Besides being keyboardist and guitar player for globe, the trendy dance-sound band, he is composer, arranger and producer for the techno group trf, and for the wildly successful fashion and music phenomenon Amuro Namie.

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Supported by the composer's huge bass sound, the soloists come and go over a Latin polyrhythm, and you have no trouble believing you're in the midst of a south-of-the-border debauch.

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Within its 12 movements, the composer reveals every facet of the sound world that makes him unique.

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Other items appear as uncertain scribbles and include clarifications from the composer about how the music should sound.

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There are also quotes from a madrigal by the Italian baroque composer, Claudio Monteverdi, which sound just out of reach just beneath an only partially penetrable, dark surface.

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"Perhaps more than any other composer, Chopin had a sense of the sound of this instrument, " Mr. Pollini said.

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As a composer, Gress is interested in unifying the sound of an album by writing themes that echo or resonate off each other.

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"The commission of this opera ... was to inspire and invite him (composer Him Sophy) to bring his own voice of the ancient Khmer sound into his own score that married his traditions with western pop and rock tradition, " Burt said.

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