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Recent Examples of orchestral
Strouse also composed orchestral works, chamber music, piano concertos, and an opera.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 May 2025
From May 8 to 18, orchestras from around the world will convene in Amsterdam to perform the composer and conductor’s complete orchestral works, marathon-style.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
He is celebrated for his transcriptions of orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov for solo piano.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
On orchestral tracks, like the opening scene from John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the natural frequency response makes for bright brass instruments and smooth strings.
—PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 May 2025
From May 8 to 18, orchestras from around the world will convene in Amsterdam to perform the composer and conductor’s complete orchestral works, marathon-style.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
He is celebrated for his transcriptions of orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov for solo piano.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
On orchestral tracks, like the opening scene from John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the natural frequency response makes for bright brass instruments and smooth strings.
—PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
Adjective
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So a lot of factors went into the harmonic convergence that coalesced into this critical mass.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
1 June 2025
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The major-sevenths, by stuffing four notes into the chords, offered greater harmonic options, and Sikes was determined to take advantage of them, encouraging Wayne to incorporate the dissonant notes into her high harmonies.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Reckoning marked a tonal shift from the ominous Fallout.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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The opening moments cement its tonal dissonance as, with a twang of Daniel Kowalski’s spare, uneasy score, a brief prologue with fire, a flailing figure and mutterings about Satan snaps to a far more banal view of an empty street lined with dim, shuttered houses under a low, gray sky.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Each voice has its own rhythmic room and frequency.—
Daegan Miller
June 5,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Inside, flickering lights, marigold garlands and rhythmic chants create an atmosphere of devotion.—
Zia ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Walter, whose polyphonic sensibility first charmed me in Beautiful Ruins, has here made something salty, sinewy, and satisfying from fairly tough material.—
Emily Temple
May 27,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 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
Adjective
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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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More specifically, tracks from his 2011 debut mixtape House of Balloons were delivered with the urgency and conviction of that same mysterious musician with a penchant for lyrical tawdriness.—
Candace McDuffie,
VIBE.com,
6 June 2025
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There’s seemingly not much back-and-forth on the lyrical themes or specifics.—
Katherine Turman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 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 10 Jun. 2025.
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