Early on, Rachmaninoff also showed himself an astute reader of poetry who captured mood and subtexts and put arching melody at the service of poetic expression.
Manfred Eicher, founder of ECM Records, said he saw Mr. Burton in the Getz quartet and "was immediately struck by his melodic imagination as a soloist and, of course, by the phenomenal technique which was always at the service of lyrical expression".
Macdonald suggests that unlike Wagner, Alkan did not seek to refashion the world through opera; nor, like Berlioz, to dazzle the crowds by putting orchestral music at the service of literary expression; nor even, as with Chopin or Liszt, to extend the field of harmonic idiom.
Vocal fold tension is under significant volitional control, often in service of linguistic expression (Ohala 1983; Johnstone and Scherer 2005); however, it is also subject to nonvolitional influence (Scherer 1986; Johnstone and Scherer 2005) via changes in respiratory patterns, diaphragmatic and abdominal tension, and hormonal status, all of which are influenced by affective state (Titze 1994).
An elegant narrative might be strung together from a series of sonnets, a form in the service of complex expressions of thought and feeling; Vikram Seth pulled it off in his first novel, "The Golden Gate," in 1986.
The combination of services in a service expression through the operators defined by the service algebra makes it possible to generate cooperating user interfaces for complex data navigation and manipulation.
Countries keep a firm hand on imports, while paying lip-service to freedom of expression.
Having thus oriented himself in the ungrateful acoustic of the vast, echoing room -- which now and then dragged his intonation a little flat -- he proceeded to sing his guts out in the first of Liszt's "Three Sonnets of Petrarch," establishing what were to remain the highlights of the evening: ringing sound in the service of meaningful musical expression.
"Bel canto" means simply "beautiful singing" but the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini demand a good deal more than that – their works require singers to do extraordinary things with their voices, not in a spirit of ostentatious showing off, but rather placing their virtuosity in the service of heightened dramatic expression.
February 3 , 1904 February 19 , 1975lorence, Italy Luigi Dallapiccola, (born Florence, Italyisino, Istria, Austrian Empire [now Pazin, Croatia]—died Feb. 19, 1975, FLuigice), Italian composer, noteworthy for putting the Dallapiccola12-tone serial technique at the service of warm, emotional expression.
