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Hart, who provided the haunting adagios for that 2017 film and has been working with Lowery since 2005, was born to tackle the enchanted world of Sir Gawain.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

What’s mockable, in the end, is less the slow motion or the string-heavy adagios than the tendency to veer from eloquent to vainglorious and back again.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2019

But the words she wrote are a symphony, an ode to the joy of wilderness, adagios and allegros and leitmotifs that sing out from the page.

From Scientific American • May 2, 2013

And in the several adagios in Act II her idea of Romantic style leads her to concentrate on slowly unfolding various arm movements without actually bringing them to a conclusion.

From New York Times • May 29, 2011

My mind wanders through adagios and andantes, gaping, longing to understand.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen