| 单词 | prelude |
| 例句 | Freedom of the word is the first prelude to democracy. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z In the opening prelude of Parsifal’s third act, the music shifts and slides around, avoiding settling on one key or chord for more than one beat. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If the music Bod had heard until then was a prelude, it was a prelude no longer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Too impatient to endure a long range diet, he went on radical diets that seemed like preludes to famine. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all a prelude to what began on July 27, 1919. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “And now,” she says, “the prelude to Johann Sebastian Bach’s hauntingly beautiful Cello Sonata Number One in G.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Eugenics could not be the prelude to equality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Its first prelude is now very well known - and incidentally made up entirely of a chord sequence, no melody, exactly as Bach’s hero Vivaldi might have done. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Outside, I head straight for my tube tunnel, my footsteps on the ladder a prelude to peace and quiet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Everything so far had been prelude: From what we’d been told, you could be a star at the Academy and then fall flat on your face inside a real prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He notified the Rosenwald Committee that he’d accept their invitation to compete for the United States Championship—the prelude, he hoped, to eventually capturing the World Championship as well. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As a prelude Joe and his freshman crewmates took on the varsity crew in a football game of their own and were unceremoniously crushed by the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Although I did not respond to these overtures, the mere fact that they were talking rather than attacking could be seen as a prelude to genuine negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A cold December drizzle was falling as I stood in my place and listened to the loud blare of the prelude music for our daily exercises. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the icy wind and the snow were only a prelude to the low temperatures they found in Canada. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife was playing the piano; Chopin, a prelude. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the inevitable prelude to growing up. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the indispensable prelude to talks on a test ban. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She insists I lay on my back for three years crying for Leah to stay close and play with me, until finally one day without prelude I rolled off the couch and limped after her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is a man’s life but a prelude to his death?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The piano music got closer; it was Chopin, one of the preludes, maybe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The foregoing investigation into the nature of the idea of Texas is put down as a prelude to my journeying across Texas with Charley in Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All these consequences of organic phosphate poisoning, if survived, may be a prelude to worse. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The result was bold, widespread resistance by the colonists, a protest that could well be regarded as a prelude to revolution. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He could think of nothing better, and feared the silence that might come down, and the awkwardness that would be a prelude to her telling him that it had been nice to meet up again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the end, the Nazi program to cleanse the “genetically sick” was just a prelude to a much larger devastation to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I lay there silent beside my brother, my best friend and his girlfriend wading in the water before me, and I knew that we were all just in the prelude to disappointment after disappointment. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The council resolved that the ANC would hold demonstrations on April 6, 1952, as a prelude to the launching of the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was but the prelude to more, for each rain washed more of the insecticide into the river, killing more fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I knew this to be a prelude to some health-related inquiry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Now they were faced with the realization of separation, and in the appalled silence that followed the decision Longridge watched Elizabeth’s face screw up in the prelude to tears. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The twelve-note octave as we know it became a firm fixture of Western music after the publication in 1722 of J. S. Bach’s forty-eight preludes and fugues for the 'Well-Tempered Keyboard’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And then, without prelude, he began to tell them how it was going to be. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Bewildered white women scuttled indoors and bolted doors, simultaneously unleashing vicious dogs to patrol yards, seemingly misconstruing the busloads of black boys and girls as a prelude to a black invasion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Lillian Woodward failed to show for her prelude, and Turner found himself taking her place at the organ bench and looking over a mighty small congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z If the cat had been poisoned, might not this act have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The hilarious gaiety changed swiftly at the closing bars, and the drummer rattled his sticks in the inevitable prelude to God Save the King. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He called his system ‘The Well-Tempered Keyboard’, landmarked for ever in history by his composing two companion pieces, a prelude and a fugue, for every one of the newly adapted key-families. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This rather deliberate elision of Fermi’s role in neutron research was the prelude to a pitch for $2,250 “to increase the yield of neutron radiation tenfold or more.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By contrast, Gerhardt introduced a breathtaking freedom and fantasy into the virtuoso prelude of the Suite No 6 in D major. Alban Gerhardt ? review 2011-04-12T17:27:59Z A selection of mezze is intended as prelude to something more substantial. Mamnoon’s Mideast cuisine is fresh and fragrant 2013-03-08T13:09:06Z Pujol’s greatest success was persuading the German High Command that the invasion of Normandy was essentially a feint, the prelude to a major attack on Calais to the south. “Agent Garbo”: Wartime’s greatest double-cross 2012-07-08T22:00:00Z But the most endearing and engaging part of the show happened before all of that, during a prelude led by the company’s artistic director, Diana Byer. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet Revives ‘Cinderella’ at Gould Hall 2014-03-03T21:48:04Z There are also preemptive shocks for something as seemingly benign as standing up from a desk without permission or raising one’s arms, which center officials say can be a prelude to worse behavior. An electric shock therapy stops self-harm among the autistic, but at what cost? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Whitehead’s own “Orgelbüchlein” project was inspired by a 17-year-old student of his who wrote an “Orgelbüchlein”-style chorale prelude on the English carol “Of the Father’s Heart Begotten” about 15 years ago. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z You would not typically think of Mr. Ruders’s music as having any Minimalist DNA, but the repeating figure that opens the prelude seems a melding of Debussy and early Philip Glass. Music Review: New-Music Champion Pays a Call 2011-01-09T22:56:47Z The slowly unwinding prelude led to a first act of gathering momentum that culminated in a confrontation between the lovers that was as swift as it was neurotic. Prom 19: Tristan und Isolde – review 2013-07-28T16:59:00Z But on Thursday night, on the same plaza where models had strutted the runways just days earlier, it seemed like that had been a mere prelude to NYCB's glittery fall gala. Ballet meets Valentino at glittery NYCB gala 2012-09-21T20:13:12Z That act of juvenile vigilantism — which would no doubt find an approving audience on YouTube — is prelude to a more sinister and sustained campaign of retribution. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z Like most of Lanzmann’s works after “Shoah,” “Napalm” is a film in two parts, with the interview portion following a historical prelude that provides the background for the drama. “Napalm,” Reviewed: Claude Lanzmann’s Visit to North Korea 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Dylan turned his piano into an orchestra: rumbling, jazzy dissonance; terse counterpoint fills underneath his vocals; thundering gospel chords as prelude to spider-walking flourishes with both hands. Concert review: Bob Dylan at United Center 2012-11-10T06:43:10Z But I kept returning to that luxuriously quiet half-hour prelude. Review: In ‘Goldberg,’ Marina Abramovic and Igor Levit Blend Classical Music and Performance Art 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The conductor, Susanna Mälkki, led the orchestra most memorably in passages of eeriness and tenderness, as in the nocturnal glow of the prelude to the graveyard scene in the final act. Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Emma has been struck with insomnia as her 40th birthday approaches — alarmingly, the age when the same thing happened to her mother, Patricia, as a prelude to a complete breakdown. Nine Strangers With One Thing in Common: They’re About to Be Murdered 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z As a prelude, the “Evening News” followed Gorbachev to Cuba in April, suspecting the cash-strapped leader might cut aid to Fidel Castro. How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square It opens with a lonesome prelude for clarinet and acoustic guitar, before tumbling fully into gear, with Mr. Walker’s vocals and fingerpicking up front. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The prelude to Parsifal opened the evening, solemn and all rather careful, the transcendent beauty of the writing never quite emerging. WNO/Koenigs – review 2013-04-29T17:54:05Z The 48 preludes and fugues of “The Well-Tempered Clavier” are the ultimate exploration of counterpoint in all its complexities, yet also a dazzling collection of quirky, sublime and sometimes showy character pieces. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z To hear the prelude to the opera’s second scene, with its brass fanfares and insistent thwacks of deep percussion, you would think the characters were approaching Valhalla, not the modest town of Sant’Eufemia. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Among more than 500 photographs on display, there are images of women and children being separated from their menfolk in Potocari in the prelude to the massacre. Survivors, Dutch soldiers reflect on Srebrenica in new exhibition 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z This strange scene, the brainchild of Jonathan Anderson, was a prelude to a surreal and thought-provoking collection for Loewe — one of the strongest seen this season. Paris Fashion: Loewe delights, brands end silence on Ukraine 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z What this crowd was getting was not only mainly core classical — the “Tristan” prelude again, as well as one movement of the lively but lengthy Berlioz — but also opera. Review | From the NSO, with love: Noseda and orchestra in Valentine’s Day programs 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z During an interview on BBC's Radio 2 shortly before the gigs were confirmed, Jagger suggested that the four dates could be a prelude to a longer tour. Rolling Stones to play four gigs, Jagger hints at more 2012-10-15T17:58:20Z At first it seems like an overlong prelude to the assassination story. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z Not all the “preludes,” as the menu calls appetizers, are successes. Review | Commonwealth Indian is dressed to thrill in Rockville 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z And in this case, there is not even the fillip of a grand prelude and fugue, like the “St. Anne,” to leaven the mix. Early Music Festival: NYC Opened Its Inaugural Season 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z In the lengthy prelude to the event, Ms. Morales and Mr. Geist repeatedly emphasized that Mr. Wallenda would not wear a harness this time. High-Wire Canyon Walk Drew 13 Million Viewers 2013-06-24T22:02:59Z A marvelous prelude to the Museum of Modern Art’s anticipated Polke retrospective, opening April 19. Art Trek: Roberta Smith’s Tour of the Sizzlers on the Upper East Side 2014-04-03T22:52:07Z With a rousing program of local and international music acts, Prague Spring kicks off on Saturday, offering a tantalizing prelude to the Czech capital’s packed summer festival season. In Transit Blog: This Prague Spring Features Music 2012-05-12T00:00:48Z They are the prelude to an engaging exhibition. Sergei Tcherepnin makes music with his viewers 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The walls of a cozy bar, a prelude to the restaurant, are sheathed in bright, glossy tortoise shell pattern. The Carlyle Hotel’s Refurbished Restaurant, Dowling’s, Opens 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Three if you count the occasional humiliating prelude. | 'Order': Inner Demons Win in Horror Comedy at Kirk Theater 2010-06-24T21:35:00Z Yet Chopin’s collection of preludes in all the major and minor keys emerges in this reading as a compositional entity. Classical Playlist: Chopin, Mendelssohn, Gilbert Kalish and More 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Dudamel's great accomplishment was to create a sense of urgency that swelled out of the orchestral prelude to "Cav" and continued unabated through a long evening. Dudamel coaxes a sense of urgency from two of opera's staples 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Written in 2015, the sonata moves from a pleasant prelude to a dark middle section called “Lament” to an exultant finale. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The preludes are wondrously varied in character and approach; the fugues range from seemingly straightforward contrapuntal excursions to formidably complex, hard-driving statements. