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It took the joyous irreverence of Wendy Cope's "Waste Land Limericks" – Iain yelped with laughter when I recited them to him – to give me the brass neck to attempt "A Fertile Sea", my own impertinent response to Eliot's masterwork.
Since 1913 generation after generation of composers – from Varèse to Boulez, Bartók to Ligeti — has felt impelled to face the challenges set by this seminal masterwork.
The Teatro Massimo believes, however, that it will be unique in Europe, outside the festival theatre in Bayreuth, in offering new productions next year of all four operas that comprise the composer's masterwork.
His masterwork "Bureaucracy" (1989) looked at armies, prisons and schools as well as government agencies, discovering that policymakers rarely knew what the cliff-face workers did.
But early reactions from more sceptical specialists in late-15th-century art have been lukewarm or hostile: to its critics, the campaign to restore this popular emblem and Renaissance masterwork was over-expensive, over-intrusive and ill thought-out from the start.The trouble starts with the fragmentary character of the painting itself.
Beckett's bleak masterwork , "Endgame", has just opened in a rare commercial revival at the Albery theatre, minutes away from "Calico", a Michael Hastings drama at the Duke of York's theatre that puts Beckett and Joyce centre-stage.
Intriguingly, his calls for deregulation have struck a chord even in ancient fishing communities whose members are as old as Hokusai was when he created his masterwork.
Turn all cell phones off .In this section Jelly on a roll Notable bilge Empress of the avant-garde The uses of enchantment Unforgiving land French letters Reprints Related items French anti-Americanism: Spot the differenceDec 20th 2005"American Vertigo" is worth reading for these delicious details; it is doubly worth reading if it sends you back to de Tocqueville's original masterwork.
Above all, he was committed to what he called "the rich background of the Negro", which he conveyed in a host of pieces such as the early "Black and Tan Fantasy" and culminating in a concert-length masterwork , "Black, Brown and Beige".In his extended compositions, Ellington sought to assert jazz's right to the same respect as classical music.
He sent the only copy of his masterwork , "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" to his publisher by post, a gesture which suggests an astonishing degree of trust in a government monopoly.
His melancholy, if sophisticated, vision of life, captured in the grainy, informal images in his masterwork , "The Americans", pioneered a radical new style that has been copied by two generations of black-and-white photographers.
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The noun "masterwork" functions primarily as a subject complement or object , identifying or describing a piece of art, literature, or music recognized for its exceptional quality and skill. As seen in Ludwig, it often appears in contexts where artistic or intellectual achievements are being evaluated.
Expression frequency: Very common
