The intensity of the 45-minute piece lies in Mr. MacMillan's fierce, harmonically tense writing for the trio of travelers, tightly rendered by tenors Neal Ferreira and Samuel Levine and baritone David McFerrin, who sang as one, with an otherworldly character that befit the voice of God.
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Since leaving Pfizer, I have spent a good deal of time defending the pharmaceutical industry, having written a couple of books and by writing the occasional piece for Forbes.com.
Tina has four standout arias, tracing her awakening to life and feeling after years in the shadows, as the Lodger seduces her to get access to the papers. (Their a cappella duet at the end of Act I is an ingenious piece of writing.) As Juliana, the fierce Alexandra Deshorties slipped easily from embodying the young opera diva, warbling bel canto-style coloratura, to the old crone.
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The concerns centre on a section of the English test, where pupils are asked to produce a piece of creative writing - an area which has attracted complaints in recent years.
Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing, what governs the choice?
As of this writing, 38 of the 40 companies have released an image of their donated piece.
For me the most interesting aspect is the act of creativity itself, how a novel piece of writing emerges or a new insight into science takes place.
Writing about video games and technology everyday means that I (hopefully) get better at the writing but also I piece together an understanding of where the games industry is today and what opportunities and dangers it has in the future.
When writing, think first about the overall purpose of the piece.
The fact that none other than John Updike chronicled that game in a now legendary piece of writing was an added bonus.
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He says he was conscious, as he was writing the piece, that it would have to be played by orchestras of varying skill levels.
Mr. Spears, a young, New York-based postminimalist composer, matches the spareness of Ms. Moshiri's text with luminous, pointillistic writing for his five-piece chamber orchestra.
And finally, since the world is a strange and wonderful place sometimes, while writing this piece an email came from some friends of mine with their Xmas gift: a donation in my name to Doctors Without Borders.
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He gets his laughs, but Tony's self-irony has been replaced by the star's self-comment, and it doesn't help that the writing often depends on glib banter, the most conspicuous example of which is an extended set piece in small-town Tennessee.
As I just tried to outline, I think the elements of the Shelby approach, the Republican alternative in the Senate, are things that really gut the strength of this piece of this important legislation with respect to independence, with respect to accountability, effective rule-writing, and then obviously the need for enforcement across this marketplace.
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