April 22, 1922 Nogales, Arizona January 5 , 1979Cuernavaca, Mexico Charles Mingus, byname Charlie Mingus (born April 22, 1922, Nogales, Arizona, U.S. died January 5 , 1979 Cuernavaca, Mexico) American jazz composer, bassist, bandleader, and pianist whose work, integrating loosely composed passages with improvised solos, both shaped and transcended jazz trends of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
In rehearsal the band plunged into its most complicated music: long, mostly instrumental excursions that segue between contrapuntal, key-changing composed passages and quick-fingered group improvisations.
Famously, Byatt has composed passages of 19th-century verse for her two poets, and has invented extracts from Victorian journals and letters.
No pollster or speechwriter could have composed that passage.
"When I composed the passage in question," the justice informs me, "I pondered for some time whether I should be perfectly grammatical and write 'I have nothing against homosexuals', or any other group's, promoting their agenda,' etc.
A page of a 15th-century Bible from Yemen is ornamented by a star-in-a-circle emblem composed of passages from the Book of Psalms.
In the effortful world of prog, there was not much room for charming naïveté or happy accidents; improvised solos were generally less important than composed instrumental passages.
In the current reincarnation for Broadway, whole stretches of the original recitatives are turned into hybrids, sometimes spoken (usually with new words) and sometimes sung, with altered harmonies and newly composed transitional passages.
Mr. Theofanidis had composed the next passage on a bright major chord, with muted trumpets leading the strings up an ascending scale, symbolizing the rising beams of light seen at Sept. 11 memorials.
A series of Coleridge lectures is also being held, inspired by the fiery debates the poet organised in Bristol while a new guide to the sights of Bristol associated with the Romantic movement – such as the spot where Wordsworth composed the final passage of Tintern Abbey – has been produced.
