In "ni die saa" (the title means "I do paint music" in Zapotec), which here received its world premiere by the fearless International Contemporary Ensemble, the musicians engaged in a rite of violence against their instruments in which the relatively muted sounds they produced were completely at odds with the furious effort expended.
If Fender can use digital tools like a new tuner app it's building to keep musicians engaged, it stands to sell them a lot more guitars, amplifiers and more over their lifetime.
The opera brought to a close Mr. Muti's five-year term as artistic leader of the festival, during which it was possible to see the unusual and intensely stimulating phenomenon of one of the world's foremost musicians engaging in a project of musical excavation.
But here were musicians palpably engaged in a collective experience, instincts afire, emboldened by their conductor to play with character, urgency and risk.
A jury of musicians was engaged specially to choose the bell, which is described as having a pleasing, silvery note of medium pitch, but average volume, "which can be heard well, but which will never make a nervous subscriber jump".
It's a bold example of the musicological rethinking of jazz that so many musicians are engaged in right now; you'll see a lot more Pan-American albums like it.
That the musicians are engaged by the work and the musicianly thinking that has gone into the programming is borne out by their playing, which is typically incisive and full of vitality.
As the reality of Trump's Inauguration has sunk in, and the sense of emergency on the cultural left has deepened, artists, actors, writers, and musicians have engaged in increasingly vehement expressions of dissent, forming an outpouring of protest unlike any in modern Presidential history.
To ensure that our musicians were still musically active, we required musicians to engage in musical activities such as practicing, teaching or performing a minimum of three times a week.
The digital Darwinism that results from a "level playing field with everybody playing on it," says Mr Leonhard, will drive musicians to engage listeners in terms of both price and quality as never before.
We predicted that QAP musicians would engage additional neurocognitive processes to assist their more limited AP template, as reflected by their lesser AP skill.
