The orchestra's new CD, "Raincoat in the River" presents a long suite from a recent concert.
Robert Schumann, the first composer to use the term as a musical title, called his Opus 20 (1839) Humoreske (it is atypically like a long suite).
He thought his room was "quite horrid, and it opens into a long suite of desolate rooms by a door which has no fastening".
With his Gibson SG and a backing bass track, Mr. Barr played portions of his new album, "Annwn" (Hydra Head), a long suite of interrelated sections.
After that came a long suite of Bharatanatyam dances by the husband and wife V. P. and Shanta Dhananjayan, who were very sweet, well advanced in years and generally stylish without ever being seriously engrossing.
For "Ghosts I-IV" (2008), a long suite of instrumental pieces, he experimented with a variety of price points — a deluxe package of high-fidelity disks and photographic prints, for three hundred dollars; all thirty-six songs, encoded in variety of digital formats, each bundle priced at five dollars; or a download of the first nine tracks on "Ghost I-IV," for free.
But Coleman's sputtery, variably-pitched trumpet lines link him startlingly with the bebop shapes he was mainly famous for abandoning (this is predominantly a bop set), and McLean's long suite-like Lifeline takes the pair though both flat-out and meditative dialogues.
The second descriptor is the Longest Run Feature, which describes the signature topology by considering longest suites of text pixels.
Meanwhile, Bryars himself has composed an hour-long suite for two opera singers and a goth icon, former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday.
On my nights off, I've been listening to a recording of Timothy Andres's "Shy and Mighty," an hour-long suite for two pianos, which Nonesuch will release next month.
