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...“We’re starting to see regulators recognise that the hedge fund manager plays an important role in the market by providing better liquidity and reducing transaction costs,” said Melody Yang, partner at law...
...Murdo MacFarlane’s song of homesickness for the Isle of Lewis, “’s Fhada Leam an Oidhche Gheamhraidh”, as sung here by Newton, has the yearning melody of a dead-slow waulking song....
...“In Tune” features the poet Amir Sulaiman reciting verses about racism over a sombre, Radiohead-influenced piano melody....
...Confusingly, its melody is that of the British national anthem. Which was, in fact, the point....
...Much has been made locally of the elitism of the new Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s west side, including the $475m raised for the lavish Shed, its new cultural centrepiece....
...The music the 15-person cast made had as much to do with vocal anatomy — the clack of teeth, the air moving through the throat — as with melody and harmony....
...John on the idea for ‘Imagine’ “Imagine” is a song conceived in my head without melody....
...The melodies float on a bed of acoustic guitar, glockenspiel and sansula, a smooth thumb piano....
...“Moths In The Gaslight” has an affectingly melancholy melody; “All The Stars Are Coming Out Tonight” resurrects the brassy swagger of Bellowhead. ★★★★☆...
...Violent bass breakdowns and beats interrupt shimmering melodies while politicised lyrics address drone warfare, mass surveillance and climate change....
...Still, Richard Hudson’s folkloric designs in blazing reds and oranges, after the illustrious Natalia Goncharova, suffuse the stage with heat and joy. And the choreography certainly has its moments....
...Hudson Mohawke Lantern (Warp) “I never wanted to be any genre,” says Hudson Mohawke. “I wanted to be my own thing. Everything.”...
...Strauss’s technical wizardry was fully intact for this late work, though he was distinctly parsimonious in adorning his glittering score with memorable melody....
..., because the melodies and rhythms are modelled on what I used to hear as a child when I went into the village.”...
...Richard Hudson’s other-worldly set design features a sea of red poppies, brightly coloured parrots and giant spiders. Riccardo Frizza conducts. Armida continues until May 15....
...Seated at a concert piano in the field, a lone pianist improvised haunting melodies as students in twos and threes, coming and going from every direction, walked, ran, skipped and turned cartwheels and handstands...
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