These solos entered an atmosphere made stormy by the theremin and synthesizers of Robert Wheeler, crackling machines that unassumingly filled any space between notes.
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At the other end of the sale, three of Motown's most popular acts prove their worth with top-notch recordings that never saw release, a subtle and soulful reading of the Sixties hit Stormy by Diana Ross and The Supremes, a "My Cherie Amour -styled "Just Enough to EAmour -styled by Stevie Wonder.
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The eclectic score (by Zakir Hussain, lyrical and stormy passages by Miguel Frasconi and recordings by Miriam Makeba) accompanies soloists as well as the ensemble.
TO MY CHAGRIN Written and performed by Peggy Shaw, in collaboration with the musician and sound designer Vivian Stoll; edited and directed by Lois Weaver; choreographed by Stormy Brandenberger; costumes by Susan Young; stage management, Larkin Callaghan.
Saturday's concert opened and ended with wild pieces separated by 260 years, both inspired by stormy weather: "Chaos" by the French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Jean-Féry Rebelirst, and "wasther One" by the American composer Michael Gordon, written in 1997, the last.
Grander still, "Oedipus Rex" benefited from lucid narration by the actress Kathleen Chalfant, stormy exhortations by Mr. Relyea and the larger-than-life presence of Jennifer Larmore as Jocasta.
Ms. Tharp turned somber in "Surfer at the River Styx," to a taped accompaniment in which stormy music by Mr. Knaack gave way to a calm coda by David Kahne.
Among the most striking are a haunting Rembrandtesque portrait of a dead baby painted by Bartholomeus van der Helst in 1645 and a small, stormy seascape by the great 17th-century Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael.
Also worth noting in this room is a tiny if achingly soulful circa 1828 scene of a stormy sea by John Constable, along with a panoramic if unconvincing seascape by the respected British painter, and, later, father of Australian landscape painting, John Glover.