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Her hands move like accommodating angels — that is, until they revolt, and do something like hike her skirt to the tops of her thighs, or encase her own throat in a prelude to strangulation. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Like other directors have, he tells the opera as a flashback, staging the prelude as Violetta’s death scene; her deathbed remains on stage throughout. ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z But Key is weirdly asked in the dumb show prelude of “The Mousetrap” to do some physical comedy that might have been too ludicrous for his “Key and Peele” comedy show. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z This is more than a head-nod to some of his most famous work – the song itself is a likely suspect as a follow-up, or perhaps prelude to that story. David Bowie Challenges Listeners on The Next Day 2013-03-11T15:50:39Z This planetary vision — along with three others in the prelude — encapsulates the movie’s in broad outline. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z The opera opens with a prelude depicting the hopeless despair of the oppressed Hebrews. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z At first it seems like mere scene-setting when Desiree, dancing at a club, describes her week as a prelude to letting loose, but it becomes an apt metaphor for an unbalanced life. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z Mr. Garrow said his piece was not an effort to knock Dr. King off his pedestal, but a “corrective” — and a prelude, he suggested, to an even greater reckoning. His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z In the prelude to Nina Sankovitch’s compelling group biography, “The Lowells of Massachusetts,” the poet Amy Lowell has just died and her lover Ada Dwyer Russell builds a bonfire to burn Amy’s letters. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The live hourlong program began with an updated prelude to the original novel eerily warning that superintelligent beings had been coveting “this Earth with envious eyes.” Bill Herz, Last of ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Crew, Dies at 99 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The offer is good for in-person or phone orders only; mention the promotion code "prelude" when purchasing. More free tickets 2011-12-14T18:44:18Z Here’s a prelude to Mother’s Day: On Saturday, there will be a walk-around tasting of rosé wines from across the globe. At Dominique Ansel, Desserts Worth a Short Wait 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Half symphony, half oratorio, “The Prison” includes this striking chorale prelude, with dark and light in the same bars, at its heart. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z A prelude to the new series caught these people primping in their mirrors, putting on their faces. “The Hills: New Beginnings” and Our Warped American Reality 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The screenings are part of Jim Henson’s World, a series that’s a prelude to the permanent gallery devoted to Henson that the museum plans to open next year. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-14T00:09:30Z That work served as a prelude to Chamberlain’s big jumble of painted and chromium-plated steel fragments that came up moments later. Auctions: Stellar Auction at Sotheby's for Some Classics of Contemporary Art 2011-05-10T11:30:05Z Stories, which Filderman would later fashion into a prelude, began to flow. ‘Godspell’ in 2020: Masks, Partitions and a Contactless Crucifixion 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z His delighted guffaws were a fitting prelude to my stint in Edinburgh. At Edinburgh Fringe, Small Shows With Big Ambitions 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Budgeted at $400,000, this summer’s program runs from July 6 to July 11, with prelude performances on July 2 and 3. Music Festival on Arctic Archipelago in Norway 2010-06-25T19:03:00Z It was the equivalent, in our own species, of dehumanising the enemy, a frequent prelude to an atrocity. Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z It is a revelation, from the incandescence of her Toccata from Widor’s Fifth Symphony to the jazzy angularity of Jean Berveiller’s “Mouvement”; the reverence of her Bach chorale preludes to the fury of her Liszt. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The idea of adding introductions to the Bach suites may seem superfluous, since the pieces already open with a prelude, but each of three overtures added an intriguing flavor. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Highsmith had helped her wipe off the blood as a prelude to their passion. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Affleck cleverly foreshadows the Hollywood angle with a prelude told in storyboard form, efficiently providing background on the mounting dissent in Iran over the United States' sympathetic stance toward the Shah. Review: Ambitious `Argo' one of year's best films 2012-10-08T22:48:11Z As a prelude to what follows, it resembles a prayer offered before a storm. “And everybody cried”: The callous murder of the Harvey family and the song it inspired 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z This sort of destruction is prelude to renovation, like remodeling a house. Artists are just this screwed: When capitalism markets rebellion, how does the rebel stand outside? 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Many wondered if that was a sort of prelude to the Negan murder, one intended to either foreshadow Glenn’s departure or perhaps misdirect viewers. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Kurtág precedes the piece with a prelude of nine tolling B flats; the seven notes of Flowers We Are … follow. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z Fabio Luisi conducted the orchestra in a performance that seemed more brisk and efficient than imbued with feeling, though the preludes to the first and last acts were lovely. Hong tackles Decker's stark, modern 'Traviata' 2012-04-08T14:01:17Z Will this be a prelude to the main event, with the resurrected Harley jailed for her part in the scam, then let out to wreak havoc as part of the black ops Suicide Squad? MTV's exclusive movie trailers: five things we learned 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Bach’s chorale prelude is picked apart, distorted and transformed in a series of dissonant gestures that, now heated, now wispy, create an irresistible smoky turbulence. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z There's no real sense of why Vincent is playing Rachmaninov; none of the preludes, even the best known ones, is characterised with any vividness, or shaped in an interesting way. Rachmaninov: Preludes – review 2013-01-03T21:30:01Z His pessimism is intact, describing all relationships as doomed to sour and all life as a prelude to suicide. Louis C.K.’s New Special Mines Comedy From the Middle Ground 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Whether it was the conclusion of his prior arc, or a prelude to a new era, wasn’t clear. Jai Paul Emerges From the Shadows, Somewhat 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z In a rare and special performance Monday night on the Distinguished Artists Series at Benaroya Hall, he played all 24 preludes and fugues of "The Well-Tempered Clavier," Book II. Bach in the hands of a master: András Schiff in Seattle 2012-10-16T15:20:05Z In his recent guest spots on Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” Mulroney introduced his musician character by playing the prelude to the Lalo concerto. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The first section, “Humanity,” which explores Confucian thinking, begins with an orchestral prelude. Music Review: Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Weltethos’ in England 2012-06-22T23:59:58Z The other unusual twist on the program was that each of the three remaining pieces -- all standard fare from Bach and Handel -- was preceded by a meditative prelude. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Then again, a second novel is sometimes a prelude to a third that truly is twice as good. Review: ‘True Detective,’ Season 2 on HBO, Plays a Symphony of Misery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s “a picture of life,” he suggests, marking a final break with the war, or perhaps “a fantasist’s prelude to the inevitable disappointment of reality.” More Than a Muse 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z These details are prelude to announcing that the unnamed heroine of Nunez’s dry, allusive and charming new novel, “The Friend,” is a writer and a cat person. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z This is never more apparent than when he talks about wanting to “give something back”, usually an eye-rolling moment, but in his case a prelude to something convincing. Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Seven weeks after Vecchio was born, the Japanese bombed Hong Kong, the prelude to an invasion and almost four years of occupation. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Instead, this season is one long tight focus on the shuddering prelude to their crumbling. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z E! aired neither the nominations nor any prelude to them, and instead stuck with a Season 7 rerun of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” The 2018 Emmy Nominations: There Is a Lot of Television to Watch 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z James Mawer, commercial manager at Walkabout, the chain of Australian-themed bars, which is screening the game in 35 of its outlets, said that is likely to be a prelude to selling tickets. Football's new focus: pubs roll out 3D screens 2010-04-02T19:11:00Z During the poignant music that opens the prelude to Act I, Mr. Nézet-Séguin drew radiant yet delicate playing from the strings. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z This was the prelude to “The Cut Off,” where Cole faced off with Kill Edward — an alter ego modeled after his stepfather. Review | A sincerely good concert from J. Cole 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z At last, he has his turntable, and thus a much different set; indeed, the first view, during the prelude, is of a grungy brick exterior rather than the explosion of color inside. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Vaccine recipients are scattered and seated nearby as he played the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. Yo-Yo Ma played a surprise concert for a clinic during his post-vaccination waiting period 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z As Ackroyd describes it, “This is the prelude to a narrative of revenge and suffering on a sensational scale.” The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Nor did an answer emerge clearly in this portrait of Alma, conceived as a prelude to Welsh National Opera's themed season, Free Spirits. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs – review 2013-01-22T15:33:16Z Joan Tower: A doyenne of American orchestral composers, Tower, 78, is known to many for her six “Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman,” a pendant to Aaron Copland’s ubiquitous musical prelude. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z His past, much as he tries to slough it off, looks increasingly like a prelude. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell, the Nobody Who Gets Things Done 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Schroeder plays all six piano sonatas, uninterrupted, as well as the 12 preludes. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The opening sections reveal to an unprecedented degree Mr. Zec’s working methods, with scores of ink and watercolor preparatory sketches, miniature virtuoso passages that provide the prelude to large canvases in tempera and oil. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z It was a prelude to Tuesday’s prime-time speech, her biggest since the 2016 Republican convention and a far more public and political spotlight than she normally seeks. Melania Trump will give her biggest speech in four years. Can she convince skeptical women to vote for her husband? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “So I’m obviously going to close with a Pocahontas song track,” she preluded. Melissa McCarthy Slays Lip Sync Battle on 'Tonight Show' 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z You might know two or three of his chorale preludes. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z It began with a piano prelude, impressionistic and somber, played by Fabian Almazan. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe and then you cook. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z During the prelude, as the orchestra plays the mysterious and transfixing motif of the Rhine, it comes alive, undulating like the moving waters. Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T09:16:00Z The machine is restless: wavy as the arpeggios of the prelude bring the Rhine River to life, then reconfiguring itself as fluidly as the opera, which unfolds over four scenes with no break. The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z At the end, I was able to describe the set of nine as "the heretofore, the prelude to whatever Robert Plant does next". The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z It wasn't until the 17th century that mankind began to study the brain in detail, an essential prelude to our latter-day understanding of what truly makes us human. Luther 2010-06-01T05:45:00Z After intermission, Levit’s account of the final 12 preludes and fugues did not move along with the same thrills. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z By way of contrast, Mr. Jacobs separated these bookends with four of Brahms’s mellow chorale preludes from Opus 122, his last works. Almost as Much to Watch as to Hear: Mighty Organ Pieces 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z And it was a prelude to her last bow, which comes on Sunday, as the Sugarplum Fairy in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” a role she has danced since 2006. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Knowing that such declarations were usually preludes to lengthier reflection, I assumed a ruminative posture and waited for him to continue. My Muslim Father’s Faith in America 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The cellist plays the prelude section of Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, one of his signature pieces. Yo-Yo Ma plays himself on 'The Simpsons' -- and performs theme song 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Using Carnegie’s acoustics, he emphasized Shostakovich’s prismatic writing, as when the cautiously eerie beginning of the fourth prelude was juxtaposed with a hazy, enveloping account of its partner fugue. