Even the soundtrack chosen for this level is off-the-charts epic, full of orchestral strings and deep drums, sending my heart soaring. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Though never accorded any official title, Handel contributed grand anthems and orchestral suites for the Hanover Georges, from the Water Music to the Music for the Royal Fireworks, for the rest of his life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It subsequently had to be reconstructed from the orchestral parts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sasha played a mouse, dressed in a black leotard with fuzzy ears and a tail, performing her part while an ornate sleigh drifted through the swelling orchestral music and showers of glittering fake snow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Liszt spearheaded a shift from orchestral to illustrative music, using this 1850 painting of Attila the Hun in battle as the basis for his symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dvorak’s other notable student, organist and composer Harry Rowe Shelley, may not have heeded the call as conscientiously, certainly not if his orchestral works Souvenir de Baden-Baden and The Crusaders are anything to go by. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Liszt’s fourth innovation was in the field of orchestral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In its purest form, the symphonic poem style is what orchestral film music grew out of in the 1920s and ’30s, its job to support and describe something outside music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Liszt was moving away from the idea of music as an abstract entity, something to be listened to attentively for forty or so minutes, towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

However, because of the instrument's history, older orchestral parts may be in any conceivable transposition, even changing transpositions in the middle of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Indeed, 'developing' tunes like this soon became essential for composers of orchestral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was filled now with people who chatted and laughed to an orchestral background and a clatter of plates, and glancing at the clock above the door I saw that it was two o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The stage was dark for a moment, and silent; then suddenly, with a burst of golden light and an orchestral overture from the CD player behind the curtain, Angel stepped onto the stage. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a new emphasis for purely orchestral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For example, a loud orchestral piece, even if it has 60 beats per minute, will not aid the body into a calm state as well as a softer, more soothing piece with a few instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Instruments that can bend most pitches enough to fine-tune them during a performance — and this includes most orchestral instruments — also tend to play the "pure" intervals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But that music had already reached such a point by 1913 presented progressively minded composers of symphonic orchestral music with a dilemma: where to go from here? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If her life had been a movie, this was where the reflective, orchestral music would swell. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, that orchestral blast definitely keeps you on alert for the rest of the movement, written in a theme and variations form. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

For the audience, too, ballet offers a knowingly artificial experience: the contrast of midnight-black theater and luminous stage, the swelling orchestral music, the sets and props that play with scale through tricks of perspective. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

This season, instead of an orchestral concert, the festival is offering a performance by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Spoleto enters closing weekend with strong sales 2010-06-11T14:26:00Z

The woodwinds did much excellent work, but any number of orchestral textures, especially those featuring the horns, were skated over. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z

Järvi's breakneck tempos for the finale of the First made us conscious of orchestral virtuosity rather than emotional exhilaration. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/J?rvi 2010-07-28T10:49:00Z

Ravel's two-piano version of La Valse palls beside its sleazier orchestral counterpart, and was a bit low-key, though done with great dexterity. Argerich/Goerner ? review 2011-08-16T18:30:01Z

One concert there, on Thursday, features a new orchestral arrangement of “Primal Message,” originally a string quintet by the violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama. A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-Setter 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

The orchestral playing was full-bodied and flowing when in the foreground, occasionally pedestrian in accompaniment, but the transition from slow movement to finale was snappily handled. Prom 13: NYO-USE/Gergiev – review 2013-07-22T17:49:10Z

Puppets allow us to fill in the gaps with our imagination instead of having our emotions manipulated by sunsets and doom-laden orchestral music. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z

Lavish theatricals, bigger names, a glossier orchestral finish, an absence of peacocks: all these needs can be satisfied in mainstream opera houses. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z

And the fascination of the Three Russian Songs is less in the vocal melodies – flatly delivered by the basses, more beguilingly by the altos – than in the deliciously tangled orchestral web Rachmaninov weaves around them. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda ? review 2011-08-01T10:12:14Z

He employed orchestral musicians on “Virgins,” his most recent album and one of his best. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The same is true for the other big pieces Adès has composed in the last few years: Tevot, the Violin Concerto, and his latest orchestral piece, Polaris. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z

Here Mr. Muhly evokes the jittery buzz of reality television though brash, beeping orchestral music. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z

He gave individual instruments considerable freedom while maintaining a never diminishing orchestral glow. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But supreme orchestral polish and virtuosity are beside the point here, which seems to be to situate Hans Gál in music history. Classical Recordings: Orchestra of the Swan Record Gál and Schumann 2012-06-01T14:10:41Z

Berlioz, meanwhile, works his orchestral magic around this pattern, providing an ever shifting array of harmonic contexts. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

“El Beso” begins in darkness with an orchestral swell portending something big. Dance Review: Ballet Hispanic Performs Gustavo Ramírez Sansano at Joyce 2014-04-16T21:16:33Z

As he has moved further into film, he has also achieved some prominence as an orchestral composer, with his concert music often fueling his soundtracks. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Roger Norrington conducted a programme of orchestral music and dance suites from operas that were popular at the turn of the 18th century, carefully planned to point up stylistic contrasts between composers. Proms Matinee 2: Les 24 Violons du Roy/Norrington – review 2012-07-31T17:39:57Z

Musically, this is a journey from clashing orchestral sections, driving rhythms and tough harmonies to uneasy quietude. Dudamel and the L.A. Philharmonic deliver a riotous 'Spring' 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

That was actually the case in the concert’s gratifying second half, which featured Mr. Gabriel’s own songs — notably “Mercy Street,” “Don’t Give Up” and “In Your Eyes” — retrofitted to orchestral dimensions. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z

But where the ensemble showed its qualities most acutely — the beauty of the strings, the sheer virtuosity among other instruments — was in the standard orchestral literature in the second program, on Monday. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn was also a popular conductor who established precedents, still in use, for successful, seasonlong programming of orchestral performances. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z

At first, the orchestral music unfolds with alternating chords, bright yet ominous, packed with pitches, yet somehow lucid. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

He insists the evening is not just about converting younger fans to orchestral music, but expanding the tastes of hardcore Prommers. Urban and classical to mix at Proms 2013-08-09T23:30:50Z

The premiere was probably a wild ride for the performers, given the flamboyance of Bjarnason’s violin writing, the technical orchestral challenges and the acoustical obstacles of the Bowl. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The composition by Skoryk that she performs is such a signature of Ukraine that it played as the orchestral score when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered his video message last month to U.S. Ukrainian opera singer in Japan prays for peace in melody 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Throughout “Easily Slip,” there are tantalizing references to recordings of vintage orchestral performances that have yet to be made available to the public. Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is. 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

As the saxophone largely remained an orchestral Cinderella, it became a staple of military and marching bands and found a secure home among jazz musicians. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z

In the public imagination, as Mr. Vardi was painfully aware, the viola was considered merely a humble alto cog in the vast orchestral machine. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z

I like a lot of 20th-century classical music," she says, "so I try to create orchestral elements with my guitar. Anna Calvi's orchestral manoeuvres 2011-01-13T22:19:01Z

Mr. MacMillan’s estimable mastery of orchestral timbre and effect is evident throughout. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z

Do Your Thing sounds chintzy, and with Good Luck hoves into view, one is only reminded that, at their peak, orchestral grandeur was just one of Basement Jaxx's many powers. Basement Jaxx: Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest ? review 2011-07-14T21:40:01Z

Simon McVeigh, a musicologist at Goldsmiths College, University of London, says a similar freedom reigned at orchestral concerts in the 18th century. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z

More recently, in 2014, the Shanghai Symphony began partnering with the New York Philharmonic to prepare instrumentalists in China for the demands of orchestral life. The Vienna Philharmonic Looks to a New Generation 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Ravel’s lush orchestral music requires infinite subtlety of texture combined with rhythmic finesse. Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing without the usual partners 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

As the first few bars of the orchestral work The Rite of Spring – Le Sacré du Printemps – by the young, little-known Russian composer Igor Stravinsky sounded, there was a disturbance in the audience. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z

“I also ponder why it is that I take these big orchestral things that wipe me out for the better part of a year,” he said. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

On “Crush,” his most recent solo album, Shepherd treated techno and house beats as a laboratory for experiments into the possibilities of disarray, while incorporating sophisticated orchestral arrangements. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

If you want one piece to convince you that the highest achievements of contemporary music are the opposite of desiccated, solipsistic experimentalism, listen to Boulez's orchestral versions of his Notations. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z

It is broken off by the timely arrival of Diana — heralded by, among other things, an orchestral depiction of thunder. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Running over eight weeks in the summer with a daily programme of orchestral concerts held mainly in the Royal Albert Hall, it is a firm fixture in classical music lovers' diaries. Proms fans call for a crackdown on touts as £12 seats fetch £500 2013-05-19T06:01:11Z

You had these composers sitting in their studios with orchestral software ... it all started to bleed together. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z

Then, “The River Don Floods,” an orchestral scene that Borodin wrote for another dramatic work, is played. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z

It included a new orchestral song, written by Martin, for a solo version of Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Legendary Beatles Producer George Martin Dies 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

And there is something attractive about the mellow “orchestral version” of “Take Flight,” at least compared to the splintery-bright original track. Lindsey Stirling’s Music Combines Classical and Dance 2014-05-02T22:32:38Z

While the conductor Paolo Carignani, who kept the orchestral textures clear on Friday, presides over the whole run this season, shifting rosters of singers will perhaps spice things up. Review: The Met Opera’s Grand Old ‘Aida’ Isn’t Dead Yet 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Just as a listener is rewarded with sublime orchestral music after surviving one of Wagner’s more interminable monologues, Feldman’s score shifts gears just about when you reach your breaking point. Music Review: A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too) 2014-04-29T21:11:41Z

As for his signature orchestral bombast, Luger’s sick of it already. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z

Though the electronic elements are sometimes boldly inventive, the orchestral foreground of the music is often tame. Music Review: Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-07T22:03:08Z

Now among the world's most admired composers, she was little known outside of her native Finland or adopted Paris 25 years ago when Esa-Pekka Salonen introduced her first orchestral work to L.A. and recorded it. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But there's something missing in our orchestral culture, at least according to many musicians based in Europe: a vital spark of intensity and engagement. Tom Service on the difference between British and European orchestras 2011-02-16T21:45:01Z

Instead, “Oceania” adds up to an unassuming, alternative orchestral suite, melding Corgan’s recent bouts with psychedelia alongside his inherent drive to be an arena rock star. Smashing Pumpkins Regain Soul on Oceania 2012-06-21T16:30:55Z

The most striking quality of this “Figaro” is the transparency of the orchestral sound, enabled by DG’s use of multiple, closely placed mics. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

An ungodly opera needs ugly music, singers who produce primal sounds, an electric guitar that sounds scraped raw, a wailing orchestral effects, cuts the ear like a knife. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Norine, who went on to get a doctorate in orchestral conducting, said that the second piano part offered clues for the full orchestral version. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z

The publication Musical America named him instrumentalist of the year in 1998, and he was one of the few living orchestral musicians with an entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Stanley Drucker, Ageless Clarinetist of the N.Y. Philharmonic, Dies at 93 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

The orchestral arrangement of Ellington’s “I’m Beginning to See the Light” presented a lively mash-up that sounded like cartoon Rossini interrupted by jazz, a match made in Broadway heaven for Stokes Mitchell’s lightning-quick musical reflexes. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Her music is a kind of impassioned postminimalism characterized by a use of orchestral glissandos and crescendos — slow steady movements of a whole body of instruments. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The orchestral music in the first part of the work gurgles at an almost timeless pace: a primordial pool of heaving chords and twisted strands of notes. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z

"But I think his real strength was in writing large-scale orchestral scores for Rosemont." 'Charlie's Angels' composer Allyn Ferguson dies 2010-06-29T16:07:00Z

It will also color this installment of the Art of the Score festival, with two landmark New York movies shown with live orchestral accompaniment conducted by David Newman. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

To the rest: You missed out on some of the finest orchestral playing heard in the city this year. Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

He urged orchestral players to become deeply familiar with an entire work and express “what you have inside, what your sensitivity is.” Stanley Drucker, Ageless Clarinetist of the N.Y. Philharmonic, Dies at 93 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

But in at least two central respects the levels of achievement have gone on rising in recent years: those of the orchestral playing and of dance accompaniment. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z

Pity the American composer interested in writing orchestral music. Review: With Premieres, an Orchestra Keeps Facing Forward 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

There's one song in particular, "Take Me For A Ride," that is really orchestral in its approach and sounds more cinematic even down to the instrumentation. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

Sidelined by an injury, she later turned to music, building rich vocal textures and orchestral synths into quirky electropop songs like “Heavy Eyes” and “White Nights.” 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kurtag’s 1994 orchestral work “Stele” is “like a gravestone on which the entire history of European music is written,” the conductor Simon Rattle once told The Boston Globe. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Generally the singing and orchestral playing are ordinary – neither Deborah Voigt's unfocused Brünnhilde nor Jay Hunter Morris's nasal Siegfried is a performance to dwell on – but there are tracks to treasure. Twilight of the Gods – review 2012-09-27T21:15:01Z

This Schoenstein-built organ is designed specifically to mimic the palette of orchestral sounds. For your listening pleasure, 6 of the most extraordinary organs in D.C. 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, she is looking forward to Feb. 1, when her mother will perform an orchestral tribute to the music of Serge Gainsbourg at Carnegie Hall. Charlotte Gainsbourg Finds Her Own Voice 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Then came a fairly standard set of orchestral pieces, with Carl Maria von Weber’s “Oberon” Overture followed by Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

And in Tippett's epic, full-evening, choral and orchestral composition, The Mask of Time, Davis was equal to all its musical and intellectual demands. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

Here the soundtrack was stripped of its original orchestral music but not of its dialogue and singing. Music Review: ?West Side Story? Orchestral Film Screening - Review 2011-09-08T22:05:59Z

We saw eye to eye on a lot of things and one was we didn't really want this big orchestral, violin-heavy music. King, Mellencamp break rules with 'Ghost Brothers' 2013-06-07T15:13:15Z

Mr. Drucker’s conception of orchestral playing was to make the wind section sound like one instrument. Stanley Drucker, Ageless Clarinetist of the N.Y. Philharmonic, Dies at 93 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

It was a full-scale concert production, complete with orchestral string and horn sections, a core salsa band, a chorus and a procession of vigorous singers. Rain Cuts Short Once-in-a-Generation Performance of 'Hommy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Earlier this month Anderson gave me a preview of it, bowing and plucking his instrument, taking it places it doesn’t usually go in an orchestral setting, including a high cello-like range. Symphony players premiere their own work at ‘[untitled]’ 2013-04-25T23:07:35Z

Beginning to program their orchestral music — including works that stretch the orchestral sound into improvisation — would be one way to address larger patterns of racial exclusion in classical music. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

The London Philharmonic Orchestra's conductor Vladimir Jurowski brought clarity without dissipating Strauss's orchestral richness; the work's tonal palette and harmonic seesawing were both faultlessly laid bare. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z

Even the opening orchestral statements in the Beethoven concerto were full of Haitink hallmarks. LSO/Haitink – review 2013-02-18T18:04:50Z

It features styles that encompass lush orchestral layouts, darkly hypnotic dance grooves and the clarity of life and all its foibles. Review: Dido goes eclectic, electric on new album 2013-03-25T17:10:20Z

Yet cowardly orchestral managers and programmers are petrified of actually giving the music the space it deserves in the concert hall. Why Arnold Bax will make it a Prom night to remember 2011-08-17T09:26:51Z

What impresses throughout is the accomplishment of the harmonic and orchestral writing, both utilising a layering technique where more than one thematic element is heard over and against another. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-06-29T17:30:01Z

Symphony No. 9 in D Major Mahler Haenssler Classics This vivid live recording is a total vindication of Roger Norrington's belief that orchestral string sound acquires power and eloquence when played without any vibrato. Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington: Mahler, Symphony No 9 2010-06-12T23:07:00Z

So comparisons with orchestral sounds help you define what you are trying to achieve, even in a work as pianistic as this? A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

"Saxophone in the orchestra is never going to be a mainstay," he admits, "but there are thousands of pieces that include saxophone in the orchestral instrumentation." Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The music swells with lush orchestral intensity: imagine an off-kilter, expressionistic Rachmaninoff. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z

With its gorgeous panoramic shots of contemporary London and an upscale orchestral soundtrack by Dario Marianelli, “Redemption” is a lot like its antihero in his borrowed wardrobe. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z

I am a retired orchestral musician, and this article brings up mixed feelings for me. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

And all six of these composers have written large-ensemble or orchestral music, most of which has rarely if ever been played by major American orchestras. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

“La Mer,” a masterpiece of swirling colors and vivid seascape evocations seems inseparable from its varied orchestral palette, although Debussy was also a genius at creating pianistic evocations. Music Review: Pascal Rog? and Friends at Symphony Space - Review 2011-09-14T22:44:51Z

How do you feel about orchestral music as a listener? Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The sly, suggestive orchestral music that establishes the mood of “Ballo,” a tale of conspiratorial intrigue at the court of King Gustavo III of Sweden, sounded curiously tentative. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

It’s that side of the orchestral literature — the canonical, the bread-and-butter works — that the National Symphony Orchestra celebrates with this week’s program. Review | At NSO, familiarity breeds contentment 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Has an orchestral project of this magnitude happened before? SSO's Schwarz goes out with fanfare: 18 new pieces by U.S. composers debut this season 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

There are some fine orchestral effects, but all in all, this is an undramatic work that presents an unaccountably bland portrait of a rebellious, if self-lacerating intellectual, much admired by Camus and Trotsky, among others. Saariaho: La Passion de Simone – review 2013-05-09T22:30:01Z

The only flaw of the show was a slight imbalance between the orchestral and rock instruments. Seattle Rock Orchestra channels Queen at the Moore 2011-05-23T01:02:07Z

Mainly, it does this in the most direct, hands-on way: by teaching children to play instruments and to work their way through the orchestral and chamber music repertories. The Week Ahead: Oct. 3 ? 9 2010-10-01T14:39:00Z

Beyond the tedious rap sessions that should have stayed on the cutting-room floor, the director's substitution of period pop for orchestral music makes the whole film seem smaller and less special. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z

But by midcentury, operatic orchestral music had increased in density and complexity, and had begun to develop into a character in its own right. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

He will be 63 in 2018, early middle age by the standards of orchestral conductors, who often work until well into their 80s. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z

He called his orchestral approach “multidimensional drumming” and explained that it emphasized “layers of sounds and rhythms” rather than linear momentum. Jerome Cooper, a Multitextured Jazz Percussionist, Dies at 68 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

More than any other orchestral instrument, the harp is a machine, weighing some 90 pounds and comprising more than a thousand moving parts. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Michael Tilson Thomas brings to New York an ensemble he helped found 31 years ago as a kind of finishing school for orchestral musicians. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

The piece begins with weighty blocks of orchestral chords heaving over kinetic rhythmic riffs. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Soon after, Seattle Symphony presented the U.S. premiere of her intensely evocative and haunting “The Spark Catchers,” an orchestral piece inspired by a poetic tribute to exploited workers in a 19th-century matchmaking factory. Meet the fast-rising young composer who’s created a work Seattle Symphony is debuting in the U.S. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

His tone was heavily overladen with vibrato, and some of the playing he drew from the orchestral strings was slovenly. Review: Seattle Symphony concert best when it came to Beaser and Berlioz 2011-02-18T19:14:04Z

The Dance of the Firebird was rich with plush orchestral colorings, yet incisive and electrifying. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z

But his “Don Carlo” showed a knack for stealthily accumulating drama, for epiphanic orchestral gestures that fixed emotional arcs without calling attention to themselves. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Danced to an orchestral arrangement of the music from the opera “Serse” often known as “Handel’s Largo,” it was a bland exercise in supported adagio. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z

With their typically stripped-down textures, brisk tempi and bright, incisive orchestral colours, the performances promise to be exhilarating. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2012-10-01T17:18:24Z

Mr. Harding has drawn criticism for performances that favor lean orchestral sound and cool expressivity. Daniel Harding Brings the Opera ?Billy Budd? to Life 2010-04-30T18:39:00Z

Also on display is the 1939 album with Paul Robeson’s patriotic orchestral history lesson, “Ballad for Americans.” Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

An enormous orchestral downbeat brings back the booming chorus of “Carry That Weight” as the music strains toward the grand “symphonic” finale that George Martin envisioned for “Abbey Road.” When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

By last summer, Mr. O’Donnell told Edge, a game publication, he, Mr. McCartney and Mr. Salvatori had written and recorded music for the game, as well as a 50-minute orchestral suite using its themes. Paul McCartney Collaborates on a Video Game Score 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the young and ambitious choreographers who are being hired — justifiably — often don’t incline to orchestral sound. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

The pace of the show, with models crisscrossing on the runway to orchestral flourishes, was one of a busy turn-of-last-century street as imagined, perhaps, by a 20th Century filmmaker. Dolce&Gabbana offer masculine romanticism 2013-01-12T20:31:04Z

Desire Lines begins with a wan orchestral sigh, as though resigning itself to disappointment. Camera Obscura: Desire Lines – review 2013-05-30T20:15:01Z

She looks to tackle bigger orchestral works, with Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in the offing. Barbara Hannigan Sings and Conducts at the Lucerne Festival 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

With Mr. Marsalis, I brought up a bombastic orchestral chord that appears earlier in that first movement. Wynton Marsalis Lets the Orchestra Shine in His Violin Concerto 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Levine and the orchestra accompanied him with equally revelatory playing, the swirling orchestral colors in the third section a potent counterpart to Mr. Mattei’s despairing portrayal of the heartsick young man. Music Review: The Met Orchestra Performs Mahler at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-24T22:02:01Z

Despite my reservations about cultivating orchestral sound as an end in itself, this inspiring concert was a reminder that everything in music is, of course, expressed through sound. Music Review: Cleveland Orchestra Performs Berg?s ?Lulu? Suite 2010-05-23T21:25:00Z

Unlike our orchestral album, it was stripped down, recorded with just piano and guitar. Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Its Triumphal March often crops up in selections of Elgar's orchestral lollipops, but the Three Choirs festival's performance of the cantata was complete, with Andrew Davis conducting the Philharmonia and the Festival Chorus. Caractacus ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:08Z

The orchestral sound is warmer in the Academy of Music; some brass lines emerge with new definition. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z

If the drama occasionally sags it's more to do with Lothar Koenigs's conducting, imposing in the orchestral set pieces, less convincing in the longer dramatic paragraphs, than anything else. Die Meistersinger von?N?rnberg 2010-06-20T20:31:00Z

“Ocean’s Kingdom” is, in many ways, an old-fashioned story ballet: a tuneful, tonal, orchestral work, in four movements, that accompanies a straightforward tale of love, complete with a princess. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

Though it might seem counterintuitive, Ms. Saariaho’s most ruminative and mystical orchestral works are often best perceived in large, open spaces, where myriad sounds can be dispersed to create an enveloping experience for listeners. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

In the way of a great orchestral composer, he will introduce a particular synthesizer voice very faintly in the greater swarm, bringing it in gradually. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

To me there are two overwhelming elements in the Rite's achievement: its use of rhythm and its astonishing orchestral colours. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

For years, the best orchestral playing in American ballet has belonged outside New York; but this may well now be changing. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The purely orchestral Nyx, named after the Greek goddess of night, is equally fluent, but only confirms Salonen's position in the middle of the stylistic road. Salonen: Violin Concerto; Nyx – review 2012-10-04T20:49:00Z

I had a reason to go backwards—I had to create 15 orchestral suites for an evening. Danny Elfman on How 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Endured 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most memorable orchestral passage arrives in the fifth song. CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Though thematically heavy, the songs on the album he released in May are plummy and pop-laden, full of orchestral flourishes and bebop trumpets. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Which orchestral line did the composer most want to hear? Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z

As in some of his recent orchestral works, Norman here alternates between hushed stasis and manic volleys of virtuosic eruption. Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

His Third Symphony was already scheduled to end the programme, but in tribute to Kreizberg, Litton and the orchestra also began with a performance of the orchestral version of the Vocalise. Bournemouth SO/Litton - review 2011-03-17T18:01:35Z

She organized three bands, each with different strengths, to wrestle with the more than 300 compositions he left behind, including his posthumously discovered masterpiece, the two-hour orchestral work “Epitaph.” Sue Mingus, Promoter of Her Husband’s Musical Legacy, Dies at 92 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Masur’s experience in leading these symphonies was immediately apparent in the lucid interpretations he elicited here, deftly shaping melodic lines and highlighting orchestral colors. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z

The children’s pantomime “Zaubernacht,” another early work, was performed in the handsomely restored Marienkirche in accordance with Weill’s musical intentions, thanks to the recent discovery of orchestral parts at Yale University. Music Review: Kurt Weill Festival: One Man, Many Different Beats 2011-03-08T13:00:06Z

In the first year of our urban adventure, using the living room/kitchen area as my studio, I completed “Sila: The Breath of the World”—an hour-long orchestral work that premièred at Lincoln Center. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Biggest Cheat: It’s classical night, yet when Roshon and Chelsie took the floor they danced to an orchestral version of “Bad Romance.” Dancing with the Stars Watch: Putting the Classy in Classical 2012-05-01T12:30:56Z

The leader's unique brass sound embraced technical security, classical purity and an old jazz-brass swagger, and if some of the music gets a little Disney, it's an object lesson in orchestral writing for improvisers. Don Ellis: Haiku 2010-06-03T20:45:00Z

The program consisted of two large-scale late Romantic orchestral blockbusters, Richard Strauss’s “Don Quixote” and the Fifth Symphony of Tchaikovsky, preceded by a brief promotional video before the orchestra walked onstage. Barenboim brings West-Eastern Divan to D.C. for the first time 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The playing was terrific and shot through with savagery, the orchestral colours suggesting the hardness of metal and stone. BBCPhil/Gruber – review 2013-03-14T17:49:19Z

Such a view is contradicted, though, by several choices here, which highlight landmark accounts of various orchestral pieces. Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

It's not a work that convinces everyone, and ideally, I suspect, it needs a more sumptuous orchestral sound than the BBCSSO's to do its parade of colours – xylophone, trombone glissandos and all – justice. Prom 48: BBCSSO/Manze ? review 2011-08-21T12:11:02Z

On the bright side, the album-length production by Blu-Ray is good, built from orchestral samples and live keys for a smooth, organic feel, and Language Arts' syllable clusters are often thrilling. Fall/winter album roundup: La, Cold Jungle, THEESatisfaction, Butts, DJ Nphared 2010-12-10T18:32:00Z

For Pasternack’s UW Symphony players, who may be familiar with the piece mostly through recordings, the orchestral arrangements that produce those timbres and rhythms pose a challenge. 100th birthday celebrations for ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Seattle 2013-01-16T23:39:04Z

The program, though, acknowledged something that isn’t always recognized in orchestral concerts: music’s ceremonial role. American music for an inaugural week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The project is an important step toward diversifying the orchestral repertoire, a steep challenge for a classical field largely glued to the music of European men. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

But there are also emotional overtones of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in the dramatic conflict between orchestral anguish and the soloist's infinite powers of consolation. Penderecki: Violin Concerto No 1; Horn?Concerto Winterreise 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z

The opening movement was somewhat pontifical, with ominous, weighty orchestral chords and repeated choral exclamations. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

And its sounds guide the orchestral writing; trumpets herald a “Heavenly Procession” with a tune that is quickly revealed to be a transcription. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Each summer the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall brings together American musicians, ages 16 to 19, for a two-week residency with top orchestral players, followed by a series of performances. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

He knows how to guide the company’s orchestral forces in a style that’s not its standard repertory, and the result is an appealing paradox: both beefy and lithe. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

“You’d be amazed at the difference good quality orchestral parts make to performance,” he said. The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

The symphony is still the principal form of orchestral music. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

It was a pleasant soundscape, one that deployed the full orchestral palette of colors. At SSO, impassioned Shostakovich, ‘Become Ocean’ | Classical review 2013-06-21T17:00:44Z

However, the subtleties of scoring here and in Debussy's Jeux were all but obliterated by the final work, Massenet's orchestral suite Scènes de féerie, in which conductor Thierry Fischer was decidedly heavy-handed. BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-04-08T18:18:47Z

The original took place in space, where no one can hear you scream; in this film, no one can hear you scream above the deafening, kettle drum-bothering orchestral score. Prometheus 2012-05-30T14:12:53Z

Their final number on Saturday was about the Brahmaputra River, which is central to Assam; but the vocal and orchestral sound seemed awkwardly like Europop. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Those notes recur in the orchestral swirl around the trumpet theme. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Morlot is careful to explain that "Sonic Evolution," which shows every sign of being an annual program, is not a series of orchestral arrangements of familiar songs. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

The Boston Symphony Orchestra took home the top orchestral Grammy for its album "Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow," which features the Russian composer's Symphony No. 10, conducted by Andris Nelsons. 'Hamilton' wins musicals award; Stephen Paulus and Boston Symphony honored in classical category 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Simple and direct, though containing some flamboyant harmonic and orchestral writing, her George Herbert setting Stars, Night, Music and Light struck exactly the right celebratory note. First Night of the Proms: BBCSO/Belohlavek - review 2011-07-16T00:28:34Z

Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field A big ego might seem to be a fundamental attribute of an orchestral conductor. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z

Armiliato’s conducting was notable for bringing out the score’s dynamic range; much of this orchestral performance was subtle and delicate, rather than the blaring blood-and-guts that is still the verismo stereotype. Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Bernstein’s score for “To Kill a Mockingbird” exemplifies this principle with lyrical elegance, both in his simple, childlike theme for the film’s protagonist, Scout, and the more mysterious, melancholy orchestral theme for Boo Radley. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Specific elements of this elaborate work reveal Martin’s compositional skill and mastery of orchestral coloring. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

Among the lessons we have learned from the pandemic is that orchestral programming doesn’t need to be formulaic, that a string quartet can easily share the stage with a symphony. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

There was good choral and somewhat ordinary orchestral work, and Joseph Adam contributed a nicely pointed organ solo. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z

His body moves with dancerly charisma as his baton conjures extremities of orchestral sound; the music feels alive, and so do you. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Transience dominates: A string or a woodwind instrument, sometimes doubling the vocal line, sighs and dissipates against a stark orchestral landscape. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

A recording of one of the most unorthodox performances in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s history — a 2013 rendition of the orchestral suites from Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” — will be released Nov. 20. Frank Zappa's terrific 'mess': L.A. Phil's live recording of '200 Motels' out Nov. 20 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The evening also featured the premiere of "Icarus at the Edge of Time," an orchestral work composed by Philip Glass and based on the children's book by celebrity physicist and festival co-founder Brian Greene. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z

Putting West in orchestral dress and removing the vocals meant avoiding anything offensive. In an orchestra's meet-and-mash of Kanye West and Beethoven, classical kicks it with a hip-hop beat 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Smith is already a leading jazz soloist, but he's also evolving into an original orchestrator and arranger of classic orchestral jazz. This week's new live music 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

From the moment he held the flute in his hands he lived from one orchestral rehearsal to the next. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z

Surging, seething and breathtakingly tender, the overwhelming force of this orchestral backdrop befitted an opera in which fate plays puppetmaster to its hapless characters. BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-11-09T16:51:45Z

But if the trumpet and horn lines naturally commanded the attention, it was not because the orchestral scoring, with its continuous, otherworldly texture shifting, lacked attractions of its own. Music Review: Molding Sound to Behave Like a Solar Eclipse 2010-10-22T23:27:00Z

As the old studio short-subject departments were shut down and television loomed, big-screen spectacles proved attractive nominees, as well as orchestral recordings of classical standards. Every Film in This Oscar Category Is an Underdog You Can Root for 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

But when Schoenberg’s softly simmering orchestral music starts, the forest is quickly established as a mysterious and dangerous place. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z

Indeed, the riffs and rhythms of the pop source infect every aspect of the orchestral work. An unexpected Prom date with Beyonc? and her Single Ladies 2010-09-02T11:51:00Z

In certain beguiling passages, as when wistful clarinet lines hover over wide-spaced plaintive orchestral sonorities in the opening movement, “A Cold Clear Dawn,” Mr. Rogerson risks evoking such models too closely. Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

