Tassie's portrait medallions, his best-known original works, included many eminent contemporaries among their subjects.
He's much less self-consciously virtuosic than even his contemporaries among pop singers.
Roberval indulged in scientific feuds with several of his contemporaries, among them the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes.
Before performing those pieces, however, the ensemble will play works by Vivaldi's predecessors and contemporaries, among them Tomaso Albinoni, Alesssandro and Benedetto Marcello and Giovanni Legrenzi.
The painting "Materia" is the centerpiece of this ambitious show, which studies Boccioni's work in relation to some European contemporaries, among them Braque, Delaunay, Duchamp, Gris and Picasso.
The program, which will be sung by the mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey and the baritone Andrew Garland, will include Mr. Rorem's music as well as songs by his contemporaries, among them Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc and Virgil Thomson.
All the while he was writing verse and frequenting literary cafés and drawing rooms, where he met the leading poets of the Parnassian group and other talented contemporaries, among them Mallarmé, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, and Anatole France.
He yearned for a larger audience and wanted to publish overseas, but didn't want to live abroad like some of his contemporaries, among them George Lamming and the novelist Samuel Selvon.
The painting "Materia" is the centerpiece of this ambitious show, which studies Boccioni's work in relation to that of some European contemporaries, among them Braque, Delaunay, Duchamp, Gris and Picasso.
He was born into a family of leftist intellectuals in Rio de Janeiro and went to school there in the 1950's with a group of remarkable contemporaries, among them Lygia Clark and Lygia Pape, who are major presences in the Bronx show.
