Robbins begins by mirroring the theme on which Bach builds his intricate variations with gracious movements for two dancers (Melissa Walter and Robert Lyon), who also close the work.
If this sounds complicated, be assured that Mr. Moore rings many more intricate variations on his basic format, which, while it commits to the visible, manages to engage the mystery of what lies beyond it.
These intricate variations are absorbed as part of a melodic accessibility so well organized that even a sonata for two pianos never feels crowded in the ear, even when it grows dense on the page.
By Alex Ross January 3, 2018 John Williams's score for "The Last Jedi" is one of the most compelling of his "Star Wars" career, with intricate variations on his canon of melodies.
The directive following that description — "Save yourself" — presumably refers to the work's severe demands; on Friday the fastest, most intricate variations, Nos. 10 and 27, taxed Ms. Levin's technique to its limits.
She's turned out many intricate variations on Art Nouveau and psychedelia, but now she's channeling Ettore Sottsass -- the Italian architect and designer synonymous with cheerful 1980s postmodernism.
The Lost Dog New Music Ensemble promises to give Simpson another chance Stateside; on April 12-13, at the Waltz-Astoria Café and the Tenri Cultural Institute, it presents his Horn Quartet — a 1975 piece ringing intricate variations on a spacious D-major tune — alongside Ligeti's Horn Trio and Berio's Sequenza XIV.
Brahms took a simple theme he found in J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 150 and developed it in a set of 30 highly intricate variations, but the technical skill displayed here is as nothing compared with the clarity of thought and the intensity of feeling.
Complexity can result from large numbers of genes encoding related amino acid sequences, as in the case of the FMRFamide-like peptides or from intricate variations of molecular architectures, as seen among members of the insulin-like peptides family.
Writer Daniel Cooper said of Charles's adaptation of country elements, "His country forays play like a series of intricate variations or like one long meditation on the expansive qualities of music commonly described as the white man's blues".
