Mr. Brown will stay on in a laureate position while the orchestra searches for a music director.
While the orchestra musicians seemed to enjoy playing this playfully quirky work, Levine remained his same detached self.
While the orchestra is enthusiastic about its progress under Mr. Nevola, there is concern for the future.
In the outer movements Haefliger is ruminatively gentle, quietly heroic, while the orchestra swings round him with Dionysian joy.
A speaker (here the actor Samuel West) then delivers Mr. Küng's narrative about Confucius while the orchestra responds with restless bursts, piercing harmonies and grumbling ostinatos.
The curtain went up, and while the orchestra burbled, the audience stared, for what felt like many minutes, at a wall of dimly lighted Spanish-style balconies.
An operatic soprano who rehearses covertly the opening notes of her cadenza while the orchestra finishes the introduction is employing perceptual anticipation to optimize her performance.
In the later operas of Giuseppe Verdi the voices often have a parlante character (imitating speech through music) while the orchestra defines the dramatic substance.
The film, whose score (adapted by others from the musical) Bernstein famously detested, was shown with its dialogue and singing intact, while the orchestra performed the new music.
His resort to the raw tones of the cowhorn evokes the untamed world that is unfolding, while the orchestra reinforce and subvert the trumpet's certainties.
Webber doesn't write music that one can sing without "soaring," and Close does what's required to put the song over, while the orchestra does the rest.
