A single leader makes a musical statement, and then the chorus responds together.

"I wanted this to be my musical statement above all the rest," he said last year.

Ironically, it's one of the strongest musical statements he's made yet.

But it's capable of effective, deeply affecting musical statements under the right circumstances.

As a musical statement, the new symphony barely hung together.

Heard up close, chamber works become enormous musical statements.

Wednesday's program was a welcoming party for patrons, not a substantive musical statement.

This could have either been a shrewd business move or a genuine musical statement.

One way it may do so is by including an occasional older work on its programs to make a musical statement.

"X" is full of clever and even moving passages, but it doesn't quite hang together as a musical statement.