Sentence examples for muted orchestra from inspiring English sources
Punctuated at the start by deafening percussion, the music dispenses its own kind of greyness, with a heavily muted orchestra and muffled offstage choir creating unisons and glissandi at an equally glacial pace, yet this gradually becomes pleasing to the ear.
A hip-hop pick carried by what sounds like a sine-siren, joined by orchestra hits, muted drum kit and a modulated horn of some sort.
His opening "Luminous Canopy" was translated into transparent textures, ranging from softly warbling flutes and violins to the whole orchestra in muted, transparent colors.
Shore nodded and then thoughtfully returned downstairs to the podium, where he began rapidly annotating his score while gently and calmly giving the orchestra instructions: "The trumpets should be muted at bar 29.
Kurt Masur's first return to the orchestra as music director emeritus is oddly muted.
The orchestra dominates; the choral accompaniment is gray and muted.
Critics were muted, praising the jazz but questioning whether it shortchanged the orchestra and prevented the work as whole from taking flight as a symphony.
The soloist in the Beethoven concerto, Jonathan Biss, was smooth and subtle when the orchestra returned after his first-movement cadenza, but strangely muted elsewhere.
It leads off at the beginning, then emerges from the orchestra at the moment of rat-charming, sounding beguiling over muted strings and harp.
The orchestra played with strength: in the second movement, the shivery, muted melodies vanished and reappeared out of nothing, and the third movement's dark parody of the first notes of Pachelbel's Canon had both weight and shadowy nostalgia.
Carlo Rizzi, the conductor, kept the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna moving, sometimes with a muted quality, sometimes with vibrant clarity.
