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Their phrases had their own music, but it harmonized with Montgomery’s score and its oscillating rhythms, accelerating pizzicati, scraps of Gershwinesque melody, folk song twang and insect drones.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021

“Chaos beckons,” Mr. Bartlett gently sings, but he’s belying the orderly intricacy of the music’s Minimalistic fabric of propulsive, gamelan-like bell tones, string-ensemble chords and pizzicati and wraithlike backing vocals, transparent yet rigorous.

From New York Times • May 18, 2018

The alluring array of sounds included woodblocklike pizzicati by Ms. Derham and, in the second movement’s “Nocturno,” hollowed-out timbres and glassy harmonics.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2014

Oompah pizzicati and offbeat percussion accents add to the sense of humor.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2013

A flute rises in the orchestra, with viols accompanying, pizzicati, and plays three or four bars of intricate mazy passages, very sweet and poignant, stopping on a high note, with imperfect close.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon