Both hard-boiled and jazzy, this tale of a pair of hit men fleeing the mob (two mobs actually) stars the stoic Japanese action hero Jo Shishido, with his surgically enhanced cheeks, and features the Morricone-like music of the frequent Nikkatsu composer Harumi Ibe.
Like his life partner and frequent collaborator, the composer John Cage, he remained intransigent to the last.
She enlisted two frequent collaborators, the composer Elliot Goldenthal (with whom she lives) and the choreographer Daniel Ezralow.
Seventy minutes of uninterrupted motion, "Rain" is set to music by Steve Reich, Ms. de Keersmaeker's frequent choice of composer, and has been described by an English reviewer as looking like "wind streaking the surface of water".
Ms. Undercofler's most frequent guests are composers, whom she invites partly to answer specific questions about their music but also to reinforce the idea that the music the ensemble plays was written by real people the players can meet and speak with.
Canadian composer and frequent Tim Hecker collaborator Kara-Lis Coverdale followed with a New Age-leaning performance full of breathy vocal samples, Eastern scales, and strings.
Beecham was a great Wagnerian, despite his frequent expostulation about the composer's length and repetitiousness: "We've been rehearsing for two hours – and we're still playing the same bloody tune!" Beecham conducted all the works in the regular Wagner canon with the exception of Parsifal, which he presented at Covent Garden but never with himself in the pit.
Sirota is a frequent collaborator with living composers, and she has a knack for describing complex aesthetic ideas with a combination of expertise and humility.
Both are leading international composers who frequent L.A. — Nyman writing for films; Mansurian dividing his time between Glendale and Yerevan, the Armenian capital.
It became internationally known as the summer residence of Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, from 1854 to 1914 and was frequented by the composers Franz Lehar, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, and Johann Strauss the Younger.
