Works for full orchestra are rare from Steve Reich.
Russell intended to make another version of the same music, for full orchestra with no echo.
Mr. Blanchard has described the work, scored for full orchestra and jazz trio, as "an opera in jazz".
(The chamber version performed on Friday was a 1979 revision of the 1977 original for full orchestra).
Though his first three symphonies are written for full orchestra, the Fourth uses only strings, harp and percussion.
"I'm almost glad it happened this way," she says now. "I love to write for full orchestra".
(A version for full orchestra also awaits its premiere.) Ms. Zwilich will discuss the work 30 minutes before each concert.
"The Time of Our Singing" is a heady, panoramic novel, scored, like so much of Powers's work, for full orchestra.
Much of the score involved settings of the Latin liturgy for full orchestra, chorus, a soprano and an offstage boys' choir.
Jo Stafford's voice breaks up, cuts off, and gives way to a brutally dissonant passage for full orchestra, which feels like a detonation in progress.
There are some striking passages for full orchestra, some of which have a bustling, churning, industrial sound, while others weave jazz elements into the texture.
