"The thing with the trombone, actually, is the range is quite severe, " Mr. Muhly said.

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"What's so fun about the piece is you can hear all of us in it, " Mr. Muhly said.

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All the extracurricular activity could become a distraction, but Muhly is furiously prolific and never seems to miss a deadline.

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" There will be new-to-the-Met productions of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin, " Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" and Verdi's "Falstaff' that already have debuted in Europe.

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Recorded in Jonsi's studio in Iceland and in Connecticut, Go features wonderful arrangements of strings, brass and woodwinds, recorded with the help of Nico Muhly.

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Muhly handles this lurid story with thoughtfulness and compassion: plaintive chorales and brooding ostinatos suggest the sadness and the loneliness lurking within the electronic global village.

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Muhly gets name-checked regularly on Web sites like Brooklyn Vegan.

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When a purported female spy appears in a chat room, sending the main character into a paranoid frenzy, Muhly might have toyed with a jazzy, cinematic style, but he falls into the same ruminative tempo as before.

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"It's not scholarly, " Mr. Muhly said.

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