clustery

Calabrese The most popular variety, this has a thick stem and big, clustery head that can be divided into little florets.

Ms. Thomas puts a spotlight on the differences in the instruments' expressive characters, with lyrical and sometimes doleful cello melodies set against provocative, clustery piano textures.

Ms. Clark brought a smooth tone and clarity of diction to the set, and her colleagues ably negotiated Mr. White's variegated and sometimes clustery ensemble writing.

Ms. Oliveros's "Inside Outside Space" was a long hypnotic meditation built around a set of clustery accordion chords, adorned by gentle percussion tracery and pianissimo humming.

Of the works for conventional quartet, the most exciting was Russell Peck's "Drastic Measures" (1979), a piece that begins depressingly in a clustery haze, but heats up into a free-blowing jazz quartet.

Marilyn Nonken, a pianist who is heard regularly in new music concerts with Ensemble 21 and other groups, called her Thursday evening recital at the Miller Theater "Fists of Fury," evoking images of Muhammad Ali playing the clustery music of Henry Cowell.