AT "The Orphans' Home Cycle" titles and dates move across the screen like "Star Wars" credits taking a detour.
Helene Hines of Lido Beach, N.Y., cruised to her second consecutive women's hand-cycle title in 1 46:21, topping her previous time by nearly 11 minutes.
(The cycle's title refers to Eric Rohmer and his "Six Moral Tales").
There were six other pieces from this "Architectonics" cycle, the title suggesting the structural concern that Mr. Tuur makes rather obvious with his jump cuts from one kind of music to another and back again.
The cycle's cryptic title refers to one of Mr. Castellucci's overall goals: to express "a tragedy of the future," partly by making visceral allusions to Europe's violent history.
The cycle's stately title song summarized the turbulence in the remaining numbers — many of them collaborations with her band members Jack Petruzzelli and Keith Cotton — that portray strong emotions as uncontrollable outside forces that take people over.
The song settings for soprano range from a plain, mostly syllabic treatment of Georg Trakl's "Bläue Meiner Augen" ("The Blue of My Eyes"), the source of the line from which the cycle takes its title ("... how still the light burns") to a breathless setting of August Stramm's "Erhört" ("Need"), with swooping interjections evoking Sprechstimme.
Landon Dyer, the programmer assigned to create the port, added a secret where his initials would appear if the player died under certain conditions then waited for the game to cycle to the title screen.
Equally powerful is the title song cycle (2003), based on artists' letters, which Barbara Hannigan sings with bell-like purity.
You sensed that greater rehearsal time was lavished on choicer items; the orchestra sounded more handsome and assured in Ravel's "Shéhérazade" — a limpid 1898 overture, not the 1903 song cycle of the same title — and in all that followed.
Titled "The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11 , 2001" and measuring 6 feet 5 inches by 17 feet 6 inches, this allegorical picture was commissioned by the New Britain Museum of American Art to commemorate the events and victims of 9/11.