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z He also wanted to signal Washington and other western governments that he was open to modernizing his emirate and recognizing Israel as a prelude to peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exhile 2013-01-12T14:00:00Z The prelude, “Erasure,” begins like “Emergence,” by getting into a groove — here Koh and droning orchestral flute. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s just the prelude to an even more intense climb. What’s on TV Wednesday: An Adventure Series and ‘68 Whiskey’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It opens with a rumble deeper than any you've ever heard in a bowling alley, then segues into a Chopin prelude as dancer Jason Hartley takes the stage. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z All those shenanigans, however, were just a prelude to the really big show that the Sheen Entertainment Complex rolled out this week. Charlie Sheen commits career suicide 2011-02-25T15:26:00Z In the first movement’s somber prelude, he shaped the quizzical violin lines with affecting restraint, conveying the music’s improvisatory character. Review: The Philharmonic’s Concertmaster Steps Into the Spotlight 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z A prelude, “Oscars: Into the Spotlight,” airs at 6:30 p.m. New this week: ‘Stowaway,’ ‘Rutherford Falls’ and the Oscars 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z He handled the preludes freely, almost like singing the blues, except with the prelude of the Fourth Suite, where he started stomping the blues. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The invasion was the prelude to a calamity for Iraq's cultural heritage. Arm museum guards to prevent looting, says professor 2011-07-10T13:12:23Z He ignited the performance with a fiery prelude, vigorous, pacy and febrile, as well as expertly played. Carmen; the Manson Ensemble; the Nash Ensemble – review 2012-11-25T00:05:46Z In Beijing that day you could almost hear the anguished cries of betrayal from their Vietnamese and Taiwanese allies; unseen, their choreographed infidelities had been an essential prelude to the entire journey. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z It was a set-up for the rest of the song, a prelude to the inevitable triumphant finish. Kot: Houston had a voice that served the song 2012-02-12T22:06:00Z It doesn't matter how hard you practice or study these preludes and fugues, after the first five years you are just a beginner. 'Clavier' Redux: András Schiff brings Bach's masterpiece to Benaroya 2012-10-10T22:23:03Z It's a prelude to further acts of sabotage that send Ystad into chaos. The Great Offices of State | Wallander | Paul Merton Looks At Alfred Hitchcock | Enid | Wonders of the Solar System and more | Watch this 2010-03-27T06:45:00Z Reimagining it as a duet, and especially with a voice as warm as Parton’s, makes “Words” feel less like a confession of regret and more like a prelude to reconciliation. Taylor Swift’s Ode to Moving On, and 9 More New Songs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The director bifurcates the narrative, placing the title and credits in a halfway-point bookstore scene, suggesting that the preceding hour and 40 minutes might be interpreted as prelude to the main action. "Cafe Noir" a Seoul-set elegy to lost romance 2010-07-06T23:39:00Z Regardless, it's all prelude for the massive showdown that awaits in the film's second half. Review: `The Twilight Saga' ends with real bite 2012-11-14T17:42:12Z But for Key, that question — does the banner still wave? — was just the prelude to three more stanzas that seek to explain why the American flag should still wave. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z "Inside Job" is a nonfiction counterpart, chronicling the long prelude of greed and excess before the economy went bust. Cannes Film Festival makes do with lighter lineup 2010-05-11T12:56:00Z Now, at one of their biggest concerts, prelude to the biggest ever at New York's Madison Square Garden in January, the kids dared laugh, even at Morrison. The Doors: 'You could call us erotic politicians' – a classic interview 2013-05-22T12:46:03Z That's as good a barometer as any that the book is a prelude to a presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' makes for compelling reading 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z In a way that mirrors sudden death, she lays down the narrative without prelude. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘My Madness Will Now Bare Itself’ 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z A gifted and obviously devoted Bachian, Ms. Ishizaka on Thursday performed the 24 preludes and fugues of Book 1 from memory and without major flaw. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z “Better Call Saul” is the next best thing — a prelude that needs no introduction. ‘Better Call Saul,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff on AMC 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But under Fellner's hands, these preludes and fugues were a declaration of artistic seriousness, displaying a measured touch that was maintained throughout the evening. Till Fellner – review 2013-06-26T16:59:42Z The gentle Étude No. 2 unfolds with the melancholy emotional pull of a Rachmaninoff prelude; Mr. Glass then jumped ahead without pause to the brightly chugging Étude No. 10. Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z The celebrity turnout is carefully monitored as a cherished part of the prelude to the Feb. 26 Oscar ceremony. Oscar Nominee Luncheon Attracts Big Names 2012-02-06T22:59:12Z The dotted-note patterns of the sixth prelude sounded more joyous here than on Levit’s starker recording, and suggested an affinity with the more obviously lighthearted 11th prelude. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z In effect, the novels are a prelude, the stories an aftermath, each gesturing urgently at the scale of the biographical explosion that must lie in between. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Those two big sales were just a prelude to what seems to be the summer of Mr. Koons in New York. A Jeff Koons Sculpture Is Coming to 30 Rock 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The above is only the prelude to a grim and gripping tale of well-earned paranoia. Review | A deliciously dark tale of paranoia and consumerism run amok 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z As a prelude to the Symphonic Dances, the wistful Vocalise — which Tovey kept moving along — served as a signpost of the earlier, lusher Rachmaninoff manner. Sprightly Rachmaninoff maintains a run of Russians at the Bowl 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z In the prelude to the American screenings Mr. Grabsky told Artinfo.com, “Even if you’re lucky enough to get a ticket to the Leonardo show, you get about 18 seconds in front of a painting.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Leonardo Live? Puts London Exhibition on Screen 2012-02-15T17:15:05Z Abel's first act prelude and many other incisive touches revealed an instinctive Traviata conductor. La Traviata 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z At 10 p.m., with a musical prelude at 9:30 p.m., the music director and organist David Shuler leads the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields for the festive choral Eucharist. 212-924-0562, stlukeinthefields.org. The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As a child, she was drawn to the lyricism of his preludes for piano, even as she followed a strict conservatory regimen of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z All of this was prelude, of course, to Arya’s face-changing scheme in Season 7 to impersonate Lord Frey in order to toast the remaining men of his family with poisoned wine. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z She had conducted the New York Philharmonic in a challenging program, perceived as a possible prelude to becoming the first woman music director of an orchestra that started in 1842. Mälkki could be 1st woman music director of NY Philharmonic 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The prelude sets the tone for the rest of the opera. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Mengiste even enters the mind of the historical Selassie, whose “interludes” turn this second novel into a kind of prelude to her first, “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” about his last days of rule in 1974. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells described the restaurant list in question as “a nice one” and “a prelude to a conversation.” Perspective | When restaurant wine lists intimidate even the dining pros, something needs to change 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z For the prelude, I had these light cues that are so complicated and they’re on a computer, and you can’t change them, but he would vary three or four minutes sometimes in the timing. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z It dispenses moral lessons as a prelude to reading the Bible. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z This giant leap is an exhilarating prelude to the day’s main event — a swim in the bracing waters of the North Sea. Open-Water Swimming With the Fast-Rising Pop Duo Let’s Eat Grandma 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It seems like a familiar setting, but, as regular customer Jimmy hints, it's a prelude to trouble. Quietly – review 2012-11-28T16:18:14Z She questions the human propensity to try to assimilate everything into familiar terms — to domesticate it, often as a prelude to dominance and control. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Directed by Aria Umezawa, it was a collaboration with the local performance company Obvious Agency, which provided a participatory prelude to the Hosokawa. An Opera Festival That Keeps Faith With Shutdown’s Innovations 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z He also gently chided Debussy for his sometimes unnecessary use of three staves in the Book II preludes. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z La Monte Young's 1957 String Trio took the blade to the 12-tone technique for what became a prescient prelude to Minimalism. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z His modesty — an unusual quality in a concert pianist — extended to his encore, an unassuming Chopin prelude that lasted less than a minute. Music Review: Keyboard Festival Presents Andrew Tyson and Ilya Yakushev 2013-07-16T21:51:58Z These days I’ll sometimes put on Strauss or Chopin while I’m writing and suddenly recognize a symphony or prelude I once heard while watching her soar across a stage. A brother’s mourning clothes: I wanted a uniform of grief 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Or rather they seem the perfect prelude to a completion that materializes with Cinderella herself. Dance Review | Joffrey Ballet: Enchantment in a Race Against the Clock 2010-02-22T23:39:00Z The short closing line of each stanza creates a melodic cadence which is often a prelude to the next unit of sound. Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z For me there was something touching about seeing a great pianist play a Bach prelude and fugue using the score. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z This sets the mood for a harsh, unsentimental narrative of redemption and putting one's life in order as a prelude to death. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z Early in the film the shimmering prelude to the first act of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” begins as the movie follows Lisa in slow motion. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z The opera was a favorite of Hitler’s and its rousing prelude was a staple at Nazi rallies. A ‘Gay Jewish Kangaroo’ Takes on Wagner at Bayreuth 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The shimmering start of the prelude to Act I was fragile without being wispy, building with lyrical flow to a stirring climax. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The 12 Shostakovich preludes and fugues were another matter. After cancellation, Melnikov gives unplanned solo recital at the Phillips 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The performances were a prelude to France and Croatia’s players taking to the pitch to begin their final match, in front of a packed crowd at the 80,000-seat stadium. Hollywood star Will Smith brings down curtain on Russia World Cup 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Do people not think it counts as a “real” wedding if it’s not a prelude to starting a “real” family? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Teen daughter wants space from parents but is upset when they give her space 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z In the annals of human exploration, curiosity is often a prelude to and enabler of conquest. ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Review: The Old Man and the Sea 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Douthat sees world-weariness and cultural exhaustion throughout American society, and what worries him is that those conditions seem sustainable for many years rather than a prelude to civilizational collapse. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Both derive their forms from Bach: Nobody Knows, for trumpet and orchestra, is a chorale prelude, Tippett's oratorio a contemporary Passion. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z And each predecessor religion, in turn, opposed attempts to treat it as a prelude to something greater. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z The playing of the subdued opening to the orchestral prelude was droopy and unfocused. Francesco Demuro Steps In to Save Met’s ‘La Traviata’ 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Played with the sustaining pedal, the short arpeggio figures turn the prelude into a hazy, lapping chorale. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z I played some of the Debussy piano preludes with a Mardi Gras Indian beat behind it. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The makers of “Babylon Berlin,” however, were interested in exploring the prelude to the Third Reich. Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z What had seemed, up close, like a night for Ms. Spears’s coronation as the latest of this city’s marquee names was in fact just a prelude. Music Review: ‘Britney: Piece of Me,’ Britney Spears’s Las Vegas Residency 2013-12-29T21:27:58Z And because so many people believe something went wrong with the 2016 election, the book represents “a prelude to a renewed test of that election at the ballot box,” both in 2018 and in 2020. Perspective | Ready for the media’s Comey swoonfest? Nothing can stop it now. