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The album Women features the world-premiere studio recording of Irish composer Ina Boyle's Violin Concerto (1935), which evokes bucolic scenes with the feel of a tone poem.
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Olivia Hampton, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
The show can at times feel like a tone poem, at others a family drama.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
The best conductors of Strauss’s tone poems revel in the quieter stuff, rather than seeming to just wait impatiently for the next blaring climax.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Garland’s properly alarming and exquisitely designed film is as close as American mainstream cinema is likely to get to an experimental tone poem.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
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Olivia Hampton, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
The show can at times feel like a tone poem, at others a family drama.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
The best conductors of Strauss’s tone poems revel in the quieter stuff, rather than seeming to just wait impatiently for the next blaring climax.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Garland’s properly alarming and exquisitely designed film is as close as American mainstream cinema is likely to get to an experimental tone poem.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for tone poem
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“Tone poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tone%20poem. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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