It is classified as a Menippean satire, a fusion of allegorical tale, platonic dialogue, and lyrical poetry.

" Robert Christgau also applauded the album, calling it " Grand, powerful, grating, and surprisingly lyrical " and commenting that " this does for classical-rock fusion what John McLaughlin's Devotion did for jazz-rock fusion.

With lyrical intensity they reveal what they hate, but their faith in love, inspired by the revolutionary rhythms of jazz, culminates in the climax of the orgasm.

* Competitive dance, in which a variety of theater dance styles such as: acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and tap, are permitted.

Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), influenced by jazz styles, and Candide ( 1956 ), with its sweeping, lyrical passages and farcical parodies of opera, both opened on Broadway but became accepted as part of the opera repertory.

Musical jazz references became less obvious and less sustained, and lyrical references to jazz certainly more rare.

As a musician, Harper is known for his distinctive fingerstyle playing and lengthy, lyrical, complex compositions, a result of his love of jazz and Keats.

The dancers in this image are members of a tap dance class. Competitive dance is a popular, widespread activity in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles — such as acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, and tap — before a common group of judges.

All dance competitions include categories for specific dance styles such as acro, ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, pointe and tap.

From 1955 through 1960 Erdman toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U. S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include Changingwoman ( 1951 ) with a commissioned score by Henry Cowell including vocalizations by Erdman as she moved through a multi-colored abstract projected environment, Portrait of a Lady created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight track commissioned score, Dawn Song, a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, Fearful Symmetry ( 1956 ) an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, The Tyger to Ezra Laderman's Sonata for Violincello in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and Four Portraits from Duke Ellington's Shakespeare Album ( 1958 ), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.

In Michigan, it is reported that Lusha enrolled in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical and cheerleading.

Some drill teams compete at various competitions in the spring in other dance styles such as hip hop, jazz, lyrical, clogging, and kick.

The daughter of poet, Paul Haines ( best known for his lyrical collaboration with Carla Bley in the 1971 jazz opera Escalator over the Hill ), Haines left London at the age of three.

There is also the Southern Virginia University Dance Company, which performs many different styles of dance at different functions throughout the year, including ballet, jazz, lyrical, and hip-hop.

Q gave You Were Here 3 of 5 stars and called it " Lounge jazz, drum loops and lead guitar chops support a vocalist whose lyrical panache ... marks her out from the crowd.

Their distinctive sound came from combining electric guitar and jazz horns with soaring Mandinka and Bamabara lyrical lines, African and western drums, and local instruments such as the kora and the Balafon.

Giving it four-and-a-half out of five stars, Down Beat complimented its " simpler, drier, more austere sound " and stated " the unrehearsed, rough Miles Smiles holds up so well simply because it was more of a jazz record [...] Davis ' exquisite waltz, ` Circle ,' showcases his lyrical, muted-trumpet playing ".

As a high school student, she studied many forms of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, and pointe.

She started dancing competitively in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical at age 4.

Buchtel went on to play with Blood, Sweat and Tears, Jaco Pastorius and Woody Herman ; Harrell became one of the most lyrical trumpet soloists of all-time, working often with saxophonist Phil Woods ; Abel Zarate went on to play with Latin-jazz legend Willie Bobo and continues to play Latin / Brazilian Global jazz in San Francisco with his group Zarate Pollace Project.

Railroad Earth's music combines elements of bluegrass, rock and roll, jazz, celtic and more, and the group is also known for its extensive live improvisation and lyrical songwriting within an acoustic base.

Headed By Rebecca Pietras, Students learn basic technique and various styles of dance including hip-hop, lyrical, modern, and jazz.

Most styles of dance incorporate some form of adagio ( as dance lifts ), including ballet ( in pas de deux ), jazz, and lyrical.

In the early bossa nova recordings, in terms of lyrical themes and length of songs ( typically two to four minutes ), bossa nova was very much a popular-music style.

However, its song structure often differs from European and North American popular music's standard format of two verses followed by a bridge and a closing verse ; bossa nova songs frequently have no more than two lyrical verses, while many lack a bridge.

The lyrical themes found in bossa nova include women, love, longing, and the best of youth.

As a composer and performer, Bonfá was at heart an exponent of the bold, lyrical, lushly orchestrated, and emotionally charged samba-canção style that predated the arrival of João Gilberto's more refined and subdued bossa nova style.

At the same time his poems, as yet printed only singly or in manuscript, acquired him a great reputation, due to the dearth of genuine lyrical poetry between Jean Racine and André de Chénier.

Drummond's popularity has been credited because a great part of his poetry ( especially after lyrical maturity ) has acquired an impressive capacity for the translation of ideas, transforming his particular troubles into a tool for universal communication.

Some of the brilliant satirical and lyrical images created by Raikin acquired their second life in the serial TV film People and Mannequins.

Small brushstrokes exhibit control of large areas, expressing the artist's emotion and focus on inner energy, and sometimes contemplation, creating expressive, lyrical and thoughtful qualities in the paintings.

The large number of short, lyrical piano pieces and songs that Sinding wrote has led to many seeing him as the heir to his fellow countryman, Edvard Grieg, not so much in musical style but as a Norwegian composer with an international reputation.

The flashing lyrical text is integrated with the live version of " Technologic " on a large light-emitting diode display used for their shows.

A large part of the acclaim was due to the album's lyrical and musical diversity, both missing from their previous efforts.

" However, according to him " Cry Me a River " is an exception in which the lyrical content has large role as the production itself.

It consists of the following pieces: The Battle of Agincourt, an historical poem in ottava rima ( not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject ), and The Miseries of Queen Margaret, written in the same verse and manner ; Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, a most joyous and graceful little epic of fairyland ; The Quest of Cinthia and The Shepherd's Sirena, two lyrical pastorals ; and finally The Moon Calf, a sort of satire.

Everyday topics, lyrical narrativity and simplicity of expression were manifest in the following book of poetry ( Uči li noćas netko u ovom gradu japanski ?, Sarajevo: NIP Zadruga, 1990 ), as well as in the bilingual edition of the same collection in the war-ridden Sarajevo ( Himmel Comando, translated into English by Mario Suško, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1992 ).

Stylistically his music was significantly different from the mainstream English school of the middle 20th century ; instead of following in the lyrical, folk-song influenced tradition of Holst, Vaughan Williams and others, he wrote music which was chromatic, contrapuntal, and acerbic — more akin to Schoenberg, Bartók, and Hindemith than to any of his English contemporaries.

In its North American single release-which omitted the opening lyrical section, following the instrumental introduction, due to the length of the song ,-" This Is My Song " reached # 3 in the U. S. and # 4 in Canada ; the single was certified a Gold record for sales of one million units in the US.

In 1877 he published postuma, a volume of canzoniere under the name of Stecchetti, following this with Polemica ( 1878 ), Alcuni canti popolari romagnoli ( 1880 ) and other poetical works, and becoming known as the leader of the verist school among Italian lyrical writers.

While Poor Old Lu developed an extremely loyal following, it did not achieve wide popularity in Christian circles, due in part to its edgy sound and challenging lyrical content.

Savage appeared in an issue of Source Magazine to discuss the lyrical meanings behind the tracks of Savage Island the following month.

Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine thought " following up ' American Life ' with ' Hollywood ' was nearly as ballsy " due to its lyrical content.