sonority

While it’s quicker and faster than its predecessors, much of the focus seems to be on delivering emotional content rather than stopwatch performance—most obviously, in the presence and sonority of the engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

The arresting analog engineering of the Royce Hall sessions are where you witness the marvelous Mehta Sound — where each sonority has a personality, even a kind of chutzpah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

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

By the end, as Marnie sings “I’m free!” in upward-vaulting intervals, she is accompanied by an intricate, vital new sonority of piccolos, celesta, harp, and bowed crotales.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

For, by omitting this note you do alter the tone colour of the chord as well as its sonority.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

Isolated finger gestures, sometimes reaching upward, added telling small details to Mr. Morris’s choreographic momentum, which kept a heady pace with the composer’s insistently pounding, punchy sonorities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

These consisted of a Rameau/Handel program, studies in luxuriant sonorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

In The Times of London, Fisher wrote that Hrusa’s conducting of “Lohengrin” “cannily distills the eeriest sonorities of the score, highlighting its bleak beauty.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022

Once tinged with Debussian sonorities, the third-movement Czech dance was a dark memory of Dvorak.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

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