orchestral
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The uneasy orchestral writing acts as a collective, disturbed subconscious.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
An unseen chorus acts like another orchestral element, echoing the singers and amplifying the music’s insidious power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Opening track I Will Overcome finds her doom-scrolling through her phone on the rainy streets of Paris, set to an orchestral score that recalls Sondheim at his most melodramatic.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Indeed, Wilson went even further out with “Adult/Child,” for which he commissioned orchestral arrangements by Dick Reynolds, who’d worked in the ’50s with Wilson’s beloved Four Freshmen.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
The restaurant was filled now with people who chatted and laughed to an orchestral background and a clatter of plates, and glancing at the clock above the door I saw that it was two o’clock.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
