Mr. Phares then delighted the audience with the off-color elements in Poulenc's "Chansons Gailliar des," moved on to a group of A. E. Housman poems set to valiant music by George Butterworth and concluded with three Harold Arlen songs that showed his ease in the 20th-century pop-standard idiom.
Given the long hours spent staring into the sky and sun, one look through the days and nights compressed into his stunning timelapse film Welcome to Doha, the director of the project could coin an industry-standard idiom: Michael Shainblum has a lot of time in his hands.
The history of popular music in the 1970s and '80s is basically that of rock music, which, with its variants, including disco, punk, and rap music, spread throughout the world and became the standard musical idiom for young people in many countries.
She doesn't stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation.
The body and its morphology are central to Irigaray's philosophical method, as she insists that sexuate being pervades one's existence, and that the pretense of shedding one's sex when writing or speaking in standard, familiar idioms and syntax causes the feminine to disappear into the masculine/neutral discourse that dominates the patriarchal order.
President Felipe Calderón, who has generally adhered to the standard US policy idiom of a "war on drugs", last week called for a debate on legalisation.
Full of shifts of weight with knees raised high and arms flung out, the kinetic shape on stage was a far cry from either standard modern-dance idioms of the last 50 years or of most traditional African dance.
This includes the Chinese of Buddhist translations, various forms of poetry, medical and legal texts, vernacular literature of different periods etc., and not only the more narrowly perceived "classical classical" Chinese of certain texts that the Confucian tradition has identified as a standard (i.e. the idiom of Mencius, The Analects, Sima Qian's Records of the Historian, etc).
Their chosen idiom reaches from standards and be-bop tunes to the border of Ornette Coleman's free jazz.
Hip-hop, however, is a term in flux when applied to Kafig, which transforms standard street moves into a codified dance idiom channeled into highly formal choreography.