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z A gruesome prelude, set in 1633 and unveiled at the start of the film, gives some clue as to why this dismaying hearsay might be true. Martin Scorsese’s Strained “Silence” 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Learn a Chopin prelude, get all Jackson Pollock with the kids, spend a few hours writing a Haiku. James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' 2013-04-26T16:08:01Z It is also where he would invite young models and actresses in what turned out, by some accounts, to be a prelude to the casting couch upstairs. Once a fixture of downtown New York, Weinstein is now a ghost amid scandal 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z In the Verdi, the violins in the serene, radiant opening prelude were impeccable. BBC Proms 1 to 7 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z The Berlioz, performed slowly but with great tenderness, was an exquisite prelude to it all. Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle 2010-08-02T12:44:00Z Michael Schelle’s “Straight, No Lithium,” a collection of nine preludes for solo piano, opened the program with a tongue-in-cheek jolt. Music Review: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Symphony Space 2012-06-28T21:08:15Z The featured Scriabin work on Kholodenko’s recital was an early set of 24 preludes. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released and Mr Tambourine Man provided the backdrop for myriad eye contacts, a prelude to seduction or not, as was often the case. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z That production now feels like an ideal, awakening prelude to “Ghosts,” a play of which Ibsen wrote, “I couldn’t stop at ‘A Doll’s House’; after Nora, I had to create Mrs. Alving.” Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z “Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox, as a prelude to closing prison after prison after prison. Olivia Laing’s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The prelude was sheer reverie, a sort of look back across the Romantic divide but utterly without ponderousness. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-21T20:08:54Z For Walker, “Anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.” ‘How to Make a Slave’ Offers Restless, Brilliant Thoughts About Race 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s likely to be the prelude to a flash of wondrousness. Review: In a New Orleans ‘House,’ Wealthy Women Are Haunted by Slavery’s Ghosts 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Where Litton went wrong was to mention widely discredited theories that Shostakovich was not really celebrating this prelude to the Soviet Revolution but making veiled references to the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z As a prelude to Celebrate Brooklyn!, the free summer performing arts festival at Prospect Park, the festival’s producer, BRIC, is presenting three dance parties, also free, at Brooklyn Bridge Park. ArtsBeat: Brooklyn Dance Parties Coming to Waterfront Park 2014-04-11T19:17:01Z Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto made a hefty prelude to the symphony. CBSO/Andris Nelsons ? review 2011-01-13T22:46:01Z Tolkien's "The Hobbit," the prelude to his epic fantasy trilogy "Lord Of The Rings." Comic-Con fans journey to Middle Earth with "Hobbit" 2012-07-15T03:43:45Z In the speedy ninth prelude, "Tarantella," Yang controlled extremes of high and low registers, her attacks displaying marvelous finger dexterity. A sparkling, jazzy concert from Joyce Yang at the Wallis 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet the extraordinary thing about Bach’s suites is that they are, in fact, public in that each consists of a prelude followed by five dance movements and were originally written for court musicians. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The fifth and longest prelude begins with improvisatory caution, then moves to somber, sepulchral depths, with taps at the left end of the keyboard setting off forlorn high fragments on the right. Music Review: Gilles Vonsattel Performs at Bargemusic 2014-04-20T21:33:19Z She’s got music gigs lined up: Shows are usually a prelude to or a performance of new music, but it’s been 2 years since Swift released her last album. Is a New Taylor Swift Album Headed Our Way This Month? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Those little-known columns, drawn from the experience of raising chickens in Missouri, were the unlikely prelude to her books, mining the memories of a childhood of restless homesteading in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and South Dakota. ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z And now with the ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’: Maybe it’s much easier, maybe less challenging; maybe the piece is more seductive with all these different keys, with all the preludes. Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about taking time off for Bach The musical prelude is at 3 p.m., followed by the service at 4 p.m. Spare Times for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Clearly, in Washington, the past isn’t always prelude to the future. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey A decade or so ago the Museum of Modern Art designed a similar set of experiments as a prelude to its change of quarters. Art Review: Mrs. Whitney?s All-American Salon 2011-04-28T22:23:32Z Wilde describes the "rapt pleasure" Dorian takes in "seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul". Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z "This is the prelude to revenge, my dears," he says. Weevils and all, Rome ring-road film marks documentary comeback 2013-09-06T17:17:57Z The oval is a prelude to a taunt or a threat. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z This is a numerical truth, not the prelude to a rant. Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z Mr. Laderman’s other compositions include “Celestial Bodies,” for flute and string ensemble; a set of 25 organ preludes; the opera “Goodbye to the Clown”; and vocal settings of biblical psalms. Ezra Laderman,Weaver of Eclectic ‘Marilyn’ Opera, Dies at 90 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Piotr Anderszewski might be the most convincingly unconventional Bach pianist since Glenn Gould, and he has certainly taken a creative approach to his first, mesmerizing recording of preludes and fugues from “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Playing with crystalline clarity and a rhythmic buoyancy that highlights the works’ dance elements, Mr. Schiff reveals the contrapuntal brilliance and the joy, wit and melancholy of these 24 preludes and fugues. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z My father and I spoke every so often, but usually just as a prelude to my longer conversations with my mother. Alzheimer’s broke his silence 2012-10-29T00:00:00Z A brutal, graphically violent action scene establishes the Covenant's mindless butchery as a prelude to Master Chief and his fellow Silver Team Spartans' intervention. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “When you enter this way there’s no prelude,” said the photographer Dawoud Bey, when we walked the trail in late September. Dawoud Bey, Full Frame: On Richmond’s Trail of the Enslaved 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Chopin would have never dreamed of subjecting an audience to all of his 24 preludes at a sitting. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Despite the dramatic lighting and that surprising prelude, this “Goldbergs” avoided attention-grabbing thrills. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z But the chief problem with this 300 page prelude is that it has no necessary or organic connection with the next five hundred pages. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z In many countries the prelude to Ash Wednesday and Lent is Carnival, which usually lasts several days. Get Ready for Carnival With New Orleans-Inspired Doughnuts 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z And while it may look like a prelude to something more, Gray insisted it was all in the best possible taste. Elvis's mystery blonde in classic 1950s photograph The Kiss identified 2011-08-08T19:04:20Z What remains could be proof of the Divine or simply the prelude to a tale of how one financially fragile man turned his son’s imaginings — and maybe some of his own — into a phenomenon. Movie Review: ‘Heaven Is for Real’ Stars Greg Kinnear 2014-04-15T22:26:23Z That piece, by far the most abstract in the set, served as a prelude to “Transpontine,” a lilting tune with a coiled, boppish cadence. Music Review: Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z Those moves are necessary preludes to the action destined to fuel next week’s episode and likely a few hours to follow. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's the last night in the world 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The movie actually begins with a prelude: a brief stretch of black screen accompanied by a disturbing collage of voices from Sept. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z True, the first piece, “Sound the Bells!,” a brief, tingling, brassy, celebratory prelude written for the Boston Pops in 1993, represented the ceremonial side of Williams familiar to millions from NBC News and the Olympics. Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z "We're proud to be working closely with Fox to tell a prelude story in the fantastic and story-rich world of the `Rise of the Planet of the Apes' franchise," he said. BOOM!, Fox bring 'Apes' comic prelude online 2011-07-13T09:16:04Z One of the most enduring mysteries that Johann Sebastian Bach left for us comes in the form of his “Orgelbüchlein,” a collection of chorale preludes for organ. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The prelude — and whole episodes of the opera proper — invite the listener into a spiritual realm where, as one character puts it, “time becomes space.” Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z In the final solo, the music sounds a bit like a Chopin prelude, and the wraparound choreography for the unaffected Stephanie Terasaki even acquires some melancholy, some emotion. Review: Brian Brooks and the Endless Spiral 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The magic starts with the prelude, a ten-minute musical introduction that structures the rest of the piece. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Ohlsson performed the scherzo in the first half of the program, which sounded significantly less committed than the preludes in the second. 2010-02-06T07:43:00Z Indeed, though none of the brilliantly crafted preludes lasts more than two minutes, the technical demands are often epic, sometimes conveying a Schumannesque sense of mental fragmentation and fantasy. A sparkling, jazzy concert from Joyce Yang at the Wallis 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Disraeli's boyhood was a fit prelude to his outlandish adult career. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z In the Book II preludes, Debussy evokes numerous settings, including the gates of the city of Granada in “Puerta del Vino,” given a passionate, intense rendition here. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z It's a fittingly dramatic prelude to the deep azure glow of Crater Lake, when it finally becomes visible at the rim. Inspirational Travel Destinations 2010-12-09T17:15:00Z For the current prelude to high spring, a number of plants are filling the void in my garden. Kick-start your spring garden 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z He then invited ASO pianist Sophie Cook to perform Fanny Mendelssohn’s “Notturno in G Minor” as a prelude to the symphony. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z The orchestra was scrappy and true, and at times, as in the prelude to the opera’s final scene, deeply eloquent. Music Review: Coming Full Circle With a Grand Gesture 2011-03-03T21:48:01Z This chat was a prelude to a good interview with Anthony Bourdain, who praised London's high-end restaurants but was scathing about the city's budget food options. Radio review: Robert Elms 2010-09-03T05:45:00Z Here are a few of the old neighborhoods and buildings that have been spared the wrecking ball in the prelude to the Expo. In Shanghai, Preserving Buildings Takes Work 2010-05-01T10:03:00Z This book is the necessary prelude to the serious work of Bennett’s life, which will take place once he’s done with football. I’m a Pro Football Player Now, but I’ll Be Black Forever 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Then he began a murky, unsettled, slow-rumbling prelude, only gradually recognizable as the songbook ballad “Body and Soul.” Music Review: Vijay Iyer, Alone and With Others, at Zankel Hall 2013-04-29T21:19:37Z Where the previous season dragged — it was more like the first half of a season, all prelude — this one opens with a sense of things closing in. Review: Both ‘The Americans’ and the U.S.S.R. Will End. Can This Marriage Be Saved? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It can be the prelude to getting naked. Exclusive: Read the First Chapter of Janet Evanovich’s New Book 2013-11-19T03:00:45Z Van Zweden commissioned him to write a prelude to Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, which occupied the remainder of the concert. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The same could be said of Mr. Abercrombie’s solo prelude to the standard “Embraceable You,” which he went on to play with just bass and drums. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z The prelude to Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan and Isolde” guides audiences through many of the film’s darkest and brightest moments. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The World-Ending Sounds of 'Melancholia' 2011-12-07T17:00:13Z Bax did rather better, making an imposing arrangement of one of the organ works, the Fantasia in G, while Vaughan Williams's sumptuously harmonised chorale and chorale prelude is the pick of the bunch. A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen, etc 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z In Guth's rendering, we watch a brief "prequel" during the opening prelude: three gentlemen are eating dinner at Castle Montsalvat when a quarrel erupts and one of them storms out, making threats. 2 updated visions of Wagner's last opera 2011-02-21T13:16:05Z This towering late collection of chorale preludes is not entry-level Bach, least of all for those unfamiliar with the chorale tunes themselves. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Breastfeeding a baby; coaxing a sick child to take his medicine; drinking wine on a summer evening with your husband as a comfortable prelude to sex. