Whenever I would attend and review the reverently conservative Franco Zeffirelli production at the Met, Puccini's irresistibly communicative music, placed in such a sympathetic setting, would ring in my head for days.
The third season of the Y's Rorem series opened on Thursday evening with a program split between Michael Hersch, a relative newcomer who, at 29, has written some extraordinarily communicative music, and the more solidly established John Harbison, 62, whose "Great Gatsby" had its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera last season.
The clinicians read and discussed texts that offered a theoretical understanding of music therapy in dementia care, and they were familiar with the theoretical concepts and understandings of communicative musicality, acoustic cuing techniques, musical regulatory elements, and social engagement (Ridder, 2003, 2007, 2011).
These sounds were primarily communicative, musicality was a secondary concern.
These composers took Britten's clarity and technical assuredness as a starting point and created confident, refined and communicative concert music which acknowledged the avant garde while allowing influences as diverse as folk music, 70s funk, baroque techniques, medieval plainchant and 90s rave music.
Expert in her textual definition in both languages, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato was persuasively communicative in music ranging from Haydn to Jerome Kern.
Although the extensive program notes, supplemented with lengthy quotations from Aristotle's "Poetics" and dense with references to mimesis, ekphrasis and meta-mimicry, seemed to portend a dour evening of didactic demonstration, the concert in fact became a showcase for vivid, engrossing and highly communicative new chamber music.
Several staff members reported residents were more sociable and communicative immediately after music activities.
Both parameters CTR for child-therapist relation and MCA for musical communicative ability increased after the first music therapy block (T2), then subsequently decreased (T3), and then finally reached the previously achieved higher level after the second music therapy block (T4).
In this piece as much as anything he composed, Beethoven didn't want to compromise his music's communicative power.
Mr. Lindberg, an estimable pianist, was joined by Anssi Karttunen, a Finnish cellist who formed the groundbreaking electro-acoustic ensemble Toiimi ("It Works") with Mr. Lindberg and others in 1980; and Jennifer Koh, a riveting violinist whose New York profile rests largely on her precise, communicative delivery of contemporary music.
