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Recent Examples of orchestral
Peck’s choreography went on to win a Tony when the show transferred to Broadway, and Timo Andres’s full orchestral arrangements sounded lush and glittering underneath the production’s three stellar vocalists, including Shara Nova of My Brightest Diamond.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Ovens Auditorium Time: 8pm Tickets: $200 Dec. 14: Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The rock band — known for their orchestral holiday music — will perform two back-to-back shows at Spectrum Center.
—Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
An immersive orchestral experience befitting the whole family, spend this holiday evening with the spectacular sound of strings singing spooky Christmas carols.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Side One, Track One songs like this off the new Father John Misty album, just an absolute epic of orchestral beauty.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Ovens Auditorium Time: 8pm Tickets: $200 Dec. 14: Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The rock band — known for their orchestral holiday music — will perform two back-to-back shows at Spectrum Center.
—Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
An immersive orchestral experience befitting the whole family, spend this holiday evening with the spectacular sound of strings singing spooky Christmas carols.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Side One, Track One songs like this off the new Father John Misty album, just an absolute epic of orchestral beauty.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
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The harmonic convergence reached its height in the spring of 1981.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2024
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There is, however, a harmonic tension at the heart of the conception, as semitone dissonances pierce the texture in almost every bar—F against E, D-sharp against E, C against B. As one of these twinges is resolved, another intrudes.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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In the campaign, Long models pieces from the Skims Body, Seamless Sculpt and Hosiery collections, putting the brand’s diverse range of tonal pieces front and center.Julia Teti, WWD, 19 Dec. 2024
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What feels like a tonal treadmill is mostly differentiated by environments that will no doubt be wildly confusing to many elementary schoolers’ understanding of African geography, and may even lead adults to mix up the characters.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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All the while, temple bells ring in the background, weaving together even the most disparate-seeming images into something rhythmic.Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Dec. 2024
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House music has always been a voice of liberation and unity, and the festival continues this legacy by showcasing world-class artists who infuse these sounds with Brazil’s rhythmic soul.Corein Carter, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Everything [in Georgia] symbolizes wine—like the architecture of the medieval century, like churches, even Georgian polyphonic singing, which reminds me of the curly vines.Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
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Daphne’s original voice cannot be recovered but Mobarak animates a space for its absence to be heard anew, among a polyphonic chorus of human-nonhuman sound that is at once incomplete and overflowing.Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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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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Maybe that explains why their playing in the Eighth Symphony sang out with such fullness and breadth, and why chordal passages had such strong hints of a church choir.New York Times, New York Times, 25 Feb. 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
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Incredible lyrical content, incredible guitar and keyboard work by the other guys just all around great album.Liza Lentini, SPIN, 27 Dec. 2024
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The British rapper’s latest single was released on Dec. 5 and has gone viral for its raunchy lyrical content, with some of the top-performing TikTok uploads being reaction videos alongside lip-synch clips.Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
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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 31 Dec. 2024.
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