Sentence examples for string choir from inspiring English sources

His recent work has involved a chamber septet, a "string choir," a quintet featuring sarod and tabla, and a trio with banjo and kora.

(Chinen) JOEL HARRISON STRING CHOIR (Saturday) The compositions of the drummer Paul Motian can convey shadowy depths even as they echo the simplicity of folk songs.

On "The Music of Paul Motian" (Sunnyside) the guitarist Joel Harrison, an improviser fascinated by composition across the span of American music, has arranged Mr. Motian's music for what he calls a string choir: two electric guitars, two violins, two violas, one cello.

Irving Fine's "Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra" (1955) was an object lesson in the boundaries between sweeping lyricism and treacly indulgence, and Charles Wuorinen's "Grand Bamboula" (1970) examined the other extreme: the ways of bringing a tart edge to a string choir without pushing it into sourness.

The muddying takes care of itself; for the clarity, Mr. Thomas put a string choir in one of the balconies to provide a heavenly response to the gruff questioning of the first movement, and a percussion group under the stage to create the distant rumble of the finale.

Tight string choirs and plangent brasses compete with the soloist for the listener's attention.

Yet behind it all is a brooding sensibility, which speaks through groping passages of recitative (often using the opaque whole-tone scale), pale string choirs, subterranean rumblings of brass, and sometimes gnashing dissonances.

With the second small-string choir ranged on the highest steps, stage right and just below the organ, the antiphonal effects were clearly visible, and the solo lines of the string quartet were also expressively voiced, but it was the full weight of the Hallé strings that carried the most emotional power.

"Why do they say the sky is the limit/ When I've seen them footprints on the moon?" the 37-year-old sings, with strings, choir and heavy Auto-Tune.

To lend a modernist charge to the score, Mr. Shchedrin surrounds these lyrical elements with subdued rhythmic ostinatos, blankets of velvety strings, choirs of winds playing wrong-note harmonies spiked with dissonance.

But the album's plangent, solitary guitars, strings and choir parts made clear he had transcended the banjo-picking, and twee, cutesy gimmickry.