That is certainly a respectable, perhaps even inarguable approach, but it requires orchestral playing with some vibrancy and zest. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Beethoven and Franck Sparkle With Muti, a Avery Fisher Hall 2010-03-12T00:31:00Z

The orchestral introduction to “Winter,” he said, characterized “the weather here in Cleveland in November.” At 100, the Cleveland Orchestra May (Quietly) Be America’s Best 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dohnanyi is known in the United States chiefly as an orchestral conductor, especially for his two decades with the Cleveland Orchestra. Music Review: Emalie Savoy as Prima Donna and Ariadne 2010-08-03T22:56:00Z

An orchestral arrangement of his piano suite “Souvenirs,” this was first staged as a ballet in 1955 to choreography by Todd Bolender. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Season Gala, With Robbins and Balanchine 2013-05-09T21:10:33Z

The San Francisco Symphony recently gave the premiere of a colorful new orchestral work. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

So the curtain went up to some appallingly badly reproduced orchestral sound, on a set that looked as though it had cost 5p. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z

Maybe just a fraction in the later stages of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, when the propulsion and theatricality of the finale seemed occasionally to overwhelm the balance and colour of the dazzling orchestral writing. LSO/Pappano – review 2013-05-19T16:30:01Z

Strife and violence find expression in webs of lurching counterpoint, astringent harmonies and searing orchestral blasts. Music Review: Strife of ?64, in Somber Tones 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z

A group of four or five Philharmonic members will spend a week, three times a year, working with students of a new orchestral academy in Shanghai. New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Become Partners 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z

The work is intended to convey a series of stormy and enchanted musical voyages, but none of them seemed to be worth the extravagant, blandly conceived expenditure of orchestral energy. BBCSO/Litton – review 2013-01-14T17:50:21Z

Dramatic punchiness in the arresting opening chorus was sometimes undermined by fuzziness in the orchestral and choral parts, and occasional untidiness recurred later on, though the conductor's sense of momentum maintained cohesion and impetus. St John Passion – review 2013-03-31T17:31:01Z

This orchestral program, heard in the second of three performances, on Friday, was a gem in its simplicity and symmetry. Review: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra Shines in Simplicity 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

There are also some effective swatches of film composer Hans Zimmer’s sweeping orchestral music. The musical that roared: ‘Lion King’ returns to the Paramount 2014-03-14T23:59:20Z

The orchestral arrangements — by Nico Muhly, Maxim Moston and the orchestra’s conductor, Rob Moose — were almost tidal, often building from a few sparse piano notes to panoramic chordal crests, or working through stormy transformations. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z

Though he expressed ambivalence about writing music for select events for black composers, he also acknowledged the rarity of any orchestral opportunity today. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Powerful voices, huge choruses and imposing orchestral forces dominate our sense of the art form. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Stephen Hough played the solo part in Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor with intensity in its virtuosic passages and a willingness to restrain his sound within the orchestral textures. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Stephen Hough and Andrew Manze 2012-08-22T21:35:17Z

"The Seasons," which comes from the end of Cage's early period, was his first orchestral score. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The orchestral passages of Gershwin’s Concerto in F were a little uncoordinated rhythmically. With new members in BSO, striving for a cohesive sound in season opener at Strathmore 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Like many other contemporary Italian composers, Iannotta put her effort into getting standard orchestral instruments to sound unlike themselves. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The sheer size of the band seems to be a factor, with nine members and sometimes extra orchestral players No. 4: Have a shared mission. Sharon Jones: Some call her 'James Brown in a dress' 2010-06-19T00:35:00Z

These scintillating studies in orchestral color are based on piano miniatures the composer wrote in 1945, when the State Opera lay in ruins in the Soviet-occupied sector of the city. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Though the festival uses taped music for big orchestral numbers, it features live music with surprising frequency. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival Presents 4 Premieres 2012-08-07T21:57:02Z

It will be interesting to see if the Swift effect will carry over to a different genre, with a modern orchestral work. Taylor Swift Gives $50,000 to Seattle Symphony 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

To the left stood floor-to-ceiling bookshelves overflowing with orchestral scores, some of them for his own music. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Sections of looser coordination allowed the solo lines to emerge with individual personality — the principal winds providing especially concise character touches — but left the whole with a soft-edged sense of standard orchestral uplift. Review | National Symphony Orchestra considers the one and the many in program of Grieg, Dvorak and Nielsen 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Indeed, if anything, American orchestral culture shows slightly less youth than its European counterparts. At 100, orchestra has a midlife crisis 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The program, which ended with one of Ms. Monk’s rare orchestral works, offered three premieres and a New York premiere by other composers in performances that were consistently dynamic and colorful. Ode to Meredith Monk From American Composers Orchestra 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Instead, Mr. Gilbert led a handful of works that you don’t hear much at orchestral concerts: songs, all of them originally for voice and piano, but heard here in orchestrations mostly by Britten and Reger. Music Review: Anne Sofie von Otter and New York Philharmonic - Review 2011-12-29T21:49:17Z

As you developed this new language, you also starting writing orchestral music, with “Sequoia” in 1981. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

At times, when some plush Wagnerian orchestral burst dissolved into a misty passage, the playing lacked definition. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Included in the programme are special screenings – live broadcasts of National Theatre and Royal Opera House shows, and orchestral recitals – and talks from film directors and critics. Cine-files: Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden 2012-11-06T16:50:00Z

The musicians participate in 10 days of orchestral and chamber-music coaching and rehearsals that culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z

The New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Evidence” revealed an elusive yet engrossing orchestral piece. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Hamlisch runs Pops programs in Seattle and elsewhere in part to encourage kids to hear live, orchestral music. Seattle Pops series to end season with a big brass bang-up show 2010-05-26T23:24:00Z

The singer's need to pace his or her evening requires orchestral fillers, which break the tension, and were played none too alluringly on this occasion by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Jochen Rieder. Jonas Kaufmann – review 2013-04-22T17:07:59Z

Ideally all this music deserves a more sumptuous orchestral sound than the Liège Philharmonic can conjure up, but François-Xavier Roth balances refinement with drama very skillfully. Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit; Les Eolides; Les Djinns; Symphonic Variations ? review 2011-07-14T21:45:01Z

Currier's mastery of instrumental colour proved just as dynamic on the larger orchestral canvas in the concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Richard Baker. Vale of Glamorgan festival – review 2013-05-16T14:54:15Z

These are firms who build up a varied, high-quality repertoire of orchestral music that can be licensed out. Movie trailer music: it's not what you think 2011-08-25T21:15:01Z

In the orchestral writing there are hints of the composers who influenced Lutoslawski, especially Stravinsky, Bartok and Varèse. Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z

The second of Tilson Thomas's current trio of Mahler concerts focused on the ever-astonishing first symphony, one of the most original works in the orchestral repertoire. LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas – review 2012-06-05T14:31:35Z

Schumann's concerto opens with an orchestral salvo — a single, punched chord — which acts like a bolt of electricity to shock the piano into action. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

With Mr. Hadreas’s aching, androgynous voice at their center, the songs deploy cinematic orchestral arrangements, spooky electronics and instruments that can sound vividly natural or treated and surreal. Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The brilliance of Debussy's orchestral writing is that it explains nothing but suggests everything in colors and harmonies and moody themes. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Prized for their power and sonority, Salvi harps are played today by many of the finest soloists and orchestral musicians in the world. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

But fans of this electronic and orchestral specialist have been waiting for the next big statement. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

A. At the end of the evening, I want to listen to stuff that’s not orchestral and that’s going to clear my head. Danny Elfman Brings Music From Tim Burton’s Films to Lincoln Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

On offer in May, with the New World Symphony, his prestigious orchestral academy, are Prokofiev, Berlioz, Schubert and premieres by Julia Wolfe and Mr. Tilson Thomas himself. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He found the richest implications in Bernstein’s orchestral writing, whether jazz or neo-Prokofiev. Bernstein by the Bay: S.F. Symphony brilliantly delivers 'On the Town' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Her agitation in the orchestral intermezzo, as she waited for Pinkerton's ship to make its promised return, was almost unbearable. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z

The work features an unusual entrance for the soloist in the opening movement, whose jaunty orchestral introduction is interrupted with a slow and elegiac violin aria. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

I followed my fascination with the richness and possibilities of orchestral sound.” Czech conductor will lead SSO in Beethoven ‘jewel’ 2013-05-23T20:27:07Z

As persuasively conducted by Mr. Abbado, it demonstrated Verdi’s considerable skill as an orchestral composer. An Italian Festival Presents Verdi on His Own Turf 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

These will be available for purchase or free download for each of the standard orchestral string, woodwind and brass instruments as well as for recorder, saxophone, euphonium, piano, harpsichord, guitar, harp, percussion and voice. Carnegie Unveils Music Education Program 2011-03-25T23:03:39Z

These are also the prime attractions of the orchestrally incomparable later Berlin performance. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

He has recorded accounts of her three extant symphonies, and he continues to investigate her lesser-known orchestral compositions. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

If you want to hear what that piece is supposed to sound like, listen to the orchestral version. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

That’s what I’m interested in now, is finding a new utopia for orchestral music.” Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Pianos, horns, guitars, orchestral strings, gamelan gongs, international drums. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z

The center section between them is a static orchestral color field. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn led the ensemble for a dozen years, where most of his orchestral works were first heard. Gewandhaus Orchestra does German canon justice at Kennedy Center

It was supposed to be an orchestral piece, and it was first recorded and released that way. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

During the past two decades, Mr. Kermani has released a multivolume series of Dr. Walker’s orchestral works on the Albany label, along with albums documenting the composer’s earlier career as a concert pianist. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

After a decade of freelancing, Adeney found that he missed the discipline of orchestral playing. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z

Where pop studio arrangements emphasize the regularity of a song form, delineating verse-chorus-verse, the orchestral versions were open-ended and rhapsodic yet reticent, conjuring emotional subtleties like film scores. Music Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter Performs Her Latest Songs in Concert 2014-03-02T23:26:25Z

A former orchestral cellist, she understands the value of concision in a conductor and precisely articulates what she wants. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

His orchestrations gleam, and one place his writing will always be welcome is among orchestral musicians. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

“An Alpine Symphony” is something of an ugly duckling in the orchestral repertory — or, given its scale, an ugly elephant. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

In Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, the orchestral fabric had loose stitches in the first movement, mostly among the brasses, but the rest of the playing there and throughout the work was remarkable. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z

The music consists of orchestral interpretations of 10 of Ms. Carpenter’s most-loved songs, including “Come On Come On,” “Mrs. Hemingway” and “Goodnight America.” COUNTRY TIMES: Mary Chapin Carpenter comes home with ‘Songs from the Movies’ 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Festival highlights include performances of rarely played Puccini orchestral and chamber works and of his early opera, “Le Villi.” Bard Music Festival Tackles the Puccini Paradox 1459-08-02T05:00:00Z

Like many of Adams’s works, “Ten Thousand Birds” dissolves the usual strictures of orchestral playing, scattering the players across a given space, usually outdoors. Caught between silence and clamor, these musicians find connection in birdsong 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The three orchestral works that followed touched again on virtuosity and its relationship with structure. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z

It will culminate with the world premiere of an as-yet untitled orchestral work by Part, sharing the bill with Mozart's symphonies No. 25 and 40. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

He is a really great composer for orchestra, and it makes me sad that his big orchestral works have never been recorded. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The rocking orchestral figure that fortifies the opening theme of “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” evoked not lapping waves but oceanic turbulence. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z

He did like two or three orchestral readings of his songs to ballet. No singer, just the songs. Questlove brings Prince’s work back with an orchestra 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Half a dozen more strings might have given the orchestral sound more presence, too, but they wouldn't have supplied the energy and dramatic nous that is so conspicuously lacking in Alexander Polianichko's conducting. Eugene Onegin – review 2012-07-17T17:30:01Z

The musical component of the evening benefited from an orchestral capaciousness that simply isn’t affordable on the West End or Broadway anymore. One Musical Knockout After Another 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

“An American in Paris” used songs by George and Ira Gershwin; “American Rhapsody” used George Gershwin’s orchestral classic “Rhapsody in Blue.” New York City Ballet Opens a Spring Gala, and Some Umbrellas 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Wagner wrote some of the most sublime orchestral music ever composed, and it’s beautifully realized in “Wagner: Orchestral Music,” with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

As individuals, they play with the forthrightness of orchestral principals; as a group, they share nuances as instinctive chamber musicians. SCO Members/Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-03T17:06:00Z

She is aided in this by her longtime partner Mr. Andrews, whose agile sound collage includes original music by Michael Schumacher and a seductive barrage of show tunes, sound effects, electronic burbles and orchestral snippets. Dance Review: Sally Silvers’s ‘Bonobo Milkshake,’ at Roulette 2012-11-30T22:58:44Z

The violinist and composer Sergey Erdenko arranged music to accompany the lyrics, and the producer Daniel Rosenberg organized a band of five vocalists and five orchestral musicians to perform the work. The Devastating Resonances of Yiddish Songs Recovered from the Second World War 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

But the sound of the orchestra deflates in just seconds, and the first phrase of the theme is repeated, this time in warm, subdued and glowing orchestral sound, rich with throbbing strings. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

It’s not the upstate New York orchestral popsters’ second album — it’s their third. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z

During a taut early episode, as hazy chords and piercing orchestral bursts sounded over an obsessively repeated walking line in the low strings, the effect was at once alluring and terrifying. Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Offers a Glimpse of the Met Opera’s Future 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

A conductor as connoisseur of fine lines, Denève tempered enthusiastic wildness with a sense of poetry, might with a feeling for the distinct personality of orchestral sections and, indeed, discrete instruments. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

He made the game and players appear larger than life through cinematography, slow motion replays, orchestral music and putting microphones on players and coaches. NFL Films’ creative force Steve Sabol enters Hall of Fame 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Lyadov, a St. Petersburg Conservatory teacher who taught Prokofiev, incorporated sections of an unfinished opera into the piece, reflecting some of his greatest strengths as a composer, i.e., orchestral color and impression. Chorale, violist to join SSO for water works 2013-03-27T21:08:35Z

The “Titanic” orchestral soundtrack sold more than 27 million copies worldwide, while “My Heart Will Go On” would become a radio staple and one of the best-selling singles of all time. Celebrated film composer James Horner feared dead in plane crash 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Its set was just as sprawling, touching on improvisational orchestral squall, dissonant chamber-jazz, a kind of parlor song and a musical jungle full of birdcalls. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was not a huge stretch: Mr. McCartney has written four full-length orchestral scores, and several shorter classical pieces, since 1990, and has produced several albums of electronica under the name Fireman. Paul McCartney Collaborates on a Video Game Score 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

The University of Washington's director of orchestral activities brings Bartók's "Miraculous Mandarin Suite" and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 to plush, sumptuous life in his debut CD on the Naxos label with the London Symphony Orchestra. What our writers love this week 2011-02-16T22:50:12Z

He sat beneath a framed picture of Bolsonaro, and orchestral strings played lightly in the background. Far-right Bolsonaro fires latest round in Brazil culture war 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Radvanovsky, an intelligent and gifted actress, used the orchestral postlude after the murder to chart her character’s course from stunned numbness to horror at what she has done to frantic perusal of her options. Opera Review: ‘Tosca’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-12-12T23:23:47Z

He said the new work, to be performed on 19 September, would be "a mixture of arrangements of songs" from The xx's first two albums, "along with some new orchestral material". The xx team up with BBC orchestra 2012-08-16T10:00:15Z

“Take You High” begins with orchestral pomp but, come the chorus, dissolves into Purity Ring-esque vocal gurgles, by far the most triumphant moment on the record. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

There is nothing particularly remarkable about Dudamel beginning with a piece by the world's most popular orchestral composer. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic tours, Gustavo Dudamel seems determined to shake up his audiences 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

In 1974, the year Ellington died, Shirley presented an orchestral homage of his own, “Divertimento for Duke by Don,” with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra of Ontario, Canada. Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Elder does not neglect a single detail of what is perhaps Britten's greatest orchestral accomplishment, and both the playing of the London Philharmonic and the singing of the Glyndebourne chorus have marvellous presence. Billy Budd 2010-05-21T20:30:00Z

Following the operatic double bill Where the Wild Things Are/Higglety Pigglety Pop! on Saturday, the second day was devoted to orchestral and chamber works. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

“KR-51” opens up their music: sometimes to orchestral luxury and nuance — their arrangements were played by the Orchestre de Paris — and sometimes to rock crunch. New Music: Albums From Clare and the Reasons and Maroon 5 2012-07-09T20:55:00Z

Not even an incredible free skate two days later to an orchestral piece by Igor Stravinsky could salvage a medal for Chen. Nathan Chen demonstrates new era of music in figure skating 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The orchestral accompaniment is both playful, with lots of drizzly irregular pizzicato, and ominous. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Even in the smaller first piece, Noseda’s Mozart had some tautness but was also warm and full: a contemporary orchestral approach that disregards some of the hallmarks, not to say cliches, of historically informed performance. Review | Homage to the Classical: NSO offers Mozart, jolly Stravinsky and Josefowicz 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

A roundup of opera openings, ballet performances, orchestral concerts and pop music taking place around the world this autumn season. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

"It was a much more enjoyable musical culture in many respects, focusing on songs rather than grandiose compositions and orchestral pieces." National Gallery's Vermeer-themed show gets musical accompaniment 2013-06-25T16:36:21Z

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2019-20 season will begin with an orchestral tribute to South Africa and end with a celebration of Duke Ellington. Jazz at Lincoln Center Plans Tributes to South Africa and Duke Ellington 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ferguson also wrote orchestral scores for television adaptations of literary classics. Allyn Ferguson, Composer for Television, Dies at 85 2010-06-30T04:44:00Z

Though a groundbreaking synthesizer record, “Nommos” was originally intended to be orchestral, but Mr. Leon didn’t have the budget. Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Staging and set design are less relevant to the orchestral world, although perhaps broadcasts might encourage orchestras to ditch the formality of 19th-century tails for contemporary attire. Critic?s Notebook: Orchestra Arrives On Big Screen 2011-01-10T23:01:21Z

Young brought an orchestral dimension to the arrangements, expanding the approach he used on his latest solo album, the Daniel Lanois-produced “La Noise,” to older songs such as “Ohio” and “Down by the River.” Neil Young, solo in Chicago, builds to a rafter-rattling finale 2011-05-07T13:50:05Z

Andras Schiff has been performing both as pianist and conductor with the New York Philharmonic this week, in a program including concertos by Bach and Schumann and orchestral works by Haydn and Bartok. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Here, as throughout the program, the orchestral playing was notable more for its individualities — for the color and character produced by each player, especially among the woodwinds — than for its smoothness and blend. Carnegie Hall Opening Night Gala - Music Review 2011-10-06T12:00:06Z

Her reputation as one of the great orchestral clarinetists in the world doesn't stop her from cracking jokes about her age. L.A. Philharmonic's notable lead clarinetist scales down her career after 54 years 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Adams is the first to admit that he was learning his orchestral craft here and wrote vocal lines that are not entirely singer-friendly. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

As a musician you straddle two music communities, the indie scene and the more traditional orchestral symphony scene. Q&A: Joanna Newsom on her New Album, 'Have One on Me' 2010-03-01T08:15:00Z

The American Symphony’s music director, Leon Botstein, said that Nono’s varied writing for chorus, as well as some ferocious orchestral textures, would be electrifying under any political circumstances. Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

They are all ego-driven, ambitious orchestral musicians, who want to join an orchestra in the sky. The last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off 2012-08-08T18:00:01Z

“Notes” largely favors pensive acoustic guitars, bleary-eyed beats and melancholy orchestral flourishes. The 1975: Self-Aware, Self-Indulgent and, Yes, Sincere 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Uncivilized is a little too raw to be called atmospheric, a little too pub-band to be called jazz, and a little too antivirtuoso to be called orchestral. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Among other things, she shares she's been hard at work since May 2022 putting together the orchestral program for upcoming shows. Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s very bravely built to continually escalate — it starts off as a chamber piece, and then we just go orchestral.” Can Tony Gilroy Bring New Hope to ‘Star Wars’? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

The orchestral tracks provide a panoramic backdrop of sustained strings and swirls of harp, while the big-band horns punch up songs grounded in Chicago blues. Albums by Neil Young, Bette Midler and Miguel Zenón 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

He favors foreboding minor chords and orchestral depths, a backdrop that brings out the most desolate sentiments of his collaborators. ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The repertory was certainly more conventional, but Mr. Gilbert had to fight the almighty echo in the church, whose acoustics are so reverberant that orchestral details sometimes become sludgy and imprecise. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Visits Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 2010-06-01T23:41:00Z

Most of the budget was spent on the orchestral score. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z

As for his orchestral pieces, “They don’t match up to Mahler, but that’s O.K.,” he said. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

Roger Norrington's approach to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, combining a rearranged orchestral layout, quicker than usual tempos, an avoidance of vibrato and a spurning of sentimentality, sparked lively controversy when his recording was issued last year. Prom 14: Stuttgart Radio SO/Norrington ? review 2011-07-26T10:11:47Z

Sauer, brilliantly manning an orchestral station of his own devising, was responsible for the demonic sound design. 'The Great War's' portrayal of WWI battlefield horror proves ingenious 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The only problem was that Elfman had no idea how to compose an orchestral suite. Danny Elfman: 'It was the most intense fear I've felt in my career' 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Maurice Arnold, another black student, showed Dvorak his attempt at writing an orchestral piece using black idioms. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Shimmering, seething orchestral textures underlie fragments of Edward Said’s writings on separation and reconciliation and long lists of businesses passed as you drive through New Haven to the university. Music Review: Turning 150, but Youthful as Ever 2011-04-13T00:13:47Z

But for all the captivating orchestral effects and colors, the piece seemed a little thin on first hearing. From New York Youth Symphony and the Chamber Music Society, Odes to Experience 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Before focusing on composition, he was a first-rate trumpeter, eventually gaining the principal chair in the London Philharmonic, and he knew exactly what worked and what didn’t from inside the orchestral organism. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

An orchestral piece I submitted in 1973 to a competition did not win, but, as one of the ajudicators, he told me afterwards that he admired it and told me how to promote it. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z

The last stanza opens orchestrally with the varied assonance of "prismatic and metallic tones." Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

Indeed, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the last time the Boston Symphony performed one of her orchestral works in full. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

More than 40 years later, the orchestra took part in commissioning one of Mr. Henze’s last orchestral works, the tone poem “Sebastian Dreaming.” Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z

More than anything, this performance — stripped down from his orchestral heft and captured in its entirety, unlike the other live recordings released during his lifetime — gets to the essence of what made Sinatra Sinatra. Why Frank Sinatra still matters 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

This is a week oddly short of orchestral music, with even the New York Philharmonic taking a deserved break. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Its first single, “Don’t Kiss Me,” reaches directly back to plush, orchestral 1970s soul while Mr. Thomas stays wary. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z

Wolfe is working on another labor-themed project: an orchestral and choral work that explores women’s labor issues in factories, with a focus on New York’s garment industry.  'Anthracite Fields' composer Julia Wolfe says MacArthur grant will bring 'time and space' 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Musically, I love the sense of tension and release that you get a lot in orchestral music. 'Forces take you over' 2011-02-12T00:03:28Z

We'll take thick orchestral textures and render them for three instruments and one voice, a distilled idiom. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z

Heard at the second performance on Wednesday, the score leans on Ms. Higdon’s persistent weaknesses — namely, a tendency toward mawkishness — and stints her gifts for teasing out creative orchestral colors and instrumental combinations. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

In his “Fidelio” the orchestral playing is lithe and bracing but not because the tempos are exceptionally fast. Classical Recordings: Two CDs of Beethoven?s ?Fidelio,? From 1960 and Today 2011-10-02T02:55:23Z

“The ascendancy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the salient event in American orchestral life of the past 25 years,” Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, wrote in 2017. In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The concerto’s powerful march opening, deceptively simple in its orchestral unison, contains the five-note motif that unites the themes across its three movements. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

During this time he produced three large-scale orchestral works – Body Mandala, … Towards A Pure Land, and Speakings – all of which relate in one way or another to Harvey's long-standing interest in Buddhism. This week's new live music 2011-08-12T23:07:43Z

Beautifully harmonised orchestral versions of his own and Gil Evans's pieces featured on the Mike Gibbs band's Sunday show. Cheltenham jazz festival – review 2013-05-06T16:12:14Z

Oh, yes, the occasional big outbursts of orchestral exuberance were given their due. Mahler’s challenge triumphantly met at SSO | Classical review 2012-11-30T19:07:07Z

Here Gould tried to rid the piano part of orchestral thickness and purge the music of blatant expressive contrasts. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

When I was 15 and even more daft, I tried to give up rock music and listen only to orchestral – so-called "classical" music. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

Vibrato was more liberal though not lavish, and Mr. Fischer altered the orchestral seating plan. Music Review | 'Beethoven Then and Now': Beethoven Across the Years at Lincoln Center 2010-03-29T06:39:00Z

Elfman first attempted a live "Nightmare" orchestral performance earlier this year in Tokyo. Danny Elfman can relate to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' hero Jack Skellington 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Horner felt comfortable borrowing from traditional Scottish and Irish music for his score, and the result is an astonishing hybrid of sounds—choral, tribal, and orchestral. James Horner’s sweeping film scores defined a cinematic era 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

"Mozart in the Jungle" also depicts some of the more prosaic aspects of orchestral life — chronic financial difficulties, intractable union negotiations and the obligatory brown-nosing of wealthy patrons. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

He’s a virtuoso whose musicianship is complete within itself, almost orchestral; he barely needs anyone or anything else, a bandleader or body of song, to carry out his vision. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z

Four of the orchestral awards are specifically focused. ArtsBeat: 18 Orchestras Receive ASCAP Awards for New Music 2013-06-18T18:29:53Z

The musical scoring is excellent, and the original orchestral pieces are as evocative as those in most big-budget films. Video Game Review: It?s the Same Old Mob, Now Sampled for Gamers 2010-09-05T21:52:00Z

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet was the soloist in a powerhouse performance that followed Bartók's requested platform layout with the pianist surrounded by the orchestral percussion. Prom 15: LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-07-27T09:54:07Z

Scott Goff's languid, insinuating flute launched Debussy's immediately recognizable orchestral idyll, which the symphony players delivered in an easygoing, affable manner. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z

This new seriousness of purpose was supported by the sentimental orchestral music of Murray Gold. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The playing of the subdued opening to the orchestral prelude was droopy and unfocused. Francesco Demuro Steps In to Save Met’s ‘La Traviata’ 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Barely any women — in the film or in real life — have done what she has: made it to the top tier of the world’s orchestral podiums. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Diffuse pungent orchestral harmonies, with pitches that split and chords that slide, cushion the tender vocal writing. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The slow movement contains some of the best music, particularly a beautifully written duet for the soloist and the orchestral clarinet. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z

The orchestral prelude teems, at first, with swashbuckling music that suggests the triumphant battle the king’s forces have just waged over the invading Saxons. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

“The taste was orchestral. … The whipped cream and strawberries were their own heaven: a strawberry shortcake of pleasure.” A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The Gloria, as one might expect in Beethoven, is a full-blooded choral and orchestral yawp. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

There is a lot of music in “On the Town” — about 30 minutes of which is purely orchestral — and it reads like a panoramic glimpse into Bernstein’s musical mind. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

But in their monologues, melodies take flight: long, lyrical lines — lushly delivered by Bullock with rending emotion — that are amplified, complicated and contradicted by orchestral undercurrents. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

With Mahler's mighty Second Symphony, the "Resurrection", guaranteeing a full house, the composer whose new work preceded it was also fortunate in being able to write for vast orchestral forces. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-06-29T17:30:01Z

Perhaps the most unexpected item on the program in the next few weeks is Frank Zappa's "Dupree's Paradise," recorded in its orchestral version by Pierre Boulez in the early 1980s. Ludovic Morlot issues wide-open invitation to concertgoers 2011-08-31T20:53:04Z

After lessons from his father, Samuel, and at the local Settlement Music School, he took his first orchestral job at 16, in the cello section of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Jules Eskin, Cellist With Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dies at 85 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

But the plum is Janet Baker's Sea Pictures, magical orchestral settings of mostly mundane poems. Sea Pictures, Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic/Handley, Janet Baker 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

Yet each dance is different, as it mirrors its song’s distinctive marriage of Sinatra’s vocals with orchestral setting. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Certainly you can hear how much Tchaikovsky learned from Delibes in the greater orchestral delicacy, melodic abundance and rhythmic variety of his later “Sleeping Beauty” and “Nutcracker” scores. Dance Review: Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Is Revived at American Ballet Theater 2013-06-25T21:14:40Z

Sphinx was founded in 1996 by Aaron P. Dworkin, a violinist, and presents an annual concert at Carnegie Hall that includes orchestral and chamber performances by its best players. ArtsBeat: Sphinx Awards Highlight Promise Among Young Musicians 2013-12-24T18:12:42Z

He said that he was initially flattered when Mr. Levine, the conductor of the school’s orchestra and the director of its orchestral institute, began to invite him to his dorm room late at night. Met Opera Suspends James Levine After New Sexual Abuse Accusations 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

The influence of African-Americans on the orchestral tradition is represented more often by Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” than William Grant Still’s “Afro-American” Symphony. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

The slow movement was a model of tasteful phrasing, but I sometimes found myself looking forward to the orchestral passages for a bit of bite. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Songs From the Movie,” a fanciful record that reimagined some of her past works in rich orchestral arrangements, was released last year. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

"I've done probably 75 orchestral shows in the last 10 years," she says. Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Just then it seemed as if the traditional orchestral play-off had lost whatever power it still had to move things along; trap doors are in order. Review | Oscar keeps it shorter without a host, but something still needs to done about those speeches 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

But Augusta Read Thomas, the subject of a Composer Portraits series at Columbia University’s Miller Theater on Thursday and the recipient of numerous prizes and orchestral commissions, is no longer a novice. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The orchestral sound is not always refined or absolutely precise. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

In this instance, there is something old-fashioned about the result, like a Rimsky-Korsakov showpiece with an extra century of orchestral know-how thrown in. Total Immersion: Unsuk Chin ? review 2011-04-11T17:31:24Z

And the chorus Cappella Romana sang Russian liturgical music to introduce orchestral works of Rachmaninov, demonstrating the Gregorian chant that Rachmaninov would have heard as a child in the Russian Orthodox Church. Seattle Symphony picks Thomas Dausgaard to succeed Ludovic Morlot as music director 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

This is not the first time scenes of “E.T.” have been shown with orchestral accompaniment at the Bowl. Review: 'E.T.' comes home to the Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

The orchestral accompaniment was uncharacteristically murky as the conductor kept out of his soloist’s way. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

His “Tetractys” is set to Bach’s “The Art of Fugue,” in a commissioned orchestral arrangement by the British composer Michael Berkeley. Dance Review: Royal Ballet Unveils a New Work in London 2014-02-16T22:32:54Z

It’s fair to say that they, and not the pianist, are the stars of this Grieg Concerto, with their sumptuous sound, meltingly beautiful orchestral solos and mastery of the score’s dramatic trajectory. CD reviews: ‘Considering Matthew Shepard,’ 18 years later 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Compared with “Skies of America,” Mr. Coleman’s engagingly unruly orchestral magnum opus from 1972, Mr. Moore’s concerto is more conventional in structure and temperament. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z

This program, “Power to the People,” blends orchestral and more intimate performances. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Female singer, heartbreaking lyrics, orchestral arrangement: this potent combination was a fixture in the charts in the 60s. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z

She prefaced Holst’s cosmic suite with more contemporary fare: the orchestral versions of Pierre Boulez’s “Notations,” translucently celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday year, and a new violin concerto by Luca Francesconi. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The single-movement work is undoubtedly less long-winded than the orchestral piece heard in Prom 5, and contains more musical incident, especially of a neurotic, hyperactive kind. Prom 16: BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-07-28T11:48:13Z

As multi-dimensional as they were in ‘Become Ocean,’ the ensemble sounded surprisingly thin and light while playing the Debussy, the orchestral blend and grand climaxes two-dimensional. What the critics said about Seattle Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T20:28:09Z

