"Turangalîla" is a thrilling, mad, loud piece that features two solo instruments, the piano and the ondes martenot, an early electronic instrument that makes unearthly wavering sounds not easy to hear over the orchestral pandemonium.
If you're gonna play music, play it big — in size, sound or influence — and dress big in the fall's loudest pieces.
Inside, the actor Jason Lee cleans up, Nile Rodgers recalls his childhood, and bands from the Bonnaroo music festival dress up in the season's strongest (and loudest) pieces.
Go big IN places like Bonnaroo, the giant rock fest in Manchester, Tenn., And dress big in the fall's strongest, loudest pieces.
"Hekla," which is named for one of Iceland's most active volcanoes, has been described as the loudest piece of music ever written.
Varèse makes an appearance tonight as well, which should be enormous fun; Amériques, surely the loudest piece of music ever written, is being performed by the National Youth Orchestra under Tony Pappano.
He called on me, of course, and said, "Lisa, what is the quadratic formula?" I looked at him like he was nuts, but he insisted that I say the formula out loud while he grabbed a piece of chalk with his wandless hand.
Japanese media artist Takashi Murakami has developed a signature voice, creating loud, brilliant pieces of Neo-Pop art influenced by Japanese culture and street-art acknowledgments.
Gravitate toward pearls and diamonds or fake pearls and fake diamonds over colored stones, and avoid loud statement pieces.
