Richard also published many scores of 18th-century music and his later years were largely taken up with two books, The Scoring of Baroque Concertos (2004) and The Scoring of Early Classical Concertos (2014), focusing on his groundbreaking one-to-a-part theory but incidentally providing potential performers with invaluable surveys of musical terra incognita.
(Jantzen's tasteful but groundbreaking one-piece followed women's entry into Olympic swimming events, in 1912).
Despite this, the idea of not putting the character of Otello – described, like Shakespeare's Othello, as a "moor" – in black makeup is still a bizarrely groundbreaking one.
He has some history with this area; it's where he met with MIT Media Lab PhD candidate Ben Bloomberg, 27, to develop his groundbreaking one-man stage show.
The New York Junior League announced on Tuesday the appointment of its first black president, characterizing the move as a groundbreaking one for an organization that has tried for years to cultivate a more socially and racially diverse image.
The newest is WeVest, of Berkeley, Calif., which has as its vice chairman Tom Seip, a former Charles Schwab executive who was the architect of the company's groundbreaking One Source mutual fund supermarket.
Truth to tell, the story is less than groundbreaking: one of the "courteous cutthroats" at the Annual Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair in upstate New York is murdered, the wrong person is arrested, and a down-to-earth dealer from New Jersey assigns herself the chore of finding the real killer.
Some biographers, like journalists, are looking for the scoop that will distinguish them from the crowd: if there is no such thing as a definitive biography, there might at least be a groundbreaking one, offering something that has never been seen or heard before.
With the help of MIT PhD student Ben Bloomberg, he designed and built a groundbreaking one-man live performance vehicle which defies the musical laws of nature, featuring a circle of musical instruments, six simultaneous multi-instrumental loopers, a custom-designed vocal harmoniser instrument, a real-time reactive multi-Jacob video screen, and one Jacob in the centre of it all.