On March 27, a “classical music rave,” featuring remixed versions of orchestral music, will take place in a century-old power plant. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gergiev, who is expert at shaping huge orchestral and choral forces in the opera house, was at his best in the finale. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z

His life's work comprised just two exquisite orchestral works, and about a dozen of the most perfect songs in the French language. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z

Then there is the twee idea of a traveling troupe of actors and orchestral musicians that roams the land. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Along with the rest of the album, those songs arrive in skewed, disorienting form; the abrupt appearances of orchestral backup in “Answer Me, My Love” heighten the tension rather than cushioning it. Justin Vernon Joins Swamp Dogg and Big Red Machine to Wrestle With Love and Death 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

This was the first public performance of his later full orchestral version. Hear Now Music Festival reveals the essence of Los Angeles new music -- we do as we please 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The buoyant, elegantly shaped orchestral sound meshed beautifully with the lithe, immaculate and colorful singing of the chorus, which expressively conveyed the drama and sorrow of the chorales. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

Schuller values orchestral players so much because he was one of them for much of his life. Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z

In this marvelous work, and throughout the program, the Shanghai players were impeccable in their parsing of Eastern and Western bowing styles, and Wu drew a veritably orchestral range of sound from the pipa. What true crossover sounds like, East-meets-West edition 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Like a concert from the era of pandemic livestreams, it consisted of two Classical piano concertos and two orchestral works, with a changing ensemble size that, at its largest, was still small. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Apart from the orchestral introductions the ensemble is merely a dutiful accompanist throughout, although Mr. Gilbert notes in a blog for Musical America that “playing the orchestral accompaniment in Chopin’s concertos is far from straightforward.” Music Review: A Chopin Competition Winner Collects Her Reward 2011-01-05T23:15:23Z

Clean orchestral textures, meanwhile, allowed us to hear molten woodwind gurgles and ominous pizzicato throbs that we usually miss. Prom 13: Verdi Requiem - review 2011-07-25T10:04:41Z

And those orchestral hazes hover like an impending outbreak. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

This 20-minute work in three movements explores circular patterns in which spiraling, sometimes frenzied violin riffs coalesce into long spans of breathless, propulsive orchestral wildness. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z

Officials at Juilliard in New York announced Monday that the Tianjin Juilliard School will offer U.S.-accredited master's degrees in the areas of orchestral performance, chamber music performance and collaborative piano. Juilliard expanding into China with new school 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The piano arrangement maintains much of the watercolor delicacy of the original orchestral score, allowing Mr. Gerhaher’s clear, sometimes painfully fragile voice to skirt the border between singing and speaking. Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Her comparatively romantic approach and tendency to milk phrases contrasted with the lean, tauter orchestral playing. Music Review: West Side Chamber Orchestra?s Inaugural Concert - Review 2011-09-11T22:03:53Z

The orchestral playing was first rate, but perhaps Vänskä was guilty of taking the work at face value, of respecting its symphonic credentials too much. LPO/V?nks? - review 2010-10-17T21:31:00Z

But now we’re hearing a lot of new orchestral music from you. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

This month, the Seattle Symphony performed an orchestral version of the song. Brian Williams 'raps' again with 'Baby Got Back' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

"We're at the height of high art in Europe and masterpieces of orchestral music. And Americans were moving west towards frontier life." Bryce Dessner talks about his 'double life' as a classical, rock musician 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Andrew Litton’s conducting, though it elicited wonderful orchestral playing, was insufficiently propulsive. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

The most sparkling orchestral segment is the Act III pizzicato dance, usually a solo for Sylvia. Review: ‘Sylvia’ at the Joffrey Ballet, a Myth Revamped 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

As a composer, beyond his works for piano, Liszt was the inventor of the orchestral tone poem and an inspired songwriter, and he produced a body of sublime sacred choral works. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Dudamel conducted the overture convincingly enough to make it sound like Mozart’s best orchestral music. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

His orchestral music is colorful and painterly, and is essentially the oil that keeps the machine running. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z

The spectral brass and strings do the opposite of what orchestral arrangements usually do: instead of cosseting you with lushness, there's something unsettling about the way they weave in and out of the song. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-24T15:30:01Z

The mix of pop with sumptuous orchestral strings creates a harmonious storybook flow that is by turns languorously moody and jocular. Kneehigh's 'Tristan & Yseult' an alluring blend of myth, music 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The classic orchestral jazz of Miles Davis and Gil Evans reworked by revered UK jazz composer Gibbs and a premier-league band. This week's cultural highlights: The Recruiting Officer and Picasso 2012-02-12T17:51:27Z

But more broadly, the orchestral playing was strong. Review: A ‘Eugene Onegin’ That Fills In Tchaikovsky’s Blanks 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

An obligatory ballet — this is French grand opera, after all — became a delightful showcase for Donizetti’s orchestral writing, with seductive, exotic melodies and flashy solos for a number of instruments. Review: Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ a Rare Concert Performance in French at Caramoor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

He was also impressed by the spectral harmony of younger composers like Gérard Grisey, created by reconstituting, with orchestral instruments, the natural overtone spectra of sounds. Jonathan Harvey, Modernist Composer, Is Dead at 73 2012-12-07T02:22:20Z

The project, launched in late 2019, stems from the Danish Dausgaard’s close affinity with the Finnish composer, whose music is the most significant contribution to the orchestral repertory by any Scandinavian. A composition that captures the ‘trapped repetition’ of the pandemic? Seattle Symphony debuts that and more 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

His work can take the form of marathon solo-saxophone improvisations or full-dress orchestral pieces, with a spirit of determined inquiry as the running thread. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

The saturated orchestral colors recall Nelson Riddle’s symphonic pop arrangements and Samuel Barber’s gently reflective soprano monologue “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.” Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

While the typical orchestral palette — stirring strings, ethereal voices — is used to score “Shang-Chi,” the 88rising album is liberally incorporated throughout the film. How 88rising Crafted an Evocative Soundtrack for Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Baltimore’s situation epitomizes the basic conflict that has marked orchestral labor struggles across the country: musicians’ claims to a fair and regular salary for a highly skilled job against the decrease in demand for concerts. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra unexpectedly cancels summer season 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Even if the strings sounded lean and the winds a little shaky, the orchestral playing in Wednesday’s Mahler was communicative and idiomatic, and, rightly, the players received strong ovations. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

From the beginning of the first work on the “Music for the Theater” program, Stravinsky’s Suite from “The Firebird,” the sheer richness, warmth and body of the orchestral sound are something special. Critic’s Notebook: TV Lets the All-Stars Play Together 2013-09-06T21:33:14Z

When the trio performed with the New York Philharmonic, as soloists in an orchestral performance of Mr. Davis’s “Still Waters,” there came a distinct moment of respect for Mr. Wadud’s musicianship, Mr. Newton recalled. Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

He does something similar with various objects in the show, turning the gallery into an orchestral suite of sounds and vibrations. Art In Review: Sergei Tcherepnin: Ear Tone Box 2013-04-18T20:29:55Z

The last orchestral utterances in that language were heard Thursday evening at the Seattle Symphony, when the orchestra and music director Ludovic Morlot premiered Carter’s “Instances.” At Seattle Symphony: Elliott Carter premiere, rousing Rossini | Classical review 2013-02-08T17:56:18Z

But the complex architecture belies the score’s beauty: The vocal and orchestral writing, as inextricable as Gerda and Kay, unfurls with deceptively cool simplicity and lyrical warmth. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

When he wasn't too slow or too loud, he was terrific in his ability to convey colorful orchestral character. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Town Crank” hurtles into motion, starting with dry, jittery acoustic guitar before mustering a full sonic barrage: a relentless electronic bass line, blasts of drums and distortion, orchestral flurries. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

The two sections fit seamlessly together, and Wagner’s orchestration is so complete that the “Liebestod” is often performed as an orchestral piece without voice, as was done here. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z

In the more advanced class, students learn lessons in music theory, techniques and orchestral playing. Camp helps Ala. children improve music skills 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Hearty yet shadowy, fanfarelike orchestral bursts alternated with his wistful playing of ruminative passages for violin, rich with Slavic fervor and plaintive lyricism. Review: A Fast-Rising Czech Conductor Leads the Philharmonic 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Women comprise about half of all orchestral players nationally and even outnumber men in the playing ranks of the Philharmonic. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Winning candidates are writing orchestral scores — and running recording sessions at Abbey Road — for shorts created by DreamWorks Animation. Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Salonen's orchestral writing prepared for the instrumental spectacle of the coming Berlioz symphony. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dessner’s orchestral pieces are scheduled for live performances as well. ArtsBeat: A Pop-ish Album From a Storied Classical Label 2014-01-17T21:06:44Z

A latecomer to conducting, Ms. Hannigan now faces the challenge of building up an orchestral repertory while maintaining a busy singing career in Europe and expanding it in North America. Barbara Hannigan Sings and Conducts at the Lucerne Festival 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Individually, the Ottensamers occupy what are arguably the most prestigious orchestral positions for their instrument. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The union representing orchestral musicians said in a separate release late Thursday said that the Met's decision to extend negotiations was constructive but not practical.  Metropolitan Opera extends labor talks by three days 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

On the period front Mr. Bicket took over the English Concert four years ago, and it was a surprise appointment for someone whose history had veered toward the vocal rather than the orchestral world. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

After the murky opening measures of the music, when a chorale theme emerged, the chords were shrouded in magical mists of strings and orchestral sonorities. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z

We are a trio, and on the album there are a lot of orchestral arrangements, strings and horns. Capsula's Bowie obsession pays off 2013-10-31T14:12:32Z

What would not be brought fully home, though, is the extent of Mr. Norman’s intervention in the orchestral tradition. Andrew Norman’s ‘Play,’ a Symphony That Levels Up 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

The many absentees from a sparsely filled Benaroya Hall on Thursday missed some fabulous fiddling and some truly grand orchestral music, masterfully played. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z

Wigglesworth showed he was as sensitive an orchestral leader as he was an accompanist in the Shostakovich, elegantly sculpting the phrases without extraneous flash. A substitute leads a fine night at the NSO​ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

But in a series of orchestral movements from Rameau operas, I was hard pressed to distinguish between a thunderstorm and an earthquake. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

His final composition, his son said, was “Fourths of July,” a patriotic orchestral piece that the New York Jazzharmonic premiered in June. Fred Hellerman, guitarist with pivotal folk quartet the Weavers, dies at 89 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

He cut his teeth on the Chicago orchestral repertoire, learning the big, brassy symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

There has never been a perfect outdoor orchestral performance; instruments made for warm indoor acoustics take on an edge, and overamplified strings swamp the woodwinds every time. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Verdi illustrates the character’s inner deliberation with several bars of orchestral music during which Falstaff, whose last date with Alice ended in humiliation, fails to take the bait. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Nelsons will lead eight orchestral programs, including a Beethoven opener on July 10 featuring the “Emperor” Piano Concerto, with Ax as soloist, and the Fifth Symphony. Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Jurowski charted its progress with dynamism and its orchestral chiaroscuro was lit with refinement. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z

In 1963, Benjamin Britten marked his impending 50th birthday by conducting a Prom of three of his own most substantial orchestral and choral works. Prom 41: BBCSO/Wigglesworth ? review 2011-08-15T10:24:12Z

Two Wagner transcriptions, the “Spinning Song” from “The Flying Dutchman” and “Isolde’s Liebestod,” are given full orchestral dimension, without sacrificing clarity of detail or exceeding the limits of what might be sung. CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

In her letter to Mr. Morlot, the orchestra said, she reminisced fondly about attending orchestral concerts with her grandmother. Taylor Swift Gives $50,000 to Seattle Symphony 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Given this creative profile, the title of Mr. Norman’s latest orchestral work, “Sustain,” hinted at an intriguing about-face. Review: A Sublime New Direction for Andrew Norman in Los Angeles 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

It was also the first work in which he experimented with changing the makeup and layout of the musicians, writing for a classical orchestral formation plus an ensemble of 12 soloists. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z

On the surface, the White Album marked a shift from the orchestral formality and sonic experimentation of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ross is director of orchestral activities at the University of Maryland. Gilbert to Head Juilliard?s Conducting Program 2011-01-12T22:57:38Z

“He would learn the name of every single orchestral player and say, ‘Mr. Smith,’ to the timpanist, ‘can you use a different stick or whatever?’” he remembered. Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He has been writing orchestral scores since the 1970s, but not until this BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert under Ilan Volkov has any orchestra dared to devote an entire evening to his music. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z

It was surprisingly seductive, given its title, with a slow, jazzy start in the brasses that led to simmering, moody orchestral exhalations. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z

Rather than tossing off these virtuosic showpieces as mere appetizers, though, Baráti probed into them with extraordinary intensity and an almost orchestral range of expression. Review: In a violinist’s high-wire act, virtuoso Kristóf Baráti transfixes 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some sections turned beguiling and innocent, with dancing riffs and delicate orchestral writing. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Greg Nicolett: Rob knew I had passion for orchestral film music, and asked me if I could turn his song into an epic symphonic oratorio. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, Benaroya's going to host some sizzling orchestral fireworks. Morlot celebrates rhythm in next concert 2011-09-22T21:27:04Z

Its surface — the orchestral palate and phenomenal pianistic effects — is what makes it exceptional. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

But at concerts in that composer’s day, it was fairly common for movements of a symphony to be interspersed with opera arias, orchestral dances and whatnot. Review: Mozart, a Little Bit Symphony, a Little Bit Opera 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Working with groups of various sizes — usually five to 10 members — he united the influence of Duke Ellington’s marbled orchestral sound with the sharp-elbowed dispatch of bebop. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

As disco declined in popularity, artists were no longer able to afford the lush sounds of a full orchestral backing, forcing a reliance on cheaper, synthetic sounds. Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for "Renaissance" 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

The interpretation was arresting from the opening notes of the orchestral introduction, rendered with taut and dramatic vigor. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

From there on, it was one orchestral showpiece after another, each beautifully wrought. National Philharmonic brings its unique touch to a vintage lineup 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert filled out the program with smart choices: an early Barber work, Wagner’s Overture to “Tannhäuser” and orchestral music from “Salome.” Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z

And while the Jayhawks didn't need to look beyond "Wichita" for psychedelic deliverance or "I'd Run Away" for orchestral splendor, they dug deep. Reunited Jayhawks soar at Vic 2011-01-28T15:02:19Z

At the Bowl, the orchestral ante was upped. Gustavo Dudamel gives Misty Copeland the royal treatment in the Hollywood Bowl's classical opener 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Certainly, with no orchestral clothing to cushion its dissonances, the music seems more anguished, more modernist, especially in the monumental first movement. Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 (transcribed Stevenson & White) | CD Review 2010-03-25T23:00:00Z

Accusations of pretentiousness came with the move into orchestral performance, which rankled with Droste. Grizzly Bear: freed from captivity 2010-05-27T21:01:00Z

The orchestral textures were strikingly lucid rather than heavy. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-27T09:16:41Z

Much of the vocal writing recalls Massenet, sometimes Puccini or Strauss, while the overloaded orchestral textures, containing everything from Wagner to Weill, churn away below, oblivious to what the vocal lines imply. Prima Donna 2010-04-13T20:35:00Z

Film critics have had a field day spotting the cinematic references; the orchestral music by Ludovic Bource has echoes of old movie scores. Film: Paying Tribute to a Silent Hollywood 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

“Blindsided by them,” Maxwell sings, on the verge of tears, over gently tolling piano and eerily sustained orchestral instruments. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Symphony performed it on Thursday at the Manhattan School, conducted by George Manahan, the school’s director of orchestral activities. Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Heggie's orchestral writing is of more use setting mood and scene than conveying dramatic argument. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The orchestral sound is unfashionably full, but the playing is consistently fine. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Sinfonia Concertante in E flat; Symphony No 31 'Paris' 2010-07-08T21:39:00Z

"If you hear any of his orchestral music - his symphonies, concertos, or his song-cycle Correspondances - you're immersed in an irresistible kaleidoscope of instrumental colour and, above all, a world of heightened feeling," said Service. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z

The solo passages for male voices are more pointedly dramatic, often pitting the soloists against dense orchestral and choral scoring. Music Review: Juraj Filas Piece Is a Coda for Kent Tritle - Review 2011-09-15T23:01:04Z

The program provides intensive orchestral instruction, including classes on music creativity, singing and ensemble rehearsals, to 250 students in 1st through 12th grades. Making music an instrument for change: How NEA-funded HOLA points kids toward a better path 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Raskatov selects his orchestral palette with care, but the result is inert, a trivial background to what is happening on stage. A Dog's Heart - review 2010-11-21T21:31:00Z

Currently an artist in residence at this Morningside Heights cathedral, Mr. Briggs is one of our finest organists, and also a particularly good transcriber of orchestral works for his own instrument. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In fact, in my vast experience, it's the most complex piece of orchestral music I've ever had to put together. Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z

The Palimpsests compress a gigantic musical experience into less than 20 minutes, and amount to one of the 21st century's most compelling orchestral pieces so far. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z

It’s something of an orchestral tradition for visiting conductors to lead with a piece that reflects something about them and/or their country of origin. Jarvi’s insouciance gets results from the NSO 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Their titles emboldened Mr. Nagano to include 10 of these piano pieces in this inventive orchestral program. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z

Salonen's response was to insist on a corresponding weight and warmth of orchestral texture. Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-06-14T22:01:00Z

She served as the St. Louis Symphony’s composer in residence in the 1980s, cultivating a taut, crackling orchestral sound. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The instruments will, of course, be modern, but the orchestral forces are likely to be substantially reduced from full symphonic strength and vibrato, one assumes, will be at a minimum. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

When, with Richard Wagner, orchestral and operatic music began to consider itself superior, universal and difficult, Ross explained in a 1996 New Yorker essay, "it stumbled badly in the new democratic marketplace." The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

David Leisner is a guitarist, teacher and composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal music, who also healed himself of a devastating hand injury that nearly derailed his career. Arts & entertainment picks for the week ahead 2011-09-14T21:06:04Z

Though the lidless piano faced into the orchestra, Kahane ensured balances between the piano line and orchestral fabric were always clear. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

In an unexpected intersection of celebrity pop music and ballet, that most refined of the performing arts, Paul McCartney has written a major orchestral work for New York City Ballet. ArtsBeat: Paul McCartney Collaborates With City Ballet 2011-02-23T19:28:55Z

Insightfully, he describes learning how to orchestrate in the mid 1960s, when orchestral accents were permeating pop hits by the Beatles and even the Rolling Stones. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

“I cannot breathe I swear/It’s torture/And I miss my brothers,” overlapping voices declare, in what could have simply been a despondent mope-rock anthem, complete with an orchestral backdrop. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

She’s setting aside the high notes, trading orchestral backups for layers of electric and synthetic instruments, and relying on what’s in the tracks — melodies, hooks, interpretations — rather than some image campaign or YouTube stunt. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

And since, as we’ve seen, recordings tend to feature different repertoire than standard subscription programs, this trend of recording concerts for release is contributing, slowly but surely, to a perceptible broadening of the orchestral repertoire. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The darker finale juxtaposes swirling violin figurations with both plainchant and a German nursery rhyme declaimed by the orchestral players. LSO/Gergiev 2010-05-17T21:45:00Z

Ever since, American orchestral life has pretty much insisted on fully fixed scores. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ensembles and choruses quickly turn murky, with clashing vocal lines and clotted orchestral textures. Music Review: ?Heart of a Soldier? at San Francisco Opera - Review 2011-09-11T17:17:57Z

Much orchestral detail, especially from the horns, was lost in the textural shuffle. Tacoma and Cienfuegos, Cuba, celebrate a musical partnership 2012-10-06T21:10:05Z

Halle composer emeritus Colin Matthews said the "substantial scores" were "full of orchestral colour". Britten war scores get live premiere 2013-09-25T09:21:04Z

The orchestral and vocal parts are set, published and widely available. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

Mr. Storgards brought exceptional transparency and crisp articulation to Mahler’s colorful orchestral music. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

The stage is set for bellicose ensembles and arias of extreme and regularly conflicted emotions, which Rossini sets to music as vocally flamboyant as it is harmonically tense and orchestrally powerful. Maometto Secondo – review 2013-06-10T17:04:05Z

The failure spawned in the elevator pitch and never took its leave until the orchestral drones of the final track had subsided. Lou Reed and Metallica Go Loopy on Lulu 2011-11-01T09:00:11Z

There are also some astonishing orchestral colours – a glass harmonica, viola da gamba – that make Written on Skin an essential experience, even recorded. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z

Music has taken center stage at outdoor opera performances, a crowdsourced music festival and an orchestral tribute to the local hardcore band Refused. 52 Places to Go in 2014 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z

It makes me sick that I’m ever not in my seat when Michael Tilson Thomas raises his baton, because he’s such a good conductor, and I miss hearing orchestral music. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

But there’s a catch: Hindemith’s inventive orchestral writing is generally heard in his own symphonic adaptation. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ballet Theater’s orchestral brass section too often spoiled the opening night. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ Reawakened by American Ballet Theater 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

It’s for those who have been to one or two orchestral concerts but are still not quite sure what they’re supposed to be getting out of the experience. Perspective | A beginner’s guide to enjoying classic music. No snobs allowed 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The New World Symphony, the orchestral academy founded by Michael Tilson Thomas to train graduates of top music programs, has long been known for innovative educational programs. John Cage's Music Receives a Dedicated Website 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

In the first movement of the violin concerto, after a spare introduction, the violin soars with propulsive vigor over a rich orchestral fabric, with introverted passages alternating with fiery outbursts. Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z

The juxtaposition of instrumental solos, chamber ensemble and orchestral textures created moments of memorable freshness and color. Review: An Orchestral Season That’s (Almost) Entirely Female 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Bates, from the back of the stage on his laptop, mixed an electronically processed “Baroque ensemble” into the orchestral texture, which sometimes blended and sometimes disrupted. National Symphony Orchestra brings a mélange to the Kennedy Center 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Marsalis also showed orchestral ambitions, arranging more than a few passages for a piquant blend of flutes and muted horns, and favoring striking harmonic sequences, like a Thelonious Monkish stretch of “Leap Frogs.” Review: Wynton Marsalis’s ‘Spaces,’ a Kinetic Series of Zoological Portraits 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Blending with the strings but with a reedy brightness that complemented the winds and brasses, her sitar was a persuasive orchestral chameleon. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The deep-sea contrabass clarinet and contrabassoon that Salonen love contribute a strange bottom to the orchestral sound. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Her lips move in the video but the only sound is the swelling orchestral music in the background. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Through some mysterious alchemy, Mykietyn's orchestral effects and resourceful deployment of sonorities added up to more than the sum of its parts. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The orchestral variety is impressive, especially in the percussion writing. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z

Robin’s enterprise affirmed the vitality and variety of recent orchestral writing: the music on offer ranged from euphonious effusions in a post-minimalist vein to dissonant fulminations of the avant-garde. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

A fraught orchestral transition leads to the second scene, and the way Mr. Levine conducted this music, it seemed like the epitome of pulsing, daring 20th-century modernism. Opera Review: Matthias Goerne Fills In as Lead at the Met 2014-03-07T22:34:23Z

But with a faint tolling of orchestral bells and whimpers in the violins at the end of the second movement, attitude gave way to what seemed a touching glimpse of the suffering soul itself. A Piano Rang Out Like Gunfire: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The first three movements are purely orchestral; there are moments of striking originality, particularly the sparer, more spectral ideas, but much more is either entirely unmemorable or simply grotesquely odd, and often hopelessly over-scored. Prom 4: Gothic Symphony ? review 2011-07-18T09:55:53Z

His long association with this ensemble was a landmark pairing of conductor and orchestral musicians. Alt-Verdi: ?Otello,? Differently 2010-12-24T14:54:24Z

I've just finished a rehearsal of his orchestral works for the Prom and we all found them challenging, but not because the music is difficult to play. John Cage: musicians and artists on a legend 2012-08-15T17:51:03Z

In honor of the composer, concerts are staged nightly from March through October at the Church of San Giovanni, and range from intimate recitals to full orchestral performances. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

If the heights of orchestral radiance necessary to bring off the tricky conclusion weren't quite achieved, then it was a good attempt. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z

Also distressing are the accumulating signs of orchestral problems. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-30T22:13:03Z

Notwithstanding individual flaws, this was a superb venture: The Russian visitors and familiar New York stars topped their own previous accomplishments, with the conductor Andrew Litton providing firm tempos and lustrous orchestral playing. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The Pastoral, though, was very different: the orchestral sound combined warmth with clarity. Prom 12: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review 2012-07-24T13:38:30Z

I can only say that I’m enormously grateful people have embraced this music, and it’s brought them to orchestral music in the way that it has for many younger people. John Williams on 'Force Awakens' score: 'I felt a renewed energy, and a vitality' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Loops of her beats and her raw violin lines are still the core of her music, but collaborating producers add new possibilities: wilder counterpoint, psychedelic hazes, orchestral cushioning. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

It was the shadowy cousin of 1991's "Out of Time," another multiplatinum success that dealt with its melancholy in a more sanguine, orchestral manner. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The prelude, “Erasure,” begins like “Emergence,” by getting into a groove — here Koh and droning orchestral flute. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Several orchestral concerts are going on around the region, all featuring special guests of a wide variety of ages and expertise, and all costing $20 or less. 4 classical concerts under $20 this weekend 2012-10-27T02:16:06Z

Patrick Summers conducted a sometimes loose performance, with occasional slippages in ensemble between orchestral sections or between pit and stage. Opera Review: ‘The Enchanted Island’ Returns to Met Opera 2014-02-28T21:08:04Z

The hall was officially inaugurated with an orchestral concert on Wednesday. Music Review: Many Faces of Schubert, and of a Hall 2011-01-28T23:35:04Z

Samy Moussa's strikingly original "Crimson" revealed a young composer and conductor from Montreal with a gleeful sense for metallic orchestral color and shocking harmony. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Fink: I know you may have seen the movie “Amadeus” when that came out, and they showed Amadeus writing down his orchestral parts as he heard them in his head. Prince’s genius, through the Revolution’s ears: “He took the best bits of Beethoven, the Beatles and James Brown” 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

There are better places to hear a cello than outdoors, and better places to appreciate an orchestral balance; and therefore those things seemed here not quite to be what the piece was about. John Luther Adams’s ‘Sila’: New work occupies Lincoln Center plaza

A sound system played a synthesizer arrangement of Mr. Nikodijevic’s gloomy orchestral music, with long, spare chords and dramatic bass. The Coronavirus Derails Marina Abramovic’s Maria Callas Opera 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

And the orchestral playing was remarkably secure and stylish: one more testament to Mr. La Selva’s admirable leadership. Music Review: Central Park Moonlight, Igniting Love for Mimi and Rodolfo 2011-07-21T22:37:57Z

He is the co-founder of the New World Symphony, a Florida-based orchestral academy that has nurtured the careers of thousands of musicians. ‘Sesame Street,’ Sally Field and Linda Ronstadt are among this year’s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

The instrument was central to 19th-century composers, and all 19th-century orchestral scores can be successfully transcribed for piano; even early 20th-century music – in particular Ravel – can be equally spellbinding on piano or orchestra. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

The finale is a crazed rondo that builds to an explosion of leaping piano chords and slashing orchestral clusters. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z

And he continued to find revelatory details as the long orchestral exposition unfolded. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z

The warmth, flexibility, and apparently inexhaustible power of her voice easily rode even the larger orchestral climaxes, and enveloped us all with its loveliness — most definitely, this is a singer with a big future. Opera review: Young artists offer seductive 'Ariadne' 2010-04-02T20:23:00Z

His intonation was pretty good, he didn't force his tone and McGegan applied a nicely delicate touch to the orchestral part in the central section. The L.A. Phil makes a lively 'French Connection' at the Bowl 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Now that the later orchestral version is so familiar, it is hard to hear these songs with piano without missing their pulsing flutes and surging strings. Soile Isokoski – review 2013-01-27T13:21:08Z

He showcases his own vocals for the first time on the title track of his orchestral album, “Atmosphere,” released last year. Pop & Rock Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:11:06Z

Full of twisted, distorted shapes and set to discordant orchestral music by Webern, it was part of the 1959 ballet “Episodes.” Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Since 1968, Ligeti’s name has rung a bell with general audiences for “Atmosphères,” nine minutes of orchestral music that Stanley Kubrick incorporated into the soundtrack of “2001: A Space Odyssey” to distinctly extraterrestrial effect. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

His plaintive lines float atop undulant orchestral ripples and bucolic woodwind harmonies tweaked with clashing intervals. Review: ‘Marnie’ Stays in the Shadows in Nico Muhly’s Opera 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The scurrying, protean scherzo is filled with all sorts of unexpected orchestral colors and twists. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z

In their orchestral works, they sometimes ask the musicians to improvise, too. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

"So, having been an orchestral player myself, I know that orchestras are highly critical of conductors," Nelsons grins. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

In Egypt, an orchestral work by Mr. El-Dabh has been played nightly, from the early 1960s to the present day, as part of a son-et-lumière show at the Great Pyramids of Giza. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Morlot and the orchestra concentrated instead on transparency as well as power, letting Grosvenor’s solo part shine through, and making his dialogues with various orchestral soloists much more effective. A knockout Night One of Rachmaninov fest 2013-01-04T16:38:19Z

“In my class, in 1983, there were no female orchestral conductors, and just two choral conductors,” she said in an interview. A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Brent Michael Davids’s “Black Hills Olowan,” the first commission, involves a traditional Lakota song embedded in a Western orchestral setting. The Lakota Music Project finds common ground through collaboration 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The show, however, at least managed to be funky and vivid and vital, rather than watered down like many orchestral pops concerts featuring stars from other genres. Perspective | Kennedy Center seeks creativity. Making artists into administrators may not be the answer. 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The opening movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 crackled with tension between the sunny, relaxed playing of the soloist, Emanuel Ax, and the contained impatience of the orchestral interventions. Review: New York String Orchestra Offers Youthful Energy and a Lush Sound 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Three days before her birthday, she released "Vera Lynn 100", a new album which includes old favorites set to new orchestral accompaniments. Singer Vera Lynn, voice of hope in wartime Britain, turns 100 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Born in Angers in 1916, he was a prolific composer of predominantly instrumental works, including symphonies and orchestral pieces. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z

Few programmers mine hidden corners of the orchestral repertory as avidly and shrewdly as Leon Botstein, the orchestra’s music director and conductor. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

The new album: It’s a sometimes uneasy mix of the group’s usual lush orchestral folk and tentative, synth-y disco, with too much emphasis on the former. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

There are compelling bursts of agitation in the score, especially in the colorful orchestral writing. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z

Though Sax promoted his creation as an orchestral instrument, unreliable intonation hindered its integration into the orchestra. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z

Originally written for piano, and based on a series of watercolour drawings by his friend Victor Hartman, Modest Mussorgsky's suite Pictures at an Exhibition lends itself wonderfully to orchestral arrangement. Readers recommend: songs about works of art – results 2013-02-01T09:56:00Z

Mr. Spano conducted with a sure hand, luxuriating in the orchestral sea interludes, pacing the work cannily, imparting energy and sustaining the drama throughout. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z

Although Ms. Bryan’s orchestral writing sometimes proved simplistic, the brief moments of calm in the work did evoke a refuge in difficult times. ‘Blues Symphony’ by Wynton Marsalis Has Its New York Premiere 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

And for the film soundtracks, collaborations between Hollywood pros — notably the Swedish composer of the orchestral score, Ludwig Goransson — and African musicians. ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Now it seems that the specificity of your attack on the guitar — whether and how you strum a chord or pick a note — determines the texture of the orchestral sounds that result from it. Music Review: Pat Metheny Brings His One-Man Band to Town Hall 2010-05-23T21:29:00Z

The saxophone is so closely associated with jazz and big bands that we tend to forget that its inventor, Adolphe Sax, envisioned it as an orchestral instrument. Debussy/ d'Indy/ Schmitt/ Tomasi/ Maurice: Works for saxophone and orchestra |CD review 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

