Word: sonata
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...issue at Pierre Gagnaire's three-star restaurant on Paris's rue Balzac, www.pierre-gagnaire.com, where customers happily indulge in a six-course, all-vegetable menu légume. Gagnaire regards himself as a culinary musician who knows that a world-class vegetable can make the difference between a sonata and a symphony. "Give me a violin that's only average, and I'll still be capable of making it cry," he says. "But give me a Stradivarius, and I will go further still ..." To create his endive sorbet with coquelicot vinegar, artichoke and truffle raviole, or cinnamon-grilled leek velout...
...scene, the quick cross-cuts between shots of live-action and shots of a housing development model match the beats and thumps of the music. The sounds, however, are only a part of the film’s internal pulse. Each character’s arc acts as a sonata to the film’s whole, and scenes are explosive not because of physical action but rather because of latent energy. “Lymelife” is a dark satire, like “Little Miss Sunshine,” and its power draws from irony and moments...
...Boston. His performance, which fused musical mastery with a hearty dose of his characteristic flair for the dramatic, proved all of the hype about him was well justified. Settling himself at the Steinway concert piano, Lang opened with a poetic rendition of Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959. In the first movement, the interplay of soprano and tenor voices created a chorus of classical lines that conveyed a dialogue of teasing questions and indignant retorts. Raising a finger to his lips as if to silence the piano, Lang Lang physically signaled...
...professor in the Harvard University Music Department from 1961 until his retirement in 1989. Now living in New York City, Kirchner composed the orchestral version of “The Forbidden” as the third part of his triptych of the same name, which includes a piano sonata written in 2003 and a string quartet from 2006. Kirchner, who studied with both Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg, describes this piece as a mixture of past compositional techniques with contemporary twelve-tone techniques. Although “The Forbidden” was originally commissioned for 2006, the work was pushed...
...fingers that, when they were not at the keyboard, habitually clutched a cigar. Technically, his sturdy playing was far from the blazing virtuosic ideal. Yet for concert audiences between the wars, Schnabel was among the foremost of pianists, his name synonymous with Beethoven's. His recitals of the piano sonatas were like religious services, and his editions of the music were admired for their combination of scholarship and pragmatism. The concerto recordings were made between 1932 and 1935, at the height of Schnabel's interpretive powers. Probity is the operative word here; the German notion of ''depth'' had no greater...