| 单词 | percussive |
| 例句 | Not the steady tolling of the hour, but a shrill clamor, high and percussive—a sound of alarm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But it is important to distinguish between the first pair and the second: one deals with space and place; the other with percussive force. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bobby, now so focused that he could hardly hear the growing murmur from the crowd, made his next moves percussively, shooting them out like poison darts, hardly waiting for Byrne’s responses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Abruptly, the quiet is shattered by the percussive racket of the helicopter, which spirals down from the clouds and lands in a patch of fireweed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Little percussive hisses of music were leaking from his ears. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Retiring to my tent at night, I was serenaded by a madrigal of creaks and percussive cracks, a reminder that I was lying on a moving river of ice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The endless percussive symphony makes my brain want to slide out through my ears and run away—and I realize that must be how it happens! Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Termites make percussive sounds to each other by beating their heads against the floor in the dark, resonating corridors of their nests. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There followed percussive thumping as they stepped out and swung the doors shut. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As she’s opening the top drawer of her dresser, a percussive thumping under her comforter turns into a tinny version of Daddy Yankee’s “Impacto.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The sparkling moto perpetuo that closes the piece — breathless at first, then increasingly percussive — instantly brought the audience to its feet. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z I almost like to call it the ballet of percussive dance,” Duffey said. From a Foggy Bottom coffeehouse to Broadway ‘Lord of the Dance’ gig 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Soon, percussive blasts and wailing orchestra chords lend the concerto a little “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” action. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z The North Carolina-born Lytle was known for his percussive bass style, slapping the strings as he played, and his lively performances. Comets bass player Marshall Lytle dies at 79 2013-05-29T18:59:12Z Even though the program was capped by Balé Folclórico da Bahia, a Brazilian company, the night was all about bidding a fond — and percussive — farewell to Mr. Davis. Review: DanceAfrica Festival Bids a Percussive Farewell to Chuck Davis 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z "Instead of using only the typical epic orchestra or piano sounds, we love to explore the dirty, percussive sides of those instruments." Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z It was effective and moving, especially in a raucously percussive setting of one of Cavafy’s most famous poems, “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z So is a percussive four-letter word he tosses into his semi-rapped verses. The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Highly percussive and deeply expressive, nearly every sound on “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” was either struck or sung into physical existence, resulting in a 21st century Gesamtkunstwerk of tactile thwacks and la-la-la. Perspective | Fiona Apple’s new album is a physical jolt in a digital world 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Having been hired in 1991 to provide percussive cover for the drunken antics of original drummer Gary Young, he had long prepared himself for the inevitable return to civvy street. Pavement get back on the horse 2010-04-27T21:45:00Z Still, the exotic music of the words, enhanced by the stirring percussive accompaniment by Mark Bennett, ratchets up the tension as the story advances to a brutal climax. Salome, We Hardly Knew Ye 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z There were coordination problems in some of the fast scenes, such as Osmin’s rage aria in Act I, in which the whiplike percussive accents from the orchestra lagged behind. Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan Opera Music Director 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z A number of percussive ensembles were set up along the street, but this group of men and boys caught my eye. On Assignment in Trinidad 2012-11-09T19:20:12Z Scientists have studied the percussive sounds of ball on bat. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z Fragmentary and overlapping, the choreography both echoes and amplifies the music, which itself overlays fragments of sound, occasionally stopping dead then beginning again, sometimes using the bows of the string instruments as percussive tools. Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes, she’ll thump the body of the guitar with her palm, or rap it with her knuckles, creating percussive patterns that simultaneously vibrate the strings. Review | Yasmin Williams, a new kind of guitar hero, is listening to the world around her 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z They drew a stunning array of percussive sounds from a guitar and a recorder which, together with foot stomping, rhythmic panting and primeval beat-boxing, flared to life as a manic satyr’s dance. Review: MATA Festival’s Sounds of Play 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z His percussive music is well suited for both moshing and singing along. Pop & Rock Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z He got Brown’s gunshot kinetics and percussive way with a conversation, his allure and mercurial short fuse. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z The effect is like a percussive, nuggety take on a Mendelssohn gondola song, complete with samples of Venetian church bells, a symbol for time and grief: The work floods with emotional power. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The audience gave him a long standing ovation before he could kick into a percussive "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." Sting strips down his sound, melts crowd 2011-12-06T19:36:03Z In 1951, East German authorities initially sought to block the Brecht-Dessau opera “The Condemnation of Lucullus” because of its “predominance of destructive, caustic dissonances and mechanical percussive noise.” A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z It was Cage's way of making the keyboard instrument sound more percussive by using screws, nuts and weather stripping to mute some piano strings and alter the pitch or timbre of others. John Cage's 100th birthday is happening all over Seattle 2012-09-04T14:31:04Z “Although Monk’s recorded piano sound is percussive,” Mr. Pareles went on, “the film shows him using the sustain pedal within single notes, using extraordinary finesse.” Michael Blackwood, Who Captured 20th-Century Artists on Film, Dies at 88 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Little’s amplified, pulsating score mixes rock with classical and minimalist forms and opens and closes with repeated percussive blasts that sound like distant explosions. Opera film ‘Soldier Songs’ about war trauma heads to Grammys 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor, attacking the piano with percussive rigor and sensitivity, was once again a transfixing presence, an inviolable force, a creative world unto himself. Review: Celebrating Cecil Taylor, a Pianist of Endless Influence 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The fluorescent lights overhead on the spare set of Mac Rogers’s espionage thriller “Asymmetric,” now at the 59E59 Theaters, establish the clinical atmosphere, buttressed by percussive electronic music from the sound designer, Jeanne Travis. Spies at Work in 'Asymmetric,' at 59E59 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z And the dancing began to intensify, with women holding up and shaking the hems of their skirts, and men using their feet as percussive strikers. BomPlenazo Artists Collective at Hostos Community College 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Anderson and Roe showed two voices speaking as one; Davies and Namekawa were distinct individuals, he warmer, powerful and fuller, she insistent and percussive. Two pianists show the difference between playing and performing 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z With all this activity, it has evolved into its own percussive language. How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z At the start, she walked stealthily onto the stage, a contrast to how slowly she raised her arms slightly behind her back to an empowering, percussive beat. Moving to a Disco Beat, or the Clatter of Household Objects 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z This group specializes in malambo, a vigorous mix of drumming and percussive dance. Misty Copeland Leads the Charge at Fall for Dance 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z "Whiplash" features a percussive, rhythmic editing style that plunges viewers within the mind-set of its characters. Oscars 2015: Editing nominees united in commitment to storytelling 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Martin, filled with warring clans, magical happenings and gorgeous music that vacillates between percussive, martial works and minor-key pieces, billowing with anguish and dread. ‘Game of Thrones’ Live: Winter is coming to a stage near you — KeyArena, actually 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z But while Dorrance dancers are exquisitely skilled tappers, their stage effects are not limited to percussive footwork. Perspective | At the Kennedy Center, Michelle Dorrance’s tappers pay homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Christmas 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Every element in the band — including a small acoustic guitar with objects stuck between strings and fretboard, keyboards, drums, and various homemade instruments, percussive and plucked — arrives masked with echo, distortion and warping. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z The piece keeps switching modes and gears as it continues, from the percussive to the cosmic to the frenetic. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z They will transmit the percussive sounds of the aliens along with music and reports from inside Disney Hall. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z She wrote their lyrics out in notebooks, trying to work out how the artists turned stubborn words into something slick and percussive. Little Simz’s Big Moment 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z All three use variations on a familiar, emphatic, percussive four-letter word. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z The steelpan is a percussive instrument, but Provost’s approach to it often resembles a piano more than a drum. Review | Victor Provost will make you think of the steelpan in a completely different way 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In “Daredevil,” after percussive thigh slapping introduces a track full of brisk cross-rhythms, she sings, “I don’t feel anything until I smash it up,” adding, “Don’t let me ruin me.” Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z The kora, too, is a stringed instrument with a largely percussive charter. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Especially in the 1920s and ’30s, Vaughan Williams was amply capable of wielding ferocious, dissonant violence, most sardonically in his Fourth Symphony; Bartok admired his percussive Piano Concerto. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The seamless routine includes moments from TikTok dances, as well as some stepping, the percussive tradition found at Black fraternities and sororities. She’s the Dancing Force Behind Nia Dennis’s Viral Gymnastics Routines 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z With the percussive noisemakers wailing, massive brash chords and seductive summoning calls in the winds and general untamed brashness, "Amériques" got a thrilling performance. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z He conveys the sometimes brutal sonorities of the music without letting the piano sound percussive. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: John Adams, Prokofiev, Harrison Birtwistle and More 2014-03-12T20:42:17Z It drives her songwriting; her spare and drip-drop percussive arrangements; her light, high singing; her startling videos; and the live transmission of her music. Review: Movement Drives the Music at FKA twigs’s ‘Congregata’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z There was a percussive sound to his running retorts to the crowd: “Yeah, right, sure.” Richard Belzer Had a Ball With the Relationship Between Comic and Crowd 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z It went minimal and percussive, almost African, or reduced its arrangements to a couple of instruments at a time. Music Review: Pivoting From Patter to Poetry 2011-03-03T21:46:39Z Some of the studios would be available at subsidized rates, including one for tap and percussive dance artists. Joyce Theater Expands to the East Village 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Oscillating tones, shimmering and percussive, echoed through the Appel Room on Saturday as an array of musicians from various musical worlds performed works by Stephen Sondheim and Steve Reich. Sondheim and Reich at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Predictably, M+A drew a small initial crowd, but eventually won passersby over with their brand of percussive electro-pop, tempting a few early birds into throwing a few shapes down. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Based in Washington, D.C., since its founding in 1994, this stepping troupe visits Brooklyn College for one night with a rousingly percussive program. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Josephine Decker’s “First Day Out,” from Ms. Baldwin’s slumbers, veers closer to abstraction, using the words of former inmates to form a percussive voice-over. Review: ‘collective:unconscious,’ the Stuff of Dreams Reinterpreted 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Beginning with a guitar lick, it settles into a classic mbaqanga mixture – country fiddle merging with elastic, marching bass lines, loose-limbed drums and deep, percussive vocal chants. McLaren's Soweto 2010-04-26T13:06:00Z An adjustment was made: The accompaniment shifted from light, shimmering glissandi to something pricklier and more percussive. Music Review: Wadada Leo Smith at Roulette in Brooklyn - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:39Z The first movement was fleet and crisp with a brittle, steely tone in the percussive bits. Critic’s Notebook: Recitals by Nikolay Khozyainov and Emanuele Torquati 2013-05-02T21:46:24Z On other occasions, the thrilling sense that you're venturing into unmapped musical territory is overwhelming: the percussive rattle and swooping vocals of A Tooth for An Eye; the weird, short-circuiting electronics of Stay Out Here. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual – review 2013-04-04T14:30:01Z His idiosyncratically percussive and fragmented piano style was inseparable from his distinctive compositions, of which there are relatively few, yet they are almost all definitively classics. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Then: a percussive melody, a brief energetic lull, and we’re off and moving. