That quality had an ample workout in Schumann's "Kreisleriana," an eight-movement portrait of a musical eccentric by a composer who could certainly empathize.
Of the two works their composer singled out for censure, Napoli (1925) is a three-movement portrait of Italy, and Les Soirées de Nazelles is described by the composer Geoffrey Bush as "the French equivalent of Elgar's Enigma Variations" – miniature character sketches of his friends.
Sounds of the City Songs, stories, music and poetry gathered from New York's homeless by Kevin James will be incorporated into the seven movements of "Portraits," his large-scale musical composition to be performed at 8 p.m. tomorrow, Friday and Saturday at the Kitchen.
The first movement is a portrait of her, and there are hints of happy times in parks with waltzes playing.
Again according to Ginny, Neel was grateful to the women's movement - her portrait of Kate Millett appeared on the cover of Time.
Based on a traditional folk song from Hatuma, one of 60 Okinawa Islands, the duet wove unison and contrasting movement in a portrait of a young woman adding a prayer for a man to the village prayers for paradise on earth.
The Fourth Quartet, which the Emerson Quartet recently played at Zankel Hall, includes a once-in-a-lifetime movement called "Self Portrait," in which the cello holds forth in a rambling, halting chant while the three other strings play frigid chords around it.
Peter Winograd, now a recitalist, faculty artist at the Manhattan School of Music and first violinist of the American String Quartet, will be soloist in the Sibelius Concerto, while Arthur Winograd will conduct Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" Overture and Mahler's Symphony No. 4. Esther Heideman will be the guest soprano in the last movement's blissful portrait of heaven.
The details of this historic event, which spearheaded the Montgomery bus boycotts and sparked the civil rights movement, introduce a touching portrait of the activist in the new book Our Auntie Rosa: the Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons, by Sheila McCauley Keys, Parks' seventh niece.
Silver-Brown Dance, directed by Eva Silverstein and Guillermo E. Brown, presents family portraits in movement.
