Taken together the two last pieces on the disc — "Water Music," a rumbling, glowing tone poem for solo percussionist with electronic tape, and "Prelude to 'The Mystery Cheese-Ball,' " a squealing fanfare for latex balloons — presage the fusion of technology and whimsy to come with Mr. Byrd's psychedelic rebirth.
When asked about the difference in terms of sound and direction between Psalms of the Moribund and Prelude to the Tragedy, Gruber stated, "We got our own style on Psalms to the Moribund where Prelude to the Tragedy had very obvious hints of the bands we idolized.
Miki Orihara once again led the evocation of social uprootedness in an excerpt called "Steps in the Street," and Elizabeth Auclair made debuts in both "Spectre-1914," the opening section, and "Prelude to Action," the finale.
Nature was much in evidence as a source, and also explained by Ms. Baker in a show-and-tell prelude to the performance.
When its three dances — "Spectre," "Steps in the Street" and "Prelude to Action" — were reconstructed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they were called "Sketches From Chroniclee' "; the original "Chronicle," from 1936, ran about an hour, perhaps twice the length of this.
In early works like "Blue Window," "Reckless" and "Prelude to a Kiss," it's the darkness of the inexplicable outside that's so scary.
Notably and as suggested here, drill and practice can provide an effective and economic prelude to the more complex, abstract, multi-factor, and multi-dimensional material that may be presented by ITS-based learning.
He also wrote a number of works of particular Jewish interest, including Kol Nidre for mixed chorus, speaker, and orchestra, Op. 39 (1938)—the Kol Nidre is a prayer sung in synagogues at the beginning of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)—and the Prelude to the "Genesis Suite" for orchestra and mixed chorus, Op. 44 (1945).
"There's definitely a connection between that" music, Meecham says, "and ["Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"] and the first scene of Pelleas," both of which were written in 1893, several years later.
A12 West Bank Municipal Elections Palestinians in 26 West Bank towns and villages voted in orderly municipal elections, the first since 1976 and a prelude to the presidential vote in just over two weeks.
In the Wagner excerpts -- the "Tannhäuser" overture and the prelude to the last act of "Die Meistersinger" -- there was magnificence and authority, the secure glow of something that has been done right.
