sonority
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Bax was a true partner at the piano, adjusting almost magically to every interpretive twist or turn by Hadelich, and fully providing the kind of near-orchestral sonority the score requires.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2021
“This silvery, fluty, bell-like sonority that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Dinnerstein brought the sensuous mad rush of sonority to Glass’ “Mad Rush” that has made her famous performances of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations a popular sensation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2020
Shorter’s tenor saxophone anchors the three disks with a surreal sonority, a wild cry that comes from the heart of sorrow.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2018
He gives the syllables a different quantity, a different sonority; they no longer rest, they rock to and fro.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan
These consisted of a Rameau/Handel program, studies in luxuriant sonorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
But “Max Brown” is jazz that has imported and metabolized the sonorities and techniques of hip-hop.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
“Overstory Overture” blends electronic and instrumental sonorities with DiDonato’s voice and acting to portray the book’s protagonist, the dendrologist Patricia Westerford.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
The overall style is lucidly Neo-Classical, at least on the surface; below that surface, though, the pieces are alive with wayward sonorities, elusive intricacies and dark subtexts.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
