-
According to the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the
result sounds "Symphonic.
Hymnlike. Orchestral." The band
plays acoustic or
amplified on
major festival stages...
- to
write a
suitable song for
Minnesota football games, to
replace the
hymnlike "Hail! Minnesota". The song was
written by
Floyd Hutsell, then the choir...
- cross-rhythms,
sudden shifts from
piano to forte, and
idyllic and even
hymnlike episodes."
Allegro vivace e con brio (F major)
Allegretto scherzando (B♭...
- "the
haunted air of a
classic country murder ballad" and the latter's "
hymnlike glow". USA
Today awarded the
album three stars out of four and
stated that...
-
sounds rather like a chorale, with the
violas and
cellos softly singing a
hymnlike tune that will
gradually build up to the
first climax of the symphony....
- if she were
still alive."
Vickie Ilmer from Star
Tribune called it "a
hymnlike introspective discourse questioning hard
times and
retaining spirituality"...
-
Coast Highway".
Described by
critics as "introspective", "autumnal", and "
hymnlike", the song
takes the
perspective of an aged
person driving down the highway...
- and rejection. The
album opens with the lead
single "By Your Side", a
hymnlike song that
received comparisons to "A
Whiter Shade of Pale" and "No Woman...
-
thought of the
music of the
spheres (Thayer, Life of Beethoven); it has a
hymnlike quality reminiscent of a much
later devotion, the
Heiliger Dankgesang hymn...
- E major,
enharmonically the flat submediant, and the
tempo shifts to a
hymnlike adagio molto espressivo. The
fourth variation returns to 12 8 and A♭ major...
