And Blitzstein's complex score, which has its admirers among musical cognoscenti, exudes a downward-pulling momentum.
DAVID FEHERTY, a sports columnist and commentator, on the average golf score, which has not changed for decades.
Howard Shore's music, a throbbing score, which has echoes of a 1940s melodrama, floats through the film.
George Manahan led a vibrant account of Menotti's score, which has moments of real invention amid much lightweight filler.
Terrence McNally wrote the book, toughening up those sweetheart characters for an American audience; a newcomer, David Yazbek, wrote the score, which has some sock.
It's not a trail of bread crumbs, but Mr. Sondheim's score, which has the surface simplicity and echoing depths of fairy tales, that keeps leading you onward.
It now has its very own Concerto in B Flat. Sadly, the composer didn't add his name to the score, which has become an internet sensation.
It's not a trail of bread crumbs, but Mr. Sondheim's score, which has the surface simplicity and echoing depths of fairy tales, keeps leading you onward.
A musical quintet does well by the score, which has been partly orchestrated with woodwinds to foster a sometimes keening, sometimes lilting Gaelic flavor.
The score, which has strands of bel canto lyricism and German Romantic ardor, is beefed up with marches, processions, ensembles and ballets.
He's not even as complicated as the second-rate score, which has more wah-wah pedal guitar effects than the "Shaft" marathon TNT ran a couple of nights ago.
