symphonic
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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
In the last room, a crescendo of monumental full portraits, the atmosphere is symphonic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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
Mahler wrote this audacious, eveninglong symphonic epic — known as the “Resurrection” — as an act of suicide prevention, a death-haunted quest to find the meaning of life.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
The person most haunted by Berlioz’s symphonic setting of Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, was Richard Wagner, who used it as a stylistic template for his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1865.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Music - Middle School
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Music - High School
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