Every work of orchestral music is a mosaic of myriad considerations, thoughts, phrasings and experiences in performance. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Gaveaux introduces the scene with a gently drawn-out orchestral crescendo that beautifully evokes the brightening atmosphere. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

An orchestral introduction establishes the forbidding mood of the story and the work’s musical language. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

From the past, she echoed girl groups and pre-rock orchestral ballads, and slipped old song titles into her lyrics, as well as photo-archived images — particularly from Hollywood — into her videos. Review: Lana Del Rey Wonders ‘Is It the End of America?’ on Her New Album 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, the composer ingeniously weaves their rich, glowing sonorities into the sumptuous orchestral fabric. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Where's the evidence of any real orchestral strategy for the country? Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested 2011-03-31T17:09:17Z

Firth’s arrangements have orchestral heft, with the melodies of each piece flowing freely between the two pianos. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Here Mr. Gilbert and his players were not shy about tapping the brusqueness and, at times, brutality of Bartok’s orchestral writing. Music Review: Renderings Energetic and Brash 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z

The new work was part of one of Gaffigan’s signature inverted programs, with the big work on top, tapering off after intermission with two smaller ones, the last an orchestral showpiece. Race, justice and 'Unchained': L.A. Phil premieres new work by James Matheson 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

That gift is evident in his final composition, the 1962 Symphony, Fine’s only attempt at the grand orchestral genre. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Gilbert’s latest recording with the New York Philharmonic documents vivid performances of four intense orchestral pieces by its previous composer in residence, Christopher Rouse. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

And the corps of eight — which never leaves the stage — matched the elegant cut and thrust of Bach’s orchestral writing. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Born to a musical family, Borge made his orchestral debut at age 18, playing Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2. Musical funnyman Victor Borge gets star treatment at Nordic museum 2010-12-28T23:38:09Z

But what hadn’t worked as opera or ballet ultimately succeeded in purely orchestral garb, particularly when swathed in colors as sumptuous and vivid as Prokofiev’s. Boisterous, novel effects on Prokofiev by Baltimore Symphony programmer 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The UK premiere of Gerald Barry's latest opera appeared almost unobtrusively in the middle of the otherwise regulation orchestral programme that Thomas Adès's conducted with the London Symphony Orchestra. LSO/Ad?s 2010-06-09T21:31:00Z

“Sailor’s Guide” is rowdier, more emotionally insular and also far more musically surprising, an album of raw country cut with rich and messy Southern soul and sleek orchestral bombast. Sturgill Simpson, a Genuine Alternative to Alt Country 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The orchestral heft of the added strings — nine violins, three violas, two cellos, and a double bass — further burnished the dusky glow of many sections in the Brahms. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z

At least part of the inspiration for the NY Phil Biennial has surely been the Los Angeles Philharmonic's high-profile new music festivals that have been changing the orchestral landscape throughout the country. NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonic is calling Dudamel’s festival “The Schumann Connection,” suggesting Robert Schumann’s ties to his wife, Clara — whose underappreciated music is being played in chamber concerts alongside the two orchestral programs. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

An orchestral arrangement of “Pop Goes the Weasel” opens this latest entry in PBS’s “Nature” documentary series. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Chef Show’ and ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Alarm Will Sound could only be a new-music group, and though you might not guess its penchant for orchestral transcriptions of electronica and garage rock, its name hints at its wild side. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

The effectiveness of that reconstituted language is shown in the three orchestral works by his close friend that Gruber conducts here. Schwertsik: Baumges?nge; Nachtmusiken etc ? review 2011-08-25T21:45:01Z

A second symposium will feature three education experts discussing the progress of music education programs inspired by Venezuela's famed El Sistema method of achieving social change through orchestral education. CSO festival highlights youth in music 2011-04-13T17:22:00Z

Adams’ grounding as an orchestral composer comes from hands-on experience: for a decade, he was timpanist and principal percussionist for the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work 2013-06-12T23:10:49Z

She showed such prowess that, although she did not play an orchestral instrument, she was recruited for the school orchestra. Jane Little, Atlanta’s Venerable Bassist, Dies at 87 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

Q. Was doing an orchestral show your idea? Danny Elfman Brings Music From Tim Burton’s Films to Lincoln Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

On this side of the pond, she recently made her U.S. orchestral debut with the world premiere of “Disillusioned Dreamer,” commissioned and performed by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. A 35-year-old composer and 25-year-old conductor make their Seattle Symphony debuts 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

For the past few years he has used a computer program that simulates orchestral instruments. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

Whether we will often feel again the Levinian sense of wonder, the sensuous maxing-out of orchestral and vocal sound, remains to be seen. James Levine’s Accomplishment at the Met 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Since 2009, they have been engaged in austere sonic experiments, from engineering complex minimalist techno to replicating the DNA of dance music using orchestral instruments. Brandt Brauer Frick – review 2013-03-21T18:10:55Z

So Beach devoted herself to an exhaustive immersion in the orchestral repertoire, systematically examining scores and comparing them to performances she heard at the Boston Symphony. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Stonemilker” is a slow wade through orchestral strings and effects that sets the tone early. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura’ is a rewarding listen, if you can handle the heartbreak 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

For him old recordings, orchestral and band arrangements and sheet music for movies, Broadway musicals, nightclubs and radio and television shows are precious resources that must be preserved. | 'Michael Feinsten?s American Songbook': Saving Old Scores From Pop?s Dustbin 2010-10-05T21:54:00Z

The peak was the masterly headlining set of orchestral hardcore by the Canadian band led by Damian Abraham, also known as Pink Eyes. Critic’s Notebook: 285 Kent, the Williamsburg Club, Gives Its Last Party 2014-01-20T22:35:32Z

The outer movements were ebullient, with a delightful and winning sense of interplay between the “solo” and “orchestral” parts. Richard Goode lends a lively voice to an exuberant all-Bach piano program 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The orchestral music of Florence Price, an African-American woman, is only now receiving widespread attention, nearly 70 years after her death. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

The program includes traditional carols, orchestral classics and modern holiday hits performed by students of all ages. Spare Times for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“It is true to old-fashioned opera in being sentimental. It is true to Apple in Bates’ applying technology, combining electronica and frisky orchestral music and lyrical vocal lines, in as friendly a way as possible.” Esssential Arts & Culture: An operatic Steve Jobs, a museum of O.J. ephemera, Dudamel and Venezuela's crisis 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Different versions, ultimately, of “Appalachian Spring” — the original ballet, an orchestral suite and a blend of the two published in 1972. 70 and still fresh: For ‘Appalachian Spring’ anniversary, a Martha Graham primer

In the orchestral performance category, once again, four of the five entries announced Monday are from American orchestras. Patterns persist in classical music Grammy nominations 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

All six demonstrated a flair for orchestral writing. Music Review: Underwood New Music Readings at DiMenna Center 2012-06-04T21:56:04Z

His performance instructions sometimes turn the concert hall inside out and upend the traditional orchestral setup. Critic’s Notebook: A New York Premiere for John Luther Adams’s ‘Become Ocean’ 2014-05-05T21:43:52Z

In 2013, he wrote “Become Ocean,” a hypnotic orchestral work for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

At times the melodies in the work, with its kaleidoscopic palette of timbres and rhythms, alternate between piano solos and orchestral passages. At Mostly Mozart, a Menagerie of Bird-Related Works 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

There were plenty of pretty details in the orchestral passages of Mozart’s smoothly manicured concerto, too. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

People quickly realised this was an amazing piece of orchestral music, certainly not just something for "a young person". Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

The Proms are still, after all, pre-eminently an orchestral music festival. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

In many ways, Inkinen is an uncompromisingly direct Sibelius interpreter, willing to trust the composer's wonderful sense of musical architecture and orchestral colour, and simply presenting the music with as little fuss as possible. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 ? review 2011-01-06T23:00:00Z

"Harmonium" begins with soft, muttered, pulsating repetitions by the chorus on the word "no," which becomes "ne" and then "never" for Donne's "Negative Love," the first of several swirling, growing orchestral swells. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s something I come back to very often about why I love the orchestral world and the orchestral music.” Boston Symphony Picks New Leader From Los Angeles Philharmonic 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Knights vividly illuminated the yearning qualities of the orchestral suite, with its melancholy English horn and trumpet solos ably performed by James Roe and Sycil Mathai. Music Review: The Knights Play the Naumburg Bandshell 2012-07-25T21:52:26Z

The orchestral arrangements frequently brought new shading, unexpected shifts in tone and generally fresh emphasis to Sparks’ skewed perspective, which 45 years into their career, appears to be as passionately forward-looking as ever. Sparks, Franz Ferdinand to join forces for 2015 album, tour 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

For the first, seven Northwest poets, including Buddy Wakefield and Karen Finneyfrock, will perform thematic works set to an original orchestral score. Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z

Days of Future Passed" which, as allmusic.com noted, was "totally accidentally — timed perfectly to fall into the hands of listeners who were looking for an orchestral / psychedelic recording to follow works like the Beatles' Sgt. Music Match: If You Like the Moody Blues, Try Alt-J 2013-01-16T20:23:29Z

For “New Ghetto Music” he drew on the penetrating emotional delivery he heard on the tapes, combining it with modern orchestral techniques and a bracing rawness inspired by tenores vocal traditions from Sardinia. Music in Review 2011-01-14T00:08:47Z

Sometimes it's orchestral, sometimes it's a gentle folk melody or a brass band – all researched enough not to be inaccurate. Letters: Soundtracks with street credibility 2011-08-05T20:00:01Z

“Won’t Be Long,” one of the first tracks she recorded for Columbia, captures her better than the lustrous orchestral ballads and brittle pop songs of later sessions. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z

After doing the piano pieces, we started on the orchestral soundtrack. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

Mr. Sun played along with orchestral passages where no piano was called for, duplicating the harmonies to little audible effect, but adding an energy that was palpable. Review: All Beethoven, All Evening, on Period Instruments 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The record, released this month by the British label Warp, is of course libretto free, mostly dispensing with vocals in favor of complex, often orchestral arrangements. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

There he directed the annual summer festival from 1948, leading operatic Mozart that Virgil Thomson once called “perfection” in its “animation and orchestral delicacy,” and venturing into Gluck and Rameau. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

While this idea valorizes the long, competitive path orchestral musicians travel, it is a myth of meritocracy. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

When not in the spotlight, the performers — sitting in a row like television presenters — intoned a subdued and unintelligible dialogue that evoked a softly murmuring orchestral accompaniment. Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Crash’ Opens at Roulette 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The last international production was in 1938; the orchestral parts were destroyed shortly afterward, in . Music Review: ‘La Nave’ at the Rose Theater 2012-11-05T19:39:22Z

It’s the world premiere of Elliott Carter’s “Instances,” the last orchestral piece the experimental composer wrote before his death at 103 last November. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z

The very capable hands of Ensemble LPR, a group of inventive musicians devoted to bridging all forms of music, give David Bowie’s swan song the orchestral treatment with Maya Beiser as the soloist. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Tender passages felt heavy, and the blend of strings and winds — so important in this composer’s orchestral writing — was inert rather than shimmering. American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Marriage Actually’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Throughout their exchanges the orchestral machine moves relentlessly on, constantly changing tack and inventing new sound-worlds but always keeping its power in reserve, and consuming everything it encounters. Prom 8: BBCSO/Adès - review 2013-07-18T09:58:27Z

Nearly 300 orchestral musicians and 1,200 vocalists were reportedly involved in the production. Stockhausen’s ‘Gruppen’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z

Generally, orchestral textures are kept light, often consisting of a single melodic line, which sometimes doubles the voice. Review: A Surreal Russian Opera That's All Bark and a Lot of Bite, Too 2010-06-22T12:41:00Z

These three works – Body Mandala, Speakings and … towards a Pure Land – combine distinctive orchestral invention with strange, glistening electronics so that the borders are blurred. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z

With the orchestral music folded into the piano part, some of the concerto’s combative David-and-Goliath drama is lost. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z

Skittish rhythmic figures roil the orchestral textures, and an episode of thick, wailing harmonies sounds like some church hymn put through a time warp. Music Review: Leader and Players, Deeply Bound 2010-12-16T23:06:23Z

Most of those shows follow a strict formula: digitized masterpieces by long-dead artists such as Dalí, Matisse or Van Gogh are projected at scale onto warehouse walls, then animated to an orchestral soundtrack. David Hockney Goes High-Tech 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

The grand orchestral music seemed to be eroding as I listened, like some magnificent sand castle dissolving in the tide, as sweet notes slid into sourness. ‘Follies’ Was My First Broadway Show. 50 Years Later, I Remember It All. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

So how was Muhly's new orchestral piece, "So Far, So Good"? SSO's premiere of Muhly work: so far, so good 2012-01-27T17:53:05Z

Radio listeners probably got a better sense of the relationship between Leila Josefowicz's beautifully understated solo playing and Matthews's dappled orchestral writing than those of us in the hall, though. BBCSO/Knussen 2010-07-29T10:59:00Z

Bridging the two keyboard concertos with Stravinsky's orchestral Concerto in D was an inspired choice, revealing the influences of Bach and Mozart on the later composer's brand of neoclassicism. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z

“I had the first orchestral rehearsal the next day. Which was my birthday. So they all played ‘Happy Birthday.’ A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

And don’t forget diffuse light and lush orchestral swells to hammer the sentiment home. Movie Review: ?A Thousand Words,? Directed by Brian Robbins 2012-03-09T00:36:25Z

This year, two recordings of Mr. Mitchell’s orchestral music have been released featuring groups from that continent. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

As the title suggests, this work deals with the purification of speech, but using computer analysis, Harvey attempts to find a way of translating the inflections of speech into the vocabulary of orchestral instruments. Harvey: Speakings; Jubilus; Scena 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z

The music, which is nearly continuous, provides a magic carpet of orchestral strings upon which the production floats at will. The off-kilter charms of 'Amelie,' made musical at the Ahmanson 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

The fashion for making big orchestral arrangements of Bach peaked in the first half of the 20th century, and then gradually disappeared as the early music movement got underway. Proms 38 & 39: Bach Day 2010-08-15T12:09:00Z

The orchestral players were from the symphony's Youth Orchestra. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

But heard this way Saturday night, the “Ring” thrust the audience into the center of Wagner’s orchestral sound world to savor the details and to see some of the more unusual aspects. A Wagner 'Ring' sampler: Short, but still so much to savor 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

So the first Shift concert felt like a community-building exercise, a celebration of some basic ideas around which the orchestral world seeks to organize and rebuild. Review | With aerialists, ribbons and Copland, the Shift festival begins 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

In a much loved holiday tradition that brings young orchestral musicians together under the sagacious leadership of Jaime Laredo, the New York String Orchestra celebrates its fiftieth year with starry concerts at Carnegie Hall. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Sandra Bernhard, Joshua Bell, and More 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

One of the Italian conductor’s pet projects over the last five years is a set devoted to the little-known orchestral works of Alfredo Casella, recorded with his former band, the BBC Philharmonic. CD reviews: Noseda makes case for neglected Italian master 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Arias, choruses and orchestral passages all  become dance scenes. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z

And the next movement lists a venerable catalogue of made-up liveries, including "the Worshipful Company of Strivers and Skivers", all to jazzy, obsessive rhythms accompanied by low orchestral sonorities, which keep the words audible. At Sixes and Sevens – review 2013-07-04T17:25:00Z

An elegant and witty celebration of orchestral virtuosity, its series of surges towards climactic peaks defies expectation by ending quietly with a wry smile. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2012-10-14T14:56:03Z

Yet Bavouzet’s incisive and nimble lines were set against an orchestral backdrop that was unfashionably heavy and rigid. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

The festival is also presenting installments of its popular series A Little Night Music, post-concert concerts after the Friday and Saturday orchestral performances. The Week Ahead: Aug. 14 ? 20 2011-08-11T15:36:07Z

The sheer weight of the choral sound, meanwhile, though beautiful, tended to obscure points of orchestral detail. El Ni?o 2010-08-16T08:45:00Z

Its levels of orchestral playing are generally better than those of its New York peers. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z

Russian somberness and Italian orchestral fountains find each other here with brilliant results. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Blythe, whose penetrating voice can usually cut through any orchestra, was sometimes covered by the blaring orchestral sound here. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z

Uneven casting, patchy orchestral playing and a preposterous plot ultimately faded into irrelevance next to the glittering performance of Angela Meade in the title role. Review: The Opera Orchestra of New York Shares a Story Inspired by a Byron Poem 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Their tour to Birmingham's Symphony Hall earlier this year brought plaudits in the papers and the realisation that there's much more to Dutch orchestral life than the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Dutch arts cuts ? what the future looks like? 2010-10-05T15:47:00Z

Mr. van Zweden will be balancing one more major task – one that he speaks about relatively less than his orchestral ambitions. Jaap Van Zweden Is a Global Maestro of Music and Multitasking 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

But when Aminé performed the song on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” this week, he was serious from the start: orchestral swell in the arrangement, elegant backup vocals. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But in concertos by composers as varied as Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, whether for violinist or pianist, the soloists recede a bit too thoroughly into the orchestral textures. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

He’ll also help bring Bartók’s orchestral genius to Benaroya Hall next week when he performs the Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Seattle Symphony. Violinist James Ehnes and SSO to join forces on Bartók 2014-03-06T20:16:36Z

Now the work is given its due, vocally and orchestrally. Aida - review 2011-03-13T14:55:38Z

He treats the work as a study in shifting colors, emphasizing the contrasting textures of each strophe, from harplike passages to rich orchestral sonorities. Recordings in review: the Transcendental Études, twice. ​ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Yet he was also a composer of considerable stature, and Chandos's ongoing retrospective of his orchestral works – this is volume five – is a reminder of just how influential he was. D'Indy Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français; Médée; Saugefleurie – review 2013-04-11T20:45:01Z

There was a similar contrast between a vaguely defined orchestral concert at Geffen and a riveting Kaplan Penthouse event earlier this week. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The opening selections from Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" Suites featured thick, dark orchestral textures punctuated by terrifying brass climaxes, as Gergiev and the players explored some interpretive extremes. Superb Tchaikovsky, delivered by the Mariinsky 2011-10-20T17:13:40Z

A world premiere is always a significant event on an orchestral program, though it is not always an audience attractant. SSO's premiere of Muhly work: so far, so good 2012-01-27T17:53:05Z

In addition to playing, Shore also wrote charts and occasionally sang, and when the band began playing with symphony orchestras around Canada, he got to flex his classical muscles by writing orchestral arrangements. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Many orchestral leaders stress the importance of research and development, but not that many are able to allocate the resources to make it happen. Perspective | American orchestras: Revamping the model, or embracing the obvious? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Andreas Delfs conducts the remains of the score, with fine attention to orchestral detail and colour throughout. Carmen ? review 2011-01-18T21:30:00Z

A long orchestral climax builds slowly before Bluebeard grants the key to door No. 7, as Judith declares she now knows that the rumors of uxoricide are true. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z

A changing of the guard on the world’s great orchestral podiums was in the air on Friday. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Tao nearly matches that with his largest-scale orchestral work yet. Megaphones Up, the Philharmonic Opens With Two Young Voices 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

The work’s essential impulses and lush harmonies hint at the road Debussy would travel, and its changeable orchestral hues draw on the quarter-century of experience he gained after he wrote the piece. Music Review: St. Louis Symphony Led by David Robertson at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-11T22:03:42Z

Beth Morrison, one of the festival’s directors, said she was “immediately taken with the work,” which uses six female singers and a small orchestral ensemble. Opera based on Sarah Kane’s last play gets US premiere 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

“We are committed to making orchestral music more appealing to a far wider audience, and I think Matthias can really help make that happen,” Beckley said in a statement. Matthias Pintscher, Evocative Composer, to Lead Kansas City Symphony 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Dancers entered at every big orchestral interlude, as if to hold people’s attention, although they often distracted from some of the evening’s best music. ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ with Goerke: An ephemeral dream in first WNO outing

The title track is the most riveting — a communal, orchestral feat with Tapscott very much in control. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

“The basic presence of the orchestral sound is not exactly what I imagine it can be,” Mr. Nézet-Séguin said, in his most detailed public comments yet about his intentions for the Met’s orchestra. The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Writing in a style he called neo-tonal, Mr. McKinley produced hundreds of orchestral, chamber and vocal works that were known for their lyricism, rhythmic propulsion and accessibility. William Thomas McKinley, Jazz-Loving Composer, Dies at 76 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

She makes her electric organ heave and slash like a knife, before diving into orchestral strings so lush and garish that it feels being in a hallucination staged at Disneyland. Perspective | Alice Coltrane is finally heralded as a jazz great. A new reissue doesn’t do her justice. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Just as erudite, yet generously so, is the way Still transforms an opening, ascending orchestral motif throughout the piece. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

This includes the orchestral programs over the weekend and later this week at Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as a chamber music program Tuesday. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

As a skilled instrumental composer, Vivaldi accompanies the arias with vivid, intricate orchestral music. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z

Bristling with virtuosic instrumental solos across the full range of the orchestral palette, it’s like a concerto grosso posing as a symphony. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

People who play strings, brass or wind instruments can sit in with those orchestral sections. Why Salonen's 'Universe of Sound: The Planets' L.A. stop was canceled 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

In writing the concerto — his first venture into orchestral writing — Mr. Fleck had few precedents. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

There's one genuine masterpiece here: River of Pain blends psychedelic folk into a faintly north African atmosphere, and throws in an astonishing orchestral breakdown, a sunrise cutting through the fog. Primal Scream: More Light – review 2013-05-09T19:59:02Z

Community outreach has been a part of the orchestral landscape for some time, but these days it’s moved into a higher gear: less a nice perk and more an existential choice. Perspective | American orchestras: Revamping the model, or embracing the obvious? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to imagine a series of concerts connecting the music of Ellington and Williams with that of Gershwin and Bernstein — before venturing into the broader catalogs of global orchestral swing. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

It’s enormous, in this place, how the common knowledge of Wagner still exists, in every orchestral musician, in every stage technician. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The lyrics made up unsettling short stories, all the more creepy for their delicate orchestral backdrop. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

“Hazy Light,” the opening movement, is indeed misty-textured and intriguingly amorphous, with crackling, tinkling orchestral effects and a violin part that shifts between slinky lyricism and rhapsodic bustling. Review: New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall With Anne-Sophie Mutter 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Whenever I go to hear orchestral music I follow a strict code of conduct,” he declares, “always keeping my eyes on the most attractive Asian violinist.” In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

During one session, Mills and Wilson realized they had nine British orchestral leaders in the section, alongside some top freelancers, and a selection of chamber players. The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

With a production style full of flourishes both orchestral and choral, it’s a ceremonial platform for Mr. Mann’s voice, which skews glossier but hardly less gallant than Mr. Groban’s. New Music Releases of the Season, From Jazz to Gospel 2012-11-22T20:23:16Z

An earlier orchestral miniature by Mr. Hailstork, “Celebration,” was captured in the 1970s for Columbia Records’s Black Composers Series, a set which was recently remastered and reissued. A Pianist Swings Hard in Both Classical and Jazz 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

And last month brought the world premiere of her new orchestral piece, “Where is the chariot of fire?,” by the Hallé Orchestra. Meet the fast-rising young composer who’s created a work Seattle Symphony is debuting in the U.S. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The choir, for long stretches, had to battle the full might of Mr. Rouse’s orchestral fury, armed to the teeth with a percussion section encouraged to unleash its maximum power. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z

Barber’s Adagio for Strings, popular as an orchestral work, started life as a string quartet movement, and Barber eventually arranged it for flute and as a choral Agnus Dei. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z

A Juilliard alumnus, Mr. Gilbert is now the school’s director of conducting and orchestral studies. Critic?s Notebook: Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic?s 2012-13 Season 2012-03-04T23:06:44Z

In the final scenes, almost every character seems to be experiencing passionate intellectual epiphanies every minute, and there's a whole fusillade of near-endings before sweeping orchestral music crowns a sentimental ending-ending. Arcadia ? review 2011-04-13T12:04:36Z

The remainder of the movement seems in retrospect almost a sketch for the orchestral work, which is catnip for any concertmaster, and Mr. Bendix-Balgley tore into it with appropriate gusto. Review: At Bargemusic, a Masterful Duo Dives Into Strauss With Breakneck Élan 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

And orchestras are turning to the three turbulent symphonies Farrenc wrote in the 1840s, which achieved significant success despite the Parisian public’s hostility to orchestral scores. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

That scene is now a high point of the opera, as those characters, drawn to each other but fated to different paths, voice sumptuous melodic turns cushioned by shimmering, pungent orchestral colors. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z

Mr. Bennett’s career took off after Mr. Miller persuaded him to record the ballad “Because of You,” backing him with a lush orchestral arrangement by Percy Faith. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

There were a number of outstanding orchestral solos, contributing excellence to a performance that frequently, if not quite consistently, scaled the heights of one of the great musical monuments of the Baroque. St John Passion – review 2013-03-31T17:31:01Z

The two works have nearly identical orchestral forces, and the opening of the Debussy — involving two harps, quivering scales in the strings and a timpani roll — is like a 30-second summary of “dark dreams.” Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z

But Webre also used dancers to fill in the musical spaces, the orchestral interludes, transitions and more than occasional longueurs. Review | Philip Glass in a warehouse, with lots of goth kids 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

This is just one example of the inventive tweaks Negrón brought to the standard orchestral instrumentation, especially in the percussion section. A composition that captures the ‘trapped repetition’ of the pandemic? Seattle Symphony debuts that and more 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Gluck’s 1774 “Paris version” score, rich with tuneful arias and orchestral interludes, came to life in the hands of conductor Stephen Stubbs, who gave a warm, well-paced, and surprisingly zippy account of the music. Imaginative ‘Orphée’ melds period authenticy, innovation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The recording was nominated in the categories of orchestral performance and engineered classical album. Grammys 2015: Classical nominations for 'City Noir,' L.A.'s Partch 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

During another song, the poet recalls a sweet serenade, as orchestral rippling evokes a strummed guitar, until the final darkly poignant vocal phrases, suffused with weeping regret. Riccardo Muti, Indulging a Passion for Overlooked Italian Composers 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

As the opera begins, the mood-setting orchestral music is compellingly ominous, especially in the nuanced, colorful playing that the conductor Michael Christie draws from the orchestra. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

We know very well how to do Brazilian music and in those pieces we look for a Brazilian sound," he says, "but not when we do standard orchestral repertoire. How Marin Alsop plans to put São Paulo Orchestra on the map 2012-08-14T18:00:02Z

Early in his career, Mr. Bell was met with questions about his often unconventional production and arrangements, particularly his extensive use of European orchestral conventions on R&B records. Thom Bell, a Force Behind the Philadelphia Soul Sound, Dies at 79 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Still, if there’s any piece in the orchestral repertoire that demands to be heard live, this is it. Seattle Symphony brings Messiaen’s ‘Turangalîla’ to Benaroya 2013-01-26T05:57:23Z

After the war, he resumed his career, focusing on his signature orchestral miniatures. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Likewise, while the orchestral playing is unquestionably one of the most sustained successes of the cycle, it is by no means without blemishes. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z

The concerts will feature a live orchestral performance to a screening of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Danny Elfman adds second 'Nightmare Before Christmas' concert at Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Performing two of the orchestral works with which Beethoven redefined the idea of music as an art, here was a grown-up orchestra offering themselves for comparison with the world's best. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-24T10:16:10Z

You can hear it in her effortless riffs and runs within each measure, the way her voice curls around the orchestral melody. "Aretha" crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo's own genius 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

That constant pulse drew the ear to changes in orchestral texture — color, heat and grit — building to a euphoric homecoming that drew rapturous applause from the audience. Review: John Adams Wrestles the Ghosts of His Musical Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

As the music starts, Ashton’s women move to the piano, leaving the orchestral lines unanswered. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

One piece in his piano repertory was a reduction of Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony, and when he was 8, his father gave him a copy of the full orchestral score. Lorin Maazel, an Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

"Wicked Simone!" shrieks the singer, as the hushed, awed atmosphere increasingly gives way to blood and passion in the orchestral playing. Goldfrapp – review 2013-07-19T13:31:11Z

The rest of the album is purely orchestral, including the late, gorgeous “Tapiola”; the concise, dense “Rakastava”; and “Spring Song,” perhaps that rarest Sibelius treasure of all: a work of unabashed radiance. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

A prodigy, he began working in his teens, developing a dexterous, discursive, orchestral style. Chucho Valdés, the Pianist, Reflects on Irakere and His Career 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

He made the instrumental colors of Puccini’s orchestral writing sparkle. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

The songs were set to swinging two-step beats, a return to a rockier feel after a few albums exploring more orchestral sounds. Serge Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments 2011-02-28T12:10:13Z

"Medea" is a virtual compendium of vocal and instrumental forms of the period, with long stretches of accompanied recitative giving way to ariosos, laments, choruses, orchestral dance music and the like. French Baroque treasure rescued in stormy 'Medea' 2011-04-24T22:52:00Z

The concertos of Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, in which his violin cut jubilantly through the orchestral forest in even the most acrobatic passages. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

This might be a conscious tip of the cap — Bielawa has long been a vocalist in the Philip Glass Ensemble — or it might reflect her protean engagement with orchestral traditions writ large. Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

His recordings of Janácek's operas and orchestral music remain gold standards. Taking over from Charles Mackerras at the Proms 2010-07-21T20:46:00Z

The ensemble accompaniment mirrored the vocal line at times and took on a different character during several orchestral interludes, with both quiet and spare textures and more colorful climactic moments. Music Review: Contact! ? Philharmonic New-Music Series at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:58:00Z

He then tore into Barber's Toccata, an empty piece but with lots for the organ to do, while Dudamel tore into the orchestral part, making the L.A. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

You’ve just got to read any orchestral reviews or reviews of any art, and there’s an awful lot of stuff the critics don’t like. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

There's plenty to savour: cycles of Beethoven piano concertos, Mahler symphonies and Scriabin orchestral works, and a celebration of Henry Wood, plus a spectacular opening weekend. This week's new live music 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

“Mercury, the Winged Messenger,” is a like a brilliant, scintillating scherzo, with the orchestral colorings of Debussy’s “Jeux” yet ominously spiked with sledgehammer chords. 2010-01-30T13:26:00Z

Tchaikovsky’s inspiring Serenade for Strings, the score that gives “Serenade” its name, acquires an awkwardly heightened edge to its orchestral sonority at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music here, presumably as a result of assisted acoustics. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

He hopes participants are leaving with an understanding of the hard graft involved in their chosen career, of connecting with orchestral musicians. A masterclass with Bernard Haitink 2011-08-11T21:30:03Z

One of the tracks here, maybe even the best — an orchestral waltz detailing the Buddhism of low expectations — is called “Hunter of Invisible Game.” New Music: Albums From Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland 2014-01-13T23:21:05Z

He was still scheduled to present two orchestral programs this week, each repeated and both destined for revival at in December, to kick off JapanNYC, Carnegie’s major festival of the season. Music: In Japan, a Frail Osawa Conducts Only One Tchaikovsky Movement 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

The orchestral playing was mostly suave but occasionally uneven. Music Review: Mahler?s Third, Whimsy-Free Version 2011-02-27T22:42:49Z

But it doesn't necessarily follow that every Isolde will sound right in it, and Stemme's dark, implacable tone seemed unwieldy and disproportionately enormous against the muted orchestral colours that Dausgaard favoured. Prom 51: Swedish CO/Dausgaard 2010-08-24T11:49:00Z

Bychkov took the big view of Brahms's greatest orchestral achievement, broadening the opening phrase in the way that purists dislike, and giving the first movement's large paragraphs plenty of room to breathe. LSO/Bychkov | Classical review 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z

Hummable pop tunes are nice, but the kid from Juilliard had more serious loves: movie underscoring, Broadway composing and orchestral concert work. Nobody Did It Better: Memories of Marvin Hamlisch, 1944-2012 2012-08-07T21:50:31Z

A band shell will be brought in for orchestral performances, including the June 6 performance of Verdi's "Requiem Mass." Largest Spoleto season to unfold next week in SC 2013-05-18T15:34:09Z

