Thus, the unfolding idea of freedom leads to the idea that, unless everyone is free, "freedom" will have no meaning.
Its twists come not from unfolding musical ideas but from the traumatic character of its chronicle.
Within its glistening patina of fixed states and rigorous motion is a demonstration, at times, of a more patient unfolding of ideas, yet "Wrought Iron Fog" is stilted by repetition and the sense that Mr. O'Connor has stretched his material too thin.
He made a more subtle connection too, focusing on Schoenberg's often fluid, sometimes tactile use of tone color in presenting slowly but inexorably unfolding musical ideas — and then, after the intermission, pointing up Brahms's use of similar techniques in the Second Symphony.
The second item, perhaps the least known of Schubert's serenades, is also one of his most heavenly creations: a seamless unfolding of one idea from another idea, each more inspired than the last.
Ed may have struggled with the weighty ideas unfolding onstage, but then so do many adult audience members.
Sometimes the music turns assertive and declamatory, with melodic ideas unfolding in thick, note-crammed, textured chords, harmonically ambiguous yet grounded.
If anything, too much is going on, with ideas unfolding at dazzling speed but not always coalescing.This might change in London, where the show opens next week after touring festivals in Vienna and Amsterdam in the spring.
In contemplating the coming decades, Congress should remember that international finance will be changing rapidly, and that the future can be secured only by adapting to a world of unfolding new rules, ideas and technologies.
The title of one of Reich's musicological essays, 'Music as a Gradual Process', is itself a neat explanation of his rigorous aesthetic, which involves the slow ritualistic unfolding of musical ideas.
