Word: symphonicment
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For director Steven Soderbergh, The Good German is an exercise in style--retro style. Although his film is set in postwar Berlin, he made it, as the studios once did, on back lots and locations around Los Angeles. He used old-fashioned process photography instead of CGI for his special...
This week sees the Sydney Opera House world premiere of Lim's new work for didgeridoo, flute and orchestra, and the SSO may never sound the same again. The Perth-born composer was interested in how Barton could reconfigure the symphonic frequencies of the orchestra, and The Compass is about...
But to say that is to sell the film short. Duelist?s hyper-romantic impulses and lush symphonic music, plus the backlighting, the stately swordplay, the fat snowflakes, not to mention more slo-mo shots than in a Wong Kar-wai retrospective - all these effects heroicize the enterprise, making it...
What this means is that depending on what time you tune in, you might catch a song by “Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno,” or alternatively, Zemlinsky’s “Symphonic Songs” played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Come...
Composer of Egypt’s current national anthem, “Biladi” (My Homeland), Darweesh was as innovative as he was prodigious, and he is famous for introducing harmony and counterpoint to Arabic composition and including parts for Western symphonic instruments in his ensemble pieces. His career...