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The Met Gala was a prelude to an evening of after-parties that vied for the fickle attention spans of its boldfaced attendees. Jennifer Lopez, Michael B. Jordan and Emma Stone Keep Partying After Met Gala 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The program will create an international Shakespeare community in London as "a prelude to the internationalism, which will fill the capital later in the year with the Olympics," Dromgoole said. Globe theater to show Shakespeare in 38 languages 2011-01-21T12:46:08Z The delicacy, legato and individuality of the three Shostakovich preludes and fugues — Nos. Sound worlds spinning from a single keyboard 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Waiting in that line in the sweltering heat could sometimes feel more like an endurance test on “Survivor” than the prelude to soaring with a magical pachyderm. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z On Saturday the Museum of the Moving Image will honor him at its Fall Family Day, a prelude to a Henson gallery it plans to open this winter. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z So the prelude, with its inconclusive ending, leads directly into Rameau’s “Le Rappel des Oiseaux,” and the cross-temporal exchange goes from there. For This Pianist, Every Album Is an Essay 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In an interview, Darius said that his father had a shelf full of music theory books, and kept the scores of Bach and Shostakovich preludes and fugues next to his piano for reference. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z It is in many respects the prelude to the original "Gossip Girl," right down to the prying, flying texts and blog posts taking the place of Laclos' flurry of letters. The enduring seduction of “Dangerous Liaisons” on stage, film and now TV 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z “To play those types of pieces as preludes or interspersed throughout the programming,” he said, “I don’t see them disappearing.” What’s Lost When Pops Orchestras Tap Pop Culture 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The pianist Bruce Levingston brings heart-wrenching vulnerability and tenderness to a series of preludes, fugues and fantasies by Bach that form the spiritual nucleus of the CD. Classical Playlist: Schumann, Bach, Prokofiev and More 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The ballet program he was brandishing, from one of their first dates, didn’t register at first as the prelude to a proposal. A Proposal Before Dinner Proved Risky 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z A number of figures have then been placed in accordance with the developing scene, creating the very canvas of the piece in addition to its theoretical prelude. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z It treated his campaign like entertainment, rather than a prelude to autocracy. Perspective | They may be at odds now. But Trump and CNN’s Jeff Zucker have always had one thing in common. 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Unlike other publishers, however, the issue's 10-page prelude will also be accessible on its own website at no cost. BOOM! Studios brings 'Elric' to stores, digital 2011-07-06T06:44:08Z The prelude movie, with its high production values and detailed costumes, characters and props that evoke the original “Star Trek,” caught the attention of Paramount and CBS executives. ‘Star Trek’ Copyright Settlement Allows Fan Film to Proceed 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The prelude to the Travel Rights Spring was the House version of the FAA reauthorization bill, which contained a number of unexpected consumer provisions. More legroom? Fewer surprise fees? Wave of consumer-friendly legislation gives travelers new hope. 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The prelude to the first act of Lohengrin, all rapt translucence, was a reminder of the outstanding concert performances of the opera given in Cologne two years ago. WDR SO/Bychkov 2010-07-21T21:00:00Z But many of my male friends brush aside the behaviors that women find truly scary, the kind we know from experience can be the prelude to a nasty or even dangerous run-in. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Even the lovely Chopin prelude he played for his encore seemed literal: Although he beautifully modulated the dynamic line, he was unable to escape a pervasive sense of percussiveness. Philly beguiles with symphonic power 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He presents the opera, as other directors have, as the memories of Violetta, who is seen dying in bed during the prelude. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Happened a few weeks ago while his band was in England, Abraham says, as a prelude to the arrival of the rapture predicted by an evangelist. Redeemed by a rock opera 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z The scenes of Dracula befuddled by a mobile phone were familiar; those in which the vampire’s garlic “intolerance” preludes a flatulence joke predictable. Review: Raising the Stakes With ‘Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Even so, “Digital Pioneers” is an intriguing prelude to the visual extravaganza of “Decode.” Design: London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art 2009-12-14T11:34:00Z In the pit, Petrenko led a patient prelude, letting its searching melody of desire waft organically. Opera Roars Back With Dueling Wagner Premieres 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Then again, if you review Schechter’s career, it almost reads like a prelude to Immigrant Food. A new D.C. restaurant will promote immigrant causes right in Trump’s front yard 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Transparent and lithe, the Meistersinger prelude clocks in at under 10 minutes but lacks nothing in sonorous weight. Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Die Meistersinger, Siegfried Idyll – review 2013-06-01T23:05:26Z But his sensitivity to texture and resonance is sure to illuminate the more traditional works on offer here: a prelude, ballade and polonaise by Chopin, Debussy’s “Estampes” suite and Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in December 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z This gallery tour will be a prelude to “My First Friend, My Enemy: The Hamilton and Burr Duel,” a re-enactment at 1 and 3 p.m. Hamilton and Burr Square Off Again, This Time on a Museum Stage 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z His seminal work in the ’20s turned out to be just a prelude to a remarkable second career in Washington, where he settled his family. Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ shines a spotlight on an unsung Washingtonian 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z There were also three lovely chorale preludes by Brahms, a particular favorite of the patron whose gift continues to finance Trinity’s Concerts at One, Ms. Louprette said, including Pipes at One. Critic’s Notebook: Bach at One and Pipes at One at Trinity’s St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-10-07T20:05:50Z In his prelude to “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson tells us that he started his research not knowing “a tank of Freon from propane.” To Battle Climate Change, Begin With Your Air-Conditioner 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z The orchestral prelude teems, at first, with swashbuckling music that suggests the triumphant battle the king’s forces have just waged over the invading Saxons. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z But the Bach preludes and fugues look as beautiful on the page as they sound. Pierre-Laurent Aimard Plays Bach at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Your album opens with your own arrangement of the prelude to Act III, and ends with a glimpse of the final number, “A Real Slow Drag.” A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “He reconstructs the disaster from the ground up, recounting the prelude to it as well as its aftermath. The result is superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The tidier, tastier prelude to a pizza is a salad of shredded Brussels sprouts tossed with some real zingers — blue cheese and pickled red onion — but also sliced Asian pear and a miso dressing. Emmy Squared finds diners opening wide for Detroit-style pizza 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z A “prelude” art installation in an all-white foyer sets the mood with mountains of books and old cathode television sets. 'Temptation of St. Antony' mixes play, dance and avant-pop concert into a show that defies labels 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Girard strands her alone, making over-the-top witchy gestures, for almost the whole of the Act III prelude. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z This moment replicates the opening image of the production, when, through that Grosz curtain, we see the jester treading home as the orchestra plays the ominous prelude. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The opening scene is a deliberately moralistic prelude that soon opens into a riveting, thought-provoking piece of theater. Review: A Scalding Take on Race in ‘White Guy on the Bus’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z I remember a performance of the piece with Joshua Bell, at Tanglewood some years ago, in which the concerto’s first two movements were treated more or less as a prelude for the rip-roaring finale. Salonen Was Born to Conduct Sibelius 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Abrams, the pianist who laid the groundwork for the association in the early 1960s, employed more conventional orchestration in his composition “Mergertone,” aside from the electronic color-field shimmer that served as its prelude. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The ultimate introspection of “X,” it turns out, is the payoff of its cheekier prelude, which was designed, Sloss tells us in retrospect, to lull the men in his audience into listening. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z During the prelude to Act I, the penetrating warmth of the soft strings in this acoustically miraculous house, designed by Wagner, was spellbinding. Music Review: Hans Neuenfels Gathers Rats in ?Lohengrin? 2010-08-04T22:14:00Z At Benaroya's Illsley Ball Recital Hall on Friday evening, works by Villa-Lobos and Prokofiev served as prelude and postlude to a richly rewarding rarity. SSO Chamber Series offers radiant reading of rarely-played Strauss sonata 2011-04-23T17:10:05Z Neither Shostakovich’s counterpoint nor ideas have the inspired character of Bach’s keyboard preludes and fugues, but they come from a deep, dark, sonorous place that Levit revealed as only made possible by Bach’s inspiration. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Billy's flattery coupled with her husband Ted's inability to be anyone but Ted really made this read the perfect prelude to this suggestive encounter. 9 Tiny Details You Missed in 'Stranger Things' Season 2 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The 11 dancers, after a prelude of quietly patterned calm, plunge into choreography of similar ferocity. Stephen Petronio Company ? review 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z Such a gift doesn’t seem like a prelude to a love story. Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The work’s four movements include a solemn prelude, a scherzo marked “il più presto possibile” that quotes Wagner’s “Meistersinger,” a rhapsodic interlude and a spirited rondo that evokes the music of the Argentine pampas. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z Released in 1956, it opens with a nimble, bendy guitar riff — a prelude to the one that would be perfected a year later, on “Johnny B. Goode” — that serves as an intrusion and an enticement. Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z To the Governors Awards, now an established prelude to Oscars season, she chose a relatively sedate Vivienne Westwood corseted gown in eggplant. Red Carpet Watch: Amy Adams: The Red Carpet Fashion Choices of the ‘American Hustle’ Star 2014-01-24T22:56:37Z Passages of mounting suspense — the riveting preludes to the Painter’s suicide in the first act and Lulu’s own demise in the third, for example — had a furious energy. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z So it was disconcerting to hear Bachanalia open its 24th season on Wednesday night at Merkin Concert Hall with such an ineffective performance of two chorale preludes by Bach. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z The free Bach concerts, about 60 to 90 minutes long, typically consist of an organ prelude, two or three sacred cantatas and some incidentals. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Carpenter played four of his works, starting with the A Major prelude and including a trio sonata he wrote to teach his sons to play the organ. Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The diagnostic test on Tut's remains was a prelude to "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," a touring exhibition that began in 2005 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Zahi Hawass is on the stump again for ancient Egypt's Pharaohs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z She also appears in the Kansas prelude as a young woman who's clearly smitten by Oz and hesitant to accept a marriage proposal from another man. `Oz the Great and Powerful' isn't exactly either 2013-03-05T23:16:13Z In fact, it is more like self-deluding: that "wisely" is his self-commendation, and a prelude to succumbing completely to just such "admiration". Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z Both preludes were delivered by the Philharmonic players with generically sweeping strings and overly strict tempos. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z All the bluster that day was a mere prelude to what could transpire starting March 4, when the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players, which governs the business of football, expires. Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z Then we hear the first blast of the orchestral prelude, and the familiar opera begins. