CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: "THE SEVEN LAST WORDS" Haydn's grave and stately work — a sequence of seven adagios inspired by Christ's last sentences uttered on the Cross — was written to be part of a Catholic service.
The development of the circulatory system in higher vertebrate embryos (i.e., those of birds and mammals) generally follows a sequence of seven main events.
That was a pity, because the closing work — Mr. Tchaikovsky's "Music for Orchestra" (1987), a sequence of seven picturesque miniatures — was an ingratiating balm after the preceding tumult.
Prolific, whether in fashion or out of it, he composed 362 works, including the world's longest opera, Licht, a sequence of seven pieces, one for every day of the week.
From Excession (1996) to The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), he produced a sequence of seven science-fiction novels, all but one of which, The Algebraist (2004), belonged to the Culture series.
There are arrangements by others, too, but the centrepiece is The Stream of Life, a sequence of seven songs that Einojuhani Rautavaara arranged especially for Finley, who gave the first performance in Bergen in 2014.