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The piano's biting percussive edge contrasted well with the flurry of swirling flute figurations, before achieving a slower, more contemplative, though still incisive, coda. Walker/Watkins 2010-06-09T21:15:00Z Rhythmic, shallow breathing provides the percussive backbone of the track and adds a visceral chill to its nightmarish atmospherics. Selena Gomez’s Boldly Revealing Ballad, and 9 More New Songs 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z It starts off all gentle and acoustic, then the guitar strums become more percussive as the bass and keyboards enter the mix. New band of the day: Empress (No 1,317) 2012-07-26T16:25:50Z The piano also served percussive ends in “Ro/Serenity,” with a string quartet, bass flute and bass clarinet fusing into a gaseous body. Music Review: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Works at Columbia’s Miller Theater 2013-12-10T22:48:24Z Kutik and the imposing pianist Anna Polonsky moved together effortlessly through thickets of dissonance in the first movement and the playful, percussive jabs of the second. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z On “Mueve La Cadera,” he sculpted it into percussive babbling; on “Tarzan,” it was ululating yells; on “Suave,” high-pitched baby talk. El Alfa, the King of Dembow, Dazzles at Madison Square Garden 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z And yet they share an unconventional view of the dancing female body, a freer, more sculptural deployment of the torso and arms, and a powerful and percussive use of dancing on pointe. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Through the use of gestures, sound-painting, expressive melodies, spoken word and percussive effects, the three instrumentalists and Ms. Shelton revealed the ritualistic origins of poetry. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z Both were imaginative modernists with marvelous veins of melodic lyricism and strong appetites for folk material, thrilling sonorities and drivingly percussive rhythms. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z It starts off in a factory, and Cvalda is a hymn to that life, with machine noises fulfilling percussive responsibilities. Readers recommend songs about manual labour: The results 2010-07-22T22:04:00Z The vibraphone is both a percussive and a chordal instrument; it’s a natural hybrid. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z Tár tells a fangirl that a percussive interlude in “The Rite of Spring” makes her feel like “both victim and perpetrator,” and that also describes her social position. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z To throbbing, percussive music, under the direction of DJ Pop Andrade, they cross the space with flying feet. Review: Dancing the Night Away With Brazil’s Cia Suave 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z This four-movement piece boldly juxtaposes varied, sometimes incongruous styles, from Russian Romantic stirrings to percussive, gnashing outbursts. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z Bass drum and timpani are combined with snare drum to produce an indistinct percussive buzz. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Playing Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” he caressed and lingered over the melody before adding layer upon transformative layer of harmony, then shattering it into percussive splinters. Music Review: Herbie Hancock at Rose Theater 2012-03-11T22:05:23Z In January, she released “Middle Ouest,” a strangely seductive album that tethered amorphous synthesizer splashes to the percussive traditions of her native Morocco. Review | In a lost year for dance music, Bergsonist kept a techno diary 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But this is an immensely creative threesome, with Guy's combination of abstract percussive vehemence, cello-like purity and avant-swing an inevitable focus. Agust? Fern?ndez, Barry Guy?and Ram?n?L?pez: Morning Glory ? review 2011-01-06T21:31:00Z On Thursday, its percussive power was put to the test. Step Afrika’s ‘Green is the New Black’ lights up the stage In an intimate theater at Gibney, they ignited a conversation among their percussive dance traditions, three distinct but entwining modes of making music with the ground. Best Dance Performances of 2022 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Dizzy Gillespie is a common touchstone for these musicians, and their darting, heavily percussive version of his “Salt Peanuts” pays an almost breathlessly giddy homage. New Music: Releases From Velvet Underground, Eric Reed and Volcán 2013-12-16T23:33:13Z He bounces rapidly in place from one foot to the other, to percussive music he programmed from the sound of his footfalls. Review: Wolfgang Tillmans, a Photographer Showing His Life as an Open Book 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z And they are rhythmically banged on for percussive emphasis when fighting periodically erupts. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z I especially admired the eerie clarity of plainchant-like passages in the poem’s “Death Carol” section, and percussive tattoos of syllables near the end. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z He focused on crisp phrasing, with sharp percussive attack and less string vibrato than he usually asks for. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z There was some messing with the piano strings, "preparing" them by putting objects on or between the strings to percussively alter the sound. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “And I’ve used recordings of the sounds of ravens as percussive instruments.” Trey McIntyre Project Collaborates with Korean Dancers 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z The use of release and silence at the end of phrases was astounding; the interplay between quiet and loud, between percussive and stroked footwork, and the immense range of dynamics and meters within a phrase. The Best Dance of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This year, the troupe brings a new work with original music by the extraordinary vocalist Aaron Marcellus, a frequent Dorrance collaborator whose expression sometimes spills over into percussive dance. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z At surface level, it was a special-effects demonstration, a bonanza of texture and timbre: quavery drones, like an oscillating synthesizer; delicate ghost tones, hovering in flute range; sharp, plosive rivets of percussive airflow. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Nor is it a classical piece or an opera; stylistically, the music takes in everything from percussive piano to commercial pop. London Road: Murder, they sang 2011-04-10T20:46:00Z Different noteheads mark the quality of the percussive sound, including slashes of varying size for hard and soft chops, and an “x” for the subtle melodic hint of ghost notes. How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s a brusque, percussive rasp, and it was as full of conviction when she was praising God as it was when she sang lines like, “Ain’t no stranger to desperate times.” Sharon Jones Headlines Daptone’s Night of Soul 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Her percussive footwork enhanced the taped music, her floor patterns and gestures dramatized its spirit with tender vivacity. Indian Dance: Motion in Stillness, Stillness in Motion 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z More impressive, though, is the percussive production, which deftly mirrors a Fourth of July soundscape. Drake/ J Cole ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:38Z With an array of percussive instruments and styles he created rhythm hooks and fills that give the Beatles' sound extra textures, layers and vibrance. Preview: How cool is Ringo? Here are some reminders 2010-07-29T20:34:00Z He has built a career on percussive longevity, bashing away at his instrument for hours on end with fury and expert precision. Kid Millions? New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming 2010-06-22T21:32:00Z Understandable or not, Mr. Penck’s paintings typically have an infectiously percussive formal aspect. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Sung with conviction by Ms. Mackenzie, the piece incorporates enigmatic percussive effects, which were performed by the three members of TimeTable Percussion. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z Maybe that was the point: In percussive dance, women have often been cast in the background. Review: Michelle Dorrance Returns to the Joyce. Where’s the Zip? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Atop that sturdy, percussive foundation, Lindeman’s nimble voice moves from airy falsetto to an earthy alto with the grace and daring of a diving bird. Climate Change Is Worsening. So the Weather Station Is Singing About It. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z He could fill the role of a pianist in terms of melody and harmony and also play percussively with a driving rhythmic attack. Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Grand finger slides, aggressive string snapping and a variety of percussive effects are also signature moves. Music Review: All Guitar, and a Little Comic Relief in Unexpected Places 2011-04-24T21:48:59Z Carlos Amorales both bows to and amplifies Alexander Calder in a percussive mobile made from metal cymbals. ‘Under the Same Sun,’ Art From Latin America, at Guggenheim 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The flutist Claire Chase, 39, began her set earlier that night with a spellbinding extended composition for flute and electronics — darkened percussive sounds and splattering effects teasing her blustery flute from below and above. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z His approach on the guitar comprises a mix of atonal, slyly percussive dots and dashes; scattered speckles of notes; and occasional flashes of lyrical beauty, often augmented by electronic effects and extraneous noisemaking devices. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Analysis: One surprise last year came when voters ignored Hans Zimmer's percussive score for "12 Years a Slave." 'Lego Movie,' 'Into the Woods' might thrive in Oscar craft categories 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The first-movement Allegro of Walton’s symphony contrasts sensuality with bustling propulsion; a violently percussive section gives way to the tangy mood of the beginning. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z Pop in a foreign language isn't often welcomed in the UK, but Mexican waves and Latin percussive workouts create a party atmosphere clearly preferable to the British winter. Shakira ? review 2010-12-15T18:45:07Z The material ranges from minimalist tone poems like “—>” to driving, percussive alcoholic laments like “The Riverbed” to the melodramatic symphonics underpinning an awkward eight-month romance between two men in “The Passions.” | Will Owen Pallett Win an Academy Award This Sunday? 2014-02-28T14:00:33Z Without access to a proper main stage, percussive dance can be regulated to being “a special side thing,” Beard said. ‘Release. Joy. Love.’ A Dance Festival at Little Island. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Then she lets their momentum carry her where they might: through Minimalism and electronic drones, through pointillistic arrays that can be percussive or misty, culminating in a melodic line that ends as a looming question. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As Cage conceived it, screws, bolts and even an eraser are placed on the prepared piano’s strings to create a percussive orchestra. The Week in Arts: Clairo, John Cage and Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The coming week offers several opportunities around town to see stellar troupes performing Irish step-dancing, which is characterized by stiff torsos and percussive, tornadolike footwork and accompanied by dramatic folk music. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In “Fratres” Mr. Taylor constructs nine solos that mirror the music, which shifts between a recurring percussive beat and shimmering strings. Dance Review: Ending Up All Alone, and Making It Beautiful 2011-07-22T22:01:27Z It was a slick, classy show that was helped by an adventurous finale, in which the Rajasthan dancers joined the band for a furious, percussive treatment of one of Ravi Shankar's compositions. Anoushka Shankar – review 2013-04-14T17:04:51Z You can feel the tango’s sensual march, its percussive footwork, its romantic drive. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z As the rappers turn chaos into cadence, let’s not forget who lays the foundation for the metamorphoses: Mr. Sullivan, whose voice becomes an inspirational symphony of percussive noises. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The lyrics are full of foreboding — “All you wanted was a little disaster/It’s temporary,” — that’s only escalated by the music as it keeps ratcheting up its precise, percussive tension. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z They are young, old, black, white, petite, large, tall, short — all working this indomitable, percussive cultural-delivery machine. A sisterhood of drummers, 80 strong, keeping time to a Brazilian beat 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z I play the keyboards and guitar in a very percussive way. Trixie Whitley throws out the formula 2013-05-02T05:00:00Z The band opened its set with “You Can’t Mute Us,” a percussive new plea for D.C. statehood that also condemns police brutality, gun violence, income inequality and Black displacement resulting from gentrification. Perspective | In the streets and online, go-go’s drumbeat for social change remains a constant 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z In works for his own ensemble, Caleb Teicher & Co., he shares her knack for percussive invention and moving bodies through space in eye-catching ways. This Week in Arts: Roy Hargrove, Caleb Teicher, Prototype Festival 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Danelli, a protégé of the great jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, merged percussive virtuosity with a rock sensibility. Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z A robotic sculpture by Aaron Taylor Kuffner updates the traditional genre of Indonesian gamelan music in which percussive instruments like gongs and xylophones are played in ensembles. Governors Island Art Fair Fills Colonels’ Row 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z This company boasts some fine dancers and, in the manner of Riverdance, there's an undeniable thrill in watching them stamp and click in percussive formation. Nacional de Espa?a 2010-04-28T21:20:00Z She had come to Walt Disney Concert Hall to dazzle, including a high-wire act of playing percussive Bartók in seemingly-impossible-to-pedal-in high heels. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z According to Billboard, Daleste was involved in São Paulo's ostentation funk scene, where rappers trade gangster bars over heavily percussive beats. Brazilian rapper MC Daleste fatally shot on stage 2013-07-09T11:19:20Z The cobs are heavy, to ensure a percussive sound, and the show’s designers incorporated large pockets into the costumes to hold them. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Watts's alto tones sometimes echo the soulful quaver of Albert Ayler, and there are contrastingly minimal sections in which the instruments are barely blown or touched, followed by squalls bursting over percussive piano rumbles. Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston: Dialogues in Two Places – review 2012-07-26T22:44:01Z The battle itself is represented in freeze-frame to a mournful song, and the celebratory finale that follows has enough percussive footwork to overpower an artillery barrage. ‘It’s Not Only Margaritas’: The Story of Cinco de Mayo in Dance 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Some of the most affecting moments were created by the flutist Claire Chase in conversation with the bassoonist Rebekah Heller as they traded gestures that were now liquid and vague, now sharply tongued and percussive. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The music is mostly based in the sweetly percussive tintinnabulations of the gamelan, though it’s often accompanied by either a sralai, a woodwind instrument that’s oboelike in sound, or vocal chanting. Dance Review: Royal Ballet of Cambodia at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-03T22:54:41Z Elahi developed his own unique strumming pattern, enhancing the instrument’s potential as both a percussive and a melodic instrument. Ostad Elahi, a Tanbur Master, Is Celebrated at Met Museum 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Accompanied by a whorl of pizzicato glints and percussive fretting from the symphony, Josefowicz sounded like a fragile insect cupped by a giant metallic mechanism. Review: At the symphony ? Leila Josefowicz, 'Mother Goose' and some pixie dust 2011-04-08T22:03:05Z “Slave to the Rhythm,” about a woman enslaved by marriage and job, trades the demo’s mechanical beat for a jittery double-time barrage that ricochets against the vocal and makes Jackson’s percussive angst even more dramatic. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z “Woodstock” was chopped up into staccato phrases, turning that hymn to flower children into a percussive showpiece. Tierney Sutton Reimagines Joni Mitchell Songs 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Probably Italo disco classics like I'm Hungry: perfect production from the era, chanting vocals, percussive whips. Lovefingers' favourite tracks 2013-07-05T17:00:00Z It was easy to hear, in Matsuev's fabulous touch and Bychkov's meticulous accompaniment, why this approachable work, with its jaunty and percussive outer movements and dreamy andante, is such an audience favourite. LSO/Bychkov | Classical review 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z Or he took his hands off the fretboard and manipulated loops and feedback, making whining and roaring and percussive sounds — amazing sounds really. Music Review: Rhythmic Riffs of Explosive, Manic Instrumental Energy 2011-03-06T22:16:51Z “We don’t want to add too much; we don’t want to change what he’s written and add all these percussive sounds he didn’t intend to be there,” Williams said. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Step Afrika! team up for ‘The Nutcracker’ With his percussive arrangements, relaxed vocals, an ear for a potent song and an enlightened, freestyle approach built around progressive open-tuned guitar, he was one of the star attractions on the vibrant British folk circuit. What the folk! Nic Jones is back 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z In “God Herself,” Madison McFerrin — like her father, Bobby McFerrin — revels in all the music that can be made without instruments: vocals, breaths, percussive syllables, finger snaps. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Shen works in a palette of grays and chalky whites as the dancers, as emotional as marble statues, use their sleek bodies to mirror the score’s percussive notes. Dance Review: Shen Wei, LDP and María Pagés at Fall for Dance 2012-10-13T00:50:06Z From tap to Kathak, they will explore percussive dance forms, with artists who represent many generations. ‘Release. Joy. Love.’ A Dance Festival at Little Island. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z But she mostly performs with the traditional percussive lineup that is still used in the trance ceremonies. Christine Salem: bringing the devil's music to Womad 2013-07-18T16:51:00Z The tamperings with the piano create gamelanlike percussive effects as well as eerie otherworldly tunings: Cage at his best. An early marking of John Cage's 100th birthday 2012-02-18T00:27:37Z If a vibration counts as percussive, then why not any sound, instrumental or otherwise? ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z How his past romance all went down is explained through a prolonged flashback involving amnesia, pacts with God, a hit and run, and a percussive warehouse-party dance number. Movie Review: ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan,’ Yash Chopra’s Final Film 2012-11-14T23:12:02Z Featuring a woozy concoction of drunken horns, percussive beats and strange, backwards vocals, it's a disorientating swirl of a song that slowly draws you into its beautiful confusion. New music: BTU – Swordbeerfish 2013-02-28T11:54:00Z The first of his “2 Japanese Folk Songs” for harp, written in 2003, contains peculiar timbres and percussive fillips. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z She plays a vintage Guild Artist Award archtop hollow body, with a percussive picking style. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The buzz: "Amelia's woozy, fragile vocals are the centrepiece of the track while gentle, haunting keys and soft percussive beats lull you to a dreamy and beautiful state" – elbo.ws/post/3555001/elephant-new-music-introducing. New band of the day ? No 1,055: Elephant 2011-07-05T16:56:17Z Mr. Frith responded with textured scrubbing, percussive loops and discreet displays of lyrical guitar heroism. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z We’re all kids at heart – give us flashing lights, bright colors and a percussive soundtrack, and we’re hooked, whatever our age. Review: Is ‘WE’ installation deep? No. Is it fun? Definitely. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z An excellent band, conducted from the piano by Kimberly Grigsby, emphasized the percussive charge in songs that have a strong Brazilian current. Review: Jose Llana Radiates Youthful Bravado in ‘American Songbook’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z For example, the percussive layering in "Judge, Jury and Executioner" flows pleasantly into the staccato keyboard sounds on the title track. Yorke, Flea come together in supergroup debut 2013-02-27T15:13:09Z He found himself captivated by the drumming and the percussive footwork, or zapateo. Adding Razzle-Dazzle to a Gaucho Dance Style 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The next movement represents the transfiguration of Christ through music of gnashing, percussive intensity that leads to a cosmic version of a romping, stomping finale, which quotes a Zulu song as a theme. Review: Stéphane Denève Leads the Philharmonic in What Feels Like an Audition 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But tap is a percussive art form, and poor musical choices detract from even top-notch tap. Dancing is Tapman’s strength, but production values are his Kryptonite Once again, Ms. Jonas’s acute percussive instincts contribute: A crunching sound — perhaps of someone walking on seashells — accompanies the dog’s progress, creating a delightful dissonance. Review: Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Triumph 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Unlike the pop-diva-inspired musicals proliferating uptown, “The Whitney Album” eschews a hit catalog for a soundtrack that’s sui generis, with percussive body movements, a cappella solos and, eventually, a group singalong. Review: ‘The Whitney Album’ Looks to Theater to Remake a Painful Past 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z A submerged, boneless body burst to a percussive pop and shattered strings. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Somehow, in the percussive, rhythmic footwork and pounding steps, the vigorous movement in our creaky bodies, a weight shifted. Indian dance classes on Zoom lifted the heaviness I’d been carrying 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The melodies are songlike even at their most ambiguous, and Mr. Kimbrough uses his bright, percussive touch to keep them grounded. Playlist: Inside a Troubled Mind and Mideast Musical Theories 2010-03-25T19:46:00Z The balletic bouts of speedy steps, jabbed limbs and torqued torsos are choreographed in strict rotational symmetry and tied to the arrhythmic jitters of a percussive score. Emio Greco – review 2012-05-25T18:17:32Z The music for chill rock star Jayden is all strings, while spunky Vivian gets a percussive beat tapped on the body of the harp. What does a mother’s love sound like? Seattle Symphony’s Lullaby Project finds out. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Stanko played dark, slithering low figures on laments, and punctuated fast ones with ecstatic squeals and rampant percussive runs – with Virelles sometimes suggesting a young Herbie Hancock to his Miles Davis on the latter. Tomasz Stanko/John Surman – review 2013-05-16T17:22:34Z The percussive foundations work well, yet the focus remains on the siblings' meticulous, lilting songcraft. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z This group won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest in 2017 with their percussive, interactive and soulful music, which draws deeply on their New Orleans roots. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Nov. 2-8: Brockhampton, Tank & The Bangas and more 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Carnegie Hall is simply not a good place for percussive dance music, not only because of its seats and formality, but also because its natural reverberation works against rhythmic crispness. Music Review: Gilberto Gil at Carnegie Hall in Voices of Latin America 2012-11-11T22:54:41Z There is a lyrical part followed by a percussive, rhythmic part, followed by another slow movement. Adventurous violinist Leila Josefowicz to make a Seattle appearance 2011-03-31T20:38:06Z He sings in a percussive manner, full of vocal stabs, and his voice congeals easily into a sweet coo, precise and seemingly effortless. Pharrell Williams Takes a Stand on Cheery Musical Ground 2014-02-26T18:08:14Z Mr. Palmieri’s tough, percussive pianism was essential at every turn, his solos serving a larger purpose. Music Review: Eddie Palmieri’s Retrospective at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-12-17T05:06:51Z In its luminously percussive sound world, topped off by the gemlike precision of Synergy Vocals' interventions, its endless harmonic perspectives seem to spin off into an infinite distance. Prom 36: Ensemble Modern/Reich ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:11Z The same was true for Heginbotham’s bouncy “Racecar,” with the dancers in white cotton playsuits and red shoes, and an original percussive score by Jason Treuting, performed by four musicians from So Percussion. Review | Washington Ballet opens its new season with three eye-catching, yet incomplete premieres 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The percussive dance style known as stepping — a thundering blend of stomps, claps and shouts — began at African-American fraternities and sororities, though its roots date from the early 20th century. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Moran’s improvisation was somewhat glitchy: a series of recycled motifs that then turned into unaccompanied solo, lovely and languid — then atonal and percussive. A night of ‘Jason+’ includes Mason Bates and jazz stars 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z From the outset, the strings are thwacked in a percussive manner, with allowance for birdlike squeals. Review: At NY Phil Biennial, Interlochen Rises to the Occasion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z For a percussive pianist, some of Taylor's lightly tripping runs are surprisingly dainty, and Ensaslayi and Corn in the Sun are full of jazz's melodic and rhythmic notions, albeit tightly compressed. Cecil Taylor: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! – review 2012-07-05T21:45:01Z The music was primarily percussive — the player of the maddalam was especially fine — but two players, at times, also sang. Kathakali Dance, in India, With the Locals 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Introspection gradually, and naturally, evolved into drama or exultancy; a percussive incantation, “Don’t Unplug My Body,” went through variations both assertive and seductive. Review: Daymé Arocena Mixes a Cosmopolitan Vibe With an Earthy Tone 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The title track — three minutes of anticipatory rustle on gongs and cymbals, followed by half an hour of percussive hailstorm — feels like Mr. Pride’s precise definition of catharsis. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z The first movement didn’t weather the storm particularly well; the pounding rain created a percussive tableau through which wafted only muted fragments of Beethoven. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor 2012-07-16T21:48:04Z His melodies are sometimes delicate as rice paper, sometimes — in the manner of kabuki — dramatically percussive. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Her relative anonymity allowed her to let loose in front of the small crowd, and those who clicked with the percussive, ululating machinations that filtered out of her USB hollered and jerked along. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z This is a substantial, patiently made, entertaining portrait, with a percussive, rhythmic jazz score by Ramachandra Borcar and some emphatic spoken word courtesy of Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets. ‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The music itself is “eclectic,” Mr. Venables said: passages inspired by Baroque and religious music, but also percussive attacks. At Prototype, a Posthumous Play Revived as Chamber Opera 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z To the relief of their tour drummer Cyrus - who once fell asleep during a lull in the band's set - the album is also much more percussive. The Staves: 'Bon Iver gave us cabin fever' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z But you also see the whole sole of the foot being used, in steps both gliding and percussive. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The sounds of soft, expert cork pops bounce percussively off every wall. O Mad Night! 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Even though she has spared the audience dancers who speak lines, the work’s musical compilation — a form of sonic wallpaper — is just as irritating, ranging from percussive rock to string pieces. Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z The sound mix twirls slow-moving drones and ringing high notes around some of her noisiest, most percussive tones. Reviving the Ghostly Sounds of Maryanne Amacher 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z He used organ percussively, jabbing chords and clusters and answering guitar lines with snappy little asides. Music Review: Phil Lesh and Friends at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-04-16T21:17:15Z He used brushes to a levitating effect on the snare and cymbals, then moved to the congas to accompany Ms. Reid as she took a percussive pizzicato solo. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z One perennial challenge pianists face is making a percussive instrument sing, as Ms. Uchida does seamlessly. Music Review: Intense Communication, via the Piano 2011-02-14T04:43:16Z Several major companies will visit, like the Hofesh Shechter Company, which will perform its breakthrough piece — the tribal, percussive “Political Mother.” What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z When not playing with a straight-ahead quartet, he favored chunky, percussive backdrops that offset his tuneful improvising. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Pressure on the surface yields percussive sounds, and multiple feet produce more complex patterns. