Violins’ soaring melodies were sometimes illustrated with random pans of other sections of the orchestra.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Feb. 2026
Accidental melodies fade in and out of earshot; pulsing chords rise up from below and are swallowed back into the murk, only to be replaced by other pulses running at different tempi, giving the impression of wheels within wheels within wheels.
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