The score embraces electro-pop, hip-hop and elements of rock and has been recorded for New Amsterdam Records, which specializes in the music of composers whose works straddle the popular-classical divide.
The score embraces ballads, an Andrews Sisters-like trio, and a song, "Keep It Gay," written well before that title was deployed by Mel Brooks some decades later in a different context for "The Producers".
The score freely embraces keyboards and drum-kit funk, siren-like brass and some witty vocal ensembles.
But Jerry Bock's score embraces everything from a Hungarian czardas to a Ravel-like bolero, and Harnick's adroit lyrics weave their own spell.
Ms. Sankaram's score embraces electronica, beefy 1950s pop riffs, Baroque string figuration, lush Romantic texturing, Hindustani classical music, R&B vocals, tango and direct quotations from rock songs.
Michael Andrews's score, embracing traditional Pakistani songs, pop, funk and rap, is also a key element of the film.
Seven composers were represented, and if their works shared certain characteristics — rhythmic complication, post-tonal harmonies and an aversion to Minimalist techniques — each score embraced less severe influences as well.
The immediate impression was of a measured inexorability that embraced the score's ritualistic and theatrical aspects.
Barenboim, not incapable of the odd moment of swagger himself, embraced the score full-on, in often playful exuberance.
In Latin America, where several generations of venal dictators found themselves coddled by Washington's warm embrace, the score settling is still going on.
Most students complete a college application in the order it's written: giving their name and address, listing their awards and test scores, embracing the large essay that outlines their life (or wrestling with that essay, which is a special kind of embrace) and completely overlooking that dinky little essay that comes near the end.
