The requisite Fosse-style flair is provided by a skilled ensemble that includes Deirdre Goodwin, Brent Barrett and P. J. Benjamin.
The requisite Fosse-style flair is provided by a skilled ensemble that includes Deidre Goodwin, Brent Barrett and P. J. Benjamin.
Davies returned to England and in 1967 cofounded, with the composer Harrison Birtwistle, the Pierrot Players (renamed the Fires of London in 1970), a highly skilled ensemble dedicated to contemporary music.
Key to making "Middle of Nowhere" so effective is how DuVernay makes her film a showcase for strong work by a skilled ensemble (Aisha Coley did the casting), with special mention inevitably going to Emayatzy Corinealdi playing Ruby, the wife in question.
A work-for-hire violinist and string arranger, he has more recently started to become a kind of Wynton Marsalis or Gunther Schuller for the postsoul, semijazz, pacifist-hip-hop continuum: a leader of skilled ensembles, a celebrator of repertories, an organizer of legacies.
Led by its spirited music director, Louis Langrée, the festival's orchestra is a skilled freelance ensemble.
He drew an electrifying, sumptuously colorful and commanding account of this eclectic score from the Philharmonic players and Synergy Vocals, the highly skilled eight-member ensemble that sang the Sinfonia's experimental vocal component, originally conceived for the Swingle Singers.
Lee, the film's director, is a skilled nurturer of ensemble chemistry, best known for "The Best Man" franchise, which follows a group of men and women navigating the petty trials of adult friendship.
The orchestral music, here played by 26 skilled instrumentalists of Ensemble Modern under the conductor Johannes Debus, unfolds as a series of passing, mostly quiet rumbles, riffs and alluringly atonal harmonies, with bold stretches of silence through which, occasionally, a raw blast or sudden fitful volley breaks.
Yet on the whole, this was not a very satisfying concert, for reasons perhaps beyond the control of this skilled 13-member ensemble.
Led by the trumpeter David Weiss, a skilled arranger for large ensembles, the ensemble features Ravi Coltrane and Marcus Strickland on tenor and soprano saxophones and Jeremy Pelt on trumpet, with an ace rhythm section.
