This second project was to be a choral symphony entitled Espace.

Both works are enormous choral symphonies that unabashedly espouse humanitarian ideals, but with a difference.

Five symphonies, composed between 1894 and 1945, including the Third, a choral symphony with soloists (1905).

After Mahler, the choral symphony became a more common genre, taking a number of compositional turns in the process.

A composer may also respond to a text by expanding a choral symphony beyond the normal bounds of the symphonic genre.

The blackbirds' choral symphony will be just what the doctor never ordered.

It is a choral symphony, written for tenor, countertenor, chorus, and orchestra.

With its use of vocal elements throughout, rather than in episodes at or near the end, the work was the first completely choral symphony to be written.

"We just signed up Philip Glass for a great choral symphony."

This was the fourth choral symphony written by Edwards, for which Watson wrote the libretto.