By contrast, we learn that Rimsky-Korsakov gave Diaghilev the thumbs-down on his early composing endeavors, and judging by the brief song included here, one has to agree that ballet needed Diaghilev more.
I wondered if we'd have to settle for a landscape composed of tiny, cult-friendly endeavors that ran for a season or two and a whole passel of "Walking Dead" wannabes, without much of a middle ground in between.
Thus we see national EHR endeavors not as programs composed of essentially discrete ICT 'projects', dissociated from policy, technology, service delivery and clinical work.
Now Mr. Blanco, who is also at work on a memoir, is focused on an entirely new and, colleagues say, exceedingly difficult endeavor: composing what is known in his trade as an "occasional poem," written to commemorate a specific event.
All four Red Light founders were composition students of Mr. Vigeland, who supported their endeavor from the start and has composed several works for it.
Take, for example, a common course structure: students endeavor to produce a long, meticulously and elegantly composed research paper upon concluding the semester, which instructors then devote considerable effort to critiquing.
Still, no catalog, even Braziller's ambitious endeavor, could capture the full flavor of these artfully composed sheets, with subtle gradations in color, nuances of texture and other effects that Hiroshige was able to coax from the cherry woodblock after a lifetime of honing his talent and technical skills.
A different emphasis, one on "learning communities" composed of undergraduates from various disciplines, is made in another curricular endeavor melding art and science.
Fitzgerald's newer endeavor is alcohol free (albeit with a boozy name) and is composed in a way that could seem oddly regimented, and maybe even ironically located, for people who value freedom and small government.
We got busy with our own lives, wrote our novels, created our paintings, started our businesses, composed our music, worked for the less fortunate, and generally did very nicely at any number of other endeavors, thank you, without the mega-income, the privilege, the Park Avenue apartment, the thousand-dollar baby antelope hide boots.
From miniature books composed by a teenage Charlotte Brontë to costume designs for Star Trek, the selections celebrate great achievements in many and diverse fields of human endeavor.