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z The tune started with a scalar prelude, played by trumpet and alto saxophone in prayerful unison, before the onset of a dronelike ostinato. Music Review: At the Jazz Standard, a Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie 2010-04-02T22:54:00Z The event pictured in the “then” photo, snapped in July, is prelude to the August recession. Takin’ it to the streets: Depression-era protesters in Seattle, 1937 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And this week he revealed himself to our heroes in a prelude to the battle between gods old and new that is coming soon, and just before the new season of Game of Thrones. American Gods recap: season one, episode five – David Bowie rules the world 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z This is Mollser, whose song acts as a prelude in Sean Holmes’s Abbey Theater revival of Sean O’Casey’s “The Plough and the Stars.” Review: ‘The Plough and the Stars,’ War and Folly in a Dublin Tenement 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z As each expert indulges his own biases, Toña and Polo reenact the prelude to the train wreck, but with absurd exaggerations. Gala’s ‘Yo También Hablo de la Rosa’ punctuates its social commentary with humor 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “Author” is thus less a documentary than an infomercial, a prelude to an attempted second act. Review: ‘Author: The JT Leroy Story’ Renders a Literary Charlatan 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Nature was much in evidence as a source, and also explained by Ms. Baker in a show-and-tell prelude to the performance. Dance Review: Peggy Baker at 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival 2012-02-26T21:22:16Z Despite the improvement of Marina Elana, who is growing into a dancer of distinction and who shares a cute duet with the boyish Carlos Menchaca, the program on Monday was all prelude to Ms. Barrio. Flamenco Shows of Intimacy, Passion and Spectacle 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The floating sweetness of the Chopin preludes, the slapstick with folding chairs and knives, the deliberately unruly corps and out-of-sync ballerinas: Here was an intoxicating immersion into a world of quirkiness, passion and great warmth. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’ Largely improvised by the actors, who worked from an outline, and shot in 11 days, “The Freebie” comes across as a modern prelude to a Strindbergian nightmare. | 'The Freebie': Loving Couple Wonder Where the Ardor Went 2010-09-16T23:53:00Z You expect the prelude to the United States Open to be filled with tennis, but soccer dribbling, basketball throwing, golf putting and hockey puck shooting, too? 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z I should add that the spectacle, despite its absurdities, doesn’t appear nearly as farcical as the current prelude to the 2012 presidential election in the United States. | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z It was a prelude to a world tour that launches March 18 in Atlanta. Bruce Springsteen performs at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-10T05:21:09Z I wish, however, the show did not continue to indicate that all is but a long prelude to a dragons vs. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 9: The Hungry Dogs of War 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The sighing “ba-dum, ba-dum” motif in the prelude to Act II anticipates Verdi’s “La Traviata,” which premiered just 22 years after “Norma” and mines that same motif for the same pathos. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z On Town Hall’s stage this weekend, though, as in the Idelsohn Society’s recent albums, the long-ago commingling of Jewish and Hispanic musicians might well sound like a prelude to the multicultural America of 2014. On Religion: Decades Later, the Clave Beat Goes on for Latin Jazz and Jewish Musicians 2014-03-22T02:01:29Z The images in Mr. von Trier’s prelude have a similar liminal quality in that each refers to an extracted narrative moment, and in-between feelings, sensations, gestures. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z Hypnotic as a windup music box, this prelude soon led to a more declarative melody, played in harmonic tandem by Mr. Berne and the clarinetist Oscar Noriega, against Mr. Smith’s assertive drumming. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Made of several ounces of ice-cold, undiluted gin or vodka, and a trifling amount of vermouth, it is a prelude to a stagger and a nap. 11 Essential Drinks at 11 Great Cocktail Bars 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z They miss the space between them and the stage seeming to fill with twinkling stars as the soft prelude begins. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z These preludes have the feel of preparatory meditations before Ms. Reeves plunges into fresh musical territory. Music Review: Dianne Reeves at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-26T21:36:23Z In the Bach prelude and fugue Mr. d’Agostino drew mighty and attractive sounds from Tully Hall’s Kuhn organ and extended his unobtrusive but imaginative embellishments even to the fugue subject. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Plays Bach at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-28T23:05:18Z Five preludes and fugues, from the 24 Shostakovich wrote, are original music, but Bach here remains in the background as a composer phantom. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Interpretatively, he avoided the idea, favoured by some, that Das Rheingold should be played as the darkly comic prelude to subsequent tragedy. Das Rheingold - review 2013-07-23T09:08:52Z It was a stressful process, and a prelude to a stressful shoot. ‘Five Days at Memorial’ Tells the Harrowing Story of a Deadly Choice 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The prelude to the second act mingled lyrical expansion, somber brasses and a strangled stutter in the cellos; the Chicago winds these days combine artfully, their variety of textures united by their shared phrasing. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The Tiepolo isn’t a bad prelude to the show’s surprise ending: a selection of New Yorker cartoons by Mr. Tobey’s father. Art Review: ?An Italian Journey,? 200 Years of Drawings at the Met 2010-06-17T21:35:00Z They provide the prelude to the film's violent climax the way the debates over abolition were the curtain-raiser for the civil war. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z They’re also strong, daring compositions — so strong, in fact, that they’re not just a prelude to Noguchi’s mature abstract sculpture, but a whole satisfying body of work in themselves. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z He believes that the current debt-fueled recovery may be a prelude for an economic collapse to dwarf the Great Recession. Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This content will be available on HBO Now and HBO Go and is being considered a prelude to other film and TV projects. Get excited: Jon Stewart is coming back to TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It was his first U.S. show since 2000 and a prelude to an appearance at July's Essence Music Festival and a European tour with many of the same players who backed him Sunday morning. D'Angelo makes 1st US appearance in 12 years 2012-06-10T11:46:04Z All that served as a prelude for a spectacular set of Ives. Review: Donald Berman Balances Fire and Rhapsody at Bargemusic 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z A prelude concert on Monday at Ozawa Hall, featuring mostly piano pieces, was dedicated to the composer Oliver Knussen, who died last year at 66. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The filmmaker behind “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the upcoming prelude “The Hobbit” said superheroes may rule in Hollywood, but he has no interest in doing a comic-book adaptation himself. Jackson confesses: 2012-07-18T17:16:00Z The piece is Schoenberg’s homage to Bach’s keyboard suites, complete with prelude, gavotte, musette and gigue. Finding Brahms in Schoenberg 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z His detailed breakdown of classic episodes that doubled as progressive editorials on enraging social ills provides an excellent prelude to the series’ re-introduction, if that's what you want. Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone" is a spine-tingler for our darkest timeline 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Tribute to the Man and His Dream: Noon Friday, prelude music starts 11:30 a.m., Many ways to honor Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend 2013-01-17T20:33:17Z The first half, which starts Sunday, is basically a prelude. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Such a prelude, and I didn’t see it coming. Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The action unfolds in a prelude, three acts and an implied epilogue. Books of The Times: ‘Endgame’ and Iraq, by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor 2012-10-01T21:50:41Z Although largely forgotten, it was an astonishing moment in which Black culture burst forth on a show and time slot that was typically treated as a lighthearted prelude to bedtime. Review | Peacock’s ‘The Sit-In’ recounts the amazing week in 1968 that Harry Belafonte took Johnny Carson’s place 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z 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 The opera opens with a raspy prelude for 12 honking car horns, all precisely pitched. Music Review: The Philharmonic?s Challenge: Merely the End of the World 2010-05-28T18:13:00Z When I got on the train at 57th Street in Manhattan at 7 p.m., a bearded cellist in a green sweater had just begun to play the prelude’s familiar, sinuous arpeggios. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z Moskin's recipe arrived right around one of our first double birthday days, and it struck me then as a likely crowd pleasing, indulgent prelude to cake and candles. The crunchiest, cheesiest macaroni and cheese bakes on a sheet pan 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z There's no need to rush in one sense, because the event is the prelude to a new life for the mansion which was a favourite resort in the city for years in times past. iverpool mansion opens for first time in 40 years - to encourage more people to read 2013-03-27T12:03:56Z Those composers include some from Luther’s time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Jeff Feuerzeig’s film, which tries to unravel the hoax, is “less a documentary than an infomercial, a prelude to an attempted second act” for Ms. Albert, A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Unlocking the Cage’ and ‘The Breaks’ 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z That’s all prelude to the present, in which both brothers are training for Right to Fight, India’s first-ever mixed martial arts tournament. Review: ‘Brothers ... Blood Against Blood,’ Set in the Mean Streets of Mumbai 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z And my son is now clamoring for piano lessons and YouTubing Chopin preludes because of a Japanese anime movie. Kids and Culture? There’s So Much to Talk About 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Finally, the prelude to Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” in an ample, forthright and earnest performance, seemed both a summation and a valediction. National Philharmonic brings its unique touch to a vintage lineup 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Sliced galantine of chicken with black beluga lentils and a side of butternut squash was the most technical dish and a splendid prelude to a hearty stroganoff made with local beef, mushrooms, pickles and dill. Bites : Restaurant Report: Seasonal Pantry in Washington 2012-11-02T19:20:37Z Around the film’s midpoint, Varda interrupts her monologue for a “prelude” to show some of the photographs she took early in her career, before she became a filmmaker. “Varda by Agnès” is a poignant and joyous self-portrait of the remarkable late artist 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z When a dramatic event occurs in one of his novels, it’s usually as a prelude to a string of rambling anecdotes or some lengthy existential musing. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The score careers crazily, rapid chromaticisms forcing the music asunder while the trombones bulldoze through with plunging chords, all a prelude to the hero's climactic cry of "victory!" Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z The podcast was meant to be a prelude to "Big Magic," Gilbert's upcoming book about the creative process. 'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert joins pantheon of literary podcasters 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z How do I know what I’ve experienced so far isn’t just a prelude of worse to come? What it's like to be cyberstalked: when you can't escape the untraceable threat 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Some soups are delicate, light and refreshing, served as the prelude to a meal. A Satisfying Soup From the Italian Pantry 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The program begins with Debussy’s 1906 transcription of the prelude to his cantata “La Damoiselle Élue,” which is based on a poem and painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. For This Pianist, Every Album Is an Essay 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z If they are mentioned at all, it is usually as a shameful prelude to Nazi occupation and the dark years of the Vichy puppet regime. As ‘tiny ships’ Dunkirk blockbuster goes global, locals look for an upturn in their fortunes 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z But there he was last year, at the First Lutheran Church in Boston, playing Bach’s “Clavierübung,” Part III, an imposing opus consisting of 21 chorale preludes bracketed by the glorious “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue. Early Music Festival: NYC Opened Its Inaugural Season 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The prelude to the group’s farewell performance is an elaborately staged, overlong, meaningless car crash on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me,’ Directed by Louis Leterrier 2013-05-30T21:29:58Z In any event, as played here the preludes and fugues are musically bold and stunningly imaginative. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z Their fumbling overtures are preludes to the dawning realization that we pay for our childish loves with lifelong suffering. ‘An Innocent Fashion,’ by R.J. Hernández: The millennial fairy tale 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The choir looks and sounds great as a prelude, but they sit on the stage as a chorus and contribute throughout. Miss Julie 2010-06-18T21:30:00Z Thus there is a prelude before the Prologue, in which the gods Time, Fortune and Love confront human frailty, setting the tone for the drama. Music Review: Opera Omnia Takes ‘The Return of Ulysses’ on a New Route 2013-09-11T21:05:22Z Certainly, an intimate stroll of this sort is often a prelude to the embrace, the kiss and the happily ever after that the movies have taught us to expect. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z The drug itself induced a kind of dying, the surrender of ego and identity as a prelude to revelation. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z A shot of tequila in some grapefruit soda makes a zero effort prelude. A spicy taste of Mexican street corn, ready in 15 minutes 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Like “Seinfeld,” most episodes of “Louie” are woven around a joke in his stand-up routine, and here, too, there is a prelude that sets out the premise of the next few scenes. