accordion’s Hip Side 2013-06-26T21:57:23Z About a third of the album uses a compositional palette of strings, out-of-tune pianos, household percussion instruments and outdoor recordings. Review: ‘Predatory Headlights,’ a Bright Double Album From Tenement 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z A piano, some drone-y harmonies, and solid percussion detonate together, but it’s the interaction between the two guitars. Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart 2012-01-24T17:59:07Z In the first movement, subtle, rolling bass frequencies in the percussion bloomed and seemed to organically inspire intense pianistic volleys between Trifonov and Babayan. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Her high, gentle voice, sometimes multitracked into ghostly choirs, floated amid meditative guitars and undercurrents of jazz and exotic percussion; “Parallelograms” itself was layered with electronic sounds. New Music: Albums From Real Estate, Linda Perhacs and Nick Waterhouse 2014-03-03T23:08:37Z And the mix was askew all night, with percussion sometimes inaudible and other parts often drowning out leading voices. The National Symphony Orchestra performs ‘Fantasia’ at Wolf Trap With Ms. Kirsten’s wondrously eclectic score, which combines spiky modernism, breezy pop, hints of Indian music, percussion wildness and more, this fantasia blurs the distinctions among the characters. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z SUN Brazilian music, dance, workshops, children's activities, arts and crafts, exhibits and films, talks, opening noon Sunday; percussion jam and parade from Mural Amphitheater to roof of Fisher Pavilion, 7 p.m., Community calendar 2011-08-11T00:56:04Z “La Flora,” a sextet for winds, strings and percussion by Alvin Singleton, swelled from hushed three- and four-note motifs into a primordial dance of chaos and design. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-02-03T20:17:59Z He created for clarinet, piano, harp, harpsichord, marimba and percussion. You’re the Choreographer, an iPad’s Your Stage 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Each used an augmented version of a similarly constituted chamber ensemble: strings, winds, brasses, percussion and piano all present and accounted for. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble Plays Fulmer and Kapica 2010-04-30T20:24:00Z In “Lovalot,” over a subdued but taut percussion collage, she alludes to the widely seen photograph of a teenage “black widow” Russian suicide bomber. Critics? Choice: CDs by M.I.A. and Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse 2010-07-11T22:31:00Z Winds, brasses, strings, piano and percussion cycle through chattering yet softly voiced motifs — until Mr. Singleton punctuates the mist with sinuous solos or dramatic eruptions. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Various events — tentative brass fanfares; short, rhythmic riffs in the percussion and piano; obsessive spiraling figures — try to get going but soon blend into the subdued overall hum of the piece. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z The idea is to weave them together, creating chords and melodies over a percussion base. Eiffel Tower becomes musical tool for New York composer 2013-06-07T16:59:41Z Here she premieres percussion concerto, riSE and fLY. This week's new live music 2012-10-05T23:05:18Z Rose, who lives in New York, claimed that U2 copied from his song “virtually note-for-note,” and also used a tambourine and the same drum, percussion and bass line without permission. U2 defeats lawsuit claiming it stole part of 'Achtung Baby' song 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Schick, who more typically wields percussion mallets than a baton, but who is part of the growing list of percussionists-turned-conductors, oversaw skillfully balanced performances of those works and the pointillistic, partly electronic “Déserts.” Music Review: More-Than-Full Var?se at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-21T22:35:00Z Mr. Ghosh, who plays the tabla, a percussion instrument similar to the bongos, “explores the ancient world of Indian percussion” in a performance that will include drumming, vocals and sitar playing by a five-person ensemble. Schimmel Center Announces Season; Kayhan Kalhor Among Performers 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The Castanets cast "Maggie's Farm" in some modern percussion and synthesizer sounds. Project uses indie artists to introduce Dylan 2010-10-04T16:43:00Z In “See What She Seeing,” a song about joyful infatuation, the percussion sputtered fitfully instead of providing a beat, while keyboard and guitar effects made chords waver in pitch instead of providing a dependable backdrop. Music Review: David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors Do ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ 2012-07-10T22:16:36Z In the opening section, “Embarcadero,” the brass players exhale through their instruments to create an ethereal whoosh jabbed by quiet bursts of color from the percussion. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony Plays Mahler and Samuel Carl Adams 2012-09-30T21:54:38Z The producer Loraine James constructed a perpetually disorienting mix of jolting electronic glitches, soothing piano and furtive snippets of percussion and synthesizer. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z During these jam sessions, children can gain insights into classical Indian music, flamenco and African percussion. Prague Music Festival Transcends Genre 2010-09-08T10:00:00Z And I made percussion and string instruments in the same style. A Blacksmith?s Touch Makes Music Light 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Most of the percussion came by way of Smith's keyboard programming, but Sim's work on bass also drove melodies. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z A lion roars, thanks to a then-new percussion instrument that imitates the threatening wild creatures. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Crucial percussion instruments arrived broken; New York was clobbered by a massive snowstorm the morning of the performance. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The vocals are high and delicate, the melody – played on guitar and xylophone – is agile, with percussion from an Irish bodhran winding around it. Readers recommend songs about hunting: The results 2010-08-05T21:45:00Z Another time, someone showed up with a tiny frog figurine that doubled as a percussion instrument, complete with a miniature drumstick. The Buy Nothing movement: Give up your stuff and pick up some friends 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In high school, Jadagu studied classical percussion and joined the school’s drum line. Hannah Jadagu Turns Small Moments Into Big Pop Songs 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z A shoe-shiner, he loved music more than anything else and played percussion at Jewish and Roma weddings. Esma Redzepova 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z And I pointed to the drums, and I pointed to the percussions. Q&A with Doug E. Fresh: How the rapper and producer became the Human Beat Box 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Having heard how good it sounded, Carter added two further movements, and it became the Double Concerto for percussion and piano. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z These are works for percussion in the widest sense; some include speech, snippets of radio transmission and amplified soda bottles. So Percussion’s Limited-Edition John Cage Project 2012-11-25T00:50:16Z He tried his hand at many instruments, studying piano, viola and percussion, and singing in a choir. ‘We’re Like Athletes Here’: The Maestro With a Gym Habit 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z As I came to a patch of flowers in some woods, I was surprised to hear a scratchy violin and bursts of nervous repeated notes for woodwinds and percussion. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Also curious for a percussion concerto was the absence of strong rhythmic character. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z At one point the men sung a low humming drone that blended with a gently syncopated percussion line to underpin Mr. Cole’s narration. Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “All these percussion solos from that period of time were written for young, acrobatic people,” he said of the “Hard Rain” collection. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The three-person band of acoustic piano, upright bass and percussion performs just behind the scenery, which, unfortunately, muffles the sound. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Coping with the resonant acoustics, he effectively balanced a small body of strings with the zealous brasses and percussion. Music Review: Playing Mahler for Charity at Trinity Church 2010-07-15T21:46:00Z Mr. Sorey plays Mr. Mitchell’s old percussion cage, as well as piano and trombone; on the latter, we get a rare taste of his whispery, secretive tone. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z And “Fading” features hard, fast, clinical percussion that recalls the rigor of Squarepusher. Review: Shlohmo’s ‘Dark Red’ Puts a Spin on the 1990s 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Feldman’s piece — scored for percussion, celesta, viola, choir and soprano — was an abstract analogue to Rothko’s canvases. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The beat is vibrant and sinister, all wobbly bass lines and clanging percussion. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z You can’t celebrate salsa without recognizing that its percussion is inherited from African drums. ‘In the Heights’ and Colorism: What Is Lost When Afro-Latinos Are Erased 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Dark and brutalist, it suggested hip-hop boiled down to raw parts — shuddering percussion, pugnacious boasts, dire mood. Reviews: Jidenna, Chastity Belt, Sicko Mobb and Mickey Guyton 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z She made a living writing film scores while experimenting with non-Western percussion instruments. At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z In “The Glorification of the Chosen One,” when the music erupts in fractured spurts with pounding percussion, Bernstein proves his mettle as a technician. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z This piece opens with a bang, 144 of them to be exact: endless iterations of a pummeling chord in the orchestra, which this score weights heavily with brass, winds, percussion and synthesizers. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Her voice soars over Andrew Lloyd Webber-level pipe organ in one moment, and settles warmly into a combo featuring banjo, flute and percussion in the next. Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z I ignore the soft sound of metallic percussion. For a dad stung by stereotypes, 'Fresh Off the Boat' is point of pride 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Guests later enjoyed what seemed like a concert at the reception by the band Sound House by Elan Artists, with four lead singers, three horns, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums and Latin percussion. The One-Night Stand That Went on Forever 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z And with its seismic chorus, booming percussion, gospel-y harmonies and life-affirming thesis, the title track has the makings of one achievement that the band has not yet nabbed: a hit single. The War on Drugs Can’t Stop Searching for Answers in the Music 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z For a start, there's nine of them, and they don't play songs so much as mini-symphonies, 20-minute tracks of multi-layered guitars, percussion and strings that ebb and flow, crash and drone. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z Thursday’s program featured three interludes from his 2007 opera “The Sacrifice,” which plunged from a stirring opening into heightened, folk-colored melodrama ranging over the entire orchestra, bristling with a full complement of percussion and brass. The NSO goes to Britain 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Lerner has retooled his band -- with Wild Flag's Rebecca Cole among the new additions on keyboards, percussion and all-around backing-vocal enthusiasm -- and his set crackled with energy and strong new melodies. SXSW Day 3: Indians, Telekenesis, Angel Haze 2013-03-15T13:47:00Z I remember sitting in the third row, near the percussion and brass sections, and the experience of that felt extraordinarily physical. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The basement held vintage synthesizers and recording equipment along with an arsenal of percussion collected through decades, all at Yeasayer’s disposal for three months. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z The percussion doesn’t smash the senses so much as swarm through them. Album review: Atoms for Peace, 'Amok' 2013-02-25T02:50:00Z "Stop upsetting yourself," he advises a friend on The Upsetter, using lilting guitar and lightly applied percussion to ease everyone back to sleep. Jack Johnson: To the Sea 2010-05-27T22:55:00Z Gone is the original’s shuffle and wallop, replaced with nimble bachata guitar and percussion. 2010-01-08T20:38:00Z These big-hearted gals also help out in the music making, using whatever pot or pan comes to hand to provide the percussion. ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’ at Encores! Off-Center 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Over all, the performance felt long, , but there were plenty of exciting moments during the vast sweep of ironic waltzes and marches, frantic moto-perpetuo string sections, brass and percussion climaxes and sardonic humor. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z A conversational composition with glinting winds recalling French impressionism, plus lively marimba, vibraphone and Latin percussion, the piece avoids the long, virtuoso displays typical of many concertos, and integrates piano and orchestra well. Chick Corea and Seattle Symphony meld jazz and classical music with a dazzling performance 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z At the end of the fourth piece – a tenebrous funeral march, written in memory of the composer's mother – massed percussion creates the first great sonic maelstrom in musical history. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z The album begins with a rush of ominous synths on “Professional,” which concludes with a steep crescendo and intense background percussion that amplifies the overall sense of dread. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z In Mozart’s time, percussion instruments had little role in the standard orchestra, with the exception of the timpani, or kettle drums. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The evening-length work is an ode to Mr. Melo’s birthplace in all its cultural richness and political complexity, accompanied by live percussion and samba. Dance Listings for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Each section has its own contingent of percussion, and each plays throughout the piece at its own speed. Music Review: Seattle Symphony Explores Nature at Spring for Music 2014-05-07T21:12:37Z As a torso it is still impressively coherent, though, in a style that leans heavily on the "primitivism" of Stravinsky and Bartók, with textures dominated by a huge range of exotic percussion. Ginastera: Popul Vuh; Cantata para Am?rica M?gica 2010-04-15T21:00:00Z The instruments ranged from cello and piano to a sextet that also included violin, viola, flute, clarinet and percussion. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z At one point, a merger of muted, slowly strummed acoustic guitar and pitched percussion felt like the announcement of a new level of craft. For a Composer, the Final Minutes Are Critical 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z With insistently clattering percussion and electronic creaks behind her, she refuses to give an ex the satisfaction of pretending to be amicable. ‘Evermore,’ Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Sequel, Is a Journey Deeper Inward 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Better is the use of sound in the film to create importance — the creaking floorboards, or the percussion of an upstairs neighbor — that rattle the family's nerves. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z On my third day, I walked over to a music store called Musik Müller to talk to Tom Gunzburger, 42, the head of the drums and percussion section. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z With its heavy load of percussion and its presumed ties to shamanistic ritual the performance proved a surprising but apt introduction to the sound world and spiritual underlay evoked by Mr. Ho. ArtsBeat: In Hall or Lobby, Toronto Symphony's Festival Offers Intriguing Sounds 2011-03-04T15:28:26Z Instead synthesizers and percussion play musical styles that are almost futuristic, creating an atonal dissonance between what we’re seeing and hearing. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson added dense layers of guitar, saxophone and percussion, and a virtuosic solo part for live guitarist, with pitches, melodic motifs and rhythms derived from the recorded vocalism. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z The album’s percussion vacillates easily between’80s-inspired beats and modern hip-hop, which shows Bflecha’s incredible ability to genre hop from blue-eyed soul sounds to synthwave to R&B, while never straying far from new wave roots. From Brazil to Iceland to Korea: Go Around the World In 11 Bands 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Will, who not only composes music but also plays synthesizer, bass, guitar and percussion, was also nominated for an Academy Award earlier this year for Best Original Score for the movie Her. Arcade Fire's Will Butler Is Releasing a Solo Album 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Three riffs, improvised on the spot by clarinet, cello and percussion, enhanced the music’s variegated colors and sense of spontaneity. Review | Despite its troubles, BSO’s concert of American music is brilliant 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But in between he went instrumental, layering the steady beat with Minimalist arpeggios and percussion textures, revealing tiers of pulse and syncopation, blurring and focusing sounds to carry the music into a wilderness of rhythms. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field 2013-05-19T22:05:31Z Brass snarls, percussion pounds and Mahler’s whiplash rhythms feel relentless. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The Ballet Theater dancers, she said, “look more awkward than I’ve ever seen them, and I’m not mad. That’s part of what focusing on the percussion does.” Sliding Toward Tap, and Taking Risks, at American Ballet Theater 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z I love the way Serge’s deep voice alternates with the female voices floating over the spare percussion. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z Violins were lustrous and precise, percussion decorative yet essential, brass menacing and, not an obvious Humperdinck attribute, droll. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The dance proceeds in a series of episodes, slow and stretched out before they erupt, accompanied as much by quiet flute, lullabies and tick-tocking marimba as by batteries of percussion. Review: Afro-Colombian Dancing Reawakens the Joyce Theater 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Another example of Mr. Lerdahl’s spiral methods of composition, it was inspired by Gothic cathedrals, and the haunting opening cello solo, played against bell-like echoes from the percussion, does indeed evoke an expansive cathedral setting. Music Review: Spiral Form and Other Compositional Modes of Fred Lerdahl 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z Some years ago, I was invited to compose a new work for a percussion ensemble. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z “I need to manage it, “ she thought at the time — and attempted to control the situation by asking her professor lots of questions about percussion and avoiding talking about anything else. LISTEN: How to beat perfectionism 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z He attempted to approximate the sound of Phillips’s manzarene by deploying a small squad of backing musicians; his take is an airy jumble of glockenspiel, mandolin, horns, and percussion. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A section of precise a cappella tapping and body percussion — with some performers in tap shoes, others in sneakers — flows into a barefoot, samba-infused dance, punctuated by a playful hip-shaking interlude. Fall for Dance Review: Some Tap, a Pas de Deux and a Monastic Chorus 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The only special features are balalaikas and such for local color and an extreme percussion section of nine players. As Plain as the Nose on His Stage 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z The brasses and woodwinds could snort, snarl, bray and swoon with the best of them, as appropriate, and the percussion section, which drives much of this work, was suitably raucous and disruptive. Review: In Mahler, Philadelphia Orchestra Finds Beauty Amid the Grit 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z It borrows from the body percussion of Samoan slap dancing, and occasionally dips into the swaying hips and wave-motion arms you might associate with the South Pacific. Review: Black Grace, From New Zealand With Incredible Speed 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In his dancing, he demonstrated how much he’s learned since then, effortlessly blending samba steps and body percussion into the jazz tradition of the Nicholases. Review: Getting Into the Tap Family Spirit With Two Stars as Hosts 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The work does not purport to be descriptive, he writes, but it begins with an alarm in the percussion, followed by fulminating surges, a tentative calm and, finally, another alarm. Review: Color and Contrasts From the New Juilliard Ensemble 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z De Waart still knows how to make it move and groove, right down to the tapered-off percussion workout at the end, and he now brings out more crystalline detail and curvaceous phrasing in the winds. At the L.A. Phil, hearing John Adams through the man who made him famous 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Inspired by the museum’s historic collection of percussion instruments and by the techniques used to play the bodhran, a traditional Irish frame drum, Mr. Dennehy’s “Surface Tension” incorporated an unusually wide spectrum of pitches. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The piano appears prominently but almost entirely in its guise as a percussion instrument. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z Perhaps “designated percussionist” would be a more appropriate term: Mr. Sánchez-Gutiérrez enlisted members normally assigned to flute, clarinet, violin and cello to play percussion instruments as well. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z “I’m a drummer at heart, I love the percussion,” he said. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z Lee's voice is delicate and otherworldly, weaving its way through warm synth blasts and creeping percussion. Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z The beat is slow but the arrangement builds nervous energy with quick percussion, insistent strings and backing voices appearing from all directions. The Playlist: Selena Gomez Chides an Ex, and Remy Ma Stomps on a Foe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The best song, by far, was the exquisite and delicate Djorolen, for which she was backed only by Fleck's thoughtful and delicate banjo work and by muted hand percussion. Oumou Sangaré and Bela Fleck – review 2012-07-19T17:00:01Z “Virgo’s Groove” features layers of undulating percussion, synthesizer and bass that updates the production work Quincy Jones did with Michael Jackson — a sort of companion piece to Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Embodies Decades of Dance Music. Here’s a Guide. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The richly varied orchestration includes captivating effects for a battery of percussion, along with some silent-film effects from a Hammond organ. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Over a foundational pedal tone in the lower strings, textural fragments — brushed percussion, a piano played both inside the instrument and at the keyboard — come and go as if by chance. Review: A Guest Conductor Reveals the Philharmonic’s Potential 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z On this album he is backed by his own acoustic guitar, with just a little help from his sons Bem and José, adding additional guitar, percussion and occasional bass. Gilberto Gil: BandaDois 2010-04-08T21:35:00Z It’s a dazzling, still world in which the pianos are treated purely as percussion instruments, and remarkably versatile ones. Review: Works by Stefano Gervasoni at Miller Theater 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z He accomplishes his musical innovations — turning every brass and woodwind instrument in his band into a form of percussion — by treating his sidemen as house slaves. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Beefy saxophones and horns add richness, and with denser percussion, the overall effect is of a jungle or aviary, a swirling bustle — but in a dewy, pastoral key. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In Washington this week, it’s being presented three times in three different combinations; Wednesday’s performance included only two groups: brass and percussion. John Luther Adam’s ‘Sila’ finds its breath at Meridian Hill Park 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The beat, with its irresistible percussion, was produced by the pioneering duo of Wycliffe Johnson and Cleveland Browne, known as Steely & Clevie. A Secret Ingredient in Songs of Summer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The orchestra is set up in the shape of a bird, with the strings arranged in a horseshoe intersected by a line formed by the conductor, a piano and the percussion instruments. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z In both, Harrison reveals a love for lyricism in the violin part and a love for going to town with percussion. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z When composing “In Vain,” Mr. Haas said he incorporated light “like a silent percussion instrument.” Critic?s Notebook: Unearthly Harmonies, Best Heard in the Dark 2011-02-15T22:20:14Z Amid flashing gold lights on the percussion and keyboard stands, she approached the microphone borne on the shoulders of two men in loincloths. Donna Summer: 'the audience was groaning worse than I was' ? a classic interview from the vaults 2012-05-17T18:30:01Z Closely associated with jazz music, tappers use the sounds of their shoes hitting the floor as a form of percussion. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z But after a brief, scattered system of pitched percussion passed, those voices suddenly sounded forlorn. Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z While the African-American ensembles danced for the most part to pounding, clattering, deliciously rhythmic percussion, the Malagasy tunes were folksier and more melodic, heavy on the accordion and reminiscent of zydeco or Cajun music. Groupe Bakomanga and Asase Yaa Perform at DanceAfrica 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z She warns against consumerism, comparisons and artificial peer pressure; she gradually stacks up electric guitar riffs and then breaks them down to a little percussion and a lone, undaunted voice. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Picking up a garbage bag, she wields it like a cape or a percussion instrument, before very carefully inserting into it one leg and then the other, converting it into a skirt. Review: Awilda Sterling-Duprey Summons Dancing Forces of Nature 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z “He started more and more saying the hang is not a drum, not a percussion instrument,” Andreas said. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The mood is what is rendered most effectively: delicate synth tones are set to echoing percussion and low-key distortion, and the melodies are melancholy. Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review 2013-05-23T20:40:02Z Brass, percussion and piano each make strong contributions. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z Its 11 folk-rock tunes feature lots of fiddle, guitar and percussion as they extol independence, equality and sisterly solidarity. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The first single, “Soldier of Love,” is as close as Sade gets to current R&B with its martial percussion, subterranean bass throb, sudden zaps of samples and somber strings. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z Seven Colors performed a long improvised jam at Chop Suey a few months ago, and a recording of that is above, with Henderson on flute, vocals and percussion. Late notice: Seven Colors at Cairo, Friday 10/28 2011-10-28T17:37:06Z One, Alexander Ekman, has a New York premiere with “Tuplet,” in which the dancers help make their own music by using their bodies as percussion instruments. The Week Ahead: May 20 ? 26 2012-05-20T08:00:06Z The meditative, texturally rich landscapes of “In the Light of Air” for viola, cello, harp, piano, percussion and electronics by this young Icelandic composer are haunting, beautiful and unsettling by turns. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Coleman recorded it with the Council of Balance, a chamber agglomeration of woodwinds, percussion and strings, along with members of Five Elements, his turn-on-a-dime band. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Then, bursts of rattling percussion instigate a series of gestures that swell, fracture and break off. Review: The Philharmonic Puts a Young Composer’s Twist on Bruckner 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z But that’s natural, because no matter how you want to play it, the piano is a percussion instrument, hammers on strings.” Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z Played here with power and precision by Jared Soldiviero and Matt Smallcomb, the percussion part adds superficial haunted-house excitement — eerie bells, shivery shimmers, sudden crashes — while draining the energy of the main event. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z Amherst3000 was also paying close attention to the music: Also agree about D&A sounding like Prince of the Pagodas in parts, and other Britten works with some of the percussion. Reader reviews: your take on Timon of Athens and Metamorphosis Titian 2012 2012-07-20T14:00:00Z In his roughly 350 works, mournful melodies intertwine with evocations of natural sounds like birds and thunder; driving rhythms and vivid use of percussion are also integral elements. Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Steeped in Australia’s Sounds, Dies at 85 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z There's certainly an anarchic energy about the music, and about Irvine's own conducting of his ensemble, which is heavy on percussion, saxophones and brass. Postcards from Dumbworld ? review 2010-10-22T21:31:00Z I’m excited to hear what the piece sounds like with the orchestra and added percussion. Awadagin Pratt to join NW Sinfonietta for ‘Embargo’ premiere 2013-04-18T21:52:57Z As with his past several albums, he has enlisted the close cooperation of Lena Ferrer, his daughter, who plays percussion and sings harmony. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z The result: songs capturing the essence of restless, nomadic life in two languages, accompanied by dance, percussion and guitar. Etran Finatawa brings 'nomad's blues' to Neumos 2010-07-22T21:50:00Z Aucoin himself will conduct the orchestra, which he said is scored for “full strings, a mixture of double and triple winds, full brass, two harps, piano and a lot of percussion doing watery sound effects.” “Eurydice” heads to LA Opera and then Met 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The score, played here by the ensemble Contemporaneous under William Cole’s direction, ingeniously translates some fraught conversations between a doctor and patient into a percussion duet. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Accompanying one another with weak body percussion, they alternated between solos and insubstantial duets or ensemble bits. ‘Dancing Through the Bronx’ Makes a Stop at Wave Hill 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Four songs that further blur British producer-songwriter James Blake's sound, the tracks on "200 Press" mix ethereal, fuzzy beats with distorted, syrupy vocal hooks and layers of subtle percussion. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z “Fiction,” is another song that shows off their use of percussion throughout the album. The xx Take Risks, Succeed on Coexist 2012-09-05T16:00:49Z As each section made a gradual crescendo, colored lights shone on the respective players; the mallet percussion instruments were kept especially busy with repeated figures that rippled up and down. At SSO, impassioned Shostakovich, ‘Become Ocean’ | Classical review 2013-06-21T17:00:44Z David Shively’s music, with taped electronic and percussion, establishes a succession of tense moods without dance rhythms. Review: In Donna Uchizono’s ‘Sticky Majesty,’ Two Queens and Their Handmaidens 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Instead, they use their voices like percussion instruments, and create intricate patterns with their harmonies. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z There’s a percussion number with stirrers and glasses, and tongs used as castanets. 6 Immersive Theater Shows to See in New York 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Momentum flagged again when Taylor moved to a second drum kit so he could do a percussion duet with his son, Rufus Taylor. Adam Lambert leads a cross-generational Queen through the hits at Merriweather Raja learned Indian percussion at Leeds College Of Music but taught himself electric bass well enough to become an in-demand session player for rock and hip-hop records. This week's new live music 2011-08-26T23:06:11Z Sudden bursts of percussion explode within calmer textures. Music Review: Spotlight on San Francisco, and the New 2011-04-13T22:51:31Z I was also pleased to see Cynthia Yeh, one of the city's great percussion virtuosos, getting the chance to show off her amazing talents. MusicNOW composers team up with Mouse on Mars 2010-12-14T18:33:00Z Phil, extra percussion and a variety of pop and folk performers. Hollywood Bowl's 'Noche de Cine' also a night of Gustavos 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The music's changed, to the purposeful percussion of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. The Americans – TV review 2013-06-02T05:00:00Z His pieces for voices, for percussion and for smaller ensembles number in the dozens. Seattle Symphony premieres Nico Muhly work 2012-01-23T19:12:04Z Some tracks feature a banjo, a flute and hand percussion, but no bassist or drummer. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z “I really wanted the main focus of the record to be percussion and voice,” Remy said on a February afternoon in Manhattan, over a lunch of soba noodles and sake. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “We don’t own instruments anymore — everything was liquidated. We have to rent percussion, rent a harp. We had to buy a coffeepot.” New York City Opera, on the Rebound With a Boost From Bernstein 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Another subtheme of the evening was the use of unusual percussion instruments. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-07-02T20:37:00Z The Duk members began the show by playing from the balcony, using horns, accordion and percussion to produce a sort of Balkan-New Orleans jazz. Tobias Jesso Jr.’s album serves more as inspiration to show at 9:30 Club 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z We’d use the grate from a box fan as a percussion instrument. Los Lobos' songwriting team a 40-year conversation 2011-11-16T01:11:00Z Guy sings her quirky, asymmetrical, personal songs in a breathy voice, accompanying herself vigorously on violin or viola and, often on recordings, percussion and a variety of other modern classical textures. Northwest Folklife Festival offers sneak preview 2011-04-21T23:17:44Z In the otherworldly “Pillar II,” which dissolves into a dizzying kaleidoscope of high-pitched chirps, the edges of a vibraphone are bowed — not an unusual effect in contemporary percussion music. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Here, over the course of several years, I worked up the courage to compose “Strange and Sacred Noise,” a brutally elemental cycle of percussion quartets. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z As presented by the Red Poppy Ladies, an all-female troupe from Beijing, the story is told in 13 scenes, using pantomime, dance and a few supertitles, but chiefly through percussion. Theater Review: ‘Mulan the Musical,’ at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-28T19:04:38Z A 53-foot climate-controlled truck travels with the larger instruments — eight or nine basses; 12 cellos, a harp or two and all the percussion, including timpani, xylophone, vibraphone and snare drums. Small Army, Philharmonic in Tow 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He is the president of the board of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble and on the board of Sandbox Percussion, a contemporary percussion quartet, both in New York. Nadia Sirota, James Lemkin 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z I wanted to play percussion — not, as expected, violin. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Echoes abound, whether from the careful manipulation of overtones and resonances or through the discreet halo created by metallic percussion. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Snare drums are at ground level, strings are on the first floor, while electric guitars, percussion and screaming vocalist up in the gods. Hofesh Shechter 2011-07-14T16:16:28Z He gravitated to courses he felt would help him professionally, like music production, arranging and Afro-Caribbean percussion. The Modern Music Man: He Plays 70 Instruments and Video Games, Too 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z By the time the members of this impressive percussion ensemble joined forces in 2005, the composer Steve Reich was already a grandfather figure in the American new-music scene. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Ballard and the performers have fleshed out a playing edition of seductive, varied textures: mellow recorders, reedy strings and shuddering percussion, with tightly massed choral harmonies. Music Review: ‘The Play of Daniel’ at the Cloisters 2013-01-13T21:22:12Z Look up “Is the piano a percussion or string instrument?” online, and you’ll find an irreconcilable series of arguments for either side. Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The set starts with a slinking riff and African percussion backed by a swirl of keyboards, while on Owiny Techno the chanting vocals are matched against rumbling bass. Owiny Sigoma Band: Power Punch – review 2013-04-11T22:04:01Z All the while, the noise of it, along with live percussion by Efraín Rozas — an incredible physical presence — transformed the theater into a sonic landscape. Review: Sensation and Skin, in a Theater Housed in Bodies 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It begins purely rhythmically, all hustling percussion and chants; then in the middle a clear, warm spot opens up for a pretty melody. Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z Numerous percussion instruments were spread out on the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium stage, with some ensemble members performing from the balcony to generate an enveloping sound. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The three women sang oohs in wordless harmony, and Mr. Longstreth crooned extended, leaping lines, all cantilevered amid the orchestra’s fits and starts of percussion, cackling Stravinskyan woodwind motifs and hovering tone clusters. Music Review | Dirty Projectors: Indie-Rock on a Quest, With Woodwinds, Brass and Strings 2010-02-22T05:52:00Z Finally a frustrated board member and percussion teacher, Jonathan Haas, asked the trustees to stop and listen to the music coming through the windows. Sweet Sounds of Truce at Aspen Music Festival 2010-08-11T18:43:00Z At the opening, percussion instruments chime on every beat, but scattered, which with a haze of sustained harmonics dissolve any sense of a downbeat. Review: The Philharmonic Journeys From Ocean to Desert 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The new concerto picks up on an idea developed in “Play”: Specific percussion instruments trigger abrupt shifts between different musical materials. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Rather than articulating individual notes, Young turned his trademark black guitar into a percussion instrument, physically evoking how “the new world” was shaped by blood and violence. Neil Young, solo in Chicago, builds to a rafter-rattling finale 2011-05-07T13:50:05Z In one track, “El Pecheche,” you hear crickets in the background and two bottles clanked together for percussion. Playlist: CDs by People, Places & Things, and Anibal Velasquez 2010-04-30T19:54:00Z The School of Music there is one of the nation’s largest, with an extensive percussion program. A Servant of Rhythm From Ghana, in Texas 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A sinister line of drummers in military tunics, their faces invisible in the half-dark, the crash and volley of their percussion obliterating all thought and dissent. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z Joined by keyboard and percussion players, he works through an idiosyncratic but compelling 10-song set. Gil Scott-Heron 2010-04-26T22:30:00Z Not that it really had competition: When it premiered, a repertory for solo percussion barely existed. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Extra percussion and strings were brought in to amp up the music, along with additional dancers. This week's new dance 2011-07-08T23:09:31Z Shrieking violins suggest some fast-approaching threat, while bow sticks striking their strings evoke fraying nerves or an inundation of tiny insects; and chaotic percussion simulate the protagonist’s heart-racing panic. These Composers Are Maestros of Menace 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z He found just the thing at a percussion store in New York. Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The cavernous room was like Santa’s workshop if Santa Claus were a Nigerian percussion master. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The voices and percussion meshed to colorful effect, the story propelled by a high-energy blend of stylistic influences including reggae, hip-hop and rock, with Mr. Cole a charismatic contemporary bard. Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z While some of the ascetically curt melodies, edgily avant-funky grooves and impassively entwined counterpoint are familiar Coleman traits, the music is several degrees warmer: full of sparky ensemble writing, varied percussion sounds and vivacious grooves. Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias – review 2013-04-11T21:35:01Z The drummer and his group won the trophy for best percussion section at a local showcase. Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp cranks up the volume 2011-11-15T19:12:01Z It is a lot of symphonic and classical with very hip rock and modern sounds with a lot of percussions. The Creator of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Is Back with a New Show 2013-10-08T09:45:13Z Featuring guest appearances from Lil' Wayne, up-and-coming Somali rapper K'naan and British soul and R&B singer Joss Stone, it mixes rock guitar, world music percussion, hip hop beats and traditional African instruments. Nas and Marley mix rap and reggae inspired by Africa 2010-05-21T20:47:00Z Now 89 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, he exudes a dignitary’s poise at the piano, typically working with this trio, featuring Alex Blake on bass and Neil Clarke on percussion. Jazz Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mixing electronic elements with ambient violins and thundering percussion, Zimmer has proven that at 52 years old, he is showing no signs of slowing down. A dream job: Hans Zimmer and the music of 'Inception' 2010-07-20T05:02:00Z Harrison’s keyboards cushion the main melodies and instrumentation, buoying the music without taking up too much space, while hints of exotic percussion or unorthodox instrumentation add subtle accent colors. "Talking Heads: 77," released 40 years ago tomorrow 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The piece, which had its world premiere in Berlin in 1895, entails an orchestra of more than 100, a vast choir, choral soloists, multiple harps, a pipe organ and additional offstage percussion and brass. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z He knows how to make percussion rock 'n' roll 'n' roar. Hollywood Bowl's 'Noche de Cine' also a night of Gustavos 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Deploying a chain in the percussion and piercing flute notes, it contains a lot of what the composer frankly calls noise. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Yet it was like participating in a percussion ritual of pounding, deafening rhythmic bursts. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z “Mirage,” a string quartet, evokes both the desolation and the power of the Israeli desert; “Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!,” a kaleidoscopic percussion concerto, builds on the mingled allure and peril of the substances in its title. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z At the beginning of “Water Me,” there was rapid-fire percussion before she opened her mouth, and she responded with fast body movements, her elbows, wrists and the joints in her hand working overtime. Music Review: FKA twigs Performs at Glasslands in Brooklyn 2014-04-17T21:41:36Z "Zones of Influence" is an evening-long work for percussion and electronics, with piano and violin added. Electronic percussion, evolving: Rosenboom, Winant at REDCAT 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Watching his percussion circle, he danced along with his very core. Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The dancers are barefoot, crossing Irish dance with body percussion like that of African American stepping. Trinity Irish Dance Company Review: Those Flashing, Percussive Feet 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The guitar, which was central to Bon Iver’s early releases, is largely minimized here in favor of percussion, electronic effects and also saxophone. Review: With ‘22, a Million,’ Bon Iver Beats a Retreat to Even Quieter Reinvention 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The score’s 90-member orchestra included a symphonic-sized string section, a brass section twice the size of most brass sections, and an abundance of percussion. ‘Track Stars: M83 and the Music for Oblivion 2013-04-24T12:00:20Z It’s awash in loops and effects, in sustained shimmering tones and percussion overdubs; in the opening track, “You Are Here,” a long drone acclimates a listener to its sense of suspended time. Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Generally this would be supplied by percussion, but here it’s a single muted guitar string. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Also on the docket are “Resounding Earth,” a percussion symphony of sorts, and an excerpt from “Sun Threads” for string quartet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z And the explosive proliferation of percussion music that came after “Ionisation” owes nearly everything to Varèse’s mysterious masterpiece. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z Those percussion instruments aren’t too different from the ones used in the Bauhaus band, which began as an ad hoc ensemble for parties. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Maloya is music for voices and percussion; Ms. Salem was backed by three percussionists and singers, and she played a kayamb, a rectangular rattle that was in constant motion in her hands. Music Review: Globalfest, World Musicians at Webster Hall 2013-01-14T23:02:43Z The result was evocative rather than tightly focused, though the players were laudably willing to take risks, notably by taking up percussion instruments. Review | Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The instrumentation is striking: a 15-piece percussion section for “The Libation Bearers,” quartets of both saxophones and its obscure cousin the saxhorn for “The Eumenides,” which lend a marching-band quality to some of the music. CD review: young Icelandic composer’s organic music; Milhaud’s weighty ‘Orestie’ Mr. Tignor oversaw the percussion and electronic elements and also, made up as a zombie, did a vocal turn during the encore. Music Review: Brooklyn Rider at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-11-03T21:43:04Z His next solo album, “Movies,” came out in 1980; across more than a dozen later albums, he incorporated elements like found sounds, half-spoken vocals and sundry percussion. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z For a few years he studied drums and percussion in France, then moved back to Tel Aviv, played in a rock band, and occasionally taught dance. ArtsBeat: A Conversation With Israeli-Born Choreographer Hofesh Shechter 2012-10-10T17:29:27Z Mr. Refosco’s percussion redefined the songs from their first beat, as when he used the twang of a Brazilian berimbau to start “The Clock.” Music Review: Thom Yorke of Radiohead Brings Atoms for Peace to Roseland 2010-04-06T22:10:00Z On it were rigged garbage-can lids, circular sawblades, dryer exhaust vents and other household items, along with more conventional percussion such as timpani, xylophones, tambourines and castanets. Trimpin book salutes artist's contraptions, sound 2011-06-15T21:50:04Z A rock band, its thundering riffs seemingly born of the military percussion. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z Epworth blends snappy percussion accents and cascading harmony vocals to launch the album on the frisky but slight "Save Us." Paul McCartney tries to make everything new again 2013-10-15T05:00:00Z Rhapsodic swaths of wind and brass sweep upward in inverted cascades, and the clang of raw, unturned percussion represents the noisy soundscape of a building site. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z It's an intense house cut with rattling percussion, drowning in buckets of soul. Locked Groove's favourite tracks 2013-01-25T18:00:00Z Workshops will be given in vocal percussion, hip-hop dancing and golf, and anyone can take part in Little Club Heads, a dance party for children 1 to 10 and their families. Spare Times for Children for July 27-Aug. 2 2012-07-26T22:37:49Z On Wednesday, the front of the stage at David Geffen Hall was crammed with a motley assortment of percussion instruments, many concocted from junk. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Their trademark African percussion and digital sampler sounded especially ghostly through the massive Marymoor speakers. My Morning Jacket / Shabazz Palaces: swirling sounds at Marymoor Park 2012-09-08T23:40:10Z The piece unfolded with bouts of frenetic activity, volleys of percussion and gnashing chords. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Built on the uncluttered interplay of voice, percussion and guitar, bachata uses a delicate tone to emphasize themes of romance and heartbreak. Romeo Santos comes on like a king at Staples Center 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Go-go was heavy on percussion with drummers as lead players, accented by guitar riffs, keyboards and horns. Chuck Brown, Pioneer of 'Go-Go' Funk Music, Dies 2012-05-17T00:30:11Z An impromptu "punk percussion" band turned up at the South African Embassy, spilled red paint, and made a racket on pots and pans to harass representatives of the apartheid regime. Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock 2012-11-27T14:23:35Z The premiere of a percussion concerto for the Utah Symphony, originally scheduled for the spring of 2014, was delayed until a few weeks ago. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It shimmied at every opportunity, thanks to the work of bassist Byron House and drummer Marco Giovino, who mixed mallets, brushes and percussion knickknacks like a master painter. Robert Plant in ghost dance with roots 2011-04-11T00:28:26Z Some played guitar, most played percussion, a few sang, and all danced, like a drum line in miniature. Review | David Byrne Burns Down the House at the Anthem 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z With its clanking prison-door percussion effects, urgent guitar and cagey vocal delivery, the track perfectly suits the show. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z She ponders the meaning of life and the routes to happiness amid Bollywood percussion, zithers from Asia and modal riffs from North Africa, airborne and determinedly positive. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A glittering dialogue unfolded among the percussion, winds and strings in the arch-shaped piece, which began quietly, built to swirls of fantastical colors, then quietly ebbed away. Music Review: Ensembles Resonate With Each Other 2011-06-06T21:45:25Z Mr. Auerbach surrounds her singing with echoing guitars and bone-dry percussion, in the spirit of a spaghetti western soundtrack. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-07T23:20:47Z Scored for strings, woodwinds, harp, percussion and piano, the piece is remarkably concise: not short, exactly, but with plenty of motion, none of it wasted. Music Review: June in Buffalo at the University at Buffalo 2012-06-10T21:30:06Z Lasting 90 minutes and requiring two female vocalists, full chorus, organ and what the musicologist Deryck Cooke described as “much percussion,” one would hope so. The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z ‘Downs’ was a little out there for me, an exercise in percussion imagination. Big Star's lost masterpiece finally gets its due 2013-06-27T21:39:00Z As she spoke, a series of long, low tones came from Nioka Workman’s bowed cello, and Michael Wimberly issued a gargle of percussion from the clay pot perched in his lap. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The tracks they built rely on imperturbably sustained keyboards, layers of Zsela’s voice in unison and harmony, subdued electronic percussion and myriad near-subliminal sounds. Meet Zsela, a Singer Perfecting the Art of Taking It Slowly 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Efficient acrobatics returned in “Balance and Imbalance,” which featured traditional Korean percussion and chanting, performed live by three musicians who shared a warm rapport, including the charismatic vocalist Kim Jae-woo. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Bachata is a tradition of almost miraculous austerity — a voice, a couple of staccato picked guitars, light percussion — and Mr. Santos refuses to clutter it or pump in bass. Critic’s Notebook: New Music by Shakira, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin 2014-03-27T20:50:23Z With the violas now taking the place of the violins, the sound shifted down an octave, its burnished sheen given body with brasses and punctuated by sometimes raucous percussion. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The legendary granddaddy of percussion ensembles will be performing in Seattle for the first time in its 49-year history. Get ready for a 3-D sound experience with Les Percussions de Strasbourg 2011-02-16T21:09:06Z Scored for voices, strings, flute, percussion and synthesizer, it received its premiere in 1999. Elodie Lauten, Who Wove Opera From Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry, Dies at 63 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z In any case, there was no such problem with the percussion dynamo Ms. Glennie in Mr. Ho’s brilliant and compelling concerto. Music Review: Spring for Music, a Festival of Orchestras, Plays Carnegie Hall 2014-05-09T22:21:55Z The middle movement’s exotic night music duet between piano and percussion was less the exercise in mystery and menace that mortal pianists may seek and more the enchanting glitter of the starry sky. The importance of being the L.A. Phil 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z At his death, he was working on a percussion concerto. Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Tolling percussion sounds throughout; the voice of a soloist — here Sarah Brailey, her soprano dark-hued — keeps emerging from the chorus and building to intense heights. Review: Praying to the Heavens, Looking at the Stars and Revising a Service 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Men and women toss the traditional chant back and forth, then unite and echo; hand-played percussion rides a four-on-the-floor beat, and the energy multiplies. The Weeknd’s Disco Fever, and 9 More New Songs 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z This US mix has dreamy backwards harmonies, extra percussion and phased guitar. The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time 2013-02-01T07:00:00Z There was one jarring note to the event: All 16 players in the percussion ensemble were men. The Man Who Gives Form to the Sprawling Salzburg Festival 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Under the image of the Fox monolith, illuminated by roving searchlights, a martial battery of snares and bass drum percussion introduces Newman’s brassy, regal fanfare. 'Solo' hits the big screen minus one classic 'Star Wars' moment: the Fox Fanfare 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Kalmar led his players in a taut, passionate account, with superb woodwind and brass playing and pointed percussion in the Dies Irae and a haunting string tone in the closing Requiem Aeternam. Music Review: Exploring Themes of War, Both the Existential and the Concrete 2011-05-13T22:45:09Z I played electronic percussion, which was a genre my dad kind of invented. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Even musical interludes, such as the famous eruption of percussion instruments and the circus-like dances, further the sense of tumult. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z At the 92nd Street Y on Saturday, the company, led by David Parker, attempted to realize scores by Mozart, Morton Feldman and Steve Reich with foot and body percussion. Review: ‘Tap Lab,’ From the Bang Group, Conveys Musical Scores Through Footwork 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s subtle and dreamy, drifting in a wash of electronic keyboards and muted percussion. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z A work of iridescent beauty, the symphony for strings, percussion and harp eases us out of our daily metropolitan grind and summons our radiant guardian angels. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The songs are a stream of hand-played percussion, with voices and other instruments popping in strategically, as the production pinpoints every drum stroke and pedal-steel-guitar zing. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z They’re used as an extra layer of percussion in the album and again here on the charming “Here Til It Says I’m Not.” Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z Eerie sustained tones on the organ and pungent, soft cluster chords provide a backdrop to repetitive rhythms and twittering riffs for the large battery of percussion instruments. Music Review: Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Weltethos’ in England 2012-06-22T23:59:58Z The piece calls for a massive orchestra — in Salzburg, the Vienna Philharmonic, filling the pit of the Felsenreitschule theater and also flanking its stage with a battery of percussion. An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z In between tunes, Brown would keep the thunk of percussion going and talk to the crowd. Chuck Brown, Pioneer of 'Go-Go' Funk Music, Dies 2012-05-17T00:30:11Z At the Purcell Room, the trio began with Bode, a meditation on delicate treble trickles and percussion sounds that built to a storm of chords and trills. Vijay Iyer Trio – review 2013-02-06T17:51:00Z Working under yet another pseudonym, Man Forever, he recorded a solo album by overdubbing himself dozens of times, resulting in a tidal wave of percussion. Kid Millions? New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming 2010-06-22T21:32:00Z And with no additional vocals and only some keyboards and percussion in support, the sound was more raw. Rolling Stones again at their peak in rerelease 2010-09-08T00:46:00Z The single “Black Magic,” which features rhythmic percussion and triumphant horns, is an ode to being “unapologetically Black and proud and full of joy,” Rowland explained. For Kelly Rowland, good things come in threes 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z You might think that a percussion ensemble limited to cymbals would sound constricted in terms of color and range, and you would be partly right. Music Review: TimeTable Percussion and Friends at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-06-21T22:57:00Z Phoenix, aided by additional help on percussion, was a relentlessly celebratory rush of beat-driven pop. FYF Fest 2014: Interpol, Phoenix bring a dash of professionalism 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z “Because I could read music, I could create rhythms and percussion with my feet and hear different musicality in the music that really influenced my dance style,” he said. Signature Moves With Sean Bankhead 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Often the percussion was busiest when Ms. Venu was at her most still: the drama was internal. Dance Review: Kapila Venu in ‘The Abandonment of Sita’ at Asia Society 2012-09-10T03:34:44Z The music is dramatically colorful rather than gloomy, particularly in how he uses winds, brass, and percussion chimes and cymbal. Rare Schubert gems sparkle in hands of Seattle Symphony 2012-03-23T16:53:04Z But the change in percussion did little to satisfy the scores of Brazilians who took to social networks and local culture news outlets to express distaste on Friday. Brazilians cold on Pitbull's World Cup theme, 'We Are One' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z A remake of the 1960 Mardi Gras standard, “Carnival Time” — heartily sung by its songwriter and original performer, Al Johnson — throws together brass-band horns, Latin percussion and a determinedly funky clavinet. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z The imaginative use of percussion evoked faraway galaxies with more subtlety than the sometimes generic images of outer space featured in the production, otherwise effectively directed by Nancy Rhodes. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It came in the slow section of “Tehillim,” Reich’s joyous 1981 setting of Hebrew Psalm texts for four solo, angelically high and pure-voiced women’s voices and a small instrumental ensemble with plenty of percussion. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z "They were in a music room with other percussion instruments," McCarthy said. Stokowski sleuth tracks past for Philly Orchestra 2012-12-21T16:25:17Z “Hard II Love” is filled with synthesizer bass lines and the shallow, spattering percussion of trap, and Usher uses his share of Auto-Tune and choppy digital edits; his songs are aimed at radio. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The human voice is a great place to start, and the kitchen cabinet contains a wealth of percussion instruments. How Music Trumps Reading for Childhood Development 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z There were radiant and passionate string cantilenas, sinuous woodwind solos, incisive interventions by the brass, vehement percussion outbursts. Dausgaard brings distinguished interpretation to Sibelius' Fifth with the Symphony 2010-03-26T18:22:00Z Former Beta Band vocalist Steve Mason's new solo material went down a treat on Saturday evening, his soulful songs of doubt lifted by pulsing percussion and his bruised falsetto. Truck festival 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z The composer, a highly skilled orchestrator, told the audience why he had at first resisted a commission to write a percussion concerto. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z In the electronic version, the chords were an ambient whisper; the percussion was milder and less ritualistic. Review: Yarn/Wire Provides Two Flavors of Thrill 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z “What always fascinated me about African music is how people play or program drums, how percussion is treated,” Hugo says. The Very Best: The Swedish-African connection 2012-08-09T17:15:00Z Friday’s concert at Carnegie includes the New York premiere of Mr. Norman’s percussion concerto “Switch.” Pennies From Utah Revive a Symphony 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z "That sequence lasted seven minutes," says Arnold, "and to try and keep the same tempo and rhythm throughout would have been ridiculous, so I thought: we're in Africa, perfect for rhythmic percussions." From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z Onstage and off, when Bugs tapped his baton, percussion mallets were raised; in the cartoon, they had marshmallows on the ends. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The program began with Hannah Lash’s “Folksongs: I, II, III, IV,” an appealing set of short, sweetly melodic pieces for piccolo, harp and exotic, light-textured percussion, performed by Maya, a trio with that unusual constitution. Music Review: Soundtrack for Bird and Turtle, and Other New Music 2011-03-29T21:48:48Z It’s flush with jazz swing, irresistible syncopation and a call-and-response between a repetitive vocal chorus, the horn section and percussion. 10 Tito Puente Essentials for the Mambo King’s Centennial 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z El Combo Las Latas, he added, “was all kids, but at that very early age we understood about percussion, melody and singing.” Cheo Feliciano, Debonair Salsa Singer, Dies at 78 2014-04-19T05:31:10Z The piece begins with primordial low rumblings that provoke the percussion to break into skittish fits. In Paris, a Music Hall Built for Unity Offers a Stirring First Act 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “With everything closed now, there’s nowhere to go,” Smith sings over a sparse guitar arrangement, but the atmosphere soon grows merrier with the addition of piano, percussion and a fleet of backup singers. 12 New Christmas Songs for a Vast Array of Holiday Moods 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Concert Orchestra were recruited, along with dozens of extra brass and percussion players. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z Frenetic volleys of percussion rapping, chiming and tinkling seem like animated commentaries on the vocal lines, not intrusive interruptions. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z I most enjoyed the premiere of “Concerto for Bass Drum and Ensemble, In Memory of Mary Montgomery Brown,” led by Steven Schick on percussion. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Showcases the Work of Pauline Oliveros 2013-08-21T21:37:54Z The hourlong blend of percussion music, video projections and recited texts is an honorable but frustrating attempt to grapple with complex themes, including politics, communal identity and rites of passage. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z We boiled the flesh away so we could use them as percussion! Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z Mr. Carter’s orchestral score matched the vocal line in warmth, but what caught the ear most completely was his colorful, varied percussion writing. Music Review: Showcase for Orchestra of the League of Composers 2010-06-09T00:34:00Z But the angle that matters the most is the brittle, brilliant music, played by an ensemble of eight musicians, the sound heavily weighted toward piano and percussion. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z His latest recording, "Music for Wood & Strings," is a piece for So Percussion that imagines percussion instruments as being a big strummed guitar. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z It also stirred pushback from some critics who found the music too blatant: How many episodes of pummeling percussion, gnashing chords, screeching brass and sorrowfully wafting string melodies can one piece contain? Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In fact, the combination on her debut single Uphill of the gentle patter of percussion and repeated electronic keyboard chords remind us of the backing to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. New band of the day - George Maple (No 1,422) 2013-01-02T15:16:34Z In “Renard,” there was much to admire in the crisp, focused brass playing and in the way the percussion pointed up the work’s burlesque qualities. Music Review: At Avery Fisher Hall, Stravinsky Spinning Fables 2010-05-03T21:37:00Z Four drummers pummeled out percussion riffs from the lower balcony, two on each side of the auditorium. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z He also played guitar and percussion instruments like the congas and the daf, a large drum. Ahmed Alshaiba, Yemeni Music Master, Is Dead at 32 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The first movement, "The Unquestioned Answer," plays with the themes of Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question," with fascinating textures from the percussion section and an air of mystery from the harmonic bed of strings. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z There were passages that sounded like distant choirs and gentle patters of percussion; there were slow washes of harmonic tension and resolution. At Moogfest, a Demonstration of What Human and Machine Can Accomplish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The band joins her with somber vocal harmonies, tolling drone tones, clanking percussion and baleful fiddle slides, a crescendo of dread. Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z West African percussion and lyric guitar riffs star in her lush takes on the familiar songs, making them even more impossible not to dance to. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z His instruments — exotic variations on marimbas, organs, percussion and more — looked as amazing as they sounded. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The two percussion players responded with rhythmic riffs, chimes and sustained eerie tones. Review: A Mostly Mozart Milestone, and an Immersive Lineup 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Robbins switches on a CD of Edgar Varèse’s “Arcana,” an unruly snarl of blaring brass, dissonant strings and booming percussion, from 1927. In Each Child, an Inner Choreographer 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Drums and other percussion instruments were set at a nearby car park on top of a shopping center. Rooftop alphorns power virus-safe concert in Germany 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z George Stelluto conducted the ensemble, which included percolating percussion and barely audible strings. Music Review | Carol Wincenc: Carol Wincenc Leads Flutists at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2010-04-01T21:56:00Z But her current touring lineup is simply a four-piece rock band — two guitars, bass and drums — to which Ms. Arby sometimes adds her own percussion on hand drum or calabash. Music Review: Mixing Electric Funk With Joyful Malian Wails 2011-03-06T22:51:02Z Schick, 61, is a music professor at UC San Diego and author of "The Percussionist's Art" a memoir, history and analysis of the solo percussion repertoire. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Recorded chants and naturalistic sounds, like lapping waves, mingle with the tones and timbres of the live percussion. Review: In ‘Beyond Time,’ U-Theater Dances and Drums With Precision 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Henze achieves some dazzling effects with a chamber orchestra of two dozen players, heavy on percussion and brass - including the rare use of a Wagner tuba. Philly offers US premiere of Henze's 'Phaedra' 2011-06-05T13:46:08Z The piece ends with blissful “Alleluia” refrains as crystalline chords cascade in the piano and percussion. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Van Etten sings this refrain with a pure-toned, delicate voice while guitars, organ and percussion offer a musical depth as menacing as the lines. Sharon Van Etten sings of a toxic relationship on 'Are We There' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z And in the vintage television clips, she often sings a mile a minute, propelled by simmering percussion. Music Review: Marilyn Maye Salutes Johnny Carson at 54 Below 2014-05-08T21:20:40Z The program seemed built to explore the breadth of timbres and textures the percussion world offers a composer. Music Review: Rain, Snow and the Forest?s Primeval Power, Channeled Through Beats 2011-03-30T23:24:58Z The arrangement, featuring banjo, harmonicas and several percussion instruments, evokes lazy 1930s summer afternoons shuffling down a dirt road, fishing rod in hand. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z On my umpteenth listen, I noticed an “All Tomorrow’s Parties” thump to the percussion. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Lang’s composition, adding cello, viola and percussion, is a kind of analysis of the biblical text, pulling phrases that begin with possessive pronouns. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Beginning with martial percussion and dissonance, the symphony’s baseline is horror. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Boomerang’s collaborators include Greg Saunier, the drummer for the indie band Deerhoof, who will accompany the group’s beach set with live percussion, and perhaps get himself — or his instruments — involved with the dance, too. In the Rockaways, Dancing by the Surf and Sand 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Stille Rock is simply a pulsating shift between two piano chords, before a hint of percussion appears, then strings, intensifying drumming – and sudden wrongfooting silences just as resolutions seem inevitable. Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Outstairs – review 2013-07-18T21:30:00Z Typically, when a composer wanted to evoke some exotic realm, novel percussion instruments were introduced. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Other offerings include “Rockin’ Rhythms,” percussion concerts on Wednesday given by students at the Manhattan School of Music, and workshops on making shakers and African rattles. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The dings as my hard hat hits the metal provide a percussion punctuation to the day. Lending a Library a Hand in Colorado 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Feedback, distortion, avalanches of percussion and stray sound effects might appear in a song at any moment; the reassurance of familiar sounds and structures was joyfully undermined. Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z Children are encouraged to express themselves using voice, percussion instruments and melodic instruments such as pianos and guitars. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z SAT Marimba, vibes, drum set, handbells, concert, Latin, African, Cuban, marching and traditional percussion workshops, clinics, performances, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-05-01T04:01:43Z But he spent most of each week back in Queens, teaching percussion and yara, a hybrid martial art of his own creation, to interested artists and neighborhood residents. For Milford Graves, Jazz Innovation Is Only Part of the Alchemy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z As a result, their self-titled 2015 debut album heavily featured Yoruba, with English and French woven around haunting vocal harmonies, sparse but hard-hitting percussion and cathartic homages to family and roots. Ibeyi capitvates 9:30 Club with songs that touch both the past and the future 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Garbus uses looping devices to stack up layers of her own percussion, tenor ukulele and voice — a matter of thorough planning and precise execution. Music Review: Tune-Yards at the Allen Room 2012-02-11T01:06:46Z Anybody can log into some online audio database and download percussion recordings from across the world; it takes patience to seek out collaborators and establish a healthy, productive working dynamic. In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Her chamber orchestra, m_unit, blends strings and horns and mallet percussion in service of her resplendent, highly singable compositions. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z He composed concertos that featured the French horn, the contrabassoon or various percussion instruments. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z A few years ago, I asked Carter to write a work for solo piano, solo percussion and chamber orchestra. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z The percolating grooves of her songs fused mutuashi rhythms with salsa, Congolese soukous and other African and Caribbean rhythms, deploying synthesizers and horns alongside traditional percussion. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z They are writing for ensembles in which electric guitars and laptops join forces with classical string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Critic?s Notebook: Searching New Music For Keepers 2010-12-28T22:58:20Z Metallic percussion was long part of the military music for Turkic tribes including the Seljuks, who migrated to the Middle East in the 11th century. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Southwest gathered fine musicians, including the magnificent Mexican percussion ensemble, Tambuco. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z That became “Praise,” which surrounds a harpist with electronics and percussion. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Rose, who lives in New York, claimed that U2 copied from his song “virtually note-for-note,” and also used a tambourine and the same drum, percussion and bass line without permission. U2 defeats lawsuit claiming it stole part of 'Achtung Baby' song 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Vivacious and appealing in its initial form, Mr. Dorman’s piece was transformed here into an exuberant display of vibrant hues and mottled quarter-tones, its propulsive odd-metered rhythms garnished with brilliant metallic percussion and crafty effects. Music Review: Inside Carnegie, Trumpets; Outside, Bullhorns 2011-02-23T22:48:22Z The choir, for long stretches, had to battle the full might of Mr. Rouse’s orchestral fury, armed to the teeth with a percussion section encouraged to unleash its maximum power. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z The band paraded onstage and made its final exit singing harmonies and playing percussion, tapping out meticulous rhythms that flickered with changing patterns of three against two, six against four. Music Review: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Plays Funk 2010-07-12T21:54:00Z When the whole edifice collapses, the frenzied quartet finds itself flailing against seething and surging batteries of percussion. Seattle Symphony strikes somber note with pairing of ‘4’33,’ ‘My Beautiful Scream’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z What begins as a sparse rustle of sounds builds into a shivery, post-dubstep thrash of haze and percussion. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z While there’s a ragged moment or two in the winds and strings, the weighted complexity of the rhythms unleashed by the powerhouse percussion and brass sections is never in doubt. Chouinard’s ‘Rite’: astonishing dance, astounding dancers 2013-01-25T17:50:37Z Mr. Lin’s double concerto is most ambitious toward the end, when resolutely tonal sound blocks from the tuned percussion and brass evoke a still landscape, crossed by flutters from the woodwind, cello and sheng. Review: The New York Philharmonic Celebrates the Chinese New Year 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In Ms. Wiancko’s version the music, already a showcase for Baroque display, took on contemporary techniques, jazzy harmonies, subtle percussion and exuberant stomps. Music Review: A String Ensemble at Play: Body Language and Sheer Exuberance 2011-01-09T23:01:27Z The orchestra played with focused power when it had to, as in a sweeping first movement energized by subtle yet sturdy percussion playing. Music Review: With Subtlety and Power, Observing Mahler?s Moment 2011-05-22T21:35:57Z Mr. Rawail also wore an ankle bracelet with jingle bells called ghungroo, a bit of percussion generally used by female dancers. Khumariyaan Performed at Asia Society on Sunday 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The work's four instrumental groups – woodwind, brass, strings and percussion – echo and react to each other as though in a latter-day Gabrieli canzona. Birtwistle portrait – review 2012-05-25T15:42:59Z Her voice is a thrillingly uninhibited instrument, and it rides waves of percussion to ecstatic highs that suggest Afro-pop and dance music as much as indie-rock. Top albums of 2011 2011-12-02T23:08:00Z Former Police drummer Stewart Copeland's latest work, a percussion and orchestra concerto, is set to be premiered at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Friday 23 May. Police drummer Copeland's new concerto 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Its latest album, “Little Neon Limelight,” even nods a bit to metal in the percussion, courtesy of the drummer Shane Cody’s past life in such an ensemble. Pop & Rock Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet the song — with its trippy percussion groove that swells into an explosive chorus — is a clear signal that Sia The Solo Act has arrived. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It's a far cry from the BFI Southbank in London, but the group's heartfelt title song, rowdy singalongs and washboard percussion drove this story of cross-dressing, rail-riding hobos forward at a clattering pace. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z Symphony-goers had a taste of Adams’ sound world in April, when excerpts from “songbirdsongs,” an early work for piccolos and percussion, came at them from all directions in the Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall. Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work 2013-06-12T23:10:49Z His care for the piece’s special effects showed in his imaginative deployment of instruments at times, as with the timpani placed offstage to either side of the main percussion battery. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Green is a multi-instrumentalist, playing anything from guitars to keyboards, cello, harp, banjo, percussion and zither, while his colleagues add bass, synth or viola. The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends: Folk Songs II – review 2012-08-02T20:45:01Z Up to that point in the song there’s been a fair amount of caution and tepidity in the music — clichéd chord changes, percussion chimes and so on — but they cease to matter. New Music: Albums by Rascal Flatts, Anita Wilson and Loudon Wainwright 2012-04-02T22:29:45Z Purcell’s full range of secular styles is here, from brass and percussion fanfares to the gentlest arias and duets. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Take a Play, Then Adorn It With Opera 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z This energetic and clear-textured approach allowed for plenty of striking details of percussion and phrasing, marred only by a few brass blemishes. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z “Wellington’s Victory, or the Battle of Vitoria” depicts, with the help of spatially separated brass and percussion effects, a rout of French forces at the hands of the British. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z But the bass lines and beats sound great, and the passing textures — robotic percussion, synthesizer drones, sampled sounds — feel right, and carefully determined. Playlist: Music From Freddie Gibbs, Matthew Dear and Owen Howard 2010-08-13T17:51:00Z This mercurial mix of sumptuous bass clarinet hooks over sparkling percussion, free-jazzy electric guitar breaks, funk-bass strumming and folksy accordion tunes is delivered by the resourceful Portal and a sizeable group. F&M playlist 2010-08-19T22:55:00Z The percussion escalated, guitar notes bent and wah-wahed ever more widely, the dancing singers moved from hopping and prancing to all-out headdress-banging. Goat, the Band, Brings Its Ritual to Webster Hall 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Holter recently released her second album, Ekstasis, which is remarkably accessible considering it's made up of spacious percussion, classical instrumentation and chopped up vocal snippets. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z He adds that there is a “Noises Off” backstage frenzy at times as the actors manage the costume logistics of a story sweeping across time, and also maybe playing a fiddle or percussion. Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The group eventually dropped the dual drummer setup and shifted Mr. Johnson’s responsibilities to vocals and other percussion instruments like the congas. Fred White, Drummer for Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 67 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Her style is mutinous and militant; you can sense the pugilistic percussion of her thumbs on her smartphone screen as she bashes out her rallying cries to her nearly 100,000 followers. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The songs blend styles, subvert formula, tinker with different approaches to percussion, sublimate the guitars, build up the atmosphere, and work the mood as much as the melody. Album review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 'Mosquito' 2013-04-15T16:18:00Z In the Brahms itself, the music’s 19th-century harmonies are tempered by Schoenberg’s overtly modernist brass and percussion touches. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z Textures typically consist of sustained notes in various registers, relieved by sudden percussion eruptions or splatters of notes from other instruments. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z Some skirt that limitation by writing for expanded percussion sections. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z Sosa gets involved gradually, contributing vocals and percussion and rhythmic spritzes high up on the piano. St. Vincent’s Synth-Funk ‘Pain,’ and 9 More New Songs 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z The group’s psych-dance mélange of droning sirens, leaden chants and thudding baseline percussion could induce a messy séance. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Slagwerk Den Haag, a dazzling Dutch percussion group, similarly combined virtuosity and theatricality. Music Review: Bang on a Can Marathon at Winter Garden 2010-06-28T22:19:00Z Rands' scoring is laced with all manner of scraped and rattled percussion that give the ear a vivid feeling of place without his having to resort to picture-postcard quotation. Muti's return to CSO leaves hall abuzz with the excitement of old music and new 2011-05-06T16:26:00Z A three-note rising motif in the percussion unfolded to a vision of what seemed like a horizontal hailstorm over a cloudy background. Review: Daniel Wohl’s ‘Holographic’ Is Performed for the First Time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z There’s booming percussion worthy of a Game of Thrones battle scene, twinkling chimes that sound like an iPhone getting a text, synths that buzz and hum like winged insects. Review: Ryn Weaver Won't be Pinned Down on 'The Fool' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z But Inventions sets aside such linear development; instead, in a track like “Flood Poems,” the background looms up and submerges the guitar and percussion. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z There is experimentation with found-object percussion, and recent Glass touches including colorful texture, expressive shifts in harmony and soundtrack-like tone painting. Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Messiaen, with his gloriously wild orchestration — wind machines, all kinds of percussion, starry-eyed solo horn — was a master of stimulating the imagination. Messiaen's ode to Utah's national parks is a multimedia wonder at Disney Hall 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But those who know “In the Hall of the Mountain King” only from the suite would be stunned to hear the chilling original version, with includes a shrieking chorus and thunderous percussion. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z In April, it was reported that the orchestra for “The Phantom of the Opera” in London would be slashed in half when it reopens, with percussion, harp and oboe replaced by keyboards. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s New Act: Activism 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The members of Joel's ensemble -- drums, bass, guitar, percussion, keyboards and brass -- were well practiced and never missed a note, but they seldom felt truly explosive. Billy Joel's first concert at Hollywood Bowl: An L.A. 'Piano Man' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z It was a shocking sound, the percussion of hundreds of dangerously neglected prisoners freezing in a building that had gone unheated for over a week. The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z "I died a week ago," he sang at the outset of "The Wheel," but the clickety-clack percussion and jabbing keyboards kept him buoyant as the closely packed fans swayed. SXSW 2013 Day 2: Sohn, No Ceremony///, Flume 2013-03-14T06:48:00Z Mr. Kammermeier played percussion, acoustic and electronic, with his cymbals busily splashing natural sound over the programmed beats. Music Review: Booka Shade?s Dancing Mood at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2010-05-26T21:04:00Z But there was a new element: a booming, prerecorded percussion part that helped drive the narrative forward in the final stretch. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Gives Voices Room to Breathe 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z There are droning and chopping guitars — and string arrangements on “Some Things We Do” — but the rhythm section and percussion arrangements remain central to it all. New Music: New albums by the Black Keys and Swans 2014-05-12T22:08:25Z The listener is reminded throughout that the piano is a percussion instrument, with a nonstop role of torrents of notes. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z This episodic piece alternates assertive outbursts of fleeting themes with restless passages of suspense, where strings and woodwinds swim around and the percussion section percolates. Music Review: National Youth Orchestra Takes Purchase; Washington Is Next 2013-07-12T21:08:59Z The Asphalt Orchestra, an idiosyncratic brass, woodwind and percussion ensemble that performed at the atrium on Thursday evening, embraces all those styles and more. 2010-01-09T03:00:00Z The piano and cello lines often seemed mainly foils for the percussion writing, in which layers of delicate tracery in the outer sections were offset by a brief but vigorous drum solo at the center. Music Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays at Merkin Hall 2010-04-20T22:27:00Z Their new CD, “Biographies,” consists of song-portraits of 13 people, plus one autobiographical number, delivered in intricate harmonies accompanied by the Bobs’ trademark mouth percussion. The Bobs celebrate the holidays with song-length ‘Biographies’ 2013-12-24T22:35:30Z As the horde starts to rush toward them and we hear the ominous percussion and strings of the opening theme, your adrenaline starts pumping uncontrollably. The Walking Dead season six: show serves up gore, but we want brains 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “He decided, ‘I’ll put a percussion break in between songs,’” Mr. Thompson told Rolling Stone in June. Chucky Thompson, Hitmaking Producer, Is Dead at 53 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Every song cleaves to a format of clipped guitar chords and drawled vocals laid over electronic percussion. Darwin Deez: Darwin Deez 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z The towering title track layers intricate guitar work atop skittering percussion before a chorus comes along and sweeps everything into a tidal wave of sound. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z In the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge,” Santana surrounds its own singer, Andy Vargas, with Latin percussion and Mr. Santana’s snaky, jabbing leads, then breaks into a bilingual rock mambo. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-19T22:48:00Z By filling out a basic licensing form, anyone willing to pay royalties of 15 percent on any commercial sales — and give credit — can borrow the sound of one of the architects of modern percussion. A Living Legend Tries to Make a Living 2011-03-29T14:02:02Z Mr. Stucky seems intent on overstating, with his beefing up of brasses and percussion, including piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, chimes, tamtam, bass drum and whaling timpani. Music Review: Boston Symphony’s Two Nights at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-13T21:25:01Z And from the present, she used blunt language and the shallow, openly artificial sounds of hip-hop percussion, spattering them against the decorous comforts of nostalgia. Review: Lana Del Rey Wonders ‘Is It the End of America?’ on Her New Album 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “Bloom” doesn’t significantly alter the duo’s approach: shivering slide guitars, shimmering keyboards, muted percussion, Legrand’s disembodied voice floating in a thick haze of wordless backing harmonies. Album review: Beach House, 'Bloom' 2012-05-14T14:53:00Z And then it becomes a “we,” a weighty pause before the chorus erupts behind her, a riot of handclaps and percussion, an anthem, a hymn. Ripely Pine: A New Album That Details What It’s Like to be a Twenty-Something in 2013 2013-02-22T14:30:13Z The expanded So formulation seems better: Mr. Treuting’s string writing is attractive and direct, but the percussion — light snapping and tapping at first, then intricately interlocking patterns — is the engine that drives this score. Music Review: Showcase for Orchestra of the League of Composers 2010-06-09T00:34:00Z Using ominous percussion, a bit of dance and a stage that’s never more than dimly lighted, “Hamyul/Hamlet” creates a delicious mood of menace. | 'Hamyul/Hamlet': Hamlet as Eager Korean Prince 2011-06-28T21:30:33Z Instead, we have a lot of percussion and plectrum, or plucking, instruments, including a zither, partly to give it a central European feeling. Tonys 2015: Composer John Kander 'channels' his late partner, lyricist Fred Ebb 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z It was played by an ensemble of nine instruments, including piano, with additional Arabic percussion instruments. Music Review: ‘Sumeida’s Song’ at Here Arts Center 2013-01-10T22:30:02Z First, though, the composer described the Beethovenian psychedelic inspiration for the work for two pianos, three women's voices, winds, brass and percussion. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z And it’s slammed home in a production that’s minimal at first — an adamantly slow tempo, deep bass tones, viscous wah-ing synthesizer chords, some scattered percussion sounds — but grows monumental. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z As for a "Fontana Mix," it's "a set of materials," Powell explains, "for creating a score for any kind of activity" — in this case, a percussion part for the Pacific Rims' Matthew Kocmieroski. John Cage's 100th birthday is happening all over Seattle 2012-09-04T14:31:04Z Mr. Blaine’s timing was perfect and not only when it came to percussion. Books of The Times: ?The Wrecking Crew,? by Kent Hartman, on ?60s Studio Musicians 2012-02-19T21:29:14Z But this performance featured the premiere of David Lang’s new arrangement of “man made,” his single-movement concerto for percussion and orchestra, written in 2013 for the four brilliant players of So Percussion. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Voices turned into wordless percussion instruments on the rousing “A Commotion.” Concert review: Feist at the Riviera 2011-11-05T05:45:00Z High shimmers and washes of abstract sound are punctuated by bird calls and sampled percussion, and sustained synthesizers test the boundaries between drone and glacial melody. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The album title translates as “Cave Dancing,” and the songs put rhythm first: springy, Pan-American rhythms that are usually defined by Latin percussion and nimble acoustic guitar, sometimes joined by horns or subtle electronics. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z The Bowie State pep band marched in for David Bowie’s “Heroes,” rattling percussion from the drum line and hitting the crowd with big, bright blasts of horns. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z But the offstage percussion and brasses finally sounded like they were coming from a real distance, as they rarely do in a concert hall. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Dressed in white, she sang and rapped, smoked a cigar, sometimes played flute and led a band that mixed electronics with Latin percussion. Finding the Joy at South by Southwest: 12 Notable Acts 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z He made imaginative and inventive use of percussion, harp, and tuba. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z I got hold of an ashtray, a spoon and a box of matches and that was my percussion: shaking the matches, tapping the ashtray with the spoon and occasionally striking a match. How we made Cut (the Slits) 2013-06-24T17:34:10Z So is the abrasive challenge of Downs: Hitchcock's careening vocal, Mills bouncing a basketball for percussion, steel drums, queasy horns and slide guitar combine to brilliantly unsettling effect. Big Star Third – review 2012-05-29T12:42:27Z The work is a giant complicated yawp for orchestra, amplified solo instruments and percussion — plenty of percussion. From Heaps of Junk, a Melodious Clang 2010-10-04T21:33:00Z The second piece featured six violinists from ICE playing almost continuous buzzing, trembling, often quietly frenzied music, prodded along by percussion. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z This had always been the context in which Tinariwen's music was heard before they picked up electric guitars, added bass and percussion and went global. Tinariwen: Sahara to New York City 2011-08-20T23:04:07Z He throws himself into shifting Glassian meters enthusiastically, but an appropriately gripping dark sound from an orchestra with no violins and prominent percussion is swallowed up by the problematic Dorothy Chandler Pavilion acoustic. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The synth-pop skeletons here are alluring: “Singles” succeeds in accessing the unconscious pleasures associated with the cold percussion and computer melodies of the early-mid-1980s. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z “The Migration” finishes with “Chicago,” an upbeat symphony of energetic body percussion. Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z They started out with just a bit of percussion; now they’ve added a floor tom and a snare. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z These kinds of left turns and tangents arrive with regularity, whether it’s the dripping-faucet percussion and acoustic-guitar coda of “Arch & Point” or the blanket of keyboards that cloaks the sparse bass groove of “The Thrill.” Album review: Miguel, 'Kaleidoscope Dream' 2012-10-12T18:57:00Z Together they formed musical groups that mixed percussion, vocals and comedy, and after experimenting with one-off performances using only brooms and garbage bins, they premiered “Stomp” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z He plays percussion in a predominantly white marching band and competes for the state-winning, predominantly black wrestling team. You’d think this Chicago-area school could close its race gap. A new TV series tries to find out why it can’t. 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z “I liked the drums, the percussion; I like all kinds of drums. If I’m producing, I have to have the right kind of drums.” Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z The concerto lurches from episode to episode, with the cello at first playing plaintive, elusive melodic lines, interrupted with panicky scurrying figures, atop gurgling ripples in the percussion. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s no wonder that composers like Gluck and Mozart wanted to emulate a Turkish style with busy, glittering percussion. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Elegant, airy and weightless figurations for an octet of strings, winds, brasses, piano and percussion were a stylish and fitting homage to Ligeti. Music Review: Juilliard Group Opens MoMA?s Summergarden Series 2010-07-13T23:13:00Z But Mr. Dingman’s own style stands out: he uses it not just for melody and percussion but also for sound, in long, smoky chords beaming out like floodlighting. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z I love the Ethiopian sinister melodies, and there’s one guy that through the whole show just plays a jug percussion for 45 minutes. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Mr. Parker and his company, the Bang Group, create movement based in percussion, using a mix of versions of Tchaikovsky’s music, by Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, among others. Dance Review: ‘Nut/Cracked,’ a Holiday Ballet by David Parker 2012-12-21T22:15:45Z The scoring of the new sextet – two winds, two strings, piano and percussion – was specified by the original commission, from the Chicago-based group Eighth Blackbird. Nash Ensemble ? review 2011-07-06T17:45:00Z The title track, populated by ghost-like moans and driven by percussion that sounds like a drain pipe being struck, opens the door to the album with a theatrical flourish. Album review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born to Die' 2012-01-27T03:44:00Z Steve Martin, of all people, plays banjo on the stylistically restless “I Hate Love,” while Sheila E. provides percussion on the breezy finale “That’s Right.” Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Chemistry’ Draws on Familiar Formulas 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z As Cotton details a hardscrabble romance in a strong, if occasionally chirpy voice, the track is enlivened by guitar twang courtesy of Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and ostentatiously busy additional percussion. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z You’ll find different musical timbres and textures in Lou Harrison’s Suite for Violin and American Gamelan, premiered in 1974 with percussion instruments built to be an approximation of the original Indonesian percussion ensemble. Perspective | A beginner’s guide to enjoying classic music. No snobs allowed 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Exactly 28 minutes into the rehearsal’s second half, Ms. Brookes, the pianist, was leading the choir through a song involving lots of body percussion, in which the singers beat their chests. At In-Person Choir Rehearsals, a Balance Between Joyful and Careful 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z “Whenever you see albums that say ‘produced by Larry Harlow,’ you know they are going to sound pristine and powerful, with clarity in the voice and horns and the percussion up front. Larry Harlow, Salsa King, Comes to Lincoln Center 2010-08-13T23:10:00Z “Enough Said” features never-before-heard Aaliyah vocal tracks layered over simple percussion, with Drake rapping a typical Drake verse about a minute and a half in. LISTEN: Drake Releases Posthumous Aaliyah Single “Enough Said” 2012-08-06T20:13:18Z The percussion band from the Republic of Congo enthralled crowds with their large Ngoma drums on Friday night. Womex 2013 highlights: In pictures 2013-10-28T12:17:17Z Mr. Treuting, on his own, performed Morton Feldman’s “King of Denmark,” one of the percussion repertory’s few works that could be described as whispered. Music Review: So Percussion at Gary Snyder/Project Space 2010-05-09T21:48:00Z The faint whiff of novelty may cling to the latter, but they pose interesting questions about the interplay between jazz and techno, and the increasing presence of real percussion and analogue instruments in dance music. Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z In Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, he talked to people, attended dance performances, listened to music and collected both costumes and a mini-orchestra of percussion instruments. Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z These will be available for purchase or free download for each of the standard orchestral string, woodwind and brass instruments as well as for recorder, saxophone, euphonium, piano, harpsichord, guitar, harp, percussion and voice. Carnegie Unveils Music Education Program 2011-03-25T23:03:39Z Flea’s bass bubbled higher in the mix and then stopped altogether, leaving even more space for Waronker and Refosco to thunder away on their armada of percussion instruments. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z Abetted by the longtime producer and songwriter Babyface, the music stays sparse and cunning; trap percussion and blithe backup voices pop in, affirm her, and vanish. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Contrasting his collagelike approach to percussion with the sound of a unified drum kit, Mr. Chesworth said that, throughout the album, “the different components spin around and do different things, in different spaces.” Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Her Malian band provides percussion, backup vocals and barbed, modal lead guitar parts that hint at traditional African instruments. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Debut album Colonial Patterns avoids the sheen of much modern production, with sparsely pulsating synths and tempered, industrial percussion that sometimes slowly morphs into brooding house and techno. Clubs picks of the week 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z It’s fairly common to see guitarists and other string players using their instruments as percussion, lightly tapping their fingers on the wooden frame to produce a particular sound. Review: Marco Cappelli, Banging on a Guitar 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z He added the serrated hip-hop percussion as both a narrative exclamation point and an affirmation of his Blackness, which he characterized by using an unprintable word. Steve Lacy Is Right on Time 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Every band member is a drummer, but on stage they have a fourth member, Dash Hutton, on percussion "We love rap and we love hip-hop," she says. BBC Sound of 2013: Haim 2013-01-04T07:16:24Z Other guests included the always amazing vocalist Bobby McFerrin, who bantered with instrumentalists on their own terms, producing plausible imitations of percussion, pizzicato cellos and trumpet. Music Review: Trolling Heaven and Earth for Sounds 2011-06-08T21:24:16Z Adjuah mixes in the odd SPD-SX drum machine or other synthesized percussion, but the album features almost nothing but acoustic percussion, vocals and the occasional sound of trees rustling or birds cawing. A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Olof Dreijer, from the Knife, has found a new sound source: the steel drum, that remarkable percussion instrument that can also play and sustain melodies. Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The gnawing “Climbing up the Walls” is aptly named, as it’s a song with knocking percussion, creaking sound effects and distorted vocals. At 20, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” becomes an album for the Trump era 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z "What he actually created," Tan says in the documentary, "is a percussion orchestra under the control of a single player." Pianist Margaret Leng Tan brings her musical 'sorcery' to Seattle 2011-05-18T23:17:12Z Tales of the Algonquin opened with rolling percussion and misty flutes, followed by a bass hook and trumpet slams. John Surman and John Warren – review 2012-06-05T17:46:01Z Eventually, though, Noseda dissipated that shroud of glistening sweetness, inviting the low brass and percussion to emerge in full force. Review: The National Symphony Spotlights Forward Thinkers 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The dominant forces were percussion, bleating saxophone and an uncharacteristically funky vocal from Staples: for five believe-it-or-not minutes, Tindersticks sounded like the house band at a Brooklyn disco. Tindersticks | Pop review 2010-03-26T22:30:00Z And he made a handful of his own albums, starting in 1978 with “Root Assumptions,” a solo percussion performance that evoked both tribal music and minimalism. Jerome Cooper, a Multitextured Jazz Percussionist, Dies at 68 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z In between, though, she found instances of girlish playfulness and, in the middle movement, even pianistic fragility, as a quiet and mysterious pulsating interplay between piano and the percussion section became all shimmer. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z If “snagS&Snarls” was an unabashed diva vehicle, the Double Concerto for piano, percussion and ensemble weaves the solo parts into the gamelanlike sound of the orchestra. Music Review: Unsuk Chin Celebrated in Composer Portrait at Miller Theater 2014-03-16T20:54:53Z I never really knew her until seven or eight years ago, when a conductor asked me to perform her “Composition No. 2” for piano, percussion and eight double basses. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z After the fox imagery mentioned earlier, he returns to the animal realm, insisting on his still broken heart: “I’m not the phoenix yet,” he moans over hammering percussion and wonky keyboard squiggles. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z And on Monday only, at 1:30 p.m., the Berean Community Drumline, an organization for teenagers in the Crown Heights neighborhood, will celebrate black history with percussion and dance. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:58:22Z It is a great place to try new things,” said Milan Cais, an artist and musician who played percussion on a dog dish and inflatable white didgeridoo in the “Audio_Bio_Graf” performance. Scene/Seen: Prague: What's New in the Cube 2011-01-07T13:00:08Z After five hours, Hadlock has tracked guitar, vocal, bass and percussion, then asks the band to play together in the big room. Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z "He could experiment with extra percussion, an additional guitar, organ - whatever he felt the track needed." Jimi Hendrix estate rolls out "People, Hell and Angels" studio set 2013-03-03T14:51:45Z “Three Drums” contrasts the textures of live percussion and otherworldly synth gradients, resulting in a hypnotic composition that ebbs and flows like an ocean. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “So now I get to run around in the percussion section and have a good time for a living.” After ‘daunting’ auditions, newest Seattle Symphony players make the cut 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But it is an appropriate way to think, because, for most composers, the piano is always trying to imitate other instruments, because of its nature as a percussion instrument. A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z His writing for a 23-piece instrumental ensemble, gorgeously colored and pulsating with ritualistic percussion, suits the milieu and the vocal complement; Corrado Rovaris, the company’s music director, elicited a fine account from his players. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z The one instrument not brass or percussion is what appears to be a Stroh violin, a rare, turn-of-the-20th-century fiddle with a megaphone attached. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “I dance. I sing. I play percussion,” she said. World music singer Dobet Gnahoré is coming to the Barns at Wolf Trap 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z In the back row, Baroque recorders nestled up to an Afro-Brazilian percussion section. With Politics as Backdrop, Hamburg’s New Hall Looks to America 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The eleven composers and seven musicians — on flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello and percussion — all are from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York. Musicians harmonize with nature for outdoor audiences — including snakes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Upshaw, wearing Army fatigues that looked a little like baggy pajamas, began the piece sleeping fitfully on a bed placed in front of a circular array of percussion instruments and the piano. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z Shiny percussion, flutes and high soprano voices evoke a desert heat that begins to shimmer in a state of sustained, quiet elation. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Their sublime, balm-like melodies – despite being played with sticks, like percussion – form a core ingredient of the mesmerising sound. Portico Quartet/Penguin Cafe ? review 2011-02-09T19:30:01Z You always know when nipples are coming down the runway, by the way, because an extra-excited clicking, like a percussion section, will suddenly emanate from the photographers’ pit. As London Fashion Ends, a Burberry Concert and Anya Hindmarch’s Fun House 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The gamelan is the symphony orchestra of Indonesia, a collection of melodic percussion instruments played by a group of musicians each responsible for their own part of a complicated matrix of sound. Dip your toe into gamelan music with Gamelan Pacifica and guest artist Darsono 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The work begins with an electronic track that paints a vivid picture of the shaman’s realm, with howling sounds offset by steady percussion and a modal vocal chant. Music Review: Spotlight on San Francisco, and the New 2011-04-13T22:51:31Z In its fevered moments, it’s like Shostakovich, all angular brasses and whip-smart percussion. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Ricocheting percussion, antiphonally placed, ensures a sense of unease that is never quite dispelled by the end. LSO/Harding/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-06T13:21:40Z For the younger or less daring, the resort will offer juggling, mask painting, unicycling and percussion. Getting Acrobatic at Club Med 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Two album-side-length instrumental compositions featuring percussion, flute, synthesizers and many untethered frequencies, “Visitations” is a soothing listen, but underneath the floating tones are ominous textures that add tension. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He composed the gentle composition from traditional percussion and flute melodies used by Nigeria's Igbo people during masked performances. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Some of the changes pleasantly surprise, like the string arrangement and percussion changeup on the excellent "Never Tear Us Apart." Music Review: INXS rework songs on 'Original Sin' 2011-04-04T19:11:37Z “Touha” proceeds in irregular flurries of keyboard activity and overlapping shards of melody, gradually interwoven with distant drones and glissandos and sporadic patterings of percussion. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z This weekend he finishes his own six-day residency at the Stone: On Friday he plays in a quartet exploring Haitian percussion, then in a duo on Saturday with the bassist Devin Hoff. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The moods varied throughout the cycle, with gentle percussion and more mellow singing in “Nocturne and Love Song,” the second verse. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z I thought that having those two sonorities – piano and percussion – in conversation would appeal to him. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z They adapt the suites for other instruments, including guitar, percussion and baritone sax. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Every sound the orchestra made, from the double-basses to the percussion, was perfectly mixed and blended by the acoustic of the hall before it reached my ears with a velvety sensuality. Happy 125th birthday, Concertgebouw 2013-04-11T18:11:17Z Mr. Sliwinski and the other members of So Percussion opened the program with Mr. Trueman’s “120bpm” for percussion quartet and laptop, the second section of a work called “Neither Anvil nor Pulley.” Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Led by the Glass veteran Dennis Russell Davies with careful attention to both its underlying pulse and its twists of temperament, the opera opens with an ominous, low murmur punctuated by sharp, syncopated percussion snaps. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z But while Starr's drumming and percussion style isn't flashy, it is lively and full of personality. An appreciation of Ringo Starr's dynamic and joyful musical gifts – despite the naysayers 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z "Bluebell launches Annabel into a glistening world of dance beats, dreamy landscapes, bending strings and reverberating percussion" – 1883magazine.com. New band of the day – No 1,299: Bluebell 2012-07-02T16:05:00Z That eccentricity might not be apparent on record, where Gardot's blandly pretty ballads are accompanied by very sober acoustic guitar and hand percussion. Melody Gardot – review 2013-04-03T17:55:09Z Its instruments are acoustic and electric guitars and electric bass, with a lone hand drum for percussion. Music Review | Tinariwen: Hot Breath of Saharan Rock Blows in From Africa 2010-02-19T23:22:00Z Few composers have devoted as much time to percussion as Mr. Adams, whose “Inuksuit” is scored for a battery of percussion, and varies according to location and number of performers. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But most of the time it doesn’t work; upbeat songs or soft, slowed-down percussion feel at odds with the heavy subject matter. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z 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 Ms. Giddens seems to find fresh zeal while weaving playfully between electric guitars and country-infused percussion; her hearty, deeply emotive voice still earns its spotlight, gilded with soft touches by the producer T Bone Burnett. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z His hourlong “Percussion Cycle,” commissioned by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the granddaddy of all percussion ensembles, is a masterful, dramatic exploration of electronically enhanced timbres: skins, metals, wood. The UW mixes art and science with worldwide talent 2014-03-05T21:10:38Z They also invited a Pakistani musician onstage who played tabla, traditional percussion instruments that look like bongo drums. US uses jazz music to improve Pakistan relations 2011-09-30T09:56:14Z This New Year’s family concert will celebrate light, peace and renewal with percussion from four traditions: Native American, Southern Italian, Middle Eastern and African. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:21:44Z The program began with another inventive work by Mr. Adams, “Red Arc/Blue Veil” for piano, percussion and processed sounds, performed by the brilliant pianist Marc-André Hamelin and Mr. Schick. Music Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Inuksuit’ at Ojai Music Festival 2012-06-08T21:08:54Z Sterling brass, glittering percussion, shimmering strings bounce melodic sparks off the walls. John Williams' mastery on display at L.A. Philharmonic season opener 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z If I could see “Femina” again, I would check just how this sequence matched the music for harp and percussion, but this solo’s overall atmosphere of bold, clear-headed experimentation stays powerfully with me. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z Inside, the orchestra was placed on two levels of the stage, with gongs and percussion on a platform that made them dominate in exciting and important ways. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Powerful percussion and electronic manipulations will be thrown into the mix of marimba and whispery vocals. Marimba weirdness slated for On the Boards 2012-01-24T22:17:03Z So to commence the festival Mr. Davis wrote a contemplative piece scored for winds and percussion, especially bells and chimes, but also for audience members with cellphones. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z He builds up the action with hissing percussion, repeated piano chords, occasional violins, leading to drums and synthesiser. Profile of jazz maestro Herbie Hancock: From the archive, 12 Feb 1975 2013-02-12T07:00:00Z David Byrne strolled with a bicycle helmet in hand, scrutinizing unattended percussion instruments. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “No Flex Zone” is a bouncy howler — the beat moves from a whisper to pinballing angular percussion, cut through with sunbeam-bright synthesizer. Out of Left Field, but Swinging Hard 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z A youthful rock band in 2009, Local Natives' melodic self-funded debut Gorilla Manor featured soaring harmonies, chanting and lots of percussion, earning them favourable comparisons with Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear. Local Natives: 'better than ever' 2013-01-30T08:37:00Z Stray percussion appears, sometimes rattling on after the rest of the instruments are done. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-07T23:20:47Z Scored for three trombones, piano, percussion and double bass, the music has a brassy, sinuous klezmer flavor; its vocal lines recall traditional Hebrew melodies without seeming stale. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z The composer’s idea in developing the prepared piano was to turn the instrument into a kind of wondrous percussion ensemble. At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z “We’re not meant to be our own angels all the time,” Mering sings on “The Worst Is Done,” atop incongruously sunny guitar chords and bouncy percussion. Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z This particular program, which the orchestra is offering in Queens for the first time, is Bang’s favorite: It’s all about percussion. Spare Times for Children for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z And there is a soft percussion of smacking noises-off, which is almost more disturbing. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2012-06-27T18:45:01Z The woodwinds and percussion dampen the shine of violins. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z During the 50 minutes of “Indeterminacy,” the percussion music unfolded in spurts with tense pauses. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z Almost all the music is loud rap, with heavily metallic percussion and frequently unpublishable words. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The combination of Ms. Anderson and Mr. Diodore’s creaking strings and Kid Millions’s brash percussion is an interesting, calamitous fray. Pop & Rock Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The music varies from celebratory, high-energy pieces such as Chaal Baby or Punjabi Wedding Song through to the slow, almost hymnal Samaro Mantra, in which brooding brass instrumentation is matched against insistent percussion. Red Baraat: Chaal Baby – review 2012-08-23T21:45:01Z An instrumental sextet — violin, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, prominent accordion and piano — sound just right, be it one minute Mexican, the next Stravinskian. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Behind humble vocals and verbal conundrums, the music might set up shifty progressive-rock counterpoint, hark back to late-1960s pop or turn into a percussion workout. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z Neal Stulberg will conduct a chorus consisting of the ensemble Tonality and members of Los Angeles church and synagogue choirs; a brass and percussion orchestra; and two vocal soloists. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Looking like a wild professor, he mixed passionate chanting and soulful vocals with frantic percussion, helped by exquisite harmony singing from his band. Womad ? review 2011-07-31T16:03:48Z On this tour he's part of a quartet composed of 'oud, violin, double bass and percussion. A tough choice for Seattle world-music fans: Simon Shaheen or Gamelan Pacifica 2010-12-02T21:17:00Z The startlingly tender “I Loved Being My Mother’s Son,” set to simple acoustic guitar and percussion, is the fullest expression of love I can remember hearing in Berman’s songs, with the plainest lyrics. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Fohr composed these haunting and elemental songs for a 24-piece orchestra, and their bombastic percussion and screaming string sections make “-io” her most ambitious achievement to date. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z “Jasmine” is more vague, a whispery caress that rolls out deliberately, adding in sharp percussion, lazy bass, bracing shards of digital noise and more but never really resolving. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z With a title like that, the dozens of musicians packing the stage -- brass, strings, keyboards, choir, percussion and bass -- had better deliver. Kamasi Washington and band prove 'The Epic' hype, thrill a sold-out Regent 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Decker studied and pursued serious percussion lessons from such gifted players as the Indiana Symphony’s Paul Berns and Chicago Symphony’s Vadim Karpinos, among others. After ‘daunting’ auditions, newest Seattle Symphony players make the cut 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z In a song called “Mary Magdalene,” she promises to be “true as Mary Magdalene, creature of desire,” with her multitracked voice suspended above sparse, echoey percussion. FKA twigs Is a Creature of Desire on ‘Magdalene’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z On Sunday at 1:30 p.m. the show is “Rhythm and Sound,” an interactive percussion workshop with Rex Benincasa. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 19-25 2012-10-18T22:07:08Z Harambee means “let us pull together” in Swahili, and they do just that artistically by combining African and African-American movement, contemporary dance and percussion. Dance Listings for July 18-20 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z I had to leave the Royal Albert Hall halfway through a Prom because the strings sounded like dry percussion, the high woodwind screamed, and brass and tympani boomed painfully. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z In any case it never hurts to be reminded of the power of what the critic Albert Murray described as “that artful and sometimes seemingly magical combination of idiomatic incantation and percussion,” i.e. the blues. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z A Spanish dancer's body is a percussion instrument," de Luis declares, "and we use all kinds of sounds with our fingers, with our feet, with our hands. Sara de Luis garnishes Seattle Opera's 'Don Quixote' with classic Spanish dance 2011-02-18T22:03:30Z Some reflected the Middle Eastern heritage of Mr. Azmeh, like a traditional Arab piece in which a haunting, evocative clarinet melody unfolded over gentle cello and percussion accompaniment. Music Review: Genres and Styles Without Borders, in a Brooklyn Series 2011-05-10T20:59:29Z The beginning, a Minimalist shimmer, was familiar territory — albeit scored idiosyncratically for winds, brasses, percussion, two pianos and a trio of siren-like singers. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z It would be printed in the sheet, and then I would read about who did percussion, who did the keyboards, where was it recorded, and who did they reference, who did they thank. Did the Internet kill Amy Winehouse? The director of a heartbreaking new documentary on the rise and fall of a “digital girl” 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The trio finds ways to fit Mr. Diabaté’s soloing within minimal Western-pop structures, with hand drumming or no percussion at all. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z Hip-hop D.J.’s, meanwhile, became experts on the physical possibilities of needles hitting vinyl and mixer knobs being manipulated, scratching their way into the music’s foreground as percussion soloists. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z More and more music came into it, with two percussion players and some songs, because of the performers we had. A Show About Colonial Power, Born From the Freedom to Make Mistakes 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The track meshes the 4/4 thump and four-chord cycle of international dance music with the syncopated percussion of South African kwaito and crucially, the lilt and tickle of countermelodies from African guitars. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Many young, mostly male M.C.s were emerging, adopting the distinctive hi-hat percussion and skittering snares of the popular American trap sound, but rapping in Icelandic. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The six male musicians, all wearing hats, combined song, percussion and strings with wonderful vitality. Ballet Today, the Good and the Bad, on Display at the Joyce 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Before the year was out, Feldman had done so: the austerely beautiful, daringly static and pervasively quiet “Rothko Chapel,” scored simply for viola, celesta, percussion, two solo singers and wordless chorus. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z Slide whistles and unusual percussion evoke eerie, slippery nocturnal stillness. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s just four chords, mostly guitar, voices and percussion, but its layers are endlessly varied. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The 17 tracks on “Open Arms to Open Us” bubble with the sounds of mixed percussion, stringed instruments from across the globe and digital overlays. