Sentence examples for restless work from inspiring English sources

Mr. Constant achieves his own kind of steely, jagged Impressionism in this lushly colored and restless work, steeped in Bergesque atonality.

When "Thoughts on Marvin Gaye," a restless work for string quartet by the adventurous jazz composer Don Byron, is the most conventional piece on the program, you know you are attending a no-fooling modern music event.

Mr. Salonen built a modern orchestra that can dispatch a complex Ligeti score and handle the meter-fracturing challenges of a restless work like Mr. Salonen's own "L.A. Variations".

"Tao (The Way)" from "Trilogy of the Last Day," which received its American premiere, conducted by Rand Steiger, was a spacey, quietly restless work for four softly amplified women's voices, chamber orchestra and solo piano, here Tomoko Mukaiyama, who also played koto and sang softly in the work's blissful final moments.

If that sounds like a big agenda for one piece, the concerto comes across as a rhapsodic, inspired and restless work, too immediate to weigh down listeners with philosophical musings The first movement opens with a long stretch for the solo violin that could be a neo-Baroque toccata, with nonstop spans of rippling 16th notes, until the orchestra begins to comment and respond.

The ensemble, which managed just fine without a conductor, brought luminous sound and lyrical grace to Grieg's wistful "Two Nordic Melodies" and gave a vigorous, technically assured account of "Sarek" (1992), by the Norwegian composer Terje Bjorklund, a short, restless work that recalled Neo-Classical Stravinsky interspersed with shades of Sibelius.

But I felt a little restless working my way through them.

Elements of serialism, evocations of ancient modal harmony and pungent, tonally grounded sonorities mix it up in his teeming, rhythmically restless works.

Directed by Ernest Dickerson — who shot several Spike Lee movies and has directed multiple episodes of "The Wire," "Treme" and "Dexter" — it comes on strong and stays there, in a state of almost constantly heightened tension supported by the restless camera work, which spends a lot of time in close like a fighter in a clinch, and a much-present moody soundtrack.

To keep those waiting from getting restless, Rafael Cruz worked the line, shaking hands and posing for photographs.

Leading us through the fair is Thomas Foley, 32, handsome, married and restless; he works for the Central Office of Information, writing pamphlets to alert the public to the safest way to cross a road.