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Rivera was one of the biggest stars of banda, a brassy, percussive form of Spanish-language pop music invented in northern Mexico and perfected in the American Southwest. Jenni Rivera, 43, Mexican-American Singer and TV Star, Dies 2012-12-10T17:34:14Z The timbres, mostly plucked or struck, were highly percussive and occasionally reminiscent of Steve Reich’s pieces for drums and marimbas. Joanna Newsom, unconventional in every way 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble, from the Bronx, offered “Journey,” which erupted into a swirl of color and movement as drummers created a wall of percussive sound. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z Sonatas and Interludes, as played by Tan, is alive and alert with an intense sensuousness in which every percussive gesture and flicker of colour has an exquisite physicality. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z She has a percussive touch, graceful and sometimes aggressive, and she likes playing fast, walking or soloing or delivering a jagged ostinato. New Music: New Albums by John Mayer, Haley Reinhart and Linda Oh 2012-05-21T22:24:29Z But the beginning of "What You Need" is even more fascinating: modal systems music channelled through twitchy percussive feints. LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z In Winter, she performs a solo of squiggling arms and tight hops that, while percussive, flows like water. Dance Review: Aligning His Planets for Another Star Turn 2011-03-04T23:15:49Z After all, bongo punctuations and various satiric percussive pops border on Spike Jones, the wacky 1950s bandleader. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z He is aided by photos and ephemera, displayed by Mr. Fitzgerald, and oddly graceful percussive scoring from Mr. Quillen, a composer and steel drum performer who also steps forward to offer his own convoluted reminiscences. Review: Recalling an Electric New York in ‘Radicals in Miniature’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Glasper meshed its groove with Minimalist repetition of percussive chords and arpeggios and a suggestion of “A Love Supreme” — a more benign Western intervention. Seun Kuti at the Highline Ballroom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z As Franklin sets in to the opening lyric – "What you want, baby I got it" – her piano can be heard hitting like a second drum kit, adding a percussive boom to the entire song. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z The percussive soundtracks to both “Whiplash” and “Birdman” were deemed ineligible by the Academy, which in its rule book bars “scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music.” Subversive and Smart Scores Raise the Volume in Oscar Talk 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The flat soles of feet were stamped percussively, dancers advanced making pulsating use of heel or the ball of the foot, and the action of instep and thigh in sideways-skipping steps was irresistible. Dance Review: Orissa Dance Academy at Ailey Studios 2013-05-26T19:38:43Z The energetic, forceful writing and robust interchange between the two players dismissed any lingering images of the harp as delicate or pastoral, with the players sometimes using their instruments as percussive vehicles. Music Review: Ensembles Resonate With Each Other 2011-06-06T21:45:25Z Better comes across like a rougher, less pleased-with-itself Vampire Weekend, and stuffs tons of ideas into its 205 itchy, skittery seconds, not least the percussive flail, which is every bit as brilliant as it sounds. This week's new single reviews 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z The whole hour is just this sort of chilling: percussive work songs, big-bottomed gospel, moaning blues, dramatically spare sets that imply segregation and incarceration, the weather system that called herself Odetta. Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Maal launched his career playing in the traditional griot style, but he hasn’t shied away from blending percussive African music with songs by Gershwin or the Beach Boys. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Baaba Maal, the Tony Nominees, and Fufu 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Both albums contain long percussive suites, with searing saxophone wails and upper-register flute solos that work best when played front to back without interruption. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The score, too, is a strange mix of dissonant orchestral swells and percussive stabs. My streaming gem: why you should watch Images 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z That voice is airborne and supple, tenderly concerned, playful and percussive; then it grows increasingly tense, distraught, desolate, embittered. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z Instead, young bodies, about 20 of them, supply their own percussive music, falling to the cork-covered floor, groaning into their mikes, as stage rain soaks them through. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Feelings of loss and nostalgia permeate the bolero, a kind of ballad that incorporates romantic European lyricism with Afro-Cuban percussive elements. The Bolero Is Timeless. Miguel Zenón Is Giving It a Jazzy Tinge. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “Curved Air” — written with his son, James Raymond — is briskly percussive and rhythmically unpredictable, with flamenco-like handclaps and a bass line that talks back to him. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z "I like as a listener to find some little percussive elements or some little throwaway melodies in there that you only really catch if you're listening on the headphones," Beam said. There's no pinning down Iron & Wine's Sam Beam 2013-04-16T16:46:03Z The opening number, a percussively embellished “Begin the Beguine,” started in English and changed to Spanish. Music Review: American Songbook?s Afro-Cuban Connection 2011-02-22T00:00:10Z But Blankenbuehler also saw — well, heard — one attribute of German that was a bonus: its percussive sound. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z And it's there from beat No. 1: the most obvious sound of Brazil, those percussive tones that combine the Bahia rhythms that drive the annual Carnival coupled with typically Pitbull-ian barking and pounding. As World Cup fever rises, official Pitbull anthem "We Are One" falls 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z There’s tension, between her nature and Spector’s; her sonic force and his symphonic, percussive Wall of Sound. Tornado. Treasure. There Was Nobody Like Tina Turner. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z His occasional meditations in voice-over are punctuated by pointed encounters with strangers, from flight attendants to an impressed neighbor, and an energizing percussive soundtrack. ‘I Didn’t See You There’ Review: A View From His Seat 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z In “Gwana,” midway through, a group forms a dense circle near the back of the stage as first one dancer, then another and another is lifted high into the air to the propulsive, percussive rhythms. Dance Review: Proceeding Nacho Duato-Style, Like Fish Darting Through Water 2011-04-03T22:00:04Z If Mr. Watts marshals his percussive energies as a cyclone, Mr. Nash more readily suggests a strong breeze, a study in steadiness and equipoise. Music Review: Winds of Jazz: Energies of a Cyclone and an Ebullient Breeze 2011-01-19T22:51:35Z The cool soundtrack, by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, is worth a mention too, its gently percussive presence giving a soft urgency to proceedings. Enlightened: box set review 2013-03-28T16:00:01Z Brief songs for clarinet snake between string trills and percussive fillips. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But the sense is no longer common when the evening begins with percussive chords based on the last measures of the E-Minor sonata to be heard at evening's end. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Though it seems percussive, the emphasis in Jit is often on the feet hitting the air rather than the floor. Detroit Jit, a ’70s Street Dance Reborn and Revved Up 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z “Thrive on Routine” evokes Ives’s early morning potato digging with a misty sonic landscape dotted with percussive plucks and tiny curlicues. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble Beckons, Playfully, at Miller Theater 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The percussive intricacy of flamenco footwork – of which Galván is a master – becomes a full-body phenomenon, as he slaps out patterns on his torso, head and thighs, even drumming his fingers across his face. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z That meant a movie full of reflected and percussive sounds and echoes to make viewers feel almost too close to the action. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Sound Editing for ‘Lone Survivor’ 2014-02-27T13:30:56Z 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 The sound design is striking, too, a sonic collage of percussive booms and deafening static roars that are often more unsettling than the film’s relatively mild visual shocks. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z Davis’s solos, with his jabbing notes and blasting phrases, were a little more percussive. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z He played percussively with fingers flattened and splayed, he left unexpected spaces others would have filled with showers of notes, and his chords clanged with dissonance. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z Overall provides stirring spoken word commentary, along with percussive turntable work. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z In a dark, cold cargo container parked next to the Center for Urban Horticulture, underwater soundscapes are building up to an unearthly percussive racket. 'Axial: Undersea volcano star of sound installation at UW 2011-12-09T19:33:04Z Sharp melodic figures dart through spacious openings, dual-guitar harmonies soar and percussive rejoinders crackle, functioning as punctuation marks on a wide-ranging two-hour set. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z 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 Each arrangement was a gradual envelopment, absorbing and blending one instrument after another, cushioning percussive or distorted sounds amid sustained ones. Music Review: The National at Radio City Music Hall 2010-06-17T22:16:00Z On Sunday evening, the last game of the regular season, Estadio Cibao was more crowded but less rowdy, wide-eyed children in baseball caps in lieu of percussive students. The Lure of Baseball in the Dominican Republic 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Where “Vespers” shows how a percussive score can be effectively channeled, Lauren Lovette’s new “Echo” shows how sharing focus with live musicians can work. At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Although the jazzy, percussive “Second Detail” is worlds away from the elegiac sweep of that ballet, Mr. Forsythe’s Balanchine heritage is utterly clear in this work, created for the National Ballet of Canada in 1991. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z His voice was scratchy and limber, full of Wilson Pickett shrieks and James Brown percussive stabs and Smokey Robinson tenderness. D’Angelo's Apollo Theater Show Featured Signature Songs and Style 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Then in comes the banjo, plucked with steel finger picks, followed by the autoharp, the mandolin, the percussive beat of an upright bass. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z Mason Bates’s irresistibly oddball collection of four bagatelles layers electronics and percussive accents on top of a crisp, angular score. Classical Playlist: Conrad Tao, 'Scrapyard Exotica' and More 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z This small revolution is known as “the chop,” a percussive technique that opens up a new world of rhythm and groove for the bowed string player. How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In big-band jazz and bebop, a trumpeter was often responsible for adding a flare of percussive energy to the upper reaches of a group’s sound. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z When the composer allows himself volleys of brash percussive playing — say, near the middle of a three-minute orchestration of Milhaud — the explosion is truly brief, yet no less powerful for that focused expression. A Musical Modernist’s New, Smiling Guise 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z But the climaxes, satisfying and riotous as they may be, are not the final destination; even after the climactic-seeming tutti riffs in “The Shedding of Landscapes” comes a restive percussive section. Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Ostentatious singing isn’t rewarded here, and his voice is a thin foghorn, low and flat and percussive, well suited to navigating bluegrass’s polyrhythmic density. Music Review: Dierks Bentley at Highline, Raking Through Bluegrass 2010-05-06T21:18:00Z He’s stuck a large platform just off the middle of the stage, an island that William Catanzaro and two other percussionists inhabit along with an array of instruments, mostly percussive. At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Underneath those canvases, the concert featured some shimmering, percussive work from Ewart, 76, himself — on a tall wooden staff outfitted with a sequence of Bundt cake pans, which he called “The George Floyd Bunt Staff.” Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Though his account of “Pictures at an Exhibition” is sometimes a little percussive for my taste, he plays it with enormous imagination, color and command. Classical Playlist: Conrad Tao, 'Scrapyard Exotica' and More 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z They weren’t all percussive, exactly, but together they became a kind of nondefined rhythm to which Mr. Morgan’s bass gave form, like stars outlined in a constellation. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Like the Beethoven, the Antheil is in four movements, but it blends traditional form with a thoroughly modern sound that, in this reading, bustles at a breakneck pace with percussive and metallic timbres. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z And while her vocal melodies follow friendly pop contours, the guitars sound detuned and percussive, rickety and bedraggled. Review | New name. New sound. But the Chicks still sound like the truth. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The amplification of percussive dance is a vexing problem, as Mr. Dunne well knows. Dance Review: For Colin Dunne, Life After ?Riverdance? 2011-10-21T21:30:31Z Gosfield, long a quirky voice on the downtown New York scene, zoned in on exactly what the Naughtons do best, which is mirror each other and produce dazzling cascades of percussive arpeggios. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Communing in a circle, unleashing stamps and shouts that echoed the recorded percussive score of Les Tambours du Bronx, they seemed to gather strength and stamina from eye contact with one another. Ailey II Review: A Light in the Darkness 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Then both partners ducked into brisk staccato cross talk — scatlike syllables, percussive tonguing — with the tension and convolution of a quarrel in a Robert Altman film. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The title track remains the most absorbing Portico melody, and Jack Wyllie's soprano sax takes on an eloquent, voice-like tremor against a more insistent percussive sound on the live version. Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep in the North Sea ? review 2011-02-03T21:46:00Z Advertisement The song’s melody came from ukulele-like cavaquinhos, overwhelmed by a battery of drummers banging furiously on an array of percussive instruments. In Rio, the Work Goes In Before the Party Goes On 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Grimes, with his tonal evasions and nubby attack, helped prevent any kind of stasis, as did Mr. Taylor, who brought grace and even lyricism to his alert percussive stir. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z As they changed, he fed them with percussive playing, delicate harmonies and clusters played carefully with a flat hand or a forearm. Music Review: David Virelles Continuum, at the Village Vanguard 2013-02-01T23:04:26Z Haguel builds this brief but densely structured film in an interestingly modular, rhythmic way, thanks to a percussive score by Zoe Polanski and occasional, abrupt cuts to black following key scenes. ‘Concerned Citizen’ Review: He Cares a Lot 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Later, the unnecessarily haphazard percussive tomfoolery of “Four Women” results in a morass of noise. What Do Xiu Xiu and Nina Simone Have in Common? 2013-12-06T19:47:13Z Those textures — others come along, including percussive col legno and open fifths that flip steady ground into weightless suspension — glide among the instruments, a vocabulary ordered then reordered, always expressing a fresh thought. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z The greatness of this segment is how it takes a fairly trivial bit of workplace politics and tips it into melodrama, with suspenseful percussive music and increasingly quick cuts as Henry progressively begins to unravel. David Hyde Pierce was the best surprise of “Wet Hot American Summer” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Yoko Ono is the avant-garde matriarch shouting "Do it!" over percussive burbles, like a hipster chick a quarter of her age. The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – review 2012-06-23T23:05:18Z Far from glamorous, the rooms are among the few places in the city where percussive dancers are welcome. ‘It’s About the Art Form’: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Turns 40 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z There are atmospheric and percussive moments when the score sounds slightly too much like Argentine Bartòk, but there are also unusual evocations of eerie rain-forest weirdness and great thundering percussive romps. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic tours, Gustavo Dudamel seems determined to shake up his audiences 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It was wonderful to hear Serkin move from the percussive wildness of the Messiaen to flowing orderliness of the Mozart. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z At the start two film projectors run optically mesmerizing abstract films by Len Lye in which scratches in the film seem to dance to percussive tribal music. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z Throbbing with percussive sounds of the Middle East, it put a kick into the dance action and lent an exotic dreaminess to the piece as a whole. LINES Ballet: dance, glorious dance 2011-11-18T17:20:05Z There, Levi conjured a Stygian exoplanet of glissandos and microtones and processed percussive sounds, evoking the truly alien better than the most lavish special effects ever could have done. Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Diehl had to hit the keys a little harder and more percussively too. 2010-01-21T05:41:00Z Zuccotti Park was as divided by its constantly percussive drum circle as it was by its politics. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Each bar represented a block of sound: a kick drum, synth chords, some percussive vocal samples. The Teen-Age Hitmaker from Westchester County 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z There is just a hint of hesitancy at the start, with percussively repeated notes and sputtered trills. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z His Washington D.C. company Sole Defined presents “percussicals,” shows that use African-American percussive dance to address social injustice in Black communities, and its extensive arts education program is centered in using art for change. They’re Used to Tapping. Now They’re Talking. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The percussive jabbing of a djembe reverberated throughout the large space, its counts growing in intensity as Ms. Dallas, 93, held her position with visible ease. She Learned From Katherine Dunham. At 93, She’s Teaching Her Technique. 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Back in Ohio, the conga player Bradie Speller joined the Pyramids, adding even more percussive depth. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z He takes more chances; the music is raw, spare and percussive, with slicing chords and fractured melodic writing. Music Review: ?Amelia? Has Its Premiere at the Seattle Opera 2010-05-09T22:10:00Z I would cut something and he might add a tone or a percussive element. Below the Line: Editing ‘The Big Short’ 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Their percussive atonality opened a door for a whole century of piano music. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Step and its use of the body as a percussive instrument speaks to the Black experience: When their drums were taken away, enslaved people created rhythm with their bodies. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z His language, a mix of Hollywood grandeur and primal, percussive vitality, was consistent throughout the evening, yet each segment had its own distinct sound. Music Review: Evoking Forbidden Love and Flying Ancient Armies 2011-08-14T21:21:17Z Pianists who play percussively and atonally are often associated with Cecil Taylor, but Davis emphasizes he was not a specific inspiration. Experimentalists take center stage at Earshot Jazz Festival 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Spare to the point of vanishing, his works suspend fragile harmonies above stretches of percussive rustling and spells of silence. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z In a beautiful sequence the cast tap upon those planks with rhythms that build into a fine piece of percussive music. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z His body moves gracefully too, especially when he is gyrating to a relentlessly percussive beat. "David Byrne's American Utopia" is a rousing, vibrant spectacular that rivals "Stop Making Sense" 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Small “tangents” of bare wood, rather than the felt-covered hammers of the modern piano, hit the strings with a truly percussive effect. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The piece conjures echoes of 1970s “Ping-Pong diplomacy,” with the violin part serving as an intermediary between the percussive soloists and the orchestra. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It veers from dramatic percussive solos and village brass band passages to whiny strings, dark dissonance and cheerful waltzes. We're still on a sugar high: Run (or leap) to American Ballet Theatre's 'Whipped Cream' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The percussive guitar stabs of "Edibles" and "Run Away" are an old trick, but when paired with Snoop's buttery new vocal presence, it all feels sincere. Snoop Dogg taps into the '70s sound with 'Bush' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z "Wait for the beat, then turn your head," Van Hove later instructed an actor, coordinating movement with the production's percussive music track. Ivo van Hove brings his stripped-down 'View From the Bridge' to Los Angeles 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It relies on acoustic guitars instead of the usual percussive beats, and Lorde’s deep registered vocals are almost unrecognizably higher and placed more centrally in the mix. Review | Lorde returns with ‘Solar Power,’ but it’s mostly just wind 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z He might drop a chord of dewdrop sensitivity into the middle of a passage of heavily percussive playing; he might change the hue of a comrade’s solo by suggesting a subtle countermelody underneath. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Dance fans liken these to the notorious 32 fouetté turns of ballet; I prefer them because of their more percussive nature and especially the exciting stillness with which they end. Erasing Borders Festival Focuses on Indian Dance 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Parts of this Bukhara dance look related to the Kathak genre of India: similar rapid single turns, similar percussive rhythmic play of the footwork. Review: Ethnic Festival Dancers Follow the Footsteps of a Heritage 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The percussive looseness discovered by Elvin Jones and Tony Williams has stiffened up again because young players don't even want to try and play that way. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z The musical group’s eccentric, often percussive instrumentation adds new layers to a movie without ever distracting from what’s on screen. Movie Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z And he’s probably well aware of Animal Collective; he exults in percussive, hypnotic consonance. The Playlist: 21 Songs From 2016 That Nearly Got Away 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “Proto,” the pair’s collaborative LP, repeats a highly effective formula, rendering ominous synth surfaces before puncturing them with almost violent percussive blasts. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Here she’s strident and percussive, hammering out the hook with abandon; it’s surely only a matter of time until Vine’s littered with inspired, barking debt collectors. Listen to Rihanna Collect Her Debt on a Swaggering New Single 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Her footwork was powerfully resonant, the opening and closing of her fan sharply percussive. Review: Sonia Olla Flamenco Company, Passionately Blending Cultures 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z His piano sound tends to the percussive, achieving a relatively thin but tactile plangency. Postscript: Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016), Modern Jazz’s Listener of Genius 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Allison began his professional career as a piano player, at a time when his style — percussive and jaunty, carried along by a percolating beat — suited the sound of the jazz mainstream. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Amadou’s gold Telecaster slips inside the percussive mix until about midway through the set, when his rhythmic chatter subtly morphs into a lead melody that spins endless variations atop the wave. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z Her playful mining of steps and dance history enriched her works for Graham and Taylor, just as her percussive musicality challenged City Ballet’s dancers and audience — in good ways — with “Bartok Ballet.” Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The tool that dug into my rearmost molar’s pulp chamber shook my jaw with a percussive chug. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He presented the mournful "Shipbuilding" with a swirling, percussive vibe adapted, said Costello, from Chet Baker's improvised arrangement of the song. Elvis Costello, Ben Folds harness the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z "That was difficult, because the rhythm of it was very percussive, and it was matching a moment that was very chaotic and destructive," she says. Indie icon Carrie Brownstein's new memoir is a mash note to her band Sleater-Kinney 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z There is the usual annihilation: percussive synthesizers deployed with force on songs like “All Is Fair in Love and Brostep” and “Try It Out.” New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z The heart of the band was Mr. Friedlander’s percussive pizzicato, which he has lately made a signature specialty. Music Review: Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z During the daunting final piece, “The Chase,” Ms. Filjak boldly dispatched the leaping chords and relentless volleys, playing with chiseled but never percussive sound. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z Pounding on their desks at school in a wild percussive scene early in the picture, they're practically youths in a state of nature, overflowing with boundless energy. Boys' energy lights up 'You Are All Captains' 2011-11-17T20:29:03Z “Studying it at the piano, which is a percussive instrument, my first impression was that the music is full of this tight rhythmic presence,” he said. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z His movements were all calmly and quietly achieved with more emphasis on length of phrase than percussive excitement. Dance Review: Stopping Traffic Downtown With a Subcontinent?s Movements 2011-08-18T22:06:27Z She sings richly orchestrated boleros, delicate ballads and percussive boogaloo and mambo, without a hint of either irony or naïveté. Review: iLe’s ‘iLevitable’ Finds That Longing Can Turn to Mourning 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Her songs run the gamut of modern R&B, from slow-motion jams such as “Sex on the Ceiling” to percussive pop like new single “D4L.” Sevyn Streeter: Confident, poised and worth the wait 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z During sudden percussive bursts, we saw images of starry masses exploding. Review: A Dazzling ‘Creation’ Brings Light to Lincoln Center 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Pato is a pianist of percussive clarity, and a flutist and singer of warmer, softer effect. New Music: Yo La Tengo’s ‘Fade’ and Cristina Pato’s ‘Migrations’ 2013-01-14T22:57:43Z “I view myself as an instrumentalist who taps. My style is percussive, but it changes depending on the music or sometimes from step to step.” Tapper, musician Alex Dugdale cuts a rug at ‘Sacred Music’ 2013-12-23T20:06:42Z Before it ended, a different beat filled the stage: the percussive opening to Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” Review: Black Grace Dances Out a Different Kind of Buzz 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z “A Sky of Honey” follows the oceanic turbulence and the percussive, hard-riffing, globe-hopping music of “The Ninth Wave” with a meditation on light, color, nature, art and beauty. Kate Bush Is Running Up That Concert Stage for a Giant Live Album 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s the sound of go-go, our city’s indigenous style of percussive funk. Chuck Brown and go-go featured on TV One’s ‘Unsung’ 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Playing the jazz standard “Stella by Starlight,” his quick single-note lines blended together like piano glissandi — meanwhile, Brown’s piano solo took the percussive tack. Review | Victor Provost will make you think of the steelpan in a completely different way 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Their breakthrough came in 2013 when they released their debut album, “Days Are Gone,” a collection of sleek, percussive pop-rock songs. Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z There’s something sacred about this noise we sometimes make together with our bare hands — its vast percussive mass blurring into a shimmering affirmative blast. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Most of it is rock — sometimes percussive, sometimes electronic. ‘Surveillance,’ a Dance Work at New York Live Arts 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z With its attention to visual trickery, “Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition” concentrates mostly on Cubism’s second, more percussive stage, usually referred to as Synthetic Cubism. