Although the critic Vincent Canby described it in 1987 as " that invisible screen that forever separates the audience from the stage ," postmodern art forms frequently either do away with it entirely, or make use of various framing devices to manipulate it in order to emphasize or de-emphasize certain aspects of the production, according to the artistic desires of the work's creator.

Interested donors make their donations to a publisher, who contracts with the artist for the work's creation and keeps the donations in escrow, identified by their donors, until the work is released.

Some contractors and others may attempt to rely on a general accountant to deal with construction costs, but usually this is not effective, primarily because an accountant does not have the technical knowledge to accurately allocate costs to specific items of work performed, especially at times prior to the particular work's completion as required to make accurate assessment of the amounts to be paid to the contractor during the course of the work.

* The Music of Mahler: A catalogue of manuscript and printed sources The entry for the First Symphony outlines the work's history, provides a list of performances up to 1911, a discography of early recordings, and detailed descriptions of the surviving manuscript and printed sources.

( The principal trumpet in the orchestra for the work's première even confronted Mahler, saying " I'd just like to know what's beautiful about blowing away at a trumpet stopped up to high C-sharp " Mahler had no answer, but later pointed out to Alma that the man did not understand the agony of his own existence ).

Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but most now believe that Macpherson framed the poems himself, based old folk tales he had collected.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Adolphe de Leuven, the co-director of the Opéra-Comique most bitterly opposed to the Carmen project, resigned early in 1874, removing the main barrier to the work's production.

However through the 1960s it was to be French post-structuralist theory that was to exert the most influence over readings of Finnegans Wake, refocussing critical attention back to the work's radical linguistic experiments and their philosophical consequences.

One of the work's most well-known arias, Zwei Märchenaugen ( Two fairy-tale eyes ), has been recorded by several famous tenors, including Fritz Wunderlich, Charles Kullman, and Richard Tauber.

James Huneker described the work's " langourous syncopated melody " as " one of the most voluptuous episodes outside of the Tristan score.

God's right hand is raised in blessing, while he holds Eve's wrist with his left, according to the work's most controversial interpreter, Wilhelm Fränger:

Despite the work's difficulty, it is occasionally performed as an anthem in services of choral Evensong in the most musical Anglican cathedrals.

AMREF work's with the some of the poorest and most marginalised people in Africa ; those living in remote rural areas, urban slums, nomadic populations and areas affected by conflict.

In 1999, ISI identified Starzl as the most cited scientist in the field of clinical medicine, a measure of his work's lasting influence and utility.

Despite the various theories of the work's origins, Rodríguez de Montalvo's Spanish version, as the only complete edition known, is considered definitive, and it was the one who made the character widely known on a European scale.

The work's enduring significance is attributed to several factors: Ptolemy's reputation as one of the greatest philosophers and scientists of the ancient world, the text's astrological importance as one of the oldest complete manuals on that subject, and the unprecedented order and quality of Ptolemy's astrological explanations.

In general in the study of the arts and literature, formalism refers to the style of criticism that focuses on artistic or literary techniques in themselves, in separation from the work's social and historical context.

With the exception of Earth ( the centre of all yet influentially inert astrologically ), all the astrological planets known during the work's composition are represented.

:' Since yet the holy work's undone.

" When we have formed our impressions we proceed to find " the power or forces " which produced them, the work's " virtue ".

" Michael Farr believed that this was particularly evident, remarking that the work's composition looked hastily produced, with many drawings being " crude, rudimentary, rushed ; there is none of the polish and refinement which subsequent work methods brought.

; Contextual evidence: The third type of evidence concerns any meanings produced from a particular work's relationship to other art made by the same artist — including its exhibition ( where, when and by whom ).

The work's subtitle was " An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation ", and this explains Lyell's impact on science.

Other students argue that the Spanish version came first, regarding the Spanish preface's claims of an Italian source as intended to boost the work's credibility by linking it to the Papal libraries.

") In film and theatre, a manuscript, or script for short, is an author's or dramatist's text, used by a theatre company or film crew during the production of the work's performance or filming.

The Invention of Scotland ( 2008 ) by Hugh Trevor-Roper conclusively follows the evolution of Macpherson's version ( s ) and the work's early support by some Scottish intellectuals.

When publication, teaching, and public funding of science is decided by peer committees, academic standards, and elected or appointed boards, the allegation can arise that a work's acceptability has been assessed " politically ".

G. E. Moore originally suggested the work's Latin title as homage to Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza.

The work's subtitle was " An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation ".

The structure of the poem, according to McGann, is influenced by Coleridge's interest in higher criticism, and its function " was to illustrate a significant continuity of meaning between cultural phenomena that seemed as diverse as pagan superstitions, Catholic theology, Aristotelian science, and contemporary philological theory, to name only a few of the work's ostentatiously present materials.

In Pierre Puget's Milo of Croton ( 1682 ), the work's themes are the loss of strength with age, and the ephemerality of glory as symbolized by an Olympic trophy lying in the dust.

Williams writes that the work's " elusive beauty ... is reinforced by this return to the Aria.

Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

This piece was to be included in the 2007 Praxiteles exhibition organized by the Louvre Museum in Paris, but pressure from Greece, which disputes the work's provenance and legal ownership, caused the French to exclude it from the show.

Strauss famously defied the Nazi regime by refusing to sanction the removal of Zweig's name from the program for the work's première on June 24, 1935 in Dresden.

A dramatic date under Nero ( 1st century AD ) is indicated by the work's social background and in particular by references to named popular entertainers.

However, snare drum sticks tend to produce too loud a sound, and since this work's premiere, the passage in question has been performed by striking the timpani with coins.

Recently, a new theory of the work's authorship has been proposed by Santiago Sevilla ( see talk page ), claiming that the Infante Enrique of Castile was the original writer of the epic.

The first performance was overshadowed by views expressed in the press that the work's subject-matter was too exalted to be performed in a theatre, particularly by secular singer-actresses such as Cibber and Clive.

The chronological scope of a memoir is determined by the work's context and is therefore more focused and flexible than the traditional arc of birth to old age as found in an autobiography.

Much of his work has been ignored, although a performance in 1999 of Sly by the Washington National Opera ( the work's American premiere ) marked something of a revival of interest in his works.