We are long past the time when extensive podium experience is regarded as an absolute prerequisite for performance of the symphonic repertory's grandest works.
My favorite example is the employment of one of the grandest works in the classical repertory, in a way that runs the risk of utter trivialization, mockery, and vulgarity.
They echo some of Mr. Legorreta's grandest works before his death in 2011, like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico; the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas; and the Fashion and Textiles Museum in London.
Both his monumental pieces of sculpture and his small bronzes looked perfect in the ample, uncluttered spaces of the house, while the rolling and hilly grounds of the park provide the ideal setting for his grandest works.
Some of the grandest works in the literary canon – the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Bible and the Qur'an – present refugees as heroes, prophets or messiahs, whose journeys are among the foundational myths of modern society.
He wrote his grand work on physics, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica," in Latin.
Most science programs allow students to submit three research papers rather than a single grand work.
Why not embark on a grand work that admits its own mortality, that embraces its own destruction?
