symphonic

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We’ve all been to concerts — whether symphonic music or jazz or new age music — and we go in with one mindset and when we come out, we have a completely different disposition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Warren Hood, who has been equally at home with symphonic music and in jug bands, provides an often central and dominant fiddle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The opening concert will be Marsalis's symphonic work All Rise, featuring 200 singers and musicians in a piece that combines African chant, New Orleans parade music, gospel and Latin American styles.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

A symphonic mix of an espresso machine’s hiss, a ravenous juicer’s whir and ebullient Spanish welcomed me at my new favorite, Las Olas Cafe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

In its purest form, the symphonic poem style is what orchestral film music grew out of in the 1920s and ’30s, its job to support and describe something outside music.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall