The Portico Quartet play a mix of hook-based music out of the traditions of Philip Glass and Steve Reich and contemporary jazz, with engagingly chiming themes delivered by steel pan-like Hang drums.
Pianist/composer Gwilym Simcock previewed the second of these two suites – Simple Tales, for a quintet featuring violin, cello and jazz trio – in London in January, and its intricate classical contrapuntalisms and diverse themes delivered with a punchy jazz freedom were impressive then, and are all the more so here.
Boardwalk Empire was epic and Greek in its themes, delivering one of the best final episodes of a series that I have ever seen.
Tonight Independent Lens, the PBS series and gold-standard purveyor of downbeat documentaries on serious themes, delivers "Motherland Afghanistan," an able and occasionally startling entry that will nonetheless do little to change your view of Afghanistan, American foreign policy or the documentary form.
Conveying a distinct sense of character and place, these ramped-up themes deliver us into the world of the Old American West, where Clint Eastwood's "Man with No Name" – a man so quick on the draw he'll put his order in with the local coffin maker on his way into town, and add to it, after the shootout, on his way out – loom both heroically and absurdly larger than life.
A theme delivered once again, with an exclamation point on Monday night.
Washington has proposed the theme "Delivering the Benefits of Democracy" for the assembly, in terms that suggest that the thrust of the debate will target Venezuela.
Andy Dick and Sharna Burgess: Former Homecoming King Andy Dick was right at home with the prom theme, delivering a truly entertaining cha cha.
"The people moving in want to see action on issues like education and sprawl, and it's the Democrats that have grabbed those themes and delivered.
This soaring collection of themes was delivered with panache by top-drawer musicians including the multi-reedist Alan Barnes, who coaxed his baritone saxophone, that most cumbersome-looking of instruments, into producing some fiercely swinging sounds.
Those themes are delivered in "The Paperboy" with slightly less ferocity than we've seen in the other films Daniels has had a hand in — "Precious," "Monster's Ball" and "The Woodsman" come to mind (the first he directed, the others he produced).
