In addition to synthesized and orchestral components, the composer focused on the choir and piano as essential elements, feeling these were important in creating the "Halo sound".
Nor was there much darkness or propulsion in Tovey's shaping of the orchestral components, and the timpani completely blotted out the crucial thrumming string rhythm in the finale.
Part surf rock, part orchestral pop.
But, Mr. Corigliano said, "Pied Piper Fantasy," a programmatic flute concerto that includes instructions for staging and lighting, fits the Brooklyn Philharmonic's desire to add visual components to orchestral pieces.
In extended passages Mr. Current uses the voices almost like instruments, producing set pieces that seem less like operatic ensembles and more like strange hybrid orchestral compositions with vocal components.
Mr. Felder's "Tweener" (2001-10), an orchestral score with an electronic component, would have been equally puzzling if not for a virtuosic solo marimba part, played by Tom Kolor, which gave the piece both a coherent shape and an ear-catching melodic core.
The only audio components are an orchestral score in the main menu and background sounds (e.g., clashing weapons).
If the voices were just an ethereal component of the overall orchestral sound, achieving balance would not be so complicated.
But thanks to unlikely instrumentation and the occasional girl-group harmony, Los Campesinos! achieved a sort of orchestral sweep; here was a band in which each component mattered.
BECAUSE dance was such an essential component of French Baroque opera, Rameau's stage works yield colorful, rhythmically vital orchestral suites.
