More typically, though, Mr. Sheng's use of Chinese influences is either gracefully nostalgic or simply a part of his cross-cultural language, as in works like "The Stream Flows" for solo violin and "Three Chinese Love Songs," for voice, piano and viola.
Draper's influence allowed me to grow up, gracefully.
It can, however, gracefully incorporate cognitive functions and influences such as memories of a target source or attention to a specific set of its attributes so as to segregate it from its background.
The influence of Josquin still hovers over both, and gracefully layered polyphony remains the reigning mode of expression, but the juxtaposition brought out the formality of Clemens's music and the comparatively freewheeling inventiveness of Vivanco's.
From the overt motor references on their 1974 track "Autobahn", to the synthy club grooves on 1981's "Computer Love," Kraftwerk gracefully exemplified the sheer weight of their influence on the other acts present.
All the strange and colorful influences of her youth and path thus far commingle gracefully on Jubilee's debut album After Hours, out October 21 via Mixpak.
David Laughton rose gracefully to the challenge: a supportive partner and steadying influence in the Brahms, he showed himself capable of emotional outbursts of his own in the hammered chord clusters of Dave Heath's "On Fire".
Her gracefully spare, often risqué images of women add verve to the influence of Aubrey Beardsley; her portraits of men like Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair's editor — their faces comprised almost entirely of female nudes in different positions — riff on Arcimboldo.
Mr. Moser gracefully played the three short abstract movements, which at times reflect the influence of Berg and Schoenberg.
You can hear traces of Minimalist influence (particularly in the percussion ostinatos that support the second and fourth movements), as well as gracefully angular melodies.