On Thursday, however, those who tuned in to watch streams of operas, orchestral concerts and chamber music programs, from Berlin to Philadelphia, weren’t aping the live audience. In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

It's Dean's first opera, and a hugely accomplished one, full of vivid, busy orchestral textures and wonderfully singable vocal lines; it's also very funny. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

The musical equivalent is tunes and tonal harmonies written for conventional orchestral forces. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

Mr. Nézet-Séguin boldly plumbed the music for wayward harmonic turns, mercurial shifts and weighty orchestral depths, as in the Dutchman’s long, brooding monologue when we first meet him. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

This score is a gigantic assemblage of blaring, pummeling, deafening, vehemently dissonant orchestral sounds, complete with a siren and a lion’s roar. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

There he conducted 10 new opera productions as well as orchestral concerts, winning an award from the German music critics' association. Yakov Kreizberg obituary 2011-03-21T18:24:55Z

So, too, is much of the orchestral playing, with trumpets arrayed around the auditorium and Koenigs marshalling it all impressively, even if he's not giving the music the visionary dimension it sometimes needs. Lohengrin – review 2013-05-24T16:47:29Z

So the movie has a real emotional arc — as well as an abundance of orchestral strings and too many handsome drone shots. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The symphony, written in four continuous movements, juxtaposes bold blocks of orchestral colour, sonority seemingly taking precedence over musical development. SCO/Elts 2010-05-05T21:00:00Z

“Happy Voices,” an unabashed orchestral showpiece, is decidedly Wagnerian, both in heft and in spirit. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z

Blanchard got to work immediately, composing a new vocal part on a blank page of staff paper: a melodic line that could work atop the existing orchestral harmony. ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

The orchestra handled this deftly, animated and evocative in orchestral passages like the “Lonely Town Pas de Deux” and the second act dream ballet, but humbly in the background as it accompanied the actors. The Trouble With Bernstein’s Broadway in the Concert Hall 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Stutzmann, who holds orchestral posts in Ireland and Norway, proved an attentive and expressive conductor. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Like Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, also in D minor, the Brahms begins with a long orchestral introduction before the soloist’s softly singing entrance — passion turning into a plea. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

With uplifting pop that’s orchestral in scope but never cloying in execution, this British band has carved out an unlikely niche that places its frontwoman, Florence Welch, somewhere between Top 40 divas and alternative singer-songwriters. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

One day I had unsupervised access to the family PC and, for reasons forgotten, an urge to hear the campy orchestral number from the film Austin Powers. Napster: the day the music was set free 2013-02-24T00:05:22Z

He's even included the same sort of orchestral arrangements of jaunty transitional music between scenes. Review: 'Ted': So cuddly, so wrong, so hilarious 2012-06-25T21:29:09Z

In keeping with American orchestral tradition, the program started with the national anthem, and stayed in-country with the music of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. A patriotic gala and a well-placed Fran's fan 2012-09-18T02:02:04Z

Things might have gelled better had Mr. Dudamel been more inspired, but while the orchestral sound was full, it lacked weight, intensity, terror. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z

Sunday’s free orchestral concert, at 12:30 p.m., will combine highlights from Saturday evening’s opener with two additional pieces. Seattle Symphony offers free concert as part of opening weekend 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

If anything, it was Ms. Davies’s ear for orchestral sound, alongside the technical bravura of her choral writing, that commended the score — and compensated for a disappointingly dull lyricism in the solo voices. Review: ‘Between Worlds,’ With English National Opera, Addresses 9/11 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

The orchestral writing is vivid; waves are evoked with rippling piano lines and drum beats in the storm scene. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z

A selection of orchestral songs based on Lewis Carroll, and partly drawn from Ms. Chin’s opera, was the highlight of the concert, which otherwise felt oddly tentative. Music Review: Unsuk Chin Celebrated in Composer Portrait at Miller Theater 2014-03-16T20:54:53Z

The violin eventually sneaks in, playing just the last phrase of an orchestral theme before taking the piece into a new, inquiring direction. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z

"He sort of swings that line up. I felt the orchestra could do the same thing, like an orchestral burst," the composer said. When it comes to Shakespeare, composer Patrick Doyle knows the score 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Most Balanchine ballets are to fully orchestral scores. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z

Berg folds remnants of tonality, plush colorings, sweeping lyrical lines and sheer orchestral din into his atonal language. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

“We need to revise all the orchestral instruments,” an evidently delighted Leopold Stokowski said after attending the first concert played on the Hutchins violins in May 1965. Music Review: At the Tank, New Sounds From New Strings 2010-05-31T22:56:00Z

The most noteworthy aspect of the first act was the orchestral playing, with Paolo Arrivabeni, the music director of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium, making a commendable house debut. Music Review: Returning to Realism and Revisiting a Tragedy 2010-10-03T22:15:00Z

He'll lead two opera productions a year, as well as two orchestral concert programs, and estimates he will probably spend about three months a year in Belgium. New Seattle Symphony music director to moonlight in Belgium 2011-06-30T02:55:43Z

Last year, to celebrate Walt Disney Concert Hall's 10th anniversary, he performed a staged version, with projections, of Frank Zappa's orchestral suites from the cult film "200 Motels." Why Salonen's 'Universe of Sound: The Planets' L.A. stop was canceled 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Phil announced earlier this year that it will introduce a new series at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring screenings of classic movies with live orchestral accompaniment. 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' to screen with a live orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

A student at the Royal College of Music, he was to have made his American orchestral debut with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on May 20. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The compositions on Divers are less sprawling than on her previous albums–but even where they favor the spartan over the orchestral, they trade in weightier material. Joanna Newsom's Deep Dive 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“I never felt comfortable in the orchestral world,” she says. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Price’s Third Symphony is a work rooted in the traditions of symphonic Romanticism and classical Black composition, simultaneously adding to and expanding the expectations of orchestral technique. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

But Aucoin gives the sequence an orchestral accompaniment of Wagnerian grandeur, rising to a pitched climax, as if the father had just built Valhalla. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

You've just got to read any orchestral reviews or reviews of any art, and there's an awful lot of stuff the critics don't like. Paul McCartney puts love, anger and sadness into score for New York ballet 2011-02-24T21:36:54Z

Lovers of great orchestral playing in New York are getting a second bite of a very big apple this weekend. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-14T22:10:53Z

The original thinking was more electronic music with classical orchestral lines in it. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

But he agreed with the pans that the dramatic structure of “Prima Donna” was “pretty bland” and that he needed to work on darkening his orchestral palette. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Liszt helped disseminate the orchestral and vocal music of his time with hundreds of transcriptions and paraphrases for the piano, including the “Rigoletto” Paraphrase inspired by Verdi’s opera. Music Review: Adam Gyorgy at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-14T22:02:25Z

But he was “a first-class orchestral craftsman” and a “master trainer,” Thomson wrote later that season. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

The ensemble performed with full-bodied sound in the orchestral outer movements and with a lovely burnished tone in its soulful rendition of the slow movement. Review: Auryn Quartet Forges a Radiance at the Frick 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

“No one speaks of anything but this new orchestral design, unheard of before this: raucous and dense, dark and powerful,” a member of the court wrote in a letter before the first performance. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z

Working in her bedroom studio, she also built increasingly elaborate string arrangements, bringing a new orchestral richness to some songs and placing abstract instrumental transitions between album tracks. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Pop has now become so complex you almost yearn for the cosy certainties of prog-rock orchestral suites. Haim; Ellie Goulding – review 2012-09-29T23:05:37Z

Just look to the Philharmonic’s program this week — titled “The March to Liberation” and conducted by Leslie B. Dunner — which on Thursday had a streak of urgency and plenty of orchestral splendor. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas’s balancing skill allowed even the guitar and mandolin to emerge naturally from the orchestral textures in the second. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The latter evidently began life as a trombone concerto, but the solo writing seems so idiomatic and superbly integrated with the orchestral textures, no one would guess. Nordheim: Spur; Signals; Dinosauros; Flashing – review 2013-01-03T22:30:02Z

He composed orchestral, chamber and other music that found rare stylistic range within the broad confines of postwar modernism. Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The soprano Jacquelyn Wagner brought a lovely clean and focused sound to the part of Diemut that effortlessly penetrated the rich orchestral score. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Feuersnot’ via Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-18T22:30:36Z

That means the Concertgebouw players are really masters of an orchestral illusion, because they are continually trying to transcend the limitations of the hall's on-stage sound when they play. Happy 125th birthday, Concertgebouw 2013-04-11T18:11:17Z

The concerto is followed by Antiphon, the orchestral piece Widmann composed immediately after it, and which is as discursive and disrupted as its predecessor is sustained and concentrated. Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review 2013-05-23T20:50:01Z

There were rough patches in the orchestral performance but also some memorably polished ones. Music Review: ‘Tosca,’ With New York Grand Opera, in Central Park 2012-06-28T21:08:27Z

The majestic "Hollywood Park" — which boasts spacious arrangements, dynamic guitar swells with orchestral flourishes, and Jollett's emotionally weathered baritone — is no exception. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The orchestral arrangements are tinctured with dissonance; sustained synthesizer tones slide on and off pitch, feeling precarious. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Although textural clarity and rhythmic incisiveness were the hallmarks of his interpretations, he delighted in the ample, brilliant orchestral sonorities of the sort that his beloved Chicago Symphony produced so magnificently. Classical: Memories of Georg Solti as His Orchestra Comes to Town 2012-10-14T01:23:11Z

There was a time, during darker days of the pandemic, when orchestral concerts departed from their usual formats — worn-down cookie cutters of a curtain-raiser, concerto and symphony — and turned into something more unpredictable, and open-minded. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

The orchestral series will be presented Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Phil said. Sneak peek at 2016 Hollywood Bowl season, including Lang Lang and Yuja Wang 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

In each case, the mixture of post-Wagnerian chromaticism and refined orchestral sensuousness is typical of a style that left an indelible impression on French music for decades. D'Indy Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français; Médée; Saugefleurie – review 2013-04-11T20:45:01Z

Satie provided piano and orchestral versions of his accompaniment, and allowed the words to be sung by a solo singer or by as many as four, in its separate roles. Dance Review | Mark Morris Dance Group: Cheekily Defying Expectations 2010-02-24T22:46:00Z

Honestly, 2,000 people have made it to this; we might get five people” to buy a ticket to an orchestral concert as a result. Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Hamlisch also enjoyed a parallel career as an orchestral conductor, regularly conducting "pops" concerts – of light classical and popular music – with orchestras in Pittsburgh, San Diego, Pasadena, Washington DC, Milwaukee and Dallas. Marvin Hamlisch obituary 2012-08-08T12:26:28Z

Liszt's gigantic orchestral paean to his romantic alter ego in his Faust Symphony receives a blazing, improvisatory performance from Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

Lang Lang will be off to California on Tuesday, followed by recital and orchestral appearances in Toronto, Paris, New York, London, Berlin, Spain and other destinations later this fall. 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

The language Iverson uses when discussing his upcoming compositional premieres — including more sonatas, as well as orchestral arrangements of Ellington — enjoys a reprise whenever he discusses the balance of the Sono Fest! programming. A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

One of his most popular releases was the 2001 Blue Note album “Black Dahlia,” an orchestral suite inspired by a notorious 1947 case involving the murder of a young actress. Bob Belden dies at 58; jazz musician shared three Grammys 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by four large screens, awash in overlapping and repetitive dialogue and Kjartan Sveinsson’s orchestral score, the viewer feels immersed in some artist’s alternately squalid and exhilarating fantasy life. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

This is an orchestral piece on high alert. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

Warm, well balanced and full of life, this is an orchestral sound of remarkable beauty -- a sound that’s definitely ready for the Big Apple. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z

There are complaints that too much of the country's orchestral life is concentrated in Tokyo. Cherry blossoms decorate Orchestra Day in Japan 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Adams will be in the house for the “Tuning Up!” concerts, following a creative retreat to work on his latest orchestral score at a home he keeps in the Sonoran Desert. The Seattle Symphony tunes up to John Luther Adams during the final stretch of its American music festival 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Among Liszt’s most valuable contributions during his lifetime were his hundreds of piano transcriptions of operatic and orchestral works, which allowed the scores to be widely disseminated before the existence of recorded music. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z

Conlon says the part is notoriously difficult because of its range, the strength required to sing over its dominant orchestral part, the intricacy and complexity of the vocal lines and the staying power it requires. The most fearless woman in opera? Patricia Racette on coming out, Trump, nudity and the demands of 'Salome' 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

There are a lot of references to the orchestral writing of the beginning of the twentieth century, but the way it's handled is more contemporary. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Louis Andriessen is writing her an orchestral song cycle, which the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform next season, and Osvaldo Golijov is at work writing a piece for her and the Silk Road Ensemble. Nora Fischer Bursts the Classical Music Bubble 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Varèse, who himself learned many things from jazz musicians, never got to teach the great man to write orchestral scores. Edgard Var?se: in wait for the future 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z

The symphony's musicians have been working without a contract since February 15, five days after the ensemble received its 15th Grammy Award for best orchestral performance. Third concert canceled as San Francisco Symphony strike continues 2013-03-16T20:08:38Z

Mahler’s version invites us to hear the full, rich orchestral string implications of Beethoven’s lean quartet. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Joan Tower: A doyenne of American orchestral composers, Tower, 78, is known to many for her six “Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman,” a pendant to Aaron Copland’s ubiquitous musical prelude. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Marc Satterwhite, the award’s director, said in a statement that the work “is not a virtuoso showcase, but rather integrates the soloists smoothly into an ever-evolving orchestral texture.” Hear the Piece That Won One of Music’s Biggest Prizes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Take “ARCHORA,” the first of two spacious orchestral works on this welcome new release. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

The conductor Roderick Cox spoke movingly of his program a few nights later, though the distinctive atmosphere of Barber’s “Knoxville” and Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” Suite suffered from his unshaped orchestral climaxes. At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

By playing an orchestral piece – especially this ode to love – the Israel Chamber Orchestra is on safe ground. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

The list of music to be published includes more than 300 songs, 100 chamber music pieces, 50 orchestral works and other pieces, in genres including classical, opera, jazz and film music. Music Thwarted by the Holocaust Will Now Be Published 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Behind her, vivacious, odd-metered dance rhythms paced a kaleidoscopic orchestral roil. Music in Review 2011-01-14T00:08:47Z

I wrote an orchestral piece called Moments of Bliss in 2004, but it really seemed then like no one knew if the opera was going to happen. Brett Dean on the trials of getting his opera Bliss on to the stage 2010-08-29T21:00:00Z

The first movement, “The Cross,” unfolds with a calm, slowly spiraling, almost endless melody for strings, cushioned by lush, sustained orchestral harmonies. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z

On the album the song runs 4 minutes 40 seconds, and begins with a short orchestral introduction, slow and melancholy, for strings and winds. 'Short Film' by Springsteen and Zimny Unveiled 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Bay unplugged the actor's iPod, LaBeouf says, and replaced it with his own, cueing up the propulsive, orchestral "The Dark Knight" score. Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z

The festival features 18 concerts of orchestral and chamber music, and more than 200 free, open rehearsals. Hot Springs music fest to overlap biker rally 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

One of the soloists canceled his American orchestral debut to be there. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

It will mainly be used for concerts of the New World Symphony, the excellent orchestral academy for select young musicians, based here since it was founded in 1987 by the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Music Review: Many Faces of Schubert, and of a Hall 2011-01-28T23:35:04Z

He knew what he wanted—he was going to be an orchestral conductor. Taskmaster 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

And in front of the orchestral players, just behind the conductor's back, was a rough thrust on which the action all took place. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

He hadn’t played the Rachmaninoff concerto since 2019, and had never worked with the Philharmonic; for more pressure, this was going to be his orchestral debut at Carnegie. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

It was fascinating to observe the difference between musicians so often asked to be cogs in an orchestral wheel. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Bamert has a clear and unfussy manner on the podium, which helped bring out the details of a programme that was particularly strong in orchestral colour. Prom 32: EUYO/Bamert 2010-08-10T11:11:00Z

Composer Gabriel Prokofiev was invited by the Seattle Symphony to compose an orchestral piece based on one of Seattle’s musical icons, and he chose Sir Mix-a-Lot. Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

It begins with the prelude to Wagner's Parsifal, ending with sets of orchestral pieces by the composers of the second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

The first movement, a Toccata, opens with a rigorous statement of a stirring theme that soon fractures into a madcap rush of piano scales and glittering orchestral business. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The singer’s voice curls into anguished melismas, and when the orchestral strings soar in halfway through, the resentment cuts crystal clear. Post Malone and the Weeknd’s Emo Synth-Pop, and 12 More New Songs 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

At Young's suggestion, she learned to speak German and spent weekends marking up orchestral parts for her mentor. Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z

Vince Mendoza wrote new orchestral arrangements for the songs, and on Friday he conducted a Philharmonic strategically augmented with some of Ms. Carpenter’s longtime studio collaborators. Music Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter Performs Her Latest Songs in Concert 2014-03-02T23:26:25Z

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein, on the other hand, did her best to supply the musical heat, playing as if backed up by the most supportive orchestral partner. FSO trades timidity for vigor after intermission 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The move solidifies the West Coast’s position as the center of American orchestral experimentation. San Francisco Symphony Lands a Disrupter: Esa-Pekka Salonen 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

An episode of dense, heavy-footed orchestral chords would alternate with spectral high solo-violin flights. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Their more substantial and impressive pas de deux later was the balcony scene from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet,” of which Dudamel also conducted three brief orchestral selections. Gustavo Dudamel gives Misty Copeland the royal treatment in the Hollywood Bowl's classical opener 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Number of orchestral instruments required to play the original version: a double string quartet, bass, flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano. 70 and still fresh: For ‘Appalachian Spring’ anniversary, a Martha Graham primer

Then a writer of jingles and commercials, he made the 2002 album “Beethoven’s Wig: Sing Along Symphonies,” which featured a vocal quintet and orchestral accompaniment. ‘Beethoven’s Wig’ Combines Classical Music With Seussian Whimsy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The orchestral work is more consistently brilliant than the singing. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

“This idea of precision in orchestral playing is very recent,” Walter told an interviewer in 1960. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

You couldn't fault the playing, though the orchestral textures were too dense for my taste. LA Phil/Dudamel – review 2013-03-18T12:43:41Z

Because of that, the purely orchestral sections of the program were the weakest. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

But in 2019, three major orchestral efforts were available digital only. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Tetzlaff, who will return to Carnegie Hall next season as the featured performer in a Perspectives series, is internationally renowned as an orchestral soloist and recitalist, and valued for his intensity and finesse. Music Review: 3 Players Make Odd Pairing Singular 2010-03-02T22:24:00Z

James Dillon, composer of some of the boldest and most expressive orchestral, chamber and theatre works around. A Guide to James Dillon's music 2013-02-04T15:50:00Z

The 52-week season is, in fact, a relatively recent development, dating from the 1970s and 1980s; before that, many orchestral musicians worked second jobs in the offseason. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians officially locked out 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

His last orchestral works, a Theme and Variations and “Straussiana,” indeed retreat into abject nostalgia, and are dedicated to school ensembles — the artists of the future. Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

It's orchestral rock, or a chamber pop group tossing off some heavy metal before heading back to the Conservatoire for tea. Emanuel and the Fear (No 750) 2010-03-19T16:15:00Z

He started playing the violin when he was four, began composing orchestral music at 10 and took up the viola at 12. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z

This is emphatically not the case today, where the complex harmonies and diffracted textures and rhythms of modern orchestral writing are utterly incompatible with piano writing. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

Towards the end of his life, Dvořák crafted four "orchestral ballads" from a Czech collection of fairytales entitled The Garland. Hall?/Mark Elder/Andrew Gourlay ? review 2010-12-05T22:01:00Z

Mr. Thomas ended with a novelty, “A Concord Symphony,” the composer Henry Brant’s 1994 orchestral arrangement of Ives’s “Concord” Piano Sonata. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

Much of the orchestral music consists of single melodic lines, sometimes over sustained bass notes. Review: 'The Passenger' Gets Long Awaited Full Staging at Bregenz Festival 2010-08-03T14:00:00Z

He tirelessly mentored young singers, conductors and orchestral players who worshiped him like a god for his caring and devotion. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The format was that of the celebrity recital, which meant arias and ensembles were separated by orchestral padding, some of it indifferently performed by the Royal Philharmonic under Claudio Vandelli. Netrebko/Vargas/Schrott – review 2012-06-07T11:33:40Z

Scholars believe that he created the piano arrangement, for reasons unknown, between the two orchestral versions. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z

Here and elsewhere, you may be reminded of “Sunday in the Park” for its tableaux vivants and shimmering orchestral effects, if not for its thematic discipline. Review: In ‘Flying Over Sunset,’ Getting High With the Stars 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

The lush orchestral music exudes aristocracy, with lots of waltz tempos evoking imperial ballrooms. Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Not every piece has sufficient orchestral interest,” he said. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

His orchestral works have been performed by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Ballet has featured his music. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

He was best known for his orchestral and choir compositions like “St. Luke Passion” and “Seven Gates of Jerusalem,” although his range was much broader. Composer Penderecki’s state funeral held after 2-year delay 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

As an orchestral, dramatic set-piece, Mr. Beck played the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” with his guitar as the vocal melody. Music Review | Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck: Yes, Two Guitar Idols Are Better Than One 2010-02-19T23:33:00Z

The track, which also appears on the new soundtrack, is a swelling, orchestral and complex song that sounds like Beck is back at the top of his game. Listen To Beck’s New Song “Blue Moon” 2014-01-20T15:52:49Z

But the weighty deliberation he brought to the rest of the opening movement and the central Adagio ran up against Conlon's blunter, more excitable treatment of the orchestral tuttis. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z

As an eccentric, irrelevant outsider in cultural life, the movement has managed to transform attitudes toward tradition and has wrought major changes in orchestral practice. Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

But no matter: this was a performance emphasizing once more that he and the Sinfonietta are a combined force to be reckoned with on today's orchestral scene. Review: Northwest Sinfonietta kicks off 20th year with Austro-German classics 2010-10-02T19:29:00Z

With this repertory Uchida is no ordinary soloist: She is an inspired and inspiring collaborator in the creation of orchestral chamber music. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

The Berlin installment of “Hotspots” — a short festival exploring musical creation in that city, Reykjavik and New York — is exciting for including the first time the Philharmonic will play the orchestral music of Olga Neuwirth. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

With no unifying vision, the SCO's performance was driven by orchestral consensus, the result being a more moderate account of the symphony than in their award-winning recent recording with Charles Mackerras. SCO/Janiczek 2010-07-11T21:31:00Z

His orchestral score is his first to be performed live, with no produced or electronic elements. From the Bleak Streets to the Ballet Stage 2014-04-28T21:45:28Z

If Gershwin awkwardly attempted a Ravelian orchestral model with “Catfish Row,” Ravel nailed a jazzy French style with his Concerto in G. It is a Wang specialty. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

If one were designing London's orchestral landscape from scratch, it certainly would not look as it does, with three very good but not Berlin-beating orchestras, all struggling to define themselves as distinctive. The secret of Berlin's shine 2011-02-27T17:00:01Z

“I Keep a Close Watch,” which was a lost-love ballad with orchestral backing when Mr. Cale released it in 1975, was immeasurably more lonely supported by a few recurring piano notes and ticking percussion. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

“This is not an orchestral show — it’s a show with disco music,” Mr. McQuinn said. Broadway Union Takes on ?Priscilla? Over Music 2011-05-15T22:00:31Z

Mr. Cuomo’s orchestral writing, on the other hand, is fluent and attractive in a studiedly accessible sort of way. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z

An orchestral medley of songs from iconic Japanese video games served as the soundtrack for the parade of countries at the opening ceremony. Opening ceremony shines light on video game music 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, born the same year, are both classics, and yet they are not exactly standard orchestral fare — apart from ubiquities like the annual “Messiah.” Review | We think Bach is basic. For an orchestra, it’s a departure. 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

In this case, that provided what was likely the American premiere of a glowing mini-masterpiece, fitted with a talented cast and a lithe, delicate orchestral performance led by Pierre Vallet. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Longtime New York City fans of orchestral music may be shocked at the extraordinary intimacy that’s been created by moving the stage of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center 25 feet closer to the audience. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

“When Philip started writing orchestral music, he wasn’t as skilled as he is now by a long shot,” Davies observes. At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Boulez returned to them decades later, using them as seeds for orchestral pieces of sometimes overwhelming sonic beauty. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Perhaps his most crucial contribution is the role he has played in preserving the art of orchestral film music, which, in the early seventies, was losing ground to pop-song soundtracks. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

They added lively, unobtrusive melodic embellishments and, in the absence of a conductor, interacted meaningfully with their orchestral counterparts. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

More in chamber music than in orchestral or solo performance, there is a perceptible gap between new-music ensembles and those that mostly play the so-called standard repertory. Music in Review 2011-05-09T22:30:48Z

"It is one of the few autograph manuscripts of a symphony, central to the international orchestral repertory, remaining in private hands," Sotheby's said, adding that the manuscript contains material absent from any published edition. Manuscript of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 set for London sale 2014-04-17T15:33:03Z

She is also an alumna of the League of American Orchestras’ orchestral management fellowship program. Brooklyn Academy of Music Chooses New President 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Though full of lush orchestral writing and alluring, long-spun melodies, this score of nearly an hour can come across as padded and aimless. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z

The Pet Shop Boys concert, which also included an orchestral medley containing music from nine of their songs, was not the only first of the Proms' opening week. Pet Shop Boys premiere Turing tribute 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

His music theater is often haunted by ghosts, and some of the most effective moments in "JFK" are found in the otherworldliness of the orchestral colors. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

In a concert featuring new pieces, a small ensemble of instruments including harp, orchestral chimes, keyboard and cymbal shared momentary clusters of notes or fleeting motifs, like bits of crystal briefly catching the light. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Chandos continues its survey of Weinberg's orchestral music, which includes no fewer than 22 symphonies. Weinberg: Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 2010-06-03T22:16:00Z

But it is also a time of opportunity in a shifting orchestral landscape, as exemplified by the second Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall from May 7 through 12. Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:03:40Z

For the Disney Hall concert, Gail Zappa and assistants went through her husband’s sometimes scattered sheet music for the orchestral portions of “200 Motels” and tried to reassemble it in the order he’d intended. Frank Zappa's terrific 'mess': L.A. Phil's live recording of '200 Motels' out Nov. 20 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Van Hove unleashes glittering streams of notes with a Cecil Tayloresque intensity; his solo on the first track has an orchestral scope. Van Hove/Dunmall/Rogers/Lytton: Asynchronous 2010-04-08T21:25:00Z

But he doesn’t want to present Beethoven in Seattle as just a lineup of symphonies, concertos and other major orchestral works. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

On this occasion, the new piece was Conrad Winslow’s “All Decays,” a short, compelling orchestral essay. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

A short first half included orchestral bonbons from Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake,” with Gomes and Copeland each curiously taking a brief turn as the White Swan. Gustavo Dudamel gives Misty Copeland the royal treatment in the Hollywood Bowl's classical opener 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

I gather there are as yet no plans for Stenz and the Gürzenich to record more of Strauss's orchestral works, which is a shame – in his anniversary year, a full cycle would be most welcome. Strauss: Don Quixote; Till Eulenspiegel – review 2013-04-11T10:37:41Z

Listen to the feverishly frantic upward rush of the tiny orchestral introduction. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Last fall, when the world was being told to expect a long, dark winter after what had already been a brutal year, I decided to search for some new, bracing orchestral music. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

He pioneered the fusing of rock and orchestral music, with his Concerto for Group and Orchestra being first performed by Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1969. Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, dies aged 71 2012-07-16T19:18:43Z

Writing under a commission from Beth Morrison Projects and Opera Philadelphia, which gave the work’s premiere in September, Ms. Mazzoli gave her characters clear, passionate vocal lines and supported them with oceanic orchestral textures. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

He struggled to stay coordinated with the conductor, Yves Abel, who led a graceful, agile orchestral performance but tended to either push the singers or pull them. Vittorio Grigolo Shows Restraint in ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Based on David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West, the libretto is only mildly mawkish and the orchestral writing, starting with a shocking splayed orchestral chord, is among Puccini's most impassioned. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

Known as the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier pot-smoking anthem, the track gets a makeover as the trailer turns darker — slowed down, then beefed up with orchestral overdubs, becoming a terrifying, atmospheric motif. How ‘Us’ Turned Weed Anthem ‘I Got 5 on It’ Into a Creepy Horror Theme 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

In the short run, without an obvious alternative, the festival will have to decide what to do about orchestral concerts, large-scale dance events and other attractions now staged at the Gaillard. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z

Adding orchestral passages and textures should give added depth and dimensionality, physically, psychologically and aurally speaking. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

It begins mysteriously: a lacy piano line traces a strange ascending arpeggio enshrouded by exotic orchestral harmonies. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z

“The scale of attention asked of the viewer for a Netflix episode is comparably smaller than the grand cinematic experience the 20th Century Fox orchestral fanfare sets you up for.” Clap On Your Bose, Baby, ’Cause It’s Noisy as Heck Out There 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The producer and composer Adrian Younge’s recent album “The American Negro” incorporates similar orchestral flourishes over crisp backbeats. The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composers’ Dramatic ‘Library Music’ 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Even if the orchestral part were more complicated, I feel like your music comes more naturally to players these days. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Strategically, the Philharmoniker will surely be tempted to skip a generation and stay on the cutting edge of orchestral life. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z

There are softly chiming gongs and ethereal winds, lyrical and sinuous strings and sympathetic, Romantic orchestral surges. Music Review: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You?re a Youngster With Issues 2011-06-30T20:57:46Z

He composed slowly and with periods of reflection, devoting himself primarily to orchestral music. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z

Squealing in the upper harmonic reaches of the violin are echoed by barely audible squeaks in the orchestral violins, along with taps at the top registers of a distant piano and xylophone. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

These days, the classical Grammys are much more closely linked to live orchestral performance than they’ve been for quite some time. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The orchestral percussionists first respond as what Lang calls "translators," catching the soloists' sounds and then conveying them to the rest of the orchestra with them. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

A bass clarinet's startling emergence from a Stravinskyan orchestral thicket was yet another of her sonic sleights of hand. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Concerto: an orchestral piece of music featuring a soloist, often a pianist or violinist. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Lauderdale works closely with three collaborators to come up with orchestral arrangements he hopes are fun for symphony players. Pink Martini arrives in Seattle with plenty of fizz 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

In the 19th century, composers transcribed orchestral and operatic works to enable a wider audience to enjoy, in salon settings, the new scores being performed at concert halls and opera houses. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

It was a bold, thoughtful idea for a concert, with the spirituals flanked by the Copland work and “Let the River Be Unbroken,” George Tsontakis’s 1994 orchestral riff on 19th-century Americana. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z

“This certainly shows tremendous strides,” said Deborah Borda, the Philharmonic’s president and chief executive and a pioneer in the field of orchestral management. In a ‘Sea Change,’ Women of the Philharmonic Now Outnumber the Men 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

Very charmingly, Mr. Karoui drew our attention to Tchaikovsky’s striking and anachronistic effects of instrumentation and, remarkably, of dynamics in the composer’s orchestral setting of four keyboard pieces by Mozart. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z

Some of the best young orchestral players in America perform their annual Carnegie concert before heading on tour, this year with Antonio Pappano on the rostrum. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The rest of the program also benefited from Elder's orchestral reseating. CSO: Hough, Elder, Tchaikovsky a match made in heaven 2011-01-07T20:59:00Z

Written and recorded with the Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, “The Trouble With Fever” balances alt-rock edge with decadent orchestral pop flourishes. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Beach continued honing her orchestral voice in the stormily combative Piano Concerto, which Ms. Block’s biography treats as a sonic metaphor for the composer’s struggles for control in her private life. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Its giant Drill Hall, big enough to hold a football field, had been used over the decades for tennis matches, massed choral and orchestral concerts and theme balls. The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z

This pared-down arrangement sacrificed some of Rossini’s orchestral effects, but the important thing — the energy — was always there. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z

But even as there's a thematic throughline on the record, each song is different orchestrally and musically. Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

