The music on "Play" encompasses everything from muscular big beat tunes in the radio-friendly mode of Fatboy Slim, to spare, spooky trip-hop atmospherics, to ballads that strive for art-rock grandiosity.
Use of a chess clock for league play encompasses 2 phases.
That opportunity is more commonly called "quad play," encompassing broadband, TV, voice and wireless services.
As a pianist, his playing encompasses gospel flamboyance and classical filigree, Tin Pan Alley briskness and New Orleans barrelhouse; as a songwriter, he has tried out genres from the doo-wop of 'The Longest Time' to the Celtic waltz of 'Piano Man' to the Gershwinesque delicacy of 'Lullaby.' His voice has the flexibility to mimic Paul McCartney, Ray Charles or Irish pub singers".
In the telecommunication industry, triple-play encompasses the provisioning of three services: (1) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) through the use of a broadband connection, (2) video on demand (VoD) to broadcasting television, and (3) high-speed Internet with high-performance data transfers.
Calderón contributed to an emerging musical comedy form, the zarzuela (El jardín de Falerina [1648; "The Garden of Falerina"]), and cultivated many subgenres; his numerous secular plays encompassed both comedy and tragedy.
Although I've spent several pages analyzing what Hill doesn't do, one play can encompass most of his strengths.
Obviously it is a white writer's vision but, historically, it was the first serious American play to encompass black experience.
It's rare for a play to encompass such extremes of violence and tenderness; and the intensity is further enhanced by the dark symbolism of Ned Bennett's production.
For Billington, The Emperor Jones is "the first serious American play to encompass black experience" and offers "a hallucinatory history of African-American experience as the hero is invaded by race memories of chain gangs, slave auctions and Congo witchdoctors".
