His film installations effortlessly alternate between the specific and elliptical, the documentary and disorienting visual effects, creating a dazzling crisscrossing path that seems appropriate to the theme of doubled otherness -- the plight of the black homosexual immigrant in the West -- that is central to his work.
Other pieces he has composed since "The Tempest" speak with a new expressive freedom, music like his dazzling Violin Concerto; "Concentric Paths;" his intimate but elemental string quartet "The Four Quarters," composed for the Emerson String Quartet; or his piano concerto "In Seven Days," originally composed with video and inspired by the Book of Genesis.
Against large and beautiful tarnished panels, to the intermittent accompaniment of Feargal Murray's insistent thrumming piano, O'Sullivan creates a dark and dazzling cabaret: she scorches a path through the congested passages of some of Shakespeare's most stately verse and tells the story as if it were her own and now.
Pictorialism continued into the 1930's, producing along the way dazzling images like Gesshu Ogawa's "Doro Gorge," in which a man floats, on a raft of logs that trail after him like a path cut into the water, between looming cliffs in a grainy sepia world.
There the St . LouisSymphony under David Robertson (who was in the running for the job that in 2007 went to Mr. Gilbert) gave a riveting performance of Mr. Adès's dazzling 2005 violin concerto, "Concentric Paths".
Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers travels multiple paths with a dazzling, earthy and original ferocity, brilliantly crafted and vast in range.
While I was listening to Jean in the visiting room, I became transfixed by a young inmate with short curly black hair and a dazzling smile greeting everyone in her path with an infectious laugh.
My companion and I were just congratulating ourselves on seeing this dazzling bird, when a long, slender figure lolloped across the path: an otter.
Sondheim has mentored many other young songwriters, including Adam Guettel, whom he finds "dazzling," and the late Jonathan Larson, of "Rent": "Jonathan was on the path of making that bridge between the bus-and-tunnel audience and the young audience.
Former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason is a Bowie-type outsider and Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time sees the Scot continue to carve out a unique path: ethereal electronica which addresses emotions and events to dazzling effect.