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z He reconstructs the disaster from the ground up, recounting the prelude to it as well as its aftermath. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In memory of Steven Stucky, the beloved composer who died last week, Ray gave the first public performance of an airy little prelude he had once given her as a gift. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z From the opening notes of the prelude, Girard attempts to make the audience see themselves in the events on stage. Striking new look for 'Parsifal' at Met in NYC 2013-02-17T18:46:05Z “Songs of Bukovina,” a suite of dances set to preludes loosely based on Ukrainian folk songs, will be the sixth. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z If everything goes according to plan, footage of these ceremonial birth-of-a-superstar moments will air, forevermore, in prelude to many a dunkalicious montage of highlights. The Evolution of N.B.A. Draft Fashion 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z This week’s “Succession” is the fifth of the season’s nine episodes, though in a lot of ways it still feels like a prelude. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Core's Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 was a prelude to the Freedom Rides. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z At the center is no less than the prelude to “Tristan und Isolde,” that lushest mixing of sex and death. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The concept was elegant: on every Coney Island-bound F train platform, someone would be playing the prelude to Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello continuously for an hour. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z A five-course dinner with wine pairings prepared by your own private chef—the perfect prelude to a night spent dreaming in the clouds. These 6 Wilderness Retreats Will Have You Dreaming of the Great Outdoors 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z By “decadence” he means a kind of cultural exhaustion and world-weariness he senses in our time and that worries him precisely because it seems to be sustainable rather than a prelude to collapse. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In between, a pianist, a violinist and a soprano contribute prayers and Bach preludes. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The group swarmed and pulled back, morphing into another Ayler anthem, “Truth Is Marching In,” with a stern, ceremonial prelude and a brisk, coltish middle section, both presented as a revelation. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z That two-hour drive through numb prairie was the inevitable prelude to commerce, entertainment—all the stuff we couldn’t get much of in the little dwindling oil town that was home. “Boom Town”: Is Oklahoma City the “Great Minor City” of America? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z The awards are held annually to celebrate independent film-making and represent a prelude to the coming awards season. Moonrise Kingdom triumphs at Gotham awards 2012-11-27T13:01:02Z An interior shot — the only one in the prelude — of a windowed alcove with bench seating. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z Ms. Witkowski will infuse a selection of Chopin’s nocturnes and preludes with improvisations inspired by jazz and Brazilian rhythms. Spare Times for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z This bathetic prelude is perhaps meant to communicate the man’s impudence, but it also readies the audience for a film of modest ambitions. ‘The Forger’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The storm depicted in the prelude silently took shape onstage, with a huge array of upright planks forming a forest of trees. Retooling the Met Opera’s Problematic ‘Ring’ Machine 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The chorus was shining and superb, as was the Berlin Staatskapelle under Mr. Barenboim, aching and tortured in his slow, somber interpretation of the opening, then sinewy in the prelude to the third act. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z He began the “Fantaisie” with mysterious, almost meterless delicacy, like the prelude to “Parsifal”; in the “Pastorale,” his palette extended to spicy burnt umber and milky pale blue, mellow oboe and sweetly piercing flute. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Then they become a prelude to another space that examines 19th- and 20th-century architecture, whose displays include a model apartment in Le Corbusier’s Marseille housing project. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z Now "The Carrie Diaries" arrives as a prelude, with sweetness and a sense of wonder radiated by its luminous young star. A new Carrie glows in a 'Sex and the City' prequel 2013-01-11T14:54:19Z We see such real gloriousness in nature, and know that that gloriousness is a prelude or harbinger of winter to come.” Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives 2010-10-26T22:00:00Z The February razzias, or roundups, were a prelude to much worse to come. She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z It is a seemingly inescapable and bitter reality that, for the remaining remote and wild places still left in the world, discovery and access are almost inevitably a prelude to exploitation, if not desecration. In Far-Flung Myanmar, a Land of Contradictions 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z This choreographer, joined by Kirsten Flores-Davis, has a magnetic presence that we could more fully enjoy once seated in the Underground Theater, after the chaotic prelude. American Realness: Subversive, Crowded and Lit by Vital Sparks 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z As an opener to this programme, Colin Matthews's finely crafted arrangements of three of Debussy's piano preludes underlined their perfection in their original guise and the utter futility of attempting to add anything to them. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z This summer also brings the first-ever invitation for local players to join festival musicians for a community performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 as a prelude to the Volunteer Park concert. The 2017 Seattle chamber-music fest promises a world premiere and lots of winds 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z I’ve also whirred the vegetables in my blender for a smooth soup served in small sipping cups, as prelude to dinner. Inspired by Welsh rarebit, a cheesy cauliflower soup dishes up comfort for a crowd 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z I had always thought of this prelude as a very regal, very intense movement, which it is, but there is another element — breathing differently, enjoying it more. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The sale of a minority stake in Oliver's media interests would be the prelude to a larger investment in Oliver's Italian restaurant chain in around 12 months, the sources said. Exclusive: Chef Jamie Oliver's empire whips up investor interest 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The movie begins with an elliptical prelude that guides you in but is forgotten as soon as the aliens touch down minutes later. Review: Aliens Drop Anchor in ‘Arrival,’ but What Are Their Intentions? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Why did you start “Belgravia” with a one-paragraph prelude telling readers that they would be able to relate to these people? For Julian Fellowes, after 'Downton' and 'School of Rock' comes 'The Gilded Age' 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z But those scenes are only a prelude, as Breaking Bad” turns left at Albuquerque, and imports its own turtleneck wearing, ominously civilized but you-know-he-is-Evil James Bond villain. “Breaking Bad”: Walter faces the abyss 2012-07-23T02:59:00Z There is a fascinating recording played in the film of a phone conversation between the two men that sounds like the prelude to a prison fight, with Newton calling Cleaver a “punk”. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z As Mr. Luisi conducted the orchestral prelude, which begins with melancholic music for strings, the petite Ms. Dessay appeared in a short crimson cocktail dress, looking haggard and blank faced. Music Review: Natalie Dessay in ?La Traviata? at the Met 2012-04-11T21:29:22Z It’s Carter who makes “Fiasco” flow straight out of “Slow Burn,” his election a reaction to the rot of Watergate and his humiliation by the Tehran hostage crisis a prelude to Iran-contra. Review: ‘Fiasco,’ a Look at How America Got to Where It Is 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It opens with a flashback sequence that plays like a prelude to a horror flick, complete with a signifying insect that might make you flash on Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” | 'Stone': Upright Parole Officer With a Target on His Back 2010-10-07T23:04:00Z A great prelude to Eminem, the Minneapolis rapper dishes rhymes and narratives related to everyday events and normal people. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z Also a pianist, Auerbach recently recorded her own violin-and-piano version of Shostakovich’s 24 preludes, along with her own sonata “Arcanum,” on ECM. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z It is based, as they say, on a true story, a claim that is usually the prelude to a fantastically dishonest array of evasions and slippery half-truths. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-06T22:05:00Z The phrases of the prelude at first seemed daringly separate and wispy, bits of metallic thread, before they began to weave together and almost physically coalesce. Review: Anna Netrebko Sings Her First ‘Aida’ in Salzburg 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z He had the final word, however, playing the prelude to Tristan and Isolde as an encore in an otherwise Wagner-less concert and inviting those who didn't want to hear it to leave. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z The run-up to the Oscars, like the prelude to other hyped contests, is often more exciting than the main event. Perspective | This Oscars season has been a mess. Thankfully, we have Glenn Close. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z "I want the Tokyo preludes, the Tokyo gigues, the Tokyo allemandes." Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z But if the first pair seemed to signal a gentler interpretation more broadly, Levit dispelled the notion with a flashy, upbeat second prelude. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Incidentally, as she performed these buoyantly imaginative pieces, the sparkles on Yang's black gown flashed, adding a visual analogue to the fantasy of Vine's preludes. A sparkling, jazzy concert from Joyce Yang at the Wallis 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Considering how my students have been taught to learn, to encounter culture, to absorb texts has caused me to reflect on my own enculturation, the prelude to my formation and practice as a university professor. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z It was a fitting prelude to the fractured, sometimes dissonant exchanges between the two instruments in the Takemitsu piece. Review: Lise de la Salle and Members of the Knights, Traveling Through Time 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the movie’s prelude Hollis, a Catholic, discovers to his shock that he suffers from lifelong infertility. | 'The Ledge': Looking for Answers Before He Leaps 2011-07-07T23:33:23Z Doug asked finally, interrupting the sort of long silence that is a prelude to misbehavior. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z This show is a prelude to Mr. Tinterow’s ambitious plans for the museum. Texas Monthly: Treasures of the Prado, Now at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2012-12-16T05:35:53Z Contextualizing Trump’s collaborationist endorsements offers insights into what the prelude to authoritarianism looks like in contemporary terms. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The rules appear to be a prelude to commercial air connections, Mr. Muse said. What New Rules Mean for Travel to Cuba 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z By that time table, then, “Wildflowers” is also prelude to the darkness to come: Petty’s debilitating depression, and a mid-90s heroin addiction he kept hidden from almost everyone in his life. The Raw Roots of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers,’ Revealed at Last 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z She will create the work’s prelude, finale, transitions and “Sun,” one of its eight nature-focused vignettes. Graham Company Announces Season of In-Person Performances 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z After starting the prelude with daringly careful slowness — many conductors today favor a swifter, more natural flow — Mr. Petrenko unleashes waves of spiky, sparkling sound. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z "That serving became a ritual in itself as a prelude to eating." Tableside service deserves a renaissance — across all cuisines and price points 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z This dimly lit, moody prelude is quietly unsettling — quite a theatrical feat since nothing much is happening. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In a video prelude, Finley's Jackie rode the Broad's steep escalator to the third floor, where she took a selfie in front of the Warhol. Karen Finley's portrayal of the widowed first lady in 'The Jackie Look' kicks off the Broad's feminist series 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z He led the Vienna Philharmonic in a sleek, coiled performance, astonishingly lucid in the opera’s prelude. Krassimira Stoyanova in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at Salzburg 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z It begins with the prelude to Wagner's Parsifal, ending with sets of orchestral pieces by the composers of the second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z As played on a defiantly anachronistic Yamaha grand piano, both short meditations seemed to anticipate Chopin’s preludes. