Mr. Zukerman dug into his difficult violin line with unstinting commitment.

In the more outgoing second movement, the violin line runs through some showy Romantic concerto figuration.

The other was in the divided violin lines that begin Act II.

The sheer mass of melody in the interwoven violin lines could be overwhelming.

The score's two violin lines become visible, she said, in the choreography for the two women.

The orchestral fabric was shaped as carefully as the violin line.

Yet the violin line is so jerky that the music seems oddly stern.

"The people," when they "imagine a vain thing," are further associated with a conspicuous violin line of oscillating pitches.

When the saxophone joins in an instrumental verse, it behaves almost as a second violin line.

The music adds a second violin line and a snare drum cadence.