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Recent Examples of orchestral
Higher ceiling panels will allow orchestral sound more room to disperse, rather than clotting onstage.
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
And on both Saturday and Sunday, there’s a Symphony of the Redwoods Spring Concert with water themes tying together orchestral masterpieces at the Cotton Auditorium (Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.; $15-$30, symphonyoftheredwoods.org).
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s go-to orchestrator during some of the composer’s most creative years, Cullen has translated many of the composer’s most arresting melodies into lush, full-bodied and evocative orchestral music.
—Darryn King, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Winter is more concerned with the serious musician than the scatological comedian, concentrating on the early work with the Mothers of Invention and late-period rehearsals and concerts of the orchestral music Zappa wrote his whole life.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
And on both Saturday and Sunday, there’s a Symphony of the Redwoods Spring Concert with water themes tying together orchestral masterpieces at the Cotton Auditorium (Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.; $15-$30, symphonyoftheredwoods.org).
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s go-to orchestrator during some of the composer’s most creative years, Cullen has translated many of the composer’s most arresting melodies into lush, full-bodied and evocative orchestral music.
—Darryn King, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Winter is more concerned with the serious musician than the scatological comedian, concentrating on the early work with the Mothers of Invention and late-period rehearsals and concerts of the orchestral music Zappa wrote his whole life.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
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They are imaginatively crafted, showing particular invention in their harmonic writing.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 June 2024
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In the special, Gadsby gives a master class in the tonal shift, going from goofy to deeply serious, all while keeping their audience fully captivated.—
Will DiGravio,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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There are some baffling tonal shifts between goofy sci-fi and high drama and the whole thing just takes too long to get going, spending much of its runtime plodding around on Earth.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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From the moment passengers step onto the ship, the rhythmic pulse of the Caribbean surrounds them.—
Melissa Noel,
Essence,
13 Feb. 2025
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The rhythmic movement mimics the womb and can be very soothing.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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At its heart is the creation of new vocal datasets, polyphonic AI models capable of blending human and machine voices, pulling audiences into an immersive, participatory experience.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes,
1 Jan. 2025
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Released on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14), the LP blends sultry R&B vibes with sharp lyrical digs—and addresses Drake’s most recent feuds.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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For instance, Cher was inducted last year without Sonny Bono, while Motown producer Norman Whitfield was honored without his lyrical collaborator, Barrett Strong.—
Troy Smith,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
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“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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