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Both works show a subtlety and restraint that few listeners who know only the concertos might have expected from this composer.
After all this gruffness, Beethoven's quartet, the ostensible star of the program, afforded a calming force, not the role you necessarily expect from this composer.
The idea of "peace on earth, good will to men" evoked from this composer not the usual clarion exhortation, but radiant serenity, like outstretched arms.
The program includes Helps's "Shall We Dance," a rhapsodic 10-minute, 12-tone-ish rumination on the dance genre, by turns delicate and forlornly lyrical, and -- as always from this composer, who was also a superb pianist -- elegantly conceived for the piano.
Messiaen's "Trois Petite Liturgies de la Présence Divine" (1944) picked up the mystical thread that the Foss work dangled and proposed answers from this composer's personal vision of eternity.
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Two recent volumes from DaCapo offer works from either side of this composer's stylistic schism.
My favorite thing now is this composer from India named Ismail Darbar, whose soundtrack to the Bollywood film "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" is amazing; really cool orchestration.
Mr. Andsnes's Schumann did not veer far from the conventional portrait of this composer as a mass of agitation and angst, tempered by occasional poetic strains.
From Marc Peloquin's evening of this composer's piano music at Bargemusic on Friday night, you could infer a creator's gentle contempt for historical relevance and continuity.
What truly set this composer apart from the 20th century was his view of consonance not as the one God or the anti-Christ, but as an important member of a larger pantheon.
But they just can't seem to shake the torpor that makes every day in their lives — and every scene in this production from the composer Frank Wildhorn, with a book by Ivan Menchell and lyrics by Don Black — feel like the one that came before it.
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