The whodunit is well wrapped up — anyone schooled in "L.A. Confidential" will have solved it long before — and, as with "Blade Runner," the glare and heat of Dick's imaginings seem to outglow the settlement of narrative scores.
Be warned, however, that this is Kramer's Carmen, not Bizet's: a version of the work, rather than an interpretation, it plays fast and loose with narrative and score.
The descriptive statistics for the narrative task scores are presented in Table 1.
Frederick Douglass' narrative, like scores of other slave narratives, became instrumental in communicating the plight of "millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance" in that their firsthand accounting of the the horrors of chattel slavery, and the urgent need to abolish it, became a clarion call for the cause of freedom.
As with the narrative, the musical score endures both regional and internal variations, Wong variously shifting from cues by Shigeru Umebayashi and Nathaniel Méchaly to Stefano Lentini's Stabat Mater and Ennio Morricone's La Donna Romantica and (notably) Deborah's Theme from Once Upon a Time in America.
It was "not an easy undertaking," the composer tells The Creators Project in order to get a feel for the emotions and narrative of the score.
Frenzied war-drums and bhangra strings score narratives that are as intelligently constructed as they are incendiary and which demand more than the cursory listen afforded by those who recently condemned the album.
The conscious mind cannot reconcile his 4-1 record as quarterback of the Broncos with his ineptitude as a passer, so the mind snaps and creates a narrative in which scoring 27 offensive points in two weeks is somehow a hallmark of excellence.
Stevie May has been a revelation and it was easy to buy into the narrative of him scoring the winner, possibly with a piece of brilliance, potentially in the last seconds of an epic final.
A review of Chris Wheeldon's latest story ballet contends that "one of the marks of a good score for narrative ballet is that it directs the gaze rather than drawing attention to itself".
And Mr. Gergiev brought taut narrative continuity to the score.
