Word: idiom
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...Wang has clearly not fully absorbed American customs as yet,” Fox wrote, “so a message in his own idiom might reassure...
...Oceanid” and “Back to Bach,” the two newly-premiered pieces he choreographed, Mateo is as much working within the classical idiom of épaulement, glissade and ballotté as with the vocabulary of modern choreographers like Martha Graham. Mateo says his choreography moves beyond a mere extension of the tradition to translate “the intrinsic arrogance and aloofness of ballet” into that which is accessible to contemporary audiences of all “ethnic and economic backgrounds...
...from their $100 bills by the lure of ancient songs and what can pass for the old innocence. Composers choose a remote temporal setting partly because everyone else does, partly because the distant past accommodates their quaint or strained lyric styles; Broadway hasn't sung in a modern pop idiom for almost a half-century. The Street can't decide whether it wants to be a museum or a mausoleum...
...label. Neither Benson nor his rhythm guitarists ever take solos and stray away from founding chords in performance or on the album, but this is one damn good garage band. Benson Benson is a much better than average vocalist, his licks are compelling, and his experimentation within the garage idiom so refreshing that restraint hardly matters. Lapalco’s appropriately titled opener “Tiny Spark” greets with random electronica samples from the mid-1980s, but then rolls over into an upbeat, self-confessing rocker that is quintessential road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson...
...wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas - plus three staircases - into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...