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Tao’s encore, not American and not raging, was ideal for this space: Debussy’s prelude “The Sunken Cathedral.” Review: A Pianist Brings American Rage to a Church Crypt 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Among its tracks is an instrumental version of the traditional spiritual “City Called Heaven,” with a stark, commanding prelude on solo violin. John Blake Jr., Versatile Jazz Violinist, Dies at 67 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The ballet includes almost 40 minutes of prelude devoted to Blanche’s back story. Scottish Ballet's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' gives muscle to female characters 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z And features devoted to both of them will be shown in the David Rubenstein Atrium this weekend as a prelude to the Lincoln Center Festival in July, whose opening will highlight the Burton-Elfman partnership. Spare Times for Children for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Maybe, he hopes, acting well onstage will serve as a prelude to acting better in real life. Review | Ethan Hawke turns his acting experience — and past infidelities — into brilliant fiction 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The Lawsuit This rocky history is a fitting prelude to the controversies surrounding the ministry in recent years. Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z He couldn’t resist jumping into “Puerta,” he said, because he wanted to highlight its opening D flat, a constant harmonic base throughout some of the other preludes. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z The program also featured Max Reger’s arrangement of a Bach chorale prelude and three Schoenberg Bach orchestrations, including a muddy rendition of the “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue. Music Review: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2011-10-23T21:57:46Z But the structure of DNA, too, was merely a prelude to our understanding of life. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z An impish Eckardt piece led into a reflective Bach chorale prelude. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It has released two singles, along with two music videos, in the three-month prelude to the album’s release on Tuesday. From the Civil Wars, an Aptly Named Album 2013-08-02T19:03:21Z Its prelude was merely the march in, under high security, of a peculiarly disparate collection of world leaders. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z This was known as “preluding,” and Liszt spoke of it as a technique to be learned by any aspiring pianist. 100 Years After Debussy’s Death, He Remains the First ‘Modern’ Composer 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z It's the prelude to a collection that is actually bold and rangy, celebrating the writer's return, after his "infidelity" with prose fiction, to his long and fruitful marriage with poetry. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z How do I know what I’ve experienced so far isn’t just a prelude of worse to come? What it's like to be cyberstalked: when you can't escape the untraceable threat 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The Trinity Orchestra and Choir of Trinity Wall Street perform a choral prelude and festive Eucharist, with a program that includes works by Britten and Poulenc, among others. The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Instead it felt anticipatory: a prelude to a riff. 2010-01-08T03:49:00Z July 13, 1798; the precision of the title makes for an apt prelude to Wordsworth's extended meditation on memory, time and place. Poster poems: July 2012-07-13T15:49:08Z The coming weekend’s event is the necessary prelude: planting all those tulips, daffodils and small bulbs. Around Town for Nov. 11-17 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z There are moments onstage that have elements of a stump speech, and it makes you wonder if this is all a prelude to another run. For Al Franken, a Comeback Attempt Goes Through Comedy Clubs 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Still, Levit saved enough power for the big moments — especially the 15th prelude and fugue. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Because Atom has a special feature called “the shadow mode,” in which he pantomimes human movement, the boy and his toy develop a crowd-pleasing dance act as a prelude to the smash-’em-up contests. | 'Real Steel': ?Real Steel,? a Tale of Robot Boxers - Review 2011-10-06T21:49:06Z Biden’s tour through capital cities of Central and northwestern South America is designed to be a prelude to the Summit of the Americas in June, the ninth such gathering of leaders in the region. Jill Biden’s six-day tour of Latin America is high-stakes diplomacy 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s best said to the emotionally closest sib, ideally as a prelude to the honest conversation necessary to moving forward. Carolyn Hax: In-laws’ absence at son’s wedding didn’t make hearts grow fonder 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Following a long multi-layered prelude that has both strong and weak points, we get to the meat of the story. Detroit is not a movie 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Which is to say, all of the episode’s anxious conversation turned out to be a prelude to our first real battle in the war between Cersei and Daenerys. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 4: The Spoils of War 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z As preludes to adventure go, it’s sufficiently unpromising. Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But all this was a mere prelude to that moment when a waitress, smiling, brought in plates heaped high with the prized kanburi sashimi. In Search of Japan’s Hidden Culinary Revolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z He hopped off at the Greenpoint Avenue station and waved to his daughter Amelia, 8, as she got on to play the prelude on the viola, a red-and-green mitten dangling from her fingering hand. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z The prelude leads into a pleading chorus of the Hebrews, who are convinced that God has turned from them. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Narratively, Megyn’s insistence on calling Trump out for his treatment for women — and then dealing with the ominous backlash — becomes a prelude to the looming crisis with Roger. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “The Knife” is a first novel, and it shows — especially in the long prelude to deployment and, sadly, in the final few paragraphs of the novel, which attempt to neatly wrap up everything. ‘The Knife,’ by Ross Ritchell 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The events will serve as a prelude to the big show next summer, from July 4 to Sept. Journeys: Sailing San Francisco Bay Like a Pro 2012-08-03T17:03:29Z And once again the Met will team up with the Film Society of Lincoln Center to offer an opera-related film as a sort of prelude to the series. Cheap Date Alert: Met Operas, Screened for Free 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z This art felt like a prelude to the sea caves, the all-natural sculptures that are the Apostle Islands’ biggest draw. On Wisconsin Islands, a Warm Welcome and Brisk Waters 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z From this expectant prelude there emerged a floating waltz, and with it the first of Mr. Abercrombie’s fluent elaborations. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z The contestants spend three weeks playing technically demanding Chopin works, from studies and preludes to large forms like the sonatas and, finally, concertos, performed on stage. Jury to choose winner of prestigious piano contest 2010-10-20T16:22:00Z Also on the bill are three orchestral excerpts from Wagner's last opera, "Parsifal," including preludes to Acts One and Three, as well as the "Good Friday Spell." Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z The Opéra led off by unveiling “Das Rheingold” — the “prelude” to the four-opera cycle — at the Opéra Bastille earlier this month. Review: A Promising Start to 'Ring' Cycle 2010-03-23T17:10:00Z Any such wedding, one guesses, is a prelude to woe. Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z All of which formed a prelude to his 40-year stint as a professor in the Slavic languages department of the University of California at Berkeley. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z An expansion of the intro, and a fleshed out counterpart to meditative yet brief Outkast preludes such as “You May Die” and “Hold On, Be Strong”, it’s devoid of a single rap verse. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z In her two-part “Hustle in the Park,” Ms. Bell, who lives and works in Detroit, pairs each indoor show with an informal prelude in Prospect Park. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Part one of Jackson's prelude to his "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the Warner Bros. release raised its domestic total to $149.9 million after 10 days. 'Hobbit' extends No. 1 journey with $36.7 million 2012-12-23T17:05:09Z In the Rachmaninoff preludes, he showed a willingness to hold back and linger over a nice lyrical turn or point up a harmonic shift between outbursts of heroic pianism. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson, Pianist, at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T07:20:07Z The moment was not a suicide attempt, but the prelude to a work of art. Films explore Elizabeth Streb’s daredevilry, American Ballet Theatre 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z David Moody, the conductor, provided a cohesive account; “When We Were Children,” a choral prelude composed for the occasion by Mr. Lang, sounded less secure on opening night but will surely steady with repetition. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z They declared themselves followers of Luther, believing that his overthrow of the spiritual authority of the Roman Church was but a prelude to the overthrow of the social and political order it supported. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Inspired by Nelson Riddle’s arrangements for Frank Sinatra, he’s composed some preludes and interludes that are more minimalist or out there, “because Mark needs those.” Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The film also experienced a chequered prelude to production, with Disney at one point threatening to shelve the entire movie over spiralling costs. The Lone Ranger gives Disney a bumpy ride 2013-07-08T09:35:19Z Planning is underway to allow the Spanish to train and equip an Afghan Army company, which we hope will be a prelude to the training and equipping of a full battalion. US embassy cables: Briefing notes for US senator tells story of looted Pisarro 2010-12-08T23:00:00Z This is a prelude to remarking that I’ve always craved books about flying the way some people crave true crime stories or horror movies. Review: Mark Vanhoenacker’s ‘Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot’ on Joy of Flight 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Their portraits are preludes, meant to elevate, and anchor, the exhibit’s mass of unknown faces. The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It comes from the brief prelude to his seldom performed opera “Attila,” which finally receives its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Tuesday. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z And in a prelude to New York Fashion Week, the Couture Council of the Museum at FIT honored Christian Louboutin at its awards luncheon on Sept. 4 at Lincoln Center. From the Hamptons to Fashion Week 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But the regal “Tannhäuser” overture, cinematic “Götterdämmerung” passages and fervid “Tristan” prelude make you long for documents of Klemperer steering complete Wagner operas at his prime, and no “Siegfried Idyll” has more plain-spoken charm. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z By the end of the prelude, the listener is left unsatisfied and waiting for more. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z With the exception of Chopin’s “Funeral March” Sonata, the works were preludes, études, nocturnes, scherzos: the kind of shorter, dazzlingly colorful, crowd-pleasing pieces that Horowitz, too, used to stuff his programs. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z The Flick” begins in a simple, extraordinary way: with darkness, a movie projector’s beam of light over our heads, and the sound of the prelude from “The Naked and the Dead.” The Funny, Empathetic Genius of Annie Baker 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Monder fashioned a prelude to the first set: a slow cycle of arpeggios, each note rippling soft and reflective. Music Review | Kneebody: Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too 2010-02-19T06:17:00Z At 4 p.m.; slide show at 3 and a musical prelude at 3:30 p.m.; Spare Times for Children for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:22:44Z The 17-by-8-mile island is packed with lovingly restored sites that bring history to life, as my wife and I discovered in mid-May in what served as a perfect four-day prelude to a Venice visit. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Christiansen said he was treating all the moves that will put familiar paintings in unfamiliar galleries and groupings as the prelude to “an experimental period.” Old Masters in New Places as the Met Lets in the Light 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Each song included an extensive, seemingly spontaneous prelude created by one of the instrumentalists, according to Mr. Viñao’s instructions. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z A Bach devotee, Mrs. Gehrig had me learning several of his two-part inventions and my first prelude and fugue. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z In 2017, after she had returned to Charleston, a get-together on the pretext of talking about their respective businesses turned out to be the prelude to their romance. Hart Hagerty, John Wrangle 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The filmmaker behind "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the upcoming prelude "The Hobbit" said superheroes may rule in Hollywood, but he has no interest in doing a comic-book adaptation himself. Jackson confesses: he's no superhero comic fan 2012-07-18T17:02:10Z The dense tapestry is as bizarre as the subject matter, from a prelude for a dozen honking car horns to a finale that tiptoes delicately in the ancient form of a passacaglia. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z When she realized Emhoff’s “I want to spend my life with you” wasn’t just a sweet comment but a prelude to a marriage proposal, Harris burst into tears. The story of Kamala and Doug, a match made in Hollywood (literally) 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z A child of immigrants, Warhol painted the red and green work showing multiple misaligned images of the iconic landmark in 1962 as a prelude to his Death and Disaster series, according to Christie's. Picasso, Warhol works expected to sell for $35 million each 2012-10-05T19:33:02Z And Toby, equally firm of purpose, had set out on foot for his coffee and croissant in Soho as a prelude to grand larceny. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z |
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