Sentence examples for bigger ensemble from inspiring English sources

You may still prefer a bigger ensemble, but Vox Luminis has a winning purity.

Mr. Workman, now 74, was the principal bassist on the original recording of "Africa/Brass," and he performed all the music from the album with his African-American Legacy Project, a bigger ensemble: a jazz rhythm section, a brass orchestra with saxophones and a 17-member choir.

Today, most of us, like Hugo, are heirs to the idea of nation states, trying to reconcile our love for our countries with a desire to be part of a bigger ensemble – a strong, generous and rich political and economic European Union.

Friday's concert offered bigger ensembles that nevertheless sounded a little out of place on Carnegie's big stage.

Like most free-jazz specialists, the prodigious Norwegian drums virtuoso Paal Nilssen-Love is often heard with small bands, but he has powered bigger ensembles with the eclectic American Ken Vandermark and the German sax legend Peter Brötzmann, and last year formed the 11-piece Large Unit featured on the mix of studio and live takes on this box set.

Mr. Altman loves big ensemble casts, and here he has a mostly British one, including Alan Bates, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Maggie Smith and Emily Watson.

Kathleen Marshall's choreography remains stronger in character-defining specialty numbers than in the big ensemble pieces.

Still splendid are the big ensemble numbers -- half march, half hymn.

And when Ms. Marshall turns up the heat for big ensemble interpretations of "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" and "Anything Goes," watch out.

"Shows with a political backdrop often demand a big ensemble cast and may not translate well overseas," she said.

6. Adepero Oduye, "The Big Short": You might have missed her in the big ensemble that populates Adam McKay's drama about the financial crisis.