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z On her sophomore album, the R&B talent wanders into headier terrain than her more upbeat 2017 debut, “Tease,” with sultry, low-lit vocals adorning drifting down-tempo beats with skittering percussion and deep bass rolls. Puget Sounds: The top 12 new albums from the Pacific Northwest 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Hearing lead track Blue Velvet, though, is a real what-the-world-is-waiting-for moment, with its luminous guitar pattern and playful percussion. New band of the day: Childhood (No 1,370) 2012-10-11T14:13:00Z Strings repeat the motifs over and over, punctuated by a pummeling of syncopated bass drums, the only percussion. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z A groove emerges from the din, the dense layers of percussion. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In “Phaedra,” as in many other works, Britten proved himself a master of the interlude, and those here — for percussion and for strings — showed off the rest of the excellent orchestra. Music Review: Benjamin Britten Celebration at Trinity Wall Street 2013-09-06T21:51:28Z Rustic percussion accents added wildness to some dances; the nasal drone of a musette, a French type of bagpipes, colored the pastoral scene. Review: Les Arts Florissants in a Heady Mix of Cabaret and Miley Cyrus 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z During these little commercial breaks, a Swan brother would play a synthesizer or percussion note synchronized with the take-off and landing of the skateboarder. Truckasauras rocks hard, salutes the '90s at Barboza 2012-06-29T18:19:13Z In the second, the winsome solo lines flutter over elegiac oboe, guttural brass and dreamy, tuned percussion; a tender passage for piccolo and piano conjures an Irish folk song. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z They raise their fists to the ceiling, shaking empty water bottles, the sharp crinkling and popping of plastic mixing with a chorus of percussion instruments, panting and shrieking. Contra-Tiempo's 'Agua Furiosa' stirs up a maelstrom of issues 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z On the opener, “Drunk,” the wistful, weepy single off his latest EP, Dijon stretched further, his voice creasing as the percussion surged, and an added saxophone lifted everything higher. At Union Stage, Dijon — once the member of a Maryland R&B duo — puts his soulful voice first 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z And tucked into nearly every track is a modest irritant — electronic noise, a stray guitar, stubbornly clattering percussion — to insist that the unassuming little arrangements didn’t just fall together. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Rhythmic thumping ricocheted from the exposed rafters to the butcher block tables to the hardwood floor; music was playing but only percussion registered above the din. New Lake City brewpub is a 'hopping' place 2012-10-11T21:09:23Z Minutes later, some edgier, stuttering exhalations precede a thundering percussion riff. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “My percussion playing was saved by starting to conduct,” he said in an interview on the patio of his home in La Jolla. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z From Wachira, expect a more world-influenced twist to her similarly deep songwriting, in which she plays with reggae offbeats, African percussion, and lyrics that greet life’s questions with humanity and joy. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Nov. 23-29: Neko Case, Whitney Monge and Naomi Wachira, and more 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Its magic lay in its marriage of brass and piano, of rasping percussion, of the warmth of Ferrer's voice. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-07-07T22:15:01Z Sturdy pop melodies meet slinky percussion and epic instrumental work from a three-piece brass section, and songs such as Harder Before It Gets Easier and Vivian are global crossover at its best. David Wax Museum: Knock Knock Get Up – review 2013-06-13T20:15:01Z Around the eight-minute mark of this intimate live track — recorded before a handful of people in Abbey Road Studios — Baker trades licks with the Afrobeat architect Tony Allen in a chattering, propulsive, throbbing percussion conversation. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The name was originally attached to a substantially different kind of percussion instrument, which would require a number of players to strike a series of bells. Hey, what's that sound: Glockenspiel 2010-04-26T15:56:00Z The duet for cello and percussion comprises some 90 minutes of spare, economical gestures, played not quite in sync. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z At the start, impending tensions are suggested in the orchestra by rumbling percussion, cries from scraped piano strings, and prickly chords that accumulate pitches and linger in the air. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z So he put together a small orchestra, and then used parts of the crashed plane from the beach in Hawaii in the percussion section. Up, up and away 2010-03-04T08:34:00Z The rock `n' roll era brought an expanding demand for its percussion products. Robert Zildjian, Sabian cymbal manufacturer, dies 2013-03-29T02:46:07Z Eventually the bassist Malachi Favors and the saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell arrived, and the casino act morphed into a five-man parley of percussion before the horn players finally took up their main instruments. 50 Years On, the Art Ensemble of Chicago Is Still Transforming 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The choreography was simple and repetitive, like the spare, rhythmic loop of the traditional percussion instruments accompanying it. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili at Danspace Project 2012-03-20T22:12:25Z The densely constructed work, which opened with a dramatic percussion flourish, held a listener’s attention with its scampering gestures and complex interplay among instruments. Music Review: Ensembles Resonate With Each Other 2011-06-06T21:45:25Z She started playing percussion seriously in high school, after seeing the rare sight of a female drummer. Marching to the beat of her own drum: Kenyan breaks gender taboo 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Instrumentally, the music sounds overly synthesized, with the band’s electric keyboard dominating its upright bass, reeds and percussion. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z As they speak, Riches, 29, turns their words into lyrics then, guitar in hand, and with the boys playing percussion, he helps them to work out a melody. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z “Train” is like an abstraction of missionary-driven westward expansion; an ominous drone is punctuated by ripples of percussion as the Hosts teach the Arrivals words and skills. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z On the hits of “Armageddon,” Jones unleashes his own furious cascades of percussion, a godlike combination of joy and terror. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Between eruptions of bracingly intricate footwork and body percussion, Galván throws in a reference to ballet here, sports there. A Flamenco Star’s Percussive Mastery and Insouciant Subversions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Singing close harmony in what could almost be a nursery-rhyme melody, they add percussion and synthesizer bass lines over what sounds like marching feet. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z It's propelled by a nagging piano motif and pounding percussion, while she wails about salvation and heartache. This week's new tracks 2012-12-01T00:06:01Z It is easy to miss the subtle percussion in the beginning, or the sneaky guitar that weaves through the middle. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Sampled and warped vocals, echoey synthesizers, turntable scratching and eruptive percussion all ricochet around his promises of hot times after sunset. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z A whole battery of percussion instruments adds to the color and the vigor of the show, making for a family-friendly treat. Seattle Chinese Orchestra to play at Cornish 2013-03-21T20:34:49Z He favors low instruments, with a pit band of two violas, cello, bass, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn and resonant percussion. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z "The American Sublime" is a set of five poems by Stevens for baritone, winds, brass and percussion and begins with a startling drumroll to announce the question about the sublime. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Here, for my friend Steven Schick, the great percussionist, I composed another radically severe work, “The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies,” for solo percussion and “aura.” Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z And “Summer’s Gone” — written by Mr. Wilson, Mr. Thomas and, of all people, Jon Bon Jovi — concludes the album in supernal slow motion, evoking “Pet Sounds” with clip-clop percussion, oboe and a gauzy string arrangement. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z The songs are based on traditional tunes, with lyrics praising the project, and the powerful, hypnotic vocal harmonies are backed by vizumba trumpets and percussion. Umoza: Tumbuka Voices – review 2012-06-28T21:15:06Z The tracks build from piano and earnest percussion toward sometimes lavish instrumentation; the saxophonist Kamasi Washington did arrangements for French horn, tuba, flute and bass clarinet. ‘I Never Thought I Would Talk About It.’ So Florence Welch Put It in a Song. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The set seesawed between hip-hop and samba, hybridizing them both, with a layer of Brazilian percussion in the hip-hop and a bass undertow in the sambas. Music Review: Paying Tribute to New York, by Way of Brazil 2011-07-25T21:43:14Z Rhythm has always been a major element in Gabriel's work, and it was provided here by ingenious use of percussion and string instruments. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z A fusion of European dance pop with the bass and stuttering percussion of British dubstep, it's music that's both cool and cheesy at the same time; a heady combination. Tinie Tempah: specs to success 2011-01-13T19:00:06Z This is just one example of the inventive tweaks Negrón brought to the standard orchestral instrumentation, especially in the percussion section. A composition that captures the ‘trapped repetition’ of the pandemic? Seattle Symphony debuts that and more 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Some of these phenomena were the product of a given percussion instrument being struck — or rubbed or bowed — in a certain way. Review: Yarn/Wire Mesmerizes at Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z At the time, I was listening to Brian Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, so I used a lot of electronic effects and percussion sounds. How we made: Jiggs Chase and Ed Fletcher on The Message 2013-05-27T16:18:10Z In recent years, he often needed to rest on stools onstage to play sax and percussion. Bruce eulogizes sax man Clemons at Fla funeral 2011-06-22T00:16:09Z With conventional percussion, he said, he always felt he was offering listeners a mere imitation of the piece. 'Viva la M?sica': mostly Mexican, side dish from Brazil 2012-01-13T20:24:06Z It slowly pulls you in with a driving bass line and fetching guitar riff before exploding in a flurry of keys and percussion. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z But it may have had to do with forays made by the woodwinds — screeching, warbling or keening — over a steady rhythm in the percussion. New Juilliard Ensemble’s Focus! Festival Under Joel Sachs 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z While Hummingbird holds on to the unique sound of the band, it piles more synthesiser and electronic influences on top of the elegiac harmonies and sweeping percussion - the kind audible in Heavy Feet. Local Natives: 'better than ever' 2013-01-30T08:37:00Z A series of events around Macclesfield, including percussion workshops, design sessions and guided photography tours, will also be held in celebration of the band. Joy Division walking tour to bring fans closer to unknown pleasures 2010-05-17T18:27:00Z We can reinvent in different ways, and some of it is just percussion. Noah Hawley Isn’t Done with ‘Fargo’ 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z This is a true story, too, so after I gave him the trumpet back, the mouthpiece, all that, I never made it to the drums or the percussions. Q&A with Doug E. Fresh: How the rapper and producer became the Human Beat Box 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z After a bit, the bassist Guy Berryman began playing with the lasers, blocking them with his palms as if they were percussion instruments. Music Review: Coldplay Unveils New Songs at the Beacon Theater 2014-05-06T21:32:31Z Melodically, the track is a dirge, but until the rhythm drops away at the end, the percussion is there to party no matter how grim the surroundings. Beck and Phoenix’s Bouncy Synth-Pop Team-up, and 8 More New Songs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Her foot percussion wasn’t mind-blowingly inventive like the sound made by certain Kathak dancers; it was merely exact, precisely in sync with her excellent musicians. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Skirball Center at N.Y.U. - Review 2011-10-31T21:26:55Z The initial fanfare was, like its model, a little curtain-raiser for brass and percussion. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The heft of the percussion, especially on the second of the four movements in this 38-minute piece, lends these sessions an almost jazzy flair. What our writers love this week 2011-05-04T20:56:05Z One is a brief piece for violin and viola, “Capricci,” the other a more ambitious work for percussion and string quartet, “Selene.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He balances the exceedingly large forces — brass everywhere on stage and off, a large percussion section, big organ, an Alpine-sized mountain of strings — with exquisite grace and sophistication. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Strings and percussion are usually synthesized, "but every triangle you hear is real." A final '30 Rock' showcases its unsung music man 2013-01-29T18:01:04Z It's hard to say why the orchestra sounded so out of sorts, with cracked brass and a blooper in the percussion – both rarities in the ROH pit. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z Scored for two pianos, three wordless singers, wind instruments and percussion, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink concerto that gleefully tosses out notions of stylistic purity for the sake of big effects and a lingering ironic aftertaste. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z Eerily floating string disharmonies were cut off by jarring percussion and brass outbursts; inquisitive wind motifs were answered with stark silences. Music Review: The Many Paths of Japan?s Avant-Garde 2011-04-11T20:27:03Z “Steve is really the god of a certain kind of percussion playing,” said Sarah Hennies, a player and composer who studied with him in San Diego. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Levi cadges a tube ticket from the audience to use as a guitar wedge, they speed through one last aggregation of choppy guitar jabs and frenetic percussion, and Micachu and the Shapes are gone. Micachu and the Shapes – review 2012-07-26T15:42:22Z Back in 1981, the single had an extended "Night Version" mix with swooning sax, simmering percussion and intensive dance grooves. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z A 30-member music ensemble from Chicago, it includes the usual brass and percussion, with what it calls its “freak” section — guitars, mandolins, violins and accordions amplified with speakers in the musicians’ helmets. Weekend Miser 2011-04-21T22:00:18Z Guitar often defers to violin, piano or bass, and percussion decorates more than it propels. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z Animal Collective tried a clockwork beat for “There She Goes Again,” and spatters of trap-style sampled percussion did little for “The Black Angel’s Death Song.” Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Holst wrote for a large orchestra with a huge percussion section, and as might be expected, color and general percussion crunchiness get lost in translation. Pianist David Rubinstein offers wide-ranging program 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The U.K.-based group comprising drummers, rappers and deejays tap their Indian heritage by melding traditional percussion with spoken word and contemporary sounds. Giant Magnet family day full of attractions 2011-05-12T19:27:11Z Ms. Tesori went to percussion stores all over New York asking to see the instruments that no one ever rented, the more exotic the better. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z And what sawdust ensemble ever included a typewriter as its sole percussion instrument? Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z It was about irrational outbursts of sound from two sopranos, players sitting at tables hitting all kinds of everyday objects, engineers operating electronic equipment and more outbursts from saxophone, horn, proper percussion and cello. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z In addition to Bryan, the band included Rhydian Dafydd on bass and backing vocals and Matt Thomas on drums and percussion. Joy Formidable bring their energetic Brit rock to the Neptune 2013-03-29T16:35:52Z Dozens of speakers were installed overhead and all around, while “percussion robots” — drums and percussion instruments triggered by computer, with lights flashing as their sounds suddenly erupted — were scattered amid the spectators. Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z A septet of low instruments would provide instrumental material held constant, as electronics, percussion, a high septet and then voices and more were added. Chaya Czernowin’s ‘Wintersongs’ at Miller Theater 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z And the sound is incredible, deep and dense, with great ropy guitar timbres and throbbing tremolo effects, and Johnson’s full-toned, gracefully unspooling saxophone solos against the clave bell and hand percussion. New Releases by Optimo, Anita Wilson and Dexter Johnson 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Speaking Spaces No. 1” may at first come across as a field recording of a nature walk — complete with birdsong and woodpecker percussion rolls — until the piece seems to wander into an industrial landscape. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Though there is a scattering of percussion, “Satellite” isn’t in rapid motion so much as slow orbit. Rabit and the Resurgence of Grime 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “No Man” bemoans an emotionally distant partner in a moody, time-warped ballad, layering electronic percussion and mournful strings. On Her Debut Album, Olivia Dean Is Already Pushing Ahead 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “And it was kind of mind-blowing for him. When I asked Jeff to co-write ‘Africa’ with me, I said I wanted the basis for it to be this percussion drum-loop kind of a thing. 35 years after its release, Toto’s “Africa” is more popular than ever 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic supplies principals for first violin, viola, double bass, oboe, bassoon, horn, tuba, timpani and percussion. ArtsBeat: In Caracas, Doubling Up the Orchestra 2012-02-16T12:08:41Z Her music gets her there too; the song ends on a wishful note — with banger percussion — about togetherness. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z There are hazy effusions of brass; little thickets of rattling, shivering percussion; and whooshing, glistening strings that were a textural link to the Ives, as well as to Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” which came after intermission. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Then in early August, So Percussion, a quartet of brilliant percussionists, joined the orchestra for the premiere of a new arrangement of David Lang’s “man made,” a percussion concerto. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z I want it to convert people to the idea of what percussion can do with an orchestra. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z Self-improvement and historical gratitude converge over a groove that just keeps on sprouting new levels of percussion and polyrhythm. The Playlist: Esperanza Spalding’s Intoxicating Groove, and 12 More New Songs 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Similar nervousness pervaded the material, often bolstered by terse chords and pounding percussion. Mountain Goats bigger, but unchanged 2011-04-06T14:29:00Z The outer movements are fitful and episodic, with the piano often joining its fellow percussion instruments to create waves of propulsive music, flecked with bright colors and brief lyrical riffs. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z Its music merges programmed and hand percussion with a desert drone, an electric-guitar lick and the backup vocals of the Very Best’s Malawian singer, Esau Mwamwaya. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The percussion rolls even harder on Drug Dealer, the album's standout. Best albums of 2012: 20–11 2012-11-28T09:00:00Z There isn’t much percussion to help push time along, but there are tons of guitars, and they never do anything interesting. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In “Teeth Song,” two percussionists join the ensemble, which adds percussion of its own with audible bites and, later, effervescent and aquatic sound effects. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Depending on their configuration, which often begins in a circle and disperses, and on the music, layering various rhythms and anti-rhythms over their own percussion, they look like prisoners or soldiers or children playing. Review: Alessandro Sciarroni Offers Folk Dance, if You Care to Stay 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Some sections remain noticeably divided by gender: 27 of its 30 violinists are now women, for example, while the percussion section is made up entirely of men. In a ‘Sea Change,’ Women of the Philharmonic Now Outnumber the Men 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Opening the season with the piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, playing music mostly from the past decade, was an admirable symbolic gesture. Opener of Library of Congress’s concert series is heard, a bit too loudly 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z “We Found Love” almost criminally recalls the swinging Crystal Waters singles, with triumphant percussion somewhere between church and seventh-inning stretch. New Music: ?Talk That Talk? by Rihanna - Music Review 2011-11-21T19:30:09Z The show choreographed about a dozen smiling people onstage in shiny garments: playing percussion, striking formations, dancing and waving like a high school musical from some “Star Trek” planet. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Be that as it may, what we heard was a riveting display of shimmering, seething orchestral color with a huge collection of percussion instruments rattling, cobbling and bonging away in the Disney Hall acoustic. Joshua Bell kicks off three-night run with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Opening the New Victory’s fall season, this team of four energetic young acrobats and one frenetic composer-musician presents an hourlong show filled with comedy, percussion, and aerial and other feats. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z There’s the sound of explosions, barking dogs and a storm of violins, saxophone and percussion. Review | Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z As outlandish as Mr. Bertolozzi’s project seems, it actually falls within a longstanding tradition of percussion works produced by found objects. ‘Tower Music,’ From Eiffel Tower, by Joseph Bertolozzi 2013-06-04T22:18:40Z In Step Afrika! performances, the percussion they use provides the music. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Step Afrika! team up for ‘The Nutcracker’ As the strings play a genial, ambling theme, a percussion instrument mimics a clock’s ticktocks as the seconds pass. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Accordingly, the concerto's three movements are linked by two big cadenzas, with less emphasis on a whole battery of percussion and more on long linear shaping, to counteract the obvious rhythmic focus. Vale of Glamorgan festival – review 2013-05-16T14:54:15Z In his program note, Hepfer described Aperghis’ solo percussion piece “Le Corps á Corps” as “a schizophrenic melodrama,” and he turned it into a schizophrenic tour de force. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z "I play the guitar like percussion," he explains. Meet Nigeria's Captain Rugged - a superhero who can dance 2014-02-26T09:12:25Z As a vocalist, Morris takes her Nashville inheritance — vowels that curve parallel to a twang; legible, unambiguous lyrics — and sets them to tunes built with acoustic guitars, synthesizers and electronic percussion. Review | Maren Morris has the best voice in country music. She’s still learning how to use it. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z A pair of elegantly intertwined acoustic guitars, joined by bass and percussion, propel and offer counterpoint to the singers as they sketch a love-hate relationship that might still end in desire. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The wedding piece required an unusual combination: the four pianos plus percussion and Russian folk singers. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Pace is key; rhythms are wound taut with ticking, delay-crunched guitars, processed percussion and buzzing digital bass, all shot through with radiant synths and blistered hooks. Divine Fits: A Thing Called Divine Fits – review 2012-08-23T20:45:02Z Over minimalist percussion and an insistent guitar vamp, her voice spins ahead of the beat with a jumble of words, then drags behind with a lazy drawl, occasionally fleshing out into stacked harmonies. