Around her, at various times, are twittering wooden flutes, a rolling bass vamp, diaphanous vocal harmonies, stray percussion and ethereal keyboards, appearing and disappearing at whim while leaving her entirely unruffled.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/music/playlist-andre-3000-drake-danny-brown.html

For Boygenius, they wanted to honor those roots and the skills they’ve honed along the way — confessional lyrics sung in a tight-knit cadence, diaphanous vocals, textural guitar work — but remove the gatekeep-y coolness factor of indie-rock.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-10-10/boygenius-phoebe-bridgers-lucy-dacus-julien-baker-the-rest-ep

In the first performance, a Thursday evening, the pianist treated a diaphanous cadenza with too much flamboyance; Muti, visibly displeased on the podium, took him aside later, and the following afternoon, the passage was properly light and watery.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/arts/music/muti-chicago-symphony-classical-music.html