His new book, "Snowdon on Stage," contains action portraits, pensive studies, and candid snapshots of the cream of successive London scenes: Olivier, Gielgud, Guinness, Ashcroft, Scofield, Osborne, Finney, Stoppard, the Redgraves, and so many more that it seems like everyone.
This mercurial duo, a study in contrasts with pensive passages of sustained harmony, pugnacious outbursts, obsessive repetitions and eerie colorings, sounds as if it were scored for an orchestra of violas, which was the composer's intention.
The clarinetist Todd Palmer was penetrating in the work's pensive introduction and conclusion.
Most of the work is pensive and verbal.
"Antenna," a highlight of "The Eternal," was a case study in that regard: a pensive ballad sung by Mr. Moore in unison with a lead guitar line, it featured a quiet flood of noise and overtones.
The Museum of Modern Art's "New York Movie" (1939), with its pensive usher, is flanked here by 52 studies.
He studied it with a deliberate and pensive gaze.
"The study wasn't entirely successful in showing that pensive architecture produces the exact same effect as meditation," Hyperallergic's Laura C. Mallonee pointed out.
On his return to the United States, however, his work assumed a quieter, more pensive aspect.
