In "Cruel World," there is a darker, more universal, resonance.
Inspired by stunning music by Giya Kancheli that has something of the dark resonance of Ernest Bloch, the dance tells the story of a passage through a life.
Ms. Cornetti's mezzo-soprano shot out from the stage like a cannon, unrelenting and with a dark resonance somewhat troubled by overactive vibrato.
Hartmann's music for Act II is typified by a clear-cut character idiom in which rhythmic tension and dark resonance dominate.
Audiences laugh out of discomfort, embarrassment and some sort of recognition, but the movie has darker emotional resonance than any comedy.
Sharon Graham returns in the title role with a dark resonance and a confident technique.
A section entitled "Sistern an' Brethren" had a darker resonance, with its mourners, in black veils and large pink cuffs, evoking a 1930's mural.
The dark resonance of Charles Moffet's tom-toms and Wilbur Morris's bass seem to pull the horn lines down into a lower, richer range.
Rheingold writes "I deliberately used the word 'mob' because of its dark resonances" [source: Edge].
Stravinsky highlighted the friction in his music, the scrape of a bow, the dark resonance of low notes on the harp, the bell-like attacks of the chorus.