To my ears, Henderson's and Ellington's intricate and harmonically challenging compositions make Armstrong's records actually sound old-fashioned, closer to the great 1923 King Oliver recordings that McWhorter mentions — except for the mighty musical personality that emerges in Armstrong's solos.
The 23-year-old's challenging interdisciplinary compositions experiment with narrative and structure, as in her Girih contribution, Pulp.
Old favourites such as "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Old American Songs", of course, predominate, but the centenary will also give a fresh chance to reappraise some of the neglected, challenging orchestral compositions, from the early "Music for the Theatre" to such late works as "Inscape".
— Phillip Garrido, the convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping and holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years, pleaded not guilty on Thursday as his lawyer challenged the composition of the grand jury that indicted him and his wife last fall.
Williams did not challenge the composition of the jury pool.
Cage and Hecker share a knack for challenging preconceptions of composition and of what music can be.
Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the disciplines.
This inherent variability makes studies of airborne microbial composition challenging.
