Its shimmering, changeable texture and coloration, its tonal ambiguity and its dramatic contours are evidence of Schoenberg's influence.

But when called for, as in the luminous, quietly suspenseful "Balcony Scene," the playing was lovely, with misty colors and shimmering textures.

On Saturday night, the Continuum Quartet blurred some details, but fully captured the shimmering texture.

Mr. Noon's scoring, while necessarily expansive, preserves the fragrances of Debussy's keyboard voicings but suggests the shimmering textures of his orchestrational style.

And the most recent work on the program, the two-year-old Lutoslawski Symphony, is a study in long-lined melodies and shimmering textures.

She sat in a float-chair, clothed from slender neck to ankle in flowing robes of shining white, a dozen shimmering textures lying one atop another.

Flecks of accented melody emerge from each of the parts and dart briefly over the work's shimmering chordal texture before disappearing into it.

Its harmonic language is soft-edged rather than abrasive, and strands of lyricism float through its shimmering, changeable textures.

What he offers instead is a shimmering, refined yet nearly always alluring musical texture, brilliantly calculated to differentiate the worlds of the fairies, noble lovers and rustics.

As they moved closer and the alien vessel continued to grow in size, the shimmering texture of its surface began to resolve itself into highly detailed fine patterns.