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  • That whooshing serves as an overture to the 16 tracks of recorded music that animate the rest of the work's dr eamlike episodes.

    Tides of Memory Robert Greskovic 2010

  • Acquiescing, Strauss took his work's title from a line in a poem by Karl Isidor Beck.

    The Waltz That Defines Vienna Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

  • The versatile Bang on a Can, some of whose classically trained members play in rock bands, ably capture the work's snappy rhythms.

    P Barbara Jepson 2010

  • Bathed by Fernando Jacon's often white overhead lighting, this rocklike formation (set design by Peter Pabst) gets kissed by moonlight and contrasts strikingly with what ends up becoming the work's water-water - everywhere theme.

    Tides of Memory Robert Greskovic 2010

  • On Nov. 19 and 20, Mr. Gilbert will conduct the work's premiere performances on a program that also features Grisey's last completed work.

    Lindberg Makes His Mark on the N.Y. Philharmonic David Mermelstein 2010

  • The work's radicalism would surely have delighted Robert Rauschenberg, the great American artist who died in 2008.

    Martin Creed's stairway to heaven 2011

  • Serge's neglect can be attributed to various things: not only the fact that he was always and everywhere an outsider, but also, somewhat paradoxically, to his work's being imbued, even in the face of horror, with an irrepressible, almost incorrigible, vitality.

    Deals 2010

  • That work's point of departure was Jacques-Louis David's neoclassical "Intervention of the Sabine Women."

    A Dystopian Film That Directs Itself 2011

  • An exhibition at the Fruitmarket last year, filling the gap created by the public work's delay, irritatingly made Creed look like an artist obsessed with numbers and clever-clever plays on pattern.

    Martin Creed's stairway to heaven 2011

  • The concert, which will be repeated on Friday and again next Tuesday, marks this massive work's first indoor performance in the U.S.

    Lindberg Makes His Mark on the N.Y. Philharmonic David Mermelstein 2010

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