tone poem
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Some of the a la carte dishes also appear on the kaiseki menu ($156), a 10-course tone poem with a semi-traditional progression and ever-changing ingredients. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "At Kamakura, dinner is part 10-course tone poem, part sake crash course," 18 June 2019 But Disney’s market department, a genius, is marketing Frozen II like a goddamn tone poem: heavy on the atmospherics, light on the details. — Constance Grady, Vox, "Disney’s latest Frozen II trailer is light on details, heavy on magical horses," 11 June 2019 German composer Richard Strauss wrote this tone poem in 1896. — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, "Help NASA pick a playlist for its next trip to the moon," 11 June 2019 This introduction is like a compressed tone poem depicting their lovemaking. — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, "Review: An Ecstatic ‘Rosenkavalier’ Introduces a Conductor to Carnegie," 30 Mar. 2018 In time, the students wove their material into something that resembles the theatrical equivalent of an orchestral tone poem. — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, "CCM students set sail for Scotland to perform water-themed show with 'no plot whatsoever'," 5 July 2018 At this juncture in his career — with the early, literary tone poems behind him and the shift to a full focus on opera just getting under way — his ability to deploy instrumental resources for pictorial ends is at a high point. — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, "S.F. Symphony follows Strauss over a mountain," 13 Apr. 2018 Salonen brought out the unabashed eroticism and sensuality of the Richard Dehmel poem that inspired Schoenberg’s tone poem. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Esa-Pekka Salonen wraps up CSO residency with an intense 'Transfigured Night'," 25 May 2018 The latter was the first in a string of movies in which Murray's wry sadness has been a perfect fit for Anderson's precise, idiosyncratic comic tone poems. — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, "Bill Murray on finding and giving joy with his New Worlds concert tour," 14 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tone poem.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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