Pound, who was an intellectual inspiration for the Vorticist movement, commissioned the work.
We are commissioning you, commissioning a movement, commissioning the nation to take the moral force this fast has produced to the U.S. Congress at the beginning of the New Year!
It amounts to "an emerging crisis of empathy", according to the Scout movement, which commissioned the research.
Rhymes With Silver Another work Mr. Ma helped bring to life was Lou Harrison's "Rhymes With Silver," a 12-movement suite commissioned by the choreographer Mark Morris for performances with Mr. Ma in 1997.
Mr. Drucker offered a memorable performance of Copland's two-movement Clarinet Concerto, commissioned in 1947 by Benny Goodman, who found the work technically challenging.
Das Lied von der Erde, meanwhile, came with Colin Matthews's reorchestration of the first movement, which Elder commissioned and premiered with the Hallé last May.
'STONEWALL' Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a landmark in the gay rights movement, New York City Opera has commissioned a work by the composer Iain Bell and the librettist Mark Campbell.
This year Nahmad is selling works by Jean Dubuffet, the French artist who founded the Art Brut movement, and has commissioned a recreation of the kind of asylum in 1940s France that Dubuffet would have visited and been inspired by.
Mr. Lazarof's three-movement work was commissioned for the orchestra and its principal winds, and those players -- Judith Mendenhall, flutist; Randall Ellis, oboist; Jon Manasse, clarinetist; and Kim Laskowski, bassoonist -- negotiated its angular and occasionally athletic writing with apparent ease.
Now it was the turn of Speranza, a five-movement orchestral work commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, receiving its world premiere under the impressively assured baton of Daniel Harding.
