An expanded string ensemble also sounded entirely at home in Kayhan Kalhor's "Silent City" (2005), a work composed for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble.
Schoenberg's "Verklarte Nacht," in a greatly expanded string version of a score originally composed for sextet, naturally sounded more homogeneous, if somewhat clotted in texture.
For much of last weekend's performance, a halfway stop in the century-long survey The Rest is Noise, Spira played like a vastly expanded string quartet, democratically but without much flexibility.
The Expanded String Matching further mapped 304 terms.
On evaluation, the normalised string matching and expanded string matching were accurate and useful for about 50% of the ICPC-2 PLUS terms.
Overall, normalised matching mapped 3,266 (44.08%) terms, Expanded String Matching further mapped 304 (4.10%) terms, WordNet Matching give another 92 (1.24%) newly mapped terms, and Substring Matching increased by 809 (10.88%) the matched terms.
In the first half of the program, Robert Spano led the orchestra in Schoenberg's "Verklarte Nacht," a work that was indeed composed as a string sextet in 1899, expanded for string orchestra in 1917 and revised in 1943.
And we don't need to hear the Goldberg Variations on anything other than a keyboard, but that didn't deter the Britten Sinfonia from including Sitkovetsky's version (which he first made for string trio in 1985 and then expanded for string orchestra) as the main work in their latest programme.
And with its improbable recovery tonight, the Blue Devils seemed prepared to expand their string of victories.
Incidentally Findlay – who has greatly expanded his string, both on the Flat and over jumps – had no hesitation when asked to suggest another name to watch this winter.