He clarified textures and emphasized the black end of the spectrum of Tchaikovsky's orchestral timbres. London Philharmonic Orchestra's Jurowski a hypnotic force 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

All we need are six world-class soloists, a full-strength choir, and a repetiteur of sufficient pianistic brilliance to mimic the score's vivid orchestral colouring. Fancy bashing through Wolfgang Rihm's new operatic masterpiece? 2010-07-23T10:01:00Z

As the process evolved, when they got down to writing the final cues, it became much more orchestral than any of us initially anticipated. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

For this concert, he fielded an ensemble of 25 players heavily weighted toward winds and percussion, and with this orchestral mix, the dance rhythms that infuse Latin American music’s DNA were irresistible. An early Cinco de Mayo celebration with the New Orchestra of Washington 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Some of the orchestral writing — for example, the biting, vivid brass chords that accompany a nuclear-test explosion — improves on the original. Music Review: Glass?s ?Koyaanisqatsi? From New York Philharmonic - Review 2011-11-03T21:41:14Z

Now it was the turn of Speranza, a five-movement orchestral work commissioned by the , receiving its world premiere under the impressively assured baton of . LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z

Jeffrey Stock’s lushly orchestral score includes lovely arias and choral pieces, and draws knowingly on Italian opera, popular period music and the oeuvres of Broadway masters Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. A visit to romance and Italy in ‘Room with a View’ 2014-05-03T00:30:45Z

But right now the grandest classical music gathering of opera, orchestral concerts, recitals, young artist projects, opera camps for children and new music series remains in Austria. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The saloon-set first act was curiously lugubrious, Puccini's masterful use of orchestral colour in setting the scene not entirely apparent. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z

That approach came through on Friday from the start, with his feverish yet transparent conducting of the long orchestral introduction. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

As performed by a chamber ensemble and a small, gifted cast, the musical score was alluring and nuanced, with intricate ensemble numbers and long-lined melodic writing cushioned by lush orchestral harmonies and rippling figurations. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

Each part is different, and when you put them together, it’s orchestral. ArtsBeat: New Hendrix Documentary to Be Released in November 2013-09-05T17:00:07Z

As themes go, that is hardly an outlandish one, and since the orchestral repertory is packed with painterly works, finding music to make the point is simple enough. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-25T00:04:16Z

De Homem-Christo and Bangalter decided that an orchestral score employing subtle electronic cues — rather than vice versa — would be most appropriate to "paint that epic quality" the film dictated. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

There were plenty of skillful touches in the orchestration: comic sound effects, vivid brass writing, a lusciously brooding orchestral interlude after the line “So draw your blinds and sleep.” NY Phil Biennial Offers Themes of Mining and Building 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

With an uncredited orchestral arrangement from Beatles producer George Martin, "Dear Friend" takes on a sense of dramatic power that exists well outside of "Wild Life"'s other, at times less potent contents. Wings debut "Wild Life" turns 50 with powerful vinyl reissue 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

It brings to mind Amp Fiddler and Prince, Joanna Newsom's more excitable orchestral flourishes, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, often in the same song. Vive la dance 2010-12-30T13:28:49Z

Botstein is the daughter of Leon Botstein, the orchestral conductor and president of Bard College, whose parents lost most of their relatives in the war. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Still, the urge to paint on a large orchestral canvas remains strong. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

It became a touching example of how much the absence of a conductor encourages orchestral musicians to be supportive — and even protective — of one another. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

His inimitable orchestral sweep lends the proceedings a strong boost. My streaming gem: why you should watch Starcrash 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

"He'd often write lavish orchestral scores, some very swashbuckling in nature, that helped to set the mood and place the viewer in the proper period," Burlingame said. 'Charlie's Angels' composer Allyn Ferguson dies 2010-06-29T16:07:00Z

Ariana Grande, who rose from Broadway to Nickelodeon to her own teeny-pop career, moved her creamy voice into a more grown-up mode for the lovelorn orchestral ballad “Just a Little Bit of Your Heart.” Grammy Awards: Pharrell Williams, Madonna and Sia Offered Hymns Somber and Strange 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Furtwängler often criticized what he called an “American” manner of orchestral playing—soulless, machinelike, monotonous. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The pandemic forced cancellations of two premieres — an orchestral work and a Noh opera — a residency and a commission. New Library of Congress commissions provide hard-hit artists with a creative spark 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

And yet for my money, the best place to experience an orchestral concert in this country, and quite possibly the world, is the Royal Albert Hall. Tom Service on the Royal Albert Hall 2012-08-26T19:58:01Z

The sounds of nature, from chirping jungle birds to the surging currents of the river, are effectively captured in Mr. Catán’s orchestral writing, evocative of Debussy and Stravinsky. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Tender, ornate violin solos alternate with brash orchestral outbursts full of clanging percussion and conciliatory passages. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

He often adapted it, including for “Forbidden Colors,” a vocal version with the singer David Sylvian, piano renditions and sweeping orchestral arrangements. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

With an uncredited orchestral arrangement from Beatles producer George Martin, “Dear Friend” takes on a sense of dramatic power that exists well outside of "Wild Life"’s other, less potent contents. Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The “War Requiem” was performed in Matsumoto in 2009, but the two strictly orchestral programs were to be honed this summer. Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z

Sparked by last year’s Roger Daltrey solo run performing “Tommy” in its entirety with orchestral backing, The Who embarked on its Moving On! tour this spring, joined at each stop by a local symphony. Top 10 Seattle music events for fall 2019, from Lana Del Rey to The Who 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

She enforced lean and transparent textures, with obtrusive brass occasionally disrupting an otherwise astute orchestral balance. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

In Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, he seemed to caress every phrase of the orchestral part into a sepia elegance, producing a poignancy that stayed buoyant, a contentment that still yearned for something more. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Furious orchestral virtuosity was balanced by singing of monumental splendour from the London Symphony Chorus. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z

Rose added that he would love more big orchestral pieces from Sanford, who has plans for a piano concerto, among other potential projects. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Jan Lisiecki, 17, who made his debut with the New York Philharmonic on Thursday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, is a sensitive musician, already attuned to how he fits into orchestral textures. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z

It led me to create a continuous orchestral piano piece that felt as fluid as most of the looks Ms. Herrera showed. New York Fashion Week: D.J.?s Make the Music to Move Fashion Shows 2011-09-15T04:47:28Z

All too often, orchestral musicians are seen as cogs in a machine: anonymous “violinists,” or “flutists.” Lives of the cellists 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Judging by the packed audience, a night of orchestral Zorn was long overdue. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z

The orchestra ably highlights the multilayered textures and intriguing sonorities of this powerful work, an example of Schoenberg’s gift for creating orchestral color using the 12-tone system. Classical Recordings: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 2011-06-10T14:33:11Z

At nearly two-and-a-half hours, the double album is nearly as sprawling and orchestral as its predecessor, with heaving solos crushed against humongous statues of horns. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. McCartney thought an orchestral section would be good, but left the question of what that should entail to his producer. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

And this summer Carnegie will also begin a new ensemble for young musicians from communities underserved by and underrepresented in the orchestral field. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2016-17 Season 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Levine plays a less obvious, but equally vital role at the Tanglewood Music Center, the festival’s educational arm and a premier international training ground for orchestral musicians, conductors and singers. Tanglewood Batons: Thomas, Dohnanyi and Mena 2010-07-08T22:06:00Z

The tall Denève, with his mad scientist hair and his emphasis on a robust orchestral sound, has an inner elegance that keeps him too at, but never over, the edge of overindulgence. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Intently listening to and observing conductor Ludovic Morlot and the Symphony, Ax weaves his musical lines around the orchestral voices instead of always charging to the forefront. At Seattle Symphony, masterful and moving collaborations 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

My teacher was wonderful, but he was an orchestral trumpeter, and he said he couldn't advise me. Alison Balsom: The top brass 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z

The xx, who won the Mercury Prize in 2010, will play orchestral arrangements of songs from their first two albums, while guitarist Hawley will perform with an orchestra for the first time. The xx team up with BBC orchestra 2012-08-16T15:41:52Z

Over the last decade, the reputation of the Australian composer Liza Lim has grown steadily, with consistently strong chamber and orchestral albums released on top-flight experimental music labels like Wergo and Kairos. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

And that's to talk mostly about his orchestral music: Nørgård's operas, his songs, and his chamber music are all there to discover, too. A guide to Per Nørgård's music 2012-07-30T15:58:34Z

He’s developed something of an international cult following since his NSO years for innovative opera productions and unusual approaches to orchestral concerts — moving the players around, or seating audience members in between their chairs. How the Budapest Festival Orchestra elevated a so-so evening 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

After the strangest, highest and most terrifyingly exposed bassoon solo ever to open an orchestral work, the music becomes a sinewy braid of teeming, complex woodwind lines. The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z

At the first orchestral session, he worked through Act I twice, conducting vigorously and singing most of the vocal parts as he went. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z

Few jazz musicians on the circuit could make an unplugged sax/bass duo sound so orchestrally substantial – or so exuberantly personal. Joshua Redman/Christian McBride – review 2013-05-14T18:29:22Z

Then again, these may all seem fine points in view of the air of crisis that hangs over the whole American orchestral enterprise at the moment. The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up 2013-06-14T12:00:01Z

She produced it with Aaron Dessner, from the majestically pensive indie-rock band the National, and its tracks deploy orchestral arrangements and synthesizers along with bluesy shuffles and a soul horn section. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Under the title "Symphonicity," Sting is releasing versions of some old songs with an orchestral backing. R.E.M., Sting, Squeeze take control of music catalogs with new approaches to old songs 2010-07-28T21:45:00Z

A heavily psychological text rooted in medieval Danish legend and a wealth of stunning, post-Wagnerian music rich in counterpoint and orchestral color deepen the complexity. Schoenberg’s ‘Gurrelieder’ in Full Glory 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

After years of dissatisfaction with another orchestral work — his “Blues Symphony” — he says he’s learned from the experience. Wynton Marsalis Lets the Orchestra Shine in His Violin Concerto 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It is less known for challenging that audience, as it does with a moody eight-minute antislavery pantomime that Copland cut when he turned the ballet into an orchestral suite. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z

But the nuanced orchestral writing in this work is too good to be swept aside, as it was in all but a handful of passages here. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z

And in Act 3, Bychkov ratcheted up the orchestral volume a bit too much, occasionally giving his singers a hard time. Prom 19: Tristan und Isolde – review 2013-07-28T16:59:00Z

Her show at the Izod Center here on Wednesday night opened with a bombastic orchestral dirge and a video presenting her as a Marie Antoinette figure in a Gothic palace, receiving a crown. Music Review: Beyoncé’s ‘Mrs. Carter Show’ at Izod Center 2013-08-01T16:19:36Z

Who else but Leon Botstein and his ensemble would come up with a program like this, filled with orchestral music by New York composers from the middle of the last century. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

And in “Brokeback,” he uses an arsenal of effects, with orchestral interludes evoking Berg’s “Wozzeck,” a chain of duets for the lovers and a theatrical way of handling pitches. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z

In the process, they contributed to the birth of the lush orchestral Nashville Sound, refining the rough-hewed provincial music for which the city was known into something that appealed to a wider audience. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Max was always inviting some pretty risky comparisons, as does any composer who dares title a large-scale orchestral work a "symphony". A guide to Peter Maxwell Davies's music 2012-08-20T16:14:00Z

At the time, it was a departure: He and the Attractions stretched out in all directions, adding layers of instrumentation and even orchestral parts. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

This derives from its score, Tchaikovsky’s fourth orchestral suite, which arranges four different pieces by . Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z

Mozart's orchestral music, which was part of the fundamental musical education of the public for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, is being systematically pushed to the margins of musical culture in the 21st. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

As a result, an orchestral concert becomes an event of “human energy, human expression — and people react strongly to that.” Esa-Pekka Salonen Says Tweak the Orchestra, Don’t Blow it Up 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

It consists of quotes from books selected at random from the library at Lympne Castle in Kent, where the track was recorded, and read by the castle's plummy-voiced owners over a stately orchestral backing. Readers recommend: solo Beatles songs – results 2012-06-21T11:53:16Z

The unspoken fact is that the majority of the orchestral repertoire does not require the forces that most orchestras employ on a full time basis. ArtsBeat: Reader Response: Orchestras Are Over-Extended 2011-04-22T15:56:25Z

Some of the subtlety of Adams's layering of orchestral texture was also missing. BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:52Z

It was very much Europop but with this grand orchestral sound, too. From Donna Summer to Derek Jarman: gay stars reveal the artworks that changed their lives 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

There are fine solos for the main characters and lovely orchestral interludes. Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard 2010-07-31T19:01:00Z

Young brought an orchestral dimension to the arrangements, expanding the approach he used on his latest solo album, the Daniel Lanois-produced "Le Noise," to older songs such as "Ohio" and "Down by the River." Neil Young's one-man power play 2011-05-08T12:30:37Z

A more recent single, “Bad at Parties,” is flush with rich, orchestral strings — perhaps a nod to Tullgren’s early musical endeavors. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Adams insists that singers in his operas are enhanced with microphones given the thickness of the orchestral textures. Renée Fleming Adds a New Role to Her Repertoire: Pat Nixon 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Each song was followed by an orchestral work that illustrated unexpected connections between their composers. Music Review: Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nina Stemme at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-26T22:53:14Z

If last fall was a season of orchestral labor strife, this fall has been a season of eight-figure donations. L.A. Phil’s Youth Orchestra to Get a New, Frank Gehry-Designed Home 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The arrangements, credited to Mr. Wilson himself, are dense and old-fashioned, played by orchestral instruments and a studio band. Review: Brian Wilson’s Nostalgic, Reflective ‘No Pier Pressure’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

He learned much about orchestral and operatic composition from working on “Prima Donna,” which has a two-act structure and a small cast. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

That added bit of fireworks seemed wholly of a piece with the choral and orchestral tumult conjured by a master, and this remains, of the many candidates, my favorite moment from the Bernstein years. Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z

In all, he composed at least three dozen orchestral and chamber works and, between 1954 and 1960, eight scores for Polish films. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Conductor Who Fled Poland, Dies at 93 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

The orchestral sound is rich and thick, with passages played over dark, sustained bass tones. Review: The Philharmonic Reveals the Rhetoric of Rachmaninoff 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

A composer capable of rousing an orchestral roar like no other, Rouse won't stop there with his new Organ Concerto, having its West Coast premiere. 5 picks: What's on our radar for art, theater, music and more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

“On our Web site there will be a fuller playlist, everything from small pieces to large orchestral works.” Inside Art: ‘Inventing Abstraction’ at MoMA, Collaboration With WQXR 2012-12-06T20:42:29Z

The music perfectly reflects the film’s power: Public Enemy young, smart, confrontational; Bill Lee’s orchestral score classic, beautiful, narrative, Hollywood. 'Do the Right Thing' at Twenty-five 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Sometimes sumptuous, sometimes frosty, sometimes glistening, Vienna’s strings were perhaps at their most impressive when it came to maintaining tension even as a barely audible foundation of the orchestral textures. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

In the League of American Orchestras’s most recent data, 86.8 percent of orchestral musicians are white and 9.1 percent are of Asian descent. A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Others are drawn to more Romantic intensity; when it comes to orchestral repertory, for example, that might mean a predilection for the conducting of Bernstein or Gergiev. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

At orchestral concerts, it’s unusual for conductors to make an appearance before the players have even had a chance to tune their instruments. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Romantic, transcendent, orchestral existentialism that would be fleshed out by Scott Walker on his early solo albums. Readers recommend: B-sides ? the results 2011-02-03T16:36:46Z

A residency with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra this season takes him to Birmingham monthly for performances of his orchestral works, old and new. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

The orchestral playing was detailed, carefully colored and stirring. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The pandemic sadly spiked a run of Berg’s “Lulu,” but “Otello” is a sweeping orchestral showcase. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Rimsky-Korsakov, a master of harmonic fantasy and orchestral color, died in June, 1908. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

And like the orchestral players, the singers will have to be good sight-readers: though the libretto remains constant, the music Mr. Diebes sends to their monitors will change. ArtsBeat: Girl You Know It’s True! An Opera Inspired by Milli Vanilli Is Set for Brooklyn Run 2014-01-14T17:11:39Z

Given Mr. Hara’s reputation as one of the country’s finest orchestral clarinetists, his departure is a significant blow. ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra’s Principal Clarinetist Extends Stay in Los Angeles 2014-03-14T17:22:19Z

It's the blend of grimy images and orchestral grandeur that makes it work. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z

But even an expanding Aix lacks the scope of Salzburg’s concert schedule, which begins with a long Ouverture Spirituelle mini-festival and offers an enviable, overlapping array of often superb orchestral programs and recitals. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

The absence of the complex perspectives of orchestral writing – and the challenging limitation of 10 fingers on one keyboard – can focus the mind wonderfully. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

By fusing gay rage and sorrow with familiar musical gestures—Straussian orchestral explosions, Samuel Barber-like threnodies for strings—it ennobled a portion of the population for which many orchestra subscribers might have felt disgust. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The program also included an orchestral transcription of another Bach chorale: Edmundo Villani-Côrtes’s version of “Awake, the Voice Commands,” a showcase for the ensemble’s glowing strings. Music Review: The Power of Bach, the Comfort of Morricone 2010-09-20T23:21:00Z

"The video games market has matured beyond recognition and big budget orchestral scores are regularly being commissioned." Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal lead shortlist for Ivors 2010-04-20T13:27:00Z

After the tranquil orchestral introduction, Ms. Wang jumped into the main section of the bustling first movement, tossing off the busy passagework with brio, dispatching bursts of chords and arm-blurring octaves with ease. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z

In the United States there's worry that orchestral music and opera are a shrinking pie, and it's becoming more difficult to sustain financially. Sir Neville Marriner conducts his 90th birthday tour with grace, humor 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

Finley premiered the version for piano in 2014, using the rhymed English translation by Edward FitzGerald, “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” and he is the skilled soloist here in the orchestral version. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

But he does little more than smoothly enhance orchestral sonorities, giving them added glitz. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The enormity of his talent and musical technique was not in question; orchestral musicians were among those who showed him the highest regard. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The first three, lasting almost 40 minutes and in effect a symphony in their own right, are purely orchestral. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

The idea of taking the songs — which are so rooted in different styles, from pop to chanson to yé-yé to reggae — and making them orchestral sounds counterintuitive. Jane Birkin on Love, Life and Serge Gainsbourg’s Classical Roots 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the sonorous beauty of the orchestral playing — its marvelous dynamic contrasts and the fresh molding of many phrases — made this a compelling performance in the pit. Critic’s Notebook: Three ‘Nutcrackers’ on one Sunday 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z

A big part of instrumentalists’ training has always been learning to play orchestral excerpts as best they can, to land a job in an orchestra. Perspective | Building diversity into the mandate: How NOI trains for 21st-century orchestras 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

Still, his growing body of orchestral recordings is making big statements of its own, confronting an earthly reality that continues to grow darker with an earnest and open vision. Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Aug. 4 with orchestral works by Grieg, Smetana, Bizet and Berlioz. A&E highlights: Seafair finale, music and more 2013-07-24T22:01:22Z

Those suspicious of pretention would do well to disregard the title of this debut solo album by Jim James and feel instead the southern orchestral funk of its groove. Jim James: Regions of Light and Sound of God – review 2013-02-03T00:05:08Z

Grant Gershon conducted with an ear to keeping a large ensemble together and bringing out orchestral color, both of which are necessary. L.A. Opera opens 30th season with Plácido Domingo staying busy 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Savall’s choices from among the opera’s orchestral movements and dances afforded a glimpse of how adventurous Rameau was. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z

The vocal part shifts constantly, along with the teeming orchestral music. Review: The Philharmonic Shines Through Two Dark Operas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Rameau was a pioneering music theorist and brilliant orchestral innovator as well as composer, and his scintillating signature sonority is that of multiple anchoring bassoons, playing in unison, often in a high register. Review: Juilliard’s Fast Takes on French Baroque 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Read more "In this third album, they again transmute traditional elements – drones, reels, highland melodies – into elegant chamber folk whose orchestral richness far exceeds the normal limits of fiddle, accordion and guitar." Scottish Album of the Year Award – who should win? 2013-06-19T16:51:46Z

Mr. Babbitt’s orchestral music is so exceedingly complex that both the New York Philharmonic, in 1969, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, in 1989, postponed premieres when the available rehearsal time proved insufficient. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z

You could speculate that comely musicians might have an advantage if orchestral broadcasts become the norm. Critic?s Notebook: Orchestra Arrives On Big Screen 2011-01-10T23:01:21Z

After the interval the SCO ventured into less familiar territory with Mahler, not a composer prone to using petite orchestral forces. SCO/Ticciati – review 2013-03-19T17:17:15Z

The 10-minute video ostensibly promotes the song that happens way at the end, an orchestral remix of last year's "Go Far" called "Go Farther." Video: 'Go Farther' by Renton's J. Pinder 2011-11-15T17:39:12Z

And once again, the original orchestral piece is impressive on its own. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

As technical director of the Electric Symphony during that period, he used electronics to capture and extend the sounds of orchestral instruments. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Carter’s orchestral score matched the vocal line in warmth, but what caught the ear most completely was his colorful, varied percussion writing. Music Review: Showcase for Orchestra of the League of Composers 2010-06-09T00:34:00Z

As the massed forces of the excellent New York Choral Artists invoked the Day of Judgment, shrieking piccolos pierced through the orchestral texture, and ear-shattering offbeats on the bass drum answered thundering orchestra chords. New York Philharmonic Performs Verdi’s Requiem 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The jazz pianist Marcus Roberts has had success with his improvisatory approach to orchestral works by Gershwin and James P. Johnson, and he ought to be a frequent guest soloist with top classical ensembles. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Spicing up a mix with striking cross-temporal interpolation is an orchestral norm today, particularly in the New York of Alan Gilbert. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra and Simon Rattle at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-19T21:44:32Z

Mr. Gilbert is also the director of conducting and orchestral studies at Juilliard. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z

The concerto notably lacked orchestral majesty, and it was left to Hilary Hahn, sensitive yet unfussy as always, to expose its emotional contours with dignified restraint. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/J?rvi 2010-07-28T10:49:00Z

The work offers a heady brew of musical influences including Wagner and spirituals; the orchestral score, performed by the Harlem Chamber Players, calls for a banjo alongside more classical instruments. Classical & Opera Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

His short orchestral Texan Tenebrae, here receiving its UK premiere, draws on ideas from the opera, its title at once a reference to Smith's home state and to the liturgical notion of lament. LPO/Alsop; Var?se 360? 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

Any concert that offers two undisputed orchestral masterpieces side by side is bound to attract some notice. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z

He is Matthew VanBesien, a 42-year-old former orchestral player who put away his French horn a decade ago and went on to run the Houston Symphony and then the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia. Matthew VanBesien Named Philharmonic?s Executive Director 2012-01-04T15:59:42Z

Some conductors would be content to open an orchestral season with Beethoven's Choral symphony and leave it at that. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-09-28T11:49:31Z

He, too, began as an orchestral musician, assuming the exalted station of concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the age of nineteen. In Search of Charisma at the New York Philharmonic 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Singers had warmed up; the orchestral sound begun to glow and coalesce. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z

The orchestral version is the real version, to me. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

Whenever you see it on a playbill, it's nearly always a badge of orchestral managers and conductors scraping the barrel of their creative imaginations. Bored by Brahms? Do you find Telemann tedious? 2011-07-06T12:06:36Z

When the Grammy nominations for best orchestral performance were announced last month, several of the usual suspects made the cut. These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy. 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Very soon after I went to the symphony,” Mr. Halsey recalled, “he took me aside and said, ‘You probably could earn a living as a second-rate orchestral conductor.’ Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a modernist piece set to Ravel’s 1920 orchestral suite referring to friends who died in World War I and, beyond them, to the social dances of the Baroque era. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z

Sir Paul McCartney said he has found writing the music "challenging" Musician Sir Paul McCartney is to write his first original orchestral score for a ballet performance. McCartney to write ballet score 2011-02-24T12:56:32Z

"I remember back in the day there was never enough space on the disc to include full orchestral sound," said Djawadi. 'Game of Thrones' composer creating 'Gears of War 4' score 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Other music, including an orchestral arrangement of the rock song “Lisztomania,” was recorded in Los Angeles. For Musicians, a TV Series Underscores Diminishing Role 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Among the names was Leonard Bernstein, whose musicals include “West Side Story” and “Candide” and who composed several orchestral and choral works. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Readers on Rock Stars and Leonard Bernstein 2011-01-24T16:00:38Z

Jon Brion produces the orchestrally minded Highway Rider, seeing glowing stars where Polar Bear see fine drizzle, not afraid of applying a deluxe studio gloss. Polar Bear and Brad Mehldau: it's not just jazz, it's the sound of freedom 2010-03-28T01:16:00Z

Well, with an orchestral show, there's no room for error. ABC's Martin Fry on writing '80s love songs to be original: "It was kind of an act of rebellion" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

If you were to compare just Mozart’s orchestral and instrumental music to Beethoven’s, that would be a pretty even match. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Strauss’s orchestral works are tricky, requiring a delicate balance of lushness and lightness, and under Leon Botstein’s baton, they felt simultaneously clotted and insubstantial. American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Marriage Actually’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

In my experience as a listener, he conducts the complex orchestral music of composers like Ingrid Laubrock with the same care he devotes to his own scores. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

King defied the ceremony’s orchestral exit music to make an appeal for gender equality in Hollywood. Golden Globes 2019: Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book win big 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

It begins with a piano riff and builds into a triumphant orchestral sweep. Composing 'The Theory of Everything' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The orchestral repertoire for saxophone rests on just a handful of 20th Century pieces, so classical players like McAllister have to look further afield. Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Rather than boning up on the cycle in advance, Wadsworth encourages “Ring” virgins to simply surrender to the sweeping majesty of Wagner’s orchestral score, and to the power of the story. Director of Seattle ‘Ring’ operas: Go, ponder, enjoy 2013-08-02T22:06:32Z

Then, a series of escalating ruminations on another hymn, “Shall We Gather at the River?,” first on a solo viola, build up to a fiery orchestral tutti. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

But too much of the text is bathed in a sympathetic wash of orchestral writing that ultimately weakens the emotional impact. Review: An Unsatisfying Opera (or Is It a Lecture?) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

The piece opens with an ominous hum that sounds uncannily like an orchestral cello section playing a low note tremolando. Review: Annie Gosfield Makes Machines Hum in ‘Electric Sweepers and Vacuum Creepers’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

When it comes to the orchestral samples of Prokofiev's Concerto, DJ Switch thrives on virtuosity. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

While a frantic Leroy Anderson orchestral composition played in the background, Mr. Lewis recreated a famous bit in which he appears to pound away at an invisible typewriter. Jerry Lewis Holds Sway at the Friars Club 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

As in the orchestral concert, Mr. Kennedy and the orchestra were superb advocates for Mr. Rihm’s imaginative music. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z

Lawsuits and regulations are forcing conductors and administrators to confront the subject of orchestral loudness head on. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Changes in performance practice are surely the most significant, with symphony orchestras everywhere largely withdrawing from the pre-Beethoven repertoire in much of the orchestral world, and not just at the Proms. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

“We all met working with Sufjan on his various concerts and orchestral projects,” says Moose. yMusic brings genre-bending ethos to Kirkland 2014-03-26T20:41:00Z

And I’m really proud of the orchestral moments: The Act I postlude is one of the most beautiful things Bernstein ever wrote. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The song is unaccompanied, with consoling orchestral refrains after each verse. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gergiev led a weighty performance, with dark, rich choral singing and thick orchestral textures. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z

The album begins with an orchestral interlude, arranged by composer Davide Rossi, that merges Middle Eastern and Western elements as an overture, of sorts, to the album's thematic intentions. Coldplay attacks social and political unrest with hope on "Everyday Life" 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Instead of conducting the orchestral programs twice each, he had to confine himself to a nine-minute piece — the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, a signature work of the festival — to open each evening. Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z

Then we hear the first blast of the orchestral prelude, and the familiar opera begins. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z

The final part is set to “Runner,” a calmly luminous orchestral piece with the pulsating, propulsive rhythms that animate much of Mr. Reich’s music. Review: A Decade On, Wayne McGregor Continues to Energize the Royal Ballet 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

That’s another reason — other than sexism, that is — for the Mendelssohns not to be featured together orchestrally: She simply didn’t write much for orchestra. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

There the voice is mixed live with the pre-recorded orchestral accompaniment and broadcast instantaneously to the audience's headphones. Silent Opera do away with the orchestra 2011-02-24T22:45:00Z

When it comes to orchestral music, resistance to the new is part of our national musical DNA. The democracy of American music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

High point: "The first orchestral reading of any new score." Stephen Sondheim, composer – portrait of the artist 2012-11-27T19:30:01Z

“I’ve long had a deep love and passion for orchestras and orchestral music,” he said, “and that really started with the New York Philharmonic.” New York Philharmonic Chooses Arts Veteran as Leader 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Truly blind auditions are but one step in assessing the readiness of an orchestral musician. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

From all reports the piece covers a wide sonic terrain from solo cello to subdued choral singing to blazing bursts of orchestral music and much propulsive drumming. The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z

It’s safe to assume that they, some singers and the society’s musicians, led by the guest conductor Carlos Ágreda, will make operatic excerpts blend in easily with the series’s usual orchestral fun. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Though deceptively straightforward in its vocal lines and steady in its orchestral accompaniment, it requires great strength and purity of tone as well as the ability to convey nuance through the text. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ by Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble 2012-08-26T21:03:45Z

Two of Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” accompany loving shots of Manhattan buildings; the image of one of the new buildings at ground zero is greeted by the orchestral surge that opens “Im Abendrot.” Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z

“I felt that an orchestral piece was absolutely out of the question,” he said. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z

Around him, the music thickens with bass tones, additional voices and swells of orchestral arrangements: all the fears he’s trying not to show. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced a three-year partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to co-curate live orchestral performances with film screenings. L.A. Phil plays 'Rebel,' 'Casablanca' and 'Waterfront' as the live-to-picture craze grows 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Puccini’s orchestration is skilled and well suited to the purpose of supporting the voices, but “La Bohème” is no orchestral showpiece, as Mr. Rizzi seemed determined to make it. Review: ‘La Bohème,’ in All Its Excessive Glory 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Projections customarily used to depict Lulu’s time in prison during one orchestral interlude were omitted here, but the vivid playing spoke volumes. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z

The orchestral sound is consistently glorious, if more suggestive of Italianate fullness than French conciseness. Les P?cheurs de Perles 2010-10-06T22:30:00Z

Not only composing for guitar: among Leisner's 40 or so original pieces are orchestral works, chamber music, and music for voice and piano. Guitarist David Leisner opens Seattle society's season 2011-09-21T21:07:10Z

When not otherwise leading the orchestral viola section, Lawrence Power took the viola solo. Mørk/LPO/Nézet-Seguin – review 2012-11-22T17:44:12Z

This has been the centenary year of the birth of Gil Evans, the composing genius and orchestral alter ego to Miles Davis. Mike Gibbs Band – review 2012-12-13T12:28:08Z

But three times, these poltergeist noises are exchanged for orchestral music by Wagner. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

His early signal successes as an orchestral conductor included a Mozart symphony series with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

However, his orchestral music in particular was hugely popular in his lifetime. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z

Though conceived as an evocation of the various splendours and memories embodied by Roman amphitheatres, the piece is as much a fascinating study in orchestral textures as anything more explicitly illustrative. Prom 18: Australian YO/Elder 2010-07-31T11:58:00Z

After another improvisatory solo from the pianist, an orchestral coda provides an abrupt finish. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2010-11-22T22:45:00Z

Ms. Weilerstein took over the cello part of the orchestral program on Sunday, playing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme in the enhanced virtuosity of the Fitzenhagen edition, traversing the difficulties with seeming ease. Critic?s Notebook: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles 2012-03-20T22:13:34Z

But lack of precedent never deterred the Knights, a self-declared “orchestral collective” that has its creative epicenter in Brooklyn and operates, according to its mission statement, on principles of “camaraderie and collaboration.” Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

