Sentence examples for decisive piano from inspiring English sources
That's not a problem on the quieter, more distinctive pieces: "Karma Police" is gratefully grabbed as a crowd singalong, "Nude" provides the most graceful vehicle for Yorke's keening vocal style, and "Pyramid Song" only requires a few decisive piano chords to establish the haunting mood subsequently plumbed by Jonny Greenwood's mournful bowed guitar.
The somewhat self-effacing soloist, Wen-Sinn Yang, is buoyed by the suave sounds that Serebrier coaxes from his group; Simon Mulligan is a more decisive presence in the merrily Gershwinesque Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951), the album's opening flourish.
Composed in 1970, Mantra, for two pianos and ring modulation, was one of the decisive turning points in Karlheinz Stockhausen's career.
Ms. Kowroski brings those elements to "Monumentum pro Gesualdo" and "Movements for Piano and Orchestra" (Thursday), ballets in which she has become decisive in manner.
It's a concise album, just 35 minutes, but its ethereality makes the time drift slowly: the percussive plink of a piano (or something like it), about 24 minutes in, registers as a decisive event.
Without stopping for applause (a request honored by the audience), Ms. Rothenberg then played Schoenberg's Three Piano Piece, Op. 11 (1909), in which the break is all but decisive.
