Instead, it explores five excerpts, with each movement employing an unconventional instrumentation and compositional structure.

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In his new project, Krug offers up a glimpse of himself as a mad sonic alchemist, as he expands his compositional grasp to create a full-fledged rock opera.

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Although spacecraft instruments are set to return photographs and compositional data, the encounter primarily is a test of Deep Space 1's autonomous navigation system, the last of 12 technologies the mission was designed to pioneer.

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He was allowed to store it along with his spiral sketchpads laid out flat beneath his bed, and in it he saved the drawings he considered his best, beginning with his compositional masterwork of 1936, the ambitious picture of our mother pointing overhead at the Parisbound Spirit of St.

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"Sunflowers" (1888 or 1889), from Philadelphia's own collection, is a virtuoso performance in color harmony, showing a ceramic vase of perky yellow blossoms against a swirling cerulean background, but it is entirely orthodox from a compositional standpoint, as the vase sits squarely in the middle distance at eye level.

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The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.

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