The Philharmonic last played this extravagant work in 1979.
It is an extravagant work that needs the discipline of style, something this reconstruction rarely pulls off.
"The Trial," from 1962, is Orson Welles's most political film as well as his most visually extravagant work.
This opulent and extravagant work of nearly 60 minutes can easily seem padded and full of empty bluster, but not in this breathless, nuanced and enthralling performance.
Orson Welles's 1962 film "The Trial" (which I discuss in this clip), an adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, is his most political film as well as his most visually extravagant work.
It doesn't matter if it gets damaged or thrown away.' Creed's most extravagant work to date is Work 200: Half the Air In A Given Space, whose instructions are as follows: 'Choose a space.
His death inspired another piece on the program, Joseph Achron's "Epitaph, to the Memory of Aleksandr Scriabin" (1915), a similarly extravagant work whose swirling bombast would surely have made Scriabin proud.
Nobody has ever sounded more pleased to see the sun coming out from behind the clouds than ELO's Jeff Lynne on this extravagant work of Beatles fan art, larded with orchestra, choir and vocoder.
Whitman intended his "Leaves" to be a statement of America's national purpose, a "new national text" (in the phrase of his latest biographer, David S. Reynolds), in some ways a counterpart of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, or, from his own time, the speeches of Lincoln — except that, unlike those statements, Whitman's took the form of an extravagant work of the imagination.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the great modern filmmakers, was also the most prolific director of his time, and the most wide-ranging; "World on a Wire," his two-part, three-hour-plus, made-for-TV science-fiction spectacle, from 1073 which he made at the age of twenty-seven is his mostwenty-seven istonally extravagant work.
