Two were ensemble pieces.
The students, mostly young men, prepare ensemble pieces.
Like the Beatles, they understood how pop songs worked as ensemble pieces.
"You have, on the one hand, ariettas and ensemble pieces -- very European.
For the second, pas de deux, solos and ensemble pieces come to play.
The Classical Opera Company's director, Ian Page, commissioned me to make new English versions of all the sung texts, the arias, duets and ensemble pieces.
That mastery is displayed very differently, with playful insouciance, in "Pas./Parts," a dazzling cascade of solos, duets, trios, quartets and ensemble pieces that shows the company as a post- Middle" generation.
"Lux," from 2006, is one of Mr. Varone's perpetual-motion ensemble pieces, this one riding the tidal pull of Philip Glass's "Light" as a bright circle on the backdrop rises.
Opera Feroce's witty staging mixed pathos and bathos, using 28 solo and ensemble pieces by English, German and Italian composers to illustrate the myth of the mortal Psyche's romance with Cupid.
They featured chamber ensemble pieces that included winds, percussion, and voice.
This would be "Love, Loss and What I Wore," a play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory.
