Sentence examples for massed ensemble from inspiring English sources

And the Eifman dancers give their all in massed ensemble scenes that include a gilded masked ball infused with hysteria and an impressive evocation of the fatal train.

Correction: January 27, 2000, Thursday A music review yesterday about a Philadelphia Orchestra performance of Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" at Carnegie Hall on Monday referred incorrectly to a tenor who "labored admirably but labored nonetheless" to be heard against the massed ensemble.

Although the student cast members were not present, Mr. Feld's massed ensemble effects were already in evidence, as was the high level of virtuosity he is asking from Mr. Woetzel, who opens "Organon" with an extended solo.

There are moments of stirring intensity, like the grand Act II finale at the town church in which all seven characters confront each other in a massed ensemble against the musical backdrop of a pealing organ, frenetic orchestra and full chorus.

The tone of William Plomer's text, derived from Lytton Strachey's book "Elizabeth and Essex," also demands something else, and so does the music, with its stirring brass fanfares, telling allusions to music of bygone times and imposing massed ensembles.

An ear for natural harmonics honed by work as a piano tuner led him to develop a body of work based on the rich overtones created by massed ensembles of electric guitars.

The massed choral ensemble at the prison that ends Act I is a blatant pile-on of materials: the sisters and children singing the gospel tune, the shouts of the lecherous inmates, the quartet of anguished parents and the empty venting of the orchestra.

He started out in confrontational theatre in 1970s New York, moved into the city's far-leftfield 80s rock scene (becoming an early influence on the likes of Sonic Youth) and is now best known as a composer of unconventional symphonies for massed guitar ensembles.

Massed firepower replaced massed manpower.

She is a delicately lovely ballad, flecked not just with subtle orchestration but massed-harmony vocals somewhere between 60s sunshine pop ensemble the Free Design and the Swingle Singers, had the Swingle Singers got beatifically stoned before entering the studio.

Every stretch of the music was full of commotion; the higher-pitched instruments would land on a note and make a massed unison of it, while the rest of the ensemble churned away in contrary harmonic motion.