Sentence examples for choral statement from inspiring English sources
FEBRUARY COLLEGIATE CHORALE "A Child of Our Time," by Michael Tippett, and Bruckner's Te Deum, each a compelling choral statement in its own right, otherwise have little in common, but that's what intermissions are for.
The middle period comprises a triptych of purely instrumental symphonies (the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh), the Rückert songs and the Kindertotenlieder, two final Wunderhorn settings and, in some reckonings, Mahler's last great affirmative statement, the choral Eighth Symphony.
The forceful first measures are among the grandest statements in all choral literature.
Meanwhile Reich's The Desert Music was one of the composer's major statements of the 1980s, embedding choral settings of texts by William Carlos Williams in the slowing, churning and pulsing instrumental grids so typical of his music of that time, and sounding much less svelte in the chamber-orchestra version played here than the more familiar full orchestral one.
Much singing instruction, however, takes place in choral settings.
Vago augelletto contrasts solo and choral writing until the last tutti, when all singers combine in a sonorous statement.
From the majestic opening statement of the Kyrie eleison the bloom and richness of the choral sound gloriously resonated within Carnegie Hall.
There is also the culminating statement of belief, both personal and musical, represented by his last choral and orchestral work, the Cantico de San Francisco de Asis of 1982.
