And the "sauce" of the Sixth Symphony is its dynamism, its astonishing rhythmic invention and subtlety, and the unique orchestral colours in the Bruckner canon.
Conducted by its music director, David Alan Miller, the program centered on eight selections from the orchestra's recent Spirituals Project, which commissioned each of 13 composers to pick a favorite spiritual and "clothe it in his or her own unique orchestral fabric".
The score has a unique glow, an orchestral radiance that bathes your senses.
From solo and small chamber pieces to large orchestral works, Nørgård remains doggedly unique unto himself, creating a series of discrete sound-worlds owing little to any obvious influences.
The score of Hänsel und Gretel is a perfect fusion of childlike, but never childish, melodic simplicity and a Wagnerian harmonic language - more Meistersinger diatonicism than the chromatics of Tristan, admittedly - all cloaked in rich orchestral hues, which is almost unique in operatic history.
A clarinetist, I was one of 104 amateur musicians who had signed up for the Baltimore Symphony's BSO Academy, a unique weeklong program to give amateurs an education in orchestral life.
Stravinsky went on inventing orchestral sounds and textures all his life, from the unique ensembles of Les Noces and the Symphony of Psalms until the "Gaillarde" from Agon, scored for flute, mandolin, harp and lower strings, with double bass harmonics teasing the bemused ear at the very top of the texture.
Daniel Kalabakov of SoundtrackCentral.com called Shimomura's orchestral composition sophisticated and stated that the score possesses unique qualities.
It's this commitment to breaking down clichés and assumptions of orchestral music which Hazlewood hopes will give the festival its unique flavour.
The academy's unique four-year bachelor of music programme offers accredited degrees in all orchestral instruments, piano, conducting and composition.
Similarly with musical colour, or timbre; the 19th century produced a great profusion of compositions, particularly in the orchestral repertoire (e.g., works by Liszt and Berlioz) that exploited the unique sonorities of instruments; control of volume was, in itself, a rich source of colour.
