THE WAYWARD CLOUD Opens today in Manhattan.
The notorious Roslavets études pick up where those sonatas leave off in their wayward harmonic language.
The music looks forward with its wayward harmonic language, but also backward to the refined classicism of Gluck, Berlioz's idol.
He confidently adapted the 12-tone idiom to his distinctive musical and dramatic aims, reining in a wayward Bergian language with ravishing moments of tonal mooring.
As performed here Mr. Mehldau's harmonic language, dense with wayward chords, seemed like a latter-day riff on Zemlinsky and his circle.
Or alternatively - utter annoyance, anger, revulsion even, at the wayward density and posturing of his language.
Frannie, the heroine of Jane Campion's "In the Cut," is a writer and teacher who collects curious scraps of language: pungent specimens of slang, wayward metaphors, provocative jargon.
At times it has a ferocious intensity, and the harmonic language is thickly chromatic and wildly wayward.
Berg's "Seven Early Songs," which came next, employ a boldly chromatic harmonic language approaching atonality; it is crucial that the wayward vocal line be sung on pitch.
Mr. Constant's complex musical language draws from a wide range of styles: Impressionism, wayward atonality, bolts of 12-tone writing, ecstatic harmonic explorations that recall Messiaen.
