Soundtracks became selfless, functional music, gracefully finding an unheralded balance between musical imperatives and the timing of scenes they accompanied.
The sense of a body set in urgent motion by musical imperatives requires that the body not be distractingly clothed.
The inarticulacy of the hero and heroine, which is central to the play, is transformed in the musical by the main imperative of the form: that they should sing.
"Des Canyons aux Étoiles" is alive with Messiaen's musical trademarks: leaping, spiky melodic lines; imperative themes proclaimed in astringent, thick-layered chords; restless rhythmic outbursts that alternate with celestial chorales for strings and winds.
Here the prospects of other languages, both musical and visual, enforce the critical imperative of the anachronism that subtracts the Mediterranean from a reductive objectivity in order to think with the unfolding possibilities of an altogether more fluid archive.
Green Day, which has spent most of the last decade stoking bonfires of opposition — with two ambitious concept albums, one of them adapted into a Broadway musical — now seems less certain about its moral imperative as a band.
In a series of neuropsychological experiments, we investigated associative knowledge of musical compositions (musical objects), musical emotions, musical instruments (musical sources) and music notation (musical symbols).
To the author Katharine Houghton's credit, "Bookends," her promising new musical being given its first breath of life at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, already meets that imperative.
In an age in which accessibility is an artistic imperative, the audience was becoming an embarrassment.One of Sir Trevor's solutions was to direct classical Broadway musicals like "Carousel" and "My Fair Lady" which transferred to the West End.