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Tirado, who started dancing at age 6 at Ballet Hispánico — where she later became an apprentice — explores how she accidentally discovered flamenco through the percussive Puerto Rican musical styles of bomba and plena. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z "It is done with choppy chords and chopping off chords short and in doing so you can make percussive patterns with it." Cult musician Wilko Johnson "so alive" as death approaches 2013-02-04T15:54:13Z His surprising opening track transforms "Human Nature" from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" into a jazz ballad — as Miles Davis did previously — embellishing the catchy melody with percussive chordal playing that gradually builds in intensity. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z Male dancers, impressively showy as peacocks, delighted in the percussive resonance created by stomping on the platform, again in acoustic conflict with the orchestra. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The integration of a child’s improvised drum with the show’s percussive score was a particularly effective touch. ‘Fargo’ Season 3 Finale: Bled Out 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, a snippet of a heavily electric and percussive performance of the sort that Davis was giving in 1974-75 is used as the soundtrack for the car chase and shootout. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Still, with the percussive joy and sheer exuberance of their standout set, the Africa Express contingent succeed in finally making a congregation out of the festival faithful. Standon Calling festival ? review 2011-08-17T12:35:02Z The ceremonial jitteriness of each performance, underscored by restless percussive jazz, conveys both endless ennui and uneasiness. Theater Review: Toshiki Okada?s Under the Radar Entry at Japan Society - Review 2012-01-07T00:33:21Z “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 Certain ranges of the piano’s strings are prepared with metal objects, creating percussive sounds that draw an arc to the other soloist. Music Review: Unsuk Chin Celebrated in Composer Portrait at Miller Theater 2014-03-16T20:54:53Z On Wednesday, he played a percussive guitar and sang a rock version of “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder with a Southern-boy nonchalance that seemed to recall the rockabilly greats. ArtsBeat: On 'Idol,' a Standout Performance from Whitney Houston's Songbook 2012-03-09T04:36:11Z But the sounds, while not new to experimental music, have conspicuous character and their mellowing out into charismatic melodic shapes signal hope, as does a more regulated percussive pulse. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z An ancestor of Spanish flamenco, it uses lightning-fast spins punctuated by statuesque stillness, fluid arm movements and rhythmically controlled foot-stamping with percussive ankle bells. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z Only now, when he swordfights while improvising a poem, the poem is as percussive as a rap and the sword is merely a hand mic. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “It’s more like a layer that sits on top of the other, more percussive sound activated by the keyboard,” Lin said. Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z 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 Occasionally, there comes a sound: a percussive clatter, a blast on a wind instrument. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z Amid sequences of rapidly percussive footwork, he found time to sweep either foot in a sideways arc, as if flourishing a cape. Review: Farruquito, Flamenco From a Soaring Eagle 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “The Big House” is also notable for its creatively percussive and contrapuntal use of sound. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The sound is distinctively percussive with layers of complex rhythms and melodic tones, said Sumarsam, a music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Making beautiful music from recycled junk 2011-08-19T18:44:46Z Similarly, he turned the piano into the foundation of a retooled “Desolation Row” and stoked a ferocious “Highway 61 Revisited” and a barreling “Fire on the Mountain” with percussive left-hand bass lines. Concert review: Bob Dylan at United Center 2012-11-10T06:43:10Z The Marching Cobras will follow at noon on the Josie Robertson Plaza, where their drum line and dance line will demonstrate their percussive talents. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z They both worked on the sinister “All That,” one of the album’s highlights: slow-smolder ’80s R&B full of disembodied, percussive guitar licks. Call Carly Rae Jepsen a Pop Star With Depth (Maybe) 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Three sculptures by Alba are special: Each is of a pair of life-size hands made of fabric, adorned with crystals and silhouette transfers — percussive and haunting. At Future Fair, Discovering Emerging and Undersung Players 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Rzewski is best known for teeming, percussive piano pieces inspired by leftist political themes and protest songs. Review: A Pianist Brings American Rage to a Church Crypt 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The toy piano lent a tinkly, fey, percussive voice to the ensemble, perfect for those moments when I couldn’t resist wondering what Temerlin could have been thinking when he took this on. Review | Lucy the chimpanzee’s life makes for compelling art at Atlas 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The style is similar to Irish step dancing and tap dancing because the footwear creates percussive rhythms. Urban Athlete: Clog-Dancing Class With City Stompers in Chelsea 2011-12-02T00:01:16Z A series of brutal percussive slashes leads to scorched silence. Scorched Silence, Fragile Rebirth, Award-Winning Music 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The pulsating, percussive score by David Tudor helps to create the sense that time is limited. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The conductor urged us to pronounce each percussive syllable and not let the tempo drag. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z His band uses electronics to toss in the odd percussive loop or synthesizer swoop; his guitar playing is laconic but pointed; and his lyrics mingle existential fears with his blandishments. CMJ 2014: Son Little and Sons of an Illustrious Father Offer Roots Variations 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z One of the finest practitioners of traditional, mostly percussive Javanese and Balinese music, Gamelan Pacifica was founded by Cornish College alum Jarrad Powell. 4 classical-music events to catch this week 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Even that piece, though, gives way to a percussive pulse. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z In Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Choir Boy,” Ms. Brown uses step, in which the body becomes a percussive instrument, to help tell the story of a group of African-American students enrolled at a private school. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z In the programmed, crisply percussive track, shared with the male voice of Young Jonn, they sing about ecstasy enabled by permission: deeply carnal but ethical. Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ Outtake, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z There were plaintive ballads sung in the traditional sean-nós style; there were flutes and fiddles; and, naturally, there was plenty of percussive stomping and intricate footwork. Spoiled by Beauty and Deals on the Irish Coast 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Eight young women from Young Dancemakers Company swirl into the space, circling the stage as if marking territory with forthright, punctuated steps to a steady percussive beat. Review: Dancing That Unfolds Like a Prayer 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Jazzy riffs and percussive string techniques add an element of unsettled agitation and worry. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z He leaned into the grand piano and damped the strings, playing muted percussive melodies with right-hand alone. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z The piece evolved from folksy plucking and rhythmic percussive bangs, influenced by West African music, to archetypal plush string legato, like that heard in the Webern ingeniously placed right before it. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The stage is suddenly teeming with Soviet poster art imagery as the dancers clench their fists, wave their pickaxes, and pound the stage in percussive fury. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Laurencia 2010-07-21T20:30:00Z Listen for the way that the glitched-up instrumental “break glass” foreshadows its eventual percussive slap with an early, grainy low note for the cello. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Recommended if you like innovative tunings, torrid riffing, blooming transitions of percussive color, or hip-hop beat-tapes. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Phiri’s guitar playing held echoes of African traditions, full of percussive subtleties and springy rhythms, which he merged with a fluent understanding of soul and funk and delivered with a warm, rounded tone. Ray Phiri, ‘Graceland’ Guitarist and Anti-Apartheid Bandleader, Dies at 70 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z At the outset of the three-movement “String Creatures,” country-western “chop” accents — a percussive bowing of the strings that is repeated for rhythmic effect — lent the music propulsive momentum. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z In true Gordon style, the music tends violently percussive and extreme, relentless in its industrial repetitions, but with stark exceptions: a section of glassy harmonics, another of keening, drooping melancholy gestures. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z A percussive drum melts into a panting railroad chug. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In the final moments, a frantic, percussive energy takes over and drives the piece to an abrupt ending. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Woodkid described the opening percussive section as “focusing on collisions between ternary and binary rhythms.” From the Bleak Streets to the Ballet Stage 2014-04-28T21:45:28Z Also — potential percussive cuteness alert! — a concert by about 300 Washington-area elementary school students playing the angklung, a tuned bamboo rattle. Indonesian puppetry and a festival of West Javanese culture come to Freer/Sackler Sitting astride her piano bench, Amos alternated between a grand piano and an electric keyboard, playing rumbling, percussive bass chords and spiraling right-hand arpeggios that traversed up and down octaves. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z As befits one of the founders of Bang on a Can, Mr. Lang contributed two percussive compositions, including the relentless “forced march,” whose repeating melody is yoked to a martial beat. Dance Review: Catching Choreographers in the Act: Two Creations for a Percussive Beat 2010-10-05T22:06:00Z Set atop low, ominously percussive accompaniment, the sliding evoked Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Music Review: The Takacs Quartet Interprets Bartok 2014-01-21T22:03:40Z The intricate percussive music — the principal thing that drew me to the island — clanged from shops, restaurants and abundant open-air performance spaces. Website allows users to listen to thousands of radio stations around the world 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Fairchild, always a strong technician, danced the lead of “Rubies” with a twinkling confidence and percussive musicality that seemed to be personal breakthroughs. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z Set to a sonic collage that includes poetry by Hattie Gossett and driving percussive music by Junior Wedderburn, the work both depicts transience and pushes back at it, through the persevering performances of six dancers. At Alvin Ailey, Finding Shelter in One Another 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s a funky march that revels in cosmic imagery, cross-rhythms and multifarious vocals: singing, chanting, making percussive sounds, high harmonies, husky low confidences and an occasional “la-la.” Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The label hoped the movie would elevate go-go, the percussive party music native to Washington, to a national platform much like “The Harder They Come” did for reggae. ‘Go Go Live’: An oral history of the genre’s biggest night 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “Twiggy,” with its springy, percussive thrum, and “Dream Sketch,” with its somber, stately chord progression, both bear some resemblance to tracks found on “Highway Rider.” New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z He shunned European romanticism for an astringent, modernist aesthetic, writing colorful, densely scored works with complex rhythms, lyrical interludes, striking dissonances and vivid percussive elements. Review: Bard Festival Salutes Carlos Chávez 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Given this percussive montage, Dreyer was taken by some contemporary critics as an admirer of the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It is deeply percussive and out of time, more Liebezeit than zeitgeist. New band of the day - Gnod (No 1,439) 2013-01-25T15:06:00Z For more than sixty years now, Taylor, who was born in 1929, has produced, often amid great criticism, some of the more difficult, emotional, and percussive jazz improvisations ever recorded. Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Featuring a slow-build keyboard and fingersnapped opening, the rapper, 27, jumped in with percussive, confident lines from a number of different perspectives. Kendrick Lamar debuts new song as last 'Colbert Report' musical guest 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Sambe received an extended standing ovation for his intense, percussive interpretation of the piece about how each person believes he suffers more than others. Int'l ballet gold: Chinese, Portuguese, S. Korean 2010-06-25T18:37:00Z Then when the vocoder-enhanced vocals drop away, the guitar becomes more tactile, percussive. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z These spare, harshly percussive, folk-gospel numbers shouted by a choir lash out like bursts of fire and brimstone; you feel assaulted by unseen forces of righteousness swinging bundles of sticks. | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z The sonic textures are percussively bright but filled in with an underlying texture. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The deceptively bawdy blues melody of "Leather" rode a romping beat, and the quartet was at its most inventive on "Cruel," as percussive string tapping and dissonant bowing fueled the songs' roiling music. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z It wasn’t until City Center’s Fall for Dance festival last year that I first encountered the form, a blend of drumming and percussive dance practiced by gauchos, or South American cowboys, since the 17th century. Review: With Chests Held Proud, These Argentine Dancers Storm the Stage 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The hole eliminates two octaves of strings, reducing the center portion of the keyboard to percussive thumps. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z The makeup was roughly that of a jazz combo, with unusual percussive additions brought in from everyday life — even, at times, gunshots and sirens. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Helmut Lachenmann's solo, "Pression," played with rapt percussive presence by Michael Kaufman, explores sounds the cello isn't supposed to make, be they ethereal scraping of the strings or industrial level strumming and banging. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Its layers of rising figures in ostinato patterns, quickly changing meters, percussive passages of nearly breezy swing feel, along with others possessed of stark calamity, call to mind elements of musical history in unexpected ways. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z That's a typically inventive touch in a production full of ideas, such as turning the invading Goths into a percussive band, but it's more notable for its eclectic theatricality than its singleness of purpose. Titus Andronicus – review 2013-05-24T16:47:26Z Merely decorative in previous shows, the dancers framing Ms. Barrio here subtly mirror and amplify her emotions with cutting shapes and percussive exclamations. Review: ‘Antigona’ Is Noche Flamenca’s Teeming Take on the Greek Tragedy 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The track’s haunting and percussive chord progressions provide a perfectly ominous backdrop for De La Soul’s reality-rooted lyrics. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “Stomp,” the long-running show that repurposed mundane items like brooms and metal garbage can lids to create a gritty percussive stage spectacle, will close in New York on Jan. 8, the show announced on Tuesday. ‘Stomp’ to Close in New York in January 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Working within the traditions of intricately percussive footwork, wheeling spins and narrative gesture, she also brings the language up to date. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-17T23:05:38Z He added a crisp melodic counterpoint to the group’s gritty, percussive sound, including the outlaw country anthem “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” Ralph Mooney, Master of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 82 2011-03-27T00:58:42Z The payoff for all that effort was a percussive essay rich in melody as well as drive. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z As a dancer, I’m used to responding to music, but here it was also to the text, the incense, the choir, even the suitcases that become percussive instruments. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z While Cataldo’s last record, “Gilded Oldies,” walked a line between buoyant brightness mixed with a percussive heft, “Keepers” is rounder, springier. It’s prom night as Cataldo releases its latest album at Century Ballroom 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The iambic pentameter isn’t delivered with percussive éclat but spoken with conversational formality. Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z He listened to the music he had chosen for the show, and thought the driving, acid bass of Eprom, with its percussive beat, sounded like artillery fire. The Brilliant Alchemy of Rick Owens 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z And, as with Beethoven at his most emphatic, percussive accents pervade the orchestration. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z Chase makes virtuosically parched, percussive exhalations; she can be sheerly sweet on the standard flute and has, on the enormous contrabass flute, the milky penetration of a whale’s deep-sea call. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Although “In Memoriam” clocks in at nearly 400 pages, Winn’s prose is percussive, driving the story forward with a mix of Edwardian masculine sentimentality and the improbable plotting of a period romance. A Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z He percussively banged his instrument as though it were a toy piano. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s wildly colorful, employing an oversized chorus with full orchestra and nearly every musical and percussive effect short of police sirens. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z Like flamenco or tap, Irish dance is a percussive dance, defined by the intricate and exciting ways the performer’s feet hit the floor. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Discreet percussive effects were reminders of Mr. Sigurdsson’s trademark electronic beats. Music Review: Classical-Pop Border, No Guards in Sight 2011-01-20T22:49:21Z It contains Graham’s ideas, if not her brilliance — the formal groupings, the percussive rhythms, the sculptural precision. Review | Martha Graham dancers are marvelous, but the message is mixed in Kennedy Center program 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The score, arranged and orchestrated by Martin Yates into an hourlong work, is serviceable and sometimes imaginative, incorporating non-Bizet percussive interludes and onstage musicians. Review: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Carmen’ in London 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Beck's percussive attack on "Train Kept a Rollin'" echoed the way his old band, the Yardbirds, turned the rockabilly classic into a psychedelic rave-up, his second solo uprooting the song's '50s origins. Guitar legend Jeff Beck stays within retro limits 2011-04-04T05:00:00Z Delilah distinguishes herself by slowing things to a crawl and adding off-kilter percussive clicks and clacks. Delilah: From the Roots Up – review 2012-07-26T20:29:01Z The bass notes have an almost guitar-like thrum, percussive and liquid at once. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z As the company opts for more standard flamenco fare, the fog lifts, and Mr. Ogalla displays his extraordinary prowess while cutting a defiant profile or crossing his feet briskly in a blast of percussive beats. Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Explore Sophocles’ Drama 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z The start and end, featuring percussive hand gestures striking the chest with no musical accompaniment, stays in memory. Dance Review: Indian Culture in Every Muscle, From Eyelid to Fingertip 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z But this was mostly cowboy music, with ballads matched against declamatory passages, and percussive dance work driving on the music. Cimarr?n | World music review 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z In front and on display to the street is a lounge with Art Deco curves, where bartenders percussively clack shakers behind a long river of zinc. It’s Not Fake French, It’s Frenchette 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z I think what sounds like wooden marimba notes are actually bass guitar notes run through an effect to become more percussive, but I'm not sure. Friday Favorites: Yuni in Taxco, The Good Sin, Witch Gardens 2010-12-17T18:03:05Z The pianist spends a lot of time producing percussive effects, while the cellist is required to produce a whole range of precise microtonal pitches. Cage: Etudes Boreales; Harmonies; 10' 40.3" 2010-06-24T20:31:00Z Sometimes she sounds like a mere percussive effect. Music Review: Kelis as Dance-Club Diva at Santos Party House 2010-04-22T21:18:00Z The addition sinks the family into cool, verdant depths downstairs and turns into a pleasantly percussive instrument upstairs when rain hits the roof. A Southern Home That Embodies Oh-This-Old-Thing Elegance 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The structure, counterpoint and harmony of the sonata allude to Beethoven, Bach and Hindemith; the percussive drive shows the influence of Prokofiev. Classical Recordings: Sebastian Currier: Piano Sonata, Other Works ? CD Review 2011-12-22T15:26:52Z Mr. Evans feints and bobs in his playing, splashing down a cluster of notes, sifting through a series of rich chords, then percussively scrambling a winnowed-down melodic line à la Thelonious Monk. Music Review: A Big Band Theory: The More Energy the Better 2010-09-30T21:05:00Z He stripped away a lot of the melodic themes, and just made it into percussive themes for the vocal and the horn lines. Mick Jagger on James Brown: "I Copied All His Moves" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Strange percussive tweaks and odd keyboard lines rise and fall throughout before a beautiful piano flurry emerges around the five-minute mark. New Music: Thom Yorke, Burial and Four Tet ? Ego 2011-03-16T15:44:38Z Hussain added a percussive beat with his tabla, and more than a dozen other special guests joined in on a range of instruments from the West and East. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z But before long, in a transition that few composers could handle so successfully, stark pianistic marching leads the orchestra into the punchy environs of percussive Americana. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Brittle electric guitar picking pairs well with hollow percussive fillips. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Together they came up with a local Capetown hip-hop, in English and percussively guttural Afrikaans. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The show features a cast of 18, plus 11 musicians for the brassy, percussive jazz sound that O’Farrill is fusing with Bizet’s famous melodies. Olney swings for the fences with Moisés Kaufman’s jazzy ‘Carmen’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, it works best when the pace or intensity drops slightly – Applesauce's bug-eyed prettiness; the woozy, percussive Pulleys; or the skittering rhythms and bending synths of the more downbeat New Town Burnout. Animal Collective: Centipede HZ – review 2012-08-23T14:31:01Z For percussive dance, wood floors are ideal but difficult to have access to, both in studios and on stages. ‘Release. Joy. Love.’ A Dance Festival at Little Island. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Her timing and delivery roam all over and succeed — she starts lines perilously late, investing one phrase with hope and beauty and then percussively cutting the next one down. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “That’s What I Like” was the final major piece in need of a percussive shake-up. Meet the Stereotypes, the Guys Who Help Give Bruno Mars His Bounce 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The enthusiastic audience alternated between crowding the laser-lit dance floor during the faster, percussive songs and eating grilled beef skewers and drinking beer at their tables during the slower, lyrical songs. Cultured Traveler: Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet 2014-02-18T17:38:07Z Opening track Harm in Change thrillingly layers clean piano, distorted keyboards, crisp percussive snaps, low-end drum rolls, inarticulate female moans and a vocal that grows more urgent by the minute. Toro y Moi: Anything in Return – review 2013-01-17T22:14:02Z Twitter next informed me that a St. Louis alderman got arrested for illegal assembly as mesmerizing Benin singer Angelique Kidjo harnessed the percussive punches of Brown's "Say It Loud!" Watching James Brown tribute at the Bowl, thinking of Ferguson 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But around this time, the sound in gay clubs began to get faster, more percussive, less R & B. “The drugs changed,” Lady Bunny said. Postscript: Frankie Knuckles Ruled the Club Floor 2014-04-04T23:00:28Z “Bloody Eye,” the EP’s second track, involves a barrage of percussive effects. Rabit and the Resurgence of Grime 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z His playing was explosive, as percussive as it was melodic. Wilko Johnson, Scorching Guitarist and Punk Pioneer, Dies at 75 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “With young people, with older people, with percussive dance, I like the idea of saying this is all beautiful — it’s all worthy of being in the center,” Beard said. ‘Release. Joy. Love.’ A Dance Festival at Little Island. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He even added some percussive effects to the instrument box in the final movement, a bit of avant-garde from 1740. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z Baker was the brutally brilliant drummer who became the percussive wild man with Cream, alongside Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce, and other bands such as Blind Faith. Beware of Mr Baker – review 2013-05-16T14:29:00Z Composers at the beginning of the 20th century – primarily Stravinsky and Bartók – began to acknowledge the acoustic truth of the piano's percussive and resonant nature and re-envisage the concerto form. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z In the percussive "Thumper," the third prelude, which was reminiscent of Prokofiev, Yang maintained a steady pulse while playing chords in different rhythms. A sparkling, jazzy concert from Joyce Yang at the Wallis 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Bishop played melodies, often themes and variations, though he started and ended the set with raga-inflected explorations: a ruminative opener and a flamboyant, percussively strummed finale. Sir Richard Bishop Offers Solos at the Issue Project Room 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z We hear the crackling, popping sound of burning wood: a percussive illusion made of the chorus’s soft snapping and clapping. Review: In ‘The Woodsman,’ a Love Lost in Oz Under a Witch’s Spell 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z With its latest program, “Flamenco y Antigona,” the troupe embraces character and plot more than usual, weaving dance and song into its own percussive telling of “Antigone.” Tragic Greek Rebel Takes Up Flamenco 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z For this production, Ms. Dorrance, a MacArthur fellow, and Mr. Van Young — both specialize in tap — will transform the museum into an instrument with their innovative use of percussive dance and sound. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z During the tiny hours of Monday morning, Backyard Band was up onstage doing the cool alchemy that all go-go bands do: transmuting popular radio hits into ecstatic, percussive party music. What a viral cover of Adele’s ‘Hello’ means for go-go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z If you’re familiar with the percussive dance trio Soles of Duende, the title of their latest show, “Can We Dance Here?,” answers itself long before their feet hit the stage: Yes. Review: Radiant Artists, With a Percussive Bond 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z I was nowhere but in the rumbling bliss of a big percussive cloud. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z One pioneer was the German rock band Tangerine Dream, which formed in 1967 and broke through in the 1970s with a sound marked by expansive synthesized washes and percussive chords. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z The three-part painting is dominated by a line that sighs and falls with faltering resignation, percussive scribbles of colour like memories about to pass, and a thin rain of flicked paint. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z They danced to layered, percussive beats, the music vibrant and pulsing. A Daytime Dance Party That Celebrates Black Diversity 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Accentuated by Michaël Attias’s harsh, percussive score, this is a loud, numbing world, most spectacularly so in a scene in a video arcade populated by toughs, including one who beat up Elvira. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z A sweetly wistful “I’m Through With Love,” with the pianist Assaf Glizner, whose playing is short on lyricism and heavy on percussive emphasis, left no dark emotional residue. Music Review: Cyrille Aim?e and the Surreal Band at Birdland 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z The band features West African instruments like talking drums and hoddu, a percussively plucked lute, alongside electric ones. Music Review: Baaba Maal at Fillmore New York 2010-05-02T22:11:00Z The exception came in Jerome Kitzke’s “There Is a Field,” a highly theatrical work incorporating readings of Rumi poetry and Walt Whitman texts about the Civil War along with shouts and percussive effects. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z Ratshin's nimble, pizzicato touch on his guitar strings provides both a percussive and melodic backdrop. Uncle Bonsai resurfaces with trademark melodies, wit intact 2010-05-07T00:03:00Z They move from beauty to ugliness on a dime — midway through, the piece morphs into a section of guttural grunting, percussive pounding and prepared piano madness. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The beat, though, is the star; Tyga is merely percussive drizzle atop it. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z JR Narrated by Stephen Fry, this series is marred a little by its cliched percussive soundtrack and the too-brisk pace at which it traverses aeons of history. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z Comes accompanied by its own dance style – check out the YouTube clips of dancers pulling off unfathomable moves in unglamorous locations to juke and footwork's furious percussive pummel. The A-Z of pop in 2012 2012-06-29T14:15:00Z Garbus looped her voice using pedals and machines, looped her drums, looped her percussive violin strumming. SXSW 2011 post #5: Shabazz Palaces, Tune-Yards, James Blake 2011-03-18T18:32:06Z How much percussive pummeling and wailing brass is enough? Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z Much of the show is sung, and a lot of it is dynamically danced, in styles that change depending on Asad’s travels but that usually feature articulated elbows and percussive feet. Review: In ‘A Man of Good Hope,’ a Boy Wonders if America Is His Refuge 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The ensemble grooved hard with each tune — often aggressively percussive, though sometimes, as on “Is It Love That Inspires You?,” impossible to pin down. Review | Joel Ross, a vibraphone wunderkind, weds sweet melodies to advanced-math rhythms 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z An edge of cold despair shaded even the loudest, most percussive moments. A Quirky Parisian Festival Refinds Its Footing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The musical thought is alternately thorny and otherworldly, with percussive taps and fast-as-light arpeggio strums making it sound, at times, as though Johannesson is handling more than one instrument. Guitarist offers guide to Icelandic strings 2010-04-08T20:17:00Z Insinuation is also the reason – along with the Neptunes' sparse, percussive production – that Milkshake was one of the best-loved lyrics of the noughties: "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard." Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z Clapping here forms a percussive backdrop to a mysterious ongoing drone... Readers recommend: songs about manual labour 2010-07-15T23:01:00Z He’s a raspy, percussive rapper who understands how to slip alongside a beat, spitting slick pitter-patter while more exciting things erupt around him. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Brown first got Washingtonians dancing in the 1970s when he invented go-go, a percussive funk dialect that eventually became the pulse of Chocolate City. Go-go scene memorializes Chuck Brown with new music 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The opening is reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s “Last Time I Saw Richard,” while the later percussive aspects hint at those beautiful beats she has often thrived on, putting most electronic producers to shame. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z Amirkhanian recited, along with tape, short pieces in which he rhythmically cuts up word to create striking percussive effects. S.F.'s Other Minds concerts create some otherworldly sounds 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Previous single Come Save Me is equally percussive, suggestive of a baggy Beach Boys, where Moss Side meets California. Jagwar Ma (No 1,443) 2013-02-01T09:00:00Z Instead of blanketing the place with the percussive din that only a room full of power looms could produce, most of the machines sit silent and still. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Mills and Knight use a crazy variety of percussive sounds on this cut to produce a vibe that by Odesza’s standards is pretty frantic. Seattle duo Odesza changes course | New recordings 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Two tiny loudspeakers placed on the piano strings dampened some notes to percussive effect while adding a counterpoint of sustained wails and murky overtones. Music Review: Looking Behind Curtains On a Gripping Journey 2011-05-26T21:42:30Z Then–the percussive soundtrack steadily pumping up our collective blood pressure–he and producers huddle about how to structure the interview. "There It Is. You're Caught." The Jinx Gets Its Man 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Gee starts beating out a percussive syncopation as a young chorus dancer thrillingly taps out the complex and subdivided counts. Tony nominee Savion Glover: Go ahead, call me a Hoofer 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Her 2006 album, “Begin to Hope,” includes the breathy, upbeat single “Fidelity,” in which she uses her voice like a percussive instrument, and a ballad sung from the perspective of Delilah, about Samson. Regina Spektor Tunes Up for Broadway 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z In addition to smoky jazz, Andrew Markus, the work’s composer and sound designer, has created an atmosphere throbbing with city noise and percussive heat. Spare Times for Children for May 10-16 2013-05-09T22:20:20Z Mr. Iyer chills recollections of the sonata’s dancing variations until bone-dry, asking for percussive plunks from Mr. Wosner and scraping moans from Ms. Koh before speeding into a wild, flooding finale. Review: For Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer,’ a Chance to Compare and Contrast 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The piece culminates with pummeling percussive hammer strokes that surely nod to Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Review: Juilliard Orchestra, Grabbing the ‘Ring’ Cycle 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Shipp, 53, is known for a percussive stamina; it used to come off as young aggression. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Lamagna’s score draws heavily, with acknowledgment, on the Adam music, providing fascinating adaptations of its rhythms and melodies into a percussive, folk-inspired accompaniment and also deploying electronic buzz, hum and voices. Review: ‘Giselle,’ a Winning Gamble for English National Ballet 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Hand drumming meshes with percussive, modal motifs from Brooklyn Rider, as Ms. Herrera’s performance merges wonderment and disillusion. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Scored for string instruments alone, sometimes played percussively, the 20-minute symphony shows heavy Turkish and Balkan influences, with bent tones, pungent harmonies and syncopated rhythms. Review: Fazil Say, Soloist, Composer and Even Conductor With Orpheus 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The percussive, dissonant fury of the first movement, titled “Apologue: Of Rage and Remembrance,” feels like a musical transcription of an ACT UP protest. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Joseph Bertolozzi, created a work consisting of percussive sounds made on a Hudson River bridge. From Heaps of Junk, a Melodious Clang 2010-10-04T21:33:00Z Combining the aggressive with the lyrical, the piece foreshadows the jagged contours and percussive explosiveness that would define her later works. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The piece begins with the fundamentals of rhythm and ends with a barrage of percussive possibility, with Cox and Gunnell playing everything they can get their hands and sticks on. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z He was in beautiful sync with pianist Biss, whose chiming, murmuring, silken keyboard sound in quieter passages was matched by dramatic percussive moments elsewhere. John Adams, Jonathan Biss and Symphony have a stellar night 2012-11-09T17:13:04Z Similarly, a pile of stout sticks lies near a projected video in which sticks are repeatedly jumbled by the children, to great percussive effect. Review: Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Triumph 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Midway through the otherwise beatific “Millefleur,” a percussive edge emerges, offering an unexpected martial cast to the work. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z And Mr. Galván is a percussive machine all by himself, from his jackhammer heels to his teeth, which he at one memorable point drummed with his fingers to create a soft, castanetlike sound. Dance Review | New York Flamenco Festival: Flamenco Kept Simple, but Fun 2010-02-23T23:29:00Z The characters, too, occasionally stutter a word in a percussive manner, as if a skilled DJ were manipulating vinyl. Idris Goodwin’s ‘How We Got On’ at Forum Theatre Turnage, a respected composer of two previous operas, has set Thomas's words to a tuneful, percussive score that is highly accessible on first hearing. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z On paper this all sounds a bit bedroom-producer-making-gloom-laden-borepop but as evidenced by his debut single, 2012's Summer War, there's more than a glint of sunlight here in the percussively warped beats and Tirone's playful falsetto. Mind Enterprises – My Girl: New music 2013-05-31T06:00:04Z Periodically one or more members of the group took on a purely percussive role, using shakers, chimes or cowbells; the hypnotic power of ritual was never far from the center of the frame. Review: Rob Mazurek’s Black Cube SP Plays at ShapeShifter Lab 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z That doesn’t bode well for a dance, featuring a cast of 19 and a percussive score by Curtis Macdonald, that is conceivably meant to uplift. Dance Review: ‘LIFT’ by the Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe at City Center 2013-12-08T21:35:27Z Stepping is a percussive dance form created by African American college students who are members of fraternities and sororities. The founder of Step Afrika! on the crucial steps to bringing his dream to life 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z She honed her voice in large-scale, percussive dance works that dabbled in the serial techniques in vogue in the 1970s. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z For a better use of a percussive score, Taylor audiences can look this season to Ulysses Dove’s “Vespers,” which the company debuted on Saturday. At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Throughout the album, his touch is at once flickeringly percussive and caressingly tender. After Vanishing, Johnny O’Neal Has a New York Following Again 2014-05-01T23:30:47Z For those unfamiliar with the term, a gong bath aims to provide spiritual nourishment via long, calming notes played on a large metallic percussive instrument. Why stressed workers need four-day weeks – not wellness trends 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But only rarely did I hear the persistent, percussive edge of contemporary trap music styles. Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It would be almost better if the violin were given crazy, percussive passages, attempting to “talk” to the orchestra. A novel, engaging concert from young violinist Niklas Walentin 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z This footwork innovator’s percussive fury and worldly sounds keep listeners on their toes. Daily guide to Sasquatch! 2018: Artists to watch beyond the big names 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Jeff Conaway's percussive kit consists only of four drums, three cymbals and an attached tambourine, but he mans it as if it's twice that size. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z But while the percussive rhythms guarantee that moviegoers will tap their toes, only a few moments, such as when Molina crawls over rocks at the Centre Pompidou Málaga, yield eye-catching images. Review: ‘Impulso’ Goes Backstage With a Flamenco Innovator 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “Slow down, now we’ve grown, let’s start new,” they sing, over the kind of austere percussive atmosphere that made their music so arresting in the first place. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Up the Ante, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Soon, drums kick in and dancers explode into percussive action — shaking, undulating, whacking the air with the force of those drums. Review: Afro-Colombian Dancing Reawakens the Joyce Theater 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Abduraimov sometimes played with captivating delicacy and milky colorings, he could not resist going for broke during the percussive, heaving episodes of these pieces. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The Sextet is an exploration of the ways the duration of notes played on percussive instruments can be both stretched and curtailed. Music Review: Juilliard Students Perform in ChamberFest 2013-01-19T01:39:49Z The percussive, pulpy violence of the opening is replaced by a close-up of a single blade flashing down and a bright streak of blood across a face. The Great Unknown Movie of the Century So Far? Here’s Mine 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Hunkered down in a converted garage in Wiesbaden, they no doubt discuss approximation theory and asymptotic methods while thumping on pianos and laying down acoustic, percussive grooves. This week's new singles 2011-01-01T00:05:38Z The conceit was spectacularly imaginative: the sheets had enough form to become both dynamic sculptures and, in their murmured crinkling, significant percussive accompaniment for occasional wails from Sunny Yang’s cello. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The sheer presence of a piano, and the percussive but circumfluent style embodied by Mr. Iyer, go a long way toward inoculating this music against that outcome. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z At other points, Ms. Chase projected a rounded warmth during longer, tricky lines that collided with passages of greater percussive tumult. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The stage teems with dancers in billowing Afro-Brazilian garb; a battery of drummers pounds out the rhythms of axé, the densely percussive pop native to Salvador that Mercury made famous. Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and Songs 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Where "Fridge Wars" is a little more muted — with a sleek set and a light, percussive soundtrack — "Chef & My Fridge" has all the exuberance popular in many East Asian variety programs. "Fridge Wars" and "Chef & My Fridge" reflect the leftovers-style cooking we're all doing now 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z He says he uses his guitar to create rhythm rather than strumming chords, with animation rather than complexity his watchwords, and insists there is a connection to his percussive work with the hang. Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z |
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