But, in the evening, lately, you might hear some Belle and Sebastian in my house (mostly "If You're Feeling Sinister") and probably some of Dvořák's "Poetic Tone Pictures".
The other composers she played — Aaron Jay Kernis, Victoria Bond, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom and Scott Wheeler — have the luxury of working in a time when painting vivid tone pictures and wrapping hummable themes in comfortably plush harmonies are accepted as legitimate options, with no apologies necessary (although Mr. Rorem, in his early days, faced some of the same criticism as Barber).
It was a faded and sepia-toned picture of a Little League team, 26 young men scowling in the sun, wearing the logo of the Vega Alta Cooperativa, the credit union where my grandfather worked for more than 20 years.
Scriabin, obsessed with the properties of particular tones, pictured the scale as a spectrum of color, sensation, and spiritual essence.
Characters and scenes from the 1900 "Sister Carrie" come to us through wrinkled and spotted sepia-tone pictures; scenes from "The Street" (1946) by Ann Petry seem to be lifted off a contact sheet of black-and-white prints.
When the owners, Jim Mamary, Paul Mamary and Alan Harding (who are behind Patois and other places), moved in this summer, they hung up sepia-tone pictures of long-ago regulars: sailors and their sweethearts and bleary eyed barflies.
Taking an old furniture advertisement, with its half-tone pictures of heavily upholstered settees and easy chairs ("3-piece suite £21"), Whiteread obscures the entire page with dull grey paint, leaving only a single ugly chair, sitting in dismal isolation.
Y-Tell, ClubJenna's wireless company, sells Jenna "moan tones," pictures, chat services and games in 50-50 partnerships with 20 carriers around the world.
– Content: Skype recently launched a new service called Personalize Skype, which brings the user rich content, such as ring tones, pictures and avatars.
