His piece Voices is a collection songs for the oppressed, a piece that gives voices to those who otherwise would not be heard; El Cimarron tells the story of the Cuban slave Esteban Montejo; We Come to the River was an overtly anti-war music-theatre experience, a set of "Actions for Music" devised by Henze and Edward Bond for Covent Garden in 1976.
The third piece, Voices in the Subway Station, is composed of 18 glass tablets lit from below by flickering LEDs that are programmed to pulse at various intervals creating a "visual symphony of light timed to rhythmic patterns reflective of the eclectic sounds of urban subway systems".
Why not include symphonic repertoire, chamber music, instrumental solos (a cello suite, a violin sonata, some solo piano pieces, voice, etc) in the same concert?
Emmet, with fellow pieces voiced by Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks and Jonah Hill, must click in place a plan to stop him.
Emmet, with fellow pieces voiced by Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks and Jonah Hill, must click a plan into place to stop him.
In his high-tech pieces, voices may be cut up, looped back, and layered upon themselves, but their raw emotions stay intact.
When I was reporting a piece on voice recognition for The New Yorker (it was called "Hello, HAL"), I watched a lot of voice-recognition demos, and one little thing almost always went wrong; that was how you could tell that the thing was far from human.
Mr. Kernis's new piece, "a Voice, a Messenger," a concerto written for Philip Smith, the Philharmonic's principal trumpeter, was canceled, to be rescheduled for a future program, possibly this season, a spokesman for the orchestra said.
In the case of this piece, the voice came to me with the very first sentences: "Mama said I was thenceforth to be her nephew, and to call her Aunt Dora.
These works framed a recent piece for voice and chamber orchestra by Maria Schneider, the jazz composer and big-band leader, and a group of five folk songs for soprano and string orchestra by Bartok, both featuring Dawn Upshaw.
