RALPH SHAPEY, a composer of gigantic vision and ingenious skill, was the great curmudgeon of contemporary American music.
But this description, though true as far as it goes, does not begin to convey the ingenious skill and sheer originality of Mr. Hyla's music: for example his brilliant Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra No. 2, a 1991 work that ended the first half of the all-Hyla program presented by Miller Theater on Wednesday night, the second in its Composer Portraits series.
Having amply demonstrated his ingenious skills and audacious imagination as a composer of symphonic and chamber works, Mr. Hartke emerges in this engaging live recording as an opera composer to reckon with.
Author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding, and Birth Matters, she promotes joyful birth, maintenance of breech skills and recognition of certain ingenious skills and techniques used by indigenous midwives of Mexico and Brazil.
Although out-balanced in strength and numbers by a desperate and determined enemy, Rear Admiral Callaghan, with ingenious tactical skill and superb coordination of the units under his command, led his forces into battle against tremendous odds, thereby contributing decisively to the rout of a powerful invasion fleet and to the consequent frustration of a formidable Japanese offensive.
Priestley's experimental success resulted predominantly from his ability to design ingenious apparatuses and his skill in their manipulation.
Trapeze artists, strong men, acrobats and jugglers astound with their skill and ingenious choreography.
Bazil sets out to play them one against the other, with his new friends gleefully contributing their skills to ingenious scams set all over Paris.
Challenged with this paradox, he set out to find a way to measure the gap and came up with an ingenious solution that he calls the Skills Gap Misery Index (SGMI).
The solution is ingenious, bordering on preposterous, and Higashino's skill clearly lies in contrivance rather than characterisation – but the process of deduction is fascinating.
Now that many of us already own more stuff than we need, and the environmental crisis is deepening, designers are increasingly using their skills to come up with ingenious ways of helping us to use it more responsibly.
