Except in the final piece and an encore, when they collaborated on a pair of Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, Mr. Schiff and Muzsikas shared the stage but performed separately, in a sort of folk-classical dialogue.
"Daughters of the Dust" re-creates one strand of African-American history and tradition as a sort of deferred cinematic classical music, the lyrical reclamation of a vital cultural life and of an inner world of dreams and emotions from repression and oblivion.
Utilizing impressive loops to directly represent his very own mental images, Crego, who uncovered his passion for the artform after recognizing how the moving images made people think faster and more accessibly than other forms of art, creates images with a sort of sci-fi classical aesthetic.
Utilising impressive loops to directly represent his very own mental images, Crego, who uncovered his passion for the artform after recognising how the moving images made people think faster and more accessibly than other forms of art, creates images with a sort of sci-fi classical aesthetic.
By way of background, Stone "often explains his role as a sort of evangelist, a priest of classical prophets", and here he and Chris Ryan have created an almost entirely new text "after Ibsen", set in the 21st century and combining contemporary Australia with the playwright's Nordic setting.
His brother Paul, who conducted, is a Broadway maestro and composer with a special interest in the sort of classical crossover music that many of his father's compositions hinted at.
In some ways her concerts are a sort of reinvention of the classical tradition of recital, where one of the performer's principal satisfactions is to allow other people's work to shine.
