6. Moving to Finland, the legacy of Sibelius is, if anything, even more of a feature in the musical landscape for composers in his wake to negotiate.
It also allows us to forecast the future of the landscape of the composer network, where the growths of the degrees of prominent composers are accelerating and accordingly the recordings are becoming increasingly concentrated on those already well established, an effect similar to the so-called urban-scaling laws, where existing cultural centers win out over new centers [4, 14].
— It took an entire week for Janet Echelman — along with a team that included a composer, landscape architects, lighting technicians and a bulldozer crew — to construct her art installation in the sand along the beach here.
It sprang from the land, through the songs and dance rhythms of grass-roots Hungary, and powered its way into the urban landscape of the composer's exile in the US.
Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride; for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Homeland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land; and for his First String Quartet, From My Life.
Do contemporary composers feel that church music requires a degree of compromise, making it inevitable that sacred music becomes a musically conservative landscape, the preserve of composers who specialise in performable and "accessible" music?
Unusually for Henze the German texts are his own work - there is a quote from Goethe's Faust in the first song, while the last is a setting of a Rückert translation from Arabic, but the rest are personal memories and fantasies, some of them almost impressionistic diary entries, of people and landscapes, covering what the composer calls the territory of the "occido-oriental".
(Dunning) NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY (Tomorrow) The company will perform Ms. Chen's new "American Landscape," a collaboration with the composer and singer Joan LaBarbara that examines immigration in America.
Themes from Greek and oriental antiquities were added to the mix, creating for the composer an interior landscape of exotic imagery, material for dream and fantasy, by means of which he could distance the immediacy of life.
In the Ciompi Quartet's empathetic performances of twenty years ago they are revealed as impassioned conversations displaying more of this composer's emotional landscape than he usually reveals.
