The inclusion of new music has always been important, not just for its own sake — that is, for the future of the art form — but as a way to keep older works vibrant by juxtaposing them with the new.
His work is vibrant and exciting, and yet seems to be mostly focused on the classics.
Mr. Taylor's 1981 work, a vibrant showcase for six men and three women set to William Boyce's baroque music, remains a technical test.
His strongest work is vibrant with a sense of right and wrong — or, more specifically, of why doing wrong can feel, to the corrupted soul, so damningly right.
One thing that makes the Dardennes' work so vibrant, at once new and seemingly timeless, is that they ask the most urgent questions we can ask of ourselves — including, what is it to be human — and in nondoctrinaire, nonproscriptive terms.
He began with Stravinsky's early "Scherzo Fantastique" (1908), a work of vibrant orchestral hues but barely a hint of the rhythmic energy that would make "The Rite of Spring" so incendiary only five years later.
The women of the Berlin Radio Chorus and the orchestra of strings, keyboards and percussion (with the ondes martenot lending its inimitable whoops and flutterings) brought the work to vibrant life.
The show, "Works on Paper 1976-1977," features pieces drawn from museum and private collections, including "1-7 Untitled (for Babette)," from the Museum of Modern Art, a seven-part geometric work in vibrant red acrylic, and "1-12 12 Monate," from a private collection, which features 12 painted drawings that refer to the 12 months of the year.
"America has always been a nation of immigrants, and throughout the nation's history, immigrants from around the globe have kept our work force vibrant, our businesses on the cutting edge, and helped to build the greatest economic engine in the world," the White House report said.