A rather small audience heard three orchestral classics on an unusually cool August evening, officially marking the 20th anniversary of the United Kingdom ceding control of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. Review | Asian Youth Orchestra, Chang play favorites to sound of crickets 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

At 3:18 there is this huge orchestral climax and the violin is out of the picture for a bit. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Mannes players, led by David Hayes, the school’s director of orchestral and conducting studies, acquitted themselves impressively. Music Review: Student Players Leap Into Deep Water 2011-02-14T05:16:05Z

His own compositions included orchestral and chamber music, and he was director of the London College of Music between 1983 and 1990. Composer John McCabe dies aged 75 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The younger Mr. Maalouf, 34, has parlayed this flexibility into a celebrated career in France, trafficking broadly in jazz fusion, hip-hop, orchestral music and global pop. Review: Ibrahim Maalouf Salutes a Great Arabic Performer 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Manahan still has plenty to occupy him, including his work as music director of the American Composers Orchestra and director of orchestral studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Manhattan School of Music Symphony - Review?The Penal Colony? by American Opera Projects - Review 2011-10-03T22:40:28Z

"Porgy and Bess" shines here not just in the gleaming vocal and orchestral treatment of George and Ira Gershwin's magnificent score, but also in an understanding that this is a portrait of a community. Seattle Opera's new "Porgy and Bess" something to savor | Opera review 2011-08-01T04:46:04Z

One twist of a melodic inflection, one overemphatic orchestral stab, and those carefully constructed verbal nuances have been obliterated. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

Brassy single "Run With the Boys" will be too MORish for many, but the Spector-like "What Have I Done" and orchestral closer "Ode to a Girl" swoon beautifully. Carl Bar?t: Carl Bar?t 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

But there could hardly be any doubt of the overwhelming vocal and orchestral glory this performance achieved under Asher Fisch's masterful baton. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' presented masterfully as an opera of the mind 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z

For now, Disney Hall is the chief laboratory of the orchestral future. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Long loved as an orchestral spectacular, “The Planets” has been a favored work for trying out the latest hi-fi technology. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Homage is paid to the influences and achievements of the great figures of jazz — especially Louis Armstrong, whose career, says Mr. Hughes, “is almost the whole story of orchestral jazz in America.” When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It also tapped into his developing interest in “inner harmonies and middle voices” in both orchestral and chamber music. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to play Seattle May 7 2013-05-02T21:28:14Z

The beautifully hazy Always On My Mind just hints at SEESAW's orchestral brilliance. May's best music from across the MAP 2012-05-18T15:52:05Z

Tropical staccato guitar and orchestral sounds intensify without becoming overly maudlin. FKA Twigs 'LP1' Review 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The second half of the program was given over to two of Ottorino Respighi’s orchestral showpieces from the 1920s: the seldom encountered “Brazilian Impressions” and a rousing “Pines of Rome” to close. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The International Contemporary Ensemble players were excellent, from strings to brasses, marimba to orchestral bells, piano to celesta. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Finally, to Knudaage Riisager’s hideous orchestral arrangement of Czerny for the ballet “Etudes,” we get eight male dancers entering in jumps and finally spinning simultaneously. Dance Review | 'Kings of the Dance': Men Dancing vs. Male Centrality 2010-02-22T06:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic celebrates its iconic former music director with the festival “Bernstein’s Philharmonic,” which will include performances of the composer’s complete orchestral works. Your Week in Culture: Kendrick Lamar, Leonard Bernstein and Crime Scene Dioramas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, he said, “there should be an infrastructure that allows young composers to develop their orchestral repertoire over a season or two.” A Manifesto for a 21st-Century Concert. (Drinks Allowed.) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

“I just finished an interpretation of ‘Born to Be Wild’ by Steppenwolf, done in a very big, orchestral, epic swagger kind of approach,” Benyacar said. How the Cover Song Conquered Movie Trailers 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Crucially, when Mvula grafts orchestral brass and strings on to stomping roots tunes, it doesn't feel forced. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon – review 2013-03-03T00:05:13Z

Broseta made a good impression not only as an able and subtle partner in the concerto but in the three orchestral pieces preceding it. A perfect storm: Yo-Yo Ma, Haydn and Bach with Seattle Symphony 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

When asked how he accomplishes that in the course of his normal day as an orchestral musician, he launches into an amusing tirade. Symphony welcomes new flute, cello principals 2011-09-28T23:42:07Z

But it sometimes sounds orchestral or cavernous, like church organs or violins or piccolos sounding in an enormous space. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z

Her orchestral piece, G and E on A, investigates the different shades and shimmers that are possible to find in the musical base matter of tuning and texture. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z

The orchestral half traces the demonic striving and eventual fall of Faust, the choral his redemption, although it does end on a questioning note: "Shall I not be confounded in eternity?" The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

The young musicians shook the foundations of the Albert Hall with the pounding, dancing and wailing of that most gigantic and poetic of orchestral pieces. Edgard Var?se: in wait for the future 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z

He led a fierce orchestral performance, bringing out the symphonic sweep in Dvorak’s score and underlining its most cutting details. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z

The result is a sonic howl — part glam rock, part orchestral, part punk, with driving, industrial songs that are liable to disintegrate or tear off into a different direction. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

He gives everything weight, building an orchestral sound from the bass instruments up. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

One particularly successful orchestral composition was “Gaia,” a major work that debuted in 2013. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

They provided him with "extensive electronic sketches" — synthesizer approximations of orchestral music and iTunes playlists running the gamut of 20th century film composers that were indicative of the "timeless" vibe they wanted. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

This is the kind of endeavor that seems intended to bring something different, something more, to orchestral performance. No, you can’t do Shakespeare’s and Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at once 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

In the concerto, several orchestral solos, especially the early ones from the horns, sounded crude and blatant. Review: Trifonov Caps Rachmaninoff Fest With Pianistic Verve 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

The last time he wrote for larger orchestral forces was in 1987, with “Four Sections.” Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Corigliano sets the words to music of shimmering tranquillity pierced with unsettling orchestral details. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z

“Sondheim on Sondheim,” which first ran on Broadway in 2010, has been newly converted into an orchestral production for the Bowl. Sondheim on 'Sondheim on Sondheim' at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Phil might start thinking about new ways to use technology, a program like this proved the Bowl need not remain so far, far away from the ensemble’s larger mission of reinventing the orchestral wheel. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Though Ms. Saariaho can skillfully deploy huge orchestral forces, her essence is perhaps most vividly revealed in chamber works like “Maa,” which marshals the full ensemble only in the seventh and final movement. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z

When the solo horn, playing the wistful melody of the slow movement, floated atop a gentle bed of murky orchestral sound, the effect, if not what Tchaikovsky could have imagined, was mystical. The Philharmonic’s Free Concert at St. John the Divine 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Drawing fine playing from the Vienna Symphony, the conductor Jesús López-Cobos ensures that Mr. Catán’s melodies sing and that his transparent orchestral textures are neatly balanced. Opera Review: Pablo Neruda and His Mailman, This Time Sung 2010-12-14T13:59:19Z

All of this is skillfully keyed to the score, which sounds somewhere between Tchaikovsky and Ravel in orchestral color but doesn’t have much drive. ‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate) 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

On her new album, “Not Even Happiness,” her  voice is usually cradled in the gentle fingerpicking of her acoustic guitar, subtly supported by orchestral arrangements that hover like faraway guardian angels. The Playlist: Missy Elliott Reappears With a Boast, and Wire Returns With a Blast 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Another challenge was the nature of orchestral and dance rehearsals. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Step Afrika! team up for ‘The Nutcracker’

With its sheer artistry, muscular idealism, and the passionate intensity of the acting — along with Leonard Bernstein’s bright, clamorous orchestral score — Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront is a true classic. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Strauss’s score is an irresistible mix of voluptuousness, bristling modern harmony, heaving orchestral intensity and high camp. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z

There are too many guitars and thudding drums to approximate the former's celestial lightness and gossamer softness, and there is none of the orchestral piquancy of Forever Changes. New band of the day ? No 827: Chief 2010-07-16T15:56:00Z

The original incarnations of “Overtones” and “Baton Sparks,” from Anderson’s 2012 film “The Master,” can be heard in this orchestral work. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

After a rehearsal of “The Informer,” Ms. de Mille’s ballet about Anglo-Irish violence, Mr. Brohn praised her attention to orchestral sounds. William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

But with musicals, like “West Side Story,” or films that underscore dialogue with intense musical scoring, like “On the Waterfront,” editors must remove only the orchestral part of the soundtrack, a technical challenge. Philharmonic Shines in Live Unison With Films as It Kicks Off 175th Season 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Florestan’s aria, too, disappoints after a skillfully broody orchestral introduction darkened by the veiled sound of horns. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Hannon played his current album, Bang Goes the Knighthood, in its entirety, his piano taking the place of the album's orchestral arrangements. The Divine Comedy ? review 2011-07-27T17:48:00Z

For 10 years, she was a professional classical pianist in solo and orchestral performances throughout the U.S. and Europe. ArtsBeat: Metropolitan Museum Names Manager of Concerts and Lectures 2011-03-28T19:51:16Z

The oratorio begins with an orchestral arrangement of Schumann’s quizzical piano piece “The Prophet Bird,” deconstructed and spiked with dissonance. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Finding a work suitable to open with when the main course is the Ninth must rank among the most challenging puzzles in orchestral programming. At Seattle Symphony, cosmic radiation from Beethoven and Messiaen 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

He will instead first complete a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma scheduled for next season, and he will move the orchestral score to the season after. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Dessner's "Quilting," also premiered Thursday, follows Previn's example of moving beyond a pop sensibility into serious orchestral music, again without losing a populist touch. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The symphony’s season opener is built entirely around Fleming, including orchestral works that will musically and atmospherically complement her songs in the program. Superstar soprano singing Björk? Welcome to Seattle Symphony’s season opener 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Carter himself ultimately intervenes to end the debate by returning to the opening semitone – an orchestral A to which the piano throws down the gauntlet with a mischievous B flat. CBSO/Knussen; Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner – review 2012-06-19T16:37:30Z

“Harmonium” proved the unexpected and spectacular forerunner of what would become his continued pioneering orchestral and operatic work. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The somber orchestral music is thick with heaving strings and earthy thuds. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

For instance, studies of musicians show that from childhood onwards, compared with "mere" orchestral players, soloists practised for more hours, under more pressure to do so, from earlier ages. Do (strict) Chinese mums know best? 2011-01-16T00:06:32Z

His other compositions include orchestral and chamber works and the comic opera “Salsipuedes: A Tale of Love, War and Anchovies,” first staged at the Houston Grand Opera in 2004. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z

Binder also programmed work from within the United States, including an orchestral hip-hop performance by the Los Angeles producer and rapper Flying Lotus, the composer and D.J. BAM’s Next Wave Festival Returns With an Ivo Van Hove Production 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The score is spiced with unusual orchestral colorings, beguiling melodies and, above all, feisty Spanish flourishes — which is where Seattle dancer-choreographer Sara de Luis, a longtime champion of Spain's dance traditions, comes into the picture. Sara de Luis garnishes Seattle Opera's 'Don Quixote' with classic Spanish dance 2011-02-18T22:03:30Z

With the addition of extra passages, including four orchestral songs, it is part cantata and part symphonic poem, but above all a portrait of Brazil and its forests. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z

Might we also include the big fad for showing feature films in concert halls with live orchestral accompaniment? The New York Philharmonic Takes “Manhattan” 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

This movie is gorgeously photographed by Ping Bin Lee, and has a plangent, keening orchestral score by Jonny Greenwood. Norwegian Wood ? review 2011-03-10T22:52:00Z

Instead of the 's warmth, some people might prefer a more abrasive orchestral sound in this work – but the playing is excellent. Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 – review 2013-03-07T22:14:01Z

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the orchestral world, including separating ensembles from their music directors, sometimes by thousands of miles. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in May 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Robert Laidlow’s orchestral work “Silicon” and Lewis’s interactive “Forager” underscore the nuances with which composers and experimental musicians are approaching A.I. What Happens When A.I. Enters the Concert Hall 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

This first section, “The Divided Kingdom,” shows Aucoin’s talent for creating orchestral textures that are simultaneously granitic and flickering, like fast-shifting storm clouds. Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The composer's orchestral rhapsody can sometimes seem a shapeless piece: not here. Prom 32: EUYO/Bamert 2010-08-10T11:11:00Z

Serving as composer in residence for the San Francisco Symphony in the mid-80s, he created a forceful and stridently persuasive orchestral sound in works like “Movers and Shakers” and “Bamboula Squared.” He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

There's an incredible luminosity to the orchestral writing, and the principal characters are blessed with wonderful vocal lines that are precisely shaped to reflect both their personality and the dramatic situation. The Pilgrim's Progress: Vaughan Williams's masterpiece returns at ENO 2012-11-05T17:39:26Z

Gabriel’s collection of covers felt like his personal playlist, with an emphasis on Starbucks-friendly indie rock acts such as the Magnetic Fields and Bon Iver, their delicate compositions often beefed up with swelling orchestral arrangements. Judging albums by their cover (songs) 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s not easy to breathe fresh life into such a well-known work, but under Mr. Langrée, the orchestral introduction to the first movement sounded more cheeky than precious. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

In the suspenseful orchestral exposition of the first movement, Mr. Langrée, taking a brisk tempo, emphasized the contrasts between moments of subdued tension and stormy bursts in the music. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

Sarah Connolly sang them with such warmth and attention to detail that they seemed to deserve a regular place in the orchestral song repertory. LSO/Alsop ? review 2010-12-07T22:00:00Z

Where Sinatra’s version was reliant on orchestral backing, Dylan’s version emphasizes gentle electric guitar and steel guitars that hover between country and Hawaiian music. Bob Dylan posts 'Full Moon & Empty Arms' track from new album 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Equally comfortable in futuristic techno, orchestral works, video game tracks and intimate piano solos, Mr. Sakamoto created music that was catchy, emotive and deeply attuned to the sounds around him. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

He was also crucial to the building of Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s home and America’s hippest orchestral space. Jaap van Zweden and the Future of the New York Philharmonic 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The current festival features the North Carolina Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Brooklyn-based orchestral collective the Knights in addition to the Boulder ensemble. The Shift Festival: A Reincarnation, With Cherry Blossoms 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

In the second programme the orchestral forces were increased – six double basses for the Fourth, eight for the Eroica, in which the woodwind was also doubled, too. Proms 9 and 10: West-Eastern Divan O/Barenboim 2012-07-22T12:24:58Z

She makes a more measured ascent in “Sinners, Saints and Fools,” with electric guitars and orchestral strings mustering behind her for a final surge. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

At least by the mid-1960s, soon after I had started to follow classical music, the term had become common coin in discussions of the American orchestral scene. The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up 2013-06-14T12:00:01Z

Meanwhile, in the “Mother Goose” Suite, she proved a fondly evocative storyteller, exquisitely careful with colorful orchestral details yet refusing, even here, to sugarcoat.  Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Luisi conducted the orchestral prelude, which begins with melancholic music for strings, the petite Ms. Dessay appeared in a short crimson cocktail dress, looking haggard and blank faced. Music Review: Natalie Dessay in ?La Traviata? at the Met 2012-04-11T21:29:22Z

The extension will affect the unions representing orchestral musicians and stage artists. Metropolitan Opera, two unions agree to a weeklong extension 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Its immediate predecessor was Magnus Lindberg's new work, Era, a barrage of orchestral showmanship that somehow conjured monotony from the most varied materials conceivable. Total Immersion: New from the North – review 2013-03-11T15:56:53Z

In a single soundtrack, their lush orchestral pieces mingle with more deranged impressionistic soundscapes. These Composers Are Maestros of Menace 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The company is in talks with two of its key unions -- one representing orchestral musicians and another representing stage artists. Metropolitan Opera sets deadline of Sunday for union negotiations 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Dutoit did his best to illuminate Ravel’s orchestral colors in the transparent Disney acoustic, giving a good snap to the dance rhythms. Charles Dutoit and L.A. Phil dig deep into the Ravel archive 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Their sound was the biggest of the night, in all senses: shamelessly dramatic and laced with orchestral samples, To Lose My Life and Death were compelling, if not exactly Christmassy. Xfm Winter Wonderland ? review 2010-12-16T21:29:01Z

That combination of qualities enlivened the Chopin too, and created the illusion that the orchestral scoring here was as inventive as the piano writing. Music Review: The Brahms Behind the Schoenberg 2011-04-11T20:30:33Z

Dmitri Jurowski's conducting never quite finds an equivalent to such perceptive drama, and the orchestral playing is often coarse-grained, but the flair on stage means that scarcely matters. Eugene Onegin 2010-08-13T20:45:00Z

Years ago, you told me you once had a rule against writing orchestral pieces, because you thought those wouldn’t get played. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

It takes a long time for the soloist to enter in Dvorak’s Cello Concerto: three and a half minutes of orchestral music with the force and sweep of a symphony. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

It features soaring orchestral passages that sound almost Spielberg-ian in their wholesome patriotism, only to be followed by some of the most sinister compositions of Williams’ career. John Williams: Five underrated scores by the AFI-honored composer 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Inside the hall, a relatively young, mostly white after-work crowd gathered in an orchestral arrangement of seats. Standing Up for Bernie Sanders 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

The groups that existed were made up of orchestral players who did chamber music on the side. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky quickly slips into his Neo-Classical style, actually more neo-Baroque here, to create a concerto grosso in which orchestral soloists regularly wrest the spotlight from the piano line. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

Hall said he quipped that Salonen, then the Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director, had revved the orchestral volume so high that it was blowing the voices out of the building -- and Toyota concurred. Placido Domingo, Deborah Voigt to headline opening of Chapman's new arts center 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The character of the piece means as much to Morlot as its striking orchestral accomplishments. Seattle Symphony brings Messiaen’s ‘Turangalîla’ to Benaroya 2013-01-26T05:57:23Z

She sang them here, with beautifully judged understatement and appropriate lack of affectation, while Adams' orchestral lines wrapped themselves comfortably around her voice. LSO/Adams – review 2013-01-20T16:31:00Z

The nocturnes oozed sensuality and regret, yet were also immaculate studies in orchestral clarity. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-04-26T21:30:00Z

Benjamin said that he has “always thought of orchestral pieces, even chamber music as a theatrical thing.” An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

But while Mr. Fleck’s dexterity on his instrument is always technically dazzling and supremely musical, the orchestral writing is mostly pedestrian and the dramatic arc insufficiently taut. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

He was a gawky, birdlike figure on the rostrum, but a compelling one, as several generations of orchestral players and concertgoers in Britain remember. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z

The Zappa work, rhythmically complex with its constantly changing meters, sounds in part like Gershwin's "An American in Paris" on hallucinogens — sharing Gershwin's bouncy vigor, but a vastly different orchestral palette and melodic language. Stirring 'Eroica' caps symphony's night of the new 2011-09-23T16:44:04Z

But of all of Williams' vast orchestral output, be it film or concert music, only one score would seem unsuitable for touring. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic tours, Gustavo Dudamel seems determined to shake up his audiences 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The interweaving is also inconsistent since the orchestral version of the first movement is inexplicably missing. Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross 2011-02-10T22:15:00Z

“Grae” delves even further inward — it’s hard to imagine many of its songs being performed onstage, even before the pandemic — even as it encompasses more sonic possibilities, from the orchestral to the surreal. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

With the exception of “Boléro,” the pieces — which get an outing of their own at “Symphony Untuxed” at 7 p.m. on Friday — aren’t frequently performed in their orchestral versions. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Symphony, Morlot for Ravel 2013-09-15T14:01:09Z

The post-intermission symphonic closer was by Brahms, but not from his usual pile of 11 orchestral standards. How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a famous textbook on orchestration that is still studied today, and his “Capriccio espagnol” is a veritable lexicon of the sounds and effects possible on orchestral instruments, individually and corporately. National Philharmonic and guest soloist Haochen Zhang enchant 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

The score contains some striking passages, but the pace is uneven; the orchestral writing tends to be overblown, and the mix of modally inflected harmony and Vaughan Williams-like themes lacks potency. Glanville-Hicks: Sappho – review 2012-12-19T16:22:10Z

Spector took the raw tapes of “Imagine” to the Record Plant studio in New York, where they were mixed and given one of the producer’s trademark orchestral washes. Yes drummer Alan White, a longtime Seattle-area resident, reminisces about recording ‘Imagine’ with John Lennon 50 years ago 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

But Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra, for 16 live players, is one of the few items he wrote for an orchestral ensemble. Seattle Modern Orchestra explores 'Layers of Time' 2012-01-26T21:19:04Z

Although short, it's a fascinating period piece: the stirring orchestral music and perky voiceover clashing, as usual, with the sleek young pop stars that are the subject of the report. Pop at the pictures: When Cliff Richard ruled the charts 2012-08-23T12:28:59Z

The Grammy-winning singer will be playing orchestral versions of her songs that she'll first debut Thursday with the San Francisco Symphony. Franklin pulls out of shows under doctor's orders 2013-05-13T19:43:11Z

Although the vocal line here is lyrical and direct, stormy orchestral interludes suggest inner turmoil. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

For the sake of an arc-based narrative, Esther gains a musical motivation, pursuing acceptance to an elite orchestral and choral program. Unorthodox: behind the Deutschland 83 co-creator's new Netflix series 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Except for orchestral arrangements, Mr. Morrison usually sang, played and produced every part, as another Midwestern prodigy — Prince — would do a few years later on his debut. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bakshi didn’t get his wish — his producer opted instead for an orchestral score that he could sell on his own record label — but this late-night screening at Nitehawk Cinema might make up for things. Movie Listings for Jan. 23-29 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In Cantor’s orchestral fantasy, LaBeouf “gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint,” eventually driving the protagonist to a cottage for a vicious final battle. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The flute’s skittish riffs and winding lyrical lines sometimes ignite agitated orchestral responses; at other times they are cushioned by subdued, sustained harmonies. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

DeMaine describes his musical life now as “four-pronged: orchestral playing, chamber music, solo and recital playing, and teaching.” Ehnes Quartet to make formal debut at SCMS Winter Festival 2014-01-15T23:58:11Z

From the crisp, energetic overture, Mr. Wedow led a fleet, lithe orchestral performance, aptly complemented by the buoyant singing of the chorus. Music Review: ‘Messiah,’ From New York Philharmonic 2012-12-19T21:39:18Z

This year, not one violinist, pianist, conductor or orchestral composer has chosen. Perspective | The Kennedy Center Honors abandons the arts for pop culture 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Blurry, sustained tones that might be orchestral or electronic and quiet, shifting fields of static hover over muffled beats and subtly rhythmic washes of noise. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

It is true to Apple in Bates’ applying technology, combining electronica and frisky orchestral music and lyrical vocal lines, in as friendly a way as possible. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The two others, on Thursday and Saturday, featured the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who was the soloist in a Mozart concerto in the orchestral concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

And the album ends with “When I’m Weary,” an orchestral hymn that acknowledges “dark dark days” but vows, “You remind me to keep on trying.” Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Carter continued composing until shortly before his death, his works ranging from ballets to vocal, instrumental, chamber and orchestral pieces. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

She won for her piece Brand New Ancients, an hour-long "spoken story" with orchestral backing, in which Tempest imagines a world where we are all gods. Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored 2013-04-10T14:50:13Z

The 17-day summer festival will use the money to create an orchestral training and touring program that will be one of the first of its kind in the country. Oregon Bach Festival gets $7.25 million donation 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

I don’t go to many orchestral concerts at all. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The orchestra will continue its productive relationship with the composer to perform one of his latest orchestral works. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

The festival also will present historical and contemporary Mexican movies to which Dudamel will conduct an orchestral accompaniment. L.A. Phil's 2017-18 season will build bridges, Dudamel says 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

The tracks are knotty, disorienting studio fabrications, surrounding hand-played R&B with amorphous electronic textures, interwoven vocals, foreboding orchestral strings and densely layered samples. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

It also implies, as Klee’s paintings did, that the spiritual in art might happen at small scale, rather than in grand, orchestral gestures. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

“The orchestral fabric is so brilliantly crafted, so fascinating, so layered,” he said. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

But there was also the music that orchestral players in London were just getting to know at the time, the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mahler, Schoenberg, later Stravinsky. Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life' 2012-06-06T16:50:00Z

For big releases, a full orchestral score would be supplied, but often only for the film's first run. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z

At that orchestral climax, Kentridge crowds the stage with towering, obvious and distracting war imagery that overstates the effect. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Half Past France,” once a wistful ballad, was remade with clouds of ominous orchestral dissonance; “Leaving It Up to You,” once a rocker, became even more queasy when turned into brittle, twitchy funk. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

Unlike opera composers whose orchestral music reflects both the conscious and unconscious emotions of the characters, Sciarrino writes instrumental parts that summon their environment. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Solo and chamber performances were interspersed with the orchestral scores. Music Review: Fledgling Musicians Spread Their Wings 2010-10-06T21:48:00Z

Though a lively musician and a specialist in Baroque music, McGegan here went for big orchestral effects. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The sense of compromise in some of his orchestral recordings can be hard to shake off; one Times critic called him “the most artful dodger of major issues now before the public.” Playing Bach, Was He a Pioneer or a Reactionary? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Much of the orchestral timbre is organic and guttural, and the whole thing is driven by an indomitable internal force very much inherited from The Rite. BBCSSO/Pintscher – review 2013-05-20T11:34:36Z

A young cello virtuoso who earned rave reviews for his performance at the royal wedding will be making his U.S. orchestral debut with the Seattle Symphony this fall. Cellist from royal wedding to appear with Seattle Symphony this fall 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Dvorak program on Friday began relatively inauspiciously with the symphonic poem “The Noonday Witch,” a rare inferior effort by a composer who wrote no end of great orchestral works, large and small. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rattle led the orchestral strings in Elgar’s Serenade in E minor and all hands in Fauré’s Requiem. Review: With a Tribute to an Esteemed Organist, Simon Rattle Settles Into New York 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The orchestral sound as the shadows began to gather at the end was marvellously textured – rich but not cloying, dark but not opaque. LSO/Davis ? review 2011-03-23T17:41:58Z

His melodic lines are eminently singable, and his sumptuous orchestral writing constantly enchants the ear. Opera review: 'Amelia' is a profoundly personal, American story 2010-05-10T17:18:00Z

Details of orchestral phrasing have registered keenly, with a wealth of color; he gives many scores a strong pulse. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The orchestral studies program at the Juilliard School, as at most conservatories, is geared mainly toward teaching conductors to lead and players to follow. Music Review: Juilliard Chamber Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-24T00:17:49Z

As an ardent fan of “Edward Scissorhands,” I was pleased to hear the familiar tingling celesta riffs and wondrously spectral sounds from the opening of the film played in this full orchestral version. Review: ‘Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton,’ Macabre Yet Sweet 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

In a way, the string section at Le Poisson Rouge brought “Nommos” full circle, and Mr. Leon is gradually building a full orchestral version that he hopes will have its premiere in the next year. Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

This is by far the most exciting orchestral opportunity I’ve ever received.” Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work 2013-06-12T23:10:49Z

Though Karol Szymanowski's orchestral music, especially his two violin concertos, is established in the repertory, his smaller-scale instrumental and vocal works are less well known, at least outside his native Poland. Music picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:21:00Z

The sense of optimism, about affairs both orchestral and international, was on display Thursday morning when the musicians visited music students at the Instituto Superior de Arte. Minnesota Orchestra’s Cuba Trip Puts It at the Cultural Vanguard 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

He mentioned a recent orchestral recording by the saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, a frequent collaborator of his, and noted with pride that an earlier performance of some of that material was presented by the Tri-Centric Orchestra. Anthony Braxton Composes Together Past, Present and Future 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Here it seems that Haydn’s distance to the urban cultural centers of his time proved a handicap: The writing, however skillful, has none of the ingenuity of his orchestral music. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

The orchestral players did their usual fine job of managing a long evening of obscure music with distinction, lacking only the keenest edge of authority at times. Music Review: American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Hungary Torn’ 2013-05-03T22:12:20Z

The song cuts across generations as it starts with a childish concern—fear of the dark—and then offers a kind of adult relief two-thirds of the way through, with an uplifting orchestral break. The Eternal “Stand By Me” 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

That intensity–thunderous orchestral swells and dips–lets you know you’re firmly in the Star Wars zone. What It Was Like to Compose the Rogue One Score in Four Weeks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Lord's solo pieces included his 1976 orchestral work Sarabande, and last year he said he was working on a definitive studio recording of his Concerto for Group and Orchestra. Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, dies aged 71 2012-07-16T19:18:43Z

The last gesture was especially remarkable, for orchestral players seldom cherish the memory of critics. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

The quartet acts as a pathfinder or pilgrim, picking up the pace when the orchestral pace slackens, to inject soaring themes derived from folksong. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The caller’s warnings are delivered to an earpiece Tom picks up in his dressing room during an orchestral interlude. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Piano,’ an Unknown Stalks a Musician Making a Comeback 2014-03-07T01:12:49Z

The low-camp theatricality of O Duo's performance – are they trying to become the percussion world's answer to Ant and Dec? – didn't help either, while the generalised energy of McNeff's orchestral writing was an ideas-free zone. BBCSO/David Robertson ? review 2010-10-24T21:46:00Z

These musicians cultivate the characteristic Russian orchestral sound, with dark, mellow strings, reedy, plaintive woodwinds and weighty, soft-edged brasses. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z

The two orchestras recently embarked on a partnership that centers on the creation of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, an educational venture for aspiring orchestral musicians that offers coaching, workshops and mock auditions. Maxim Vengerov Performs With the Philharmonic 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Also, the orchestral part is very richly written. It’s beautiful music.” ‘Interpretation of Trees’ on exhibit at the Embassy of Argentina 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Intelligent pop collaborators are also part of the mix, as the upcoming Reykjavík Festival attests: the Icelandic bands Sigur Rós and Múm are joining in, and Björk will make a rare orchestral appearance. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

That hybrid of classic sounds and experimental studio-as-instrument textures – Elliot’s beloved thumb pianos disguised as steel drums, orchestral chimes and synthesizers, for example – distinguishes Wild Belle’s forthcoming album, “Isles.” Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z

Ms. Van de Vate’s lyrical vocal lines were evocatively woven through the orchestral textures. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in Its U.S. Premiere 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

A typical orchestral audition might end up attracting dozens of people who are essentially indistinguishable in their musicianship and technique. To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

The orchestral ensemble — 19 string players augmented by a five-octave marimba and a low bass drum — becomes a metaphor for the forest. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Berlin, one of the world’s leading music cities, will come alive starting on Sept. 2 for “Musifkest,” a citywide orchestral music festival that features guest orchestras from around the world playing alongside homespun talent. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Chamber music, acrobatic performances and orchestral concerts are also on the schedule for the festival that will light up 13 venues including theaters, churches and open-air sites from May 25 through June 10. Spoleto Festival USA unveils lineup for new season 2012-01-01T05:03:08Z

Gilbert's sensitive pacing of the orchestral accompaniment here gives the scene the near-tragic grandeur it deserves. Review: Collaborative `Cosi' scores at Juilliard 2012-11-15T16:05:08Z

It is a characteristic, irresistible Janacek move to break into a passage of swirling anxiety with a lush, lyrical orchestral surge, and Mr. Sharon and his collaborators echo these moments in sudden pullbacks of perspective. ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Uses Projections in Cleveland 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Playing for 18 minutes, "Reflections: Songs of Fathers and Daughters" is a blend of tone poem with orchestral suite. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z

The orchestra will play Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, an orchestral piece, in Bayreuth, Germany, famous for its annual Wagner opera festival in July and August. Israeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine 2011-07-24T17:01:54Z

The second movement, “Blues,” features the trombone in a soulful solo over a gently swinging orchestral backdrop. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Nothing profound here, but Bates' crazy-quilt of neon-lit orchestral sonorities, peppered with freaky electronic riffs, morphs and dances to its own internal beat. Muti's 'arrivederci' for the CSO subscription season has audience clamoring for more 2011-05-13T17:51:23Z

"Blue Scholars songs suggested many orchestral colors and machinelike textures." Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

