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...Vaughan Williams is often associated with flag-waving jingoism; English folk melody powerfully influenced his work....
...Their big breakthrough came with Janet Jackson’s Control in 1986 on which they honed a snappy sound based on staccato drum machines, bustling electro beats and irresistible melodies....
...All the musicians, somehow, seem to have brought their most lapidary melody-writing to the project....
...These are interleaved with six Iverson compositions that take tiny snatches of Beatles melodies as their starting point. The result is extraordinary....
...The evening began with jaunty melodies and an alternating pattern of light-touch funk and swing....
...The appeal of “The Long Black Veil” lies in its memorable melody and chorus, and lyrics that tell a compelling story from an unusual perspective....
...to ruminate over a snatch of melody in what felt like slow motion....
...He was approached in 2012 by the New York-based Morris and Christiansë with the “huge libretto” for a three-hour opera....
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...Photograph: Larry C Morris/The New York Times/Eyevine...
...score Atlantis (about that lost continent) generated a vital performance from conductor Joshua Gersen and three vocal soloists who grunted, gasped and squealed while Cowell’s voluptuous, quasi-oriental melodies...
...In place of a denouement, there are myriad deferrals, including a melody as delicate as a soap bubble to which Beethoven hopefully appends an Enlightenment hallelujah that sums up what never added up....
...In its sparsely instrumented demo form, the song starts with a plain lament from Jên before Morris and Bennett break in with an angry chant; Jên keeps the melody going and draws the Australian women in to...
...Morris hears in Stravinsky’s riotously up-and-down melodies a ragtag army of animal opportunism....
...Even before Morris turned 17, his shots of Marley and The Wailers had appeared on the covers of Time Out and Melody Maker and, in 1976, he was commissioned to take the first portraits of the Sex Pistols....
...Empire Garden, to Ives’ Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello – a mash-up of 19th-century American song, “jingoist ditty”, plaintive hymn and the composer’s own translucent melodies – stitches folk steps to chorine...
...LondonMark Morris Dance Group Choreographer Mark Morris’s contemporary dance company perform his adaptation of Handel’s L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato at the Coliseum from Wednesday....
...The modal jazz of “The New Fact” opened the second set and bassist Joe Morris walking firmly behind the soul-jazz melody of “Key Swing” closed it....
...Sentimental, I felt, and I went back to my hotel humming a melody by you know who....
...coat, the rest in breeches and shirts (the least tiresome outfits of the staging); the dance marked by bold, striding entries, broad-spanning leaps, and everywhere exploring Mozartian structure, shapes of melody...
...They were playing sentimental old Irish melodies, and their technique was impeccable....
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