Mr. Varone set "The Beating of Wings" to recorded excerpts from Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird".
Justifiably proud of the performance the group presented on campus in November, Mr. Ryan sent recorded excerpts to friends.
Recorded excerpts of the judges discussing the shortlisted writers were shown for the first time tonight during a televised presentation.
Recorded excerpts from "Appomattox" played during a recent news conference suggested a grittier, more dissonant idiom arguably better suited to the complexity of the opera's subject.
On Monday evening during the second program in "Sound Reimagined: John Cage at 100," the Juilliard School's weeklong tribute to Cage, some recorded excerpts were played from "Lecture on Nothing".
On Friday night at Gould Hall, the Saba Dance Theater offered a re-telling of "The Sleeping Beauty," to recorded excerpts from Tchaikovsky's ballet of that name and selections by a group called Ninety-eleven.
There is music: extended recorded excerpts from Delibes's ballet score for "Sylvia," sound effects (rain, thunder) and guitar-based music (acoustic and rockish electric) from James Lo with Mike Iveson and Bert Janusch.
But she went too far, I thought, by setting up Vissarion Shebalin and Dmitri Kabalevsky as foils to demonstrate the superiority of Shostakovich when she played recorded excerpts from string quartets from the 1940's by all three.
Ross said he is planning three lectures at the festival "that will give an overview of 20th-century styles and ideas, with the aid of dozens of recorded excerpts and images".
To recorded excerpts from Wagner's "Parsifal" (and, for some reason, "Walküre"), booming through the neighborhood, acrobats dangled from huge cranes or perched atop the building, acting out themes and gestures from the opera, which the uninitiated could only have found mystifying.