After leaving Lincoln Center, Mr. Goberman, 71, will continue to stage concert galas, video productions and symphonic cinema events, in which orchestral scores are performed live to films, Lincoln Center said. ArtsBeat: 'Live From Lincoln Center' Creator to Depart 2012-06-08T20:22:24Z

We tend to think of American orchestral music as a relatively recent phenomenon. The democracy of American music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Will they end up as soloists, orchestral players, educators, entrepreneurs? Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2014-05-11T20:28:02Z

New music can often feel randomly scattered onto an orchestral concert, added merely to give a progressive sheen to fundamentally conservative programming. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is New York’s Conductor Now 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Though some of these seven pieces uncoil climaxes of  savagery, there is a delicacy and refinement to much of the orchestral writing that sometimes recalls Dutilleux or other French composers of an earlier 20th-century generation. Dusapin: Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-04-15T21:30:00Z

Alexandria-based orchestral touring group Classical Movements continues its Sounds of Hope and Harmony series through the month of August and beyond. A critic’s suggestions for music to fill the dog days 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Holter, with a keyboard and a string quartet, was opulent and delicate – but Hecker and Lopatin created a huge, swelling, apocalyptic din, where orchestral samples were mangled and distorted with laptop noise. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z

There is lots of attention to dark orchestral detail, and Gatti seemed keen to underline that Falstaff is the work of a composer who knew his Wagner. Falstaff 2012-05-16T11:31:00Z

The Hebrides Overture, with which Marriner opened, was efficiently played, but phrasing was rather foursquare, orchestral balance was elusive, and there was little of the poetic exhilaration that animates the piece. ASMF/Marriner – review 2012-12-20T15:54:59Z

I'd always loved the orchestral flourishes in Gamble and Huff's disco classic The Sound of Philadelphia. Easy as ABC 2013-01-21T17:30:01Z

The music ought to feed the musical’s momentum, but the orchestral streamlining exacerbates the sluggishness of Lapine’s overwritten book and the repetitive emphasis of some of Sondheim’s lyrics. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Conductor Massimo Zanetti emphasized drama over some of the delicate orchestral effects in the score, but it made for an exciting evening. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z

The duo wrote orchestral music for the Chicago Symphony and other classical ensembles, drawing on traditional instruments and virtuosity. Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

The score is often presented as an orchestral suite, but it’s not unusual to hear it performed it in its entirety — about 90 minutes without an intermission. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

The viola keeps escaping from this orchestral stew, but not by fighting it. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

This orchestral work fits well alongside the score for “Inherent Vice.” Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Later that month, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project is releasing an album of Fine’s complete orchestral music: magisterial, exquisite compositions whose absence from the concert hall is a minor injustice. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Composed a year after the Third, the “Tragic” is Schubert’s first symphony in a minor key and his most problematic orchestral work. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The main orchestral music was performed by an ensemble on one side of the hall, conducted by Mr. Gilbert. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z

In Tokyo, the orchestral cornucopia also means a colossal amount of competition. Cherry blossoms decorate Orchestra Day in Japan 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

"Renga" happens to be the work that Tilson Thomas chose at the end of his first season as San Francisco Symphony music director to symbolize his desire to transform American orchestral life. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

This piece starts with a defiantly ugly orchestral blast, played for all its raucousness here. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

This weeklong festival, which is now in its fourth and — because of a shortage of funding — final year, is a joyous celebration of orchestral excellence and adventurous programming. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z

His own group, Bajofondo — which mixes tango, rock, orchestral arrangements, electronics and even a bit of disco — is nominated for a Grammy this year in the Latin rock or alternative album category. ‘Break It All’ Celebrates the Oppositional Energy of Latin Rock 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

In the Handel, McVinnie played both the orchestral and solo parts. A British organist reaches America by way of Reykjavik 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

If they did not, the conductor Johannes Fritzsch nonetheless did a fine job of holding the piece together and drew beautiful playing in the orchestral interludes. Opera Review: In Austria, Stellar Cast Makes Strauss's 'Frau' Shimmer 2010-12-22T13:28:52Z

As in the Prokofiev original, each character in “Third Bird” is connected with an orchestral instrument or two, here played live by members of Ensemble Signal arrayed around the stage. Review: ‘Third Bird’ Doesn’t Quite Land 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

If he had any consolation, it was in the “Romeo” orchestral suites, the first two of which had their premiere before the ballet itself. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

An elegy for a pianist who died young, the work is a concerto writ small; in fact, Mr. Kaila wrote an orchestral version concurrently. Music Review: MATA Festival Returns, With Spotlight on Helsinki 2014-04-17T23:21:53Z

The majestic choral/orchestral granddaddy of them all — Handel’s “Messiah” — is a festive holiday tradition with Seattle Symphony, the SSO Chorale and guest soloists. 5 classical-music recommendations for Dec. 9-16 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

To see him take his place in a big-band trumpet section or orchestral ensemble was to be reassured that all would be well. Derek Watkins obituary 2013-03-25T16:29:10Z

He’s drawn to orchestral scores driven primarily by color, craft and texture. The Conductor John Wilson Doesn’t Like Musical Distinctions 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

That Mahler was to have been his first foray into the standard symphonic literature with the orchestra, a reminder that Mr. Petrenko’s orchestral repertoire is not as wide as that of some other candidates. Berlin Philharmonic Selects Kirill Petrenko to Succeed Simon Rattle 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Three of the four works were concertos; the only orchestral components were some pleasant yet inconsequential arrangements of three Granados Spanish Dances of which only Dance No. 6 showed snap and life. State Symphony of Mexico missing homegrown flavor 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

How do you create an orchestral version of a piece like that, one that has its origin in avant-jazz performance practice, and that still needs to have room for improvisation in the orchestral setting? A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The musical has long stretches of spoken dialogue with orchestral underscoring, one of its more operatic elements. Music Review: Can?t Help Seeking That Middle Ground in ?Show Boat? 2012-02-29T23:43:57Z

But this trio offers inspired Verdi, with impassioned melodic lines entwined atop a grimly restrained orchestral accompaniment. Music Review: Angela Meade in ?Ernani? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-02-04T00:43:41Z

Earlier this week, federal mediators said that the Met had reached tentative agreements with its unions representing orchestral musicians and stage artists, including singers. Metropolitan Opera says potential labor crisis has been averted 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Some audience members will sit in bleachers among the three orchestral sections; others will sit on the floor, surrounded on all sides, or on the galleries overlooking the space. Stockhausen’s ‘Gruppen’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z

This was Blanchard’s second opera after 2013′s “Champion,” about boxer Emile Griffith, and the music is most colorful and moving in orchestral parts. Met returns with 1st work by a Black composer in its history 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Zinner has, among other things, composed and performed an orchestral piece, 41 Strings. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: they wear it well 2013-04-12T23:01:00Z

What's been the most surprising response?How fast some children, apparently not interested in and without any contact with it before, learned to play orchestral instruments to a very high level. Ricardo Castro 2013-05-10T13:14:59Z

He tore through an athletic series of exchanges with the orchestra, beaming at the concertmaster after each phrase as if to say to the orchestral strings, “Just try and match that.” Carnegie Hall Opening Night Gala - Music Review 2011-10-06T12:00:06Z

Consequently, the British singer, songwriter and producer is selecting the songs for the Bowl shows, which he's sharing with Ben Folds, for their suitability to orchestral interpretation. Elvis Costello looks at the orchestral possibilities in Bowl shows 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

What if audiences were allowed to find this music over the course of a week, or even a full month, like they can with orchestral and operatic programming? Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

If Aska provides food that’s like a Mozart piano concerto — crystalline and delicate at the outset, then building to an orchestral swirl of flavors — then Smorgas Chef is classic rock — tried, true, familiar and comforting. A guide to Scandinavian food in New York City 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Yet the hard-charging first movement, “Mercury,” was more than capable of standing on its own as a sizzling orchestral piece. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

The group — clarinet, trombone, cello and piano — are members of the orchestral collective wild Up. wasteLAnd and rest of new music scene in L.A. is thriving with a lowercase T 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The idea was to go directly from this children’s music into an elegy by Lysenko — a piano piece, in a new orchestral version. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams also cut the “Spider Dance,” an amusing diversion that should have an afterlife as a short orchestral work, like “The Chairman Dances” from his “Nixon in China.” Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

And in “Hatred,” a lurching, crunching march heaped with electronic noise and thick orchestral chords, Mr. Cale sang, “I’m stepping away from the edge.” Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

The different orchestral groups mirror everything that the soloist offers, as magnified shengs. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

The brass, strings, winds and more in the full orchestral versions of Mussorgsky’s composition represent similar flights of discovery launched from a piano work. Family-friendly ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ to feature visual treats 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The choral singing was momentous, the soloists exemplary and the orchestral sound strikingly clear – entirely appropriate to a work that envisions mystic experience in terms of crystalline sonorities rather than haze or vagueness. Hall?/BBCPO/Elder 2010-05-05T22:00:00Z

As with her work from the ’60s and ’70s, also on view, they give an irresistible impression of order and harmony, like a symphony scored for the full complement of orchestral instruments. A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The warmth of the orchestral sound was again remarkable, resulting in one of the most beautiful performances of the piece I've heard for a while. Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-M?st 2010-08-19T21:01:00Z

In a blog post, Prokofiev wrote that composing an orchestral piece inspired by a hip-hop artist had “the potential of being an embarrassing ‘cross-over’ rail-crash between two musical worlds” that rarely mix. Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The horror movie orchestral music cue that accompanies the appearance of the “Mr. Robot” logo in the credits completes the uncanny effect. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 4: The Man in the Mask 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The track, produced by Sounwave with the composer of the film’s orchestral score, Ludwig Göransson, uses a low, scowling synthesizer line, West African talking drums and a thumping beat suggesting South African house music. Kendrick Lamar Gives ‘Black Panther’ a Weighty Soundtrack 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Much of the work is dissonant, there is little that's hummable, but it holds the interest with orchestral textures, harp and percussion accents and the ever-present cello soliloquizing above it all. A symphonic evening with Morlot and the French masters 2012-03-16T17:21:04Z

Sometimes they play with the intense seriousness of orchestral soloists; at others they fiddle as if at a hoedown; at still others they strum the violin and viola like guitars. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 16-22 2012-11-15T23:10:06Z

And “Wintered Debt” is a beautiful piece that begins as a quiet and subdued as a lullaby, layers on some elegant harmonies and then explodes into truly raucous baroque orchestral pop. Of Montreal's Paralytic Stalks is Really Weird. We Like It That Way. 2012-02-14T16:00:30Z

He conducted the U.S. premiere of a gorgeous new work for cello and orchestra commissioned by the orchestra as well as the West Coast premiere of his big, startling orchestral work “Totentanz.” Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

It is the music, with gorgeous arias and duets and a passionate orchestral score, that has always drawn operagoers like a magnet to “Madame Butterfly” — and the musical values of this production are compelling indeed. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ packs an emotional punch 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The balance was a constant problem, too, with the orchestral sound often swamping the Three Choirs Festival Chorus, and its brassy outbursts flaring rather alarmingly in the over-resonant acoustic. Philharmonia/Lucas 2010-08-16T20:30:00Z

It opens with startling, crisp orchestral chords that prod the flute into scurrying figures, quickly taken up by other instruments. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

This is exactly what it sounds like: Local symphonic musicians playing orchestral versions of songs by one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Weekend preview: From hard rock to hard bodies 2012-11-09T19:01:12Z

Photograph: Patrick Redmond Using a simple three-note roar and plenty of fortissimo orchestral crashes, Wagner whips up harsh weather and bleak seas in the overture to The Flying Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z

For my money, though, the evening’s orchestral highlight was the Janacek, in part due to personal preference for this rich, profound, autumnal work. Review | How a young conductor and stunning violinist brought an NSO program to life 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Born in New York, Williams became interested in composing as a teenager, entranced by the orchestral scores and books brought home by his father, a jazz percussionist. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Others play the piece with more technical sheen, especially the middle movement, which lacked orchestral heft at times, but few capture the starlit gloom of the finale quite this beautifully. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

It was not the fact that Jane Little played the bass that was the most remarkable thing about her, although women remain the exception rather than the rule in orchestral bass sections. Jane Little, Atlanta’s Venerable Bassist, Dies at 87 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

His conducting was Ellingtonian, as in the Duke, making space for scintillating soloists and signaling orchestral riffs at the same time. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The addition of yMusic compounded the new material with imaginative orchestral harmonies. Ben Folds and yMusic play chamber pop at the Greek Theatre 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

“He would write exciting, fully orchestral scores, often with classically swashbuckling sounds.” Allyn Ferguson, Composer for Television, Dies at 85 2010-06-30T04:44:00Z

I am a professional orchestral flutist myself now, and it is still Mr. P.'s beautiful sound that inspires me with every solo I play. Your First Crush 2013-07-17T16:03:16Z

He was mainly interested in “making an experience of orchestral music something that is as deeply and completely engaging as possible,”“If it leads to moments when people respond in performance, that would be great.” Cheers and Claps at Classical Performances 2012-06-08T21:33:37Z

When he wasn’t playing, he swayed a bit to the orchestral accompaniment, and sometimes turned from the audience entirely to take in the mass of musicians. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

He wasn’t the first composer to use it in an orchestral piece, but he was the first person to give it a massive solo. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

The awards span different art forms – theatre, opera, orchestral music – and will lead to different types of approach, informed by the local context the organisations are working in and their community partners. Culture enriches lives, yes, but it should enrich all lives 2013-05-30T10:30:42Z

But what happens when orchestral hiring decisions are made without that particular goal? A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The result is frequently played in both the original piano and subsequent orchestral version. When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage

In the half-year since, the label has continued to put out a string of winning recordings, including, this month, “Nature,” the first full-length collection of orchestral pieces by the English composer Tansy Davies. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

But it received firm advocacy from pianist Olli Mustonen, who placed each note in its context, his tone as pristine as the neatness of its orchestral surround. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2010-11-22T22:45:00Z

As a work, though, the piano transcription loses something without the instrumental colors of the orchestral version. Khatia Buniatishvili: a recital of skill, sensitivity 2013-03-07T19:03:24Z

We are four Black orchestral artists with over 50 years of professional experience among us. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

"I do have a couple of songs, things that in the original arrangements were imitations of orchestral arrangements," he said. Elvis Costello looks at the orchestral possibilities in Bowl shows 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

There are surging choral scenes, and stretches of captivating orchestral writing. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Her thrilling soprano cut through the orchestral maelstrom with magisterial ease. 'Turandot': an impressive and moving triumph 2012-08-06T17:38:04Z

In the auditorium, beams of light ushered in “Here and Now” by the Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner, an orchestral work written for the occasion. Poland’s Concert Hall Revival 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

It's quite threatening for orchestral musicians to play this music because it makes them take decisions. John Cage: musicians and artists on a legend 2012-08-15T17:51:03Z

He chose to compose a “Romeo and Juliet” ballet, which led to one of the most beloved dance works in the repertory and a series of famous orchestral suites. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

This city’s leading orchestra has a mix of chamber concerts and major orchestral works planned. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

I knew that this orchestral work would have to end with it. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z

The Welcome Arrival of RainMore than musical onomatopoeia, a dazzling orchestral evocation. A guide to Judith Weir's music 2012-05-28T13:27:39Z

While her tone sometimes faded into the orchestral textures, it was more often clear and eloquent. Review: ‘The Merry Widow,’ Revisited at the Met 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The three vocal soloists coped admirably with music that often lies outside the normal ranges for orchestral soloists. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z

Beethoven's Coriolan Overture was a good introduction to an orchestral sound somehow befitting an ensemble that still plays in white tie and tails: patrician, plushly woven and with a low centre of gravity. Prom 44: RNO/Boreyko 2010-08-19T11:14:00Z

Either way, nobody could accuse him of subversion because there could be nothing incriminating in a wordless piece of orchestral music. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

This year, instead of opening with the standard orchestral concert, the festival officially began on Monday with “The Illuminated Heart,” lightly staged excerpts from Mozart operas. Review: A Gussied-Up Gala of Mozart Opera Excerpts 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

I heard none of the many major orchestral renditions of “Rite” that dotted the past season in observance of its centennial. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z

But the vocal lines and some of the instrumental solos within the orchestral passages adhere to antique Chinese melodic styles, sometimes with an overtly microtonal approach to intonation. Guo Wenjing’s ‘Feng Yi Te’ Mixes East and West 2012-07-20T17:11:45Z

The music overlaps Bach orchestral music with live singing of Moses Hogan’s “Elijah Rock,” performed by vocalists from the Hattiloo Theater in Memphis. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

BUT Mr. Tommasini added: “The music sometimes lacks urgency. Stretches of the score pass by, beautiful, yes, but lacking in profile, just orchestral backdrops for the singer’s reflections.” Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Other concerts include the “Goldberg” Variations, played by the French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, and, the following evening, the American premiere of Mr. Labadie’s orchestral arrangement of the “Goldbergs.” With Bach and Paul Taylor, Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plans Its Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Paul McCartney has composed a new "major orchestral work" for the New York City Ballet. Paul McCartney composes orchestral work for New York City Ballet 2011-02-24T10:57:30Z

The composer was exploring orchestral colors with new instruments by the musician and inventor Adolphe Sax at the same time as the composer Hector Berlioz, who held Thomas in great esteem. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Many of Wolfe’s compositions — another, an orchestral work called “Pretty,” will premiere at the Berlin Philharmonic next week, under its chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, a Wolfe admirer — have had political themes. A Composer Shifts Her Focus to Climate, With Help From Children 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Later in the Bryan, there are fillips of Afro-Cuban rhythm and moments of thick orchestral modernism, as well as traces of stentorian, post-Minimalist American opera. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

In Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, Ms. Koh’s tone was more slender and pliable, nestled into the orchestral fabric. Jennifer Koh Accompanies the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“It fits the orchestral aesthetic a little more, and she’s found some places where that works even better.” Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

And there’s no way you can write an orchestral piece, without a text, and not have listeners playing that movie. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z

Most orchestral galas, reports Times classical music critic Mark Swed, tend to be quick and flashy. Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

On this new album, Andrew Staples traces arresting melodies with rhetorical poise and makes an eloquent interpreter of three of Britten’s orchestral song cycles: “Les Illuminations”; Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; and Nocturne. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

On Facebook, many of Mr. Knuckles’s party regulars posted links to his smooth orchestral remixes of Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You,” Sounds of Blackness’s “The Pressure” and Diana Ross’s “Someday We’ll Be Together.” Postscript: Frankie Knuckles Ruled the Club Floor 2014-04-04T23:00:28Z

His orchestral music is a whole mercurial world, always ready with new sonorities around the corner. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z

The program also includes orchestral concerts and the composer Franco Faccio’s opera update of “Hamlet.” Summer Festival Season Heats Up 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, you got an unusual glimpse of the work’s skeleton; recurring motifs obscured by Varèse’s orchestral density stood out with a sharp clarity. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z

She ended with Three Movements from “Petroushka” by Stravinsky, which the composer himself transcribed for piano from the orchestral version — and then was unable to play because they were too difficult for his own technique. Khatia Buniatishvili: a recital of skill, sensitivity 2013-03-07T19:03:24Z

The gentle “Is That Enough” adds orchestral flourishes, the sparse “Well You Better” conjures a less tense Talking Heads and the blustery “Paddle Forward” is a highflying ’90s throwback. Yo La Tengo’s ‘Fade’ spellbinding, focused 2013-01-14T21:21:42Z

The last album he worked on before his death last year, “On a Distant Shore” leans toward those ballads, with orchestral arrangements behind his reflections on a well-traveled life. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“I said, ‘Happily — except, it’s an orchestral piece,’ ” Mr. Eotvos recalled. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In his lean, crackling performance Mr. Davis offers an alternative to the more typical approach of Verdi conductors who favor richer, darker orchestral textures and weightier voices for Otello and Iago. Alt-Verdi: ?Otello,? Differently 2010-12-24T14:54:24Z

But it has taken to coming here with repertoire chestnuts, worn smooth with familiarity, which is frustrating given the wealth of orchestral music to choose from. Philadelphians reliably glorious in all-too-reliable repertory 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Oedipus brought a return to orchestral form, and there was some exemplary singing from the men of the London Symphony Chorus. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2012-05-16T17:13:13Z

The Owen poems are sung by the tenor and baritone soloists in movements accompanied by scaled-down orchestral forces, like a tender chamber orchestra within the main one. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z

It shows three modern masters — Ottorino Respighi, Magnus Lindberg and Igor Stravinsky — using their orchestral wizardry well, if, in Respighi’s case, not always wisely. Review: The New York Philharmonic Offers Works by Modern Masters 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

That led music publisher Hal Leonard, which owned the rights to Hamlisch's music, to commission an orchestral suite that would serve as an homage. Jeff Tyzik took only 'a nanosecond' to accept Seattle Symphony post 2012-10-10T02:38:04Z

Krauss's conducting is the main interest here – more sensuous, more concerned with orchestral sonority than Keilberth, though sometimes at the expense of dramatic clarity. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

Even a seemingly straightforward and potentially middle-of-the-road album of orchestral music presents challenges, said Rob Mathes, a composer and arranger who produced “Symphonicities” with Sting. Sting to Perform at the Metropolitan Opera 2010-07-12T21:43:00Z

"Bottle It In," the title track, surprised me in how beautiful and orchestral it is. Kurt Vile breaks down his “mixtape” solo album, from acid house to “the K-hole of country m... 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The registry includes radio broadcasts, orchestral chamber recordings, albums and songs. National Recording Registry adds its first frog (Kermit) and its first podcast 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

The records they produced differed from Berry Gordy's Motown in the lush orchestral sound, usually with a heavy emphasis on strings. Colman Domingo brings Soul to UK 2013-09-09T01:05:52Z

Lennon didn’t like that one either, and asked Mr. Martin to write an orchestral score. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Meditative guitars lead into billowing, multitudinous vocal harmonies sustaining the song’s title above an orchestral backdrop. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Be that as it may, what we heard was a riveting display of shimmering, seething orchestral color with a huge collection of percussion instruments rattling, cobbling and bonging away in the Disney Hall acoustic. Joshua Bell kicks off three-night run with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Prokofiev seems to have inherited a vivid imagination and an acute ear for orchestral color from his grandfather. Music Review: Prokofiev Version of ?Eugene Onegin? at Princeton 2012-02-12T23:34:22Z

He would simultaneously control the whammy bar, volume and tone control of the guitar which – with the combination of harmonics, off-fret slide and left-hand inflection – explored an orchestral range of sonic possibilities. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Since “Fratres” and “Entr’acte” are almost exactly the same length — 11 minutes — the situation was also a kind of joke about the stale traditions of orchestral programming. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

There were plenty of striking moments within the detailed, busy work, with its kaleidoscopic use of orchestral color. Music Review: Contact! ? Philharmonic New-Music Series at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:58:00Z

Dotted with cadenzas that put the soloist back in the forefront, the concerto demonstrated Kernis’ command of the complete orchestral palette, from cataclysmic brass passages to otherworldly solo harmonics over hushed strings. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Anderson, who died in 1975, was the unrivaled master of the light orchestral miniature. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Highest praise goes to the orchestral brass, with never a split note between them. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z

It opens with a heroic episode full of brassy bursts and glistening orchestral flourishes much like the tone poems of Strauss. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a key part of the orchestral fabric but largely exists in the popular imagination as the instrument of painted cherubs and Harpo Marx. Xavier de Maistre Makes His New York Debut 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

In the orchestral world there are a few ensembles, like Orpheus, that specialize in playing without a conductor. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Rahman's great innovation for Indian movies was to introduce orchestral melodies to the traditional Bollywood soundtrack's fondness for violent, slashing violins and dramatic tablas. Around the world with AR Rahman 2010-04-01T21:05:00Z

The recut of "Legend" is stirring, and the orchestral score adds heft and makes the film feel less like a mid-'80s product. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z

A very substantial piece that plays for about 25 minutes, it sets a small group of Vietnamese plucked-string instruments against an orchestral string ensemble. ‘Celebrate Asia’ program combines best of East, West 2014-03-22T17:14:28Z

It’s a sensible pairing, since Phish’s songs are both complex enough to benefit from orchestral arrangements and long enough to rival most symphonies. Your week in Seattle music: Katy Perry, Drake vs. Lil Wayne and more 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Wave upon wave of oceanic orchestral sounds — swirling strings, arpeggiated harps, droning brass and winds, the whitecap shimmer of multiple harps, bells, marimbas, vibraphones and keyboards — momentously evoked the Pacific. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

And not a sagacious orchestral adaptation of swing — as in Adams’s “City Noir” — but the genuine article. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

She said that the idea of using scissors as an instrument made her think of “The Typewriter,” a lighthearted Leroy Anderson orchestral piece that uses the clicks, clacks and bells of a typewriter as percussion. Arming a Chorus of Women with Scissors 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

His “Ring” cycle had audience members seated on balconies that were part of the set, singers performing from ramps and platforms that jutted into the auditorium, and orchestral musicians who ascended the stage. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

But the general idea in the orchestral world, propagated by the orchestra itself, is that he has excelled in his function as savior. Yannick, unique: Philadelphia Orchestra hopes it’s found its savior. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

A look at festivals, opera and orchestral and dance performances taking place across the world this winter. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Without the orchestral colors, you hear details in the music freshly. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“The Desert Music,” from 1984, was a foray into orchestral writing that was so disastrous, he didn’t return to the genre until “Music for Ensemble and Orchestra.” Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

But Copeland, who now composes orchestral music, is far less interested in licensing technology and WholeWorldBand's business model than simply creating music for other people to participate with. WholeWorldBand app enables music artists, fans to collaborate via Web 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

True, Tchaikovsky’s orchestral suites used to be played more, as alternatives to the symphonic war horses — especially the Suite No. 3 in G, included here. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z

A dispute over compensation and other factors kept musicians out of the concert hall for six months, one of the lengthiest strikes in U.S. orchestral history. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

The orchestral writing in his two piano concertos is mostly stolid and uninspired. Music Review: A Chopin Competition Winner Collects Her Reward 2011-01-05T23:15:23Z

He had taken over the middle of the empty communal table at a cafe near Lincoln Centre, New York's musical precinct, with an orchestral score spread out before him. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z

Walker employs astringent, rigorous modernism in an orchestral palette that brings to mind the grand sweep of Bruckner. Review: The National Symphony Spotlights Forward Thinkers 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

He moved away from the idea of music as an abstract entity towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical with his symphonic poems. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

The violence that obliterates the chilly orchestral depiction of the Petersburg winter proved truly shocking. BBCSO/Metzmacher – review 2013-05-27T16:00:46Z

The Naxos American Classics series is a prime example of how the recording industry can drive orchestral repertoire. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The music, thick with shimmering orchestral writing and languid melodic lines, is overwrought, almost mawkish. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

At the center of the Science Museum's exhibition is footage of Gustav Holst's "The Planets," a majestic orchestral suite at times martial, moody or ethereal. UK virtual orchestra puts you in conductor's stand 2012-05-22T18:16:47Z

But Andsnes's playing is so secure, so sure of itself, and the orchestral sound so assertive, that the performances become rather intimidating, keeping the listener at arm's length. Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 ? review 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z

The arrangements are being handled by Seattle’s go-to strings guru, Andrew Joslyn, whose orchestral touches also grace the song “Walk Away” off Wilson’s new album. Heart’s Nancy Wilson finds her voice with first true solo album 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who earned rave reviews for his performance at the royal wedding, will be making his U.S. orchestral debut with the Seattle Symphony this fall. Cellist from royal wedding to appear with Seattle Symphony this fall 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Taking as its motto a line from Wagner’s “Parsifal” — “Here time becomes space” — the concert linked fragile chamber performances and flashy orchestral tours de force spanning 400 years of music history into a riveting narrative. Review: The First Concert at the New Elbphilharmonie in Germany 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Schumann wrote for the salon market and supervised arrangements for duo of his some of his orchestral pieces, such as his Symphony No. 3. Review: Emanuel Ax, at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Gives a 19th-Century Lesson 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

He got to set the pace in the finale, and it was blistering, making demands on the orchestral players almost equal to those on himself. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Features Three Rising Soloists 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

This is a pithy summation of orchestral musicians’ experience. Ivan Fischer, conductor and radical, brings his Budapest Festival Orchestra to D.C. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Schoenberg completed this version in 1903, eight years before he began work on the orchestral score that we know today. Schoenberg: Complete Songs – review 2012-07-18T14:37:05Z

While there is a great deal of piano here — and why not? — there is also a range of vocal, chamber and orchestral music. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

A 31-year-old composer from Montreal, Moussa is a dazzling colorist, and his "A Globe Itself Unfolding" glowingly immerses the organ in an ocean of orchestral sonorities. Expect the unexpected on recordings of Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Strathmore acoustics, however, are much kinder to orchestral sounds than to choral ones. National Philharmonic Chorale pays homage to Mozart at Strathmore

“You are the components in the orchestral chemistry set and he is the mad professor,” he said. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The Met sent a coach there to work with Ms. Petersen, who flew to New York on Saturday, then endured a 30-hour period of costume fittings, stage rehearsals with piano and one abbreviated orchestral run. Music Review | Metropolitan Opera: At the Met, What a Piece of Work Is This Man 2010-03-18T00:00:00Z

Picker's chamber orchestra reduction is another dramatic improvement, its theatrical tartness replacing all-purpose orchestral lushness. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The piece certainly suits Ms. Mutter, who played the elegiac solo line that rises from the haunting opening orchestral part searchingly, her languid trills echoed by the orchestra. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z

A training facility for this acclaimed orchestral academy, which grooms select young musicians fresh from colleges and conservatories, this $154 million center also contains a performance space and anchors an enticing public arts complex. New Hall in Miami Beach Begins to Fill Its Role for Musicians and Public 2011-01-26T17:26:13Z

Mr. Ross, who is associate director of the conducting program at the Juilliard School and director of orchestral activities at the University of Maryland, alluded to Mr. Gergiev’s reputation for changeability and in-the-moment spontaneity. National Youth Orchestra Braces for Its Debut 2013-07-10T21:45:41Z

Such lightness is not easy to reconcile with coming clearly through the orchestral texture. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z

Mr. Glass’s music, famously, employs loops and repetitions in its orchestral accompaniment: Mr. McDermott matches these, with the visual marvels achieved by the skills group Gandini Juggling. It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Choreography on Opera Stages 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Bat for Lashes, working with Beck, gives us “Let’s Get Lost,” a likable electro-pop come-on; another aptly named band, Vampire Weekend, contributes “Jonathan Low,” a gothic tale with orchestral bells in the chorus. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z

Some of the singer's seductive orchestral pop songs sound so timeless in their simplicity and poise that you become convinced that Dusty Springfield or Carole King must have recorded them first. Singer Ren Harvieu's second chance 2012-05-14T00:52:15Z

In that opera, these orchestral episodes serve as atmospheric transitions between scenes. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The orchestral sound is lean and sinewy; it's not for those who like their Strauss uber-opulent. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Four Last Songs ? review 2011-08-11T21:15:00Z

BY now Leos Janacek’s music is firmly established in the orchestral, chamber and, most of all, operatic repertories. Janacek Choral Works on CD ? Review 2012-01-13T16:27:20Z

It encompasses whimsical orchestral arrangements, nimble studio bands, international collaborators and computer wizardry. Jorge Drexler’s Music Connects Genres, Generations and Continents 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The orchestral music unfolds in bursts and spurts, as skittish bits are tossed among various groups of instruments. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

The ascendancy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the salient event in American orchestral life of the past twenty-five years. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

For Sufjan Stevens, America is an expanse of history, myth, memory, fantasy, ideals and quirks, reflected in music that might be gently homespun, orchestral, jazz-tinged or electronic. Rodeo, Rockabilly And Ample Mixing 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The engineering is also notably vibrant; even Sondheim, who felt that Walker ignored his suggestions for improving the orchestral sound, has noted the recording’s “energy and sparkle.” Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

To devotees of NBC’s political coverage, the network’s grand orchestral election theme music is instantly recognizable. Network news music is the soundtrack to current events, but few know the composers behind it 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z