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...He played the drums and imagined himself one day becoming a big band arranger, “a chap who takes someone else’s melody and turns it to his purpose”....
...In the recent rediscovery of African-American composers, William Grant Still (1895-1978) has not featured as prominently as he might, at least in the UK....
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...On the landing upstairs live Mrs Pond (Alix Dunmore), suffering from PTSD, and her vulnerably needy 17-year-old daughter (Nell Williams)....
...He wants to do something melodic, and he starts riffing on what makes a good melody. Once again, Reich begins to sing to illustrate a musical idea: “Da-da-da-daa, da-da-da-daa.”...
...Released in 2013, The Inheritors was named after a William Golding novel about the extinction of the last Neanderthal tribe by Homo sapiens....
...Vaughan Williams is often associated with flag-waving jingoism; English folk melody powerfully influenced his work....
...The trio capture the free-form flow of the original but, with Hart ghosting the melody on mallets, ups the ante from the start....
...“Smoke is known as a lyricist and melody man,” Williams says of Robinson. “Norman was smacking you across the face with that raw energy, the funky tracks....
...The real stroke of genius, though, is to offer the humble trombone — an instrument that rivals the didgeridoo and the triangle for inherent comedic potential — the main melody in every song....
...The five-year deal signed with Alibaba’s intellectual property licensing subsidiary, Alifish, will cover Sanrio’s cast of characters including Hello Kitty, My Melody and her rival devilish rabbit character...
...There was a glorious vivacity to the bold melodies and the saturated hues of the geometric stage design — a pivoting sundial-like disc and ladder that Lorde scaled at points....
...Haunted by snatches of melody from the miners, he starts to write, conjuring the play up before us on an empty stage....
...There is much guitar-led communication on Marisa Anderson and William Tyler’s Lost Futures....
...Co-produced by slam poet Saul Williams and Gonjasufi, they feature spoken-word passages alongside her throat-singing....
...The music mixed electric guitar and whistling (provided by another childhood friend, Alessandro Alessandroni) with powerful and original melodies....
...Soprano soloist Lucy Crowe floated ineffably angelic top notes and baritone Roderick Williams touched the heart with his solo from Milton....
...The tea towels are designed by William Kentridge – I love the fact he is one of the most expensive artists in the world, but here in the shop are these simple textiles, white cotton with his drawings printed...
...Apple unveiled a new version of its Apple Watch, which “has been completely re-engineered to reduce the borders to just 1.7 millimetres”, Jeff Williams, Apple’s operations chief, said....
...Recently musician friends like SmallX, José James and Kamaal Williams have been giving me records, and it would be great to be able to listen to them again....
...It is noisy, frenzied, lustful — William Hazlitt thought Poussin’s sly satyrs “more secretly depraved” than those of the voluptuary Rubens — but underpinned by tight structure: controlled chaos....
...Swing what nature gave you”, was apparently partially inspired by the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams and his book The Ape that Understood the Universe....
...“Rhythms and melodies are everywhere; for me they are part of architecture,” says Adjaye. “They can enhance the telling of a story.”...
...The enigmatic but rarely performed consorts of the Cavalier composer William Lawes (killed by Parliamentarians at the Siege of Chester in 1645) are recommended....
...The US law professor William McGeveran coined the word “selfmarks” to describe the personalising of trademark law....
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