Sentence examples for band of instruments from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ferneyhough plays subdued, legato choral sound against a brightly colored band of instruments heavy on clarinets and mallet percussion.

Cara Egan Reynolds's shrieks, groans, strangled breathing, isolated words and cut-off phrases played against a small band of instruments that alternated between delicate accompaniment, shattering bass drum strokes and wild melees of concerted sound.

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Aside from the elaborate costumery and stage show, Destroid have turned dubstep into a live-band format, creating their own set of instruments that trigger the music elements.

He conducted from the harpsichord, leading a small band of period instruments.

WHITE PLAINS Arts Exchange "Metropolis," silent film accompanied by Kurt Coble and P. A. M. Band of Robotic Instruments.

A daylong lineup of world music at the Other Tent, booked by Globalfest Globalfest, included the Malian singer Khaira Arby Khaira Arby and her band of Western instruments: two guitars, bass and drums.

Pat Metheny's new ­Orchestrion project, in which he's the sole flesh-and-blood soloist amid a clamorous band of robot instruments, sounds on record so much like a mingling of the guitar star's classic albums of the past 20 years as to ­suggest he did this monumentally eccentric thing simply because he could.

The Harmonix-developed Rock Band began in 2007, the natural successor to the same Massachusetts studio's Guitar Hero, expanding that game's winning formula of rhythm-action gameplay on a silly little plastic guitar controller by adding a "full-band" array of instruments: bass (well, another guitar), drums and a microphone.

Mr. Christie's group, with its excellent band of period-instrument players, opened a door others would have trouble budging.

The bride's mother is a clarinetist with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and is an instructor of band instruments and a band director in the Greenwich Public School system.