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.
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.
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.
If there is a word that should be retired from use in the service of women's expression, health, well-being, and equality, it is appropriate a sloppy, mushy word that purports to convey some important moral essence but in reality is just a policing term used to regulate our language, appearance, and demands.
It is true that the Martins absorbed cultural expressions of all sorts into their own world and put them to the service of their own self-expression.
In fact, once they have been decoded, Barnbrook's distinctive style can be appreciated as a personal expression in the service of mass communication, usually containing a social or political agenda.