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This band blend trumpets, organs, strings, glockenspiels, guitars, drums, percussion, bass, and piano together to orchestrate epic pop hooks and choruses. Sheffield's Tramlines - it looks like the best year ever 2012-07-13T16:49:00Z Metronomic drummer Stephen Morris emulates and embroiders the electronic percussion that propels the music. Review | Nearing 40 years together, New Order’s sound is still thrilling 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Entering through Columbus Circle, dreamy violins faded in as I strolled across the Meadow, rising until we hit the Mall, where the soundtrack turned into whispering voices and eerie percussion. T Magazine: For iPhones, a Central Park Soundtrack 2011-10-24T20:37:38Z When Michael reaches New York, bits of jazz rich with sultry brass solos, wah-wah bursts from the trumpet and syncopated percussion blend into the strands of Stockhausen’s modernist language. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z Jacaranda's music director, Mark Alan Hilt, led the Jacaranda Chamber Orchestra, complete with Wagnerian brass and a battery of percussion, in a spirited rendition of Adams' sweeping symphonic satire. Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Bells, percussion and electronics meld with a Yoruba prayer honoring ancestors, at once futuristic and hypnotic. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z In performance, Mr. Das’s percussion rhythms did the most to establish the mood — and to inspire Lil Buck. Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This evidenced by "Sad Night, Where is Morning?" which brims with melodic guitars, measured percussion and passion-infused singing from Schelzel declaring "my thoughts today, oh how they want to stray." Review: The Ocean Blue strong with 'Ultramarine' 2013-03-18T17:01:09Z Offering an appealing elaboration on Debussy and Ravel with its murmuring winds, robust brass effusions and shimmering metal percussion, the work earned Mr. Suh a warm reception at its conclusion. Music Review: Korean Symphony at Carnegie, Brahms via Seoul 2010-06-02T21:50:00Z The score pits three electronic keyboards against a percussion trio, with players on both sides recruited from the contemporary-music ensemble Yarn/Wire. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z The song is stripped-down, with Blige accompanied only by piano for the first verse and chorus before adding percussion to the mix. Listen to Mary J. Blige’s New Track “Not Loving You,” Co-Written by Sam Smith 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z But before you can, you're shepherded down a path at Hollenbeck Park, where two lovers serenade each other and an ice cream vendor plays percussion on his humble cart. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The score, which draws on Russian folk songs and liturgical chants, is written for four pianos — an oddity — and a hefty percussion section, in addition to a large chorus and four vocal soloists. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z “Rough Music” is an eclectic three-movement concerto for a wide range of percussion instruments. Composer Gruber to conduct Bernstein, Stravinsky, his own ‘Rough Music’ at SSO 2013-04-11T20:43:51Z The percussion section is very large, which for this performance was divided between the back of the orchestra and up front, with tam-tam and bass drum within touching distance of Wang. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But there is no faulting the dedication with which Marc Almond and his enormous band – eight-strong choir, string section, all sorts of percussion – throw themselves into it. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z But first, this Sunday, is another sort of celebratory blowout for organ, this time with brass and percussion. Happy Birthday Hurricane Mama 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The first sounds you hear in “Sumeida’s Song” are clattering percussion and screeching woodwinds evoking the noise of a train arriving at the station in the town where the story is set. Music Review: ‘Sumeida’s Song’ at Here Arts Center 2013-01-10T22:30:02Z And there were gasps of appreciation as a percussion section rooted in the Indian, Arabic, African and Asian worlds collaborated in almost irresistible complexity. Silk Road Ensemble transports Wolf Trap audience across the world 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Some of it is in faster metronome marks, in particular these percussion parts with all the orchestra going into chaos. The New York Philharmonic Channels the Chaos of the Cosmos 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Waves hammered the shoreline, shooting 20 feet into the air and creating ground-trembling percussions. Where the whales are: Discovering marine mammals from shore along the Pacific Coast 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z I played organ, bass, electric guitar and two little percussion toys. How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2013-05-20T16:44:32Z Otherwise she accompanies herself: on percussion, various stringed instruments and vocal overdubs. The Playlist: Kamasi Washington Releases a Blast of ‘Truth’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z In other news, the percussion on this track is fantastic. Readers recommend: songs about fate and destiny 2010-09-16T23:01:00Z Tender, ornate violin solos alternate with brash orchestral outbursts full of clanging percussion and conciliatory passages. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “There was hand percussion, Indian drums, high voices and low voices and children’s voices, and once you got to the right number it all blended in and sounded very beautiful.” Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Recordings Finally Have a Wide Release 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z As the orchestra roils, with restless spiraling figures, bursts of percussion and slashing brass, the characters asking the emperor for action intone their lines in stentorian, almost monotone declamations, enforced by a large chorus. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z But soon after, he joined his girlfriend’s band for a year, and soon after started writing music with his own band that featured three-part vocal harmony, hand percussion and guitar. Sitka campers sound it out with beatboxing 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z By adding Latin percussion and handsome brass, the band transports the song from the Sunset Strip to East Los Angeles, doing all the things a great cover song should do. Country-music fans get what they want. Even if what they want is Motley Crue In other episodes, the music teems with gnarly chords and thumping percussion. Review: ‘There Will Be Blood,’ With a Haunting Live Soundtrack 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z “I’m obsessed with harmony,” she said beforehand, and it showed in this piece for bass flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, piano and percussion. Review: The Philharmonic Focuses on Female Composers 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Repelling his advances, she switches from song into konnakol, the Indian art of vocal percussion, hurling volleys of rhythmic syllables at him like pepper spray. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Along with the music library, the purchase included percussion instruments, a harp and two grand pianos. ArtsBeat: Group Buys Honolulu Symphony's Assets 2011-03-17T21:20:34Z The percussion is lush and, in spots, digitally rickety, ranging from far away camera snaps to gently scraping snares. Friday Favorites: USF, Sax G Whiz, ????? 2010-08-27T17:09:00Z Looping his own rhythm section and using his guitar as a percussion instrument, it’s amazing so much noise can come from one tiny man with an acoustic guitar and some effects peddles. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Expect everything from Afro-Caribbean percussion to chamber works to set the dancers into action. A&E highlights: Celtic Woman, ‘What Maisie Knew’ and ‘Other Desert Cities’ 2013-05-31T23:30:07Z Coldplay will start with an elegant melody, then add a soaring guitar part and compound it with momentous percussion at the song’s crescendo followed by any combination of “ohs” and “ooos.” Do I Hate Coldplay? Or Just Think I Do? 2011-10-27T15:15:56Z Presented by classical music's poster gal Clemency Burton-Hill, there are five categories – percussion, woodwind, brass, strings and keyboard. BBC Young Musician 2010 2010-04-16T05:45:00Z Instead, it’s laced with nervous undercurrents of percussion and bass, playing up the ambivalence of a song that’s pondering just how close to let a relationship get. Jazmine Sullivan’s Meditation on Courage, and 10 More New Songs 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Partch, the L.A.-based percussion ensemble, received nominations for its album "Plectra & Percussion Dances" in the categories of classical compendium and chamber music /small ensemble performance. Grammys 2015: Classical nominations for 'City Noir,' L.A.'s Partch 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Malouf is a classical Arabic music style, ascetic and finely detailed: unharmonized melodic lines that are shared and traded by the singer and instruments, accompanied by sparse percussion. Music Review: Sonia M’barek at the French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-07T21:13:40Z Holly Herndon layered her voice into airy vocal harmonies that sailed above jagged, tricky percussion. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z The last section ups the tempo with layers of Latin rhythms and copious percussion, but it's all surface glitter: the music never moves purposefully or follows a coherent structural plan. Prom 5: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-19T10:08:38Z “Rothko Chapel” unfolds as a series of fragmentary viola lines, flickers of notes on the celesta, isolated wordless chords intoned by the chorus and subdued rhythmic figures in the percussion. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z When the stage show ended, another percussion jam started up on the wet grass, and people lingered into the night, not wanting the music to end. Danilo Pérez Builds a Magnet for Musicians in Panama 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Simon’s band brought rubbery bass lines, washboard and spoons, percolating hand percussion and sinewy guitar chatter via Africa, Jamaica and Louisiana. Paul Simon and Sting at the United Center 2014-02-26T06:48:00Z On its surface the first movement, in which the piano is accompanied only by percussion, woodwinds and brasses, is a breathless folk dance. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z As the musical themes tie together in a farandole of pomp and percussion, so do Mr. Wheeldon’s choreographic strands. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in New ?Carillons? at Koch Theater 2012-01-29T23:23:55Z The finest female newcomer was Christine Salem, from La Réunion, who demonstrated her deep, soulful vocals with backing provided by her own percussion and two male singers and percussionists. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z Meyer's expert writing for the 15 Philharmonic players, artful use of percussion and extended techniques, including pianist Vicki Ray plucking strings inside the piano, contrasted effectively with the score's moments of repose and mystery. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The waves are amplified and sent to loudspeakers, the vibrating cones of which cause percussion instruments to sound. Alvin Lucier, Probing Composer of Soundscapes, Is Dead at 90 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z On her cue they played a variety of instruments — glasses filled with water, triangles, other hand percussion — as she wove a melody throughout the pooling communal sound. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The singers supplied several layers of percussion, almost entirely with their voices. Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Includes ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Revival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z One song’s percussion always varies from the next, subtly adjusting to the tone of Apple’s lyrics. Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel...: Painful, Raw Parts That Form Something Beautiful 2012-06-18T16:24:15Z Ms. Takada founded Mkwaju Ensemble, a three-piece percussion group that performed a hybrid of African, Asian and Minimalism, releasing two records before financial strains forced them to disband. How a Digital Rabbit Hole Gave Midori Takada’s 1983 Album a Second Life 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Declarations, accusations, and percussion punches persist on “I’m Not Your Hero” and “Shock To Your System.” Tegan and Sara Bring Pop—and Heart, Of Course—to Heartthrob 2013-02-01T15:00:03Z The first movement begins with an ominous, sustained, single note that swells until percussion batters it down and the orchestra fractures into shards and fragments. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z The sounds of “From the Dancehall to the Battlefield” consistently surprise and delight; backward-masked percussion on a performance of “St. Louis Blues” might send you reeling back in more ways than one. Jason Moran Pays Tribute to an Early Jazz Ancestor 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Jean-Efflam Bavouzet was the soloist in a powerhouse performance that followed Bartók's requested platform layout with the pianist surrounded by the orchestral percussion. Prom 15: LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-07-27T09:54:07Z The program opened with his “En el Aire,” whose flute fragments overlapped with recorded percussion. Music Review: Alejandro Escuer at the Americas Society 2012-11-22T21:08:22Z After all, as his sweat and heavy breathing when he finished the recording session made clear, percussion is, more than most instrumental music-making, a young person’s game. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The guitarist Yasser Tejeda led a quartet that was one-half percussion, blending rhythmic traditions from his home country, the Dominican Republic, that are rarely put together. A BRIC in Flux Turns Out an Intimate, Focused JazzFest 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Tea sets and dinner plates are sharing the Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space with percussion instruments, mysterious figurines and geometric abstractions. In the galleries: Two photographers, two perspectives 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He's the influential Brazilian maverick who brought a pig on-stage and used it as a percussion instrument. Hermeto Pascoal – review 2013-07-19T16:17:02Z The “orchestra,” for example, consists merely of a piano player, the excellent Jacob Kidder, and a roving assortment of actor-instrumentalists who occasionally accompany a song on guitar, violin, brass or percussion. ‘Road Show’: A journey into the ‘get-rich-quick’ 20th century 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Mark Lund's period costumes and sets are fine garnishes, as are the instrumentals performed by a trio of musicians on guitars, winds and percussion. Review: Taproot stages a compact 'Man of La Mancha' 2010-07-20T21:19:00Z Yanagitani’s touch reminded me of why the piano is considered a percussion instrument, and it was only in Schumann’s gently lyrical Andante movement that he backed off and blended in with an appealing legato. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Still, the ear was repeatedly seized by arresting combinations of timbre, like a glowing mix of harp, percussion, harpsichord and celesta that surfaced near the end, and Mr. Fulmer’s prodigious playing commanded attention throughout. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble Plays Fulmer and Kapica 2010-04-30T20:24:00Z The rest of the ensemble stoked the furnace with grinding guitar, loping bass lines and tumultuous drumming and percussion. Trombone Shorty no mere blowhard 2011-04-05T14:44:00Z Glass's scoring includes oriental instruments – the Chinese pipa, the Japanese shakuhachi – alongside flute, cello and percussion, and the vocal lines are spare and conversational. The Sound of a Voice – review 2012-08-24T15:26:02Z Pascoal plays Round Midnight on a kettle, turns two squeaky toy pigs into percussion instruments, and howls and grunts along while playing eccentric solos on his keyboard. Hermeto Pascoal – review 2013-07-19T16:17:02Z “Texts Go Green” is driven by jittery percussion, and the piano-drizzled soulful house buildup toward the end of “A Keeper” is an invitation to liberation. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z And “Inuksuit,” flexibly scored for anywhere from 9 to 99 percussion players widely dispersed in an outdoor area, is the ultimate environmental piece. Music Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Inuksuit’ at Ojai Music Festival 2012-06-08T21:08:54Z A lush, brooding celebration of noise, “Seven Pillars” is the sprawling result of a deep collaboration between a composer and a percussion quartet. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Propelled by a snare-snapped percussion and yet another meandering McPherson solo, when the track ends you'll want to restart "Let the Good Times Roll" and relive the experience again from start to finish. Essential tracks: J.D. McPherson's 'Let the Good Times Roll' a sharp shock 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Even when he adds arrangements beyond guitar, voice, and percussion — some synthesized strings on “Cristina” and “Reitiración,” for instance — he’s reducing to an ever lighter essence, direct and sublime. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z But as he sings “Rocking you to sleep, from the Otherside,” the heavens suddenly open up with a cathedral-size chord, shimmering percussion and choirlike vocal harmonies, a paradise of pop artifice. Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Now we want to convince those curious friends to love percussion — the resonant sound of instruments struck, shaken, pounded. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Percussion 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Then the funky Cheiron backbeat kicks in, with drums that sound like percussion grenades. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Audience members, in scores of rowboats, grew restless waiting and started their own percussion piece by breaking into rhythmic clapping. Music Review: ?Persephassa? by Xenakis, on Central Park Lake 2010-06-22T22:13:00Z The string, woodwind, brass and percussion sections also received coaching from members of the New York Philharmonic before the concert, which was a benefit for the Riverside Food Pantry. Music Review: St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra at Riverside Church 2010-06-09T21:33:00Z Rare works by Mr. Zorn here, that steadfast presence in what used to be called the downtown scene, and all hewing to the format of a notated piano part with improvised bass and percussion. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It began with an important West Coast premiere, Steve Reich's recent Quartet for percussion and pianos. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z This meditative but constantly changing instrumental begins with the assembly of a steady-state percussion pattern on bells and hand drums. Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Portico Quartet Here’s a young quasi-jazz group from London messing with multitracking, electronics, steady ostinatos, echoed soprano saxophone and a malleted percussion instrument called a “hang,” which sounds like a steel drum. Playlist: Surfboards, Harmonies and Sheet Metal 2010-09-19T20:25:00Z Often working in response to Román Díaz’s beacon-like vocals and steadying hand percussion, the group conjures fragility and obstinacy, enigma and hard essence. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Skeletal but frantic percussion and bass drive this panicky admission of fear of commitment. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Others are joyful instrumentals set against a backbeat of traditional percussion. Refugees in Calais ‘Jungle’ Record an Album 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z With freeze-dried percussion sounds and Auto-Tuned vocals, the production may suit radio programmers but dehumanizes the song. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z For an encore the ensemble took on extra brass and percussion players for “Danzón No. 2” by the Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, dispatched with a robust swagger that left you wanting to hear more. Music Review: New York Women?s Ensemble at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:46:05Z The pan flutes, choral pads and melodic percussion intentionally evoke rain forests and the ocean. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z He got a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, in London, where he studied percussion and grew skeptical of trends in contemporary classical composition. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z There's very little percussion here and plenty of high harmony, yet there's nothing soft about "Sigh No More." 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z Keyboards, woodwinds, clinking percussion, static, bits of beatboxing and peculiar samples all come and go. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z In addition, royal funerals have featured outdoor processions, including wind, brass and percussion instruments in the 17th century and, in the 20th, imperial military bands. What Music to Expect at Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The most popular a cappella belies tradition for pop stylings and beatbox percussion, and stardom is just a viral video away. | Singing: A Cappellooza 2011-01-09T05:00:05Z With its mixture of thunderous percussion and improvised call-and-response vocals, it's the Indian Ocean answer to the blues. Christine Salem: bringing the devil's music to Womad 2013-07-18T16:51:00Z Eight companies will take part in the 3 p.m. performance, exploring styles including flamenco, tap, Irish, step and body percussion. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 11-17 2013-01-10T23:09:44Z Mouse on Mars also wanted to generate computer-driven physical sound, teaming up with engineers to develop percussion robots that were robust enough to handle the demands of the music on the road. Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Young woodwind, brass and percussion players are among the 61 participants in this 45th-anniversary season. New York String Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Beatboxing and vocal percussion are two related ways of making drum-like sounds with your mouth. Sitka campers sound it out with beatboxing 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Thor Harris played extra percussion, doubling the stomps and cymbal crashes, and also playing long passages — central to the new Swans music — of dulcimer, vibraphone and tubular bells. Music Review: Loud and Middle-Aged, But It?s Not a Reunion 2010-10-11T21:15:00Z The music was provided by a traditional ensemble of tuned percussion, strings and the distinctive, circular Vietnamese "moon lute" led by Nguyen Xuan Son, a master of the northern Vietnamese Cheo school of folk music. Ea Sola: 'I'm not an intellectual, I come from the forest' 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z "Arnold's music is rhythmic, kinetic, with lots of percussion," Krajewski says. Seattle Symphony pays tribute to 007 themes 2012-01-26T19:53:24Z This fluency — which extends to the musicians, who breezily complement the women’s footwork on violin, trumpet, piano and percussion — seems to spring from their relationships as people, as friends. Review: Radiant Artists, With a Percussive Bond 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The organist sometimes uses a small wood bar to depress blocks of keys to produce punchy cluster chords, surrounded by bursts of chimes, gongs and mallet percussion. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z They made me appreciate anew the loose-limbed way that Starr knocked around the beat, and the many stray eruptions of added percussion and phantom voices throughout the album. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Some of the percussion a small some of the time was a tad over-amplified. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z When the piece opened with a clanking burst of percussion and pianos, for example, the bride fretted about the tresses of her hair in phrases at once agitated and elegiac. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z He danced unrestrained against the backdrop of a skyline to the lush percussion of “But You.” Blood Orange blends guitar, poetry and the cello to explore his black identity 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Factory noises, distant shouts and trap percussion are laced through a track that revolves around four somber but ascending chords, mourning what it’s selling. The Playlist: Willie Nelson Is Still Standing, and 10 More New Songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The money will fund the purchase and installation of large outdoor percussion instruments. Lloyd Webber fund announces new grants worth ?1m 2011-07-28T09:45:24Z Although the NSO’s perennial problem of overbearing brass and percussion spoiled many passages, the strings still dug in, doing their best under the circumstances. NSO’s all-Tchaikovsky series still satisfies, even surprises 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Later that summer he got to play Respighi’s “Roman Festivals,” which requires a large percussion section, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance conducted by Charles Dutoit. At Tanglewood, a Young Musician Leaps From the Stage Crew to the Stage 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z They use their bodies as percussion instruments taking their cues from the All-Stars. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Even better than the solos is her writing for the larger forces — which, on “Vogelfrei,” include punchy percussion, frenzied strings and winds, an ethereal choir, and the pianist Kris Davis. