It simply stopped, cutting to black in mid-phrase.
His sound would turn leathery; his voice would catch in the throat mid-phrase.
It moves between the formal grace of ballet classicism and more deliberately imperfect genres, sometimes in mid-phrase.
Mitchell had to make a new kind of song, in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music.
Different sections played at different tempos, with passages accelerating like a locomotive coming up to speed, or slowing down like a turntable unplugged in mid-phrase.
By Dan Chiasson Mitchell wanted to make a new kind of song, one in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music.
But with the tempestuous initial outburst of the finale came a steady drizzle; eventually Mr. Gilbert cut off the music mid-phrase.
Playing "Divining," from an earlier record, Cline made intricate pedal adjustments mid-phrase with his right hand as the song moved seamlessly from an ambient beginning to breezy jazz chords followed by a searing, distorted guitar solo.
Sondheim's songs make a fetish of surprise, especially in their melodies, which squirm and double back on themselves, and even end seemingly in mid-phrase--anything to avoid predictability.
I don't know if this was the exact same version that was performed in Eugene, but the piece that I heard in Columbia fit the description: it seemed to end in mid-phrase.
A lulling slow movement is disrupted by an abrupt bang; a courtly dance plunges, mid-phrase, into total silence; a symphonic finale is halted so everyone can tune; another is invaded by bagpipes.
