It was in those moments that the full measure of his charisma came across, since the unaccompanied setting gave him a chance to lower his volume, expand and contract his tempo, and play with some subtleties of tone.
At the same time, he produced perhaps his deepest choral masterpiece, Vigilia, a large-scale unaccompanied setting of the Orthodox all-night vigil of St John the Baptist in which the composer recalled a "vision-inducing childhood visit to the island monastery of Valamo in the middle of Lake Ladoga just before the winter war in 1939".
There is probably no more assertive way to begin a violin recital than with this towering, unaccompanied set of variations.
In the quintet's unaccompanied set, Roosevelt's speech surfaced alongside a delicate weaving of vibraphone and accordion sounds on Hollenbeck's recollection of 9/11, a reverie devoted to Wayne Shorter, and some elliptical Latin music.
The connection with Holst was a direct one here: his Fields of Sorrow, the last of a group of Canons for unaccompanied voices, sets the same Ausonius text that Birtwistle used for his work of the same name nearly 40 years later.
His 10-minute dissection of the 1945 hit Since I Fell for You – begun delicately in flicks and hints, hurried and leaned on by assertive left-hand figures, then turned dreamy in an unaccompanied episode – sets the standard for the set.
In addition, UNICEF and partners assisted with the registration of almost 2,000 separated and unaccompanied children, set up 21 children's centres and coordinated psychosocial activities; and helped to clean up schools and distributed school supplies, including tents, recreation kits, 6,000 'schools in a box', and close to 600,000 text books.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901872 Poulenc's unaccompanied choral setting of eight Paul Eluard poems is a majestic mix of religious and political themes, praying for peace while asserting individual human liberty.
As Quine (1956 [1976], §V) observed, in the actual practice of choosing axioms for set theory, we seem to be left "making deliberate choices and setting them forth unaccompanied by any attempt at justification other than in terms of their elegance and convenience," appeals to the meanings of terms be hanged (although see Boolos' 1971 defense of the "iterative conception of set").
But the Karnes detention facility was repurposed as a family detention center in 2014 when a growing number of Central American mothers, children and unaccompanied minors entered the U.S., setting off a storm of political controversy.
Here he performs an unaccompanied solo set: something he has done periodically to great effect in recent years, and something he'll do on an album due out next year.
