Sentence examples for lucid sound from inspiring English sources

His principles were new: innovative rhythms and instrumentation, expressive harmonies and a sense of space that created the "lean and lucid sound" that makes him, for David Cairns, "the greatest French composer between Rameau and Debussy".

Mr. Jansons drew a lucid and balanced sound from the orchestra, made up of blocks of vivid color.

A champion of contemporary music, he can make a complex score by Pierre Boulez sound lucid and luminous, and Beethoven's Fifth sound radical.

On Saturday Ms. DeYoung sang with plush tone, lucid diction, ample sound and a sure sense of the Berlioz style, which calls for a deft balance between passion and restraint.

Some useful illumination arrives from the ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin, in his fearsomely entitled but remarkably lucid treatise "Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West".

Last spring he excelled in Wagner's "Rheingold," drawing lean, lucid yet full-bodied sound from the orchestra in a performance at once urgent and majestic.

Mr. Tetzlaff's cool precision blended well with Ms. Weithaas's slightly mellower sound in lucid performances of 14 of the duos.

High up the trees flurried with birdsong, and one clear note sang above the rest, a lucid, soaring strand of sound; while in the grass cicadas dreamed.

The result was a "Rite" so lucid and lean it sounded newly wild and ingenious.

In comparison with the Rachmaninoff sonata, even the most elusively Impressionist passages of these pieces sounded utterly lucid.

Under the Belgian conductor Koen Kessels and played by the New York City Opera Orchestra, Adolphe Adam's music sounded wonderfully lucid.