His recordings of the late 1920s are regarded as the most progressive jazz of the period, in both concept and execution, with widely-ranging harmonies and a balanced ensemble.

She and her colleagues, Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano; Michael Lockley, tenor; and Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, made a nicely balanced ensemble.

It is also hard to imagine a more persuasively balanced ensemble.

The string sections have played together for years and have a balanced ensemble and flowing sound, though the woodwind and brass sections are weaker than the strings.

Admission to the workshop, she said, would be based on experience, references or audition and the need to have a balanced ensemble.

Yet the members of Mr. Fish's balanced ensemble carry the weight.

As it is, one is left with only a handful of fully integrated performances in a play that needs a meticulously balanced ensemble to succeed.

Instead, he disperses the music through the Sextett, so that themes and improvisations, precisely balanced ensembles and freewheeling solos, bob to the surface in satisfying yet thoroughly unpredictable ways.

Much of it is played by Tengir-Too, a rigorously balanced ensemble, but that's an innovation: nomads weren't known for playing in bands.

Mr. Muti's stated goals have been to create a more versatile, flexible, evenly balanced ensemble, and also one whose melodic playing reflects some of the shapeliness and naturalness of sung music.