Because Mr. Fisher is an intrepid archivist with an ear tuned to the past, the show placed Porter's music in a musical context that predates the style of his songs as interpreted by Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
We have actors who are credible as singers, which allows the acting to blend into the musical context and the music to fade into the spoken dialogue.
These values are then used to construct a musical context, allowing for a music-oriented version of concepts such as common ground.
"I was simply trying to characterize the music and place it in a broader social and musical context".
I had given up on understanding William Carlos Williams's text, so it was a revelation when words (obviously apt in this musical context) came through like a beacon: "It is a principle of music to repeat the theme.
And Mirwais, for his part, keeps twisting the musical context.
We've seen this before in the musical context.
But with every production you can do something a little different and rethink the musical context".
I doubt I would enjoy this kind of dancing in any musical context.
There's the death of tonality, which – in the musical context of 1910, this piece emblematically signals.
The Documentary That Explains Their Musical Context: "Synth Britannia," from the BBC.