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Abetted by Evans, Pearl Jam lets its songs billow outward with neo-psychedelic richness: clouds of vocal harmony or guitar tones, subtle bulwarks of keyboard, impulsive instrumental passages, playgrounds of percussion. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z This week’s tap specialist, as the hoofers are billed, is Andrew Nemr, whose quartet specializes tap dance percussion. Dance Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Her years onstage playing guitar, keyboards and percussion certainly taught her how to ground herself amid the chaos of a film set. Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The second movement, alive with percussion instruments, is short, percolating and angry. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In a collaboration with the dance organization Movement Art Is, this reliably innovative percussion quartet will continue to refresh its repertory. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The orchestration included an alto saxophone, which gave “Minstrels” — in these works’ first performance by the NSO — a slightly big-band flavor; a celesta; and a battery of percussion. Runnicles and NSO go French 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The premiere on this program, “Love Song Solos,” was not only choreographed by him, but it was also to percussion music composed and even played by him. Dance Review: Ballet and New Music Mix, Meet and Mingle 2011-06-26T22:30:27Z Compare the wall of pounding, resonant percussion percussion heard in Man of Steel to the peppy melodic line from Driving Miss Daisy. Have we reached peak Hans Zimmer? 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z And yet they are virtually alone in the closing measures, joined only by the lingering ring of percussion. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He had in mind the way percussion music can open the door to unaccustomed ways of listening — and even of perceiving the environment around us. Metal pipes, a cigar box and more feature in ambitious multimedia concert of Northwest composer Andy Akiho 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The heart of Steve Reich’s group was percussion, with voices, strings and other instruments added as required. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z Show We Regret Missing: Haim, the California sister act with bulldozing percussion and brilliant songwriting, and Vampire Weekend, who are getting to release their new album, Modern Vampires of the City, in early May. SXSW 2013: Recapping the Music Festival 2013-03-18T14:58:24Z Providing musical accompaniment is Fred Johnson, who sits in a back corner of the stage and plays percussion and, briefly, a singular West African stringed instrument. Review: A ‘Lucky Penny’ for the Thoughts of a Son and His Father 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The weekend's electrifying percussion pieces deserve a cheer too. Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review 2013-05-18T23:05:43Z Tracks such as The Student or Dubliners are fraught reveries, ambient enigmas, auditory hallucinations of fumbling, tumbling double-bass; stark, poignant dabs of manipulated piano; chirruping percussion and environmental noise. Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z The years that followed, in which she earned a living accompanying ballet and modern-dance classes on piano, violin and percussion, were her compositional laboratory. Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer 2013-04-18T00:31:19Z Its earthy, sustained low notes were framed against the piquant highs of flutes and piccolo throughout this appealing work, interwoven with colorful percussion and an almost jazzy solo part, played with flair by Mr. Blackwell. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z “I Keep a Close Watch,” which was a lost-love ballad with orchestral backing when Mr. Cale released it in 1975, was immeasurably more lonely supported by a few recurring piano notes and ticking percussion. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Sudden bursts will take off, sometimes inciting a fluttering tremolo or gnashing percussion volley. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Place a piano among real sustaining or breathing instruments – a cello, a clarinet – and the illusion shatters, forcing us to hear the piano as it is: a tuned percussion instrument. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z It was electronic music — Mr. Krlic was hunched over a mixer in the smoke and shadows onstage — but for much of the set, typical keyboard notes or percussion timbres were scarce. Music Review: The Haxan Cloak and Robert Henke in Red Bull Festival 2014-05-12T14:44:09Z I understood when I needed to create something totally a cappella — just the percussion. A Choreographer Learns From the Club: ‘Live True, Dance Free’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Treats include the VIP Room, an angled salon covered with blue ceramic tiles, and the so-called Orange Room, whose floor gives off wild sounds — bird chirps, percussion — as you step on it. 36 Hours in Porto, Portugal 2011-11-25T06:02:02Z Produced by Joey Burns of the roots-rock band Calexico, and principally recorded in that band’s hometown, Tucson, it plants Mr. Lee and his tunes in a stark landscape, enveloped by rustling percussion and reverberant drones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z Strings, winds and percussion instruments were congregated on the stage. Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z From the in-your-face rock percussion announcing the familiar MGM lion to the final cymbal echoes ringing over the resurrection finale, Copeland commanded the audience's attention and praise. Stewart Copeland's 'Ben-Hur' thunder rolls into Northridge 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Founded in 1885, the orchestra is known nationally for its July Fourth concerts on the banks of the Charles River, where fireworks back up the percussion section. High note: Lockhart marks 25 years as Boston Pops conductor 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z It starts with an unearthly blast of trumpets, woodwind and vocals, driven on by furious Indian dhol percussion, guitars and loop effects. Fanfara Tirana Meets Transglobal Underground: Kabatronics – review 2013-02-21T22:14:01Z He’s best when he treats it as percussion, as he does here on “Ethiopia,” using it to hammer out bleats. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z The problem with writing a percussion concerto is how you make it a satisfying musical experience as well just a flipping noisy one. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z Ms. Wang, a mighty substitute for the work’s string instruments, demonstrated how the piece has always used violins as thinly veiled percussion. Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z But composer and performer certainly succeeded in exploring a broad range of sonic possibilities for standard percussion instruments, illuminated by Mr. Schick’s deft, nuanced touch. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z And Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s G minor Quartet, complete with klezmer-ish touches and a zany array of percussion in the so-called Gypsy finale, is an entertaining complement. Review: Works by Hélène Grimaud, Daniel Barenboim and Others 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In Mr. Lifchitz’s “Night Voices No. 16,” for clarinet, strings and percussion, Mr. Campbell was more clearly the focus. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z After playing other instruments, Mr. Firth, who was known as Vic throughout his life, settled on drums and other percussion instruments in his teens. Everett ‘Vic’ Firth, percussionist who manufactured drumsticks, dies at 85 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Eotvos began musical lessons — violin, piano, flute and percussion — at the age of 5. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The first of this season's Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella new music series was devoted to two big percussion pieces: David Lang's "the so-called laws of nature" and Michael Gordon's "Timber." David Lang, Michael Gordon and So Percussion toy with minds 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Latin percussion and a string arrangement pull it back toward the 1970s; power chords reinforce its desperate chorus, and Clark plays only a brief, unflashy guitar solo, a futile appeal. Gary Clark Jr. Finds a 21st-Century Blues Spirit on ‘This Land’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Brass and percussion instruments meet nonprocessed field recordings, the latter captured by four local members of the Seattle Phonographers Union, a collection of enthusiasts exploring the mysteries of human relationships to sound. Wild sounds: Jazz improv and field recordings mix for ‘End of Summer Sound Vespers’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “Remind Me” and “Heat” are both produced by Rick Rubin in the style of his earliest work: doltishly big rock riffs with boom-bap percussion. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Morris, himself a former percussionist, called Schick "a staggering percussion player, musical omnivore and gifted conductor." Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z This intense R&B/pop tune with complex percussion, big, Florence-like drums and a canny "oh way oh" chorus surfaced on the internet last November. Haim – review 2013-06-02T19:05:01Z The Chinese orchestra included the familiar instrumental families of strings, brass, winds and percussion, with some Western instruments among them. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z On the flip side, soft percussion is often totally inaudible. NSO’s marquee names deliver in a flawed program 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z In all of the songs, the voice is almost constant, smoothly cresting and subsiding but ever-present, almost submerged in sparse textures of wind, brass and percussion. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Those qualities prevailed through the rest of the suite, as did the attractions of the orchestra’s luminous string sound, lyrical woodwind playing and, especially in “Laideronnette,” its characterful percussion. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: ?Once Upon a Time,? as Told by 2 Composers 2010-02-26T21:54:00Z The relentless percussion embellishes lyrics that tell the story of a woman who scrapes the percussive güiro instrument to the narrator’s satisfaction. 15 Essentials From Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z He adapted the texts for the five songs from hymns, Romantic lieder and blues songs, woven through with dulcimer, banjo, strings, winds, percussion and electronics. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The ingredients are distortion and percussion, in layers that clatter and lurch with unpredictably shifting attacks, for songs like “Rubbing Up” and “Nautilus.” 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z If Mr. Lansky’s work focused on the blend and weave of a percussion ensemble, Mr. Mackey’s “It Is Time” celebrated the individual characters and strengths of the four players. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Used as percussion, this technique opened up a new palette of rhythmic opportunities; beats suddenly fluttered, kinked, skipped, stuttered. Some people are on the glitch, they think it's all Oval ? 2010-07-14T15:39:00Z Looking to his past and sketching his future, it is intended as the magnum opus of a figure the composer Michael Gordon has called “the philosopher king of percussion music.” The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The subsequent prohibition of drums gave rise to a practice of body percussion, which fused with existing African dance traditions and later evolved into the powerful Black art form now called stepping. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “I kind of treated the vibraphone as a non-pitched percussion set,” Mr. Little said. Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “His writing for winds and percussion is especially striking,” said Mr. Tingaud. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Innocently melodic, repeating violin motifs combined with sparkling percussion effects are gradually undermined by rumbling bass figures; a steady beat, played by pizzicato strings, is overwhelmed by full-ensemble cacophony. Music Review: Chris Thile and Mandolin Join Orpheus Ensemble at Carnegie 2012-03-26T22:38:28Z Revival is sturdy garage pop, lifted into something lovely by imaginative percussion, and what sounds like a mandolin beneath the fuzz. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest 2010-09-23T22:59:00Z He still plays music, but not on the French horn — he now concentrates on flutes and percussion — and not in concert. The secret, unreleased albums of Brother Ah, D.C.’s jazz guru 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Hand the result to Wendell Marshall to give it life, a bit of percussion, gorgeous strings and Ben E King's incredible vocal to top it off. Readers recommend: songs with the best bass lines – results 2012-10-11T12:35:46Z The technology just helps capture and loop the tones of acoustic guitars, keyboards, percussion and voices, whether or not they’re fed through analog distortion gadgets; it’s as amoral as a microphone or an amplifier. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The musical chemistry of Ms. Kent’s music is unusually delicate; it requires light, unobtrusive percussion; anything heavier produces strain. Music Review: Jazz Singer Stacey Kent Plays at Birdland 2010-06-04T22:05:00Z In “Alibi,” surrounded by synthesizer chords and twitchy programmed percussion, she realizes, “Something so warm turned out to be/Something that I should’ve known would be the death.” Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The studio also hired the London Symphony Orchestra to rerecord the classical tracks, section by section, to allow players to swap out separate “stems” — woodwind, percussion, violins — and replace them with instruments from the remixes. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z She was accompanied by four instrumentalists playing cello, percussion, various flutes and clarinets, all members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, known as ICE. Music Review: ‘The whisper opera’ Speaks at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:53:51Z There were no props or scenery on the simple black stage, with a battery of percussion instruments arrayed against the back wall. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z Broadly speaking, the distinction between white Cajun music and the Creole form of Zydeco is to be found in the means of percussion. Mama Rosin: Some like it hot 2011-01-06T22:29:00Z Sorey, at center, conducts an ensemble of just three musicians, playing viola, keyboards and percussion: nearly the same instrumentation as Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel.” Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Baltimore Paul and Rotterdam Paul are on vocals and guitar, while Manchester Paul plays bass, and Pennsylvania Paul is on percussion. Paul O’Sullivan found people with his name on Facebook. Naturally, they formed a band. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z My wife was mimicking the way I play my percussion with my arms flailing and everything. Eiffel Tower becomes musical tool for New York composer 2013-06-07T16:59:41Z The ensemble joins her, multiplying her rhythms with their own a cappella calls and body percussion. Review: The Balletic Rise and Fall of Eva Perón 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z That driving vibrancy then recedes, in quiet music gently perforated with a pricking constellation of high-pitched percussion. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z It begins with what seems a disorienting call to attention: thin, reedy chords, sometimes sustained and sometimes slippery, are played in high registers by woodwinds and percussion. Review: With ‘Tao,’ Philharmonic Dives Deeper Into Andriessen 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In “Music for a Summer Evening,” for two pianos and percussion, the musicians become celebrants in a mesmerizing ritual that requires the pianists to reach deep into the instrument’s strings. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Spoken text, live percussion and a prerecorded sound collage will enhance the show. 3 local dance companies to see this weekend 2011-12-08T21:42:06Z Throughout the ’70s he worked on “songbirdsongs,” a cycle that translates his own field observations into crystalline instrumental miniatures for flutes and percussion. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Some singers added delicate color accents on a handful of percussion instruments, like the excited triangle trills in “The Singing Tree,” a bustling movement bright with the energy of sparrows chattering at sunset. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z That description shortchanges the piece, though it explains the rapid morphing — from lively modal passages to stretches of sustained string writing or pounding percussion and brass figures — that is among its principal charms. Music Review: Rock and Classical Collide With Bowie and a Score by Radiohead Star 2011-05-22T21:15:09Z Blunt, austere percussion — from a booming Japanese taiko drum to the metallic scrape of a knife being sharpened — is layered with neo-medieval wind consorts, modernist dissonances, Minimalist vibraphone patterns and isolated electronics. Playlist: Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament 2010-02-19T21:40:00Z The piece was made using nothing but vocals from community choirs and pebbles for percussion but it was no simple affair. Tim Jonze On Shuffle … Experimental music 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z The drum kit has been replaced with marching band percussion. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But on this seductive recording, computer-designed sounds merely create an acoustic aura that envelops the quizzical, ruminating patterns drawn by Mr. Kotche, a rock drummer and composer, on an array of percussion instruments. Reviews: Classical Music Albums 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps they were among the 51 Brazilian, African and Latin percussion instruments played in the show. Building David Byrne’s ‘Utopia,’ One Gray Suit at a Time 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z There was the high-impact moodiness of Flying Lotus, whose set was a lurching stop-start collection of galloping percussion, subterranean bass heaves, blippy electronics and ominous dirges, complete with choir and church bells. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z With Spanish guitar and hand clapping, the show's four dancers combine the sharp percussion of tap with the classic movements of flamenco to create an exhilarating interplay of texture and beats. This week's new dance 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Leaves sounded like percussion in the wind, and Bethesda Fountain sounded like a jet. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z As The Fear closes the main set with a battery of percussion and strobe lights, in a small concession to showbiz, he steps forward and blows a kiss. Ben Howard – review 2013-06-13T16:52:47Z The performers are grouped into five choirs: string, brass, woodwind, percussion and vocal. A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z It appears to be delicate chamber music for percussion, viola and piano. Review: Ches Smith’s ‘The Bell’ Plays With Listeners’ Expectations 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z What links the three works is that they're all for percussion sextet — and they all require the players to surround the audience. Get ready for a 3-D sound experience with Les Percussions de Strasbourg 2011-02-16T21:09:06Z This left the U.S. premiere of a percussion concerto by the Scottish composer Helen Grime, who teaches at the Royal Holloway, University of London. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z For sound designer Pete Keppler, the design process involved a careful study of the acoustic qualities of each individual percussion instrument. Building David Byrne’s ‘Utopia,’ One Gray Suit at a Time 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The instrumentation now comprises a 13-player Western ensemble and, especially for the scenes in exotic Bithynia, five obbligato Asian instruments and a full American gamelan, meaning a Javanese-style mostly metallic percussion orchestra made in America. Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z On the bill for the performance, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, are “Therefore, I Was,” for piano, cello and percussion, and the full version of a new solo percussion piece, “Shiver Lung 2.” 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In a phone interview last week, Prieto explained why he started sending orchestras items from his personal percussion collection when performing the Chávez work. 'Viva la M?sica': mostly Mexican, side dish from Brazil 2012-01-13T20:24:06Z She’s a promising overachiever — and flashy dresser — who packs her songs with leaping melody lines, jazzy harmonies and lattice works of percussion. Music Review: Foster the People at Rumsey Playfield 2012-05-30T22:30:07Z Even on some of the liveliest tracks — like “Behold the Deceiver,” with its weaving horns and bubbling riot of drums and percussion — the bass hardly wavers from a single incantatory phrase. Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Their 1985 collaboration, “Camera Obscura,” brought in more percussion, but was no less somber. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z This particular program is Bang’s favorite: It’s all about percussion. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Still, Sparro's weary tone and the martial percussion play off each other to mildly interesting effect. This week's new tracks 2012-06-08T23:05:21Z But producer/vocalist OC Notes obscures what came from where and then adds percussion from machines and instruments, ending up with music that sounds like soulful thoughts floating around in a brain. Best Seattle pop music, 2010: arcs and top ten 2010-12-30T10:57:06Z 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 He took piano lessons when he was 9 and was playing percussion for $10 a gig when he was 10. Dave Valentin, a Grammy Award-Winning Latin Jazz Flutist, Dies at 64 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Dark, moody, and unsettling, the Symphony No. 11 is full of moments of impending doom, terrifying eruptions of percussion “gunfire,” menacing crescendos, eerie calm, and rhythmic martial passages. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z “Keep your gold, glory and glitter,” Cherry intones over a steadily unruly backdrop of percussion clatter and sax skronk. Album review: Neneh Cherry, 'The Cherry Thing' 2012-07-02T03:07:00Z Eight or more duffs were used for the beats, primarily supported by timpani and other percussion from a synthesizer and mandolins for the melody, along with further processed elements. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z By Movement 3, the building is complete, with music that reflects the bold exuberance of baroque style, bright with rich but clear sonorities and vibrant, this time tuned, percussion. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z Chacon, 44, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, set out to use the sounds of the organ, accompanied by winds, strings and percussion, to explore themes of power and oppression. The Pulitzer Prize Winner That Emerged Out of a Time of Quietness 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Spring Fling will showcase what he called “a smorgasbord,” including music from the Mariachi Academy of New York and excerpts from the Little Orchestra Society’s “Things That Go Bang,” a concert introduction to percussion. Spare Times for Children for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z They must also allow that a conductor would sabotage an important concert by humiliating his drummer off the stage, and risk presenting the rest of his jazz set with no percussion. Review: Whiplash Moves to the Beat of a Driven Drummer 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Rich with percussion, organs, interwoven guitar lines, alto sax bursts, cowbell and a gorgeous tone that seems to echo in the eardrums, it's an urgent, groove-heavy affair. Essential tracks: J.D. McPherson's 'Let the Good Times Roll' a sharp shock 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Melodies emerge from a grid of electronic glitches, Auto-Tuned vocals and distorted percussion. Album review: John Cale, 'Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood' 2012-10-02T17:48:00Z During one percussion eruption audiences will see Shostakovich on screen hammering away at a piano. As Plain as the Nose on His Stage 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z Pärt's Fourth Symphony is a lengthy work – three movements lasting almost 40 minutes, scored for strings with harp and percussion. Philharmonia/Salonen; BBCSSO/Volkov 2010-08-22T10:47:00Z The band slowly filled in the space around a single, clinking bottle: flickers of horn, blankets of percussion, a striding bass line, shards of guitar. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Even when three other band members were also chipping in on percussion, he in particular drove the night, as vital as Mr. Murphy’s flustered incantations. Critic?s Notebook: At the Garden, a Retirement and a Resuscitation 2011-04-03T21:54:34Z The songs have a theoretical flavor, as if each one is testing a slightly different recipe of crisp percussion and hovering synthesizers. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z Rudimentary guitar and homemade percussion underpin Beal’s huge, deeply affecting voice. Top Chicago indie albums: BBU, Willis Earl Beal, Hood Internet 2012-12-13T18:59:00Z His first recording for Nonesuch, devoted to the gamelan, the traditional percussion orchestra of Indonesia, sold surprisingly well. David Lewiston, Who Recorded Indigenous Music Far and Wide, Dies at 88 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z |
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