The music surges past pop structures, surrounding its hefty choruses with moody introductions and barreling two-guitar crescendos.
Grandly symphonic, the lush Romantic score, which at times echoes Brahms, Strauss and Wagner, features stirring orchestral interludes, swirling strings, vivid melodies and hefty Brucknerian choruses, sung with panache here by the Collegiate Chorale.
He was the ideal tenor for Verdi's profound yet thoroughly theatrical Requiem, scored for a quartet of vocal soloists, an enormous chorus and hefty orchestra.
In Sounds of Blackness, a gospel choir that came under the wing of Janet Jackson's producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the hefty sound of the chorus carries messages that have as much to do with black pride and Afrocentric politics as with faith.
The squelching synths and macho stomp of single "Love Love" set the standard: silliness, grandiosity and hefty if lyrically dubious choruses.
A popular form is Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Verse, Chorus.
Whimsy and sinew co-exist nicely in the lean, peppy pop-rock of Palomar, a three-woman, one-man band whose songs jump from blithe choruses to wiry guitar patterns to hefty distortion, all at the service of the lyrics' articulate ambivalence.
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy described the song as a "hefty slab of dramatic rock which includes the band's trademark electric guitars with melodic choruses".
The institution, which dates back to 1669, has two large theaters as well as a permanent chorus, a 174-member orchestra and a top-flight ballet company, all supported by a hefty government subsidy.
Amid the hefty chords, classical arpeggios and splashes of honky-tonk, his hits send melodies climbing toward well-turned choruses that, countless radio plays later, just sound inevitable.
