Writing in this magazine in 2004, Sasha Frere-Jones drew a distinction between the shiny sound-booth finish of corporate hip-hop — Kanye, Dr. Dre, and others — and the stubborn individualism of artists like Madlib, who stick to their samples instead of paying musicians to compose for them.
Over the years André Derain, Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Marie Laurencin, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Max Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico would all design for the Ballets Russes, just as Stravinsky, Debussy, Richard Strauss, Manuel de Falla, Satie and Sergei Prokofiev would compose for them.
Each squad member in Mass Effect 2 had music composed for them, intended to convey their character; BioWare gave the composers detailed character studies for each to help.
From 2006 to 2009, Guto Pryderi Puw was resident composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the five pieces on this disc were composed for them.
"But Nicola Porpora, who taught many of the greatest of them, including Farinelli, and composed for them, always emphasized expression and emotion, the nuance in the words".
In the mid-1930's Ms. Fine worked as a rehearsal pianist for several New York dance companies, and within a few years she was composing for them as well.
From unpromising, garage-band beginnings, playing kazoos and tin cans, and with vocals that sound "like cats in a blender", they emerge at the end of the play as a polished folk-rock ensemble, performing songs composed for them by singer-songwriter Katie Richardson.
BOSTON — During the nine days of the Boston Early Music Festival, which ended on Sunday afternoon, you could spend all day every day, from 9 a.m. to midnight, bingeing on the sounds of antique instruments and the music composed for them.
The theme of teaching ran through the program, which began with a work by Mr. Kirchner's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, the Six Little Piano Pieces, Opus 19, performed compellingly by a 19-year-old, Jonathan Biss, and ended with Mr. Kirchner's former students Mr. Chang and Mr. Ma playing a work he had composed for them, "Triptych" (1988).
The virtuosic Strasbourg musicians — whose contribution to Lincoln Center's TullyScope festival also included a performance of Gérard Grisey's "Noir de l'Étoile" on Friday night — devoted the first half of their Xenakis program to "Pléïades" (1979), a work composed for them.
Then, using an iPhone app, they text in their thoughts, instructing McCarthy on what to do next by filling out a survey she composed for them.
