Howard Shore, for example, created a radiant "Lord of the Rings" concert piece from his soundtracks, and John Corigliano's "Red Violin Concerto" is being released September 5 by Sony in a Joshua Bell-led recording.

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Many, who saw the 10-piece band in concert, walked away feeling they had just seen the future of rock 'n' roll.

NPR: The Arcade Fire, Dark and Energetic

This talk of passion coupled with all the curvy and angular lines could lead one to suspect that there's a certain randomness to Gehry's structures, exemplified in an episode of The Simpsons in which Gehry builds a concert hall to mirror a crumpled piece of paper he finds on the ground.

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For a 2010 concert, it invited composer Jakub Ciupinski to write a piece that would be played in a three-story Brooklyn brownstone as the audience wandered through.

WSJ: Metropolis Ensemble Offers an Opera for the Elementary Set

The afternoon she performed a full concert for WFUV, Angelique Kidjo and her four-piece band ran through a few songs on the City Winery stage to fine-tune the sound system before the audience came in.

NPR: Angelique Kidjo: Dancing Her Way To The Front

The piece was the climax of Sir Simon Rattle's first concert as artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in September.

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The project recently passed phase two with the concert presented here, as Orpheus gave the first performance of Muse, a new piece by American composer, Christopher Theofanidis based on Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.

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