orchestral
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“She’s an improviser,” Mr. Fortner—whose work with Ms. Salvant over the past decade has ranged from duo format to this orchestral setting—told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Charles Ives’s remarkable orchestral work “The Fourth of July” was, as film composer Bernard Herrmann told oral historian Vivien Perlis, intended as more than a mere poetic impression of an occasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
There were too many to list and it’s too bad because this became a one-of-a-kind showcase of orchestral versatility, which ended with the premiere of another new Dudamelian orchestral tribute, Gabriela Ortiz’s “Mujer Arena.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Sasha played a mouse, dressed in a black leotard with fuzzy ears and a tail, performing her part while an ornate sleigh drifted through the swelling orchestral music and showers of glittering fake snow.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
