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And then, again, below this middle stratum, more bare canvas flecked by a few further coloristic footnotes.
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Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2024
Orchestral writing in Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) is a marvel of textural and coloristic effects, and two of the songs were repurposed in Mahler’s Second Symphony.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
For her part Skride conveyed the music with a crisp technique and moments of conviction, but her playing never really caught fire and overall had little of the coloristic variety or expressive depth required to truly lift this performance onto a higher interpretive plane.
—Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
This is crucial to the dark magic of race-making: those interested in the architecture of exclusion—and, ultimately, in the atmosphere of death that such exclusion takes as its necessary tribute—are always finding new specifics, phrenological or coloristic, on which to hang their terrible claims.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2024
Orchestral writing in Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) is a marvel of textural and coloristic effects, and two of the songs were repurposed in Mahler’s Second Symphony.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
For her part Skride conveyed the music with a crisp technique and moments of conviction, but her playing never really caught fire and overall had little of the coloristic variety or expressive depth required to truly lift this performance onto a higher interpretive plane.
—Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
This is crucial to the dark magic of race-making: those interested in the architecture of exclusion—and, ultimately, in the atmosphere of death that such exclusion takes as its necessary tribute—are always finding new specifics, phrenological or coloristic, on which to hang their terrible claims.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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“Coloristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coloristic. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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