Its newfound popularity stems also from highly publicized appearances by dancers in films and rock concert contexts.
The service can have demos, bootlegs, concerts, whatever context the artist wants to put out.
The setting gives every concert a fresh context — O.K., you've seen the Yeah Yeah Yeahs before, but have you ever seen them in a place where people once swam the backstroke?
And I thought, 'What a terrible waste of money.' This orchestra had to be spending three or four hundred thousand dollars, and for what?" Mr. Morris said, "You're doing a one-shot concert without a context".
"Discovering a Musical Heartland: Wu Man's Return to China," a short video shown before the concert, helped establish context for what followed, though you flinched when the narrator Fred Child's mannered description of "dusty, decrepit" villages sounded a presumably unintended note of patronization.
In its Beethoven Quartets in Context concerts at Carnegie Hall, the Emerson String Quartet has raised the bar for ensembles interested in thematic programming by taking a commonplace idea — presenting the Beethoven quartets with works by other composers — and turning it into a revelatory series.
It sounds like a beautiful and irrelevant serenade, and it has had, rather revealingly, a healthy life as a concert aria without dramatic context.
Now a professor there, he is to revisit the piece this month -- a decision, he said, driven by a desire to promote Schubert's later sonatas, which are "unjustly underrepresented in the context of concert programming".
Thus, the activities of molecular networks that execute metabolic or cytoskeletal processes, or regulate these by signal transduction, are altered in a complex manner by diverse genetic mutations in concert with the environmental context.
Don't tell that to anyone lucky enough to have heard him sing "Nessun dorma" in his prime, not just as a signature aria for televised stadium concerts, but in the context of a full production of "Turandot".
